Guild Wars 2

Kayvaan.9863:

Aside from clicking on the WvW tab and joining, what is stuff I should know, cause I join in and its barren, with maybe one group of ~15 people going in circles capping and re-capping places, wheres the keep assaults and all of that?

what classes are good in WvW?

What other stuff should I know?

Well, if u haven’t yet, check out the sticky thread linked below.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-some-things-you-should-know

Then, as some1 pointed out, metabattle is a good place as any to start for builds although I strongly recomend that you look at those builds and then adapt them to your play style/ role you wish to preform in WvW. Also if you google up builds you will find some interesting theorycrafters out there that are worth taking a look at.

Next, I think every server has a WvW community with forum and TS, Discord or whatever. Join them, they will help you out A LOT. If you are really into WvW and want to make it your primary game mode, there are WvW dedicated guilds and you should try to join one of them. They will be the ones that will help the most with your questions, doubts, builds.

The last advice i can give you is: play the game mode for fun and as you want to. Try to be helpfull wether u zerg up or play smallscale and respect your fellow players.

It’s nearly impossible to condense the WvW experience in a single post or thread. We would be here all year. Don’t be discouraged if you’re a little bit lost at the beggining. You’ll get the hang of it sooner than later.

Helly.2597:

I’m going to try and look at this objectively (I voted no for disclosure).

The issue in my mind with every potential siege addition that can be deployed open field, is that while in theory it benefits both sides in a fight the same (potentially) it will almost always in reality benefit the larger force more. Large force = more supply to build, more people to soak damage, and greater ability to just nuke down the smaller force’s siege.

Personally as a 1-5 man roamer, siege is a pain in my butt and I dislike it. But I can acknowledge that it could potentially be a benefit for defenders to have greater options open to them in siege placement. Instead of allowing for cannons to be built open field, maybe allow for them to only be placed and built within towers/keeps and with a limit (2-3 for towers, 4-5 (probably more due to the number of gates needed to cover) for keeps?). This would be in replacement of the current standard for the cannons. This would allow for defenders to cover more of the current “weak spots” in defense ie cata spots, without being too overpowered since you would be limited in the number you can deploy. This would require more coding of course, but this is the only implementation I could see having a net neutral impact on WvW, more potential for open field siege will always be a negative impact in my mind.

This is the only way i can even consider portable cannons. Only inside structures (and with no more automatic build sites when the structure upgrades) and with a limited amount per structure. More of a way for ppl to customize the positioning of the cannon rather than building gazzilions of it like some servers and their AC’s. Never, I mean NEVER should cannon blueprints be able to be droped in open field, far from structures. It will be too harmfull for open field fights. For that we alrady have the cancerous openfield AC’s.

It’s becomming unplayable at EU primetime in WvW. Even respawning or selecting a Waypoint to port takes ages for the prompt window to come up… WTH is happening?

1. Does the lag only happen while you’re in a PvP map? Does it also occur in the PvP lobby? Other maps?
- Every borderland in WvW
2.How long does the lag spike last? Does it ever clear up?
- Always laggy throughout but gets really intense on fights even if it 25vs25 and usually ends in disconnect
3. Of your last 5 GW2 play sessions, in how many of them did you experience lag?
- All of them
4. Are there specific times of day when do or you don’t experience lag?
- Between 11h00 and 16h00 GMT never have lag. Between 20:00 and 23:00 GMT massive lag
5. When do you remember first experiencing lag of this severity in GW2?
- It started about 3 weeks ago (when I transfered from Seafearer’s Rest to Far Shiverpeaks).
6. Do you also experience lag playing other games? NCsoft games like Wildstar?
- No
7. Do you live in NA or EU?
- Portugal (EU)
8. Are you playing on NA or EU servers?
- Far Shiverpeaks (EU)
9. Was your account ORIGINALLY created on NA or EU?
- EU

Now that we know that there’s going to be a new season/tornament starting in March, is there any chance of getting the reward from the first season for the people in situation B, before the second one beggins?

Starscream’s trolling was one of the things that made my time in IRON a great time. Condolences to his RL family and to his IRON family. He will be missed, especially on the forums…