Guild Wars 2

Personally my favorites always have an element of danger. Obsidian sanctum and the lava pit in sylvari starting zone.

Sviel.7493:

I don’t really like the way people talk about PvE players in here like they’re some mass of backwards cavemen. Especially given how laughably inept some of my WvW guildmates have been in PvE farming guild hall stuff. They do different things, but they’re not inferior players.

Wvw is a competitive mode, and if you fight like you’re fighting an NPC that makes you a pve player, 90% of the time if you approach a wvw player like they’re an NPC you’re gonna get your kitten handed to you. Thus WvW players are considered superior in our playstyle, the same could be and (you even said it) that pve players are superior in their playstyle.

Or learn to salvage?
If you’re running low on inventory space start by salvaging all light armor (only 2 things will drop, cloth and luck) if you get smacked with both deposit/use and now you have 2 spaces salvage another light you have 3 spaces, etc… By the time you finish the lights you should have enough space to salvage everything in whatever order you like.
(I’m not opposed to more “auto” things, but when it comes to inventory/space management this one could get really ugly if the system is even slightly inconvenient.)

I just want a flaming fencer…. (Ele with a long sword) … Oh and a lumberjack (druid with hammer)

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Substance E.4852:

I love how nearly every phishing attempt has at least one obvious grammatical or spelling error.

This particular one would make an English teacher’s head explode.

Some scammers have a reason for that. They don’t want to waste their time with someone who falls for the opening message then wises up later. They want anyone who falls for the opening to fall for the rest of the scam. So they make the first part stupid, with the intent that anyone who is dumb enough to fall for it is dumb enough to fall for the rest.

It might have a side benefit of getting people who enjoy trolling scammers to think that “nobody would ever fall for that” and leave that scammer alone.

That sounded absurd at first… but then I started thinking about it, and it’s probably right.

To be honest, I thought they actually did say somewhere that the new stuff was gonna be more graphically intensive… Although I couldn’t tell you where, I vaguely remember something along those lines. (I know that’s not super helpful but I don’t think they ninja’d it quite like you’re suggesting.)

It’s not really time-gated, however I would encourage you to grab the flax farm (under the itzel village in verdant brink) every day. You need flax for just about everything it seems.

SoulstitchMMO.1396:

psizone.8437:

I’d say they need to make them account bound and increase the amount you receive per rank up. I have more characters I want the specs on, but I’m sick of going into PvE for them.

Yeah, I recommend 4-6 per chest (since you get 2 chests) per WvW Level, and making them account bound, so you can get 1 trait per level or 1 Utility per 2 levels.

Or just give 10 Proofs of Heroic per level. Period.

You only get 2 chests while you have bonus chests, and to rely on them being there hurts the more active wvw players than anyone else, but just getting 10 per rank sounds perfect

I just want to point out, dragon hunters if they hunt dragons aren’t hunting elder dragons solo(the one you refer to in your letter). However I totally agree that rangers got the short end of the stick… Or should I say staff?

I still love having to work 200x as much as our better rewarded and loved pve counter parts… (Yes it’s a bump… This issue still makes me mad and anet hasn’t replied since the comment of concern)

Generally, they have come back once or twice… But you can always buy then through the teaching post if you get tired of waiting.

Now listen here, wvw is not pvp and pvp is not wvw.
Even take it a step further and actually look at the dailies, half the wvw dailies aren’t even competitive based,
“big spender” just requires you to spend money (certainly not pvp)
“Ruin cap” (Yes they’ve been removed, however we still have the dailies so you still get to hear about then) literally requires you to stand somewhere that active pvpers avoid.
“Guard Killer” Not pvp, not pvp at all…
“Tower/Keep Cap” realistically these are iffy, but if you find a zerg and ktrain no one’s going to get in your way 9/10 times.
That’s just the WvW, even PvP has dailies that don’t require you to do anything but show up….

~Try leaving your comfort zone, we (wvw) had to do it in order to get specializations in a reasonable timeframe. Pvp doesn’t have to leave as often as they used to but they still want the shiny stuff too.

The new maps haven’t even been out a month…. The expansion buzz hasn’t even worn off yet, just give it time to see what happens before we start trying to justify the hate in our heads.

Nifty, thanks for sharing

volpenvieh.3201:

The problem is, like all masteries the mentor tag doesn’t work in WvW.

