Guild Wars 2

Chris.3290:

I personally find the current situation hilarious. Be as it may, BG just needs to do to JQ what it did in the SoS matchup last week.
Don’t attack TC, just go all out on JQ. Only fight TC when they push into your territory.
TC has crappy PuG discipline, and eventually they’ll attack JQ; and problem solved.

Now quit these embarrassing posts or xfer to a server that doesn’t tick the others off so much that they get 2v1’d every week.

Man, that answer is so simple. Why hasn’t BG tried that. It’s almost like reality and theory aren’t the same thing.

Legend of Rogue.5394:

“We really like where the player base is right now, it actually hasnt dropped a significant amount and as of today it is very healthy” -Anet lead designers

ME: yea thats why you put the mega server cause there is just sooooo many ppl

Lol, I was pretty cynical too. I took the mega server, plus the fact that those trait changes were free for ONLY that day in the gem store, as a PR stunt. A month from now they’re going to say “We have X million people log on everyday” when in reality it’s that one day from patch day where they advertised free items for just that day.

Aretimus Wolfe.6589:

Same issue here. Had 941 on main and 100+ on a few others. All characters show 941.

Just curious, have you logged into all your toons, let them load into a map (not sure if it has to be a WvW map or not, but I would log into WvW before switcing to your next toon) then try your main again?

My other thought is, if somehow it bugs out after 1000 rank?

The “zerker” only groups will now be much more strict.

You have less room for error. Say a guild group with 4 people (all zerker, optimized build) used to run dungeons in a certain time frame, they could just add a 5th of whatever (cleric guardian most likely) and just carry him. Now that they got nerfed, that 5th person NEEDS to be zerker to make up for the nerf.

The better idea would have been to stop hating on the most efficient build, and embrace it.

Ropechef.6192:

alternative way of thinking about it…

The Citadel of Flame event… With the mega server there will actually be more people on the map again. if for no other reason than they want to see if they can get into the dungeon. allowing more people to do the event to get in. Which takes all of 10 min.

did you know that you make more gold off the event than you do running the dungeon?

especially if there is a group there and the event scales…

Dungeons are different than open world farming. If an individual wants to pve world farm, then there are better locations for it.

People are forced to do that event to enter in the dungeon, I think specifically due to the lore.

PvP is always open, WvW is always open (other than Queues which is a different nature) yet some dungeons require mandatory dynamic events.

Dub.1273:

Getting kicked from pugs for using assassins + berserker mix instead of pure berserker as engi. Fun.

Zerk only!!!!!!! 4EVER!

or you know… until the update.

Cotser.7015:

I actually can’t see what’s going on there.

My apologies, I’ll just show text box next time.

In short, during an argument in CM, the guy said “Listen to me, I’m a dungeon master B*tch” as that was the final say.

Shortly after I just said the argument was a misunderstanding, as we were both pretty much arguing the same thing. However I couldn’t stop calling him dungeon master throughout =)

I haven’t been in dungeons for awhile. A friend talked me into it. I quickly remembered why I detest PUGs so much.

Edit: Zoom in on chat box

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Ethics.4519:

Lindbur.2537:

I think my eye cancer just skipped straight to terminal.

Hurry, stack and you’ll be saved from the eye cancer!

Quickly show me your 20 player zerg in a dungeon.

Yes dungeons are different than regular PvE, and need to be balanced differently but generally every player in a dungeon has an idea of what they’re doing. Fix the main PvE zerging mentality and you fix the dungeons. Besides that at some points in some dungeons the number of mobs are arguably way too kittening many (Like 4 out of all the dungeons), nothing is wrong with most of them; it’s all the players.

If you don’t like my idea for a solution, and the current system is broken, by all means give me your better idea.

There have been many other suggestions presented, much better than yours, yet they get overlooked because the developers are super busy tweeting, writing short stories, making videos, and “looking into” things.

Cassocaster.4576:

Ethics.4519:

Did you know that sales means nothing when looking at activity? ESPECIALLY in a B2P model with no subscription.

