Guild Wars 2

Realistically I can only think of 2 solutions to end zerging as it is .

1- Collision detection for friendlies aswell as enemies. going right through the enemy zerg would be imposible and so would stacking in a corner like mindless bots. Zergs would still exist, but instead of people acting like idiots it would require a certain amount of tactics. Choke points would matter a lot more, aoe had to be spread, people would need to think instead of following the blue cupcake just “because he said so”.

2- A more drastic solution that would really harm zergs: friendly fire. This is a last resort and i dont think it would work well, but it would certainly end zerging.

Dragsooth.4071:

How about you people NOT use skills while you have confusion on. Better yet, cure it or dodge it.

You already got what you want with this Casual Gamer crap, all you have to do is press a freaking button or DON’T.

Then you’ll just stand there taking damage, because you’ll have confusion permanently.

You hit them: get confused.
They rupt you: get confused.

they dish out damage, you stand still otherwise you’ll get confused.

Its ridiculous, thieves get to the point of only autoattacking with pistols and stealth after getting hit.The only class i faced that never used this runes were guardians.

This runes need to be nerfed to oblivion.

to fight zerging^: create a mega cannon that becomes active once more than 5 players stack up, with 1 use only, refreshing when the condition is met again. this cannon hits everyone and 1-kills the zerg: no more zergs in wvw.

Would be fun lol.

So i was roaming a borderland on my warrior when i met this other warrior from the enemy. i leaped to him and engaged fight, was taking heavy hits whille barelly making any damage to him… (i run a tanky dps that can withstand a bit of damage whille also dishing some out with my hammer)

I immediatelly thought something was fishy, but whatever, maybe i just suck and my build is crap, so i took it like a man and fought on. a few secs later a necro and a thief came to my aid and the other warrior ran.. now this is where it gets really interesting…

The other guy was using hammer + Sw/wh, he never left combat, he had no bull’s charge because he used 2 shouts (on my mark + FGJ) + dolyak signet, but, by some miracle, he managed to leap out with sword and instantly use GS to get miles away.

So.. whats with the hacks? speedhack wasnt enough?

me and 2 more frieds we’re running CoF today, and we needed 2 more to complete aprty so we went to lfg tool. Went smooth until the boss where this 2 guys kicked us (they were 2 guys from riverside (DE) with commander tags). they got reported, and i hope they get a ban.

But yeah it sucks, even on cof, wich is fast and effortless, great community.

Just throwing my 5 cents:

I think you (Anet) took the easy route, you nerfed the loot. This is not a way to “fix” an exploit, at least not this one, any mmorpg/rpg rewards a player for killing mobs, be it in item or cash, by doing this you’re telling your players “yeah kill them but you wont get anything” as if the reward system wasnt bad enough as it is.

To me, the proper way to fix this exploit, because it is what it is, was by adding a timer in the event- You either destroy the walls in 3 minutes (or whatever time you think would be enough) or the risen destroy the power supply (or whatever its there).

other solution would be to add champions with huge aoe (karka champion comes to mind) when theres enough people there to scale it that high, preventing people to stand in place spamming 1.

But your choice was – nerf the loot. again.

dont make players hate the time spent ingame because they dont get anything. And no, the Guaranteed bonus chest with a rare item is not the way to do it, rares have no value anymore, same goes for ectos. make the rewards mean something.

Remember what you had in gw1 pre nightfall. The best thing that could happen to anyone was getting that perfect rare. think about it.

WIN strategy, no one can withstand that kind of zerg.

I personaly see skipping mobs as a valid srategy, if it only involves taking advantage of terrain to bypass the trash.

What i dont see as valid, and even borders exploitation, is using mesmer portals to bypass gates in crucible of eternity for instance.

Ofcourse, if end chests actually dropped something highly desirable, like unique skins (why dont we have those from dungeon end chest?) i’m all in favor in changing dungeons so to make them unskipable, either by adding closed gates or by adding some type of checklist in which you either killed all bosses or there will be no hest (kinda like FoW and UW clearing of quests for end chest)

I agree that the reviving system needs a revamp. Keep the “revive manually” for downed players as it is, but change the skills that give instant ressurection to downed players so that they revive defeated players, like a real ressurection system.

