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Hello guys I’ve posted a poll on reddit to get your opinion on whether or not anet should change the way gearing works in wvw; Here is the post: (https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4ekq90/wvw_opinion_poll_wvw_gear/);
Hello guys, I’ve played gw2 at launch but stopped after reaching lvl 80 for two and a half years. I then came back just before the launch of HoT. I’ve had a lot of fun mostly thanks to WvW where I spend most of my time. I know WvW has some issues and I know that anet is going to try to tackle those in upcoming patches. I’ve been thinking about some things they might implement and one of those got me thinking a lot; Gear in WvW.
What happens today is that you use your PvE gear in WvW. In order to be competitive you need to have a specific set for this game mode. It took me quite some time and grind (as you don’t make a lot of money in WvW) but managed to to have a decent set on my DH (3 ascended armor pieces (crafted), all ascended trinkets, 2 ascended weapons(elite spec weapons – reaper, dh, scrapper)). The grind was kind of tedious and if I didn’t love WvW so much I would have just quit the game. As much as I love wvw I would now also like to start do some raids in order to play the only content I’ve barely touched; however I at the moment I know I won’t do it as for that to happen I need to change my armor stats & runes (I haven’t the will nor the money to swap at twice a week between stats for my ascended gear).
I’ll stop with my problems as those are personal however I thought that those problems might occur to other persons this way or the other way around.
We thus come to the following question; Would you guys love to have a gearing system that would work in some ways similarly to the gearing system in sPvP?
In my opinion the ideal system would be the one where you can change your gear as in gw2skills.net. The pieces of armor stats, runes and sigils can be unlocked through badges of honor. If you don’t select anything in a specific gear slot you get the gear you are wearing in that slot.
I was hoping you guys could give me your opinion in this section below and vote on the strawpoll I’ve created.
http://strawpoll.me/7359752
Ok but what’s left if we don’t even have our boons? Our bad dps and our low health pool?
The team utility you provide is a joke compared to the one heralds provide and they still hit like trucks (and have higher health-pool, tons of evade, one of the best heals in game plus access to a second heal) !
When it comes to hammer guard, this is ok for static bosses and that’s all. Try to output that dps in spvp or wvw..
Plus hammer shouldn’t be the only viable option… auto-attack all all day long…
Sorry for my English as I’m on mobile.
I know this is another qq topic, but I just felt like sharing my concerns about the state of the guardian at the moment.
I also know that initially the role of the guardian is not to only dps and I wouldn’t mind if he wasn’t so subpar in all other aspects.
When you take the perspective of raids; guardian can’t fill any role optimally!
I think there are major issues regarding weapons and spells. One good way of comparing it would be with necro(reaper) of how much more a class can bring to the table.
1. The necro gs spells have higher damage
2. 3 out of 5 necro gs spells have cc (useful for breakbars)
- part of the cc is chill that is way more useful than those poor burn ticks you apply as a guardian every few attacks
3. Necro has a base health of 100% ( guardian-60%) and can survive a burst
4. Necro has a useful passive that increases his “health pool” even more entering reaper state (with right masteries necro even heals and gains might in reaper form.)
5. Wells vs traps: wells do more damage and no need to come in close.
6. Minions vs spirit weapons: minions have higher resistance and have no limited life time
I know it’s only one sided and guardian has some good things going on like aegis protection etc. but I don’t feel like those good things equilibrate the bad things with current guardian/dh.
I just wanted to get this out as I really love the guardian and would love to do meta events with him rather than my reaper. (Don’t get me wrong, I love my reaper and his current meta state – I just think it’s the guardians time to get some love to be viable in pve, raids, wvw and high rank spvp)
Of course some incentives could help draw guilds/people to the borderlands and would be welcome. How nice would it be having a new armor skin and weapon that can be bought through tokens that only drop in borderlands?
I think all you guys are having problems because you guys are not in WvW guilds or that your guilds are not making the right decisions. I’m on Ring of fire ( silver/bronze). Our guild has spent all his time since hot launch on borderlands. The first week, we didn’t have fights every time we did a raid, that’s true. However since the last two weeks we’ve had tons of fights every day at any hour.
If you manage to build up a little group you can cap towers easily and could even cap keeps. And the fact that you are capping stuff will draw attention from the enemy and they will come on the borders. Of course if people don’t do the effort to cap because it’s gona take 5 minutes to take down the wall or a door of course the border will stay empty…
I can understand that people that are not in a big pvx guild or in a wvw guild have a hard time building up such groups but if you realy want to have fun on the borderlands join a wvw guild.
The ones that need to be blamed for the bad situation on certain servers/matchups are mainly the guilds that are all the time on EB, not A-net! If the guilds are on EB nothing will happen on the borders, EB will be full of blobs and there will be a queue. Pugs will get frustrated on empty borders and quit WvW.
To resume;
If guilds get on borders, they will attract more and more people on borders. Guilds will have high quality fights on border. More pugs will go on EB and have fun over there in mind-less zergs. Roaming on EB and borders will have more sense..
What I’ve said just above is what’s happening on RoF. It’s really a win-win situation for everyone and everyone is having a blast over here!
I’ve sent you an IG mail with some people you might want to speak to on RoF server. They will answer any question about the server WvW wise.
Go speak to GH peeps IG too!
Gather all the information you can on both servers in order to make an advised decision!
Cheers
(edited by Brocktanor.1794)
You could also come have a look at RoF, I feel there is a new spirit from the community atm that is willing to progress in WvW.
Yesterday were losing hard point-wise. Today the guild I’m in (that transfered from AG a HoT start) decided to give everything and we (with the help of other guilds when needed) managed to cap en secure a lot in Borderlands. At the moment of writing those lines we are at 370 points per tick while this morning we were at less than 100 points per tick. It feels great to see that effort as a guild have an impact on the server as a whole.
Number-wise we are not in advantage but we have quite a lot of good players and manage to win fights when massively outnumbered.
Good luck in finding THE server that suits you!
The amount of fights in Borderland in Rof-Dz-DL matchup was pretty decent today. A lot of of mid sized groups (10-15 peeps) and there have been a couple of blob fights.
I am having a lot of fun and I think saying “WvW is dead” like all those threads is wrong. WvW was asleep and is stating to wake up!