Guild Wars 2

Spurnshadow.3678:

TS is far superior to Discord.

Discord can NOT set up as many sub-channels and organize those with large amounts of separation in the UI. This is a big deal for a server wide voip.

Discord does NOT have nearly the permission level that TS has.

Discord does NOT support plug-ins

Discord does not integrate with GW2 api. That alone is probably a deal breaker for BG as we’ve developed auto permission system.

Discord still has issues with latency, bugs, dropping packets, etc. I.e. general dependency.

Channel ui is limited in size, scope, and user customization compared to TS.

Discord does NOT have whisper lists.

I’m sure there’s more bullet points I’m missing.

Discord can set near infinite amount of channels, both voice and text. Nested? Not at the moment but its coming soon.

What permissions do you need other than mute/kick/text? Discord has rename permissions, invite permissions, speak permissions, etc.

It does support plugins, you goof.

It does integrate with the API, you goof. Pretty much every server is running the auto verify bot, as well as a ton of other bots that use the api.

No more so than any other Teamspeak server. Can’t be dossed either (not like people in this game would do that tho xD benis)

How is channel UI limited? You get channel descriptions, unlimited users per channel, with custom permissions on who can join, speak, and have admin rights per channel.

OH NO! NO C-COMS!!!!! Good thing a lot of the user base will never ever use it, never mind guild leaders themselves using it.

Spurnshadow.3678:

All that aside, as others have stated in other posts, Discord shares all your data. There is no privacy with Discord. Also, the owner is know to build and sell projects, so there is no guarentee that discord will still even be around in years to come.

Patently false. Teamspeak isnt as private as you think it is either. Nor is any internet service.

Spurnshadow.3678:

Yes, Discord is prettier and able to do some things that TS can’t, like chat features. But as a gamer, why do you care about that stuff? You shouldn’t. You’re here to play a game. If you want to socialize, go get a beer.

Do you read what you write? Or are you a Dana White sized goof?

Hey not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this but with the latest living story episode there was an additional downstate skill added (Signet of Agony) that can be used while in the Guild Arena.

Would it be possible to have this skill disabled in the GA as it is disabled in other competitive game modes?

Thanks

Can I ask what is the thought process behind adding these improvements?

Why is the team choosing to focus on implementing/improving siege instead of other aspects of the maps / balance / core issues to the game mode? Are they handled by other teams?

Never mind the larger population/scoring balance issues (which are being worked on), why not focus on some of the QoL stuff that people have been asking for (cross chat, nameplate shortener, new commander tag options) if there is extra development time / resources?

If these are improvements that have been in development (or ready for testing) for some time, why implement now of all times? Isn’t there a beta client / PTR for this exact testing purpose?

It feels like the team is looking at things that the community agrees doesn’t need fixing and says “Yeah, lets mess with that”

ades.1386:

Chris.3290:

Airships and banners are disabled unless Outnumbered Buff is active.

Even just did the planning and resolution for you guys, it’s just time write the code and add it to the next iteration.

This is an amazing idea!!!
it would still support defending and help the numbers game. giving it to the outnumbered team provides a fair chance in a successful defense without it being abused by the larger team.

Except it is abusable and goes against Anet’s design philosophy around the ‘Outnumbered’ buff.

If a larger force is attacking SMC, what stops a large, organized group from leaving EB, having someone activate the AC130 gunship, E-waypoint, and then have everyone waypoint back in? Anet doesn’t want players yelling at other players just to get a buff, thats why they refuse to make the Outmanned buff give any worthwhile stat increases.

And the idea also says that guild groups big enough to even afford the upgrade cant use it, they have to leave it slotted and hope someone uses it for them. They don’t get to reap the reward of all their farming.

This solution mitigates a problem while causing 3 more.

Jski.6180:

Vieux P.1238:

One word Bois.. CROWFALL… Bois.

About a year+ off in its own right.

You guys want to hear about what going to happen but when your faces with the really of what your asking for and the time to make it work this is how you guys react i can see why they give no info most of the time. Read just read how you guys react to any new things and ask your self why dont they add new things in.

The problem is, we havent been told whats going to happen. All WvW players have been given is “BIG Overhaul soon”. No details or ideas what that might include, not even a tease. Just a statement of “soon”.

And im tired of this argument of players being the “spoiled child” when asking for basic things. Just because someone might say something mean, you are going to not do you job of improving the game and adding content? Asking to see or hear what someone has been working on for a year+ isn’t asking too much, especially if a company is trying to give you a “we’re actively listening to your feedback” line every time their lack of communication is brought up.

