Guild Wars 2

The only thing you must really concentrate on are Mystic Clovers and maybe dungeon Gift needed for your weapon. All other mats will come eventually in your bank.

Throwing rares/exos into forge in pointless IMO. You may get some precursor but chances are close to 0. When I decided to make Bolt it took me 4 months of mat & gold farming. Then I just bought the precursor and made Bolt.

Straegen.2938:

A stack of candy corn took about 8 min to process. Yielded the following buffs:

50% Karma – 13 min
Killstreak – 10 min
Crafting – 40 min
Speed – 52 min
Magic Find – 46 min
WXP – 5 h 44 min
Gathering – 14 min
Dmg Reduction – 59 min
Regen – 29 min
XP – 1 h 14 min

Cost was around 63s. If someone is buying WxP or other boosters, this is WAY cheaper.

This!

All I care ATM are WXP/XP/MF boosts for levelling alts. Anything else is just added bonus. This item is great for running in EotM, not so good in regular WvW. Besides Corn goes down really quickly and unless you have your own node in home instance you will have to pay for it sooner or later.

RedStar.4218:

To those who think that this change is a good idea because it will :
- split zergs
- create more scouts

How it will split zergs? IMO (considering how well organised T1 servers work) this opens an opportunity to exploitlike game play. Let’s imagine that a zerg sends few ppl to build 2 superior rams, let them ram down the doors and rush in after they took care of gates. not that hard to do since the detection area is rather small, like 3-4 seconds of running. IMO after this change it will be possible to “ninja” anything with a zerg.

Hell, I’ve seen pugs in EoTM opening keeps without triggering swords so well organised server can do it at will.

Scouting? We have that already in T1. Be it dedicated scouts or roamers who report enemy presence all over the map. It is common to get reports from other BLs on TS or even map chat.

If anything this change will hit low pop servers hard.

In 2 years of farming Orr I got total of 11 Giant Eyes. All came from Heavy Moldy Bags. In that time I grinded enough mats and gold to make a Legendary. Really, there is a problem with that drop.

I tested traveller runes on golem and it seems to work but speed bonus on slow moving golem is very little anyway.

Well, if you lack supply go to EotM and grab some before joining real WvW. If you don’t have queues it’s even better, if you do, you can jump there for supps while waiting for a pop.
Not a life saver but at least in EotM you can always find supps even if your side is on the loosing side.

Convincing people to not waste supplies is another problem.

Heh, I tend to not pay attention to what tech support is saying in this regard. OFC it is easier to blame player rig or connection than admit there is somethign wrong with their system.

I am not saying there is something wrong for sure but they could just take a look at it. Not long ago there was a thread on this very forum where people posted vids of ONE guy joining EBG and it caused massive lag for everyone on the map. Maybe this problem is escalating. This is the last week of S3 in wvw so many people join in to get more rewards. It COULD happen that few “bugged” accounts/characters are present on every map all the time.

I just hope that this “bug” is not widely known and being exploited for some reason.

Also, I just ran GW2 on my work computer with industrial level internet connection (realllllly fast one) and it still lags. Not a proof of anything OFC.

Hule.8794:

Cheese, I am 100% sure thats its a problem of your ISP. In no way this is a problem of Anet and their servers. It does not matter that you lag with 10000 other people at same time. Its a problem of your all ISPs.

you joking right?

I had to give up WvW this week because of 40s+ skill and movement lag. Tested my connection with metric crapton of software (with servers from all over the world) and there is no problem. Ping/Upload/Download is close to perfect. Only GW2 lags like hell all the time this week.

skullmount.1758:

Kronos.3695:

Gaia Orunitia.5794:

+1 to OP. Collection is the “big” feature of the pack, and it’s still bug 3 weeks after the release…

fishball > to start the Jormag collection, you have to loot the Jormag Claw fragment from the Jormag world boss event chest in Frostgorge Sound. And that’s RNG based, so I hope you have more luck than me (one try per day since launch and still nothing… and the funny part is that it takes the place of others loot, so you can still drop it instead of another rare item even if you already have it…)

Yep, i’m doing every boss everyday since the patch, and still i didn’t get the item to activate the jormag collection (as many other people); but, many people are reporting issues and bugs with that collection too, so…

I haven’t been able to get any of the race(?) specific collection starting items despite basically committing genocide on grawls/krait/hylek. Haven’t tried for the ogres yet since I can’t get the one for any of the others to drop.

