Guild Wars 2

No Love for WvWvW I see yet again bet it’s all going to come in the expansion pack in August.

Yep Folks Guild Wars 2 wins yet again in an MMO of the year award Gratz ANet:
http://www.mmooftheyear.com/hall-of-fame/2013

Carrot on a stick anyone

Good on you those Arborstone players whom ventured out into the battle ground last night so glad to see some of you take the time and effort to give it a go.
AR why the hell do you lot run when we get into your places instead of fighting till the very last second, everytime we get into anywhere and are at the lord you lot leg it, Hell we was even outnumbered 3 to 1 this morning when we took your garrison for giggles.

Please give us in WvWvW at least 15 mins prior warnings of server rebuilds.
It’s not the fact that you have to do these rebuilds, its the waste of siege, time and effort players have put into either taking a place or defending a region that is quite a hike away for it to be defended yet closer to those whom are attacking, on top of which siege despawns, gates are fully repaired, not everyone can get back into the game as fast as others because of the download speeds.
15 Minutes is not much to ask is it really, less time than it takes to make a sandwich, or even nip to the toilet.
So please ANet give us the prior warnings of game rebuilds

Where around someplace but most of us sleep at night lol

Looks like it’s going to be another late night week for me at this rate I’ll be looking at divorce papers soon.
Extreme numbers on AR side jezz you guys been breeding again how you find the time to do that and play is beyond me………….. joke.

Arborstone don’t give up hope get out and fight we all know you’ve got it in you.

Anyway extreme battles at start up had me flying from one place to another like a banshee lets see what the rest of the week brings.

So here to a good clean bust up just like a family party lol.

Phew I’m Bushed and Deff sleeping in the dog basket after last night/morning.
Epic battle and I do mean frigging Epic battle at Bay on GBL hat’s off to both sides a valiant try by AG but a glorious defense from ourselves, even at several points where we had to defend Hills as well from both AG and DZ.
With another great battle at DZ’s Bay right after as well, so nice to see that you’ve learned one of our little tricks with the cata, such a shame you didn’t notice DZ recapping their stuff as we held you up for over an hour.
DZ really great to see that your still bashing away so keep at it o7
AG Cheers for a great time and some epic battles when we have met such a shame that most of you play when we are mostly in bed or should be ( quickly looks round to see if the wife has woken up yet ) maybe we could entice you lot to join our day crew hint hint…….joking or am I
Gandara lets not mar what has happened at Hills they’ve apologized and lets leave it at that as I’m sure Anet will be looking into it as we speak.
I personally wasn’t there so can’t comment as I was flying trough the air after being pushed of the cliff into the waiting arms of some pugs below that got me before I had time to fully recover where the hell I was lol
But as they say it’s not over till the fat lady sings at midnight so Battle on all we can rest when we’re dead Yarrr

Quick note:
One thing they haven’t mentioned is if these “Fallback models” can be attacked or Tagged.
My money is on that no they can’t

Get your butt on to Gandara we’re always on the look out for active players for WvW

Your more than welcome to merge into PUK on Gandara (EU).
We have a good backbone of WvWvW guilds on Gandara and are getting better everyday.
PUK is fully unlocked in regards the guilds bonuses ect, you don’t have to be crazy to be a member but it does help, just as long as your not lobotomized, we have to draw the line somewhere lol.
So if your interested message me in game, if not then good luck in your hunt for a new home

SoggyFrog.4170:

Yup, I wasn’t online at unearthly hours. But if you have to wait for most of our guilds to log off and the maps are clear of defenders before it’s safe for you start playing, I guess that’s your game.

Can’t blame them for playing at their prime time which is different to the vast majority of both DZ and ourselves, that’s all Anet’s doing by not having enough US servers to cater for their needs of not having ungodly queues to get into WvW.
Shame though I think they would really enjoy a good bust up with some larger fights at that time of night/morning to us day/evening to them.

