Guild Wars 2

AimForThatFace.7814:

Hey,

Has Desolation gone down hill in WvW, I thought they was always at the top but they seem to be 4th overall now?

You thought wrong. They’ve only beem top ONCE.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#history

jinkudo.8073:

I hardly ever seen anyone playing. Maybe it’s just because of the times i choose to play.

Any who, I’m going to make a new person, what is an active world to play in?

Your entire account is bound to a server. You can’t join a new server with a new toon. Instead you need transfer your account to a different server.

Junkpile.7439:

Snowstorm.3897:

Junkpile.7439:

Seems to me that you did try to cheat and invite all big bandwagon guilds.

SFR troll. Don’t feed.

That one dude said that they talked with GF and NUG and now you whine that you got too many bandwagon guilds. You really thought that you can invite big guilds and then every guild would get full guild zerg in without queue?

By inviting those guilds they created the next Blacktide (as in superstacked server) and now they are surprised/annoyed bandwagoners flock this server.

talynld.8956:

Ballistic.4531:

If I’m not mistaken the points (and thus the upgrades too) are tied to a certain server. Meaning on your original server you still have everything you had before you transferred. If you transfer back everything should be there.

Well that would be great, because I do plan on going back to me original server. After all it is home

As a guild leader that has migrated with his guild to different servers a few times I can confirm this is correct.

Because the engine is subpar and Arenanet isn’t willing to invest in better servers for WvW.

According to the Guildwars2guru State of the Game interview there won’t be a patch with PvP/WvW related updates until january – march 2013. That might explain why we don’t hear anything. It’s still far off.

Dagins.5163:

Because Americans playing on European servers would have about 2 additional seconds of delay (ping) and vice versa.

Exaggerate much? Only if you have a very bad connection you would have +2000ms to European servers. Usually it’s around +80ms for people living in the East Coast and +160ms for people in the West Coast. That is 0.08 or 0.16 seconds delay.

The only thing he states is that he is interested in getting Guild Wars 2 supported on ESL. I don’t see e-sports support for Guild Wars 2 mentioned in his post at all.

ESL has three different kinds of leagues/tournaments: ESL amateur series, ESL pro series and the Intel Extreme Masters. New games like Guild Wars 2 become part of the amateur series first. When there are enough competitive teams that are active on the site ESL will consider a pro series where a small amount of cash can be made. Only games that have a very big competitive community AND a huge spectator following will ever be consider for the Intel Extreme Masters, the esports part of ESL.

Guild Wars 2 still has a long way to go before they are even consider as IEM game and with the current state of sPvP it’s doubtful it will ever reach it.

In higher tiers Gandara didn’t win their match ups which resulted in relegation to your current tier. In Gandara’s current tier the numbers 16, 17 and 18 of the ladder battle each other. Because Gandara ended up at the second place during last weeks match up in their current tier, they are ranked 17 on the EU ladder.

Here are some useful links for you:
- The current score and up to date ladder ranking : http://mos.millenium.org/matchups
- The match history of your server : http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#history
- The scoresystem the ladder uses: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-math-behind-WvW-ratings

Junkie.9745:

Junkie.9745:

Diablo.9301:

Junkie.9745:

I dont think everyone will have ascended gear anytime soon and its just about a few stat point better than excotic. So i guess you wont be able to recognize any big difference.

Anyway, I did really enjoy the fact in GW1 that there was an absolute maximum and you could create pvp chars at maximum stats within a few seconds. Its a bit sad they did not implement this for GW2 (yes i know you can do it for spvp).

Speaking of sad things: Where are my beloved GvG’s? Isnt this game called Guild Wars? Lacking the name’s content aint fun at all -.-

The difference between exotic and ascended gear isn’t small at all. People have calculated how much your damage improves by wearing ascended gear over exotic gear. With just the three pieces you will do 6% more damage. That is not minor. It gets even worse when more ascended gear gets added so you can get a full set. Assuming all ascended gear offers a similar stat increase as the rings did you will do 36% (!) more damage than with exotic gear. That makes this a must have.

