Guild Wars 2

980413: Missing Character?!
Maybe 2 characters missing, have not logged into this game since the first few months had a couple max level toons, logged in and have some random named level 1’s. Also gems currency missing. Have updated credentials in all places. Account is secure.

If you win everyone thinks your the bandwagon
If you lose everyone leaves your server
If your third place you might as well be an RP server.

Fact is that JQ is an active community with a team speak dedicated to WvW, there are multiple strategy sessions every night, communication between maps, guilds and scouts is unbelievable. Our “zerg” uses our TS and listens to commanders, takes direction well and learning quickly. We use the commander pins extremely effectively. We are proud of what we have accomplished this week and it isn’t a result of any of the whining above. We played kitten hard, put in some serious hours where we knew that if we logged off we would fall behind – so we stayed on. For every push we tried to mass a counter. This has been the most I have had in WvW. Period.

It does have a limite 4000 yards, 60 seconds between dropping exit / entre
12 seconds open. And a Mesmer is just one guy that can easily be killed.

This is my favorite subject ever. LIKE O-M-G
A big thanks to gw2spidy for all charts and resources and to Microsoft for Excel lulz.

Quick Facts / Terms:
PPG: Price Per Gold
RMT: Real Money Transaction
PPG-G Price Per Gold – Gem

Current Transfer Rates:
100 gems sells for 36 s 56 c .
100 gems costs 50 s 60 c to buy.
100 gems costs 1.25 USD to buy.
1g costs 3.42 USD to buy through gems

Here is the problem we face.

Gems do not buy you anything of value that you could purchase with gold. There is no reason for exchange of currency – which is why gems aren’t worth the digital pixels they are printed on

There is no backwards compatibility, you are forced to buy back into the Gem market to access those mostly wonky items. I am sure the intended effect was minimizing the total currency in circulation, in an attempt to make in game currency more valuable.

That didn’t happen, we borked it and now you can’t go back because we can’t revalue gems. In the meantime you guys have made a handsome fortune on Gems, but probably lost at least the same amount to RMT transactions.

Lets Illustrate:
Sure players can buy 8000 gems for 100 bucks but lets look at the transfer of those gems into in game currency.

$100.00 = 34g 2s 8c

Now lets look at the bad guys offer – and not pretend that you can’t just google: Guild Wars 2 gold to find this out.

$71.19 gets you 108 gold.

Conversion:
GEM: $3.42 per gold
RMT: $0.66 per gold

Hmm. That is problematic. It is the margin that is the biggest issue.

The age old paradigm Risk Vs. Reward.

One could spend $71.19 and get what is quite a bit of gold. Enough to outfit their character and buy many shinys. All in a world where the only risk is the initial purchase price 60.00 and about 2 weeks of leveling casually.

A Silly rhetorical question:
Is it more profitable for Anet to ban you, hope that you return on a 60.00 new game code and risk your future gem transaction revenue? (which I would estimate right now is about 15 dollars per player, per month across all players)

I can’t say all of this without giving some reasonable feedback, so here it is from another game that took a serious look at how economics effected its play:

EVE and Isk, there account market, their game time cards that could be sold in store – those all helped stabilize the economy and prevented players from needing to go to outside sources where the margin was only 15-20% better than what they could get through legitimate purchase. Thats a good margin to strive for. Reduces farming activity, and creates more profit. There are even confirmed stories of a Russian gamer spending $50,000 USD on EvE time to make billions in currency. Thats a nice payday for Anet on a single transaction.

Potential fixes.
a) introducing something more valuable in the gem market. (value in gold)
b) make valuable items unobtainable through currency. Not just legendaries.
c) spend more time analyzing potential profit lost to RMT. It is your money that you are losing.
d) actively introduce new vanity items – multiple times a week – limit item counts
“on sale now – limited number available”

As someone who has played hard almost every night, this has been a fantastic battle group. Hats off to everyone. I know that ET fell off but they were in striking distance before the breakaway.
The real game in WvW on the macro level is balancing your talent and players across the maps at the right time. I believe Henge will push hard come Thursday and I look forward to it.

