Guild Wars 2

They don’t care about WvW, just quit it like everyone else has.

What’s the point of being angry over kitten they haven’t fixed and will probably never fix ? Just quit. They got their money.

Sounds cool but doesn’t touch on the major issue I’ve had since launch that the towers/keeps in WvW are poorly designed for defending and useless to put siege up on in almost all places. Eles can reach anything on the wall.

I should not have to join a guild or be invited to a party to be in WvW. I should be able to join the battle any time I want and do whatever I want. That’s the freedom we enjoy. Maybe if we had decent and helpful scaled NPC’s (Siegerazor nonwithstanding) to help us instead of useless placeholders on the map it would be more even against bigger servers.

Would be nice to have some of the towers redesigned so we can actually defend them. It’s very frustrating when ppl can aoe you on every spot on the wall.

Now my scout will be tougher than ever ! Still won’t do damage though :-(

Why is it only 1 person is needed to use a ram in the first place ? I don’t know of any siege like that in history that didn’t need at least a few people for it to work effectively.

Ive been DC’d from EB after a couple mins since this last reset then I could log back in and play no problem but today I can’t stay in EB longer than a couple mins before it boots me every time. The other BL’s don’t do this.

Thieves will never be thieves as long as they have their invisibility body shields instead of actual stealth but I don’t see that mechanic ever changing.

Forget the aoe on the walls, what’s the kitten point of having sharks in Bay if we can’t create a Sharknado with them ? Rain of Sharks, kittenes !

I was playing it to have fun but they won’t fix basic problems in this game (targeting/camera etc) that have been issues for over a year so I uninstalled – peace out guys.

Can i keybind deselecting a target or am i stuck using the escape button to deselect a target so i can actually use my movement skills without getting myself killed?

Maybe the answer is to not care about points anymore. Why don’t we try an unofficial system of achievement and informally keep score on that? It happen all the time in underground fight clubs :-P
I’m on FA and I know what it is like to be stomped by servers with greater population and coverage(BG, TC). I’ve thought about changing servers to a lower ranked one but I don’t have the money to do it and I’m afraid to get stuck on a server I don’t like (I’ve changed servers 4 times since launch and I don’t really want to move anymore)

I usually go farm stuff while waiting. But it would be nice to be able to work on alts while you are in a long Q. Why not just tie the player account itself to WvW and once you are in, let’s you choose what toon you want to play ?

If you see 2 people and no one else just standing around, you can always ask your teammate to run toward you if he needs help. I have had experiences where just not immediately attacking someone can lead to fun adventures (like one time I came acroos an opponent trying to take the other server’s camp and losing to the guards, so I helped him take the camp for his side but they were losing so much it didn’t matter). Also, the towers at the southern portion of the BL’s is a typical unofficial place for dueling.

My ideal situation is to have one commander focusing on offense and another one on upgrading and defense. Someone who is playing defense should be able to switch with someone to do offense but it can be a problem finding someone to scout/upgrade. It’s all about being flexible but it has to be organized, especially between the commanders. I personally don’t think you have to be skilled at manipulating the keyboard to be a good commander, you just have to know how to lead.

JonPeters.5630:

Q: How does the overflow work? Is it possible to fight against other servers? Is it combined with EU and NA or just one specific region?
A: The current iteration is that you will only be matched up against the other worlds in your current WvW matchup. That is one of the many aspects of the map that we will be actively getting feedback on from the community and the testers..

If the Edge of the Mists is an overflow and has no effect on WvW, then why not just have the whole league filter into those overflows with people put on random teams ?

I want to see a redesign of all the towers/keeps/camps. Defense in this game is a joke. Taking an objective is much easier and much more worthwhile than defending said objective. The gates melt before anyone can even get in to get on siege for defense. Some people only care about fights, some only about ppt, some just want to scout and defend. Why is it so hard to accommodate and reward all of these play styles ? You might object “well one person should not be able to stop a zerg from taking a tower”. It’s not just one person, it’s the tower/castle as well. That is what they are DESIGNED for. I’m not saying that one person should always be able to stop a zerg from getting in but he should at least be able to stop them from using flame rams on the kittening gate !

Hey JQ, have fun winning this match. FA won’t defend kitten in their own BL.

