WvW seems impossible with all the one shots going on. Something is way out of spec, I get straight one shot downed all the time and I’m full ascended in tank gear. It’s not even getting targeted by a bunch of people in big fights, I’ll just be walking alone along a road and a thief will appear and down me in exactly one shot. It’s not fun or interesting to play anymore. This happens 10 times an hour, there’s more permastealthed people just abusing one shot bugs for laughs than playing on my tier. The game feels like a ghost town.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
Haven’t been motivated to play since the condi revamp. I don’t have GW2 installed anymore for the first time since launch and I don’t really miss it. There’s so much condi stacking and not an equivalent amount of clears, there’s no counter for condis. I can put every single condition in the game on someone as a single person at high stacks and high timers and unless they’ve given up their entire spec to clearing they can’t do anything about it. And that’s just 1v1, if there’s 2- 5 condi players on a team (which is every team every game) every player has too many condi on them at all times. There’s not enough dodges and clears in the game to deal with it. If you toned down condis 6 months ago your pvp would still be salvageable. It’s just not fun, interesting, or skillful anymore. You balanced to make the lowest skill playstyle basically the only viable DPS and suppression, choking the life out of any actual fun builds.
What is OP blathering about, I tried to look up what he means by dabbing and it seems to be some kind of drug slang for vaporizing resins. How can you make an emote for this and why would you want to?
Playing rev against a few condi classes is absolute misery. I really wish Anet would rethink conditions, it’s like they’re trying to make two different games play nice with eachother. Conditions in their current state just do not work. Conditions should be a support to your primary damage, not your primary damage. When you allow conditions to be your primary damage when not all classes can fight against conditions you create this situation where if you queue on something without endless clears you have like a 50/50 chance of even being able to participate in the match. If the enemy team is condition heavy and your class isn’t included in the condi/clear game then you’re not part of the match. If every class can’t have clears then conditions should not be able to be a primary source of damage or you’re just excluding an arbitrary set of classes from the game.
Please make a jungle themed map and have true tri-realm play like we had in DAoC. This 3 identical borderlands thing we’ve been dealing with for 3+ years is not true to the original tri-realm design. Each faction having a unique borderland to identify with was a major feature of tri-realm at it’s inception. Red team isn’t just red team, it’s the desert team. Green team isn’t just green team, it’s the jungle team. Blue team isn’t just blue team, it’s the alpine team. This is what WvW needs. If some serious PPT imbalance pops up with one map continuously outperforming for it’s home team, you can make small changes to the maps over time to balance out each map’s keeps and barracks relative difficulty to capture, but I really don’t see that as being a problem to begin with.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
We shouldn’t be expected to endure this level of bad matchmaking while your pip system balances out, if it ever does. I doubt it will, not to an acceptable level your MMR did before. This league launch was an absolute failure. You threw away three years of metrics that allowed you to have actual good quality ranked play. We currently don’t have a ranked mode. We just have a completely unranked mode with meaningless pips. The pips don’t track any meaningful stats except WLR for the previous x number of days. It does nothing to create quality, meaningful matches. You threw everything away to pander to your top 5%. Well, I hope you’re proud of that and you enjoy your unprecedented population loss.
Getting rid of MMR has been really unfun. Every match is one sided. This isn’t pvp anymore, and this is the opposite of ranked.
Tags are a major gold sink, it’s part of their economic design. We need these gold sinks, inflation is a serious problem in MMOs.
We don’t have pvp anymore, we have player versus stability timers. They added so much CC with HoT we’re just playing WoW Cataclysm. Blizz almost bankrupted their game leaving PvP CC in a state like this for too long. GW2’s combat used to be so fun and fluid and skill based, now it’s just what team was able to cram the most CCs on bar wins. Absolute shameful trash that these CCs haven’t been tuned down this long after launch. Thanks for opening ranked again when PvP is in the worst mess of a state it’s ever been, really worth our time.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
The inventory is back to resizing itself every single zone change and relog no matter where it is on the screen after patch today. Really depressing.
Thank you, I’ll read the old thread. I’m not getting the issue but like we said before, this one is slippery. If you or anyone else can get it reliably please post the steps and we’ll try to track it down.
I can repro an undesirable inventory resize 100%
Use a custom inventory size
Be in Windowed fullscreen with a desktop resolution of 1360×768
Have the right edge of the right edge of the inventory window within 10 pixels or less of the right edge of the screen
Relog or change zones.
