All I want to know is if I do not putrchase the expamnsion do I loose things I had before the expansion.
Yeah. The CDI sparked some hope for me when it was announced. But whatever, I hope they can at least change the description on the profession selection menu so new players won’t be steered to some misconception of the class.
Who says a picture doesnt have a thousand words Great pic bte
I could write down five things, but which five do you choose?
It really doesn’t matter as these types of threads have existed since launch over a year ago. While they (ANet) have tried a few things and added and subtracted some other things. It’s still the same and it will never change, Reason, they (ANet) have gone, IMHO, to the process of making the SPvP their child, along with the events they add all the time.
Why do they do that, they must have some sort of metric that shows they make more money, however they make it, by doing the things they are currently doing.
WvW is an after thought, an extension in the Dev’s mind of their PvE. Do they want the negative responses in the forums to go away, certainly that’s why they are changing the forums this month. So everything, will be coming up roses and daffodils here on the GW2 forums. Utopia will exist throughout the game and then world Peace can be accomplished.
Unfortunately the things that the WvW crowds have been asking about, and for, during the lifetime of the game have seldom been incorporated for whatever reason ANet doesn’t implement them,.
However, you currently can here at the GW2 forums make these type of post. Someday that may even be limited. So ask away. I shall forever remain hopeful, though quite realistic in the belief it will never happen, the changes we have wished for over a year will someday come to pass.
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Who or what was Malchior Devonholm never heard of him, one of ANets closed beta testers?
giggle While I didn’t delete my 6 80’s I just stopped playing. Much more relaxing that way.
While fewer WvW servers might spread the pop out some the que times would be horrendous and the ques already sux
the higher ranked thing would probably be a better solution although as you said people would cry rivers whether they used the function or not
Maybe we would see the same 300 page thread we saw when Ascended gear was introduced
It’s long on Bg and I for one ain’t spending 30+ min in a que for anything and yes if it wasnt 1800 gems to transfer i’d transfer to a low pop WvW server then i’d at least get to play
1800 gems are for very high population servers only, it cheaper to go to medium or high pop servers.
1000 for High, and 500 for Medium.
If you are lucky maybe Anet will add free transfer to medium server just before season 2.
You are correct however take this into consideration, Anvil Rock the last place server in US WvW the week before the league started, was 1800 gems to transfer, Why?
because the server pop is listed as very high whatever. None of the low tier US WvW servers were under 1000 gems so free wasn’t an option
The US servers had 3 servers that were High during that week, if I wanted to play on the EU side i could have transferred to IIRC 4 of their servers for free. Thanks but no thanks on that one
First of all why is NSP using this thread to try to recruit people? Secondly like so many others said blame the bandwagoners, and pve achievements for the long queues. Thirdly Anet gave you warning and opportunity to transfer for free.
Im sorry you are very misinformed, US servers minimum transfer cost the week before leagues was 750 gems for 3 servers. Even Anvil Rock was the full price of 1800 gems and they were the last place server in WvW at that moment
so your third point is entirely incorrect for anyone playing on US Servers
What do you claim is buying guilds? Is it paying for their transfers, either in part or wholly? Is that buying guilds?
Is buying guilds paying gold in excess of transfer to fees? or would it be buying guilds if you paid them 2 transfer fees for their entrance and exit from a server. and gold on top of that?
define buying guilds please.
I’ll do you one better, I’ll describe the situation.
SoR dominated BG through the first 3 days of its match up last week. Sunday night going into Monday morning Blackgate paid a Russian guild an extremely large sum of gold to transfer to their server just for the league. The guild has already stated that they have no intentions of staying on BG and are only be paid to help them win league. As SoR has no players in their particular time slot (9aPST/12pEST) the guild continues to flip all borderlands uncontested.
Now SoR players are quitting the game left and right. The league was viewed as the savior of WvW for a large section of the base but now that one server has gone to the extreme to literally ‘pay-to-win’ a lot of the player base has lost faith in leagues and ArenaNet.
Some how I knew this would turn into a QQ thread. I think SoR needs to take a long look into the mirror, and stop trying to blame Guild Transfers for their own failings.
Well, SoR’s Favorite book is “Excuse Book”
Must be why a certain guild went to SoR from JQ, that’s their favorite book also
It’s long on Bg and I for one ain’t spending 30+ min in a que for anything and yes if it wasnt 1800 gems to transfer i’d transfer to a low pop WvW server then i’d at least get to play
havent played wvw in almost a week aint spending two hours in ques. Log in que wait 5 min log out end of GW2 playtime
The real question is….how did they end up in the mists?
