Guild Wars 2

It’s always been a blast! drunk or not. seeing these bunch of crazy players gathering up, laughing our kitten off, singing, crazy ingame events. a good old titanic recreation in bay, or the recent catwalk, it doesn’t matter what they do! i’m definetely gonna be a part of the DRN anniversary and enjoy my saturday evening

The mystic coin prices are out of this world tbh… you need so many for the legendaries, and since the aquisition is the same since they introduced nightmare fractal cm they price goes up and up.

with the finale of living world season 3 there are not 1, not 2 but 3 new legendaries in game * nice job ^^ * and the mystic coins got another boost in price. is there a way to increase the supply so the price goes down? its just insane… you need them for soo many things, and yet, you gain so little of these beautiful yellow coins

Fifth.8169:

A persons WVW rank should not be used for pip acquisition. The rewarding of pips should be fair and equally rewarding to all participants.

+1 Bronze WvW Rank (150-619)
+2 Silver WvW Rank (620-1394)
+3 Gold WvW Rank (1395-2544)
+4 Platinum WvW Rank (2545-4094)
+5 Mithril WvW Rank (4095-6444)
+6 Diamond WvW Rank (6445-9999)
+7 Max WvW Rank (10000)

It is immoral and discriminates against new players.

it might be "discriminating " to new players, and yet they decided to reward the veterans of wvw by handing them more pips. just stop the QQ and concider the fact that the game has been out for 5 years, you’ve had 5 years to play WvW and now they decided to finally reward the players participating all you do is complain and QQ about the fact that it might be more rewarding for playing longer then you pve’rs that just want to get loot and gtfo… just stop complaining and go back to farm pve if you think its that unfair.

ArchonWing.9480:

Easy with staff. Sorta harder with other weapons.

its not hard with other weapons at all! you can use dagger /focus or dagger / wh
you’ll hit a lot of enemies, with smaller ticks of damage, but concider the fact that you heal a huge ammount on your allies. i leave wvw daily with 1 hour fights and end up with 60-100 lootbags. ez game, staff is kitten for actual healing ele, go in the melee with dagger /x and do your thing ^^

It sucks to see that, regular wvw players won’t get the reward they deserve. I mean GG on the update, new rewards and stuff. love It! its just sad to see that in the repeatable diamond chests on the last one you aren’t receiving any tickets… for ppl that spend most of their play time on the borders it would be nice to see that if they invest their time, it should be rewarded with more skirmish tickets.

So far great update, love the poppulation now. lets teach those pve ppl how fun wvw can be… but please add skirmish tickets to the repeatable diamond end chest?

I was just browsing the gw2 reddit and i stumbled upon this:

Yet again Necro’s are broken, epi is more powerful then ever since its still unblockable… And in combination of Dagger 4 skill you can even kill yourself with conditions?! amazing right!

Why are you continueing to nerf power into the ground and make conditions even MORE powerful then they are?!

can i suggest to fix this problem, and please for the love of god make the new epidemic projectiles blockable/destroyable/reflectable??? its just straight up spreading deseases in any type of competitive game mode…

What concerns me the most is the fact that they don’t listen at all. Yes there has been a little period where Anet would ask the majority of wvw players oppinion, listening to the wrong side and ask the ppt players what they’d like to see, instead of the fighting side of things…

And yet after that there hasn’t been a single poll… with the most recent balance patch there has been an significant mold to the wvw scene… the stealth trapper condi thief… for weeks the wvw community was begging anet to fix the problem… not a single reply or response that anet was working on a way to fix the addressed issue…

And yet, the MINUTE word got out that he was killing slothasor SOLO… instant fix…

I am wondering why… arena net has a team working on wvw related releases, but are they working like Slothasor? every 20 lines of coding they fall a sleep? what is happening to wvw isn’t something new…. and yet they STILL aren’t able to resolve long lasting issues… their only response is: “THIS YEAR”

So i got a mail the other day, saying i was granted with a title, having points in the HoM… and it was a mistake by some golem (great lore…) And all my 250 achievement points were revoked!