Honestly, I thought MMO games would be much further along by this time than they are. I can’t do PvE anymore, it’s just the same boring song and dance routine as always, just with better graphics. I want to see more variety in GW2 dynamic events. Once you do the event or boss a few times you pretty much know what the mobs will be, where the mobs are going to come from, where they will stand and what happens when you don’t stop them. It’s BORING. Is it really so hard to just have random stuff happen in the world ? Why can’t a dragon just pop up in Queensdale out of nowhere and kill everything around, then leave a bunch on minions to wreck havok ?

The world is so big and there are many, many events and champions that just stand out there untouched. There doesn’t need to be 10000 simple events around the world to make things interesting when you can change up 1000 events and make them MUCH more random than they currently are. I want to be surprised when I fight a boss or do an event. I don’t want a fight to go A then B then C then D then A, B, C etc etc. I just want a lot more variety within the same events than there is now.

Sure, it will be more work for the devs, but hey, I’m willing to throw some money their way each month for an INTERESTING game. WvW was the real reason I played GW2 because I wanted more than what the game AI could provide but WvW has become just another song and dance itself. Sorry if you have a different opinion, but this is mine and I’m sticking with it.

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Why not just go back to the old days of having your “PvE” servers be true PvP (ok fine, throw in a few carebear servers for those who dont like pvp) and let WvW be about GUILDS waging war with each other ? I mean, this is Guild Wars, not Server Wars, right ?

No Golem Masteries please. But it would be funny if when you killed a Golem, it self-destructed like the ones in the Asura starting zone.

This is one of my big issues with WvW for a long time. It’s almost impossible to even defend most places. I understand that the devs want to keep it fair but with the wall heights so low that anyone with a 1200’ aoe can hit you and the HORRIBLE camera angles when on siege (not to mention the bullkitten of getting pulled off of siege) and the poor rewards involved/lack of people who even bother to defend or can even get into the tower with a huge zerg at the front door – I have almost given up trying to defend anything now.

Yeah wait until that 40-man zerg takes your tower and see how you feel about less powerful AC’s (if it’s a good server and you have few defenders, you won’t stop them anyway even if they are superiors)

It’s the kitten conditions that get you in an SMC battle (you Necros know what I mean). As long as I have condition removal I can waltz through a huge SMC battle without a scratch. I thought this lag demon problem would have been solved years ago but gaming companies just keep piling on the bullkitten.

It should be a system as simple as how much you contribute to the overall assault of the objective. If you are in the event then the time you are in it, how much damage you do and how many players you help defeat and siege/walls/gates/guards you help kill should all be calculated and just have the rewards mailed to you. Honestly, I wish all loot in WvW was just mailed to us because half the time we don’t seem to even get the chance to get it.

ANET needs to implement positive reinforcement changes to WvW. I thought this game was going to be PvP/WvW focused and it’s not. There’s nothing exciting going on in WvW. It’s like the same kitten every kittening week now – eg. bugged garrisons and keeps that won’t upgrade, server match ups that are imbalanced to where it’s feels pointless to even try. I bet a lot of people who are sick of long ques on overpopulated servers would like to move if it were free. Also, I know PvE gets bonuses when their WvW is winning, but is it the other way around as well ? They spend too much time of these stories for PvE where you do the same song and dance fights every time. Dynamic events my kitten – it’s the same kitten every time. Once someone figures out how to successfully beat something it’s just rinse and repeat.

Feelm.1938:

If people are in Cursed Shore to intentionally prevent others from progressing then by all means bring on the empty zone. Not that that’ll actually happen.

Back to CoF you go! I’m sure you’ll be able to guest to a server if it isn’t available on your home one

The only intention was to make money (and some of us are poor), not stop someone from progressing. It’s just ONE kittenING EVENT. Is it too much to ask for a way to make money that doesn’t involve me having to party with others and do a dungeon ? Seriously, Anet, get a kittening reality check and let people do what they want !