Had a lot of fun in the afternoon keeping supplies from getting into Hills on AG’s BL for 6 hours and near the end of my play secession them guarding the Bessies with 20+ and failing lol
But anyway one thing is for sure boy they must be blind as bats as I solo catapulted their SM wall while just round the corner they were battling away as if life depended on it lol.
at any rate they call us Golem crazy yeah right nearly every attack they do is with at least 3 Golem’s, even showing up with one on a T1 tower non the less come on guys it’s a T1 tower 2 rams would of taken the gate down faster lol.
DZ Keep battling away Kudos to you all for doing so under these conditions and Greatest apologizes to the lone thief at Speldon this morning, but trying to stop a steamrolling PUG group jumping on an easy cap is like trying to stop a truck with a bicycle

Boy I was bushed from a really long night last night, had some loses and some wins with one awesome defense at Hills on our Border I salute both sides of that battle but more so the folks that was with me at hills.
Really Awesome defending folks o7
Finally got myself into bed at 7am gmt me thinks I’ll be in the dog basket if I carry on like that the wife was not best pleased lol.
DZ I felt your pain last night no server should suffer a full wipe, we’ve been there ourselves and its not nice at all but I have no doubt that you will fight back with all your might, as you do have some very good players on your server, I should know they’ve put me on my kitten a few times already this week lol.
AG where the hell do you get those night numbers from you must of had queues at 2am gmt at one point with the numbers you was fielding last night

MarzAttakz.9608:

RyuDragnier.9476:

A question Marz. Have you ever coded?

I have coded my friend, and continue to do so, obviously not on the scale of what they’ve created. However the bugs I was alluding to are actual code fixes for class bugs that in fact do not address the issue, in most cases they then adjust the tooltips to match the error.

But let me ask you a question in return. Do you not think that the statements you made support the need for a public test server so that players are able to test changes before releasing to live?

Surprised that they haven’t done this already.
I know of one game that does this already and they view and take head of player response to it, plus it helps them tweak any glitches, bug and exploits before release

All I can say is have they had a brainfart moment here or what.
If they go down this route they might as well fully remove the Ele staff class as well as see nearly all the ele players bin their toons.
The staff is really the only option for range an ele has, so why take make something that is so fundamental to the class redundant.
I ask you how many ele’s have you seen or read about ever use dagger/dagger let along be a close combat fighter.

Roll on the 28th and the end of free transfers but still skeptical on this as no release of the cost has been set yet, if it’s to cheap as in just 100 gems then it might as well still remain free to transfer.

MMO Of The Year Awards
28 days left to vote from the time of this posting.
Happy for Anet to make this their own post should they wish to.

http://www.mmooftheyear.com/vote

Boomstin.3460:

Anything they could implement would be just a band-aid until transfers stop being free.

Roll on the 28th of Jan and about time as well

There are go many exploits and hacks that even google struggles to keep up with them let alone Anet.
The sooner they install a game guard of some description the better as it’s becoming so widespread that GW2 in on the verg of falling into the realms being exploiters heaven

Lets face it the simple fact is that Anet don’t give a hoot about outmanned why would they be concerned out the minority of the game as a whole.
Yes the bigger and better servers have more players 24/7 they are the ones spending the cash and enjoying what they reap from it.
It’s all down to the mighty buck in the end those who pay the most gain the most, it’s the way it is on any MMO that has a cash system.
Get the masses winning for that feelgood attitude that they’re willing to add a little extra to something that they enjoy, while the minority are left to wallow in the cesspit of worthlessness.
Anet have stated that they want “everyone to enjoy the game”, well my simple reply to them is put up or shut up with that saying and change it to “we want most to enjoy the game”

Simple fix just turn off Auto attack in your settings.
All classed have this little bug or is it if all classes have this with a certain weapon selection.