The bag resizes itself under these circumstances every single time. I don’t see why the bag can’t keep the last set size no matter what you do with it, even if it’s half way dragged off screen. Why is there any self resize at all?
DPS checks are for games with gear treadmills. It serves no purpose in this game except to perpetuate the toxicity around arbitrary DPS metas. Throw the enrage timers out the window. If a group wants to down a boss in a whacky tank setup let them. The groups who want to efficiency clear will still do that. The rest of the world shouldn’t be considered ABSOLUTELY HARAM. Anet built a game that doesn’t need a meta at all, but they can’t see that for some reason.
You can read the Dev post(s) regarding this issue over in the WvW sub-forum (or the Dev tracker, if you prefer).
Good luck.
There’s nothing about broken dailies going back several pgaes on dev tracker and no threads about broken dailies in wvw sub with dev replies going back several pages. Do you know anything more about it?
Can you please turn off the broken WvW dailies already? Trying to be understanding about the volume of work you guys have on deck, but it can’t be that hard to remove the nonfunctioning ones from the queue… This really should have been a day 1 hotfix and we’re still dealing with this miserable junk.
GTX 980 is overkill for GW2, your CPU is the problem. Get an i5 6600 and a GA-H110M-A and an 8gb stick of DDR4 and your system will murder GW2 with that GTX 980.
Please make separate movement keybinds for normal and action mode. I really hate that my movement style changes when I use action camera. The experience is inconsistent and I absolutely hate the way movement feels in action camera. We should have separate buttons for back step and run backwards and be able to customize them for both action camera and normal camera. We need the keybinds menu to look like this:
Run Forward: w
Run backwards: s
Back step: (unassigned)
Run left: a
Run Right: d
Strafe left (unassigned)
Strafe Right: (unassigned)
Run Forward (Action Camera): w
Run backwards (Action Camera): (unassigned)
Back step (Action Camera): s
Run left (Action Camera): (unassigned)
Run Right (Action Camera): (unassigned)
Strafe left (Action Camera): a
Strafe Right (Action Camera): d
This way instead of excluding people who don’t like it a particular way, everyone can make it how they want. You could have it how it is now, you could reverse it, or you could unify it either way for both.
Please allow us to strafe and backstep in action camera. I’ve wanted a crosshair for so long, but the only reason I’m not playing TERA right now is because you turn around and run backwards while pressing s. You’ve copied TERA’s junky movement system. Please make movement separate keybinds so if I bind strafe and backstep to asd I strafe and backstep no matter what style camera I’m using. Right now we have a ridiculously inconsistent experience between the camera modes. This is not a quality experience, it’s frankly discouraged me on the expansion. Why would you force new movement styles on our keybinds to use a camera mode? I watched the stream where the guy who designed this revealed the system and he didn’t ever consider that people would want a consistent experience that matched how they’d been playing Guild Wars for 10 years. I need my back stepping and strafing back ASAP, I’m totally in the dumps with this.
GW1 is still populated, the traders tend to hang out in Kamadan.
Path selling is great. I’ve bought Arah paths several times to finish collection without having to run dungeons when I wasn’t in the mood to dungeon. It’s a nice little business for people to set up on. There’s no moral issue to it at all. People can put their credit card number in the game client and buy legendaries, how is anyone going to be worried about someone giving another player 10 gold for some Arah tokens? It’s all pretty harmless.
Easy mode:
Press alt + shift + numlock
mouse over your stack
press numpad+ 250 times
It’s significantly easier than mouse clicking, easier on your hardware, and no tricks or extra software required. It’s a Windows accessibility feature called mouse keys. You can go in the accessibility menu and switch mouse keys to function while numlock is off, so once you turn the feature on with alt+shift+numlock you can leave it on always and toggle it on and off with numlock. numpad/ numpad* and numpad- toggle through which key numpad+ is mirroring, so if it’s not working you probably pressed one of those on accident. There’s a system tray icon that visually shows you the status of mouse keys, it changes depending on how you have it set both with button configuration and on/off status. It’s not too hard to figure out what all the visual cues mean.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
I use mouse keys
Press alt shift numpad
numpad + becomes an accessibility hotkey for double click
Mouse over your stack, spam numpad +
Easy mode for everything, buying karma linen mats, eating luck, opening big stacks, etc
I’ve used it so much in so many games I have it set up in the accessibility menu so that mouse keys is always turned on, but toggled off when numpad is turned on. So when numpad is on I have normal numpad function, when numpad is off I have mouse keys function.
