Guild Wars 2

First and foremost enjoy yourself.

I cant remember exactly what order I have transferred in but I have been on (from memory) -
Gunnars Hold
Ring Of Fire
Whiteside Ridge
Borlis pass
Crystal Desert
Henge of Denravi
Northern Shiverpeaks
Far Shiverpeaks
Yaks Bend
Aurora Glade
Piken Square
Seafearers Rest

Basically I started on Gunnars, loved my time there but I play at weird time zones swapping about due to other commitments. Gunnars lacked off peak so I started my search for another community. I loved Yaks but found the ping disappointing thus majorly struggled to win any duels. I am now on Piken and have finally found my second home.

My reason for moving was never that I wanted to stomp the other teams. One of the best periods was on YB playing JQ week after week and finally winning (I know there was a massive population inbalance in the end). The problem I find is each server has its own personality, no matter how much home work you do before going you never know if it will be a match for you.

Some nice posts from the op

I don’t know how to fix the population issue. I do know that I like belonging to a named server, seeing the same commanders on the map, the same people. My concern which having instances in three colours would be that you would lose this feeling of belonging to a server and the degree of ‘pride’ that comes with that.

I have swapped servers on numerous occasions but this has mostly been trying to find the ideal server that suits me. I like the way that each server has a feel and almost it’s own character.

Server linking appears to be meh as people are band waggoning to the lower population servers, changing costs for transfers didn’t appear to stop anything. I do feel that to fix this something major would need to happen, ie closing linked servers, changing transfer windows and cost to make us think more carefully as players around the server that we choose.

23/10/15 – HOT released, this had been looked forward to in WvW as releasing a new breath of life. It didn’t and has eroded the game mode further.

Post HOT there has been an out pouring on the forum raising issues from the pirate ship meta, revs hammer 2, wps, reset day etc etc. There are very little posts from Anet in the forum.

In this time minor changes are made to skill appearances etc.

Sometime during this time I stopped playing the game totally.

19/12/15 – This thread is created on the forum, outlining some possible changes. Which to be honest are thin. None of these changes really look at the underlying issues for me which is the current meta and the maps. These changes appear to be being made to please the current players rather than looking at any deep systemic change for this game mode that addresses the base issues.

21/12/15 – most recent update that contains no changes to wvw.

In this time 12 pages of ‘feedback’ are written on this forum. There are 3 further posts from anet not responding to any feedback but clarifying the original statement.

I occasionally check back on the forums as I loved this game and WvW, I have had some fantastic times in this game mode. I would love anet to make it good and to come back to playing. I realise it has been the holiday season, however, these issues with wvw have been known since before HOT was released. The pace of change and acceptance to these issues from anet appears glacial at most.

I would just ask that they listen to the players and make some change soon before the game mode is completely dead. I know I will soon loose interest in checking back on these forums.

Some people in this post are posting as if the changes outlined have been made, they have not. This is a post from anet talking about potentially making some changes. Hopefully they will soon make the changes rather than talking about it.

Read a lot in here that sounds familiar. I kept logging in and spending my whole time swapping characters trying find something. I gave up about a week ago and haven’t logged on since. Its ashame, I loved wvw but it is dying. Still at least I get to spend more time with the family!!

I found Gunnar had strong prime time but was lacking numbers during the other 20 off peak hours. (that was my experience pre hot) Good luck on your decision. Ag has a wide coverage population imo.

If you are thinking gunnars it might be worth checking out their community website.

I do wonder if the problem is slightly deeper than changing the placement of a few waypoints. (I don’t say this to belittle your post because I think there are some very good points made in a constructive manner)

From my experience the pirateship is ruling at the moment, far more than it ever has. Basically on entering into the fights, more than ever, it appears to be the team with the most players wins. This has not always been the case and there was a time when experienced and a well played outnumbered team would prevail.

For me there is a more underlying issue with the removal of defensive stats from the traits making builds more glassy, the amount of damage and lack of defence that seems to be the meta at present. Basically the nerfs and buffs recently. This is making skilled play and pushing larger forces impossible making for rather stagnant ranged fights.