It’s a STD.
LMAFAO best post of the week
This is the second time ive read a post of his concerning, he should get in before anyone else cause his WvW rank and again I say lets take it a step further Mr Provost:
people that are on Anets Private testing group that was selected from people playing in the closed Beta should get in before you
People that bought the game before you should get in before you
People that were in an earloer open beta than you should get in before you
People born on the fourth of July should get in before anyone except those born on christmas
All of the above are as ridiculous as your desired methiod
Nanyetah, I’m going to agree to disagree with your assessment of the Que problem.
And the reasoning behind it follows:
If anyone was here when the very first server event happened after release, think back if you were on a high pop server with a WvW que.
On our server back then 3-5 hour waits during NA prime time were not uncommon.
The first PvE event in the world is released, cant remember if that was the mad King thing last year or if there was something before that, Que;s disappeared borderlands on our server where near empty.
That week we fell to third in our bracket and moved down a tier, stayed there until the event was over. Then presto que’s same as before the event.
With the implementation fo Achievements and awards every swinging jack in the game that plays to say, “I have all the achievements” are now queing for WvW
I want something along the lines of what Tera offers and the ability to wear it someplace beside Lion Arch
Well people asked for progression in WvW and thats what they got
Am I the only one who feels that players using a character with a higher WvW rank ought to have greater priority in the queues? You’ve had a year to get into WvW, if you’re just getting into it now… you shouldn’t be getting in before someone several hundred ranks higher than you.
Well lets go one step further even, high rank, was able to be in pre-release goes before you, and add closed beta onto that and they get in before anyone, and the people selected from the closed beta that test new content for Anet they get in before anyone cause their that special
I haven’t yet found anyone with full stack+full ascendent ( trinkets+weapons), but I bet he will destroy me even if hes not good.
Quotes like this are somewhat worrisome… who’s going to play if they think they’re going to be destroyed — not by skill, but because their opponent has owned the game longer. New players will especially be discouraged from WvW.
It mostly shows that nobody takes his time to do some simple math. Get the data from the official wiki and let’s calc:
Neck: Ascended has 126 points on main stat, 85 points on secondary stats (x2), 5 points from infusion (can be: power, precision, cond damage for offensive and vit, toughness or heal for defensive or 0 for utility slots) – Exotic has 115 on main stat, 79 on secondary stats (x2)
Ring: (asc) 103/68 + 5 vs (exo) 92/63
Accessory: (asc) 91/60 + 5 vs (exo) 81/55
Back: (asc) 56/35 + 5 vs (exo) 43/31
2h weapon: (asc. ) 188 main stat, 134 secondary stats, +10 from 2 infusion slots and 49-55 damage vs (exo. ) 179/128
The difference breakdown is:
- 11 points on main stat, 6 point for each secondary stat (neck)
- 11 points on main stat, 5 point for each secondary stat (each ring)
- 10 points on main stat, 5 points for each secondary stat (each accessory)
- 13 points on main stat, 4 poins for each secondary stat (back)
- 9 points on main stat, 6 points for each secondary stat (2h weapon)
- 40 points from infusions
- 49-55 weapon damage
Total: +75 main stat, +36 for each secondary stat, +40 points from infusions, 49-55 weapon damage
If I didn’t fail miserably on my math, that’s pretty much the difference that you have if you play against someone using a lv 80 food and you don’t have any on you, and I wouldn’t call it game breaking.
Just lol, if you wanna do math do it right, you Forgot wvw ability and sigil stack.
Trust me all those thing are game breaking, and what if Anet adds more tiers ? you will still be happy with -30% stats ?
Using or not food can change the outcome of a battle ( not Always ), I use +100 healing +70 hp and +6% of power from toughness and +4% from hp, penuts right ?Some are forgetting that a fair match is far more apretiated than any shiny Rainbow equipe, to them I’ll just say : Try not to blob up and use your personal skill roaming in small/medium groups, you will see that we already have too many balance problems, go add all those buffs and the deadly kittentail is served.
They already said when the sruff was released that infusions would be the upgrades to ascended gear no more gear tiers just infusion tiers.
I haven’t yet found anyone with full stack+full ascendent ( trinkets+weapons), but I bet he will destroy me even if hes not good.
Quotes like this are somewhat worrisome… who’s going to play if they think they’re going to be destroyed — not by skill, but because their opponent has owned the game longer. New players will especially be discouraged from WvW.