If you’re zerging, that should mean you’re in a decent party composition. That means 2 guardians, you, and two DPS (probably necros). You should be running Quick Breathing and Sword/Warhorn, with Shake It Off. So thats 3+3+1+1+1 condition clears, plus the reduced condition duration given by Purging Flames. On top of that, warrior having the highest natural health pool gives you plenty of buffer room for any remaining condis.

That’s why I prefer to rune Strength Runes in a zerg, as the additional DPS is as equal to or more beneficial than Hoelbrak. Hoelbrak is nice if you find yourself roaming or small grouping, then I would say Hoelbrak.

To add to this,

Verticality: Like Basch said, the map is super heavily focused on up and down movement, which is not bad in and of itself, but its coupled with other bad design choices. The steep inclines are also troublesome for casters to accurately place bombs as well as keep the camera tilted in the right direction. It feels like I am sacrificing 50% of my screen to either looking at the ground or up at the sky. Its almost too confusing, seeing as there seem random portals strewn across each keep that lead to drastic changes in elevation.

Ledges: Man, it really feels like the designer of the Desert Borderlands map looked at Skyhammer and said to themselves, “This is fantastic, lets make this 100x bigger and add more narrow catwalks!”. For a game that prides itself on fast paced movement and dodging, all the pathways up, down, and to an objective are extremely narrow to navigate. The influence from the EotM bridges is obvious, but thats not a good thing. It discourages anyone other than solo roamers to go there, and doesn’t leave much room to fight in.

Odd Terrain Changes: In some places in the borderlands (particularly the southwest desert) its seems they had all this blank space that would better be served as semi flat fighting ground, which would be fantastic, but instead it’s filled with steep hills and wierd angles that make fighting difficult. Semi-related to this, some of the walls and gates are in terrible/awkward positions. For example, south west tower, has walls that if broken lead to a narrow hallway that leads to a narrow staircase. So not only do the attacks have to face numerous AC fire with no recourse, but if they break the wall down, they are forced right into TWO chokes? Really? I realize the staircase is there only because of the huge verticality, but goes back to Basch’s point of “This wall is too kitten high”. And again in SWT, the portal for the defenders, upon exiting the tower, leads you right into a corner, a very very very bad corner to get spammed in, making pushing out suicidal.

Map Size: Its huge. Way too huge for the number of players currently allowed in. Time To Travel feels like I would have to schedule time off work in order to get from spawn to the southern towers. Couple the size of the map with the twists and turns of the narrow, tall, passageways and it feels like I’m a rat running a maze.

Samuel Loretan.8601:

Population levels aren’t used to determine matchups – ratings are. Some randomization on the ratings is happening to introduce some variance in the matchups, but if there is a rather large gap in the ratings, that randomization might not be enough to create diverse matchups.

The goal of this change is to make the population spread out better, which will in turn make the ratings get closer, which will result in both more interesting matchups, and more variability as well. This will take some time to happen.

Does this mean you’ve also made recent changes to the glicko/matchup/ratings algorithm on top of the changes to population determination?

Malediktus.9250:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Tseikk.9032:

Do we have a specialist yet?

They have been selected, emails were sent out yesterday.

How do you know?

I applied, and recieved this email. http://i.imgur.com/OV0rcV7.png

I’m sad I did not get the title, but I am sure who ever they selected is up for the task.

Alt account? Cos even you only have a total of 11 posts in 5 months. The only difference is that at least you posted in the WvW forums section

Again I have 4 pages worth of posts in 3 months, again mostly in WvW, and again I do not meet the requirements to apply.

The fact that Gaile said she would keep your application on record yet again signals bad tidings for us, the WvW community. We need someone who is active both in game and in forums!

I think instead of the mods telling us what is good for us they should hold an election, people who want to be FS can apply and then let the players decide who they want.

Lack of posts is a terrible argument. Its like saying “we prefer you have atleast 3-5 years experience for this entry level job”. The fact is you have no idea how I would have done the job, having 10000 posts does not make you qualified, it only makes your opinions known. The position requires being able to parse information, not post a silly opinion or “My Top 5 Fixes For WvW”, none of which are actually feasible. You think the people who lurk instead of posting are less capable of doing the job?

So congratulations on having 4 pages of posts, it means literally nothing other than you post a lot. If someone had 4 pages of “terrible” (ie, doesnt align with your beliefs on WvW fixes), who you still approve of them?

Yes, I strongly believe a worthy WvW specialist should have 100+ good posts in the WvW subforum.

But we all know the forum specialists are just a ploy to lull the masses, so who cares who becomes one.

But what constitutes a good post? If I post a terrible idea, but have reasons behind it is it a good post and should be included into the feedback? Or is “Wheres our GvG ANET?” a good post because it fits the circlejerk here? Why 100 posts? Someone with 99 not qualified?