Well, it’s the only measurable metric that’s released from ANet. If you can get actual usage history, please post it, otherwise your comment is pure hyperbole.

Please look up big words before you use them.

There is a reason that it’s the only measurable metric released from Anet. The only other thing I saw was number of players at peak-time, which I remember being right around launch.

I am not arguing for or against the decline of GW2, I am only stating that using sales to show the game isn’t ‘dead’ doesn’t mean much.

Lindbur.2537:

I think my eye cancer just skipped straight to terminal.

Hurry, stack and you’ll be saved from the eye cancer!

Cassocaster.4576:

Corpus Christi.2057:

No wonder there’s no one, this game is dying… Even on Desolation, the biggest server, there are fewer people nowadays.

Why people continue to think this is beyond me….this boss has never been a draw, ever. Please see this from NCSoft’s earning report filed the beginning of this year:

Guild Wars 2 earned 33.6 Billion Won = 31.58 Million USD up from Q3s 22.94 Million USD and exceeding sales expectations for Q4

Trust me, this game is doing fine.

To the OP, I am really sorry you got that close, it is sad indeed though me thinks there was a bit of anger as well.

Did you know that sales means nothing when looking at activity? ESPECIALLY in a B2P model with no subscription.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

You’re always going to have those people that abuse the game mechanics, stacks and whatever.

Your ‘fixes’ wont actually do much. Anets fixes havent really been fixing it either.

Really a boss’s AOE should ignore the 5 player cap that players have (It’s fine to keep that limit on players), all damage should be buffed and then the amount that toughness reduces the damage should be buffed as well(As well as having a base level buff so toughness will make it so I can take more than 3 shots as opposed to 1 from a boss).

That will eliminate stacking and flush out the bad players that can’t dodge. The good players that can dodge effectively shouldn’t be punished because of the bad players.

All AOEs should become unblockable, so the only defense is to not be standing in them, as long as they arnt giant circles. Anet seems to like to balance reaction times around some sort of passive speed boosts that most classes have but as a main mesmer, I do not have such a thing and it’s unreasonable to ask me to give up my weapon swap for a speed boost.

That should solve the immediate problem of stacking and bad players counting on the stack to save them.

Heck maybe even give a player 15ish seconds after they’re defeated and if they no one starts reviving them, it instantly makes them waypoint to their nearest uncontested waypoint.

Finally PvP and PvE should be split, changes to one shouldn’t affect the other as changes to PvP can break PvE or the other way around.

Stacking saves nobody in dungeons.. This post is horrendous.

New players fail because they think the same as you do.

dlonie.6547:

IndigoSundown.5419:

dlonie.6547:

But handing out infractions rather than opening a dialog when their customers try to discuss issues with them is a terrible practice.

The two functions are going to be handled by separate staff.

Yep, mods != devs. The point is, both groups could be handling community dialog much, much better. Or at all, in the case of the specialized subforums (I know dungeons is a wasteland for sure, and I hear many of the others are similarly ignored).

Just look at the archived fractured update for all the evidence you need. And yes, dungeons thread fell into that fate along time ago, when Robert was let go. The only dev posts nowadays are joke necros of robert “looking into something” 6-7 months ago that still exists today.

Zerker build has not ruined the game. It’s the game design that allows one build to be the most efficient in all dungeons.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game

Exosferatu.2961:

Oh hey, why are there so many Guild Wars 2 blog posts, Facebook updates, short stories in Flickr (what in balthazar’s name – flickr!?)? Arena Net must be extremely silent… No wonder their game is dead.

Agreed. Random blog posts, facebook likes, and short stories really keep a game alive. /thread

mrstealth.6701:

Ethics.4519:

Edit: Not to mention it seems they have only accounced the trait changes so far. 10% increase to wars dual wielding? Lol. As if axe/mace needed a buff.

Just giving them back the damage they will lose in the crit/ferocity nerf.

