Guild Wars 2

1-5 ) I’d have to guess that it has been the WvW staff?

What if the 3 different colors were kept, but the Anet staff was the FFA force? They could drop in anywhere at anytime to either A) become the ultimate havoc or b ) fight for their lives because they’d have nowhere safe to run to or C) both A and B I think it would be so much fun to fight a tier hopping Anet force.

That August 5th, 2015 statement from Corpening seems like a distant memory now…

Edit: and those Glassdoor reviews were eye-opening and depressing.. BTW, where is ArenaNet now? Are they in Seattle or Austin or California or where???

Sounds to me like they’re begging for a portal bomb wipe…

Edit: also a good spot for a couple supply traps

Akkeros.1675:

Where is the most fun in bronze?
Which server has the friendliest people that wanna win but just have fun too?

HoD… but of course I’m totally biased.

Edit: were actually t4/t5… some hacker guy (that’s on FA now?) pushed HoD to 3 where we don’t belong.

Argh, I didn’t even think to look at glassdoor etc… ty

I’ve come to the place where I feel like I’m “rubber necking” the scene of a crime. WvW has been chalked on the sidewalk… I don’t want to slow down and gawk, but I can’t help myself.

Edit: grammar

lil devils x.6071:

2) They are already working on another map.

3)No, I am not going to tell you how I know this.

NDA survey?

Dawdler.8521:

More details coming April 1st.

lol… careful, you might get infracted for that… +1 anyways

I don’t understand why all the guessing / asking for info threads are even allowed. They go unanswered… always. Why aren’t these threads just locked and deleted or automerged into one locked thread… might as well be?

Ragnarox.9601:

All the developers left anet last year, they are left only with graphic designers. They are not serious anymore.

Yep, I can agree with that. So, where do MMO’s post help wanted adds anyways? Would love to see what kind of openings there are at Anet. Guess I could have a look at their site.

Donari.5237:

Fellfoot.8156:

A rocking chair. Exclusive to the head start weekend GW2 originals crowd… ‘cause we’re old and cranky and need to chill out.

Add that to the balloons request, get something like
http://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/05/08/ee4c6131-f8df-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/resize/570xauto/114db2edbcaa329587a44ff110e7641b/blog-Daniel_flying_in_armchair.JPG

That… is awesome.

A rocking chair. Exclusive to the head start weekend GW2 originals crowd… ‘cause we’re old and cranky and need to chill out.

Seriously, it’s nothing mean or malicious. Just some goofy prank kind of stuff. I might throw in some of those refrigerator word magnet packs if I can find them.

Edit: I wonder how long it takes a package to get from Bama to Seattle?

Replace it with a WvW Overhaul count down to release timer!!!
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…. —--> all you need is an infinity symbol

Edit: gg autocorrect gg

briggah.7910:

Its not like every day it happens to me over and over again but everytime I do get instant downed it comes from this skill.

Yep. It’s not as kittenome of the other HoT kitten around. You did nail it though… “skill” has taken on a whole new meaning nowadays.

Who here in the forums wants me to mail a box of ________ to Seattle for the Devs to play with?

Would be awesome if they’d post a pic or few of their antics with the contents.

I took several gunflame hits on my necro today. It’s hysterical. If you can pull it off and one shot people… I say go for it! Only got downed once btw, my guild mates rescued me. The rifle boy had his fun and I got a good laugh out of it. Besides, warriors have it pretty bad right now anyways. Let them have their fun.

Edit: grammar

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I call it the “time out circle.”

That is awesome. +87 for that gem. You have made my day, ty.

Edit: Yet another reason to laugh for no apparent reason while I’m at work or home or ballgames or anywhere I hear “time out”…

ArchonWing.9480:

Hah, we actually had folks on reset night camping the keep lord room and gathering from nodes in the meantime with recorders ready. That was some degree of excitement though probably not for the right reasons.

