Guild Wars 2

Little about me. I first started playing Guild Wars 2 back when it first came out. I played it a lot for about a year. Then as my friends started to leave the game I played less and less and got dragged off to other games. Well I’m back now. Guild Wars 2 has pulled me back in as I feel it is one of the best mmos out right now and it seems to be doing well. So, at this point in here to play a game I really like to play and I’m looking for a new guild and server. I want to make some new friends and have a good time.

What am I looking?
Well, I’m looking for a friendly social guild that plays all aspects of the game, but tends to focus more on PvP. Whether it be WvW or sPvP. I have multiple level 80s and have much WvW experience, though it is not very recent experience.

The bottom line is that I’m looking for a guild that talks to each other and has a good time. I’m willing to move servers and if I do move servers I don’t plan on moving again. That being said I’m looking for a well populated server, but not the largest one either.

I tend to play NA prime time or immediately after it. Sometimes I’m on much earlier. Depends on the day.

Thank you for all the replies. I’m trying to talk to everyone who has replied or sent me a message. I will jump into some TS and chat with some of you. I may ask a lot of questions about your sever and guild.

Yes I am looking yet again. The guild I went with didn’t turn out to be what I thought they would be and ended up not being what I was looking for. I’m looking for a new server and guild. I’m looking at both NA and EU. I’m strongly considering EU as they might be a better group of people to play with. Just a thought. I’m willing to move servers to most any servers if it sounds right. I like to focus on WvW and spvp. I do very little PvE, but will if I feel like it or the guild wants to set up events. I’m fairly experienced in all aspects of the game and multiple classes. This is my last move or try. If it doesn’t work out I’m leaving the game. If you sent me a message last time around feel free to remind me if you are still looking for people.

I like all types of guilds minus huge ones where everyone is just an number. If you are on the larger side, but don’t treat everyone like a number I would like to hear from you too.

Changed it I’ll move servers if need be. Looking for one that’s WvW and sPvP focused, but does some PvE occasionally. I have several level 80’s and I’m fairly flexible when it comes to what class is needed. Always willing to hop on voice chat and play with the guild and others. Whether you rp or not I don’t care. Sometimes it can be fun. I just don’t want a PvE heavy guild. If you are looking for a good experienced player that can roam, small group, or play in larger groups I do it all. Feel free to contact me by whichever means you wish.

Can we all just agree they are both just a cluster kitten?

Dawdler.8521:

The current zerg meta is already all AoE. Warrior hammer leaping for AoE stun while flailing their AoE attacks, Guardians running around with shotgun staff and Necros dropping a gazillion marks on the ground.

Why on earth does anyone in their right mind want to make AoE blobbing 100x more powerfull?!

Because that’s what removing the AoE cap will bring. Instead of having ranged AoE units make up maybe 1/3rd of the meta group, they will be 2/3rd+ and people will be insta-gibbed by massive berserker Necro blobs. No point in going after tanky or balanced builds/professions – just blob up into the largest ranged force you can muster and massivly overdps entire areas that the enemy cant walk through since the AoE limit no longer allow melee to stack and go through it.

It wouldnt be skirmishes and battles anymore, it’ll be AoE slaughter based on who drops the biggest nukes.

What he said. Unless you drastically cut back on the number of aoe skills and/or require building a certain way to be aoe centric or have any aoes. The ease of use and access to aoe in this game would make removing the cap a nightmare. Not against removing the cap. However with the amount of aoe in the game that’s a recipe for disaster.

styx.7294:

Elochai.1280:

There should be more wxp for player kills in wvw in general not just EotM. The primary action that should take place in wvw is players fighting players. If part of the actual scoring system was based around player kills, people would also be more likely to play wvw and enjoy it more. As well as other things.

Zergy server says more rewards for zerging.

Got it.

Great job assuming that I like to zerg. I dont. I spend most of my time in small groups. Rewards for player kills in many cases rewards smaller group and individuals and allows for better contribution. Most importantly it encourages pvp.

It also allows several smaller group to be very effective and contribute more. Several smaller groups could more effectively cover the map and kill enemy players in multiple locations. Contributing more and being rewarded for not being in the mindless zerg. Not that everyone in a zerg is mindless.