Nah I’ll go play with the motorway traffic till reset at lest I stand a chance there, for one I can see them coming and second I’d get a better reward.
Sorry fellow Gandara you won’t see me much in WvW till reset, I don’t mind a hard fight as most of you know but not into being grieffed or doing the grieffing should we be in power to do so.
Might even try a little spvp for a change

my money is that it will be based on this:

@ Point 9:
Commander Ranking could even use a similar structure to a game I used to play, I will place their Wiki page on this but is not an inducement for the game as I urge people not to play this cash hungry game but the ranking system would work very well with GW2.
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Military_rank
But remove the 5% attack bonus they have and you have a very good base for ranking.
Points wise this could be done with a combination of Kills = 1 point, Capture = 2 points and Defense = 3 points.
But the full ranking of the link need not be applied as in the intermediate ranking between rank levels

Maarh.7251:

Amazing fights yesterday night on the Gandara borderland .

Thanks a lot guys

Felt really guilty last night when some of your guys got in the way of us heading to our breakout event on the nameless map.
Might of been more productive if they had of gone the other side of the map
I mean lets face it both of our server are getting mega stomped by that nameless server.
looking forward to the day when everything is somewhat even on the battlefield when we’ll face each other again

Being grieffed is never nice and it’s about time ANet learned that, it puts players off from playing and gives the game a bad name.

Just a quick addition:
Just looking at this weeks match ups and the results so far the need for this is more prominent than ever

Ahh time for a bit of R & R whilst picking up the pieces of 17 guild members quitting the game.
Ho well at least I can work on some PvE shiz to replenish my stocks for a week, was running quite low with the good hard fights of the previous weeks, as well as having time to chew the fat with peeps in chat for a change.
Good luck to you Piken hope you gain everything that you so hardheartedly worked for in your rise to stardom, as I have no doubt that the other servers will be reading about your shall we say endeavors for nicety sake with great interest.

All I can say is WTG Anet.
Transfers most def needs to be changed for WvW to at least 30 days, as the 7 day window does nothing what so ever and might as well be zero days with the way WvW match ups are based on a 7 day cycle

meh all they really need to do is remove Karma from WvW, have a 20 min 15 min spawn sit timer where if you don’t leave the spawn area in 15 mins you get booted from WvW, remove the AoE cap from WvW and make it so that only siege can damage walls and gate, finally implement this topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-weekly-matching-system-needs-to-change/first#post1178491.
As for GvG this would have to be server based only which would impact on server lag as well as remove a lot of players from WvW to the extent it would become an extension to PvE, so quite simply it’s either Server v Server or GvG, as to have both would make the game far to diversified and complex

Let me add another point to the mix.
Anet’s own hype is that they wanted every player to feel like they have accomplished something.
With the matchup system we have now that is not the case.
Just for argument sake and as an example let’s take the two lowest servers in the rankings Vabbi and Eredon Terrace.
Even if they won by holding the entire map for the whole week it would take them 2/3 weeks to even go up a tier with the ranking system as it is now, how would that make you feel if you was on that server, you would most def be looking to move if you was into WvW as there would be no sense of accomplishment should you put the time and effort to try and win.
Ho je wiz you get a shout saying your server came first and nothing more, no new tier for them if they win.
Even my own server has faced the same 2 servers for 3 weeks and looks most likely to go into a 4th week.
Even some guilds do a quick move for a few weeks just for a change of scene, another thing that really needs to be changed to a 30 day ruling or even make it a double up time limit for each change like 7 days for the first, 14 for the second and so on but I digress.
Yes the system has worked up to now to get servers into some sort of order but the need for it has now past, all servers are ready for the system I have suggested, maybe even add some extra spice into the mix as well as in the higher you are the greater the prize at the end of the week or even better a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prize like say of the top of my head, 100 badges for first, 50 for second 25 for third or even Globs of Ecto, I don’t know just brainstorming.
But non the less I as a player really feel the time is right for the change.