I got Krait collection item while doing event near Teq (while waiting for it). Actually I got several of those collection starters even tho you can use it only 1 time. I got Hylek item in WvW (capping Hyleks ofc) and Grawl from random Grawl Vet in some lvl 15-25 zone.

Edit:

Krait collection is easy to finish as it consists of Krait rare weapon skins 99% of players has already unlocked if they farmed Orr a bit. Hyleks need craftable weapons (using Sunbeads – karma item) and Krait need Large Skull so they are more expensive to make. All of those give Tuning Crystal, Maintenence Oil and Sharpening Stones recipies as rewards. Quite expensive to make compared to regular ones but they last 45 mins (same stat boost).

Yesterday I couldn’t even use siege. All skills stopped at 50% and there was no zerg around.

Spiderbite.8049:

Nkuvu.2570:

But new characters are simply told “you cannot use that item now.”

I have given up on the diving goggles as this is the only action they seem to do anymore.
I’ve tried with various 80’s… and (LOL) submitted bug reports.

Diving goggles are just a thing of the past now as far as I’m concerned.

/sadpanda

Am I the only one who tried to use goggles skills AFTER juping and WHILE falling to the water? Kinda hard to do barrel roll while standing on the ground…

Bubi.5237:

Johje Holan.4607:

There’s a small sliver of hope with the invite a dev thing. But then they’re all probably playing on BG or SFR or YB.

SFR got 0 Dev, Kodasch got 3.

I am 100% sure there was a Dev on EBG/SFR last week. For sure he was on our community TS.

IMO ANet should only allow to enter EotM for trial accounts. If not… I am making “spy” account myself

Gratz Funny Sunny Bunny

Azrael.4960:

Andrew Clear.1750:

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

Ezrael.6859:

The WvW team is actually one guy who usually works on the gem store, but occasionally during his free time he messes around with adding stuff to WvW.

1 year of development, a single siege mastery, 3 woooah colours for the commander tag and a 1200 range grenade that disables siege in a 450 radius. Haha.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to disable siege and buff golems does not play wvw

This is an awesome feature, except for K-Train zergs. This will allow a server to get defenders to the objective, and then a fight will ensue. Keep fights are awesome.

If you think about it, it also empowers attackers if it is a throw AOE. Everyone knows that AOEs overlap onto wall tops so you can just bury the walls in grenades and disable every AC, ballista and treb up there then roll your zerg up to have all your siege disabled by the same grenades and PVD some more. Basically, the only things you’d have to fight would be burning oil and cannon and those will last 10s against focused fire.

So basically, you end up with two sides trying to carry as many grenades as possible and disabling each other’s siege to the point that siege is unnecessary and it’s all blob fights and PVD

well. Defensive trebs and ACs are usually placed beyond the reach of any other siege not to mention grenades. All I expect is less PvD and more intense defending/attacking. IMO it may be very interesting feature.

Just wanted to thank ANet support, especially Maddox, for lightning flash speed reaction to my problem and quick solution. Must say I am impressed!

IMO this idea is stupid as hell but I know that at least on my server people would gladly donate few gold for our commanders so every one of them will have all tags at day 1.

Thanks to our commanders, be it EB, BL or EotM ones I made so much gold I will gladly donate 10, 20 or even 100. Not to mention all the fun they gave me.

EvanTeicheira.3962:

• Did you create the first tier of the back-piece (the Exotic-level item) before today’s patch?
• Was the seed in your bank or in your character’s inventory?
• Have you progressed through any of the construction steps introduced in Episode 4? If so, which steps have you completed?

- I did create first tier of the back-piece (then gave it to my alt) and I did it before latest patch.
- seed was in my bank till yesterday’s patch (and then it was aleready Pet Seed when I took it)
- i did all the steps in Episode 4, need only Cultivated Seed to finish back-piece.