There should be more wxp for player kills in wvw in general not just EotM. The primary action that should take place in wvw is players fighting players. If part of the actual scoring system was based around player kills, people would also be more likely to play wvw and enjoy it more. As well as other things.

Sororita.3465:

Pretty much agree, no one seems to not move with torment, death sentence if you do.

What if torment did more damage to you the further away from the application spot you moved? That would give the chance to avoid other attacks but still have a more sensible means of punishment. Have it appear as a chain to the spot from the character, necros give a green chain, thieves a black chain, mesmers a pink chain, etc.

just a thought.

Not against the idea, but I am against the side effects it would produce. This would require the server constantly update the distance when the condition is going to pulse. It would require more data between the server and clients to be used and would go up exponentially if you involve more targets. It would be a hit to server resources. If anything they need to stop adding things that take up more resources if they want to improve the WvW experience as a whole.

Interesting idea and I’m not against it. I am against the side effects.

Spicyhash.7605:

With this card, your CPU will become the bottleneck. I have a 7870 and get anywhere from 30-60 fps everything maxed in WvW, but, in zerg fights even on min settings i drop to like 15-20. It seems the FPS difference is less the more people are on screen when using min or max settings. I am gonna say this is because I have a non-overclocked i5-2500 (which is better than your CPU).

According to newegg, a 290 is something like $600. That is a TON of money for a GPU. You could upgrade your CPU to a i7 4770 AND get a gtx770 for like $20 more.

If you want to maximize the results of your hard earned money spent I would do something similar to what he suggests. Spending more that $300-$400 on a CPU and/or GPU your paying lots of money on small improvements. If you want anything significant beyond that you’re going to have to pony up some serious money.

Joe.6184:

Get rid of the tower/keeps upgrade. So they are all paper.
No more ppt, you get points when you cap keeps, and the rest of scores come from stomp points.

Stacked server will gain no points after they full capped the BLs.

Or get rid of the servers vs servers and based the teams on their color with the mix of all servers from eu and na. Make wvw overflow like eotm

The problem with that is that you now turn it into an entirely offensive game. That makes the massive blobs even more effective. Keep the upgrades I say, but put in a mechanic that allows individuals, small groups, everyone to contribute to the score. Make half or more of the total score about killing enemy players. This will promote engagements and open field fights. If think we all want to see more player fighting and less chasing each other around or just taking points.

The only purpose this thread serves is to complain and publically announce that you think they are an unfriendly server.

Age: old enough to drink.
Hours: I have a life.
Kills: Whoever I hit at least once.
Deaths: I don’t care.
Achievement points: That number means something?

I’m looking for a new server to call home. I thought my last move would be my last, but that didn’t turn out to be true. I’m primarily a wvw and spvp player. I do some pve as well, but mostly wvw and spvp. My 80’s are in my sig. I do command from time to time, but wont when it’s not needed. Mostly looking for mid tier to lower tier servers. I play during NA prime time and later on weekdays mostly. Finding a good guild is also important. PM me or message me in game. I’m currently on ET and do not wish to stay.

Naming it anything with another games name is a bad idea. Call it wvw:moba if you must. You’d have to significantly change classes gear and skills. It’d almost be like making a new game. A net might as well just charge for a gw2 large scale moba.

A boon that punishes someone for playing their class is lame. That is all.

Zanshin.5379:

SpehssMehreen.5897:

Its partly everyones fault, especially in NA S1, money was offered, people took it, what can you do?

It’s Anet’s fault. Period. People just play the game like they’re allowed to play it. Only Anet makes the rules.

Anet’s at fault for the structure and the system that they have set up. However, the players are certainly at fault in many ways. Yes Anet set up the system, but the players chose to do what they do. People don’t like rules and consequences, but most times they don’t want to take the steps to prevent those from having to be enforced or happening.

Yes Anet should see that the players will ruin things if they are allowed to. It’s both Anet and the player bases fault. When I say the player base I’m referring to those that are part of the problem.