I totally disagree with the doors locking bosses idea, i dont think players should be kept out of the battle for that leave them dead where they fell, the waypoint rez mechanic in dungeons was flawed, now is better, just need some tweaks in my opinion.

And please nerf the mesmer portals that allow people to skip a lot of content, last night i ran with my guild in coe p2, i used to run it back on FA server with some friends from gw1, we did the dungeon as it should be done, no mesmers, killing the bosses and disabling the alarms, took a while but felt good to finish. so alst night i run with this guys and they skipped everything using mesmer portal to bypass doors, i gotta say i was disapointed to see that as possible.

the pact has helis. not the charr alone.

Not sure if this issue has been psoted yet. havent read most of the replys.

Although i really like the revamp to the rez system, wp rez rush was ridiculous in my opinion, there are some issues with it.

I think its great to “force” players to actually rez their fallen team mates and disabling waypoint rez if the party is in combat, however, i’ve come across some situations where the system desperatly needs tweaking:

Cof path 3, final boss fight. The boss will try to push you into the lava, while its easy to avoid with proper dodging and stun breaker use, sometimes you will get hit. last night a party group passed the whole fight dead on the lava, with no way to rez him and no way to return to the wp. In this case i think players should be able to get to the wp.

Same thing in other maps with lava (coe destroyer fight for instance).

Also players killed by traps should be able to wp back even if the party is engaged in fights, but this is a minor concern.

Thats about all the problems i have with the new system.

bumping and confirming. He’s not falling and losing buff after hitting the pillars.

Most of us have already experienced a situation where you are either completely dominating the other 2 servers, or being completely crushed in WvW, or at least one of these.

This situation is not beneficial to anyone, it crushes the will to go in WvW and play and it promotes boredom and facerolling, wich shoudnt happen in any game mode.

Many people claim WvW is not made to be balanced, i agree with this, players will play where they want, therefore, population inbalances are unavoidable.

I gave some though to the WvW problems and my sugestions to make WvW more enjoyable are the following. (please, if you disagree counter with something positive, dont be a troll)

- Give a real buff to a server if it is on the losing side AND whille fighting in their borderlands , something like a “call to arms” or “fight to survive”.
The idea behind this is, if anyone is in a near death situation, the will to survive will kick in and people will give all they have, same goes for server.
why only on the borderland of the said server? well, borderlands is our “home nation”, if we’re losing, the resources would be put there and not in a far away land. dont give it to the winning server, if they are winning they can defend their borderlands and push on the others.

- Make outmanned buff a real buff and not a cosmetic one (although i would prefer the first sugestion).

- Change the orbs effects from effective to cosmetic . more hp and bonus to stats should be given to the losing side, not the winning. Make orbs give +karma +xp.

thats it for now. Its short i know, any more ideas would be good.

As for the queues, thats a players problem, if you are unhappy with them, change to taht low level server that could use your help. if you want to be in a wvw crowded server, then you should expect it.

theres a reason why they are called JQQ. ridiculous post.

^totally agree, you shouldnt have to pair up to have a snare.

the premiss the devs gave us was not “pair up with other people to have fun” it was “play however you want to play and have fun”

Guardians are desperatly needing a criplle associated witha weapon, rename flashign blade to criplling blade, remove the leap and give us cripple instead if that’s what it takes. (and whoever doesnt agree as never gone 1v1 against a mesmer)

we have 0 effective snares. even with weapon swap, and the signets, you either spike hard and hope not to get dodged, or the guy will break free very fast, cripple you and flee,and theres nothing you can do about it.

@Ynna

no, i get golds, your level of participation in a siege is not measured by the number of times you hit the gate.