What is going on here?

that research has been dead for over a year now… there is no way its accurate. And its not just RNG that’s not in my favor… there has to be something Arenanet changed in drop rates

What happened to the fractal ascended chest drop rate in the boxes you get from the daily fractals..?

i used to get one at least once or twice a week… and i haven’t gotten any in months now…

I like the new pvp league season. the rewards were amazing! the only question i have… is why are we only able to receive 1200 Ascended Shards of Glory. There is now way to get more..? it seems that, with the ability to gain ascended gear, there are supposed to be limitations, but aren’t you guys able to work out a way that gaining ascended shards is lowered, without adding a cap to it? it seems rather expensive this way…

I would love to get more ascended shards of glory to gear up my characters…
But i am still wondering why the cap, why not rewards players with ascended shards when they repeated the bazynthium rewards chests?

Question: do you think that this year, it will finally be possble to actually join up with friends, to see whose faster in finishing the jumping puzzle, or play together in a snowball mayhem?

and tbh, i think most of the yearly events are rather dull, will there ever be a moment where you guys decide to revamp the whole thing?

pls put me on the naughty list
your charr looks fabulous tho!

Not sure if it’s the right thread to post this on, but since the devs are tracking it:

What happened to lunatic inquisition??? I saw it didn’t make Halloween 2015, but why is it not added to this Halloween? I know some fague reasons about glitches or exploits to win easier but sadly that’s almost the only thing I enjoy doing whilst the Halloween update is out. All the other things are just repeated all over and over again…. (a little boring too)

With the newly added hero weapon reward track (nice way of bringing back the wvw weapon skins) i noticed something sad… there is no way of getting the mistforged hero weapons anymore.

the only way to obtain the gift of heroes is with tournament tickets and there hasn’t been a tournament for 2 years… can any developer tell me what their plans is either with tournaments or are there plans of adding another way to obtain that gift so we are able to create mistforged hero weapons???

When will the 2nd episode of LW3 come, is it, as it has always been, in 2 weeks, or are they changing the way they are rolling out the episodes?

those changes were made april 19th, but the core issues remain. let me pull something out of the magic hat::

in alpine borderlands, if you can an objective, lets say south west spawn tower (briar), that objective has a strategic advantage of taking down the outer walls on Bay. if you were to take down DBL south west spawn tower, you can do jak kitten with that. No objective in the DBL has any strategic positioning. its just there for points.

Roaming in alpine, or Defending, to use a better word for that, is useful on ABL. because it won’t take 5 or 6 minutes to run from spawn (citadel) to south spawn towers / camps.

those core issues, makes me want to get rid of the dbl in the first place. since the majorty voted otherwise, i hope anet will work on the lay out and positioning inside the DBL, rather then remove a few hills, some barricades and some turrets inside lordrooms.

The keeps are massive, hard to go around in and ez to get lost to. the difference in hights makes it impossible to defend…

there are many core issues with the DBL, but also with the ABL which they recently fixed, like the ability to chuck down siege at invulnerable places, close to citadel and such.. so please anet, fix CORE issues on the DBL, not minor changes pls

bangr.3748:

Just a little time ago Abaddons Mouth was the server with the lowest population (if you dont count the server linkings). It is now “Very High” because of the linking and Anet lowering the cap on the server.

MS lost many of their players to drakkar.

The last weeks was not balanced at all. We were always down like 70k points like you are now, so please do not speak like we are suddenly a new blob server.

I’m not saying AM is now the new blob server, it’s always been blobby, as many of you’re WvW players and guilds hold hands and run together. I’m saying that this new relinking is quite unfair, because WSR and ROF both doesn’t have a lot of coverage and population to compete with AM +MS and still we are both linked togehter and not revised at all.

bangr.3748:

Also: Gunnars Hold and Ring of Fire are basically a 4 server linking as you are only working together and pushing on the 3rd server (which mostly of the time was AM). The reset day before the linkings you even had GH + RoF players roaming together to kill AM players and cap their objectives.

Never have we worked together to gank the 3rd server in a matchup. ROF has always been and will always be the number 1 target of GH, as many of GH players once came from rof. Even worse, its always been rof that is ganked, double teamed and focussed, since everything and all is always kept wooden on our border, no blobs on other borders what so ever. so don’t start saying thing that aren’t true

Whats frustrating to see is that Rof has had a terrible night/morning/day crew. many times in a match up it were the same ppl over and over again. they can’t keep it up for ever. they’ll worn themselves out over the endless ppt battle, especially when the blobs come…

so our coverage is equal to wsr. primetime is when rof gets active and then a group of 6 or 7 will make it very late… and during the day we’ll just have 3 or 4 roamers on the borders, and then no one else.. there is no way we can keep up with that, and its always been the same. before server linking we were doing ok because of the close battles we’ve had with wsr… but being linked together didn’t do much good for the state of rof.