No not every other mmo rewards support classes. Several don’t. The problem with rewarding support classes for say healing or applying boons is that encourages you to do only that. How lame is a zerg fight with lots of healing and support? Pretty lame and boring if you ask me. Very few or no people die. Your attacks are either blocked, healed up, miss, or retaliated. I don’t see how anyone would find that fun.

That being said though. If you really want to reward support classes, you need to start with very low rewards. As support almost all your actions can be performed without an enemy target at a safe distance and you can spam many of them. There is next to no risk in many situations. Unless you are in the thick of it with the melees. Either way, you need to be very careful with this. Rewarding someone for spamming supports skills and heals without risk isn’t the right way to do it.

They need to think it through. Being lazy and making a blanket support reward system would be a bad idea. There needs to be different reward for it under different circumstances.

As a whole, cc in this game needs a good hard look, and a nerf.

Significantly adjust WXP to reward smaller groups or roamers more. In fact completely change the WXP system to something different. Reward players immediately upon kill with everything they obtain from a kill. Add a more regular WvW currency that drops from every kill. The amount acquired from a kill is directly affected by home many players there were. For instance:

-More than 40 you get 5 units of this currency
-In a 40 zerg you’d get 10 units of this currency
-20 you get 20
-5 you get 40
-1 you get100

Could adjust it for sack of balance and varying contributions. Killing the same players over and over again in a period of time would give diminishing returns. The point would be to encourage less zerging and players fighting players. Give a percentage bonus for killing players while defending your points.

Reward players more for constant participation in WvW throughout the week instead of some end of match reward. Maybe reward servers every hour to the server that had the highest ppt or number of player kills in that hour. However, only reward player that spent at least half an hour of that hour out there or whatever amount of time seems reasonable.

They need to reward players for continued participation and to encourage players actually killing players.

Achievements and titles should be far from the top of their list of things to change.

Thanks for all the replies so far. I’m still looking and considering all servers suggested unless you are tier 2 and above. If you think I should come to your server feel free to tell me why here or PM.

I’m currently looking for a new server to call home. I’m primarily a wvw and spvp player. I will pve too. It just isn’t my primary focus. I’m not interested in higher tier servers. I’m looking for mid to lower tier servers. Tier 3 is probably my cut off point. NA or EU. I’ve never been on an EU server before. So if you’re from an EU server give me a lot of info and why I should move to an EU server. I primarily play NA prime time to later at night NA time. If transferring to your server is currently free or significantly cheaper let me know and at what time the population is that.

Long range. Engi, Ele, Necro, and Ranger. Are you looking for one that’s better in large group or small group and roaming?

Its a mmo. Regardless of what was stated by them, it can and will change. Especially with gear. To think it won’t change is foolish. Mmo games have carrots and almost always will. They could however make wvw more like spvp when it comes to gearing up.

styx.7294:

The banners would be cool. Heck, if you could skin the warrior banners with guild emblems, how neat would that be?

How about a banner man npc that just carries the banner, but doesn’t attack or do anything else. A kite would look kinda goofy and a warrior banner would only work for warriors and require you to use a banner, but I suppose those kind of warriors would be the ones who would carry the banner on the battlefield.

Brando.1374:

Pugs/pve/zerg players play for PPT
Gvg/roaming/zerg busting look to demonize the enemy pugs/pve/zerg players so that our servers pugs/pve/zerg players get the ppt.

how is that not helping? I think this helps our servers more since out it will make our servers job much easier.

If you are referring to me. I never said it wasn’t helping. I think they are a great asset to any server. I was simply defending those not in said guilds. Everyone contributes and is valuable. I’m simply saying those not in the guilds contribute much more than many are stating.

I actually find it quite entertaining that one person got you all this worked up. The gvg players were in the wrong and he was in the wrong. An apology was made. No company will ever have the said individual publicly apologize. It is just a terrible idea to begin with. There’s plenty of reasons why only certain people make a statement in this manner.

Now about people thinking the organized guilds are the ones that do most of the work in wvw. Where do you draw the line as to an organized guild effort or not? The vast majority of the player base is in a guild. In fact almost all of it is in some sort of guild.

