Guild Wars 2

Lord of the Rings Online has a really good LFG tool and in game voice chat. It allows you to select existing quest and add comments for LFG. In game chat has an icon to show if you have voice enabled.

I was honestly surprised that GW2 didn’t have either and came to the forums wondering if there was some odd setting or setup that I was unable to find in game.

Also, after we were driven back out of NS Keep and stalled on the bridge, I ran to Lion’s Arch and just mentioned that we took SM and were pushing on green’s keep if anyone wanted to help. It got crowded fast.

^_^

World Completion – Done FINALLY!!!

So, was GoM flipping NS Keep overnight due to server issues? I logged in and raced over to help our zerg try to take it (again?) later this morning, until our 2 commanders had a falling out. -_-

In regards to the title system, I think it really depends on how steep the curve is, right? If it takes 5000 WvW kills to get the first title, then I think it would be a good idea to do it retroactively (system similar to LOTRO). In that title ranking system, it took several years of dedicated game play to reach rank 10+.

One thing that I would be concerned about is people farming each other across servers (something LOTRO experienced). Part of the fix was to penalize deaths, but then you had people create throw away characters. I’m not sure if there is a way to monitor repeated deaths to discourage/ban farming for titles (provided it is based on kills). Something to be considered.

I have been playing on GoM for about 7 weeks. Just to give you an idea of the state of things, Commanders regularly tell new players asking to take SM. “We don’t have enough people to take SM, let alone hold it.”

There has not been a day that I have played that I have not seen the outmanned ‘buff,’ and I have been playing every day since the laurels were added.

There are regularly complaints in chat when people see us fighting in HoD’s territory. “Then we are playing for 2nd?” is a common complaint. It is certainly not everyone, but it happens fairly often.

I have not seen DH loose their Keep or Garrison in 7 weeks. That means that neither GoM or HoD have anyone that have completed their POIs in that time. (feel free to correct me on that, but I have been fairly stubborn about chasing completion).

It is possible DH is not a tier 6 team, but….they are not tier 7 either. I think after 7 weeks of winning the rating system would have reflected those victories and allowed them the opportunity to face tier 6 teams…if only for a week.

The same goes for SF, but it has been 10 weeks in tier 8 without a tier change.

The current system needs more variance, not static slots where there is a dwindling WvW population chasing second place.

I think is some regards it is probably a mechanics issue.

That said, they could do some of the following:

Whenever a build action is in progress, there should be a npc (or update to the existing upgrade npc) to accept supply donations. This would be just like any PVE collection quest/event. The game mechanic is already there so it shouldn’t be a large update other than making sure that both the workers and collection supplies are counted toward completion.

As far as the NPC firing weapons, I don’t think that is likely unless they made it a fixed place to shoot. A veteran archer isn’t a veteran cannoneer, so I’m sure a developer would point that out.

In regards to oil use, it would be nice to have an upgrade to have oil auto-attack if not in use by a player. It should still be done by an npc however, since if a player was using it they would also risk being hit by aoe, ranged damage. In most cases it would mean that zergs would be force to take out oil/npc(s) before working on gates. Adding a soldier NPC or 2 for this would be nice upgrade options.

One other thing I would like to see changed is that Dolyak guards to not despawn when the Dolyak is killed. If NPCs are engaged in combat they shouldn’t just vanish. I’m not sure if this is be design, or just how the escort mission was coded.

Despite the post above, I run with dual axes. Most people play with a 2 hander, which is typical of most pvp games. If you are using a horn for your off-hand, you get a 7 second sprint which is all but worthless unless you are doing supply runs only. If you use a sword in the off-hand you might as well hold up a sign and ask the enemy zerg to CC you and burn you down. Sword would be my choice based on looks, but the additional skills are not effective for WvW.

With the dual axe build, it adds a high dps skill that is useful for 2 situations. First, it is much faster to burn down enemy siege. Second, I use it to break the push of an enemy zerg.

That said, I lucked out on an exotic axe drop from a skill challenge which is partly why I’m built around axes.

I am on one of the many servers that is not competitive. You only have to look at this week’s score for T5, T7 and T8 on the NA servers to see that the current match-ups are not competitive.

Second, can someone take another look at the ‘outmanned’ buff which our server has daily? An experience buff when you have far fewer players is kind of a bad joke. A damage buff/boon would at least help the server with fewer players better defend or attempt to rally.