Guild Wars 2

4) Add a 6th tier for eu. It’s starting to get overcrowded.

Convert all viper’s into trailblazer’s and you are set.

SkyShroud.2865:

Deli.1302:

There was a patch before the NA reset.
This patch introduced the issue in Siren’s Landing.
So of course the problem was gonna get fixed asap no matter what. It was hindering players from doing things in the new map.

Would it be a good move to keep a map broken just to appease the 3 NA servers that even have queues on reset?

Then shouldn’t you criticize anet that made a patch that suppose to fix issue but break the game further?

Why are you criticizing the players for complaining?

Why does it have to be one or the other? It is anet’s fault for not properly testing their update before they released it and it would have been just as bad for them to leave a brand new map broken for longer than it needed to.

There was a patch before the NA reset.
This patch introduced the issue in Siren’s Landing.
So of course the problem was gonna get fixed asap no matter what. It was hindering players from doing things in the new map.

Would it be a good move to keep a map broken just to appease the 3 NA servers that even have queues on reset?

Conner.4702:

People have sat in towers for hours to make sure it got upgraded before automatic upgrades. Not much wxp to be gotten that way.

I’m one of these people. I’ve got 4k. I don’t just sit in the tower for hours. I actually do things while I scout like flip camps, sentries, escort yaks and kill roamers that are nearby. Maybe you should to.

Just because you aren’t affected does not make it good

And just because you are doesn’t make it bad.

I can’t see it anymore on the match overview.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

here’s the real issue,

obtaining:
full legendary armor from raids – 3-6 months
legendary fractal back piece – 3-6 months
legendary spvp back piece – 3-6 months
legendary wvw back piece – 3-6 months
crafting any legendary without a credit card – 3 months – 1 year
getting t3 armor from wvw = 1 1/2 – 2 years

please a-net even out the discrepancy.

Arbitrary numbers are asinine.

I’ll have the full T3 armor within a few months. Because I’m a dedicated WvW player and this armor is for dedicated WvW players. If you’re rank 0, then you have to become a dedicated WvW player to get that armor. Sounds logical right?

The last thing WvW needs is a bunch of pve reward kitten jumping in for easy rewards and promptly leaving once they’re done. They did that during the tournaments and instead of causing a rise in WvW population, it caused a permanent drop once it was over.

Conner.4702:

It’s very nice for all you K-trainers or Eotm abusers, but for scouts or non-zerglings it is far from ok.

Weak argument. There are diamond legends who do nothing but roaming. The difference is that those people invested more time in WvW and that’s the whole point of this reward system; to reward those who dedicate themselves to WvW.

Lahmia.2193:

DemonSeed.3528:

Red here atm and definitely not winning… we’re last place :P

Woops meant on NA. Unless mos is playing me for a chump.

You just killed your own argument. Nice work.

Amaimon.7823:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Amaimon.7823:

After the Great Guild War (the third of the three) the gods permanently left Tyria because they thought their meddling and presence was causing all the war and ravaging.

Uhm, wow, no. All three Guild Wars had occurred after (and partially because) the gods left the world.

The war over magic was never given a name. The first Guild War happened because guilds, having gained influence in the politics of continental Tyria, went into conflict over control of the bloodstones.

Wasn’t it the third war were Doric asked the gods to seal the magic again?
Maybe I’m confusing something up now.
yes, they don’t have a name, but they’re simply called the first, the second and the third, and the third was also called the great guild wars because it made the first and second look like high school bully-fights

The third war was the one that ended when the Charr invaded the human kingdoms (start of the prophecies story line).

Except Lyssa is now the goddess of water, not Kormir. And Modremoth had the mindiness thing. And Grenth is god of ice.

Most of the hate for DBL is just hyped up nonsense by a vocal minority that others have jumped on the bandwagon over. Basic internet culture these days.

I see plenty of play on the desert maps and plenty of guilds raiding in them. Maybe it’s just an EU thing. A lot of servers go there for open field fights near the south camp cos the alpine bls are usually filled with ppters and pugs.

The one thing I don’t like about the desert map is the navigational nightmare around the fire keep.

Gorani.7205:

For such a small part of the game, the actual (and perceived) Dev time devoted to it was huge and general PvE and QoL updates + balancing seem to have been set to a lower priority. This has contributed to the “content drought”.