I don’t personally see this one as a problem though… (Auto loot, sure…. But not the mentor one)

While I’m all for a larger focus on Lore, this sounds really close to a quest chain which happily gw2 doesn’t have and doesn’t need.

There aren’t “random” events, they’re all meta events and after quite predictable if you hang out in one map. Personally I like verdant brink, because you can solo defend a pact point (if everything scales properly) which has given me probably 20% of a level (with wvw xp boost)

Kaz.5430:

Not that I disagree with the fact that liquid WxP was better than boosters, but why did you guys keep so much WxP in the bank, rather than using it to level up your rank when you got them?

For some people the reason is pretty simple, in the original wvw seasons there was an achievement to get like 50 rank ups and not everyone got that in the tournament time frame, so they stash then now for when they’re needed.

Others, I have no idea they just like to hoard things.

I would agree with you…. Except that it’s intended as character progression not as account progression.

The original maps aren’t designed for gliding, adding it now would just invalidate vista’s, as well as some JP puzzles. Without adding anything to the game.

It was really sad, I had to explain to a brand new guildy last night that his experience with his first dungeon was the same as all the other dungeons, skipping past content and just burning down bosses often with cheesy stacking.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The chest, containing Proofs, being account bound is a bug. Earning specializations (skills and traits) is intended to be character progression. Ex: If you want to fully train up your warrior, you actually need to play your warrior for some amount of time. I say some amount of time since Tomes of Knowledge have allowed players to bypass a lot of existing character progression.

…….
I hope you, or whoever sent you out to deliver the bad news understands that we (most of us at least) don’t actually care about “character profession”, I play the character I play because my guild leader at some point said " we probably need more eles". That’s why my ele was my first toon with specialization, however until he says “we need more rangers” chances are even though that’s my only char with map completion she won’t get specialization. Especially since what you’re telling us is that my hours of playtime on ele will be useless for helping my ranger, even though you introduced a currency with relatively little use other than helping those under utilized chars.

As just a side comment, if the group is getting massively hammered you can overload while in mistform so you don’t take the damage but you can still heal the group. Otherwise it looks interesting, although I’m getting ready to put my own wvw build together.

Simon.3106:

I don’t play for rewards. I play to win. Seeing my world’s points increasing and rising higher than my enemies are rewarding enough. That’s what TRUE WvWers do. This isn’t some push-kart darbie (reference of Cool Running)! This is the WORLD!

But seriously. I encourage each and every one of you, especially my Ranger Brethren, please go into WvW with an open yet competitive mind and give it a chance; a real chance, not half azs. The changes are huge, and for me when I first walked into the new WvW, I just saw it as a new battlefield that needs to be tamed and conquered. If you all are serious WvWers, maybe you can try to take on this new challenge and conquer… LIKE ME!!!! Especially you Sich. -_-

No offense, but what’s the point of winning on a map with no opposition?

I hated gw1, absolutely despised it with a burning passion, like if it was possible to get a refund on the time I spent in that game I would no matter the cost…

That said, I love gw2 and how it has the deep Lore of a a decade old world without the button mashing feel of wow.

HtFde.3856:

Copestetic.5174:

Tommyknocker.6089:

According to the wiki in base Tyria:

“There are 214 points available if you have the Krait Obelisk Shard in your home instance”

This means you still have to do some of the jungle to unlock your specialization. Sorry but I see no problem with this AT ALL.

My Warrior and Guardian both had over 200 HP’s left prior to HoT ( World Completion ). It’s pathetic that to max out an ELITE specialization I have to do what? 5 Hero Challenges? lol

ArenaNet, you need to stop caving in.

Oh my, poor you – had you played WvW and spent a ton of your points for Superior Siege you would now be where all those not 100% completers are … I really like your altruistic attitude. ^^

This… I hadn’t even thought about the implications of people who hadn’t unlocked skills because they spent their points otherwise, but this change could’ve really screwed someone if they hadn’t known about the change in advance… Which would include a lot of WvW’ers who have been inactive in the recent months.

Silverstone.4539:

I totally agree. THEY SHOULD LEAVE IT AS IT IS. just because a few people kick up a stink they change it? what about all the people that were just happily playing the game. grow some balls Aent. You’ll lose my respect doing this change.