Xirin.8593:

EnoLive.2367:

I personal feel the time has come for Anet to get tough and not only punish those who exploit but also the server they are on as well.

What about players who have access to accounts of individuals who no longer play and who also dislike opposing servers?

Sounds like a good opportunity to transfer this “dead” account to the opposing server and exploit. Opposing server is now punished for something they did not condone or participate in.

Exploiting needs to be addressed. However, your proposed solution is not the correct way to go about it. I can’t think of any situation where punishing the innocent is an ideal resolution.

That’s the point yes these dead accounts could be used to harm a server but if those accounts are used in exploiting yes the server would be punished but those accounts would be banned, so over time those dead accounts you talk about would vanish from the system.

AkiraZero.8514:

The unfortunate reality is that the devs don’t act upon reports quick enough for it to make any difference. By the time a player is banned for exploiting the weeks match up is probably long over and their server has gained all the points that shouldn’t have been given to them.

I think an easy fix… at least for “fly hacking/jump hacking” would be to make all vets/guards within a tower/keep have a buff that stops them taking any damage unless a wall or gate has been breached. Once a gate or wall has been breached the buff vanishes and will only reappear once all gates/walls are at least at 10% hp so they are “up” again and have been at a stable up position for “X” amount of time to give any players still inside chance to take down a lord.

The other solution would be a “report exploiter/hacker” on the report section that would alert a dev to jump straight into the match and see it for themselves, this would need much more moderation though.

Doing this would hinder the messmer portal skill from those pesky hiding mes

We are all aware of most of the exploits some players are using, yet Anet do very little about it and are very slow to act upon it.
Yes, they may eventually ban the players involved but that does noting to balance the difference these players have made or the harm they have done to the opposing server.
I personal feel the time has come for Anet to get tough and not only punish those who exploit but also the server they are on as well.
I know this may seem very harsh but blame the bad apples and point them out.
The more players who do this the faster Anet can get things fixed and the vast majority of clean players get to fully enjoy the game.
The simple fact that there is very little if anything zero counter that a server can do against an exploit.
The server that has been exploited against are punished with a deficit in points and revenue while the other reaps in the harvest.
Anet’s game coding is far to accessible to exploit and has a nonexistent guard coding to boot, something Anet needs to look into putting in place without delay.

The weekly matching system needs to change and the ranking system has to go, for the simple fact that it has become very evident that some servers have an extreme mountain to climb, which in its self is putting their player off from doing from doing WvWvW and others facing the same servers week after week.
There is a very simple solution to this, which is to have the matches on a very win draw or lose.
Win you move up, come second you stay where you are, third you drop down.
Agreed if the winning team or losing team are at a point’s difference where no matter what they do they have no way of losing or winning the end of the week might feel stale but there is still the WvWvW and PvE server bonus to play for.
As most of us whom do play WvWvW are aware that the bonus buffs gained by the points in WvWvW is also attributed to the server PvE world as well.
This system would give servers new opponents every week that would make WvWvW a fresh game every week rather than servers feeling here we go again with the same ole’ same ole’ guilds or what’s the point.

Just a quick thought are you all using a voice chat system at the same time as the game like teamspeak or mumble, if so there could be a slight conflict between the game and voice sound systems

Just tried to change an Infusion on my back pack slot from one that is already on it to another and it won’t let me do it.
Is this standard for Ascended gear or a bug because with other types of gear you can change the slot items any time you want.
If this is the case then a lot of people whom like myself made one infusion before the others came out are going to be very unhappy to say the least with all the work that has gone into making it.

Cough
oppsy we seem to of kicked some royal butt tonight.
Awesome work my fellow Gandarians So nice to see us click tonight.
Siege getting insta built, ideas flowing and heard, new ploys tried out, yep awesome work guys.
As for AR and that Solo ranger that kept capping longview if I catch you at it and can screeny you bud you will be reported, but you only succeeded in getting my gander up and made me determined to take out your garrison which we did along with the rest of the map hehe.
Pikey and TUP boy you guys are tough nuts to crack but like they say even the hardest nut has to crack at some point.
o7
for a great fight so far.

