Guild Wars 2

As a former Underworld player and as a current Far Shiverpekean/Underworld hybrid, I approve of this change.

Teon.5168:

Raap.9065:

I’m tempted to give the game another shot myself. I quit shortly after the HoT trainwreck and after my friends stopped playing (briefly transferred to Vabbi [EU] with them but that didn’t work out).

I suppose my concern is… Is the game FUN again? HoT stripped away so much that was good about the game and judging by the patch notes, we’re still not all back to where we were yet (small guilds still got the finger and remain unable to contribute to WvW via things like +5 supply).

Just not sure how I feel about giving the game another chance, especially seeing that so many people have quit.

Only way to find out is to try it yourself. Nothing to lose, really, as you already have the game.

It was always fun tbh

Astralporing.1957:

Davey.7029:

Astralporing.1957:

Davey.7029:

You’re the reason games are kitten nowadays. Now get off my lawn.

He is also the reason MMO games now have populations bigger by one ot two (sometimes three) orders of magnitude.

Should have stayed like that. Why buy a game that you don’t want to play?

I don’t understand the question. Those games nowadays are aimed at people like him. In fact, they wouldn’t even exist otherwise. The resource requirements are so high that small populations of the old days would never be able to fund their production.

But if you don’t like it, i’m pretty sure that Ultima Online and Everquest still exist. Not sure if they have adjusted to the new times (they might have), so if you’re really desperate, some of the original MUDs (including the one EQ was based on) are still running as well.

I did play Ultima online, and occasionally still do. My initial point still stands though. HoT is perfectly fine in terms of difficulty. Sure, somethings you can’t solo, but that’s the point. You’re not supposed to complete outpost events in Verdant Brink alone, the whole point is to have spread out groups to complete them. It’s an MMO after all. If you can’t solo an hero point, you can always ask for help in map chat.

Astralporing.1957:

Davey.7029:

You’re the reason games are kitten nowadays. Now get off my lawn.

He is also the reason MMO games now have populations bigger by one ot two (sometimes three) orders of magnitude.

Should have stayed like that. Why buy a game that you don’t want to play?

You’ve become a WvW vet, now you’ll either start roaming alone or with a group, or/and become a dueler who does nothing else than gank footmans and raiders. It’s the WvW evolution that we all go through.
But seriously, if your server doesn’t want to help you do stuff, then they don’t deserve to win the matchup anyways.

Doesn’t look like a legendary weapon at all. I didn’t even know it was a legendary until I started reading the comments on the video trailer.

Tahlie.4259:

So, I played GW2 when it first came out, and had a lot of fun with it — at first. Fractals rolled around, and they were fun, but you can only do the same thing so many times before it gets boring. So, I quit at about the beginning of Living Story season 1.

Flash forward a few years, and here I started playing again ~3 weeks ago. When I heard about new fractals, a raid, and all kinds of challenging content, I just had to come back! So, now I have an 80 Engineer and Elementalist (both fully geared out), I’ve been raiding in MMOs for upwards of 12 years, and all that — yet, to date, I’ve not even set foot inside the raid.

I’ve been listing myself in LFG for a week and a half or so, I’ve been asking around in chat, and so on. But, there’s just no one pugging a raid, or filling a spot, or any of that. And no guilds are recruiting that actually go into the raid.

So, what exactly is the issue? Is the raid in GW2 just one of the hardest in the genre or something, or are people just being silly?

Raiding was the main reason I came back to the game. : / And it doesn’t seem like I’ll even set foot in the raid any time soon.

I don’t think people are afraid of raids, but pugs can be kittens so mentally stable people without a raiding guild won’t even bother with raids. I pugged raids without any previous raiding experience and got every boss down, even Matt, but it required a lot of patience. It’s not that raiding guilds are generally better, there are some good players who pug raids, but they generally won’t rage quit after 2-3 failed attempts and are more chill.

I think a solution would be for arena net to implement some type of LFG where you queue up with people of your skill level, so new raiders can easily find groups and in a more relaxing environment for them to learn.

Astralporing.1957:

maddoctor.2738:

Astralporing.1957:

Besides you’re completely ignoring that we’re talking about tier 1 precursor so far.