I think potentially the balance of the game needs to be looked at, however, how you do this without people playing I don’t know.

I may have this wrong but from my experience this along with the above issues with the borderland maps is part of the decline in player numbers.

A little while ago I became a bit jaded with my server as it had excellent primetime cover but little to no off peak coverage (GH eu). I mostly play off peak times for any eu or na server.

I started to look about, I have spent some time on numerous different servers at different teirs na and eu. I found a lot of these servers to be cold and not overly welcoming to new players. Some were even openly rude.

I finally ended up trying HoD and have been here for just over a week now. Everyone I have met has been welcoming, friendly and chatty. I’ve been thanked for upgrading and scouting and have been welcomed into the community with open arms. I can blob, small group and solo roam and all of these different styles of play are welcomed and possible (unlike trying to play in a small group in t1/t2 and constantly getting run over by zergs).

The only slight point that I don’t understand is that ther server has 2 seperate ts servers and it depends on which guild group you follow as to which one they use (slightly confusing). That said there doesnt seem to be any annimosity between the different guilds (every server has its own politics I suppose!!)

I must admit I have been most impressed and would highly recommend to any player playing off peak, looking for a welcoming community and playing WvW in different ways to consider HoD.

From my experience this wasn’t quiet as told. Yaks bend pushed to win a couple of weeks and just at that time fa got greedy amd imploded losing a few large guilds. Yb gathered a bit of momentum and started steam rolling at which point some t1 guilds bandwagoned in hope of pushing the glicko and opening t1.

This isn’t the t1 guilds fault, the glicko is broken and t1 fixed by guilds within it. How yb would fare when and if they get there idk.

As for hunt, probably worth not just running round ganking roamers 6v1 then people would be more interested in fighting you.

Thanks ever so much guys, I hadn’t considered the forge, most appreciated. Thanks for the replies.

Ok, so I had a norn guardian with ascended armor which I had transmuted to be stag armor.

I decided that I would level a human guardian as I wanted her to be slightly smaller, as such I started levelling a human guardian and as I got near to level 80 moved the ascended armor across and deleted and norn guardian.

Now my human guardian is level 80 and I went to place the ascended armor on her assuming it would just change to teir 3 human cultural armor rather than the stag armor. It didn’t and now I can’t equip it as I’m not norn.

I hope this makes sense, is there anyone than can make a suggestion as to how I get round this without having to level a norn guardian to put the armor on there, transmute it and then more it back to the human? I really hope there is.

Many thanks in advance.

To start with these are my views and not those of the entire server. I speak from my own point of view and do not speak on behalf of anyone.

I’m sure a lot of other servers have a rich history and so does Gunnar’s Hold. I wished to give a bit of a history in relation to Gunnar’s Hold, where we have been and where we are going, maybe!!!

Before Guild Wars 2 started a group called the initiative were formed. These were like minded guilds and individuals with the idea of creating a community on Gunnars, a community that helped and supported each other with quests, mission and whatever the game had to throw at us. Soon after the start of the game this crumbled slightly and within WvW Gunnars had a big fall from grace, from teir 1 to teir 9. Slowly the server has been rebuilt by hard working individuals and also guilds to become what it is today. This has also not been an easy road with some upsets along the way.

At present Gunnars Hold is a community that lives up to that previous ethos, there are numerous guilds and individuals that came during those first few days for the utopia and are still present and play today with these ethics under pinning their gaming. Recently Gunnars Hold has been more of a guild orientated server with lots of fantastic guilds, I won’t name some as I will only miss some out.

We have a community website and TS, the community is overall open and mature, there is a casual approach to WvW, we don’t tend to pull all nighters and a guild trying to find open field fights isn’t frowned upon for not helping the ppt. We play for fun. Of course some people within the community wish for us to be full and reach the dizzy heights of teir 1, others are obviously not so keen, neither are wrong, neither are right and what will happen will happen.