Uhhh raid content and “general pve and qol updates + balancing” are handled by completely different developers. It’s not one set of devs choosing to focus on raids over everything else. This has been said ad nauseam. Please stop conflating.

Israel.7056:

Kicking them from squad once or twice doesn’t get rid of everyone but publically calling them out in team chat usually does and if that doesn’t work you usually just need to let them die a few times before they get the message and move on.

Dunno why you took the time to type this. I already told you it is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

The point of an invisible commander tag would be to allow guilds to run privately but still have the tag visible to everyone in squad without constantly having to deal with unwanted randos.

We know. And anet has already explained why they won’t do it. Want your squad markers, put up a tag. Don’t want randoms, don’t use a tag. Simple.

Would be a nightmare to balance. Balancing this game is already hard enough, I’d rather we not complicate things further.

Israel.7056:

Bogus reasoning. It’s already easy to exclude players from a squad by kicking them.

What on earth does that have to do with anything? Being kicked from the squad doesn’t stop someone from seeing and following the tag. This thread isn’t about joining squads, it’s about the visibility of commander tags.

Also quite frankly I don’t like the idea of anet catering to the lowest common denominator of player who won’t participate in the game mode unless they see a commander tag on the map. You’re enabling weak minded players.

Whether anyone likes it or not, catering to the lowest common denominator is what brings new people into the game mode. Unless you want WvW to die faster or something…..

All these mango pie posts are giving me cancer. Please no. Only bad players would use that in WvW.

Saffron bread for defense. Seaweed salad (or asparagus and sage salad which is cheaper) for offense.

Well this is a start.

Evan Lesh.3295:

Due to technical limitations, we will likely never be able to add a delayed observer mode to Gw2.

GW1 had it…………
I feel like we’re still playing catch up to a 12 years old game.

The problem with 2-1-1 was that it didn’t incentivize the 2nd and 3rd place server to focus the 1st place server. For one, you’d need both servers focusing the 1st place server during the same scrimmage and how often is that realistically gonna happen? Secondly, whenever that does happen, only one of those two servers will be the beneficiary of it. The other gets nothing unless they are somehow able to keep it up for another 2 hour scrim and trade the win. But you’d need some serious coordination/collusion across both servers and we know most players don’t care enough to go down that road.

Additionally, most players don’t decide which server to attack based on the score. They make their decision based on which server they perceive to be stronger/weaker at the time or which one would provide better fights.

So what we had with 2-1-1 was a pretty ridiculous system where it was pointless for the two weaker servers to even play. Now with 5-4-3, if you can’t get 1st place during a given scrim, there’s at least a reason to still play and get 2nd.

This is a learn to play issue. You’re not hitting your special action key fast enough. I had no issues with CCs’ and I was on a standard full zerker staff ele.

Colours are random.
Matchups have randomness built into them, something the players asked for.
Stop whining about rng.

This is what separates the good commanders from the average commanders. Average commanders can’t handle being focused and will whine and cry. Good commanders are able to play through it and still win fights.

Stand The Wall.6987:

What inspired me to buy this game in the first place was seeing 5 elementalists fend off an entire zerg of about 10 times their size. Right now that is unimaginable, but believe me it happened.

Come on now…. you know exactly why this was possible when the game launched and impossible now. People were noobs back then. Zergs were filled with uplevels and people in masterwork gear. It was easy for an organized group to do anything back then. The player base is far more experienced now.

Oh and the 5 man aoe cap has always been here.

A lot of SEA players have moved to the EU servers. It’s much more active during SEA prime because it’s afternoon/evening in Europe and a lot of players are in game (especially the Russians).

Vavume.8065:

Links need to stop, WvW needs a reboot, cut EU down to 12 servers and lets get it on.

T5 actually has blobs. Terrible blobs but blobs nonetheless. And only during prime time, dead all other times.

Byron.1902:

So many ‘false’ servers pops. Deso gets about 25ppl on ts on a good night, yet we’re somehow ‘Full’

That’s because no one uses teamspeak on Deso. Not because you don’t have people. Just ask KISS.

Jayne.9251:

It’s a push to get second and third place servers to gang up on the first place server. Nothing to gain by hitting the weaker server, might as well team up and hit the stronger one.

Eventually people will clue in.