Gotchaz.7865:

Let’s face it, Anet didn’t cave in because there was a few whiners, there was a 3K long post here and another on reddit. That’s a lot of negative feed back. Plus they didn’t cave and say here you go…you still have to get 250HP per character and I can tell you there’s tons of people who haven’t done world complete. In fact I know people who only do WvW and haven’t touched PvE.

“Few people” Ha… Kitten

Copestetic.5174:

Tommyknocker.6089:

According to the wiki in base Tyria:

“There are 214 points available if you have the Krait Obelisk Shard in your home instance”

This means you still have to do some of the jungle to unlock your specialization. Sorry but I see no problem with this AT ALL.

My Warrior and Guardian both had over 200 HP’s left prior to HoT ( World Completion ). It’s pathetic that to max out an ELITE specialization I have to do what? 5 Hero Challenges? lol

ArenaNet, you need to stop caving in.

That’s really great for people like you that actually like doing Map completion (Or stomached through it on 2 chars) but for people that don’t like map completion this whole HP things was a waste of time. I have map completion on my main from 3 years ago, not on any my toons that I actually use now, so I’m sorry I wanted reasonable access to new skills without have to run around in circles to get old skill points (Or even better the WvW way which is great, pretty much “Keep doing what you’ve been doing with absolutely no change to anything and after like a month we’ll give you new stuff”)

I have always played an aggressive Fire/Earth/Arcane/Water build, (I gave up water in HoT). I’ve glanced at Tempest, but because I have very little interest in pvp I haven’t gotten to play with it, and in pve (just barely unlocked it, not even the first trait). So I’m just curious before I dive headfirst into HP if Tempest has any offensive potential. For a zerker type build (I really haven’t seen much other than supporting/ tanky build)

Thoughts? Build suggestions?

Unfortunately you’ve seen 5 people run past you without rezzing you, but what you don’t realize is that you’re probably the 5th corpse they’ve passed and after rezzing the other 4 they have realized they’re never gonna get where they were going if they keep stopping….

Plus I feel like this is kind of a way for anti-zerk ranters to feel better about themselves (just a thought after listening to the 3rd, “people would love so much longer if they didn’t wear zerk” conversation in guild chat.)

logan.5846:

zolcor.2601:

I’m not playing until the old system of getting gold and leveling is returned.

They don’t want you to get gold, they want you to buy it with gems.

Actually the dungeon nerf will likely have little effect on gem sales, now that people will generate less gold on a daily basis (of course HoT is still new so it could generate even more gold for all I know) gold should slowly deflate and ultimately gem prices will reflect that.

I agree, however technically speaking we already have a we’ve mastery system in place…

Now personally I haven’t decided on how to feel about the new borderlands, and this post isn’t really about those anyways.

I just wanted to say I love the new dolyaks in the borderlands, and especially “guarded caravan” (when you stand by one of your yaks they take 90% less damage).

If you have an underrated positive that you feel no one is talking about feel free to share

RustyMech.9876:

Looks to me that you need HoT to use that option. GJ Anet, let it be known that non-HoT players are apparently second class customers.

They designed the feature with that mastery in mind, of course HoT is required for it…

oh and BTW, people that didn’t buy HoT are second class customers because not all of them are even customers (FTP)

SHM.7628:

Dasenthal.6520:

SHM.7628:

Zarael.9107:

You need 100 of the candy corn cobs only for the most expensive mini. There are others, assuming you don’t have them already.

As a returning player, it is a little disappointing to me too since it seems to be exactly the same as it was the first year. But I’m pretty sure they didn’t have time to add anything new because they were busy with the new xpac.

Still love Halloween. I still think it’s wrong to price people out of a holiday mini. Perhaps you disagree and that’s fine.

Do you remember Halloween last year? There were several people that opened thousands of bags to get that mini, while I think that it should never have happened like that, it unfortunately did. 100,000 candy corn is a lot more reasonable than 10,000 bags. Simply because there is a guarantee on the mini now.

(I just want to point out before any of the math guys come out, my statement is actually slightly false. If you were to open 10,000 bags you would actually have about 90,000 candy corn (average drop according to wiki), but I think when you consider the guarantee it balances out.)

Your defense of the developers is “it was way worse last year”. That is a poor excuse in my opinion. This is supposed to be holiday reward content. 10,000/ 400gold/ 100,000 candy corn is unreasonable for too many people.