Its +15 stats (5 each) per item. So thats a total by now of 6 × 15 = 90 Stats (30 each) IF you are lucky enough to even get one ring and IF that one got the stats you need (want). I dont see how that is supposed to be 6% damage -.-

Basically thats a lot of IF’s … I am lvl 14 in this dungeon and saw just once some1 get a ring (magic find stats included). The time you spend there to even get the chance to drop would equal like 200k karma you could get in WvW.

I get it now … the 6% increase … guess it was meant or 6% more stat points (which does not equal 6% more dmg).
Lets assume you get full equip (including armor) thats a total of 12 × 15 statpoints = 180 statpoints. Since you have about 3k points in total it would be an increase of 6%.
BUT 6% more points does not mean 6% more dmg.

I still dont think it would have a big impact on WvW since most the player dont use the 1h buffs (gem store) nor do they use food or the other stuff (wrench symbol). These player already got a huge advantage (which everone may have) and there are no complaints.

Why do you assume all items will only have a 15 statpoint increase? It’s much more realistic to assume that every ascended item will increase based a certain percentage. This is how it’s done between every gear tier available (blue → green → yellow etc.) Since other gear items like weapons, armor and amulets give more statpoints the increase in stat will also be bigger. You also forgot that ascended weapons will do (alot) more damage per hit than exotic weapons. An ascended Greatsword for example will do 1077 – 1191 damage per hit while an exotic one only does 995- 1100 damage.

Junkie.9745:

I dont think everyone will have ascended gear anytime soon and its just about a few stat point better than excotic. So i guess you wont be able to recognize any big difference.

Anyway, I did really enjoy the fact in GW1 that there was an absolute maximum and you could create pvp chars at maximum stats within a few seconds. Its a bit sad they did not implement this for GW2 (yes i know you can do it for spvp).

Speaking of sad things: Where are my beloved GvG’s? Isnt this game called Guild Wars? Lacking the name’s content aint fun at all -.-

The difference between exotic and ascended gear isn’t small at all. People have calculated how much your damage improves by wearing ascended gear over exotic gear. With just the three pieces you will do 6% more damage. That is not minor. It gets even worse when more ascended gear gets added so you can get a full set. Assuming all ascended gear offers a similar stat increase as the rings did you will do 36% (!) more damage than with exotic gear. That makes this a must have.

Give it a few months. I’m quite certain that the step after adding a grindy gear treadmill that is too much for casual players will be to add items to the cashshop. That way casuals can still keep up. That will be a nice steady source of income for Arenanet.

maloki.3527:

I’m sorry Diablo, but saying that FSP doesn’t have one single organized guild left is kinda cruel, especially to the guilds who are still here and organized.

I should have said big organized guilds instead, because this is indeed put too harshly. I never really see any big organized guild teams anymore, thats why. EpiC has some decent sized groups, TNA sometimes and a few others. But nothing like before with Nug, SFRJ and GF.

I have been a big supporter of this suggestion from the start. I don’t think it’s ever going to happen though. Arenanet doesn’t see WvWvW as ‘true PvP’. More of a mix between PvE and PvP. That’s why balance changes for PvP don’t apply to WvW.

Misslol.9741:

Konrad.9587:

That’s just sad. It’s Saturday evening and Far Shiverpeaks holds literally nothing, not even a single supply camp except on its own borderlands. This is what happened to once successful WvWvW server after several weeks of losing to night and morning cappers.

Mate u can blame the night/morning cappers only if u DO lead in primetime… I look forward to see some good fights in EU primetime… Let’s see

He isn’t even talking about your server so there is no need to get defensive.

Far Shiverpeaks has lost at least half of it’s WvW population (including pretty much all the big organized guilds), due to free transfers and people quitting the game. The big organized guilds left because Arenanet made WvW a 24/7 warfare and Far Shiverpeaks never had the coverage for that. They were tired of seeing all their primetime effort gone to waste so they abandoned our server.

We don’t have a single active organized guild left right now. Only thanks the efforts of our commanders that organize the pugs we didn’t drop even more tiers.

That is what he was complaining about.

If you want to be a frontline melee character in WvW I recommend playing a Guardian. They don’t hit as hard but they do have more survivability and better condition removal than a Warrior. Which makes them more suited for the task.