The problem with this is that it will not incentivize the 2nd and 3rd place server to focus the 1st place server. For one, you’d need both servers focusing the 1st place server during the same scrimmage and how often is that realistically gonna happen? Secondly, whenever that does happen, only one of those two servers will be the beneficiary of it. The other gets nothing unless they are somehow able to keep it up for another 2 hour scrim and trade the win. But you’d need some serious coordination/collusion across both servers and we know most players don’t care enough to go down that road.

Additionally, most players don’t decide which server to attack based on the score. They make their decision based on which server they perceive to be stronger/weaker at the time or which one would provide better fights.

So what we have now is a pretty ridiculous system where it is pointless for the two weaker servers to even play. If you can’t get 1st place during a given scrim, there was at least a reason to still play wvw and get 2nd. Now it doesn’t matter, just log off.

shiri.4257:

Deli.1302:

shiri.4257:

2-1-1 is fine, reduce passive ppt or make the scoring every 10mins or back to 15. making it harder to PPK scrims. so kitten hard to get into t3 structures to start a bag farm as is.

You are confusing scrims with the tick. Scrims last for 2 hours. And it’s dirt easy to get into a t3 structure. 2 shield generators + rams/catas and you’re in. The only way you could fail that is if the opponent has more numbers and/or you suck.

You get passive PPT for T3 structures and various caps, which was fine til they increased the amount. But the increase in passive PPT every 5 mins made it more difficult to farm the turtling ninja ppt heroes.

They never increased passive ppt from the tick. They merely re-balanced it to fit the new 5 minute timer. They reduced it to 5 minutes so that camps mattered, something players wanted. Getting higher points from flipping stuff that is more upgraded is something players also wanted. None of this takes anything away from ppk since ppk has nothing to do with the tick, only the scrim, which lasts 2 hours.

shiri.4257:

2-1-1 is fine, reduce passive ppt or make the scoring every 10mins or back to 15. making it harder to PPK scrims. so kitten hard to get into t3 structures to start a bag farm as is.

You are confusing scrims with the tick. Scrims last for 2 hours. And it’s dirt easy to get into a t3 structure. 2 shield generators + rams/catas and you’re in. The only way you could fail that is if the opponent has more numbers and/or you suck.

Anet themselves said that every time there was a WvW tournament, there was a permanent drop in population after. So don’t get your hopes up.

apharma.3741:

Deli.1302:

Deso has been around the top tier since launch so they’ll have the inevitable baggage that comes with being at the top for so long. And by baggage I mean karma trainers, pvers, people who don’t use ts, people who don’t get on tag.

I don’t use TS (with that commander) or get on tag usually because my server is linked and I’m on TS with 3 or 4 people in my guild threatening the enemy T3 towers and keeps, flipping back the camps we need and doing the vital defending those cretinous zerglings on tag are incapable of doing.

On the rare occaison when we’ve had 8-10 people on we’ve saved many of our keeps simply by being on lord of one of the enemy servers keep making them abandon an attack to zerg us.

Not everyone who isn’t doing what you criticise is baggage. Though this is Karmalation we’re talking about.

You think I’m talking about havoc squads and roamers. I am not. They are fine. I love them. I’m talking about the people who follow the commander but are not on ts and not on the tag during fights. You know, the headless chickens?

Deso has been around the top tier since launch so they’ll have the inevitable baggage that comes with being at the top for so long. And by baggage I mean karma trainers, pvers, people who don’t use ts, people who don’t get on tag.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Large group, trailblazers is garbbage due to the expertise. Its a totally wasted stat because you’re fighting against tons of cleanses and resistance. If you’re trying to have a condi meta, then you need as much direct condi damagage as possible.

What….

Newsflash! It’s almost 2017. This game is over 4 years old. WvW is declining because population is declining. Anet has at least done more for WvW this year than they have the past 2 years combined. If you don’t like a particular change, there’s a 100% chance that there are people who do like it. Because WvW accommodates many different play styles. You may not like the linking cos it’s killing your server but I’m 99% certain your server would be dying regardless because this game is aging and people are moving on to other things. If you aren’t already in the few lucky servers, then time is your enemy. Your server will eventually die out too. Circle of life boys and girls.

jamesdolla.3954:

There is no reason a server with a 2.0 kdr with mass amount of kills should lose a match.

Actually there is a reason. It’s called PPT. There are three ways to win. Be good at both PPK/PPT, be amazing at PPK or be amazing at PPT. Anet provides this variety to accommodate people with different play styles and experience. It’s good for the game in the long run.