Rof never gives up, but what hushy says: we are facing +50 AM on our border from morning till late prime… there is nothing upgraded anywhere and all that we cap back (if we are even able to) will get flipped the moment RI wears off…

Rof + Wsr won’t be able to do anything against 50 AM on our border… and on top of that after 1 weekend we are already 100k points behind AM. there seems to be much focus towards keeping our ppt down, but thats just how wvw works?

the glicko score has reset, but what we’ve been working for since the first world linking, is all gone within 1 weekend… loosing 100k pointrating because anet decided to reset it.. again….

Please hear me out on this, and apologies for my english:

Revising world linking isn’t a bad idea. looking into population and activity in wvw and then combine a server to fit the world its linked to.

Except when you are playing on Ring of Fire or Whiteside Ridge. WSR is a great server, with many great players. A medium populated server overal. WvW activity is during prime and not so much off prime time.
RoF is a great server. Very high populated BUT looking into the wvw population of the server its always been dramatic… With a medium wvw population, stored on a very high populated server, i am wondering why in gods name would you “revise” world linking if you’re not gonna do anything about it?

At the moment the match up RoF & WSR are is extremely outnumbered.
RoF + WSR vs AM + MS vs GH + UW and rof + wsr is already 100k POINTS behinkitten ot including the fact that the groups we face are 4 times our size.

This new revised linking is sure “great” for rof’s population in wvw.

What i also don’t understand is that Vizunah, Fort ranik AND Arborstone are linked together. i can’t believe their coverage, population and activity in WvW is worse then ours… and yet, you still link them together…

please revise your revision and make sure that the servers are equally balanced in both activity and population of the WVW side of this game, rather then look at the overal population? the constant effort from a lot of core wvw players in RoF have been undone within 72 hours of revised world linking.

if i get this correctly, and don’t ban me please, but rather then actually listening to the thousands and thousands of complains about the borderlands, and the pve (Oasis event) and the baricades you simply ignore them, but when it comes to performance issues you instantly remove the event from WvW.

I am grateful that its gone, but not because it gave me lag issues. the event was rather annoying to have to do every hour on another border…

Describe a typical hour for you in the Alpine Borderlands in the past. For example, What size of group were you running in? What kind of tasks did you run? What activities did you do?

15-25 players fighting other guilds on open field, using siege to take down towers/keeps escorting a dolyak.

Compare your experience described above with a typical hour spent in Eternal Battlegrounds, if you went there at all. Does your style of play change between the 2 maps?

Either taking down enemy structures or looking for a fight. Same 15 – 25 players.

Compare your experiences described above with an hour spent in the new borderlands.

Most of the time it’s now fighting an overpowered long duration fight with a tower / keep lord. Searching endlessly for a group to fight.

Describe the nature of combat in the borderlands in the past. How have the new borderlands impacted this paradigm for you? What style or build changes might it cause? For example, knocking people off cliffs or into lava might play a more important role.

Either choke points, open field fights or on walls in keeps. Always fighting enemies. Now a days we are looking for enemies to fight.

In your experience, compare the time it takes take a structure or objective here, then it did in the past.

Alpine borderlands : 1 minute to get from garrison to bay.
Desert borderlands: 3 minutes to get outside garrison, 5 minutes to find the way. 3 minutes to make it to bay.

How is the loot and wxp for you compared to in the past? Will it be able to sustain whatever you are doing?

The loot and wxp have not changed a bit. Still we receive to few items/liquid gold to sustain build changes, money for food and stones, siege or superior siege.

Did it take a hit, or was it improved? If you are planning to unlock an elite specialization, do you think you were helped or hurt in these regards? Do you think you could pursue any other in-game goals just by playing WvW?

There is a good part that the proofs of heroic are there to help wvw players unlock their elite spec in wvw. The bad thing is that they are soulbound.

How will the map change impact the long sessions (multiple hours) you spend in WvW? It used to be fights here and fights there. Now all I fight is a hard keep lord, tough tower lord or overpowered and (very) annoying barca des trying to run to a commander. Grou fights are rare now.

In 100 words or less, describe how the new BLs could be improved.

Smaller maps. Easier Lords. No barricades. Take away the pve oasis event In the middle. Better rewards. Give more liquid gold to players.

In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a new WvW player.

Very large. Get lost pretty fast.