As Anet don’t release weekly login numbers for each server we could argue that even though some servers are full, many players have left or are even to put it nicely casual players that just login for a couple of hours on a weekend, it’s really hard for us the players to fully judge that status.
Yes some have a very low population in PvE yet have a huge population in PvP/WvW and visa versa, it’s mix and match really and the only people whom really know the true numbers is Anet themselves.
Would 3 extra server be harmful, I tend to think not really if they do base them on 2 English and 1 extra Spanish server, as some will move to the new ones and other will remain put happy where they are, in the end it’s down to personal choice.
Should it be the case that the lowest 3 populated server are so sparsely populated then maybe a switch for them to the suggestion of this topic might bring some new life to them.
In the end the final word will be Anets and not ours but as they have stated to myself in a mail This forum is the only place they will gauge any suggestion for it merit and interest of the players

Zeefa.3915:

Problem is that certain european countries have too small a playerbase to justify giving them a server of their own. Not to mention that some of us that are not in UK or Ireland prefer english speaking servers.
I would personally hate being in a Danish server. And it would be a shame if British, Scots and Irish people were out of the mix of people I could potentially meet.

I can fully understand where your coming from and maybe I have worded it wrongly.
What I am trying to state is that it would be nicer that each language had it’s own server in a way.
Yes keep the EU servers for those whom like the mix but add in servers which are more specific language based with the flags.
I myself am not conversant in French, German, Italian, Croatian or any other language as I am sure there are many that are not conversant in English.
As we know English, German, French and Spanish are the predominant European languages I find it hard to understand that Anet didn’t use a little foresight and also give English it’s own servers rather than group English in with the EU grouping.
Yes I know there are US servers but I don’t want to play on the US time frame.

Re posting this thread as the original one was hijacked and trolled into a subject that was totally unrelated to the idea, the original one has been removed by myself and restarted here:

Just a simple request even though I already know what the answer will most probably be as EU servers are supposed to be English based.
The main problem I have found is that even though EU servers are English based we do in fact have a great deal of players whom are not conversed in English, this becomes more prominent in things Like WvWvW as players can not understand one another.
This can also be seen in the rankings, as most of the lowest servers are EU with a couple of exceptional EU servers higher up the table.
Now Germany, Spain and France have their own servers, would be at all possibly for UK/Ireland to have just at least two new servers with their flag on and an extra Spanish server to make up the third for WvWvW matchups.
I say new servers as not to alienate any of the existing EU servers from being converted to a UK/Ireland server.
The server names could even be called, “Emerald Sound” “Avalon Hold” and " Toro Glade".
To be quite honest on the EU side of WvWvW the UK/Ireland players really do need this or even better to give each nation their own servers as so many other MMO’s do.
I personal feel that Anet are missing out on a wider audience by not having nation based servers as this would increase player loyalty and even some great rivalry between servers of certain nations

Basically Anets Game engine is not up to the job full stop they have based it on CPU rather than GPU and they are continuing to focus on CPU as the way to go which is now so out of date it’s being linked to MSDOS status.
I have just been into WvW with a now fully upgraded machine:
3.6ghz AMD Bulldozer Quad.
16ghz Ram
2ghz 650 GTX
and my speedtest
Yep lag spikes death by invisible enemies to boot.
Sorry Anet your game engine is at fault and your servers are way out of date.
Get it fixed or see the game die very swiftly that even carrot dangling updates won’t even save it.