I also have a Naga and a G600 and use my side panel keys in both as numpad mirrors instead of 1-0 qwerty mirrors, so the mouse keys when numpad is off feature is brilliant. It’s much more natural and easy to use than the Logitech or Razer macros.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
GW2 has plenty of toxic players before f2p. There’s no difference in percentage of toxic players between b2p, f2p, and sub MMOs. I’ve played thousands of hours in all three types. Frankly my worst experiences were in sub games. Remember the golem rush event? GW2 showed it’s true toxic community face then. There was a bug that let you get ultra buffed outside the golem so all the top guilds were running several bugged eles IB4ing lesser groups for insta bags. It was a plague that made the entire event unplayable. GW2 will always have toxic people, f2p can’t hurt.
You could buff the bloom rate without damaging the rest of the game. This event is ridiculous, the whole thing is a glorified gold sink, increasing the bloom rate would make the event fun AND increase the gold sink rate. Current rates are infuriating. You get a whopping 5 per event if you play it instead of waypoint spamming and tagging 3 mobs at each sub event. We should be getting a decent number of blooms per gold event tag, less for silver, and none for copper. If you fully participate in 5 events you should be getting like 30 blooms an hour at least, and if you’re waypointing around abusively event tagging you should get nothing. Also the downtime is unreasonable, why would you program a 4 day event with this much downtime? 30 minutes between spawns while it’s active plus an hour wait between cycles? What is the point? Completely unreasonable, this shouldn’t be hindsight, you guys have made temporary content before.
And of course now here’s Gale posting, sorry we aren’t going to fix it, even though adjusting the number of blooms in the chest would fix the whole mess and wouldn’t take any dev time. Thanks for getting us all worked up and excited for finally something to do then kicking our legs out and running away. Your community spoke, the bloom rate is TOO LOW. Your community is important, hear us. It will not hurt the game to fix it. If mini prices drop for 2 weeks so be it.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Buff the Bloom Drop Rate.
Thanks.
The rewards are TOO THIN. We need more rewards, you shouldn’t be asking us to farm 50 hours for a single item in a 4 day event. Why would anyone at Anet feel the need to balance loot this maliciously?
Cancel this nonsense right now and rethink your valuation of your player’s time and effort. Even if the events were giving rewards it’s way WAY too low and there’s way WAY too much down time between events. This is worst designed content Anet has ever released, and that’s not a good sign for the future. You should be getting better.
Cancel this nonsense right now and rethink your valuation of your player’s time and effort. Even if the events were giving rewards it’s way WAY too low and there’s way WAY too much down time between events. This is worst designed content Anet has ever released, and that’s not a good sign for the future. You should be getting better.
They need to cancel this event and go back to the drawing board til they can cook up something that’s worth their player’s time. Do they expect us to put in 600 kitten hours of farming in 4 days? If this is the plain terrible game design we can expect in HoT it kind of makes me want to refund my preorder and uninstall and go somewhere that the developers haven’t fallen off the wagon. I’m really upset at how terrible this is, it’s not what I expect of Arena Net. Besides not rewarding our time, there’s SO MUCH DOWNTIME. I’m sitting for an hour to do 30 seconds of event. How? How is this on a live server?
If you click the search button in the party menu you can add NPC henchman, and later NPC heroes that you can customize with new gear, new spell loadouts, and custom stat weights. You build your own parties, GW1 is all about learning how to synergize NPC helpers.
If everyone got the expensive drops they wouldn’t be expensive anymore. Rare drops aren’t really anything worth thinking about, they’re few and far between for everyone. Find a flatter way to gain gold you do enjoy and the good drops will come in time. I like to make orichalcum insignias and inscription, they’re easy as hell to farm but sell instantly. Run the T6 nodes in southsun, orr, and silverwaste, and farm T6 mats from high level trash mobs (heavy bags are your friend). You can bank like 50g a day on light work this way. Rare drops mean nothing compared to minimal crafting and economic experience, which is the core end game in GW2 by design.
It seems like free players will have more than a trial version. They’ll have full permanent access to all core content with restrictions mainly focused on preventing abusive account creation and promoting gem and expansion purchase. There’s not much more to say, if you want to be a free player you can play the entire core game for free forever. That’s a free to play launch.