And how exactly is that going to affect the point you quoted? You mean tier 2 and tier 3 will require a harder Raid that won’t be doable in Easy mode?

No, i mean that one of the tiers will almost certainly cost way more than an ascended armor. The total cost/effort for sure will be greater even if we ignore tier 1 completely. And yes, will require a lot of raid grinding (we do know that already).

maddoctor.2738:

Sure. But since there won’t be a second legendary armor set anytime soon, easy mode raids seem to be the most likely option at the moment.

You can also wait until the first armor is out and then you can ask for a different method of acquisition. Asking for a second armor or a second acquisition method, when we haven’t seen the first one yet, isn’t helping.

Isn’t helping you, you mean. I already know that the first acquisition method will not do for me.Why should i wait half a year? The situation is not going to improve on its own, so for me it’s better if Anet starts thinking on it already.

Davey.7029:

The whole appeal of Raids is that they’re not brain dead content where you can just spam auto attack and never dodge. If they nerf them they’re gonna kitten up this game for a lot of people who want an actually challenge (the only hard content in the game really).

Good then noone is asking for a nerf. Yet anyway.

Davey.7029:

What is the point of making hard content that people really wanted, to just nerf it in the end?

What’s the point of defending raids from being nerfed when noone suggested it?

People have suggested, and unfortunatly Anet does listen to bad suggestions.

I’m gonna tell you a secret: everyone lies about their legendary insights.

You could just get the chat code for 60ish to prevent this from happening again. But yes obviously this is a bad test of skill.

The whole appeal of Raids is that they’re not brain dead content where you can just spam auto attack and never dodge. If they nerf them they’re gonna kitten up this game for a lot of people who want an actually challenge (the only hard content in the game really).

What is the point of making hard content that people really wanted, to just nerf it in the end?

Raids are all about pratice, practice, practice until you win.
Forming the raid group is the hard part.

Population balance should be nº 1.

If Anet gave a kitten about WvW then they wouldn’t be a need to merge servers (I’m not saying this is the answer). People are leaving WvW because there aren’t regular updates to keep it new, fresh and interesting.

I absolutely support this. Bring us more meaningful content that we can actually play over simply item skins that are just gold sinks.
I would rather have a new dungeon or new LS event or a new Story mission then a legendary which is just a stat swapper and that’s it.
This game has loads of weapon skins as it is, I think Legendaries can wait.
We need more playable content above all.

Raids need to be harder.

Raids were the best thing that happened to this game for PvE.

Or make the raids more easily accessible, you know… Make an actual Raid finder. The difficulty is fine but it’s a pain in the kitten to form a group, the LFG is a mess.

Yes, please. WvW reset back to friday!

Too many people just thinking about themselves and their insignificant problems.
This is a really good change for the future of WvW as a game mode, and for the future of the game.

Kolisch.4691:

What if world bonuses are reduced the more stacked a server is? Players stacking like world war z zombies in T1 would probably go, omg our magic find is nerfed because everybody’s bandwagoning here, lets try balance tiers out.

Thoughts? (i know server stackers/badwagoners will flame me, but bring it on).

I doubt a lot people transfer to another server for the magic find buff.

It was a really horrible week.

Michael.1493:

I ‘m getting tired of seeing posts about this but it’s so infuriating that I had to do something…and there’s nothing in-game we can do about this other than not play so…here goes….

Hacking continues to run RAMPANT in T9 WvW and it seems those on FoW are constantly on the receiving end.

It has become a common sight on these forums to read about hacking from Blacktide, however this time it might actually be Underworld who are the culprits.…

A group of around 6 to 8 of us from FoW were, not 10 minutes ago, attacking Durios Post on EB and being harassed by a thief from UW whilst doing so…he wasn’t much problem, just kiting around our group trying to poke us a bit…nothing unusual with that….

We press on and are just about to get the gate down when something starts dropping us like flies from what looked like under the map.

I have read about the “under the map” exploits on these forums already and the consensus within our group was that it was a single player in a golem who was responsible. (this was determined from the effects we could see coming through the ground)

Our entire group was downed one by one as those surviving tried to rez and fight back while the UW thief continued to prance around poking at us whilst he remained unmolested by our underground assailant.