Make it look like you’re changing the zerker/heavy meta with one change, and slip the zerker wars’ “lost DPS” back into the game in another form.

haha, good point, I didn’t even think about that, partially because I lost interest right before ‘ferocity’ was announced.

Freeelancer.2860:

Only skimmed through the thread, but what I’ve seen about the changes coming in Apr 15th patch (and some others they are still thinking over about implementing), I’d say they listen quite a bit…
At least half of the stuff mentioned are something players suggested one time or the next, and most of them are not minor.

We see this almost everytime. Then patch hits and half of it is implemented because they didn’t say it would be in the NEXT patch, just that it’s in the works….

Edit: Not to mention it seems they have only accounced the trait changes so far. 10% increase to wars dual wielding? Lol. As if axe/mace needed a buff.

lordkrall.7241:

Keep in mind however that many of the “stealth” changes are made due to exploits and such, and thus they will not discuss it.

Yes, we’ve heard that before. I think only a few instances of changes would this actually be a reasonable excuse. I think there’s a deeper issue (lack of dungeon involvement) that is trying to be discussed here.

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

Vol.7601:

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

Vol.7601:

Nabuko Darayon.9645:

So I’ve noticed and correct me if I’m wrong but in bigger scaled Events where you have a lot of mobs attacking a Camp, if you go Soldier’s or anything else you’d get a lot less drops then if you wore Berserker’s? Is this correct?

I think if the Tagging System isn’t adjusted a bit, nothing other then Berserker’s will ever be viable in PvE, because basically we’re forced to do highest DPS to fill the criteria for our drops, or the other 20 Berserker’s will take our spot in the “DPS ladder” and we end up empty handed.

I don’t think Berserker’s is the problem, as the not-being-able-to-wear-anything-else if you want drops.

If you are fighting in small groups, this is not an issue. PvT would be better because of survivability.

But when you are fighting in a zerg, berserker gear will end up pushing you past the loot threshold to get credit.

But the above point doesn’t really become a factor anyway, considering there are other factors that influence your ability to get loot, such as party/grouping and DR.

I personally run zerker gear not only to ensure I do superior damage to get loot credit, but to kill mobs faster enough to spawn more waves, resulting in more loot.

yeah well the zerg usually melts down every mob no matter what gear (unless it’s an Elite or a Champion and those usually 1shot you if scaled) .

I also run Berserker’s most of the times, but at some days I wish I’d run a Cleric’s and still get drops as I do when I’m a Berserker but that isn’t happening. Funny thing, same goes for WvW and Loot/WXp, if you focus on supporting though well-placed combo fields, like Water and stuff like that while the zerklings pow-pow the aggressors you won’t get credit for your help, as you have to do enuogh-damage-to-fill-the-loot-criteria (and it isn’t just 1 hit)

Funny you mention that – I feel the exact same way with my Guardian in WvW trains.

The commanders always call out for blasts, and I really want to pull out the hammer. But when you are in combat, that removes some valuable seconds of tagging with staff, resulting in less loot.

I’m really selfish in WvW ;[

Heh aren’t we all, but we should be able to be rewarded even if we do 1 hit though. That way people won’t be so torn between reward vs help.

Going even further, loot at support/heal builds. I loved playing my staff ele in WvW. But if I want any chance at look I need to be in fire and only sometimes switching, instead of staying in water for the aoe heals.

The V.8759:

Currently more people are coming back to the game than there are leaving

I disagree with almost your whole post, but I’m interested in what source you have to claim this, or if it’s just your personal belief.

As long as I’m in a party, I have never noticed an issue

Slowpoke.2749:

I love the people commenting “1500 hours for 60 dollars” without stopping to think for even one second. There’s a gem store. Looking at ncsoft’s financial report tells us that Guild Wars 2 made a lot of dough through the shop. A lot. The OP could be one of those who purchased gems using cold hard cash instead of converting gold.