The thing is we have had a recent influx of guilds. I can not tell people where to play, and neither should I, I can not stop people coming to Gunnars Hold. However, to those guilds considering Gunnars I would ask you respect us. We do have a history, we have thought hard to get back to the position we are. Are you coming to get some easy fights before the next league or are you coming because you wish to join our community and be part of it through good and bad?

I know swapping servers is no easy choice, please consider us for the right reasons. If you require any more information please visit our website at http://www.gunnars-hold.eu

Tongku.5326:

Bond.4602:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

And while playing on my engi, necro, or mesmer, which stability do i have on a 7.5 secs CD to counter traited earthshaker ? Do you think we all run around with pocket stability granting guards in tow ? Want me to start spamming stability cooldowns from wiki for any class other then War, Guard and maybe earth traited ele for you ?

O and when I do play my guard, it’d be nice to trait something kittening different then AOE stability spam which I basically have no choice but to run cause of the kittening earthshaker.

ES is affecting whole game in a negative way cause everyone that runs against or faces meta HAS to build to counter it. There are no their abilities / skills in the entire game that come anywhere close to affecting such a large portion of playerbase in such a negative way.

On top of all that, there is a lot of screaming to nerf necros, the only current team hard counter for hammer train, once that happens, what then ? Are we all just going to roll ES warriors and spam that crap at each other ? Is this where the game is heading ?

I’m sure you have enough endurance to dodge every 10 seconds, Earthshakers is probably one of the most telegraphed skills in the game.

Are we talking 1v1 to zerg v zerg?

People were talking like there is no counter to cc, there is. I’m not saying earthshaker isn’t broken but then so are other skills and areas of the game. Anet look like they are trying to work on the mellee trains with ferocity debuff. We will have to wait and see.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

Again, I only speak for myself, not the community. I must say I agree with the OP.

I can only assume oxo that you are one of our off peak players as Ekense is a well recognised and respected name on the server.

For peak time I regularly find myself in hour long queues, that is not for every borderland but the one my guild is playing on. Quite often all the maps are queued during prime time with queues ranging from 10 mins to 1 hour.

For off peak I would say that we are not full but we do not desperately need more players. We regularly have a large zerg on other maps and enough on our home map.

I do not want Gunnars to become a zerg server only for everyone to leave next week because we are no longer fotm. We have a great community and I have been with the server since betas and love it here. We have had ups and downs but that has only pulled the core of the community together.

Tbh its not just wxp. The queue system is shocking and always has been and the are numerous other glitches like LV gates that have been raised so many times over the last year or so. Account wxp would be nice, keeping a few people interested due to being able to play alts but also so would a fix for these other long standing issues that seem to get ignored for more pve content.

I am frustrated, I know buffs and nerfs must come and go in the game.

I can see this having a positive effect on zergs as the mellee trains will do slightly less damage, however, this is going to harm wvw roaming more. Roaming is already a condition heavy environment and I can only see this reduction making this worse. You basically have to spec heavy condition removal already or not bother roaming.

I am more frustrated with the timing of this change. I have been working towards ascended weapons and trinkets. I am a casual player and this has involved a lot of game time for me. I have gone for berserker trinkets and weapons!!!! great, I just really hope the balance has been made with this change and that anet haven’t swung too far the wrong way.

What would make this simpler, WvW works like PvP not PvE. The balance would be easier and when anet wish to hit hundred blade speed runs of dungeons they don’t also kitten up WvW!!!!

Power does something, precision increases your chance of doing something, thus power >precision in my mind.

seen a few of these type of posts recently, I would just say – forum magic!!!!!

Thanks for your response, most appreciated and I have now sent off a request from that page. Fingers crossed!!!!

Hi,

I wasn’t sure what else to do really and I realise the answer is probably going to be, ’it’s your fault’.

I’ve been saving for a while and finally managed to get the mats together for my second ascended dagger for my thief. My warrior is my crafting character and as such is leveled to 500 now in weapon smithing. The other day she crafted the zojja’s dagger, I was about to put it into my storage when I noticed that the sup sigil of accuracy was in there and thought I would just add it so when my thief got it out of storage it was all ready. I did this and do not recall there being any warning messages about the item then becoming soulbound. I put the dagger into storage, swapped toons and went to get it back out on my thief. When I tried it showed as soulbound and on checking back on my warrior it is soulbound to her.