This subforum is/has been dead for sometime now anyway, so there’s nothing to post about and the forum even crucified the last guy who tried to ask for feedback.

And I love the logic, “If you are going to do it, we want these qualification, but it doesn’t matter because the position is fake”, so then why care about the requirements? You can’t impose and complain about arbitrary qualifications then complain at the same position for which you made those arbitrary qualifications.

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Tseikk.9032:

Do we have a specialist yet?

They have been selected, emails were sent out yesterday.

How do you know?

I applied, and recieved this email. http://i.imgur.com/OV0rcV7.png

I’m sad I did not get the title, but I am sure who ever they selected is up for the task.

Alt account? Cos even you only have a total of 11 posts in 5 months. The only difference is that at least you posted in the WvW forums section

Again I have 4 pages worth of posts in 3 months, again mostly in WvW, and again I do not meet the requirements to apply.

The fact that Gaile said she would keep your application on record yet again signals bad tidings for us, the WvW community. We need someone who is active both in game and in forums!

I think instead of the mods telling us what is good for us they should hold an election, people who want to be FS can apply and then let the players decide who they want.

Lack of posts is a terrible argument. Its like saying “we prefer you have atleast 3-5 years experience for this entry level job”. The fact is you have no idea how I would have done the job, having 10000 posts does not make you qualified, it only makes your opinions known. The position requires being able to parse information, not post a silly opinion or “My Top 5 Fixes For WvW”, none of which are actually feasible. You think the people who lurk instead of posting are less capable of doing the job?

So congratulations on having 4 pages of posts, it means literally nothing other than you post a lot. If someone had 4 pages of “terrible” (ie, doesnt align with your beliefs on WvW fixes), who you still approve of them?

Orochimaru.4730:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Tseikk.9032:

Do we have a specialist yet?

They have been selected, emails were sent out yesterday.

How do you know?

I applied, and recieved this email. http://i.imgur.com/OV0rcV7.png

I’m sad I did not get the title, but I am sure who ever they selected is up for the task.

Tseikk.9032:

Do we have a specialist yet?

They have been selected, emails were sent out yesterday.

So do we apply via email in the original post, in this thread, or by carrier pigeon…?

SoS had its chance and was for a time the PPT winners of Tier 2 due to its OCX and SEA coverage. Those guilds left for perceived greener pastures, and once their non-NA coverage bottomed out so did the servers glicko.

YB also had its time where it was top PPT winner due to its community choosing PPT over open field fighting along with its pugmanders running 48 hours straight. YB still just waits for the other servers to go to sleep before attacking, but now with FA having a stronger OCX, they are not as successful as before.

Now that FA is the bandwagon server people are starting to QQ? Buying guilds is a two way system, guilds need to be willing to transfer in order to be bought. No one wants to be on a sinking ship. And like someone mentioned above, with Tier1 servers going full and some T2 servers filling up, there was a mad panic for guilds to pick a NA server, and that was FA. Just let the bandwagon phase die out, Mag will be in Tier 3 soon boys.

Stop caring about glicko and start caring about fites.

Also, I got my Juggernaut from a FA player, my 2nd Bifrost from an FA player, and two Incinerators from a Anet FA players! Amidoinitriteguis?

Jski.6180:

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Jski.6180:

dank.3680:

Jski.6180:

open field is fun at all but often pointless

Really? Do you realize how nonsensical that sounds?

Having fun in a video game is never pointless, it’s the ENTIRE point of playing….

You removing the part that ties it together making it sound nonsensical. Fun can be any thing for a lot of ppl and vary as much as any thing. Even trolling in /t or /m is “fun” for some ppl in wvw but that dose not mean wvw is about trolling ppl in /t or /m lol.

I think his point is that WvW is becoming less about fighting and more about sitting in circles. WvW is plastered defined as mass pvp, and anets map designs have favored anti mass pvp gameplay. Everyone who has voiced their opinion has wanted more open terrain to fight and less doors to hit, and it seems Anet has gone in the opposite direction, twice.

People play PvP to actually fight other players, preferably in non gimmicky ways (sky hammer and eotm being prime examples of what people don’t want). And the thing is, for all the experimentation Anet likes to claim it does, why not experiment with an open flat BL with 1 objective and have everyone go for it?

What is pvp other then fighting other players if your using a wall or positioning to your advantages it dose not make it any less of a pvp. If ppl would sit and def in EotM and not simply go there for items spam it would be a fun map to play. In a lot of ways during the first few weeks of EotM it was a good map until the pve set in where ppl found that running rewards was better then trying to win out the map for that 2hr?.