One of my guild mates told me that the hack troll was indeed using our guild tag, but with a different description… [AIR] The Storm of Orders …was what the troll was using? Our guild tag is [AIR] The Order of Storms.

What a kitten. I always report trash immediately ingame when I see it.

p.s. Would be awesome to have a chance to /wave at you sometime this week.

Edit: /wave preferably before I get steam rolled by one of your zergs, lol.

I got the rare chance to play some late night reset on the 13th. The lag in one of the SMC fights was horrible. I dropped all my graphics settings as low as possible and still went from 62fps outside SMC to 14fps inside where the fight was going on. I’m in southeast usa and almost never have any ping issues. I also crashed once during the first round of the fight (my graphics settings were still on high then). I didn’t crash again, but the lag beast still devoured me.

Edit: As far as I could tell, inside SMC was the only place the lag beast was lurking. There wasn’t even any lag on one of the BL’s during the oasis event, which was a pleasant surprise.

Edit2: “anal-yzing” the lag beast could have severe consequences… don’t say you weren’t warned XD

I don’t hate the game because of HoT; I am really disappointed with HoT mainly because of what happened to WvW. Personally, I was excited for a new map in WvW, and then when I actually got to play the map I felt so let down. Kitten me for believing that HoT was going to improve WvW… it didn’t, over all. Perhaps my expectations were just too high?

Not everything that came with HoT is disappointing, though.

Like:
-yaks mean something… dead or alive!
-fighting over and defending camps
-downed/dead state res… I wasn’t sure if I’d like this change, but now that I’ve spent a day with it, I like it
-one death, one rally… I wasn’t sure if I’d like this change, but now that I’ve spent a day with it, I like it
-the well recharge fix… thank you
-Banner nerfs… thank you
-server upgrades for WvW (has anyone noticed any changes in lag during oasis incident?)
-oasis event was shortened

Dislike:
-stability wasn’t addressed… one could almost say there is no such thing as stability in WvW anymore
-Banners weren’t removed
-oasis even wasn’t removed

Edit: grammar

DaVid Darksoul.4985:

Lots of things seemed stacked against defending now. Siege costs have escalated and supply depots are now so far away from where you need siege such as arrowcarts that by the time you build one it’s too late. Oasis event is just horrid, really not understanding why it was developed, plus now it takes less effort. Catas have had their build cost cut so that attackers can speed up the karma train. Lords are so weak that solo caps are a frequent event. Keeps are laid out so defensive siege is obstructed.

Getting siege behind gates isn’t bad; but, yeah, running supplies for what seems like miles to those good ac spots in keeps can be a real pain.

Spurnshadow.3678:

First off, it’s only been a few days. Secondly, I don’t see people claiming camps and slotting things that upgrade dolyaks. If they did, speedy dolyaks and double deliveries would make the upgrade process 4x faster. People are still K-training, not leaving scouts, and not having roaming parties to keep the camps and yaks secure.

So, protect your camps.

Strategery

Lots of fun with camps and yaks in T5 yesterday. Offense and defense. There were some good camp fights.

I mainly play necro and warrior. I can comment on those two for you. It is possible to solo the camps with hammer/gs warrior; however, it’s not as fast as it is with necros. The approach you take and how many you draw aggro on are key. If you can manage to draw aggro on only a couple guards and the supervisor, it’s easier. Just pull them to one spot and kill them, then inch your way into the edge of the ring and the camp will flip while the rest of the guards just ignore you.

It’s quite a bit easier on a necro. Get within range and drop a mark on the supervisor, then drop well bombs on whatever comes after you, use shroud skills to finish them off. Again, just get into the edge of the ring and the rest of the guards will ignore you.

If the camp is fortified, you might want to first take out the guards that roam into the approach you take to the camp.

I don’t have any vids of soloing camps, but I might make a few for you.

Reward tracks for unique WvW armor and weapons would probably be well recieved. Different tracks for different stats? I don’t see any harm in that.