+1

I am in no way setting foot in FoTM.

ionix.9054:

All you need is Mark Jacobs.

I had a great respect for him byt it was he and Mythic who ruined a great game Warhammer Online.

Let’s see how he will handle CU.

Deli.1302:

Bartas.4908:

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Dawdler.8521:

If they didnt have lower numbers, they wouldnt be rank 4-27 now, would they? PPT is 80% about population and coverage. WvW is not so packed there is population competition across all tiers.

Just choose one of the top 3 if you want population, its the same darn thing no matter the server. Unless you got a raid guild following you there, one person more wont make it any more or less populated than it currently is.

I doubt he wants to sit in queues, or be forced into EoTM for some PvW for most of the evening during prime time, so adding one more player in the queue would be a problem for him at least.

What queues? Even on SFR there is rarely a queue to BL during weeks days and even when it is it’ not like you have to wait hours in it. If I am really unlucky I have to wait 20 mins but usually it is no more than 5 mins.

Wait till season 3 starts. 100 man eb queue was the the bare minimum during prime time lol.

Nothing to be surprised about when it comes to Season. Still, queues are not that horrid as they were year ago.

No games I played were balanced population wise. Most of them had only 2 sides so obviously one of them had better coverage/numbers either because it was visually more appealing (look Aion) or had better skills (Warhammer). The only game I played which had absolutely no problems with balace was Archlord where you had different races but all of them on the same “side”. In that game fights were between Guilds and Alliances to rule the Archlord castle. Sadly it happened only once per month :/

Shadow.3475:

When looking back at old game you forget all the bad things, Knight Online i still think had the most fun and intesive PVP but kitten i would play it now when it took like 100hours grind to get 1 lvl at the high lvl, what made it fun was you cod be evil like almost kill a enemy and let mobs finish him so he lost 5% off a lvl, something I guess GW2 cod take after is limit heal and remove debuffs to your party, then ofc limit veil, swift also to your party, problem is then how to speed up dollys.

Totally agree with this. I too have great sentiment for DAoC, Warhammer, Archlord and so on. At the time I was playing those I was enchanted and loved those but looking back (forgetting the sentiment) I would never wanted to have those PvP systems in GW2.

MrFluffy.9307:

Knighthonor.4061:

Korgov.7645:

So you just spent 15 minutes to build the trebuchet which could not.

The elevation, invisible walls, line of sight, arc of fire, blast radius all affect which siege abilities can hit which targets. One should also consider any counter measures when placing siege.

Instead of asking for a map, you should ask a more seasoned WvW player to show you good siege positions. In many cases it is a matter of a yard from edge of a cliff between good and bad siege placement.

Thats what I mean. Are there any Googlemaps for WVW with good siege locations detailed out by vet WvWers anywhere that I can look over?

I don’t think there are, but to be honest I don’t think you would need them. After playing around with siege a bit it’s pretty easy to get a feel for the range, etc.

this.

Besides, if you are expecting something like a range circle on map it would not work. In most cases you need to take elevation into consideration (much longer or lower range). IMO you should run around for a couple of days and check where people usually place siege. 99% of times it would be the best spot for any given siege.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Dawdler.8521:

If they didnt have lower numbers, they wouldnt be rank 4-27 now, would they? PPT is 80% about population and coverage. WvW is not so packed there is population competition across all tiers.

Just choose one of the top 3 if you want population, its the same darn thing no matter the server. Unless you got a raid guild following you there, one person more wont make it any more or less populated than it currently is.

I doubt he wants to sit in queues, or be forced into EoTM for some PvW for most of the evening during prime time, so adding one more player in the queue would be a problem for him at least.

What queues? Even on SFR there is rarely a queue to BL during weeks days and even when it is it’ not like you have to wait hours in it. If I am really unlucky I have to wait 20 mins but usually it is no more than 5 mins.

The Hero Warrior Il.7681:

Devon <3 I have missed you<3 Thought you left us all to our own thoughts and thats never good

he did……………………..

omg, I popped into this section and saw like 4 red posts… alll necros….