Standing in the trees does work, it slightly obscures your name.
Standing against walls – doesn’t work at all – trust me.
Three rules of scouting.
1. Expect to die.
2. Keep moving.
3. Be a Mesmer or Thief.
Covering ground is irrelevant if you can’t get near your target to scout it.

They all congregate on low pop servers so they don’t get caught. Once there 80 they distrubute across the landscape and farm instances. This shouldn’t be real news for anyone thats been playing MMO’s within the last 10 years.

Exploiting Guild Contribution:
You can’t exploit this format. You can’t “trick” a system that is based on earning. If you earned the keep and the TP based on your PPM you certainly had to work for it.

Tech Stuff: How do we…
Well that is what you guys get paid the big bucks for right? Currently you allow structures to be guild “owned” I am quite sure that you can build in – or have built in – the ability for actions and points to be associated with a guild tag or “group”. This surely cannot have been missed in long discussions regarding extensibility.

Again check out our fancy Mockup of the new WvW Scoring Interface:

Why Guild Contribution?
Another guild wide reward. Help us create a sense of guild pride, to further the interest in guilds that WvW as their primary play type and to create competition amongst servers and guilds. Lots of people talk about how they did this and that, surprise – surprise it was all talk and “insert guild name here” really did all the work. Check the scoresheet.

COMPETITION: Who said WvW can’t be an E-Sport? This correlates with my WvW Community section below.

PRIDE: People will play if there is a greater goal. It makes WvW more “sticky” (I know some software product manager is nodding his head.)

EFFORT: People are going to try a helluva a lot hard when their name is on the line. People know rewards are at stake, their guild name is on the line.

REWARDS
“Theres really no reason to WvW right now” – said 50% of people on GW2 official forums… Give us a reason to continue this eternal struggle.

Guild Influence: A flat guild influence bonus to the top 3 guilds of each server.
1st place server 5% of TP
2nd place server 3% of TP
3rd place server 1% of TP

Example:
1st Place – Henge of Denravi
[PRX] 160,482 TP || 120 PPM – 8,024 Guild Influence Earned!
(160,482*.05 = 8,024 Guild Influence.)

QMonster Priority:
Yes guilds that are contributing heavily should have priority over players in small guilds that are not having an impact on the battlefield. This promotes guild play. It also promotes joining a guild that is organized enought to earn points and the right to be in Q priority.

Yes organized guilds should come before a level 3 named “Gone O Rea” who is farming herbs, ore and vistas. That is one less effective person in battle. That is one more guild member who can be in having an impact on the battlefield.

WvW Community:
We WANT guilds like PRX who did the first ever 20+ Alpha Golem rush to get credit where credit is due. JQ was pushing very hard and that was a decisive moment in what has been one of the better fights I have seen in WvW. We need someone to chronicle this, or have ANet support someone who covers the great moments in our ESport – Capture the buzz.

We need access to scores real time, seriously are you making us post scores in screenshot format? This is crazy. Either build us a community portal or give us access to build our own. Its great that you posted your glick2 approach to scoring but its irrelevant if we can’t keep track of what is going on without being in the game.

We need a ranking system and ownership map that is real time that shows who owns what, that means in game and online on our WvW specific portal website: WvW.guildwars2.com…

New Revenue Streams – Justify the Changes…
You vowed not to “pay to win” well that hasn’t really happened because one can simply convert gems to gold and gold to siege golems and siege golems to alpha siege. Therefore you CAN pay to win. So why not sell upgraded siege for Gems. You are doing this indirectly anywho. That pays for this project and makes Gems a viable option for WvW’rs.

If you support this please leave a quick message. GW doesn’t like bumps, say something constructive. It is time to get some love going for WvW.

There is a lot to take in here, I promise you it is worth the five minutes. It is quite a bit more than just a rant, it is the product of WvW leaders across multiple servers.

