Guild Wars 2

Been a pretty good reset so far, some good guild groups coming out from both sides

Toxikthrash.2704:

DominicB.4821:

Should be a fun week for roaming. Looking forward to it!

Alas it is not going to be for GH player.. that buff is a killer.

-Distrap CHvc / VA

You’re only 1 rank below AG and 3 below Kodash, shouldn’t be too bad

I would say that WvW is losing players, but only as a game naturally would after being released for over a year. Don’t judge the general attitude towards anything in this game by forum posts, they are definitely not representative of the community as a whole.

A bit apprehensive about the matchup when it started, but with even numbers we had a lot of good fights, especially last night on AG BL. Not over yet though, we’re pushing pretty hard for that 2nd place.

2-1 is the only one that got significantly easier, mainly because the water spouts bit is pretty easy now. Except for that, it wasn’t that hard to begin with.

I had to admire the 5-10 man group that kept throwing itself at the VS Hills cata spot, just for me to see you and call in the cavalry, you never gave up. Made my scouting a little kitten ring at least.

Please AM, just give up on your garri. We aren’t leaving until we cap it.

You might get more luck with JS Ragnar, they’ve been pretty cooperative this evening.

EDIT: Oh and Triplios, rddt is still alive and kicking thanks :P

At release there were a lot of good looking skins in the game, and except for legendaries and forged exotics they were mostly pretty easy to obtain. However, since then there have been many updates, and almost every one brought limited edition weapon or armour skins, which often required a lot of gems to be spent on Black Lion keys or buying the skin outright. Due to the way transmutation works at the moment, these are pretty much one time use, meaning if you have a few skins you like for a specific weapon, you need to get the correct stats for each one and keep it in your bank or inventory for when you want to use it.

I suggest a new way of dealing with skins, which is via a skin merchant. When you speak to him you will have the option to give him any piece of gear you have in your inventory. This will be replaced with an account bound skin, which you can then apply to another piece of gear. This will then unlock the ability to buy more of the same skin from him for transmutation stones.

I feel this is the right time to suggest this as there are now unlimited skins available from achievement rewards, and it isn’t a huge jump forward from there to allow all skins the same luxury.

Silva Luna.8234:

Makes me really sad to see so many people saying bad things about germans :’-(

Nothing against the germans, it’s just that german servers seem to have a different playstyle to non regional servers. You mainly focus on points and holding objectives at all costs, whereas we care less about points and more about open field fights.

Both playstyles are valid, but when there are no big fights to be had, people spend their time complaining on here instead.

Millers, what is up with Hetaeria Ignis? There’s a group of 5 sitting at the top of the well in EB JP for 3 hours.

Already had some good fights, some decent sized groups out there to wipe

You might have to take screenshots when zoomed in and stitch them together, but then you still have the icons to deal with. Putting your own on would cover them at any zoom level though.

I’m just a nooby programmer, so I’m gonna sit out and watch how it works, and if I’m lucky pick up some techniques on the way.

New build in the middle of wiping a RS zerg

I have had the same problem since launch, but it seems like a rare issue and it’s worked for everyone else I know.

Cheers for the fights at windmill tonight Yak, took us a while to warm up but had some great battles. I hope for more next week.

Bump, this still doesnt work for me

Some good fights with AR on EB, hope you can keep this up all week!

EDIT: Hadn’t noticed we were fighting Gandalf, he might cause some difficulties getting into hills.

This is turning out to be a really close matchup. Right now all 3 servers are within 1000 points.

Was surprised to see the Yolobus again from Gandara, I thought you stopped that after April Fools?

I’d like to thank BB for all those badges in Stonemist. In all seriousness, that was an awesome fight, look forward to more

I don’t understand what is so bad about a blob. A large group is clearly more effective than a small one, its a perfectly valid tactic. It’s just semantics whether any group counts as a blob or not, and it isn’t something to be ashamed of anyway.

Come on BB, push in your bay yet?

What do you mean by blob? To me it’s just a huge unorganised zerg of players capping everything by numbers alone. That isn’t what happens on AG.

Caid.4932:

Kuper.2641:

Been one of the best match-ups in a long while, mainly because of the culling changes. All servers have had an increase in WvW population because of the update, give it some time and It will soon be back to normal.

The AG ‘Blob’ setting up for their attack, notice how the 3 guild groups are sepertate and are only together for an attack(Faithleap orange swords). We don’t roam around the map in a giant ball like I’ve seen FSP do all this week. This what we mean by – AG doesn’t ‘blob’ – We only team-up for a reason, then we go back to our normal WvW.

Anyways as always been great fun and I think AG needed a new match-up this week.