Also, i got a decent number of badges, because i also run a sword, and my traits are speced for sword.

i think shield 4 should give 2 second of daze. Is more than justified with the long cooldown of the hability.

Edit: felt like it needed elaboration.

Im thinking about shield pvp-wise, guardian really lacks the traditional form of control on 1-handed weapons. Lets see. Every profession has some form of cripple provided by a weapon, except for the guardian and the engineer, the engi however has the tools kits and so on, that effectivelly act as brand new 5 skills on weapon slot.

so, guardian clearly lacks cripple, everyone else has it….

Daze: Every single class has daze in one weapon set.. except… the guardian.

The only control condition the guardian has with weapons is imobilize, provided by the hammer (2h) and the scepter 1h.

summing it up, there is no control if you want to use a mace or a sword. (seriously the mace doesnt daze? thats hilarious, getting hit by a metal ball on the head should give some daziness /rant)

I think you people are seriously underestimating the power of the staff.

Yeah, if you want to be dumb and aoe the top of the wall, be dumb, but know, you’re doing it wrong, for that get an elementalist.

Give might to your team. they will apreciate it. Use line of warding to get those guys that came out of the wall and try to go in a hard time when trying to get in. ok skill 2 is useless. skill 1 is great when siegin, i will say no more about skill 1, figure it out.

i use no scepter, again, “nuking” top of wall with smite? no ty. i would use scepter if the autoaattack was better, unfortunatelly it is not.

If you feel you are lacking in defending a tower then take an arrow cart, wich is much better than any skill any class has, i personally feel guardian is not lacking on keep defense as bad as people think.

For field fights (not zergs, those are silly) guardian has a great range of choices that can make you rack up some kills, for instance that guy above with the GS has a great time, as for me, i hate GS in wvw, and i have my fair share of kills.

i believe that is correct edge, everyone was on the same quest when it bugged out, after chosing to advance. when entering lions arch the quest would just skip forward.

Thank you for the update, we the players, appreciate it.

There’s other issues. one that comes to mind is in decider atum

I spent some time there doing cooking, and while there and the raptor egg event was active the guy wouldnt shut up about “any plan involving raptors is by design fool proof” or something like that.

And yeah, the vendors talking to players is so anoying, theres so much “dont let a wrong de rippen into evil” i can take

I also experienced this. the chain skill 1 completelly disables the dodge mechanic unless manually canceled. this makes the sword unusable imo, since i am not able to avoid damage.

It works on FA server. The skill point however, is bugged.

All i have done in this game so far is crafting, im nearing level 80, while my story is still on the 30’s, all because im waiting on Anet to fix this bug on my gf’s toon, the rewards I will receive will now be laughable, hopefully there will be some black lion keys, salvage kits and such.

It has been over a week, and there is nothing tangible.

It’s all good and fine to correct personal story bugs, but how about fixing the major bug that took away people’s personal story?

give us an update.

1. Honor, not sure, norn value great accomplishments and individuality, so a thief can pretty much accomplish great stuff on his own.

1. yeah… but stealth covers it all i guess. (well, a good example of big “thiefs” is shiro tagachi, ok he was an assassin, but you get the point, stealthy and sneaky is ok, but shiro was a big guy, and look at what he did)

Btw, theres an old post on the arena blog named “a spirit of legend”, im pretty sure the guy in there is a thief, pretty entertaining.

I think they are somewhat reptilian (pretty sure i read it somewhere). Maybe they eat bugs or something (wich would make sense since they came from underground, no big Cows down there im sure)

The teeth are great, its another thing that makes asura unique.

I think the best way to level up your crafting is:

Step 1: get lots of materials, with focus on fine crafting materials (claws, blood, venon sacks etc)

step 2: refine some materials

Step 3: make basic componets for 1 weapon/armor part and 1 insignia (best to use the one that consumes less materials)

Step 4: go to discovery and combine them.

Step 5: repeat the process (either with a diferent piece of armor/weapon or to a diferent insignia, depending on what materials you have available)

Bolt.1736:

tbh i never wanted a reset to all the people who are already 400 at cooking but seeing the replies here, i’d like that to happen then see how they would get to 400 in cooking without burning a hole in their pockets.