It’s a seasonal mini, not everyone needs one, at least now the people who want it can actually work for it. Even if it is unreasonable.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

i see, thanks!

once per week only or whenever any guild member completes their weekly personal guild mission rewards as well ?

Personal Guild missions?

SHM.7628:

Zarael.9107:

You need 100 of the candy corn cobs only for the most expensive mini. There are others, assuming you don’t have them already.

As a returning player, it is a little disappointing to me too since it seems to be exactly the same as it was the first year. But I’m pretty sure they didn’t have time to add anything new because they were busy with the new xpac.

Still love Halloween. I still think it’s wrong to price people out of a holiday mini. Perhaps you disagree and that’s fine.

Do you remember Halloween last year? There were several people that opened thousands of bags to get that mini, while I think that it should never have happened like that, it unfortunately did. 100,000 candy corn is a lot more reasonable than 10,000 bags. Simply because there is a guarantee on the mini now.

(I just want to point out before any of the math guys come out, my statement is actually slightly false. If you were to open 10,000 bags you would actually have about 90,000 candy corn (average drop according to wiki), but I think when you consider the guarantee it balances out.)

I’m not sure I understand the problem, what specific achievements do you get masteries from? Cause if it’s not like “kill teq five days in a row” you should be able to spare the time out of your playtime (especially with a six month time table as mentioned earlier) just once or twice for the points.

Wait, what did they do to personal guilds? I haven’t actually looked at my storage guild since the patch?

Dawdler.8521:

Dasenthal.6520:

morrolan.9608:

Shukriyya.7629:

The title will mean nothing because pretty much everyone will have it, yaaaaay!

Its a joke title like Honorary Skritt so who cares.

Except that it’s not… People have been busting their Kittens to get that title since launch… yet another thing that Anet is invalidating from WvW…

(Hey… Lookey there, first post back and I’m already doubting Anet’s love… Good to be Back!)

Really? Somebody worked for a title they would realisticly achieve in 20 years? I very much doubt it. People gave up a long time ago.

Believe it or not yes, some people do work on long term goals. Not myself personally, but I’ve known many people that were downright determined to get the title…
I’m not really saying that it was ok where it was, but really it should be harder than it’s going to be…2500 yaks is a piece of cake.

morrolan.9608:

Shukriyya.7629:

The title will mean nothing because pretty much everyone will have it, yaaaaay!

Its a joke title like Honorary Skritt so who cares.

Except that it’s not… People have been busting their Kittens to get that title since launch… yet another thing that Anet is invalidating from WvW…

(Hey… Lookey there, first post back and I’m already doubting Anet’s love… Good to be Back!)

Aomine.5012:

PLEASE NO!
I rather they never come back.
The ques, the lag, the blobs, the double teamed…
All the worst of the game will happen during the tournament.

Your not in T1 so you don’t know the impact..

You’re not in the lower tiers so you might not realize it, but the rest of us need incentives to increase activity in WvW. While you guys worry about Queues we have to worry about getting enough people in EB to follow the tag, better yet sometimes we don’t even have a tag.

The tournament would be great and I’m hoping for the announcement any day now.

Turk.5460:

I don’t understand why anyone could be upset with this. Oh no! Now everyone has to do the same amount of work as …everyone! Just like before the patch.

The only thing that’s happening here is that ANET made it easier to get map completion. I play the game equal parts PvE, PvP, and WvW. No one is forcing you to play pure WvW or pure PvE or pure PvP, and if you do – that’s your problem. Stop whining and crying, nobody has more of an advantage than anyone else.

Except that you like all the content, where we find it repetitive, boring, and predictable. While WvW certainly can be any of those things it also has the potential to change and be interesting.

Now we have to spend the entire time working on map completion outside of what we find “fun”…

Arthxaiz.5947:

Cirrion.8951:

I’d be surprised if we don’t see a tournament soon. With their dev team focused on the x-pac there won’t likely be much new content in the near future, so I expect we’ll see some recycled content such as WvW tournaments or festivals to keep us busy in the meantime.

That lunar event was odd.

But WvW is seeing a rise in new players interested in WvW not just Edge of the mists. We are also seeing Chinese guilds coming to NA and EU servers and destroying us all. I really want to see a tourny just to see an upset…

We were seeing an increase… Following the patch though…

nightblood.7910:

And honestly, I think if they actually did do a 15-20 man competitive aspect t this game, they could probably get rid of EoTM as WvW would replace it.