Short Form:

• Guild Points Earned for WvW
• Guild Perks and Ranking for WvW
• WvW based community Portal
• Improved Q time solution.
• MORE POTENTIAL REVENUE FOR ANET

Summary:
We are passionate about WvW. That is why we complain, contest, suggest and scratch our heads while you guys sit around developing more PvE content. Check the logs and I am sure you will find that time played per WvW player is significantly higher than those PvE or structured counterparts. Perhaps part of that metric is Q time. The more time in game is more revenue potential. We are the hardcore. WvW is a game within itself, and the one which we focus all of our efforts. WvW is your biggest host to the hardcore players. WvW predecessors have had their strengths, many of us came from DaoC, Lineage 2, Darkfall, Warhammer, Tera.. Which is why you see all of the comparative analysis. The truth is what we have now in WvW is superior to all of the aforementioned, and for this we are grateful, but we need some things. Some Shinys.

This isn’t an request for super dolyaks with catapults strapped on thier backs, this is a plea for a core system addition that will make WvW more sticky, rewarding, addicting and profitable – yah profitable that got someones attention?

This document grew out of many concepts discussed on Reddit and in long night sessions of back capping in the wee hours of the morning with high level players from many guilds on many servers including DragonBrand, Jade Quarry, Henge of Denravi and Stormbluff Isle.

You (ANet) said you would listen to players and support our concepts if they “fit”. This has to fit. No serious WvW player will disagree, many of the concepts in this document need to be implemented sooner than later. Please disagree just to disagree, I love trolls. We really don’t want to hear “it is coming” we want a timeline, an answer.

Preface:
WvW is a points game. Period. Henge of Denravi has mastered eeking out additional points from every source possible. These points are the root of passionate study, debate and intrigue. Enter another point system – Guild Contribution Points.

For this concept to be viable there are two important pre-requisites changes to existing functionality:

1. Guilds must be able to cap more than one objective – which for reasons completely unknown still remains at 1 capped objective per map.

2. Objective Cap handling needs to be based on Guild player count in the Cap Circle not whoever clicks the fastest on the Lord. Change cap spamming. Whoever has the most people in a CIRCLE on the flip gets the objective. Many guilds too many times have earned hard fought objectives to have someone from Whinerville or Idiots R Us cap the objective that we spent hard earned money time and resources to siege. We shouldn’t be able to ninja objectives from our own team.

Guild Contribution:
“The Magic Bullet”

What is Guild Contribution?
Guild Contribution is a secondary WvW point system based on a guilds contribution to the TP (total points) and PPM (points per minute) Sounds unintelligable right?

It is simple and will be displayed on the WvW Scoresheet as:

(Guild) (Total Points) (Points Per Minute) or…
[GW2W] 14,271 || 120
See attached screenshot for more clarity.

Example:
[GW2W] Guild takes a Tower the value of that tower take is 10 PPM with no direct TP score. Holding this objective for 5 minutes nets [GW2W] 50 TP and 10 PPM as they continue to hold the tower there TP goes up. If they take a second Tower their PPM becomes 20.
Now they have held two towers for 40 minutes:
—- 10 PPM x 40 = 400 Total Points. So you can see that [GW2W] is currently contributing 400 TP / 20 PPM.

Scoring Methodology:
Guild contribution will only tally positive numbers. Battle wages constantly, skirmishes are lost and won all of the time. The teams that contribute the most will most definitely have the greatest impact on the battlefield. The people that consistently take objectives are the same people that… consistently take objectives. Whine all you want this system puts guilds who are active ahead of pretenders.

What is the maximum condition duration on Confusion?
Lets whip out the calculator and have a looksy!

