Guild Wars 2

Hmm no review of Speed of shadows?

In small scale/roaming wvw this is a killer change.

While I agree it is a little overtuned. W stacks no icd would be spot on otherwise reaper still free loot bag imo.

A lot of it is learn to play as well. Those are the type of players who will stand in a warriors 100 blade without any cc etc and then qq

Malerian.8435:

Ya I have seen this type of thing from time to time. It sucks but likely nothing will be done about it.

What about it sucks? That you don’t know other classes skills and blame it on cheating?

No thanks. Again no thanks.

Oh maybe he even confused me lol. Ascended rings are cheap. anyway the only way to get the double infusions is in fractals so I dunno.

hes talking the double infusions not just ascended with the single infusion. its 15 extra stats

Well I’m one of the scouts and yak escorters and camp sitters and I prefer the new system. I did like the old system other than the gold part, but I actually think this is one thing anet got right xD. To each his own but the autoupgrades are nice. Everyone knows how many yaks are needed for the upgrades. As an enemy server you could be trying to snipe yaks and camps all day to slow them down. If they start camping them hard well bring more people to do it… just like before.

atheria.2837:

Gideon.6742:

I still really enjoy the game mode. I wish there were some new changes but there will always be a meta and some people won’t like it no matter what. Some people won’t like a new map no matter what. Some won’t be happy no matter how often Anet puts out messages. People are going to be unhappy no matter what. The game is getting older and older so the flare of many wvwer’s will die out, but it’s not totally due to lack of changes.

That is a terrible block of text op. Reads like a river of tears too.

Truth is either ignored, dismissed or acknowledged.

People are leaving WvW and the game… Anyone with a contact list over two years old knows this.

That’s how every single game ever made goes.

I still really enjoy the game mode. I wish there were some new changes but there will always be a meta and some people won’t like it no matter what. Some people won’t like a new map no matter what. Some won’t be happy no matter how often Anet puts out messages. People are going to be unhappy no matter what. The game is getting older and older so the flare of many wvwer’s will die out, but it’s not totally due to lack of changes.

That is a terrible block of text op. Reads like a river of tears too.

Nikkinella.8254:

Taobella.6597:

^ CD i suggested was not to kill the build it was make it so if they face roll keyboard it not instant win =p

That would have been my suggestion as well. It would be balanced that way. It works pretty much in the same way that blinding ashes works on ele, which blinds something you burn. That has an 8 sec cooldown and all it is is a simple blind. And ele has nowhere near the access to burn that a necro has to chill. Yet an 8 sec cooldown is fine for that and doesnt make it useless, it keeps it from being overpowered like deathly chill is.

Those of you being carried by that trait need to realize this. It will still be good even with an icd, you just wont be able to roll your face across the keyboard anymore and will have to space out your chills intelligently to get the max out of it, but it needs an icd. You shouldnt be able to solo stack that many bleeds in such a short amount of time.

It wouldn’t be balanced and would make it completely useless. Basically just revert a reaper back to a walking lootbag. 2 bleeds no icd would be alright. if you’re getting insta 25+ stacks stop standing in a kitten ice field combo.

arnitheking.8427:

Anyone else experiencing issues with server transfers? I wanted to join underworld but I’ve been stuck in the transfer screen (Character selection screen) for ages (with the “are you sure you want to transfer” message up) and nothing is clickable.

The bandwagoning has started!

not sure how you figure RoF+AG to be interesting. Ag with 2 link managed like 8k kills in total last week… they had mass exodus. FSP not srue why they got a link even if it is 2 ppl.

Gandara got a good link in UW. Quite a few players on UW. That’s the interesting link to me.

I guess we will find out soon enough. Can tell Anet doesn’t play WvW but for maybe 30 minutes at a time in a small group.

2 stacks would probably be about right instead of 3. 1 was quite underwhelming tbh. The problem also is many players haven’t adapted to fighting reapers. So many players just eat S5-S4 combos like it’s no big deal… its easy to avoid therefore you won’t have 20+ bleeds on you. People just like to stick onto reapers and face tank them in WvW… you can but you need to time it after their shroud combo.

msalakka.4653:

pointaction.4639:

Over all just make all the maps more fun, challenging and enjoyable to play on.

See this is where it all goes off the rails.

I bet “more fun, challenging, and enjoyable” were pretty much what the goal of the designer’s original concept for the DBL was.