Yes some organized guilds do good work. I’ve seen ones that do really well and I’ve seen ones that pugs have made look like a joke. I’ve seen 5 good players from different guilds or no guild beat larger organized guild forces many times. I think most large organized guild advocates are generalizing all organized guilds as being the top 25% from a skill/effectiveness stand point.

Pugs, small groups, and pug zergs do at least half the work out in WvW. You aren’t out there all the time. During off hours much of the time they are all that is out there maintaining those maps or fighting to take them back. Yes I am aware that there are off hour guilds, but most of the players our there are pugs and small groups. During prime time at least half the players out there are pugs. Reset night is probably the highest organized guilds to pug ratio.

I appreciate all the work of all the players out there. Whether they are an organized guild, organized pug group(shocking for you guild advocates to hear I know), pug zerg, or small groups. A lot of those pugs are very good players and know how to work with a group, whether it’s big or small. Pugs and guild both ARE the backbone of any server. Fair weathers are the annoyance not everyone who isn’t in your guilds/guild groups. Everyone not in a big guild group adds a lot to your servers success.

Nothing wrong with making a GVG arena. However, it does cost money. Their best approach would be to charge a fee to keep a custom GVG arena up or charge a fee for guilds to participate and be able to fight guilds on servers not in their tier. While paying might bother some players, it most likely will be necessary. MMO’s have constant and continuous costs from month to month. Adding a gvg arena or some kind of system is something that will cost them to develop and maintain.

Jinks.2057:

Welp it seems all the GvG hate is stemming from Anet themselves.

It’ll be their fault when the game starts failing.

Anet doesn’t hate gvg. It just isn’t what they are giving attention. That’s not what the word hate means. Lack of gvg content will not cause the game to fail by itself.

lordkrall.7241:

The Holy Eldar.3624:

Oh, we’re holding an event now to stop hate against GvGers?

These mods are amazing!

No, we are however discussing an in-game event created by players. Thus this is a rather logical forum for it.

This ^ it is the proper forum for it.

10% maybe post. 50% don’t read them or more. 75% don’t care about gvg.10% of the player base probably actively or strongly supports gvg. 10% are actively against gvg.5% of the total wvw population participates in gvg. Not facts. Just my quick estimates.

Strang.8170:

What i´d like to know is if this is
“No, it won´t be in because we´re working 25 hours a day with our horribly understaffed wvw team to even get this update live”
Or if it is.
“No, it won´t be in because it doesn´t fit the image we have about our game mode”

Which just shows how clueless they are when it comes to wvw and it´s potential.

They have to be vague and infrequent when they talk. People freak out when they talk and players can be some of the most nasty people. Players have also become quite adept at assuming, coming to conclusions, and making things up.

Like it or not much of the people who populate these games are kids and regular players/gamers who do in fact go through games much faster than they used to.

The wvw team isn’t in charge of the ui. They’ve said that. It’s bad that they havent changed it yet. Their capable of improving it. We’ll just see if they do. However, if you are only capable of seeing negative outcomes why are you still here?

I laughed at devons response. Telling you all no was priceless. Sometimes players/customers have to be told no. The customer isn’t always right and players are wrong a lot of the time. With that being said I’d support being allowed to turn the buff off though.

lordkrall.7241:

I would say that the hostility come mainly because some GvG:er here on the forums more or less says: “We GvG:ers are the only ones that do useful stuff in WvW, the rest of you are unorganized and don’t help the server at all”, which more or less is to say that other people are useless.

Yep read above. There are those who are much worse though too. Most people don’t get too hostile over someone doing something else say over there. Its their bad interactions with said players that bother them the most.

Grumpdogg.6910:

It’s sad now when any discussion with fellow WvWers always ends up with “can’t wait for XXX <new game>”

Pfft don’t you know a large chunk of gamers and mmo players go through games like a fat kid goes through cake these days? Its a fact. People in general go through video games much faster these days. MMOs take a bit longer. This doesn’t surprise me. There’s not many games out there were most of the initial population sticks with after a while.

Obscure One.4357:

WvW is a sinking ship. We know it. The development team knows it.