All this doom and gloom, I think F2P core is quite nice. They should do full F2P for GW Prophecies and PVP access too. Free players BTFOing communities is such a ridiculous myth. It’s never happened. Frugal or poor people aren’t automatically bad people. There’s a lot of people playing the competition’s games because things like TERA and Neverwinter have lower barrier to entry. Arenanet is doing away with that barrier to entry. Those games do not have lower quality communities at all. There’s just as many kitten hats and trolls in pre free to play GW2 as there is in the free play competition. Get over your wallet and be happy for those who can now enjoy the game you love who couldn’t before.
People aren’t leaving MMOs, look at the top lists on Steam. People are spreading out to the various MMOs. TERA’s Steam launch came around the same time GW2 HoT preorders started. TERA is GW2’s main competition right now, and I’m sure more than a few people used the Steam launch of TERA to talk themselves out of buying HoT and switching games. MMO playership is growing, but there is ever more and more MMOs to play so each individual game has more competition.
You agreed to the Anet ToS, they aren’t commiting felonies by patching the game. Zone maps are not that big, most of HoT’s content will be visible to both account levels. Games get updated, it’s a thing. Might want to come up with a method of mitigating that annoyance if you want to continue happily in the MMO sphere. You can get your kids a WD blue 320gb on Amazon for like 20 bucks each if it’s that dire.
Do you think it will be final that we can only use our new class weapons with the new trait line equipped? It doesn’t really seem necessary. I’ve been playing around with beta guard, but I don’t really care for the new class skills but I love the new bow. Doesn’t seem like we should have to equip the new trait line to use our new weapon. I swap weapons on the fly a lot, I always try to keep the best tool for the job equipped. I carry every weapon I can use on every class, but being required to swap a trait line just to swap a weapon is a huge nuisance.
What is Raptr and what makes them a reliable source?
Considering Anet have never released data on player numbers (unless you count 1 chat posted 2 years ago) I doubt they’re getting it from them, or NCSoft, and without that I can’t see how they could have reliable data.
Raptr is an ailing gaming social media and tuning app. It is not a reliable source, it’s usership is too low to gain any reliable information from it. It’s only tracking hundreds to thousands at best for each game.
You have the code to fix the 4v5 plague in ranked. When a team is 4 players the 5 man team should get a volunteer to spectate prompt. If no one picks it they’ll be randomly selected. If the 5th man from the 4 man team rejoins the spectator will be placed back on their team. As it stands ranked is absolutely unplayable. As you move up higher in ranked, it’s almost every other match that one side or the other has a quit in the first 30 seconds if their team isn’t a perfect meta comp that jives perfectly with their build. The last 10 matches in a row I’ve had a quit on one side or the other and it’s devastating to everyone. Boring for the winner, infuriating for the loser.
It’s getting worse by the day at this point. I’ve been in more quit matches than 5v5s in 2015 by a good margin. You want to have competitive PVP but you wont give us the tools to do so. All we have is win trade farm nonsense anymore. At the very least don’t give a 5 man team incentive to stomp a 4 man team, reduce score for the 5 man team and don’t count the match toward rank score. It’s being abused at a very high level.
Playing in first person as guardian is quite difficult because while moving to first person hides your character, it does not hide the virtue of courage 3d effect which takes up a significant portion of the screen regardless of FOV and position settings. It’s the worst when the camera is low. When the camera is high it’s less full screen blockage but still very annoying.
Raids with actual large scale guild instancing. This server hopping and carrying 30 random people in your hard earned empty instance for Teq and Trip make doing big fights as a guild just plain unfun.
We need real WvW. Have your current WvW designers watch some old footage of DAoC RvR. We need more match up persistence, less zone resets, significantly harder walls and doors with significantly less siege effectiveness. We have arcade version of RvR right now and it does not work. In DAoC siege had 50x the health and walls and doors took 1/50th the damage they do in GW2. This and the weekly resets make WvW a total joke. There’s no great cost of failure and no great reward in winning. It’s just a hollow bag farm pretending to be RvR.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
Anet gives you an insane amount of power as an individual character. It’s amusing to see people say GW2 is so simplistic and they carry 1 set of gear and use the same traits for everything. There’s more to GW2 pve than sitting in the melee stack in your shaman gear buffing swiftness and gimpy staff might. You should be carrying 2-3 sets of gear, every weapon your class can use, and learning what specs work most efficiently in what dungeons, and also watching your team and building on the fly for how you can best help them. Your “preferred setup” isn’t helping, sorry to break it to you.