Why wouldn’t they still play every MMO out on the market is that
Longer you own it the more powerful you are maybe we should make Anet give us a gear score addon like WoW they added gear progression like WoW
Just delete the kitten jumping puzzle in all four maps FIXED
Ascended gear and the gated content to get it was BS, it added something to the game they said they would not add all during development, GEAR CREEP, The players they have in their little testing group that were selected from the closed beta told them it was not a good addition. They didn’t want to hear it and added it anyway.
They they coated it over a little by allowing you to craft it, funny but crafting from 400- cap now will cost you well over 500 gold, unless you want to spend months collecting the items.
Which as a WvW player i do not wish to do no have any interest in gated content which was another thing they said they would not introduce into the game.
But lets all be realistic here, they need us to grind stuff to spend gems whether you trade gold for gems and then buy something or you pay RL moneys for gems.
Thats the bottom line and if it adds a serious amount of in game time for each individual to get whats needed for the gear grind then thats what they are going to add, sad but very true.
[snip “people need to WORK for pixels”]
[Snip “go PvE for ascended”]
tl;dr for you. You obviously dont get the point of this thread.
Of course – It’s not about the pixels, it’s about the effort you put into getting something. Ascended should be special and if everyone could get it easily it would just lose its value. Also – ascended gear was originally connected to fractals – so in other words PvE so the joke’s on you.
Also – i gave an example with accessories where 1/3 can be done in wvw as well. And guild missions aren’t really PvE. If anything it’s competitive play where players has to work together in other to do something.You realize that having ascended gear gives you higher stats, right? You also realize guild missions are still PvE because there is no other person to PvP against, right? You know this is in the WvW forums which is an actual subset of PvP because you compete against other REAL people, right? You know GW2 PvP was promoted on the premise of no upward gear progression, right?
I hope these few questions help clear up what you are obviously misunderstanding.
IIRC the manifesto correctly, the entire game was suppose to be cosmetic after lvl cap, but alas against the clamor of their own player testing group,
They marched the manifesto outside and promptly shot it in the head, and told us “there never was a manifesto, you people misunderstood us.”
@ kitten iss
I agree with your assessment that a large group should have an advantage no doubt about that.
I agree with some others that add that supply should not be availible when you take a supply camp until the timer for retake has run out what are those 3 minutes or something
I think the reset timers should be done away with you take it and want to hold it till the PPT then you better have someone defending it. I also think the guards at both Supply camps and towers should either be buffed or deleted
You keep diverging more and more from your original promises. “Max armor will be easy to get!” ring a bell?
SNIP
ACCOUNT. BOUND. WVW RANKS.
You promised to treat us like a player, not a character. So do it. I don’t see the difference between making karma account bound (thank you, by the way) to making WvW ranks account bound. People didn’t like karma character progression; why do WvWers still get stuck with WvW rank character progression?
LOL Rainshine, perhaps you should confer with “S_ _ _ _ _ _” again remember he said there is no gear treadmill in this game and you where trying to wee wee on his division
No, that’s not balance. That’s just that some people are willing (seem to actually enjoy) to grind.
I have no objection to you playing that sort of game. I just don’t want to be involved in it and I see no reason why I should.WvW players on the whole have no interest in the gambling (RNG) and obsessive-compulsive (grind) aspects of MMOs in general. They are just interested in competitive skill.
Quoted for truth
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One word comes to mind… blow-out.
4/5 of all the matches aren’t even a competition.Where’s the challenge?
A summary of this week in EU (based on scores):
Gold:
SFR – ER – Kodash (SFR has 5 to 3) FAIL
RS – AR – Piken (AR 3 to 4)
Baruch – Viz – JS (Viz has 5 to 3) FAILSilver:
AM – GH – UW (worst match-up: 6 to 3 / 6 to 2 for AM) FAIL
AG – FSP – Gandara (FSP clearly less coverage again)
FR – Deso – MS (Deso leading 9 to 6) FAILBronze:
Dzag – RoS – Vabbi (again no challenge at all 5 to 1 for RoS, 4 to 1 for Dzag) FAIL
BT – WSR – RoF (7 to 2, 7 to 1) FAIL
FoW – DL – Arbor (DL leading 7/8 to 1) FAILSo out of 9 match-ups, 7 are a complete blow-out without any challenge at all, but purely based on the fact that one or two servers have a population of perhaps 5 times as high as the other server/servers. This means that nearly 80% is a fail.
Is this what WvW is supposed to be or is this part of the game just completely screwed up?
here’s the problem from a US stand point, the bottom server in US is AR, however according to the log in screen AR is a high pop server so when they were doing transfers to balance the game a couple weeks ago before the Leagues started there was no discount no insensitive for anyone to transfer to AR
Now possibly they are a high pop server, no one has ever gotten a look at the true numbers.