It seemed the underground hacker was gone as we began to rez back up and get our way inside and to lord….then we all get wiped one by one again by the same underground golem attacks.

I have nothing to “prove” that this was a player from UW who was exploiting the “under the map” bug apart from the fact that throughout this event, an UW thief was in close proximity to those of us under attack and didn’t get hit once….except by us.

Just like in previous threads on this forum regarding this subject, the attacker was invisible, impossible to target and nothing appeared in combat logs to shed any light on how we were downed or what was doing us any damage.

It pains me to say this, as I had hoped that we on FoW shared some solidarity with those on UW who have been plagued as we have by hackers from BT for months now…however, it seems that for at least 2 of UW’s WvW community (which must actually represent a sizeable chunk of what is left of your WvW playerbase) they have decided "if you can’t beat them, join them"

I am BEGGING someone from Arenanet to at the very least acknowledge that this is an issue.

Tier 9 is a miserable place to play WvW and has been for months…and it has nothing to do with the small population and everything to do with those that don’t care to play by everyone else’s rules.

A while back FoW also used to hack, and for a quite a long time. However I doubt these are real UW/BT/FoW players. Just two kittens who should have been banned a long time ago.

Nope.

Gotta love all these cheaters trying to save their kitten on the forums, lol. Don’t worry, Anet probably won’t ban you guys, since not even hackers are banned. Keep ruining the game for everyone boys!

Guilds are an important part of strategic gameplay as well, but they aren’t rewarded much for taking an active, positive role.

They are actually addressing this with HoT. One of the things we know is guilds will be able to summon zeppelins to defend SM.

We’ve also been tossing around some ideas to introduce variety into the matches on a weekly basis. Just imagine the possibility of rule changes that come in for a week and then disappear into the Mists.

They seem to be working on this OP, and no it wasn’t just golem week, but it was also the “no white swords” and “Point Per Kill” weeks. And it seems they will continue to do more of these since they are actually asking for more ideas.

6 months later we got eotm.

EOTM is a test map to features that Anet will be introducing with the new borderlands map, so it seems it wasn’t a total fail.

Some of the things he mentioned on the blog post might be coming with the new map/HoT, we really don’t know.

Things get canceled or changed all the time in game design, and even though WvW is not perfect, I noticed that most (maybe all?) of the CDI posts did change the game, so yea I would say so far Anet has actually listened to feedback (and not just the CDI posts, but also players’ suggestions).

Random.4691:

No … no they shouldn’t.

This is 100% Anet’s fault, you can’t punish people for their stupidity. As I said in another thread, until Anet confirms that this is a bug, consider it part of the event.

They have had NUMEROUS reports about what is happening, it’s been plastered all over the forums from day 1 of the event, and yet, they have made no comment or effort to stop it. One can only assume that it is part of the event due to the lack of actions taken to prevent it from continuing.

Think about what you’re saying for a second, and see if it actually makes sense. Unless you’re abusing the exploit and are trying to defend yourself, in that case that’s pretty sad.

Mike O’brien is right, most people play more than one game mode, and there’s no shame in that. And if you’re playing just WvW you’re missing out on a lot, specially since most of the resources go into PvE (maybe also PvP?), and WvW is just a very small amount of playable content compared to the rest of the game.

Avit.3165:

JediYoda.1275:

Avit.3165:

JediYoda.1275:

What happend to Devon Carver WvW dev?

He was promoted because of the good work that he did with WvW.

roflmao

Im not joking, he really got promoted.

I can imagine why the devs don’t post here anymore. In the past players loved to point fingers at the devs who actually cared enough to show their name and talk to the community. So now we have total silence, and they only communicate with us through blog posts.

This is the best event ever.

Well people are still learning the new class and trying different builds, so it’s really hard to say if the revenant is even good or not.

Hello.
I don’t know if your guild is PvE, WvW, or PvP oriented, but let’s say your guild does PvE content. A good place to recruit people is probably during world bosses or in open world PvE maps like Silverwastes and Dry Top.

Outside of the game, you have the GW2 official forums in the “Looking For…” section where you can advertise your guild, and depending on your server, you can also log into their forums and post a recruitment thread there.