Bleh what with Rendering issues, Lag spikes, and flu it’s a wonder I can even see the screen.
But there have been some really really good battles and skirmishes.
;) was really good keeping a server on it’s toes with being a pain at both Hills and their Garrison getting the outer walls down on both before they even realized lol.
But I salute the defense of both must of made the other maps very sparse of peeps lol.
Any Hoo I’ll be around today but won’t be around or even on game for Christmas day more than my lifes worth if I did that.
So Peace and Goodwill to all and have a good one.
o7

Sorry Anet but enough is enough the lag issues and rendering are making the game unplayable unless you are fully PvE, which I am not.
I have reported it over 90 times over the last 48 hours of 30 second lag spikes, juddered graphics, Invisible enemies, skills not working then working as other skills that you have not activated or even have selected.
With is being the festive season I will give you the benefit of the doubt and before you even say it’s my system I run a 3.6 ghz amd quad core, 670 gtx, 16 ghz of ram with a SSD, on top of all of that My internet speed is of the 100mb so don’t give me any bull about it being from my end.
On top of which might I add the interview where your Dev team stated it was down to the data transfer from your system to ours is why the rendering has been brought in confirms my suspicions that the server contract you have is not up to the job you wanted or even underestimated the sort of server the game would require.
I therefore strongly suggest you reevaluate your servers to either drastically lower the population of the game server to 50% of what they are now and increase new servers for players to go to.
Instantly bring in Pay For transfer.
Or fully upgrade your server to the very best money can buy, which at the moment is $ 15,000 apx per server a mere drop in the ocean with the revenue this game has brought in.
The time to Act is now otherwise more and more players are going to say enough is enough and trust me I am getting extremely close to saying that myself.

Sadly I have to agree with the author of this thread.
I have even taken steps to make sure that it wasn’t on my end where the problem was and did a speed check results I got back was ping 15, Download speed 102.36mbps, upload speed of 4.86mbps.
I have also tried other games that run on the same base and had no problems what so ever with them.
So it is without a doubt that this is an Anet issue and not a players issue and the only conclusion one can gather is that the server they are using are not up to the job and could even be substandard.
One would of thought that a game of this magnitude and the revenue it has gathered that more effort would of been placed on the servers so that lag and rendering would not be an issue.
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=pem820&model_id=poweredge-m820&c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&cs=ukbsdt1

Yarrrr Stumpy is ok in small does but the fight in EB tinght just goes to show we can put up a hell of a fight even though are numbers are few compared to the Riverside Robot Factory.
As for what I have seen above I hope Anet act upon that person or even persons with real venom.
I hate cheats and it’s sad that someone had the nerve to do something like this.
Sadly as we can’t see the players name then on my part and sorry to the guild that he belongs to but I will not be teaming up nor aiding any “Croatians Maniacs [CM]” till this player or players have be named and removed from the game.

More to the point I can tell you what is putting players of WvWvW.
1. Lack of rewards compaired to expenditure
2. Extremely low FPS and lag when high numbers of players are fighting.
3. The exploits of Culling and AoE percentage of being hit
4. It’s viewed purely as a Karma farm.
5. the over reliance of Zerg mentality to achieve anything of merit.

Just been in WvWvW and come away with a very sad heart that most of Gandara is doing PvE and will most probably be still doing it till after the Winterdays event is over.
at most there was only 15 in total on all maps.
What a waste of cash in upgrades and siege, plus not forgetting the repair bills.
I’ll still keep battling away as best as I can but won’t be taking on zergs of 30/50 solo that’s for sure.
WTG Anet for killing a server in WvWvW that was on the rise with this over long event.

Ahh another night of two servers being locked out of the EB JP was a bit of a shock getting side swiped by 6 RS golem’s this morning at the Valley how no one spotted them till they we’re at the inner gate is baffling but fair play to them for spending that much effort at that time of day against so few.

Report the bug as exploitable and add in the text part it’s blockage as well

Simple borderland defenders a players fix to breakout:
Don’t attack the towers leave them, no attack = no event re-spawn

All I can say about this week and I know it’s going be like that is Meh not into being spit roasted