Even in open field drivers are looking for points of advantages in both the lay of the land and the way the other teams group is positioning.

Just standing in a point to cap should never happen it should be always defed in one way or another when it is not being defed that is when there is a problem. So yes objective are the aim for wvw not a k/d ratio. Its about holding and taking objectives at the same time.

It doesn’t make it any less pvp but it makes it less skill based which is what people want in pvp. If there was a BL that had you spawn at the bottom of the pit, and the other server spawned on top and could free cast, would you still call that pvp?

Map design is a factor in that process, design a map in which there is less reliance on non user objects and more on player actions. Players want outcomes less reliant on external factors and the new map seems to be more external factors than user actions.

Jski.6180:

dank.3680:

Jski.6180:

open field is fun at all but often pointless

Really? Do you realize how nonsensical that sounds?

Having fun in a video game is never pointless, it’s the ENTIRE point of playing….

You removing the part that ties it together making it sound nonsensical. Fun can be any thing for a lot of ppl and vary as much as any thing. Even trolling in /t or /m is “fun” for some ppl in wvw but that dose not mean wvw is about trolling ppl in /t or /m lol.

I think his point is that WvW is becoming less about fighting and more about sitting in circles. WvW is plastered defined as mass pvp, and anets map designs have favored anti mass pvp gameplay. Everyone who has voiced their opinion has wanted more open terrain to fight and less doors to hit, and it seems Anet has gone in the opposite direction, twice.

People play PvP to actually fight other players, preferably in non gimmicky ways (sky hammer and eotm being prime examples of what people don’t want). And the thing is, for all the experimentation Anet likes to claim it does, why not experiment with an open flat BL with 1 objective and have everyone go for it?

Wanze.8410:

Why ask everybody else, if you can send him a pm and ask him personally?

Pointless topic.

Because this topic is equally effective as any other thread in the WvW forum at effecting change.

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

What ever happened to Weekly Reports to Anet on the issues WvW is having?

What happened to the promise Report on Siege Trolling that was due 3 weeks ago?

Did Anet even get the report posted by our dear WvW Forum Specialist?

Soooo, another bait and switch. Is there even a reason the WvW forums even exist right now, other than to be the proverbial trashbin/outlet for people wanting to give feedback? Anet, why u do dis to WubVeWub

Did the forums specialist make a personal agreement with you to do anything specific?

Maybe he took his family to Disneyland.

Maybe some work emergencies occurred

Maybe his kids got the measles.

So on and so forth.

They are regular players volunteering their time. The do not owe you anything, yet they are trying to help. Everyone questions everything they do, and applies a negative undertone to it all, then ask questions of them, with assumed expectations.

Yes, he did. He promised a weekly collection on the problems in WvW. Check his first post. 22 Days ago he posted his big spiel on collection info and reporting it to Anet, and inside he posted the next week would be siege troll discussion.

Maybe he took his family to Disneyland. For a month. Even though his last post was 8 days ago.

Maybe some work emergencies occurred. For a month, even though his last post was 8 days ago.

Maybe his kids got the measles. For a month. Even though his last post was 8 days ago.

Regulars volunteering their time? 1 Day 22 days ago was the last post of any feedback taken. They don’t owe us anything like Anet doesn’t “owe” us anything. Don’t promise/commit/volunteer if you can’t produce. Otherwise you open the floodgates for anytime to be “He dun promise you nuthin” “He’s just volunteering”. Those arent excuses for not showing up.

The negative undertones come from 2 years “we’ll look into it” and then silence. Absolute silence, little to no Dev presence on this forum to answer even basic questions. So yes, WvW players have a reason to be cynical.

lordkrall.7241:

I suppose it is completely unthinkable that he/she/it simply resigned after the raging against him/her/it when the selected FS were announced?

Or maybe he/she/it is simply ill and haven’t been able to do it.

There are many possible reasons, and yet you go with one of the most unlikely one.

Except his last post was 8 days ago and his promised weekly update post was 22 days ago. If he’s sick he must be dying, in which case maybe he should be switched out.

And if he resigned then why not get someone up for the task then? Come on dawg, admit that Anet just wanted to troll/poop on WvW players who want to improve the game mode.

What ever happened to Weekly Reports to Anet on the issues WvW is having?

What happened to the promise Report on Siege Trolling that was due 3 weeks ago?

Did Anet even get the report posted by our dear WvW Forum Specialist?

Soooo, another bait and switch. Is there even a reason the WvW forums even exist right now, other than to be the proverbial trashbin/outlet for people wanting to give feedback? Anet, why u do dis to WubVeWub

Noticed how you conveniently left out [coVn], and didn’t include me on the contact list either. Kitten.

FA is alright. Better than most servers.