Make sure you explain what your guild is and what your guild is not, so you don’t have people joining and leaving shortly after.

Good luck!

7524 I’m getting close!

I agree with you OP but unfortunately you won’t get a lot of supporters here. This new generation of “gamers” doesn’t want an harder game.
I hope Anet makes the game even easier so maybe even they will get bored.
I respect you for trying though.

Well you can get more ascended drops with a high level of magic find, but even then it’s very rare.

While fighting Subject Alpha, as soon as you see the red circles on the ground, you want to count to 3 and then dodge. Additionally some classes have their own defensive skills that they can use (for example, Ranger has Signet of Stone, Lightning Reflexes and GS #3).

If your group isn’t stacking, you need to destroy the pink crystals that trap your teammates as soon as you can. If your group is stacking you will probably get the crystals down anyway due to all the cleave/AoE.

And that’s pretty much it. The boss also spawns fingers but generally those aren’t really a threat.

Edit: I think in P1 the boss also does occasionally a long range spike attack. If you’re far away you can easily dodge it, but you can also avoid it at melee range if you’re fast enough. I can’t remember how often he does it but I think it’s in between meele attacks and the big red circles. Again, I’m not 100% sure so don’t quote me on this.

Sirendor.1394:

Four of my friends have recently transferred from Fissure of Woe to higher tier servers because there weren’t many good fights around. I personally do not have the stomach to grind 300+ gold just for a simple transfer, nor do I feel like paying $20 for a transfer because that feels like a rip-off. I’d rather quit than do that to be honest.

Any suggestions for a desperate WvW player who likes WvW but can’t play it because his server is not populated enough? Free transfers: I am all for that. Only reason to transfer is WvW anyways.

The only thing you can do is either wait for Anet to fix the population issues (not advisable since it will likely never come, and even if it does, it will probably take at least a few more years until something is done), or transfer.
I suggest transfering because there’s really nothing else you can do at the moment.

I feel sorry for all the new players who are unfortunate enough to join the bottom 2-3 servers as they will later be forced to transfer to another server or just quit the game and probably never return.

I find it funny that the devs always have these events where they join players in Gold and Silver tier servers and play with them, but they never come to the bronze league servers, I wonder why…

The dead server indeed only has one WvW guild that you might be interested in joining which is END. I don’t know much about them except for the fact that they’re a new guild and their guild leader seems to be an active commander.

There are also other guilds like TAL and RoT but they’re not really exclusive to WvW, and a couple of small roaming guilds like ZERK and DARE.

Good luck!

Orr, Frostgorge Sound, Silverwastes.

zenleto.6179:

I’m finding it fairly amusing. I wonder if Anet had an office pool set up on how many anger threads would be generated in the first twelve hours.

I’m sure they’re having fun reading all the posts

MethaneGas.8357:

vespers.1759:

Guys I found the OP and recorded him! He clearly had no time to dodge or use skills before I bursted him down with my 20k rapid fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6E7C7i2KQ0

The only thing this proves is how OP rangers are. I mean… he killed a player from 1500000000 range in basically 3 auto attacks. Auto attacks. Three. 3. Auto attacks. The whole ordeal barely lasted longer than 3 seconds.
Had he actually pressed a button (#2) that would have ended 2 seconds earlier.
That damage was also without food or any kind of stacks (sigils + guard stacks).

I’m sorry but this video backfired.

A glassy ranger kills a glassy thief (a class that only has 11k HP by default at level 80 – 13K with the WvW stacks if I recall correctly) who doesn’t even dodge or teleport away.

“YES! Let’s take this video to the forums and hope people are stupid enough to agree with me!”

(lol)

Yes, it makes sense. I don’t see anything wrong with that :P
Well, others who join the map might be confused and think there’s some kind of event near your tag, but that’s the only problem I see that might happen.

So many exploiters trying to defend themselves even though they were in an area where they clearly shouldn’t be.

Anything that is exciting and has a meaning besides “let’s kill more bad guys to get more gold”.

A progression system that actually makes you feel proud for defeating a certain boss or finishing a certain event, but doesn’t end there, opening more doors for more challenging content.