Bunzy.8674:

I always thought anet would prioritize pvp over pve but it seems they are just like every other mmo company and will focus on pve over pvp.. disappointing to say the least.

I’m guessing you’ve never played Guild Wars? Because if you did you should have known that after the release of Guild Wars Prophecies Arenanet stopped being a PvP focussed developer.

Even when it gets added to WvWvW, you can bet it will take ALOT longer to get the gear than from Dungeons.

Donedusted.9846:

Riverside, we meet again! As a staunch Seafarer’s Rester defender, I’m looking forward to trouncing you once again. Our server is getting stronger and stronger with every week that goes pass; I’m proud to be a part of it.

Welcome to Far Shiverpeaks, believe this is the first time we have played against each other. Play nicely!

Score as of 8:50am GMT, Saturday morning after reset:

SFR – 13k
Riv – 7k
Far – 3k

Good luck everyone, have fun!

The first time since one week matches began, we played against each other once before during the 24 hour match ups. Good luck everyone.

jimothyjim.6249:

Man, Blacktide showing some crazy coverage this morning on the Viz server. We (Desolation) tried at least twice to get the tower nearest spawn with 2 ballistas, 2 arrow carts and a treb but we just had our siege swarmed every time. At least we gave BT something to do I guess :P

As for Ruin, let’s hope the patch tomorrow comes with guesting so they can lock the servers down properly. That way Ruin will be stuck on Blacktide for good.. sorry BT.

It would be horrible for the EU ladder if free transfers are closed tomorrow. The balance is way off with Blacktide being the only powerhouse left. It would do more harm than good.

Scribbles.7493:

Well the good thing is that this may hopefully inspire guilds from other servers to start a project in order to compete with Blacktide, in the same way that project Blacktide was started to compete with Desolation.

Maybe a French or German superpower server?

I dunno, just musing at the moment.

That is not going to happen. The WvW population at every server in Europe seems to be in decline already. The only way to compete with Blacktide is to have similar coverage. Since all Russians are stacked at the same server now it’s impossible for other servers to get similar day coverage without recruiting Asians/Australians. Those guilds however don’t want to move to Europe because of latency issues. Another way to get coverage is to recruit an American alliance. That has been tried in the past and ony RUIN was interested in fighting NPCs and Doors. No other American alliance wants to move.

So if you want a challenge you are better off moving to the NA ladder. That ladder has more servers with good coverage. On the European server noone can touch Blacktide the upcoming weeks.

Praktik.9735:

Only Power+Prescision+Magic Find stats for new gear > WWW ok

What makes you think the other stat options lik berserker won’t become available as ascended gear? That explorer ring was just an example.

saurus.8290:

yes the 4% more MF make you kill zerg alone

What makes you think the new ascended gear will only be available for explorer type gear?

The ascended items give a 8% stat increase and you can expect the weapons to do more damage too. That’s enough of a difference that you need these items to stay competitive.

Arenanet should either add these weapons as reward for playing WvW or they should allow SPvP gear and characters in WvW so PvP’ers aren’t forced to grind in PvE to stay competitive.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Please-fix-this-sooner-rather-than-later-Vid-attached/622762

According to this post the stealth bug has been fixed and the fix goes live in the next patch.

‘’How about you move to us? Rumour is, the fights on the EU servers are better than the ones on the NA servers :p’’

The fights wouldn’t be better for NA guilds. During our primetime they are at work so their fights will consist of fighting doors or RUIN if they choose a t1 server.

Just compare the current state of Guild Wars 2 to that of Guild Wars a few months after release. Guild Wars had a thriving competitive community with thousands of guilds battling it out on GvG ladder. The oh so needed observer mode was patched into Guild Wars at this time. Every competitive guild was looking forward to the announced Guild Wars World Championship. While Guild Wars 2 currently barely has the tools need for a competitive game let alone the e-sport game the developers strive to be.

The only thing that was equally as bad in Guild Wars 1 was the balance. Only in the last few months before the release of the first expansion pack Factions the game was fairly balanced.