What should we tell to those who spent 300 dollars in the gem store? No, that’s not uncommon. 500 dollars? More than 1000? Are they allowed to complain about the longevity of the game? Or was their investment still a great bang for the buck?

Instead of jumping to conclusions and riding the “it’s only 60 dollars” train, how about you reflect on the issues that were brought up? Is WvW getting stale? Did the living story feel like a success to you? Is it fine that we are expected to wait long months for small fixes and balance patches?

Excellent point. I know the response is going to be “it’s cash shop so you didn’t HAVE to pay more than $60”.

DusK.3849:

ITT biased anecdotes are considered an acceptable replacement for statistical evidence.

They don’t provide nearly as much statistical evidence as they used to. The numbers they do report, usually copies sold, has little to no reflection on the numbers that currently still play.

Cash shop sales have a little more indication, but still nothing close to “hourly average playing” or anything like that. My guess is if the number was good, we would know it.

All that’s left are people’s feelings and anecdotes, so that’s what is mainly being described.

Scourge.4317:

Ethics.4519:

I agree. I haven’t completely left yet, but I’m on my way out.

Their silence and lack of communication is a core issue. The neglect of dungeons and focus on a crappy living story is another part.

Lack of communication? This the only MMO where devs actually get in game and play with the community. I have never seen devs care so much about their game as Arenanet does. You have entire CDI threads with the devs talking with the players trying to better the game. They pop up in every now and then on random threads just to let people know they are listening. Why people keep bringing up communication as a problem is beyond me.

Yes, they have CDIs. It’s mostly people giving suggestions or opinions, while the devs go “oh, interesting. I’ll talk to the team” And that’s usually about all you hear.

The fractals community was shot down during the fractured update, even though they were “gathering feedback”. And it ended exactly how we thought it would, the thread expired and we never heard any communication. During the CDI about progression we brought up this fact, and how resetting our levels was a slap in the face to progression. The dev said he would talk to the team and that was the end of it.

Obviously they do a good job of acting like they communicate, as they have fooled you.

“This the only MMO where devs actually get in game and play with the community” Also, this is just hilariously wrong. You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about.

Typical Anet being typical Anet. Really keep kicking themselves.

I agree. I haven’t completely left yet, but I’m on my way out.

Their silence and lack of communication is a core issue. The neglect of dungeons and focus on a crappy living story is another part.

Alfador.7649:

NoxInfernus.2361:

looks like it.
But they did commit to doing it, so it will happen eventually.

/shrug

Eh, I’ll believe it when I see it. At this point I trust zero percent of their word on things related to wvw. The track record on following through accurately to what they said they would do is so mindblowingly abysmal that I’d have to be insane to assign any value to it.

FTFY

The issue to me is that I seem to lack identity. I have never been an alt- aholik, until this game. I think that really stems from the fact that everything is a hybrid in this game. Every class has damage, every class has supports, every class control, etc. Obviously some do it better than others, but not by such a large margin that it’s necessary to play one class for that specific ability.

It’s obvious that a lot of people enjoy this. I even enjoyed it at first. But the game has definitely lost a lot of the luster it once had for me, which is why I find myself playing less and less, with little desire to play even though they shove laurels and daily cooldowns in my face.

Barbarka.9362:

-All bosses would be fought as intended.

Please enlighten us on how all bosses are intended to be fought.

Start with AC spider queen and work your way up to the bloodstone, in ascending order of course.

That’s interesting.

Oh wait, no the opposite of that.

Maybe it was rude, but nothing to write on the forums about.

Eleir.9325:

Please also know that time gating is not awesome. It adds Psuedo playtime, and is downright annoying.

This was actually touched on very well by a dev response I saw earlier. The idea is that no time gating makes this game very hardcore, and the casual players would get fed up and leave. Extreme time gating would get frustrating for those hardcore players, or those with a lot of time, and all you would have left our casual players who don’t play often. GW2 tried to find a good mix of time gating, so that there is a wide range of players.