Base time is 4 seconds via Cry of Frustration
4 Seconds

and…

+33% longer via Master of Misdirection
5.32 Seconds(4*.33=1.32)

and…

+30% condition duration via Domination
6.916 Seconds(5.32*.30=1.596)

and…

Nightmare Rune Set
+10% condition duration
6.8156 Seconds (6.196*.10=.6196)

and…

Veggie Pizza
+16% condition duration
7.9060906 Seconds (6.8156*.16=1.090496)

If all of the above is correct and the times stack:
7.9060906 is the Longest possible Confusion Duration.

Let me know if I missed something that lengthens condition duration!

Great, Great, Greatsword

http://en.gw2codex.com/build/19247-great-great-greatsword

Blurred Frenzy
About two patches back I could move forward while using this skill, albeit not very far but it was useful when people tried to back away from me while I was using what equates to be one of the stronger skills in the Mesmer melee build.
Now it seems that BF has gone totally stationary?!

If you “push through” while using this skill it now cancels the remaining duration. IE cancels the skill. So with this change instituted we must run up on our enemy, ask them nicely to stay still at 130 range and continue to stay still for 2.5 seconds while we use this non-channeled channeled skill.

Let the warrior and thief dance around invincible spamming high damage but make the Mesmer stand still.

This current change makes Sword very weak. Prior to the change I was able to run a full melee invis build in sPVP very similar to a thief. Now I am left with this skill as an opener

The only stationary non channeled skill in the game?

I might need to take this to a ticket but all my clones are showing zero damage on targets? Anyone having the same issue?

If you are the first to “F” you almost always get a badge, finish your kills off and you will get a ton of badges

It will all start to balance out in the coming weeks. I am guessing they will give us some warning about impending closure of free server transfers and that will have a big impact on the decisions guilds make regarding their permanent home worlds.
Theres really no fame in winning a game that has no competition. It would be akin to NBA All Star team against a Junior High Girls Basketball team.

We don’t need any help on DB but thanks.
Without any “Super epic awesome sponsored l33t” guild we have consistently moved up the rankings on Dragonbrand, we don’t need anyone’s help. REDUNDANT
During peak we have consistently out performed or matched JQ in points.
We are actively working on establishing a night shift that will pick up the slack during off peak. CD should be focused on how they can win the third tier bracket and get back to top 5. All the whining about exploiting should stop, every single server has taken advantage of every scenario they could to get ahead, I have seen every safe zone with siege in it at one time or another. #worldsmallestviolin

[MAL] is a WvW focused guild looking to take on a Team Speak partner. We have an upgraded TS with unlimited slots and high quality codex / low latency.

Why do we want to share TS?
We want to have access to more players that can get familiar with playing with each other regardless of what guild they are in. We currently have another guild sharing and it has had a huge impact on our WvW matches. This works really well in WvW when you have players that only have a few guildies on at one time. They can easily find a WvW or PvE group within our channels in TS.

THIS IS NOT AN ALLIANCE
This is an opportunity to keep control of your guild and your schedule but to better coordinate players when WvW is active. You can handle an objective and tell us that you are struggling and if you need backup, we can do the same.

We are currently seeking out ONE or TWO guilds that are small to medium 40-60 with about a 20 players active at once. We are testing this out this week. We feel we can make a coordinated effort to be organized. Save yourself 20 bucks a month.

If this sounds like it might work for you, we would love to get you in TS tonight for WvW. Please leave a quick note with your character name and I will message you tonight after work.

Thanks!

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thanks.

Now that we have figured out how to count total scores in excel could we expand our metrics and implement contribution by guild?

Each guild that holds a particular objective is thereby contributing to the total score, it would certainly highlight those guilds that are actively contributing and it would allow me to build a website to pay my rent by having WvW rankings + Guild contribution per match.

Be great to see final match details that show
Top 5 guilds by contribution for each server.

Thanks

Some people would sacrifice their friends to win. Thats the amazing part about this sandboxy environment. While I don’t condone breaking rules, people are getting very creative and can appreciate that. Tactics and Politics are a huge part of making WvW fun.