Here’s my two cents mex. I am farming the giant now because I am kittening poor. If Anet had a way for me to actually make money in this game ( i dont do dungeons and I cant do them by myself – not like in Wow where I could easily farm my own wool just with a new DK). I have made more money in the last few days farming than I ever made in this game and I love it. I can actually pay gold to level a toon just like almost everyone else does now. I did not play this game to farm, I want to be in WvW but with only 1 lvl 80 and being poor, things cost a lot ok ? That said, if someone is there with us and wants to finish Arah for a good reason, I think we should be considerate of those people. If you have been farming the event for 2 hours, why is it so hard to take a break ? Do you really have to be doing this all day ? Either way, I think it’s Anet’s problem, not ours. They need to come up with a better way to make money instead of just making it harder.

Ok, I know I’m not a very smart guy and there many out there who know WvW strategy more than me, but it seems logical to me that when you take a big objective like Hills in an enemies Bl that you at least try to hold onto it. You don’t leave it with paper defense and no siege and just go onto the next big objective (garrison and then bay) without expecting that server to come back and just take everything back right away. I just don’t understand the tactics some of you guys are using. What’s the point of taking hills then moving onto garrison then moving onto bay without trying to build siege to try to keep what you obtained ? Isn’t this game about keeping objectives and getting points ? How does this strategy help when the enemy zerg just ports back tot their own Bl and easily sweeps everything back ? I wasted so much time this morning running supply for Hills and towers. no one would help me and then while our guys were busy trying to take bay, KN just waltzed in and took hills back. I feel like I wasted my time trying to get siege for defense with no help. sorry for the rant but sometimes I feel like im on my own.

How about an elite Spirit Weapon that CANNOT be killed (thank you!) and gives you awesome attack abilities ? Why should guardians be without an elite minion (everyone else seems to have one). The tomes are basically transforms.

Is the charge of a Champ like the Svanir one at the Dome “unblockable” >? Because my Sanctuary does not stop his charge and I get creamed :-(

Also, do you guys find Sanctuary useful in WvW much ?

Sure, you can have your 1200’ range weapon as soon as they take away that ridiculous 1500’ steal teleport trait.

The thing about fantasy games is that you can make up your own rules and just blame it on the gods. Zerging is just human nature that the game encourages. All you have to do is implement things to discourage zerging – like random legendary dragons (with no loot) appearing :-)

Let’s just call this ability what it really is – invisibility. It’s not stealth. There’s no movement penalty in GW2 for being in “stealth”, but there should be. In fact, a thief in this game can go FASTER in “stealth”. He can be on fire and apparently the fire on his clothing has the stealth ability as well. You wanna keep it as is – fine. Just don’t call it what it isn’t.

I bought GW2 mainly to playtest WvW but I am very disappointed in it. I don’t like the design of the BL or the keeps/towers. I don’t like the fact that a level 80 still gets CRAP loot. I don’t like the fact that an npc is my only choice for repairs. Why can’t guilds have repairs ? Why can’t I repair my OWN armor if I am an armorsmith or leatherworker or tailor ? Why is it an enemy can swim across the lake and get all the way to the northernmost point on MY OWN BL map with absolutely no problem ? How the hell do you justify being able to pull me across and over a wall when I’m on the inside, out of range ? Why is a bullkitten event NPC Champion being reset every time he dies ? How is it a single player can contest a keep or tower so now we can’t waypoint inside ? I have to run across my own kitten map half the time just because waypoints are contested (keep an eye on that timer!). I’m glad they fixed that stupid invulnerable spot (boy were some ppl shocked when it wasn’t there anymore!) but they could do so much more to improve the experience of WvW.

Thnx for the replies, gave me something to think about and yeah i forgot about toolbelt, doh !

I have an engineer as my main and almost to 80 and I have fun playing with this profession but I feel like I am at a disadvantage compared to other professions, esp in WvW. My main beef is that all the other professions except elementalist can swap weapons in combat and therefore have a base number of 10 skills to use in combat. I only have 5 since I can’t swap weapons. Sure, I could use my 3 utility skill slots for kits and have more skills, but that forces me to have to use my utility skill slot for a kit and what if I don’t want to use a kit ? The elementalist can switch attunements without using a utility skill, so they have no problem, but if I want to just use pistols and then elixers in my utility slots, I am short 5 skills and am forced to use my autoattack waiting for cooldowns. I don’t think this is fair. I should have the option to have weapon swap. Maybe just turn off the ability to use kits while I am doing this ? Any thoughts from you guys ?