Although I hate it too, I understand why they put it in there. It’s one reason why the game is as successful as it is, because casual players and hardcore players flock to it. But it’s also a reason why I think it’s dying. It can only entertain those players times for so long, at the same time. The hardcore players start to feel like they can’t progress, or there is no real progression, while the casual players feel like they can’t keep up.

TL;DR IMO the game tries to cater to all player types, which is the reason it feels like intangible progression.

Wethospu.6437:

Does anyone remember when Elementalist was also considered thrash?

Yes. I think they are the same people that pick up a FGS and autoattack

Be careful going into p1. Although it’s extremely easy, it’s been ran so many times everybody expects everybody to know what to do.

Also, if you find a guide/video that says to run down to a room on the 4 acolyte stage, that room isn’t there anymore

Neko.9021:

This is really sad. Why did the devs only respond to this problem when it involved Living Story? Potions have been bugged for months, and only now do they fix them.

I would like to think that they fixed the issue before the update, and THEN decided to make a LS potion to showcase how they fixed the bugged.

I know this isn’t true, but I can still believe.

AR is a horrible idea. It should have never been implemented.

Unfortunately there would be a lot of QQ (some justified) upon removal.

Tazeris.6039:

Lucyfer.9517:

Mike Honcho.3742:

What exactly is ANet doing?

Absolutely nothing it seems. Pretending everything is ok.

Yep and that makes me angry. It is hard at least to say that, yeah, something is wrong and we trying to fix it ? But no…

It’s typical Arenanet. Almost every major issue they have had they wait an incredibly long time before announcing anything, if they even decide to announce it.

markk.2401:

I would like to make a suggestion to Arenanet/NCSoft around the EU issues people have been having around tinet. A workaround for this, considering it is impacting multiple ISP’s is for NCSoft to drop their peering link to Tinet, this will then force traffic to re-route through an alternative route. I feel NCSoft also should put some pressure on Tinet to fix their problems. The far end ISP’s will have less of an influence over them than NCSoft who are their last hop before the data centre.

Support said I need to contact my ISP when this was brought up =(.

Also I’m not from EU, but for some reason my data is getting sent to france.

Will anet make an official (or unofficial is fine) announcement 42 pages in? Or will we just be left pinging our traces to eachother?

I just hope not to see “We are still gathering feedback”

sirsquishy.8531:

Ethics.4519:

6 35 ms * * * ae7.dal33.ip4.tinet.net [199.229.231.25]

Your affected by the France DoS attack

7 145 ms 148 ms 145 ms 145 ms xe-11-3-0.fra23.ip4.tinet.net [141.136.110.113]

As for the response question, some routers have NHRP disabled so thats why they * * * out, or dont respond to ICMP during trace routes.

What about the missed pings at 6? I assume that’s Dallas (dal) where everybody else is losing their packets… which is Anet’s server.

Target Name: p4-23-c0-ncdc-pub.plaync.net
IP: 206.127.158.1
Date/Time: 2/7/2014 9:25:16 PM

1 3 ms 1 ms 2 ms 1 ms homeportal [192.168.1.254]
2 * * * * [-]
3 * * * * [-]
4 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms 28 ms [12.83.77.13]
5 34 ms 33 ms 34 ms 76 ms [12.122.212.9]
6 35 ms * * * ae7.dal33.ip4.tinet.net [199.229.231.25]
7 145 ms 148 ms 145 ms 145 ms xe-11-3-0.fra23.ip4.tinet.net [141.136.110.113]
8 146 ms 155 ms 145 ms 145 ms [89.149.164.42]
9 145 ms 144 ms 144 ms 144 ms 206-127-157-86.plaync.com [206.127.157.86]
10 154 ms 146 ms 152 ms 158 ms p4-23-c0-ncdc-pub.plaync.net [206.127.158.1]

Ping statistics for p4-23-c0-ncdc-pub.plaync.net
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 146ms, Maximum = 158ms, Average = 152ms

I pinged an IP I saw earlier.