Patching up the holes is hard when the ship is already out to sea. Thus all they’re capable of doing is just having the band play their violins for everyone who hasn’t abandoned ship. They’re grabbing buckets and bailing water when they should be changing their course to patch up the ship in the shallows.

To costly to justify development of something that was essentially never finished before launch.

By December this year WvW will be nearly dead. By February 2014 Arena Net will have a layoff. By Q4 2014 GW2 in its entirety will no longer be relevant to market competitors, as most servers will be ghost towns.

Feel free to quote me as these events occur.

Captain doom and gloom has showed up folks. We’ll see how it turns out. I think their capable of improving wvw. Biggest concerns should be ui, matchup balance, and breaking the zerg meta.

mistsim.2748:

3 camps here:

- spvp’ers/skirmishers who THINK GvG doesnt require skill. it’s for scrubs who like to blend into a “zerg” to increase their chances of winning. GvG is boring to watch.

- GvG puritans / GW1 vets who are living in the past. how dare you call this GvG? only legit GvG is in GW1. they strictly refer to the gametype, not to its variations.

- WvW purists; GvG’ers arent playing the WvW game. they lower server PPT.

all 3 sides couldnt be more wrong. in high tier GvG, every player counts and knows his/her prof inside and out. if one falls, the entire guild can lose the match. and current GvG is a legit DM mode with an organically evolving metagame. GvG has a bigger following than spvp, is more interesting to watch, and has greater build diversity. i also find it much more fun to play. i was likely one of the first rank 35’s back in october, and i completely ditched spvp for WvW in January when i saw it was going nowhere. lastly, GvG guilds decrease PPT for their respective servers during the match, so it’s balanced. further, GvG guilds also bring the most PPT by annihilating pug zergs and taking whatever objectives they please; most GvG guilds spend most of their time in WvW GvZ’ing against pubs. the only difference is they bring the GvG meta to the table and brutally crush all pugs that get in the way.

This is a perfect example of someone with the kind of attitude and opinion that non gvg players don’t like(or even just people in general don’t like). Your opinions are expressed in poor taste and wrong in some respects. Your attitude toward other players that dont drink the kool aid you’re drink is terrible. This is why gvg players receive hostility or one of the main reasons. Im not against gvg. I do it from time to time as well as everything else.

I agree. The whole point should to make any server have to constantly work for that buff. This will cause the zerg ball to spread or face losing buff caps or ppt caps.

Blix.8021:

Elochai.1280:

Blix.8021:

Lord Kuru.3685:

But why all the hostility. GvG’ers and PPT players don’t have conflicting goals at all — each group can just pretend the other group isn’t there — UNLESS it’s a queue issue. But if it’s a queue issue, why don’t the GvG people just transfer to the queue-less lower tiers?

People who GvG also WvW, usually looking for a large zerg to go kill. Those zergs only exist in tiers 1-2, and maybe sometimes in tier 3. If you put even a mediocre GvG guild in a tier 4 or lower server, they would just roflstomp anything in their way and end up PvDooring an entire BL because the lower tier servers offer no comparable competition.

Wrong. Lower tiers have good players and guilds. The problem is numbers. A gvg guild running a zerg of their own greatly changes things because the overall wvw population and coverage is much lower. It has nothing to do with skill or competitiveness. The just don’t have the numbers. If the numbers stayed the same that would be ideal. The lower tiers probably have higher percentage of skilled player comparative to their wvw population/participation. Higher tiers have more overall skilled players and organized(not all skilled but organized)guilds because they have crap loads of total wvw players.

I didn’t say players in lower tiers were bad, I said even a mediocre GvG guild would roflstomp them, which you agreed with when you said “A gvg guild running a zerg of their own greatly changes things because the overall wvw population and coverage is much lower.” Take a 25 man GvG guild, stick them in tier 5, add in 15 pugs and that group will destroy whatever map they are on. Period. That’s not fun for the GvG guild.

That I agree with it wouldnt be fun for anyone. It would be hard to expect the guilds to spread out correctly if they did move. Sorry the way you said what you did made it soundlike higher tier skill level was generally above lower tiers. That’s what it sounded like. My bad.