Sandbox War makes for some creative strategies, embrace it rather than complaining about it. Most servers have two or three zergy guilds. One in each borderland and one big zergy guild in Eternal, time to make frenemies while you take down your enemies.

You can choose to fight Riot Alice at level 8ish in the bandit hideout.
If you do you will have around 500-550 HP depending on gear. She will spam shoot you with sniper shot for 480 damage. This needs some tuning. Her regular attacks hit 240-270.

MAL] Malevolenc is recruiting 20 players to complete our WvW team.
Currently with our Ally Rakkenheid we are composed of 6 Full groups, we are looking to create 4 additional groups. We have squad leaders identified for these new groups and are excited to take on new players.

If you have done any WvW on DB you are probably familiar with our Guild and our close ally and Com partners Rakkenheid [Rakk]. We are both small tactical strike guilds with a focus on strategy not zerg. At most our goal is to field a combined 80 players between both guilds. We want quality, not quantity.

Our guild uses premade groups in WvW. You will start out with a knowleageable squad leader and our command leader calling shots down to the squads. Again this is a highly organized group of players. Don’t expect to be chasing people all over the map or turteling at a useless objective. We don’t do that.
What we look for in our prospective players:
1. High end experience in a PvP game. High Arena Ratings, Past Tourney Exp a big +
2. Ability to be educated on the fly, listen well and follow directions.
3. A good sense of humor and thick skin.
4. Attendance. We WvW every single day from around 4 PM PST to 12 AM PST
Please be specific with your availability. We look for at least 4 days a week commitment
5. Accept constructive criticism and be prepared to discuss builds, gametheory and your opinions, because they are vital.

If this sounds like a good fit please fill out an application at: malevolence-gaming.net

Be prepared to be asked all about your PvP experience.
We do run trials and train player for WvW but you need to have a decent minimum skill level and meet criteria 2-5 or you won’t be a good fit.
edit: for those asking we currently have a solid roster of 40 players that WvW DAILY in organized squads.

Note: This is an 18+ Rated M guild.

Volatility [MAL] Malevolence on Dragonbrand runs a group of 20-40 player each night.
We are extremely organized and tactical. We don’t zerg, and we don’t recruit to zerg.
If you think it might be a good fit apply on our guild site malevolence-gaming dot net

If you have any heroic experience in “another game” explos are pretty much the same with difficulty. Loving it.

Dragonbrand is right in the middle of the pack here with about 10-30 minute Q’s on average. We also have a very solid group of WvW guilds on our server.

Wars are fought at all times. Leave it the way it is.

If you really want a win and are on day Nine of a Fourteen day campaign I suggest you create a guild even where everyone gets up in the middle of the night and back caps everything. Too me that sounds like a helluva a good time.

Strenif you have to learn to switch to Kill mode when the timing is right. Take a look at your spec and see if there are some changes you could make to increase damage output in short bursts or possibly pick up a viable AOE build

I am on board with giving siege a “nudge” in the event that the BUGGY castle walls put your trebuchet below a parapet wall.

Minimum Rare Gear
Level 80 or real close
Preferred R10 or above in Structured.
Active.

Interviews each night this week in TS, if you fit in we will have you fill out an application.
Be aware that our initial interview consists of running WvW with our team, which is the greatest gauge for your knowledge of the game and your class.

[MAL] is a tactical WvW guild, we don’t zerg and generally field a team of 20-40 players each night. We are highly organized, joining our guild requires reading and adhereing to our WvW Best Practices manual.

We are willing to train people that are dedicated gamers but prefer heavy PVP background.

Gambit is an elite group of small WvW guilds. We don’t zerg EVER.
Our guilds on average have 40-60 players, we use tactics, portals, siege to massacre zerglings. By having quality WvW in the same alliance / voice communication we are able to consistently field solid groups.

