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Ever seen Office Space? Just build a software program that can compile the leftovers from each transaction and boom! Over the weekend you make 10,000 gold!
Thanks for the info – I am a Guardian and now I can go be part of the problem….until they fix it.
Thank you for serving our country, my Dad is a War Vet and my brother is a Marine. I’d like to thank everyone on this post for your contributions as I better understand why there are no names in WvW, although I still do not agree that it encourages vast amounts of people to play that would normally not pvp.
LeCreaux – I still think you are the best at rogue type classes because those are your favorite type of combat mechanics, whether your realize it or not. If you really liked healing more than backstabbing, your attention span would have been better. I always thought it would be great to be a healer because everyone needed you, but when I healed I noticed the same thing that I was bad at it, mostly because I would get bored or disinterested.
I was a mage in WoW, an Assassin in SWToR, and a Guardian in this game. I like to mix it up, and I am probably equally sucky at all classes :-).
I thought Retaliation damage was fixed (not a % of the incoming damage). And I thought the fixed dmg was very low. Or are you saying that arrow carts are dieing because of the mere volume of arrows hitting like 50 people with retaliation?
It should be that if you are a Commander, it adds 1 way voice comms into the game but only for the commander to speak to everyone else. How cool would that be?
So you would not play the class or weapon you thought was the funnest because you were scared it would hurt your PvP reputation? Lol, this is not a problem of anonymity, it is a problem of self esteem. Sure everyone wants to win and play well, but if you cant have fun because you are scared that one guy will remember your name and say “that guy sucks”, well then that is not the games fault, it is yours. Why do you care what people think that live 3000 miles away that you will never meet
I’ve played on PvP servers on other games, for many years each, very familiar with grinding to the end and getting beat down by higher-level players along the way with the resulting in-game insults. But at some point you realize that you’re just not effective with class “A” and never will be, but you are effective with class “B” even if it’s not your favorite.
Imagine playing a sport where you’re competitive at a position you can tolerate, but never will be good at the one you want to play. If you want to be in the game at all you have to play the position you’re good at.
I agree with everything you just said. So do you want to be good or do you want to have fun? For me, whatever class I am the best at is the funnest class. I don’t see how playing a class you suck at could be your favorite class, but to each his own. There’s only 1 thing I don’t understand.
Where does your name come into this? Regardless of your name being shown or not, Shaq figured out that while he likes to play PG, he has the best chance to win at Center. I get that part, but I dont get why his name being shown or not on his jersey is going to affect that decision.
4 consecutive posts, im a loser and im leaving this thread lol
we might as well hide names from allies then
I just saw this, and I never even thought of that. That really makes no sense. If people are scared because other people will see their names, people on our server can see you suck it up, and those are actually the people you will see again tomorrow in wvw who will remember you suck.
If carebearing was the real reason, it would be more important to hide names from allies than enemies.
In other games I’ve kept KoS list of players with nasty attitudes to hunt down. But since ArenaNet takes care of that for us, we’re free to PvP for the fun of it and not to be a vigilante.
Again, that is your choice, and you are allowing AN to dictate how you play. We are free to PvP for the fun in any game. Did Blizzard Account Security say, “If you dont have a KoS list, we are banning your account”?
Some people actually enjoy PvP much more when they HAVE a list of KoS people. AN took that option away, so in essence we are more limited in what we can do. I actually am not a KoS list person, because I KoS anything that is red in any game. That’s just how I play. I have casual friends that play on other servers that I dont talk to in vent. I could run by one of them on the battlefield and not even know. That is ridiculous….
Actually your analogy (to be logic) would have to be this:
People avoid public speaking because they are scared of failure.
Casual players avoid WvWvW because they are scared of failure.
OR
Casual players avoid WvW because theyre names are visible.
People avoid public speaking because their names are visible.
By your logic, these “casual gamers” would be fine with public speaking as long as no one in the audience knows their name….I seriously doubt that.
There should be a General for 500 gold, with a Red icon.
Good luck pal, win one for David.
Lack of names overcomes fear of failure.
Looking stupid, loosing or failing in the eyes of others is one of people’s greatest fears. A competitive environment like PvP is an almost continual series of tests where you may fail, loose or look stupid.
Hardcore players love that, but the casual player does not. (And here I mean casual by attitude, not by hours spent ingame).
It’s the right way to go, and will ensure WvW will have a healthy playerbase long-term.
I understand that fear of failure is a common human condition, but I disagree that anonymity overcomes it. If you trip and fall walking across a busy street, you are embarrassed. I don’t think I would be any more embarrassed if I was wearing a name tag. People laugh that you fell in the street, they don’t care what your name is. They go home and tell their wife, “I saw this guy fall in the street today”. They don’t say, “I saw this guy named Michael Moore fall in the street today, better write down his name so we can make fun of him again when we see his name again.”