Blix.8021:

Lord Kuru.3685:

But why all the hostility. GvG’ers and PPT players don’t have conflicting goals at all — each group can just pretend the other group isn’t there — UNLESS it’s a queue issue. But if it’s a queue issue, why don’t the GvG people just transfer to the queue-less lower tiers?

People who GvG also WvW, usually looking for a large zerg to go kill. Those zergs only exist in tiers 1-2, and maybe sometimes in tier 3. If you put even a mediocre GvG guild in a tier 4 or lower server, they would just roflstomp anything in their way and end up PvDooring an entire BL because the lower tier servers offer no comparable competition.

Wrong. Lower tiers have good players and guilds. The problem is numbers. A gvg guild running a zerg of their own greatly changes things because the overall wvw population and coverage is much lower. It has nothing to do with skill or competitiveness. The just don’t have the numbers. If the numbers stayed the same that would be ideal. The lower tiers probably have higher percentage of skilled player comparative to their wvw population/participation. Higher tiers have more overall skilled players and organized(not all skilled but organized)guilds because they have crap loads of total wvw players.

I don’t mind gvg, but if someone can’t get in because a gvg caused a queue, I could see where the wvw players who don’t like it are coming from. I think there are too many gvg guilds that demand wvw players respect there gvg and expect that. I myself personally never interrupt a gvg. However, I don’t think it should be surprising if other players do. I think it mostly back and forth hostility between gvg players and wvw players who don’t want to hear about it or have it affect wvw.

Aeolus.3615:

Elochai.1280:

I don’t mind losing towers. What I hate is that this causes and encourages people to avoid fighting other players. Then it’s just one zerg following the other taking what they flipped. It gets boring and lame very fast.

Faster recap less ppt lost, more effectiveness ?

I’m mostly out there for fun via large and small scale fights with other players. If I wanted to pve that much I’d go play pve. Score means nothing to me if I’m not having fun.

I don’t mind losing towers. What I hate is that this causes and encourages people to avoid fighting other players. Then it’s just one zerg following the other taking what they flipped. It gets boring and lame very fast.

What kind of fighting style are you into? Do you like melee or ranged? Are there roles you don’t like to play? Do you want to be able to hold your own in a 1v1 situation? Do you like easy classes or more complex classes? Do you like fotm classes or being more unique? Many classes can be a jack of all trades or close to it, but do it very differenly.

Time dilation would hurt the pace of the game, not work well with ppt, remove some level of skill from the game, and affect everyone. I would hate it and so would many others I know. We’d quit if it was implemented. Punishing others who didn’t take part in the huge zergfest is always the wrong approach. I wouldn’t even want to be in a time dialated fight. Even if I was part of the zergfest.

I say have a record for guilds ( wins, losses, number weeks participating, number of weeks not participating)so one can tell fairly quickly what kind of guild they are. No ones being punished their record will just be public knowledge. If your going to do ranks at least one gvg a week needs to be arranged by systems suggested above and not the guilds participating in the match. You can still do others outside of that one or two it just won’t be ranked. You can choose to not accept ranked matches for the week or accept them. That’s where the participation record comes in. No ones being punished. It would be a fair system and you can still do your unranked stuff.

They’d probably get more people to do the actual PvE content and allow for more stable WvW population if their content wasn’t always temporary. I hate that about Anet. I don’t always want to do content on your time table anet. I may want to do it later. This also wont cause huge WvW gaps because players would be hard pressed to get it done on their time table.

I think they would have allowed themselves for some better wvw had they not put in the mists and allowed for it to flow better wit the rest of tyria. You could bring in LS events into WvW. The mists feel too much like a virtual reality training ground. Great for sPVP but not WvW.

It’s obvious anet intended there to be some PvE content in WvW. How about some fun battlefield oriented content that is more challenging than your stupid easy events in PvE land. I would love to see a dragon come crashing into a zerg or zergs and watch everyone scramble to survive or down the dragon for some rewards. This would make those zerg on zerg stale mates more fun.

Maybe have some battle oriented story events as to what regions might have to be fought over that week or so or something. That would be some sensible temporary content, because battles happen and it’s done then you have to fight in a different region. Make the fight happen all over Tyria.