We reside on the Dragonbrand server and all share the same teamspeak (unlimited slots). Most of our players are full Exotic and R10 or above in Structured. We are hardcore gamers on a softcore schedule focused specifically on WvW (althought within our alliance we have a solid contingent of players clearing Explorables)

If you are looking for a great playing environment for your WvW team and are tired of being on a giant zergy server Gambit is probably the best place for you. If you are interested in bringing your guild into Gambit please shoot me an in game mail and we will set up an interview via TS with you and your officers.

Leadership in Gambit is shared and each Guild is responsible for their players. Our strategies are laid out via the Command Council (GM’s)

Our players are over 18+ we do drinking games for the 21 and overs and we have a “mature” Rated M environment.

Boggler – [MAL] (Gbit) Dragonbrand

Current Guilds:
[Rakk]Rakkenheid dot com
[MAL]Malevolence-gaming dot com

Balancing Question…
We have 40 players in our guild, our primary focus is WvW, we are experts in tactical kickassery, we play 7 nights a week. This being said we gain influence at a steady pace of about 2000 influence a day maybe more if we go cap happy. This does not include purchased scrolls or earned scrolls through quests. It is not our goal to grow gigantic and zerg every spot on the map. If we don’t have a guild of 500 players how can we support the growth rate of our guild, unlocks etc at the same pace?

Does a guild need 500 people to quickly earn influence and unlocks?

Shouldn’t there be balance for a highly skilled group of players that clear Explo’s and pillage and plunder in WvW? Do we really have to spend our gold to balance out with guilds that have a zerg?

Check out [MAL] on Dragonbrand.
Have a real close knit group, no drama, older people, good class distribution (no not everyone is a warrior!) We have a PVE team and a spend a majority of our time in WvW.
add me on your friendslist and we can talk tnite.

You can check out our livestreams as well available through twitch. Our WvW builds on gw2codex. If you are looking for a highly organized WvW – NON ZERG enviroment please feel free to apply at malevolence-gaming.net

Man you guys all seriously missed the boat.

The long term fun in WvW is gaining influence for your GUILD because the game is GUILD WARS, not “I am Rambo and I am gonna pwn you”.

You can unlock FANTASTIC upgrades and features in the Guild Panel, more are on the way. If you haven’t seen a fully upgraded keep then you are missing the point of WvW.

On a personal level you can benefit greatly from the upgrades gained by your GUILD in WvW. Get in game hit “G” and scroll through all of the options. This is a wargame which benefits your guild and all of its players in the long run.

A good WvW Guild a couple months from now will have massive buffs from any of their defensive structures, access to vendors etc. You setup your own base of operation.

Right now with WvW on a 24 hour timer you can’t appreciate the value of a well defended structure and regardless of how big your zerg is you won’t be able to “beat the door in” without tactics and expensive Superior siege weaponry.

Also mentioning gear, toughness is a survivability stat. Go read about it, do some testing. Think of it like resilience if you can’t find another comparison. If you have a full WvW set and are running an even slightly tanky build you know how well you can survive against 4 or 5 players. Alas, most people are running glass cannon builds.

Regarding organize teams: There is a lot more to do than just farm elites, cap camps and run around picking off zergs. We consistently down entire groups of 40-50 players by baiting them into camps loaded with siege, this is with 3 groups average.

If you are in a WvW guild and you feel like you are out of things to do, you should definately consider moving on to a guild that takes WvW seriously.

Love to see the Q times on Blackgate

Interesting point there Turukano. I guess that is a way to balance the servers in a sense.
My guild is a WvW only guild on Dragonbrand and it really is dissapointing to have 40 players online for a planned event to find them all pwnd by the QMonster.
I guess our planned events now need a 3 hour lead time before the event time or as Turuk said we could just transfer to a different server. I am curious how the big “famous” guilds handle this issue.
I hate to say it but I suspect that they AFK with macros in the WvW to make sure they have a spot when they get home

Hell while were at it…
In these forums, Edit a post with an attachement, try and delete the attachement hit Edit to finalize and you don’t remove the attachment. Unless of course you post another post following.

Ahhh yes the good old days of the @plaync well I tried to link my account to my GW1 account and I blew up my account.