I figured 2 & 3 my ISP just isn’t letting me ping them, is that right? or is there an issue.

Also 86% packet lost at 6 is concerning. I’ve done 4 or 5 ping tests and this is the first time I’ve seen packet loss at 6

Dolan.3071:

> Guardian damage worse than Mesmer
> Worse than Mesmer
> Worse than Mesmer

Lol. I main a mesmer and my jaw dropped a little bit when I read it at as well.

I mean, maybe he is exclusively talking about Lupi p2? shrug

“And a guard with no such support skills is like a War without his big damage coming from GS2.”

Lol, this explains more as well

CursedShaitan.9720:

I seem to hit large walls of packet loss in dallas few hops before the server. Trouble with one of the last stops we all use would explain why so many people have started having issues.

This seems very common and would explain what’s happening to me. I’ll definitely check this tonight.

However, I’m only a pseudo-technical person as I haven’t had any formal education on computer science or the likes.

If my issue is due to packet loss in Dallas, is there anything that I (the player) can do, or is the fix solely on Anet’s side?

This has to be sarcastic…. but you seem serious.

I have a warrior and MM bunker for when my team needs a bunker.

I have a shatter mesmer and engi on the glassy side for when my team needs DPS.

It is much, much easier to play bunker.

Case in point: Past couple of days I have had some bad lag (that whole Dallas pocket loss they are talking about I think) and have just played on my warrior the whole time. I miss earthshaker sometimes and see a quick spike in my health loss at the beginning of an encounter, but we’ve done really well.

Xandror.2356:

I have been experiencing serious lag issues for 3 straight days now. usually there is a second delay between pressing a button and something happening, also rubberbanding a lot, very frustrating, PVP is impossible, sometimes I experience 3-5 second spikes of lag where nothing happens, also affects party chat and browsing pvp servers. Everything outside of Guild Wars 2 works perfectly, browsing internet, streaming video, world of tanks etc. speed tests come back perfect, ping test to guildwars2.com at 58 ms. I live in Massachusetts and use Verizon FiOS and play on Blackgate server. Any help would be appreciated.

*update. My latency with Gw2.exe is about 300 in resource monitor. The other computer on my lan is not having the lag problem. I tried deleting Local.dat but it didn’t make any difference. The lag suddenly started while playing Sanctum Sprint.

This pretty well sums up with what’s been going on with me. My fiance plays with me on the same network and has similar issues, but nowhere near as extreme as mine is.

I just tested some other games and had no issues whatsoever, including FPS.

My guildie makes a joke that he was lagging before, and as soon as he stopped (a couple of days ago) I started getting it, like he passed me the virus.

If there’s any help or more information needed I’d be happy to oblige, as this completely lowers my desire to play.

Do you think this is an original idea? That it hasn’t been discussed before?

I’m with the OP. You can cleave and still damage somebody when they are invis, so why does being invisible make the stake miss? If you start a channeled skill (like lbow 2 on ranger) the attack hits even when the opponent becomes stealthed during the channel. However going with that then it would also have to change so aegis would protect staking and blinding would work as well. I’m not talking about balancing issues, because to me that’s outside the scope of what OP is discussing.

Also, for some reason I thought you were an engi as well. I guess when you said you were fighting an engi I just assumed you were one lol.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

haviz.1340:

Since when bow is a trademark of rangers?

Unfortunately rangers read this description and just go with…..

“Ranger

Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation."

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/ranger/

“rangers can adapt to any situation”

Aside from the speedrun meta. Maybe 0.5% can.

I would kick you too when I saw the axe, and be even more justified if I found you were running soldiers.

If it’s my party, I don’t want people wasting my time. I’d rather kick you at the beginning at the first sign (axe) then waste an hour wiping and kick you then, wasting much more of both of our time.

I know it’s convenient to lay blame on something that you can’t control, because if you put blame on something you could control, then you could only blame yourself.

No. Bad idea. Next