Deleting my Necro character!!!!!

TheFamster.7806:

LostBalloon.6423:

TheFamster.7806:

bloodletting wolf.2837:

TheFamster.7806:

bloodletting wolf.2837:

TheFamster.7806:

I’m seriously doubting any new changes made for wvw because WvW simply does not generate Gems for Anet. In pve people tend to “buy” repair kits, revive orbs, salvage kits, etc, and in PvP anet is trying to generate E-sports hype. But there is simply no transaction involving wvw. Its mostly guild/server pride that is keeping it alive but as time progresses and new games come out people will eventually leave. At that point anet will simply leave it empty

Funny after paying for food/crystals/siege I break even in WvW so I buy gems every two weeks to have any gold for fun stuff.

To be honest I actually make gold in wvw (very little), but then for me if i did a dungeon tour for a day I wouldn’t have to get more gold for wvw in a month. WvW actually costs very little and that is why its being neglected. You don’t need top oil/food because of buffs/removals from many players around you. You don’t even need many golds to buy gears due to badge of honor currency. Hell from those champion bags one can even expect a precursor drop or even a named exotic which will be enough to supply a casual wvw player for about 2 weeks. Beside wvw is only serious in seasons and top tier servers so the population is very unstable and not much. Server transfers can be done with gold to gem exchange so anet can afford to ignore us continuously until wvw dies off.

You must not WvW much. I spend over 1g per hour just on the food and crystals and although they aren’t required for zerging you need then for roaming. Superior siege adds up as well. WvW is serious in the off season for people like me and it isn’t just the top tier servers. If I get a precursor or named exotic from a champ bag I’ll let you know. Cute

1g for an hour isn’t much compare to pve aspect of the game. In my case I usually spend over 100g just for the basic runes and sigils, which tempts me to buy gold. In general, people spend more gold (hence future gem) on pve contents rather than wvw. The only reason people would buy gems is mostly for pve contents which can be used in wvw, but not exclusively for wvw.

If we go by your logic, there is nothing exciting for WvW players to spend their gems on.

Sadly that is true in my case. WvW doesn’t consume as much gold as pve contents. Pve contents consist of ascended gears, legendaries, runes, sigils and many more. Unless you are playing a really different style of wvw (roaming), even then you do not need as much gear/sigil/runes as for pve. With new updates on living story and events like the Crown Pavilion Pve contents remain as gold sink whereas WvW has limited consumables and even limited updates.
While I do acknowledge that WvW is one of the most exciting parts of gw2, sadly it does not have bigger gold sink than pve.

All of that would lead to conclusion that best thing for ANet (or whoever is making money from GW2) is to introduce some kind of P2Win gem merchandise. I have seen it in some other games and didn’t really like it. Well, I started to “not like” it when I realised I spend 200$+ monthly a F2P game. You know, just to be competitive. Still, I am sure someone in ANet should be smart enough to make some gem items viable for wvw (and not game breaking and P2Win) so we could gladly contribute to ANet income and get the power to demand some additions to current WvW (or at least Dev attention).

well I am drinking beer and watching some forum fights. Not in the wvw tonight. Still it wont make any difference…

Lord Kuru.3685:

Arctisavange.7260:

Since i dont like queues and i want to command often, im not looking at gold tier servers. I prefer bronze ones, maybe even silver tier.

Do even gold tier servers have queues anymore?

The longest queue to BL I had since last tourney was like 20 ppl and it lasted less than 3 mins. EB is bit longer but still no more than 40-50 ppl (15 mins tops).

Eugenides.1274:

The ANet Glassdoor employee reviews are an interesting read. You may need to log in to see them all.

There have been a few new employee reviews in the past months and most of them talk about a disconnect between what the higher ups in the company want and what players want. In the end, it’s their game, but reading through the reviews is a bit discouraging as a player.

I too lost all hope for any meaningfull changes to wvw after reading this. Maybe it is time to look for some other game.

ahhh so that how it is done….

Kidding. Sadly you just contributed to growing number of exploiters. Next please post how to build trebs on Citadel roof.

heh, rank up chests are a joke. 99% of times I get those I get worse loot than from killing random mob.