It’s a fair and even intended (it’s not a three way battle without a reason) tactic and works well to counter nightcapping.

You do know that all the worlds are hosted on US servers (the European ones are located in Texas). So no, that won’t be a problem.

There are alot of websites for competitive games that can facilitate these kind of leagues/tournaments/ladders. You can save yourself alot of time by trying to get Guild Wars 2 supported by those sites and become an admin there if you want to be the person to organize/lead this, then to code a new website from scratch.

Still looking for more members!

General Information

Region: International, Europe (GMT+1)
Server: Far Shiverpeaks
Recruitment Status: OPEN
Looking for: Mesmer, Thief and Engineer, but open to all other professions too.
Formats: WvW, PvE and SPvP
Play-style: Semi-Hardcore
Current members: 8
Prime hours: Sunday – Thursday 20.00 – 0.00 CET

Who are we?

The Illuminati is an eight year old guild that was founded in October 2004 by a few online gaming friends in the game Guild Wars 1. In this game The Illuminati was a successful PvP centered guild.

During the beta events of Guild Wars 2 the old core of our guild got back together. We tested the game intensively to decide if this game would be our next game. After playing the game for a few weeks now we have decided that this will be the case. We want the guild to become organized and very active again. Because of that we have now opened recruitment. We need new fresh blood in our guild!

We are an active, friendly, mature and stable guild. During our prime hours events are organized for our members to participate in. We currently play the formats PvE and WvW the most. When SPvP gets proper tools for competitive play we will focus more on that too. We strive to be a force to be reckoned with on the Guild Wars 2 PvP battlefields.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for loyal, active and mature English speaking new members that are interested in playing the same formats as we are. Since we are all PvP players we look for players who also have some PvP experience from other games.

Another thing that we are looking for is someone that likes to lead coordinated groups in WvW.

Requirements

• 18 years or older.
• Loyal to the guild, we would like you to represent the guild when we play together.
• English speaking.
• Active and able to play during our prime hours.
• Your account has to be on the same server as the guild (currently: Far Shiverpeaks).
• Have a microphone so you can communicate when we play together in coordinated groups.

How to Apply

Go to here and register an account there. After you have registered on our forum, go to the recruitment section and follow the instructions posted there. Once you have submitted your application, it will be reviewed and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact me ingame: Diablo Hellspawn

Our search continues!

Zid.4196:

Accept the inevitable.

The only way to fix this is to convince some Canadians to move to Augury Rock too.

Then there will be the French-Canadian bracket of VS, AS, and AR; while Far Shiverpeaks/Riverside/Desolation and all of Europe below them will play in peace

I know it’s inevitable, but I would like to delay it as much as possible.

We are still looking for new members. Especially members that can play the Mesmer profession.

Not to the top bracket at least. I don’t want to fight two French servers with 24/7 presence that are most likely going to ally up together too.

General Information

Region: International, Europe (GMT+1)
Server: Far Shiverpeaks
Recruitment Status: OPEN (Open to all Professions)
Formats: WvW, PvE and SPvP
Play-style: Semi-Hardcore
Current members: 11
Prime hours: Sunday – Thursday 20.00 – 0.00 CET

Who are we?

The Illuminati is an eight year old guild that was founded in October 2004 by a few online gaming friends in the game Guild Wars 1. In this game The Illuminati was a successful PvP centered guild. We often finished in the top 30 of the Guild vs Guild ladder when the game was still at its prime.

During the beta events of Guild Wars 2 the old core of our guild got back together. We tested the game intensively to decide if this game would be our next game. After playing the game for a few weeks now we have decided that this will be the case. We want the guild to become organized and very active again. Because of that we have now opened recruitment. We need new fresh blood in our guild!

We are an active, friendly, mature and stable guild. During our prime hours events are organized for our members to participate in. We currently play the formats PvE and WvW. When SPvP becomes better balanced and more competitive with a ranking system we will also start focussing on that. We strive to be a force to be reckoned with on the Guild Wars 2 PvP battlefields.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for loyal, active and mature English speaking new members that are interested in playing the same formats as we are. Since we are all (former) hardcore PvP players we look for players who also have PvP experience from other games. Another thing that we are looking for is someone that likes to lead coordinated groups in WvW.