We need more boss encounters that besides looking epic, should feel epic. I would like to see more stuff similar to Aetherpath or the last boss of Season 2 LS. More interesting boss encounters that aren’t just “stack and press 1” like the Molten Boss Fractal and Thaumanova Anomaly.

Can anyone honestly say they feel proud for defeating Vinewrath?

Nobody likes SFR.

Malediktus.3740:

Sorel.4870:

Malediktus.3740:

And that is exactly why its a cheesy tactic which should be fixed. I can understand any commander who gives up on commanding because of this sniping.

Me too. That is why sniping is an excellent strategy. Not only do you win fights, but you also demotivate the enemy. That is how wars are won.

But this is a game which people play to have fun, not a real war. Otherwise people should stop complaining about trolls, spies, hackers, etc, too. Because everything is fair in war.

You don’t need a spy to know who the enemy commander is, they’re all easy to spot. If the commander falls and people get demotivated, then the enemy zerg wins, simple as that. There’s nothing to fix here.

So… any news on this?

Malediktus.9250:

Davey.7029:

They said they will rework the WvW achievements, but obviously it’s not a high priority for them since it’s taking a while, and that’s OK for me.
WvW itself is a lot of fun. The achievements are just a bonus.

WvW has been a lot less fun to me ever since they nerfed stability, so I just go there to increase the WvW achievements now. I do not care if I waste thousands of supplies on walls who get trebbed

I’m glad we don’t play on the same server then.

They said they will rework the WvW achievements, but obviously it’s not a high priority for them since it’s taking a while, and that’s OK for me.
WvW itself is a lot of fun. The achievements are just a bonus.

SlappedYak.7489:

Hello folks! After nearly a year away from Guild Wars 2 I am considering coming back to the game. I’d like to ask some questions and get a general sense of where the game is at before I make up my mind though ^.^ I’d love to get some feedback from the current player base before I commit to things like a server transfer, buying gems etc etc…

1. The state of condition specs, healing, and tanking.

In every other MMO and RPG I’ve ever played I play condition and DoTs, that’s my jam, that’s what I love.

I found GW2 had a major issue with condition spec and support roles in that because they had “no holy trinity” they created a game where outright damage was king, and where it was better to melee stack and kill a mob as quick as possible rather than trying to heal or DoT them.

Has this changed? Are condition damage dealers viable in high end PvE settings?

1. Is there a challenge for PvEers?

One of THE main reasons I left gw2 was because of the highly repetitive and monotonous state of end-game PvE. Fractals are great and fine, and challenging but they were pretty much the only challenge for PvEers. Dungeon speed runs were fun but got extremely boring after a while.

Is there more variety at end game? Is there an end game at all?

I’d love to hear some thoughts and honest opinions. Is it better to wait until HoT? are the issues that made me decide to stop playing still there? <3

Thanks for your time folks

- Yak

I know you don’t want to hear this, but the game is pretty much the same. However, you can check the new maps (dry top and Silverwastes) and check the new boss encounters, specially Vinewrath in Silverwastes. They’re fun for a day or two, then you might get bored since it’s in a farmable state.

So yea, condis are still capped at 25 stacks (this will change though), PvE is still a gold farm without much of a challenge, and lots of people still use zerker gear to kill stuff quickly.

Apparently all of this will change with HoT, so let’s wait and see!

If you want to stay away from “unscrupulous guilds” I suggest not joining any guild that spams their advert on map/team chat.

Those are mega guilds where the leaders/officers don’t really care about new members, they just want to invite as many people as possible to get as much influence as possible and brag about having 400-500 members (even though nobody knows anyone in a mega guild except for the core members who have been playing together since day one).

Also, if the guild is good, guild leaders don’t have to endlessly spam their advert on map chat, people who are interested will ask to join in!

And any guild asking for a gold tax or full rep, is a big no. There’s absolutely no reason for having a tax in this game and again, if a guild is good enough, their members will be happy to represent it all the time.

Fun? I find PvE in this game terrible (specially dungeons and world bosses), so to me there’s only WvW left.

It does make me a bit sad that casuals get so much love (even though they usually stop playing after a week or two), and veterans don’t. I have so many extra rank points, and as far as I know, we won’t get another WvW mastery anytime soon.