“Don’t kick a fresh kitten on a hot (HoT) day.” -Harry S. Truman

Edit: ah ha! I knew I hadn’t run out of kittens

…/ponder, are the Banners just a failed attempt at helping the underdog and woefully outmatched server?

FugueState.3842:

Fellfoot.8156:

I’m glad the nerfs are coming. I’m also glad the banners only last 15mins. It does kitten, though, folks having to tab through and scan the crowd looking for break bars, then focusing that player down, and then finally getting around to actually fighting… IF the zerg doesn’t run away until they get another banner.

Other thoughts: Why haven’t we seen the SMC stealth complaints yet? Is it even happening yet?

You sir are a moron. I enjoy your tears.

There is no need to tab through anyone. The only time its hard to tell if someone has a banner up is when its on an Asura and that is because of the character model being shorter than everything else. Otherwise, learn the friggin animations, and learn to look at weapons!

Banners completely replace 1-5 skills…last 15 minutes, gets destroyed completely if you want to operate siege/drop siege/swap weapons, have up to 60 second CD on 5, have long cast time for skills, and because the user isn’t that affected by CControl until breakbar breaks, its REALLY easy to die to conditions while using one because the person using it isn’t focusing on their health bar/conditions applied to them. I’ve swapped characters and specifically hunted people using banners on my ranger, and god its really easy to put them down (except if it’s a DH). You need to learn to deal with it.

Welcome to the moron club. I enjoy your attention to detail… tab and scan through the crowd lol. What do you think scanning through the crowd means, you moron, as if I’ve never been called worse, lol. Anyways, not crying about them either. I have learned to deal with. They’re found, focused and killed. Yes, I do see them on Asura a lot. You’re right about that. I also see them with a thief, mes, or engi for stealth.

Edit: there are occasions where tabbing through a blob is a quick easy way to find the banner carrier.

Edit2: please feel free to leave me any more play tips, I’m always open to entertainment

Edit3: out of tears, but I never run out of kittens

I forgot to mention the chilling fog. Hey, why fight when you can nuthug unnecessary garbage like this?

Perhaps they could be convinced to add it into a new Mastery?

Pride.1734:

Everything except druid and theif is meta? I mean you see every class naturally but what is optimal?
So if the old ideal comp of 20 ppl was someting like, 6 guards, 4 warriors 5 eles and 5 necros what would the new one look like?
Would you even take a dragon hunter or scrapper over a rev?

I see a lot of DHunter chain link fences being thrown around, usually 4-5 at a time.

I’m glad the nerfs are coming. I’m also glad the banners only last 15mins. It does kitten, though, folks having to tab through and scan the crowd looking for break bars, then focusing that player down, and then finally getting around to actually fighting… IF the zerg doesn’t run away until they get another banner.

Other thoughts: Why haven’t we seen the SMC stealth complaints yet? Is it even happening yet?

Vermillion.4061:

Are you guys really that blind? WvW overhaul is timing right around when CU is being released.

What’s the date on CU?

Zefrost.3425:

When are you going to nerf the CC on hunters ward?

Or is it somehow considered balanced because the 13 people that play esports think it’s balanced?

Is that the DHunter chain link fence you’re referring to? Only elite I’ve managed to get and play a little is Berserker; I was really disappointed which led to me not giving a rip about trying any of the others. I probably should, though. Anyways, back on topic…

If hunter’s ward is the chain link fence DHunter skill you’re referring to, then I don’t really see much of a problem with it. I recorded several hours of being subjected to it in zerg fights. After watching the tactics that were used to drop the traps, it has really become a non-issue (kind of like learning when and where to expect those static fields). Yes, it does kitten getting kittened in by 4-5 fences. Either stab out of it or just stand still and eat the bomb.

ArenaNet implemented this obscene scribe nonsense so people would get rid of the hoards of gold/mats. Now that some time has passed and the hoards players had are diminished, their original intention has been achieved and they can relax the price gouging. Very simple. Deplete resources, sell gems, relax. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

I just meant that the people that don’t get organized and fight as one cohesive group, like the banners as a crutch.