The things that cost money are still there: Flour, yeast, water, sugar, salt. Butter was karma, so were oranges and many other that got changed. So thats not even a valid point.

People got Karma by playing the game, now by playing the game you get karma AND cooking materials, i currently have more butter/cinamon/peppers etc than i could use.

This nerf only affected all the other crafs, that are getting less fine crafting materials due to cooking materials taking drop rates from bags.

Cameirus.8407:

They should reset all 400 cooking got pre nerf,, its not fair on people who now have the grind or cost of levelling it now

By your logic they should reset everything everytime hey add a new update, its not fair to play with nerfed skills, people had it easier.

QQ less, cooking is fine, still very easy.

EvanTeicheira.3962:

Leiard.4532:

Thanks for the update Evan. I’m really glad that you are working on an update. Both my gf and I have however completely stopped playing, until the issue is resolved.

I really hope it doesn’t take “weeks” to resolve…

That is certainly not the goal.

It has been a week since we started having this issue, any word on it?

Meanwhile, both mine and my gf’s story is completely stoped.

I played some alts (no story involved), but still, story is important and i want to do it without worrying i will be skipped.

Rushlock.4731:

I’m on the lvl 48 “On Red Alert” story mode now. When I get to the point of firing a Treb, it’s bugged. I can fire the Treb once as it’s presently aimed (not at target) but once I move the Treb left or right, it will not fire.

This is even worst, i doubt many people who got the skip forward bug continued from that point, if it bugs out the quest then it breaks not only by skipping but also by not allowing people to play. This is a major bug, ANet always said players should be rewarded for playing together, if this bug doesnt get a convincing fix, by this i mean roll back those who got bugged, (its the ONLY way it gets fixed convincigly, otherwise is just a compensation for the trouble, in my opinion), then anet is just showing the middle finger to the fans.

it has been said before, you took the time to give second chances to cheaters and exploiters, why do those people that attempted to “break” your game deserve more attention than those of us that played it legit? seriously?

Hi, heres the details for my group

Party: Asura Guardian (Me, owner of instance), level ~47
Asura Elementalist(passenger) , level ~38

Options: Asura Guardian: college of statics,
Val-A golem,
Master Blipp,
Durmand Priory

Asura Elementalist: College of Dinamics,
Infinity ball,
Master Bronk,
Durmand Priory.

Quests: We did “A meeting of the mind” (Guardian’s instance)
Guardian follow-up “Dredging up the past” (level 31 quest)
Elementalist follow-up “On red Alert” (level 48 quest)

Im sorry, but that is far from enough, the very least you can do is give those afected the rewards from level 30-48 quests.

WTF? “While this bug is fixed, we can’t retroactively set you on the correct quest steps, rewrite your journal, etc.”

People payed for your game, the least you can do is let them experience it the way its meant to be, this is a big disapointment.

have you checked your trading log? maybe it hasnt been sold yet.

I wish we could get a simple “we are looking into it” from some official source here on the forum, this seems to be happening to a lot of people, not only the ones that are posting it.

I really hope they do look into it, this doesnt seems like a minor bug like it did yesterday.

its not the end of the world, but its anoying not being able to see the options you could have taken, not to mention the rewards.

it happened about 30-40 minutes ago. mine is fine, hers is messed up

yes me and my gf had the same problem on the asura side.

Me and my girlfriend were doing some personal story, trying to get our toons in synch, we are both Asura, but on diferent coleges, but we were progressing at the same story level, when it came down to chose an Order I chose Durmand priory, on the storyline quest "Meeting of the Minds", and she chose to advance to that point after it was over, however, after that her story quest jumped from level 30-ish to a level 48, taking her to the durmand base and already having helped the skritt (wich we never did)

she filled in a bug report, and we’re hopping anet can fix this, since she lost a lot of story and also a lot of rewards.