Steps to replicate:
1.Login using GW2 registered credentials.
2.Link Accounts
3.Enter in xxxxx@plaync // password
4.Boom

The good news is, once I logged out it reverted back and everything seems OK.
Then again my GW1 account is not linked so it is still broken.

Put in some code to handle the ampersand will ya?

[MAL] Malevolenc is recruiting 20 players to complete our WvW team.
Currently we are composed of 6 Full groups, we are looking to create 4 additional groups. We have squad leaders identified for these new groups and are excited to take on new players.

If you have done any WvW on DB you are probably familiar with our Guild and our close ally and Com partners Rakkenheid [Rakk]. We are both small tactical strike guilds with a focus on strategy > zerg. At most our goal is to field a combined 80 players between both guilds. We want quality, not quantity.

Our guild uses premade groups in WvW. You will start out with a knowleageable squad leader and our command leader calling shots down to the squads. Again this is a highly organized group of players. Don’t expect to be chasing people all over the map or turteling at a useless objective. We don’t do that.

What we look for in our prospective players:
1. High end experience in a PvP game. High Arena Ratings, Past Tourney Exp a big +
2. Ability to be educated on the fly, listen well and follow directions.
3. A good sense of humor and thick skin.
4. Attendance. We WvW every single day from around 4 PM PST to 12 AM PST
Please be specific with your availability. We look for at least 4 days a week commitment
5. Accept constructive criticism and be prepared to discuss builds, gametheory and your opinions, because they are vital.

If this sounds like a good fit please send an ingame Mail to Boggler with a quick note that you saw this post on the forum. We will get you in for an interview.

Be prepared to be asked all about your PvP experience.

We do run trials and train player for WvW but you need to have a decent minimum skill level and meet criteria 2-5 or you won’t be a good fit.

edit: for those asking we currently have a solid roster of 40 players that WvW DAILY in organized squads.

I believe if you look under the Risen names at their capabilities you will see “Usain Bolt” next to the text that says “Berserking”

Please don’t let this become Lineage 2 of 2005.

One point that needs to be added that is not a bug but a tuning issue.
The Vista in the southwest is nearly inaccessible because of the turrets and patrols.

The turrets are on a 2 second firing cooldown and do 700 damage per fire, they are evadable but can’t be taken down without a full rotation or two. This damage stacked with 2 mob patrols and 1 or 2 mob campers in the vacinity create an area that is overwhelming for the “soloist who wants to get a vista”.

It is so difficult solo that I would challenge players to give it a shot. I can make it to the Vista but can’t clear mobs and get out of combat to attain the vista before becoming overrun. This is with a tanky mesmer build.

It required at least 3 people to clear the vista and keep it cleared while each went out of combat. Either increase the spawn time on the turrets or remove the pats.

The issue is that the illusions are essentially having an aura applied that is on a “global cooldown” ie it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to apply the aura across the clones / phantasms.
This would be fine if our illusions persisted through, or were available pre-fight more in the format of pets, but they are not so I am definately on board with this being a significant issue. Another concerned Mesmer looking out for Mesmers.

I prefer Asuranian

Sergoros.4398:

Well…did know everything except for range of portal. Well…I hope u right and im just placed them to far from each other…

Btw….they rly should add range to description. How I was supposed to know about range of 4000?

There are a lot of details missing from skills. I believe they will work on improving the tool tips over time.

Changed for the betterment of the community and working as intended. The same for items that are Soulbound. Think about what you are asking for a second…

No bug here, just lack of documentation.

Portal is limited to approximately 4000 yards.
You have 60 seconds from the time the Portal : Entre is placed to put down your Portal: Exuent. Once your portal is actived you can use the portal to go back and fourth for 10 seconds by using your Interact Key – Default “F”

/signed

Plenty more that have this same issue, poses a bit of an issue when your looking in your bag and thinking about salvaging. Best thing to do is try it on.

Tested today and this has been fixed.