You don’t need to use any weird programs or scripts or even key rebind anything to ease clicking. Windows has a “mouse keys” functionality for the exact situation the OP is describing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/keyboard_mouse/computer/win/win7/
Here is a detailed guide for customizing it. Once you toggle on mouse keys, numpad + is the default shortcut for double click.
The short version is, press Lalt +Lshift + numlock to toggle mouse keys on and off, when it’s on you can put your cursor over anything and just tap numpad + to double click very very fast and easily. You can do like 50,000 clicks this way in the time it would take you to do 5000 with the mouse and expend half the energy. And it’s just a standard Windows function, I don’t see how Anet could object or even tell you’re doing it.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
log in at prime time. go to dolyak. stand down guild, drop party. log to char select and back til you find a high progress donation. get presents. rinse. repeat. whole thing takes maybe 30 minutes if your luck is bad.
Someone explain to me what’s going on with this. Was just playing a rated temple of silent storm on red team, match ended 11:57 US east just now. We were killing them pretty well, but there was one ranger in there who was shooting from obscene distances. He was all the way on blue’s home point and shooting us at mid. I thought oh weird maybe some kinda position desync bug. But repeatedly thru the match all 3 points were flipping blue with no blue people nearby, all 3 at the exact same time going from red uncontested to blue contested. I was standing on red mid and I could see on map where all 5 blue were fighting and it the point flipped blue 4 times while I was standing on it. What was going on with this pvp match? Every time it did this all 3 points flipped to contested blue at the exact same time from uncapped or red, and it was only happening when blue held no points.
I find it really hard to believe even the absolute worst possible technical issue related to these achievements that no one at Anet could come up with a simple solution. What would be so hard about making new achieves, archiving the old ones in an invisible state, and applying progress to the new achieves from the old achievement data? The script to do this is not that hard to write. If someone thinks they didn’t get their progress, the CSRs can look at the archived ones.
It’s quite sad to have left an entire category of achievements broken this long. They’re all literally 40 years to finish, that’s not even poor design that’s just a bug.
Not sure why people have such different experiences with GW2 performance. I have crappy old i5 3330, GTX 760, and 12gb of 1333 RAM and with 64 bit Win 7 and GW2 on a 4×240gb SSD RAID. I can do map capped guild Teqs in melee stack in 1080p high detail and might drop to 45 fps at the bottom end, I cap to 60. Excluding the SSD array it’s only like a $700 computer.
Naga is a better design, faster to pick up, easier on your hand to operate, better software package, better feel overall. I’d have a really hard time believing someone who says the G600 is better has tried both.
Scale specific fractal dailies need to GTFO, like today. You’ve ruined the experience for EVERYONE. It’s not an elitism thing, new players should not be jumping in every single scale 19 group in green gear 0 AR asking how to do every fight. There’s scale 1-10 for people who need to learn it without proper gear. Making the daily for the end chest was an excellent change but making it scale specific is the worst cancer I’ve ever seen in a game. So now every single 11-20 group on days with 11-20 daily is a revolving door of no AR new fractallers who die 15 times and rage quit. Bad experience for newcomers, bad experience for veterans, equals garbage coding that had zero thought put into it. Just had to leave an hour into a scale 19 on dredge because no one knew the place, having to stop and explain every fight, revive everyone 20 times during each fight, replace someone every 3-5 minutes who broke their armor dying. I literally had 25 people in my scale 19 and didn’t even finish it. I think at least 12 of them were sub 1k AP rangers. I don’t mind playing with new people, but we should be going to scale 1 for that which is why the system exists to begin with.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)
4 oranges, a steel mining pick and a skill point? It’s the same as no chest at all. Not relative to the effort involved in ranking up in pvp. Just a thought.
Please please PLEASE reduce region specific pve dailies. I’m fine with one region specific daily but why does every single pve daily have to be region specific and all over the map? This is the worst change you’ve ever made to the game. Instead it should be 1 region specific and the rest general like the old ones. It should be one day region specific gatherer and general event completer and another day region specific event completer and general gatherer. Current form is so annoying to play I’ve skipped my dailies most days since the patch.
(edited by Asgaeroth.6427)