I think this is the last active/not deleted thread where angry wvwers post. I have the feeling that in the last hour many threads got deleted.

Could be that you tagged some other supervisor before you were defending a camp and someone killed it.

Once I hit few times buffed supervisor, ported back to citadel and few mins after I got steel chest from kill. Anyway, I believe in any bug when it comes to WvW.

Footde Coulde.3509:

to every one that enjoys wvw great, good for u life is wonderful i enjoy the rest of the game and probably have played more of the game them most wvw being the one part i haven’t really done due to game play and online connection so forcing me to play it for one the item all it does it put people off if your going to complain to my comment that’s fine but Ive played and done pretty much every achievement and do still enjoy playing gw2 and there are lot of people who only like one part of the game thats also fine.

TBH I didn’t like WvW but when I was forced there on my way to Legendary I loved it and never went back to full PvE. Besides in EotM (VERY PvE map) you get badges 10x faster than in normal WvW. Even BL/EB map completion is not hard, just takes some time which compared to the time required to grind all T6/Ectos/Clovers/gold/Precursor is nothing really. I did it all on my squishy, PvE geared thief in under 10 weeks (tho Precursor prices at that time were under 300g).

Cooking and Jewelry still give 10 lvls from 0 to 400. The rest will give you 7 levels from 0 to 400 and 3 levels from 400 to 500.

And yes, it goes by precentage.

When you consider economy (ANet gem sales) it is wise for them to keep it that way. Legendaries/Precursors are rare and hard to obtain via normal/casual gameplay. Ascended stuff just takes time(gate) so anyone who has a bit of free time can make it. Still, you can buy relatively cheaply most of the mats to make ascended stuff so no profit in it for ANet.

On the other hand I find it disgusting that you can buy/flip Legandaries.

Well, the steel chest was dropped by camp supervisor so it always contains badges and fragments. Sometimes some blue/green junk.

Tho I agree that such poor loot does not deserve a steel chest.

Still waiting to see someone getting 2 Precursors :P

I think you can turn off or limit effects in your settings easily.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Transfer Server for the meantime, it’ll be at least 2/3 more months IMO and hopefully they’ve learned their mistakes from the past two Seasons… heh

you are joking, right?

Reborn.2934:

red keep has more walls to hit than other keeps . this make it weaker

Not only that. There are numerous “safe” passes towards the keep where you cannot absolutely defend with sieges from the keep. That aside I really love FR keep as it is easiest to defend keep with its ice bridges, safe AC/Cata/Treb spots and many escape routes. As far as OG keep it is the easiest to defend. With really few properly placed sieges you can defend it solo against any zerg.

Sad thing is that, as it is a PVE player suggestion, it might actually be done by the devs. Who cares for WvW, poor PvE player does not want to die in WvW and get his PvE stuff done!

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Secondary question: Of the exotics you get from drops – what are uniquely named versus something like Orrian Greatsword of Thisorthat?
I find named exotic drops are increasingly rare.

I get mainly named ones as 95% of my exo drops are from champ boxes in EotM. I get like 2-4 per week farming there. Not sure but I think there is a set number of different named exos you can get from champ boxes in EotM as I always get the same ones (3 or 4).

I just dumped 200g worth of rares into the forge and got only 4 exos back… Gratz on your luck :/

rank 650+ and 4 ascended chests and a ring till now. If I remember correctly 3 armor and 1 weapon.

I believe that Charged Crystal acquisition was placed in game to test timegating for future Ascended crafting. I agree tho, that timegating exotic gear is stupid at this point especially when you can craft Celestial stat Ascended gear if you wish. That makes 1 more time gate on a stat combo that is not even BiS.

Weapon prices are nothing. Imagine how much prices of mats needed to craft/forge those weapons would skyrocket.
TBH unless ANet thinks of a way to obtain precursors in some non-grindy way I’d rather keep the current system.

Lert.6287:

Lol at these joke threads.

this

Just imagine a necro staff skills changed from condi to raw damage. AoE crits for 3-5k.
On the other hand… please do it ANET