Edit: ArenaNet made a huge mistake adding this to WvW. They’ll never admit it, though. The closest thing to admitting the Banners were a mistake is Corpening’s statement calling the Banners unintended “nukes”.

I stopped scribing at level 1. Kitten that kitten.

Cake.4920:

Sad to see anet cater to the noobs complaining. The counter to this banner was having a working brain.

I don’t think they’re catering to noobs. I think JC admitted a mistake ( he called the banners “nukes”) and they nerfed them down. Personally I’d be happier with garbage like that removed, but oh well.

Maybe they’re catering to the noobs that like the banners? I stopped dying to the garbage banners once I realized what was going on. LOL, at first I thought it was Revenant or some other new Elite spec doing all that damage.

I think other game Devs are reading these forums and taking notes on the mistakes ArenaNet has made. Perhaps they won’t make the same mistakes.

I went and got a reddit app so I can keep track of that Dev comment thread over there. Then I had a moment of clarity while reading that Colin Johansen statement about the -talked with our players about what they want in large scale pvp battles- ( paraphrasing, not sure if this the exact quote)

I realized when he said “our players” …he must’ve meant the incognito Devs that play the game right along side of us. That explains the entirety of the new DBL’s as far as I’m concerned, and the new Banners, and the whole guild hall grind mess. They asked their own people what they wanted, then gave it to us?

I could very easily be 100% incorrect, but that makes total sense to me.

Edit: correcting autocorrect

Something about Tyler naming the skills on the Turtle banner. I was laughing too hard at the chat comments so I’ll have to watch the replay to be certain. Thought it was odd that there’s been a lot of kittened off players because of banners, then he mentions Tyler while talking about the banners and the banner nerfs.

I pasted the wrong post into this thread, oops. Anyways, on topic…
I thought he looked really awkward and annoyed (?) to be talking about WvW. Would’ve loved to hear anything about the overhaul, but oh well, you can’t talk about what doesn’t exist…. yet… right?

Would be nice if they added 250hp degen per second to the banner carrier, -66% movement speed, maybe 10 stacks of confusion each time a skill is used?

Edit: On second thought, how about a Garbage Aura instead? All nearby allies within 1500 range suffer from 50 stacks of poison. Reapplied, of course, each time a skill is used.

Edit2: Sarcastic Kittens are out of the bag…

Was my first time watching too. The kitten storm of chat was entertaining.

Nah, just remove it. Or do what a lot of people do and just ignore it altogether because it kittens.

Edit: JC did say that they are going to upgrade some of the equipment that WvW runs on, right? So, they’re focused on fixing hardware instead design fails?

Is it just me or did John Corpening throw Tyler under the bus regarding the Banners? Today was the first time I managed to catch the Guild Chat live.

Edit: Next time I’ll have popcorn ready. That was entertaining.

Just watched JC on the Guild Chat. Didn’t catch all of it, but he did say banners were being nerfed, not removed.

Edit: sorry, it double posted; the chat in the twitch channel was an absolute kitten storm

Straegen.2938:

When they say WvW is a priority I am sure they are referencing current development efforts. I believe them when they say they have been working on a big WvW overhaul.

Their silence on why it didn’t make HoT is telling. It appears to be months away and likely points to the project being more difficult than the initially planned. I also think they believed the HoT “improvements” would satisfy the WvW crowd for a bit and did not anticipate the poor reception.

Poor reception is the kindest way of putting it. It must be a difficult project and I don’t believe that we will be given any kind of honest information about the overhaul any time soon.

In the mean time, I’ve found something else to do with the money I was spending on gems. Greeting cards and “fan art creations” to send to Bellevue. (My kids love shopping with me at Hobby Lobby.) My first creation is a Dragon Banner! I’ll post a pic of it in this thread after I finish it tomorrow; I need to add the finishing touches.

Edit: grammar