Regardless of if your name is present or not, you failed and people saw it. Overcoming fear of failure is to succeed after failing. Everyone fails, no reason to fear it.
I think it’s refreshing to be able to PvP for the fun of it on any class I feel like making with any weapon setup I feel like using regardless of the outcome. Once I realized that WvW was completely anonymous I started becoming more adventurous. I’m doing more in PvP in GW2 than I ever did in any other game.
In DAoC, WoW, and Rift I played PvP extremely competitively and would not even enter PvP until I had perfected my gear and rotations (standard PvP preparation). I admit I did enjoy having characters with good PvP reputations. However I played classes I was good at, not always classes I enjoyed or wanted to play.
I’m really really enjoying the freedom of PvP in GW2 WvW.
So you would not play the class or weapon you thought was the funnest because you were scared it would hurt your PvP reputation? Lol, this is not a problem of anonymity, it is a problem of self esteem. Sure everyone wants to win and play well, but if you cant have fun because you are scared that one guy will remember your name and say “that guy sucks”, well then that is not the games fault, it is yours. Why do you care what people think that live 3000 miles away that you will never meet?
And you just said that you are really enjoying PvP now because you can play any class you want with any weapon you want. You could do that in any game. Actually you just proved that you would have more fun when you are not worrying about reputation….so name or not, just dont worry about it.
I completely agree. I was really hoping for another DAOC style war between 3 realms with keep and tower takes as well as small mans, soloers, duoers, etc. It was so much fun getting a group of 8 or even 2-5 people together to go defend the realm from other small groups, avoiding zergs, killing pesky stealther groups (you know who you are). WvWvW from the small amount I’ve played feels like a casual zergfest.
For game that says they loved DAoC and seemed to want to re-create some of the best parts of that game, I am supremely disappointed.
I agree it would be nice to be able to do SOMETHING productive in WvW with a group of 3-4 people. The only place I have found with this aspect is the jumping puzzle in the instance. Actually had some great 4v4 battles there last night, and although it wasnt for WvW points, it means alot when you are fighting not to die and jump through 30 minutes of crap again…lol.
because there would be less pressure if you in the dark about who ur fighting i suppose
Yeah because in other games I would look at someone’s name, alt tab, and then look them up in armory or google them to find their guild website and see how much they play and how good they are. Then I alt tab back into the game and decide if I should be scared or not….
Cmon people. I still dont get it. At most there will be 10-15 people on each server that people on other servers have “heard of before”. Even then those people are probably elitists (Commanders who play 24/7 and stream 12/7 with 500 twitch followers). Who cares if you know those few people?
I run away when I see a horde of 20 people coming at me, not when I see some twitch streamer with blue hair who is popular on facebook.
Solution
1. Enter the queue right after WvW reset between 4-5PM PST.
2. Enter the queue right after patch reset.
3. If you miss the resets, go buy a pizza and watch the Dodgers lose another game. Dodgers usually lose faster than a queue pops.
No names.
Rivalries and individual competition is for sPvP.
WvW is for casual players, and should remain anonymous.
I don’t understand how anonymity helps casual players. I am not trolling, I really don’t understand.
I am not sure if anonymity does anything. I actually thought they did that because it would mean less lag in huge battles, but if the name is in the combat text, than the information is there so my hypothesis was way off. That actually thwarts the carebearing idea because you can still see who you killed with your combat log if you really wanted to. What’s the point?
My bad, I just saw an ArenaNet rep post this on another thread. Thanks for the info Colin.
“We’ll be publishing a blog post soon that updates the status of WvW, the rankings, timelines for splitting into longer matches, answers to FAQ’s, etc.
Hang tight, more info coming….when it’s ready!”
Let me preface this by saying that ArenaNet and its partners have done a great job with the launch of this game. It has been much better than probably any major launch I have been a part of for this type of game. That being said, I have no idea why ArenaNet does not have an official WvW News and Information Web Page.
Am I missing something? Is it that hard to make another page on this website that simply states the current WvW pairings / rankings, and a few pieces of news / information? All I am looking for is something like this:
“WvW is currently on a 24 hour reset period because we are _________. Once we finish _______, WvW will be on a 2 week reset period. We anticipate that will be done by ______. Winning WvW each reset will determine rankings and matchmakings for each reset ….etc. etc.”
Why are we left in the dark? How many guilds got together on Monday to run WvW thinking it was the 2 week start, and then Tuesday it reset, and all the guilds went back to farming / pve? I just don’t understand why there is no official place for this information to be shared, or if that is not the intention, why is the information being kept from us? When does 2 week WvW start?