Requirements

• 18 years or older.
• Loyal to the guild, we would like you to represent the guild when we play together.
• English speaking.
• Active and able to play during our prime hours.
• Your account has to be on the same server as the guild (currently: Far Shiverpeaks).
• Have a microphone so you can communicate when we play together in coordinated groups.

How to Apply

Go to here and register an account there. After you have registered on our forum, go to the recruitment section and follow the instructions posted there. Once you have submitted your application, it will be reviewed and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact me ingame: Diablo Hellspawn

Because Guild Wars 2 lacks tanks (as in high armored professions that can penetrate ‘trench’ lines) and healers to back them up.

This will only get worse when more people get full exotic gear. Better get used to it.

dublido.5417:

Ohh… seems a bit lame to me tho, Yes you can say “as it should be” but why? a lot of other games have done it the other way in many years and that seem to have worked out fine… but yeah I guess I was to fast to set my heart on GW2 then :P

It seems lame to you, because other MMO’s have brainwashed you into thinking a gear threadmill is a good idea. They only do that so you keep playing and paying their subscription fee for as long as possible. Guild Wars 2 however is trying to be a competitive game. A competitive game only works with a level playing field where it’s about skill, not about who grinded the most.

@Nofe, you have no idea what are you talking about. If you just stand around, cast skills at your leisure and don’t (pre) kite you would get Warrior trained or spiked down everytime since you would be an easy target. What was the highest ranked guild you’ve played in, because to me it sounds like you have never played it (at a high level) at all.

Mercucial.6759:

Honestly why they don’t allow us to see target of target or our target’s cast bar in a game so heavily based around dodging and interrupting skills to stay alive is just baffling.

They want Guild Wars 2 to be an action based game and thus have people focus on the actual combat, not an UI castbar. That is what I read in an interview anyways.

This makes me wonder what kind of not so obvious cheats are already available. A Thief or Mesmer with a cheat that allows them to teleport bigger distances or go stealth for a longer duration will be much harder to notice than someone flying across the map.

JemL.3501:

having not repair cost will just make players in wvw to go and die like np, you know you have to repair something be more careful, and if you end up wasting all your money in just repairs…YOU ARE SIMPLE BAD, saying you dont see the enemy is not an excuse, or if you pc is broken, etc.
That sink has to be there, you gain a lot of money if not die in wvw by capturing tower/castle/keep/etc, now you are saying you can jump to the battle with no worries but with only benefits, stop being bad.

You are failing to consider quality vs quantity in you argument. If you are outnumbered in WvW (low server population vs high server population for example) , you can be the best WvW player in the entire game, but you’ll barely be able to earn any money. You simply lack the support to capture alot of objectives on the world map. Instead you will die alot from being outnumbered.

That’s the biggest flaw in the current system and needs looking at.

JoeRosa.6035:

This makes no sense. How can you get sick based on the FOV?

Google the words FOV and motion sickness. There has been research on this.

Retaliation shouldn’t damage siege weapons at all.

Mayama.1854:

Bobudo.7943:

Get a better computer then, don’t ruin it for everyone else. I render Zergs with plenty of time to not run into them.

Yeah exactly I should get a better computer because anet added something in the end of the last beta that only renders large numbers of people only if they are very close to you. For your interest every time it happened everyone in our group didnt see the enemy zerg bevor it was right on top of us.

A new computer won’t even fix that problem. I have brand new high end computer (i5 3750k, 8 gb ram, samsung 830 SSD, Radeon 7870), run the game at max settings apart from supersampling and shadows and I have the same problem as you.

/Ontopic. The current repair cost system really needs to be looked at, because it will hurt WvW in the long run. When you are on a losing server (that barely controls anything on the map) this system will kill all iniative for playing WvW. It will cost you a fortune to simply play, because you will keep getting wiped by the stronger server and thus need to fix your armor every time. Since the other server is so much stronger it wil be very hard to earn any money to compensate for the repair cost.

Because of this it’s likely that that most of the players from the losing server will simply stop playing. Then the dominating server will have noone to fight against and will end up getting bored.