I am a casual player and making an ascended weapon is a big deal, I now have a ascended weapon that is soulbound to a character that has no way of using it as my warrior can not use daggers. I know this is my fault at the end of the day, I added the upgrade but as stated above can not remember there being a warning message and I do not understand why the game would allow someone to soulbind a weapon to a profession type that can not use it.

I am really hoping that anet are able to help, on the day I submitted a bug ticket through the support option in game, is this the right place I should have done this? I have yet to receive a response so am wondering if I have done this wrong. Is there anything else I could do?

Personal preference. For example ah doesn’t scale well with healing power so if your using this maybe consider celestial. If you running virtues consider dropping the soldiers for boon duration runes. There is no right or wrong just lots of personal preference. However, soldiers and clerics is a solid choice.

I must say I was expecting more from augury and Baruch. Some big blobs and night capping but lacking otherwise.

Fair play, must admit I played EXG last night and you put up some tough fights.

K37, what does that mean?

Is it not flat, next you’ll be telling me the sun doesn’t circle round the earth.

Tell me its not true!!

Deso are in silver league because they threw their match ups prior to the start of the league worried they might not get enough pvd in the gold league.

FA members charter on decision making -

Q1. do you outnumber your enemy?
Yes – go to question 2
No – run away

Q2. Do you have at least twice as many as you opponent?
Yes – go to question 3
No – run away

Q3. Are the few you are fighting running or standing to fight?
Running – proceed with great care and attack
standing to fight – proceed to question 4

Q4. Have you got at least 3 times for players than your opponents?
Yes – Attack with great care
No – run away

I was running solo yesterday and got portal bombed by a 20 man FA zerg outside garri yesterday. All I can say is seriously FA????
P.s. did you throw your matches to get some nice Q’s and pvd at the top of the silver league?

Big thanks to both of you for the information, most appreciated. I am doing a bit of research on servers and the info is grand, thanks for responding.

My present guild appears to be in the throws of imploding and my present server is stacked with huge WvW queues at prime time and no coverage at any other time.

I am a mature player, reasonably experienced wvwer and have been playing since betas. I mostly play Guard, Warr and Thief. I am a European player but work shifts and play all times but mostly euro prime time. I am not a hardcore player, but also like to do more than casual wvw. I do use TS and mumble.

I am tired of queues on my server and do not have enough play time to waste it having to sit in a queue. Also at non peak time it would be nice not to be constantly stompped

I am looking for a medium/high population server and do not mind if this is Euro or NA. Also a WvW guild that would match my play time. I enjoy zerging and a bit of roaming and would be looking to join an established guild/server.

Any suggestions or websites great fully received.

My night so far -
19.00 – log onto guild wars for guild night, enters queue into borderland
20.50 – still queuing, getting bored checking forum
edit 21.05 – enter wvw
edit again 21.20 – kicked from wvw due to huge lag spike dcing me
We are a teir 14 server right?

Bond.4602:

Bored of facing off against teir 1 servers, we don’t have the coverage or numbers to compete. It doesn’t teach anyone anything, its just frustrating roaming solo, trying to take a camp but getting run over by a 15 man zerg.

Looking forward to friday evening and the start of the leagues where we should have some more balanced match ups and not end up horrendously out numbered during off peak.

I honestly thought that these RNG match ups also had a maximum teir difference built in, apparently not.

Bored of facing off against teir 1 servers, we don’t have the coverage or numbers to compete. It doesn’t teach anyone anything, its just frustrating roaming solo, trying to take a camp but getting run over by a 15 man zerg.

Looking forward to friday evening and the start of the leagues where we should have some more balanced match ups and not end up horrendously out numbered during off peak.

I honestly thought that these RNG match ups also had a maximum teir difference built in, apparently not.

Seriously anet, do you never check these match ups?