I hope your taking the kitten , standing 10 yards apart when no enemies are within a mile means you dont blob?
Your on top of each other at every keep / tower fight, your on top of each other if any enemy attacks one of you. Your on top of each other if your defending anything.
Standing a few yards apart while walking from a to b doesn’t mean jack other than your more organised than the FsP blob.
They have an excuse – they’re a bunch of pugs. You guys dont and should be ashamed of stooping to that rediculous level.
And yes im aware gandara blobs too, the difference is our blob is led by one guild or one commander and a bunch of pugs. All 3 of the guilds involved in your blob have more than enough numbers to split up and give good fights and cap plenty of stuff without resorting to that lame kitten level

I think you have a different definition of blobbing to me. Stacking up like that is just logical, when stacking boons (generally swiftness or might) it works better with everyone on the same spot.

Also, not being in big guilds is no excuse to be disorganised. AG regularly holds open-mic events on the community mumble for anyone to join in for WvW together, not just guilds. If FSP are struggling for lack of large guild groups, maybe they should try this.

That fight in Hills was pretty insane, we held out for a bit but you were running back in faster than we could kill you Hope you bring similar numbers tonight, looking forward to some big fights after reset.

Also, shout out to FSP for opening 3 towers in 10 minutes on EB for us last night, was much appreciated

I don’t understand what people have against blobs, it’s the natural progression as you move up the tiers.
For example, Server A has a 50 man zerg running round Server B’s borderland capping everything. How can Server B combat it unless they have a large group yourself to attempt to wipe them with?
Regardless, the size of the group is less relevant anyway. It is relatively simple to wipe a blob double your size if you have good communication in voice comms and experienced fighters.

If you can’t see from the screenshot, he’s under the map destroying our siege.

When I attempt to use Call to Arms, nothing happens. The icon doesn’t pulse, there’s no cooldown, my character doesn’t do any animation and I don’t get the boons. This happens when I click the icon, press my hotkey and press it after being rebound. It also happens on other warhorns I have tested. However, it works in Heart of the Mists. It also works for other guild members I have asked about it.

Does it really matter when these events start? They stated before that there won’t be any one time events like in Lost Shores, so what’s the fuss? You get just as much time to play it as everyone else, just can’t start until you would normally start playing.

No time they chose would suit everyone, and there would always be some childish people complaining on the forums, so why bother trying to make everyone happy when they can’t do anything right?

Exactly. There could be reward chests for completely the big events, but that isn’t what I’m trying to achieve here.

castlemanic.3198:

what this does is it gates players ability to play any content that they want, because they are required to not only find 24 other players to join them, but also avoid elitist jerks who take command and ruin the fun of it, alongside a gear progression trend.

If this was implemented well, it could avoid that. In my example of CS, there is no extra content you can access by doing this “raid”. It’s primarily events that can be accessed outside the instance, just without the botters and farmers. It also isn’t for farming and grinding, as that is easier with more players. It is simply for the fun of it and the sense of achievement at the end.

All this suggestion is for is to try and allow other players to replicate the experience our group had last night, and maybe spread it to other zones as well.

This is my first MMO, so I don’t know about raids in other games. Can you explain why this would be a bad idea for GW2?

For this post I will be using Cursed Shore as an example, but it could apply to many other areas.

A group of about 10 friends were in Cursed Shore last night (which was relatively empty to begin with) when the patch rolled out and all of the events reset. This meant that the Pact held very few camps, and there were no good safe havens in the south. Our group then spent a very enjoyable few hours moving south, capturing all the camps and eventually getting to the Gates of Arah. A few randoms joined us on the way, but it was largely just 2 parties from our guild. I actually got the feeling we were experiencing Orr as it was originally designed to be, but the number of players farming there stopped this.

This gave me the idea of adding something like this as a feature. You could allow 10-15 players into Cursed Shore as a dungeon/instance, with a final task of capturing the gates of Arah. All the events in between could be bonuses that would give you normal event rewards, and add a few npcs to your group for the final push on the gates. This would require a lot of co-ordination, as in places there are events that require 2-3 actions at a time, so the parties would need to split up to do this.

This would also lessen the complaint that players don’t feel that they make an impact on Orr; as you capture camps and move south, risen presence in the north would reduce and it would make the world feel a little more real.

Obviously there will be issues I haven’t thought of here, I just wanted to see what people thought of this, and if it would be a viable feature in the future.

At the moment, achievements seem pretty much meaningless (I know they have talked about karma rewards), so apart from a title there is no reason for them to exist. What I suggest is that some achievements will give a small boost relating to the achievement. For example, if you complete the 1000 risen killed, you get a 1% damage bonus vs risen. If you get the combat healer title, you get a 50 bonus to healing. The ultimate besieger title (correct name?) could give 5% faster siege building. Not a gamebreaking boon, just a small reward for putting the time into that activity. Any improvements/suggestions/thats a terrible idea?