Jayne.9251:

Svarty.8019:

Datestamping this: 28/11/2016
I’d say FSP is the best fighting server (at the moment). Some of Piken’s commanders no longer tag up after being obliterated by FSP a few times, then linked with them for eight straight weeks.

You mean when FSP was linked with not one, but two other servers?

That’s irrelevant. WSR and FoW were both dead servers and Piken also had a link. Both servers had equal opportunity to gain transfers and Piken got a boat load through Blacktide with the likes of TT, Ash and tD. FSP just generally has better players than Piken. Been that way for a long time.

Ash.2059:

Any plans for Season 2?

You missed it.

Swagger.1459:

The devs said no. Play for 8 hours and get your gift.

Less than 8 hours with boosters/potions.

Farzo.8410:

I haven’t played Guild Wars 2 in a longer while, though I was still around for a little bit with the server linking.

Is this what they are going with now? The server linking? The whole idea seems to kill servers apart.

I played on SFR and apparently they fell right on their face for some reason I don’t know what it is. The server was extremely well in WvW in the past, and now it’s barely holding up.

Your entire post makes no sense. Server identity has nothing to do with server population/rank. SFR fell because people left the server. Simple as that. Nothing to do with links. Everything to do with SFR not being fun to be on anymore.

The lack of a dodge animation is concerning.

There was a vote.

People voted for it.

Democracy kittenes.

My alt account has been on 18 EU servers.

Far Shiverpeaks is the best server for mindless blobbers right now.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Blackgate and Jade Quarry both opened because they were below the population cap. Blackgate currently has a smaller population than Jade Quarry and some of the combined linked worlds populations (combined linked worlds population example being Crystal Desert + Darkhaven + Devona’s Rest combined has a higher population than Blackgate). With all that being said, we do keep track of the transfers that happen. Since we have been seeing an increase in transfer behavior with the past 2 world links, we are discussing whether we want to change how we calculate WvW world populations or if we want to lower the WvW population caps.

There is really no constructive way to respond to this. It’s obvious you guys don’t play WvW very much if you think that CD+DH+DR would even have a chance to have beaten BG. Hint = no they don’t.

The Silverwastes
Ebonhawke

Yeah this new food is the personification of power creep.

Twinny.9304:

In my opinion I think this time around the linking looks more sensible than previous times at least there is no crazy linking like the stupid fsp triple link (I’m fsp player btw), yes the French will probably be top spot but that doesn’t matter, at least they won’t be as major issue as fsp and piken was last linking.

In all honesty was eu really needing this linking system? Unlike NA, EU glicko ratings prior to linking were quite close I think it was something like 100 points between top 12 server’s, and the others weren’t that much behind compared to NA anyway. Now the gaps in ratings since linking are huge.

Linkings weren’t done for glicko reasons. They were done for population reasons.

SarahWitter.2317:

Deli.1302:

I’m still crashing even when set to “medium” or “high”

Hi Deli,

I’m sorry to hear you are still experiencing crashes after the change. To aid in the investigation, would you be willing to provide the below information? If you are more comfortable replying in a customer support ticket, please let me know what that ticket id is.

1. confirm the crash you are receiving looks like this in the crash log:
Assertion: normalOffset == (unsigned)-1 || frameOffset == (unsigned)-1
File: ..\..\..\Engine\ModelFileFormat\ModelFileMerge.cpp(2440
2. attach a screenshot of your graphic settings
3. Let me know if you are on PC or Mac
4. What your player race and gender is
5. As many details about the crash as possible. Examples:
- Were you wearing the Ghostly Outfit when you crashed? If so, were you showing the helm?
- Did you preview it even if it is in your inventory and you previewed it?
- Or was someone else that you saw wearing it?
- Or are you stuck crashing on character create after equipping the outfit?

Thank you!
Sarah

Dunno if this was fixed with the latest update but if you still need it:

1. I think so
2. attached
3. PC
4. human female
5. was not wearing it, was not previewing it, would crash shortly after loading into LA so someone else may have had it on

I’m still crashing even when set to “medium” or “high”

gebrechen.5643:

Roaming is pretty much dead since there are so many cheese builds with low to no risk playing it.

That’s been the case since launch so by your definition, roaming has always been pretty dead.