However that being said they have almost a non existent WvW crowd.
Just saying its hard to balance the servers with discounted transfer fees if the lower 6-9 servers are listed as High pop and get no discount
It was fine before all the grindy vertical progression was introduced. What about we go back to that?
best Idea ever
Bottom line ascended never should have been introduced with gated content, but we’ve been down this conversation 9-10 months ago.
Never should have been allowed in WvW let the gear grinders do whatever they want those that wanted to play WvW exclusively got shafted
if you want some alt friendliness just get rid of the Soulbound on use and leave it to account bound. There are many pieces that could be shared with your alts instead of wasting time grinding out copies of the sames thing.
This will probably never happen as that would then decrease the amount of time one would spend playing the game and perhaps trading gold for Gems or vice versa. Anet wants to make a profit, not a bad thing really.
Its also why if you buy a set of armor from the Gem store all your characters cannot wear that outfit
LMAO they still haven’t fixed that, yes when the game released 2-8 hours ques were the norm on alot of servers.
You could always transfer, just a suggestion. or Anet could fix that que problem.
Once again we see people standing at the gates and spam clicking it to get in
Remove JUMP PUZZLE from WWW! And build normal Queue with WWW guild priority!
Amen on removing the jumping Puzzles OH wait! Theres a guild on SoR that believes setting 10 siege in the BL jumping puzzle and staying there for 4 hours is WvW
The fix is bigger maps with spread out objectives,
remove the npcs from supply camps and towers and remove the cooldown for taking it.
Then if you dont protect it at the PPT you aint getting the points
And collision would be a godsend
In my opinion, there are just too many WvW servers out there with too small of a population to properly support the game mode. (i should say population variation). Even if it came down to having as little as 6-9 total servers (again, for wvw only) but with decent population / coverage where anyone has the same chance at winning (making it about skill & coordination) it would make things so much more interesting.
Well heres the thing I really dont understand take Ar for example always High Population, always, IIRC the number is reflective of accounts on the serve maybe incorrect been a year since I read something about that,
However AR is like one of the lower tier servers. Why? Why doe no one WVW there is there something fundamentally flawed on there Maps?
And AR isn’t the only server that’s listed as Very High population that’s in the bottomm 6 of WvW,
So transferring to AR isn’t discounted though they are a bottom 9 or servers.
And if they are going to try and get people to transfer to the lower servers 20 plus dollars of gems ain’t going to happen, when you can transfer to JQ BG or SoR for the same cost and possibly be the recipient of rewards after 7 weeks
Just a thought is all
Great Idea , However it will never happen, sad but true.
As long as the PvE content comes out every month to two weeks, the majority of the player base will be just peachy. Thus they won’t have to transfer servers, and rebuild the guild items on a new server, which can take up to 3-4 weeks, just to do Wv3, thus all will be right with their world
prevent anymore than 50 players on one map per server.
- Make more maps or bigger ones
I have seen a few requests for less players on a map but I feel as if that would make the maps feel empty personally. If the maps were larger it would feel even more empty. Why do you feel the maps need less players what would the advantage be?
Less players availble on a map might be what would do 1 of two things
A) spread the population across the servers
B) make people leave
I know during the first month several WvW based guilds transfered off because they couldn’t get more than 3-10 members in WvW during Prime time
I see both sides.
Yes it sucks the top 3 servers are so stacked that 4/5/6 will get pummeled.
But competitions and sports are like that.Look at the NBA. Over the course of a 80 game season, does anyone think teams like Miami, Oklahoma City, San Antonio will ever finish behind teams like Toronto, Phoenix, or Milwaukee? No, but they play the season anyways.
Sure on any given night one of the weaker teams in basketball will prevail, much like in WvW the weaker side may hold a PPT advantage for an hour or two… but in the end, inevitably, the stronger side will prevail.
Getting beaten down isn’t the awesomest thing ever, but it’s certainly better than being the one doing the beating in WvW. At least when you’re losing there’s always a fight to be had. It really stinks getting home from work and ticking for 600+ all week like last week when we faced Yak’s Bend and NSP. It’s not like winning is a glorious feat. Anyone can transfer to tier 1 if they want. Go out for the fights and the chance to learn and see new things. Whichever 2 of FA/SoS/Mag/SBI make gold league, it’s a good chance to farm bags for 7 weeks!In professional sports they don’t let the winners of the SuperBowl play junior college teams.
the very best response in the entire thread
having been on JQ since the game released, it s shame its a zerg-a-rama Another game that recently released a three faction zone stops the competition for points at midnight Pacific, can still go fight just the things you’re fighting over dont flip
Frankly, how can ANet which has numerous recipes of the same level, grade, division whatever word one wishes to use, be either too lazy to do the Quality Control of a recipes they are adding, or so code illiterate as not to be able to copy paste from a working recipe?