If far blobberpeaks didn’t hide in keeps until they had punk, AoA along with randoms and greatly outnumber any of our guilds then we wouldn’t be force to work together as guilds.

Is it the same DEX that use to be on RoS and use to type about always being on RoS and it wasn’t a bandwagon server?

Also Votf, you stalking Gunnar’s or something?

Yaaaawwwwwwnnnnn fest

Can’t wait till 7 tonight when hopefully we get a more balanced matchup.

P.s
Dis thought you were an iron fist today?

tbh I just run my normal roaming d/p build 0/20/30/20/0 and when i get to a camp I just swap my dagger for a sword. It is slower than what radian shows in his video but you just keep blackpowder down and keep spamming 1. It is worth sometimes pulling the camp in 2 groups. I just use my normal armor and buffs.

What is more important is position, get round a corner so the pistol guards run round to see you and they are standing in your blackpowder otherwise they will damage you.

“Anyway it was fun for us. Don´t be angry, sometimes you are the dog and sometimes you are the Tree. Have fun. Bye”

Lol!!

Wokrit.2546:

Hey body Bond,

you are right, it wasn´t fair that we didn´t figth the equal 4 vs 12 and kill you immediality….
But it was so funny to see you guys jumping to the spawn safe spot.
We had a lot of fun, may be we bring it as intro on our next Video and call it chicken run…

I think everybody knows our style. We are always open for a hard figth.
CU you at your North camp.

You were 4 by the time you got to the invis spot because we had killed half of you.

If you want to call it ‘chicken run’ please do but there is no need to be so harsh on yourselves, I mean you obviously worked out you were out skilled!!!

Quality Piken,

50 of you to wipe 8 of us at AM Hills!!!

Then we finally get a balance type skirmish to find that [WIPE] run into an invulnerable spot next to south camp.

Is this what you learn in T1?

With great sword I tend to do something like 5, 4, 5, 3, f1, 2, 1, 1. That’s tends to be a nice spike. I do run staff and use empower before tho.

Huumm, I find it most useful on the first backstab a thief tries to throw my way. I don’t think 40 sec is stupidly long.

AM, I mean seriously, no wonder you got your nickname. Just been running about solo and fortunately found about 3 separate AM players running round on our borderland solo, each time I ran after them to engage them and they just run away.

One of them even met up with two others and then all 3 of them proceeded to run away from me. I mean seriously!!!!

Another ran straight into a group of 4 more of our players coming out of a supply camp.

It’s been like this all match up, you start a fight with an AM player who disappears running off over the horizon and two seconds later he reappears with about 20 other players.

You do realise you have more skills than just ‘1’ and if you didn’t run in a blob you can use some of them, I mean you could live on the edge and try pressing ‘2’ now and again!!

Nice to have a busy thread again and some nice fights last night.

About bay, I actually quite enjoyed that, we wiped you a few times so I would exactly say your defence was flawless and to me you did appear to out number us.

As for the skills you have been talking about – UW you enjoyed your night of PvD??

What build are you using?

For my 0/0/30/30/10 ah build I run RF. On my healing 0/0/10/30/30 I run the support time. Its very powerful but it is easy to get kd’d etc when trying to use it. RF is great most of the time.

Just one word – sustain

Both have their pros and cons and as such full fill different roles in a team. Guard more support/DPS and warrior more burst/control.

(I am hugely generalising here)

“I never did blob
btw:
zerg = a large force of not so skilled players that defeat enemies with numbers (not much of organization(so calling an organized guild group of 20-30 players a zerg = wrong)
blob = organized groups blobbing up with a zerg or other organized group(s)”

Tbh I’m going to take that as a compliment, we are obviously working together as a server which is superb. We aren’t teir 1 and if our guilds have 20 people on a raid they are doing well, let alone 30!!

Some of the ag/ms guilds purely out number us so whatever we doing our 15 man guild groups apart from being completely leet we are never going to beat that 30 man guild group without blobbing.

blob blob blob.

What is a blob? Is it measured by numbers? How many make a blob? Is it a multi guild group?

Are you telling me hand on heart you have never blobbed???