In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a veteran WvW player that is new to the maps.

Missing old structures. Way points failing. Way points always there, stupid.

Which map am I most likely to find you currently, if you’re on Gw2? Desert borderlands, since I raid with my guild all week. But I’d rather be back on the alpine borderlands.

Good evening everyone!

I’d like to make the devs that are responsible for all our WvW goodies read the following post: https://eylanae.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/wvw-after-hot/

A friend of mine has a great view on how the new borderlands and overal wvw situation is, after the release of Hot.

Reply with your thoughts. And I must say, I won’t be the only one agreeing with her!

Have fun reading!

Blarff, guild officer of Coórdinated Chaos[CC] on Ring of Fire

segman.3560:

putting sab miniatures in blc without sab reopening is a slap to the face

or a giant kick in the nuts!

airplane mode is kind of ok. for the first 5 minutes you log in game… but yes, we’ve waited almost a year, almost a year!!! and still no SAB. Please anet bring SAB back. at least once for the expansion?

And just changing collors every week IS NOT a change to the match-up. that doesn’t help kitten…..

They really need to so something about it… servers are loosing on purpose because their calculators are kitten…

So… for once again, our 5th week in a row the matchup [Ring of Fire – Arborstone – Drakkar Lake] is happening… this is total ****. for the love of god, please, change the match-up system immediatly… this is not working properly. Drakkar lake and Arborstone are showing the same behavior always… blobbing up with 70 man on each border to outrun 40 defenders on Ring of Fire. Drakkar has several attempts on “outsmarting” Ring of Fire. They failed badly. while we are loosing more and more numbers during this chain of kittenty match-ups. i am asking you. Change the wvw systems please!!
5 weeks in a row, the same match-up over and over again, while your server just doesn’t care, Trying to LOOSE points to get better match-ups. Thats not how it supposed to go, is it?
once again. i am asking you to take a look and change this, as soon as possible!!

bumping up again \o/!! We still could use 1 or two NA/OCX guilds who can help our coverage!!!

Bumping again for the best community \o/

I really love Ring Of Fire… Left once… biggest mistake ever made. i believe i was 1 month gone, before i became a wvw player. the server and his community has grown a lot!

This: http://imgur.com/lxIHhli May give a little sneekpeek of what we can do during late prime time!

Signed by Blarff
[Member of [Rangers on Fire [RoFs] ] ]

Just to tell you all how it is to be on Ring of Fire.

I’ve been there since the launch. First i was all about the PvE and didn’t know anything about WvW. I’ve met a few new people that i can call friends and RoF was even more fun.

At the start of 2013 there was a guy telling me about another guild in another server. I’ve spoken to them and they wanted to recruit me. i’ve joined the guild and left Rof. Biggest mistake ever made!

It felt like i wasn’t home. Far away from home and friends i’ve made in Ring of Fire. So i decided to leave the guild and transfered back to RoF.

I’ve met the guild i am in now, we are growing stronger and bigger. The community of RoF is amazing!! so many people, all nice and friendly. always room for more! the WvW is growing as well, more people getting intrested in other things then PvE.

Tranfer to rof! you will not regret it at all!!

I have a idea. The fact that you can’t join your friends in the living world jumping puzzles, events or what ever making me sad. I would like the option that you can join your friends while they are at Winter Wonderland/Snowbal Mahem/Bell Choir. We had the same problem during halloween. I would really like to see we can join friends or parties in the events.

Please like this post to have this option available!!

Blarff. A.K.A Dukotje.4382

Me and my guild are thinking to move to you the gandara server. What is the community about WvW in gandara. we are with like 20+ active WvW players. We are looking to move servers. we would appreciate feedback about gandara.

Just wat to tell every one: WvW just got destroyed…. and all for anet to get more money….. They kitten kitten up!!

As they said the things are kittened up. GvG’s are no longer possible. Fighting a higher ranked server is deadly… Like the EU server Vabbi, always at the bottom, not been able to fight now. And even if you fight an even ranked server, it used to be important if you had the skills to fight a bigger zerg, to destroy the other zerg. but now, if they got slight more people they whipe you.

Don’t tel us that unbalanced gameplay isn’t a reason to undo the changes Anet just made… i’m hearing of 50 – 75% of all the people in the EU server Ring of Fire already they will let this game die…

ANET!!!! DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!

UNDO YOUR CHANGES !!!! it isn’t funny to play WvW anymore……..