This, this is what Eotm should’ve been in the first place.

Sorel.4870:

Arathor.7419:

why it makes sense for 20 to take on 60? perhaps because they worked on perfecting their builds , co operation and teamplay anet is now promoting players to be kittenty pressing 1 blobbers.

Builds: sure dude, your guild used some secret OP builds that I could certainly not find in three clicks on metabattle. Plz.

Cooperation: When the commader says cc, you cc. When he says stab, you pop stab, when he says blast, you blast. Guess what, PU commanders are just as good (they come from GvG guilds), and more than half of the melee train is on TS.

Teamplay: ? Drop a banner when you see a blue arrow? Stick to the deep blue name tags? What do you mean by that?

You see, I don’t think the advantages you listed are enough to give you a significant advantage over a much larger force.

If the PuG blobs are just as good they wouldn’t be losing.

You can try ESO… Buy the box today, goes BTP tomorrow…

I played during launch as well, but I have to agree with the general sentiment in the thread. Don’t be afraid to leave for a few months, when you come back everything will be a little more fresh (maybe with a few changes) and certain elements in the game will feel new again. (Plus you don’t have to worry about falling behind because no new tiers/levels to worry about with expansion).

Demonzu.4215:

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Demonzu.4215:

The reason WvW being part of map completion is a problem is because if you happened to roll a character on a bad WvW server you have 0 chance of ever completing it. You shouldn’t be forced to switch servers to finish content. If you had no problems getting any portion of the wvw map consider yourself lucky.

That is false. You always had a chance because you never always play the same color. It might be long to get without any fighting, but hardly impossible even if you can’t be bothered to fight at all.

Color doesn’t matter when you never hold the bottom half of your borderlands. Or if you are lucky to hold your keep each week. Some bottom tier servers are that bad, and their only option for a legendary is to buy it outright.

I was on a completely dead WvW server at one point. I had to switch to Jade Quarry when free server transfers were allowed to finish map completion. You can’t fully understand unless you are in that position. If I started out on SBI (the server I’m on now) it would be easy to tell people to just wait for a color rotation.

I’ve been in those shoes (not trying for map completion but on low tier server) and I can say that once I figured out that I had to run supply by myself there wasn’t a tower I couldn’t cap with just a little bit of time.
With a few buddies any keep (including SM)…

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Dasenthal.6520:

TheNecrosanct.4028:

Astralporing.1957:

DeadlySynz.3471:

So does this mean we can be devoid of dungeons now to complete a legendary?

Yes, that’s what sPvP reward tracks are for.

Then again, that option’s been in the game for a long time. One wonders why WvW people complaining about dungeons haven’t used this before. I guess focusing solely on 1 aspect of the game has its drawbacks.

Focusing on one aspect is not the problem, refusing to participate in anything else is the problem…

Oh actually I guess it worked for the PvE whiners… Next Anets gonna make it so you get yak walking in SW.

Did it never occur to you that this might have something to do with the new Borderlands maps? That map will obviously be different and not of the same difficulty as the previous maps. When it goes into rotation with the old map, then people would either have to do both the old and new maps (almost twice as much work) or wait longer for one map to get out of rotation so they can access the map they need.

The difficulty level is not going to be the same and imo, that’s why ANet took WvW out of world completion.

Tbh: if it was just this I wouldn’t care, but it’s not.
First: you needed 500 badges of honor the only way to them was by killing other players (no champ drops, no chests after taking stuff) or working your tail off everyday in a JP that wouldn’t let you camp it.(not PvP, but they made you work for your solution)
Second: Achievement chests- suddenly if I have never set foot in wvw but I’ve been active every where else I’ll get enough badges for the wvw gift (effectively removing any incentive to participate in wvw)
3rd/4th: I’m a little foggy on what came first because i was away from the game at the time: introduce WvW masteries so wvw players can continue to progress in a meaningful way(by itself a good thing), then add a map to WvW that allows people to speed level through the “meaningful” progress with out actually having to kill anyone or do anything remotely useful for their server.
5th: being able to buy through the “meaningful” progress (liquid xp) (now people don’t even have to pretend to participate)

So if I hadn’t watched one of the unique aspects of the game get beat on by PvE players whining then I might not care about this change.
As it stands now (or will after this goes live), if you want a legendary you don’t have to try for it, you can just auto walk your way into a shiny.