Then because they failed to do their own job, holler FOUL! FOUL! we didn’t want you to do that!
If the recipe wasn’t tested before release or doubled checked by QC then shame on Anet. Funny it was fixed, so someone there knows how to code apparently. Why not release it in that state to begin with?
I think it looks great on my Norn. Wish they would remove the LIGHT MED HEAVY restrictions on all three sets. I would have buy a set for each of my toons if they did that
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So,John Smith, being an economist, would you mind expanding on why this flake salvaging was an economic exploit, leading up to the terminated accounts?
I just want to know why this was an economic exploit to understand and avoid what constitute as a exploit in the future.
Thank you
A recipe that took 1 ecto-based material to craft, instead of 5 that all other similar recipes require. A recipe that was profitable not to use/sell the crafted item, but to salvage it because the salvaged components were more valuable than the material used for crafting.
Exploit.
Might have been an exploit but who made the recipe that way to begin with certainly wasn’t the people whom discovered that it yielded 1-3 ecto’s and the snowflake, now was it?
I leveled my Guardian from 7-51 in WvW then went and got all the Skill points I could do at that level finishing around 54 or 55 can’t remember
Went back to wvw till 62 then Lone Post event till 80
The shortest period of time was Lone Post
this started about the time FOTM was released
removing the orbs changed the entire dynamics of those three maps. I agree something like them should be returned.
If we have to kill players for those kitten things, they should as well. Plus, the crying would be glorious.
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It sucks that people who only go into WvW to do the jumping puzzle but not fight get more badges of honor than the people who fight but don’t do the jumping puzzle.
True that they should remove the Jumping Puzzle tokens. Let them earn the legendary by actually doing WvW and not having some mesmer port them to the top once a day
@Centrix or the nice little bug where u build siege and suddenly you are frozen in place cant move, cant attack, nothing works as ElE’s rain meteor storm all over your head
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Maybe they should add something Like the Panda game has or had, Hunters could mark a Rogue it was removalable by a priest or mage cant remember. For 2 or three minutes even if you stealthed the Huntersmark showed.
Again it was removalable by another class
There bag engine problem fixed
Huh? There’s no perma stealth in thieves, only non thieves will say there’s perma stealth. Perma stealth is not the same with culling. You don’t even know what you’re talking about and you want to lobby.
@Musty – Extend reveal timer does not fix culling, culling affects everything that involves rendering in WvW, not limited to thieves. Also, culling happens at different rates depending on your computer quality too
Please, PLEASE, everyone needs top stop saying this. Culling has NOTHING to do with your computer or internet connection. It is part of the way their servers handle traffic. This specific issue with the thief has NOTHING to do with how many people are in the area of the fight. It will happen if you are the only 2 people playing on the entire server.
This has been thoroughly tested by a few buddies who were on an enemy server. On two computers with one very low end and one the highest end you can possibly build and both on top tier internet connections. Both servers showing “outmanned buff” meaning the traffic is low compared to zergs running around near each other. A thief out in the middle of nowhere away from everyone will remain invisible every single time for 2-3 seconds after stealth wearing off. Every single time with no deviation.
This culling issue will probably never be fixed. If it was possible it would have been done already. The only way to apply workarounds to the single class that exploits this issue the most. The thief.
Just raise the “revealed” debuff time to double what it is. That might help a bit.
This would solve a lot of issues. I play a thief and a ranger i have been taken to 1/2 health on my ranger before the enemy thief becomes visible then before I can even target he has his debuff gone and stealthed again.
yes there are counters however when a thief unloads he should visible. The quote above explains why the mechanic isnt working as intended.
You were expecting parody? Please
Perhaps they can implement something like this to avoid pug disasters:
Everyone gets the same AR as the person with the highest AR in the group.
If they did this,
You think the introduction of Ascended gear started a Kitten Storm, everyone who has been farming these would rage quit in less time than Anet broke the Manifesto
AMEN
I agree
If Blackgate was to really push hard thursday and Friday with the PvE event being the most important thing about the game on JQ.
JQ might end up in T2 with BG in Tier 1 next week