I am very thick-skulled so it takes me a while to grasp things, but I still don’t understand why people keep yammering about new maps. They took years to fix the trebs from spawn issue on the Alpine, and now the DBL has trebs at the southeast spawn that will undoubtedly take years to fix again. If Alpine has an issue why it’s no longer sufficient to play on – fix it. Don’t just introduce new maps that couple the same old problems with fresh new ones.

People put too much faith in the power of a new map. To create one is a massive undertaking in terms of employee time and resources. Why dedicate that amount of man hours on something that isn’t going to solve the problem. Taking 40 stacks of bleed from a necro isn’t going to be more fun, challenging, and enjoyable on the new map.

I agree, besides your last statement. If you are taking 40+ bleeds from a necro outside an epidemic… You must be standing still like a zombie.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

I’m aware of Tyler’s posts, which if you read them don’t ever promise a 3rd borderlands map. I just wanted to clarify that nowhere in the polls did we say anything about creating a 3rd borderlands map, even though that is stated as a ‘fact’ over and over again on the forums.

Clearly…

The devs at the time clearly didn’t know anything and clearly skewed their wording and misguided the community base.

The first video he clearly was attacking the guards of which you ran towards and he epi’d them. Pretty kitten clear.

The 2nd video he only had 3 stacks of bleeding on you… 25vuln stacks tho.

EU or NA?
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instead of sitting in a keep, the dedicated can escort dollies and hold camps. not all that glorifying always but can get A LOT of nice skirmishes trying to hold camps that can be a lot of fun. I don’t miss the old system at all.

Reapers dont throw out 25 stacks of bleed out of “nowhere” RS5-RS4 combo isn’t out of no where. Stay out of their ice field and stop trying to faceroll a reaper in shroud if you can’t handle it.

They used to have them here a few years back. It was toxic and trolling. I found it amusing reading the stuff but it doesn’t belong here.

it happens much, much less at least in EU on alpine bl (during prime or near prime).

It’s made for the national servers so they can ninja/ktrain without having to fight

KrHome.1920:

Warlord.9074:

I have never seen 65% of wvw players in desert BL it is more like 5% guys.

I don’t know how accurate wvwintel is. But if it’s accurate you a pretty wrong.

Kills are much lower than on alpine borderlands, but far away form 5%. It’s more like 50%.

Personally I like the desert borderlands.

(Screen shows the current matchup between Kodash, Baruch Bay and Augury Rock)

Well there you go! Sorry but many national servers love to try and blob that map for easy caps usually. The international servers I rarely see there. Check out the international server MUs and screenshot those over here.

I used to kind of enjoy it. Especially since I basically only roam. Now I just have a negative attitude towards it as there are so many siege spots on the map that are just ridiculous and almost impossible to defend against. Much harder to siege up a keep properly imo. The landscape is terrible, at least they improved the Earth keep shrine with those rocks being gone. I think the mobility on the shrines is silly. Trying to knock people off cliffs near Air keep is just absolutely silly too. It’s not ignorance at all. I’ve played the map A LOT.

This because I’m sick of DBL

hmm well I don’t think soul marks is a must in wvw. pvp yes. The mobility plus 3 seconds of going into shroud can be a huge difference in fights. Considering many roamers will avoid you while you are in shroud and tear you apart when you come out having 3 less seconds is huge for survival… i mean yea you want your staff 3-5 to hit I say better to time your marks and have the extra survival.

plague signet is great for roaming. Yes you have it traited but when you fight condi mesmers its nice having a fairly reliable transfer that will make them burn their condi clears or basically kill themselves. plus its a stun break. time it tho. Rise can be good 1vx, its fairly situationalbut as a roamer you get a lot of those instances.

Perplexity isn’t bad. It’s an extra condition to stack upon your bleeds for the enemy to clear so you are good their imo. There are a few good options tho.

You’ll have to try it out and tweak as you go to your playstyle and preference.

lord NPCs tower/keep are not affected by immobolize. As far as players go, it could be a multitude of things.

That’s weird considering at the moment ER has almost 29k kill for the week. With that sadly AG is hard to find, but you must be roaming wrong because I know you can always find some of their roamers in much less that 10minutes. DL not sure how you haven’t ran into their blobs and well ER blobs must be running tagless then lol.

EU primetime?

T5 EU > T1 NA

I’m from RoF and couldn’t stand being linked with GH. Not necessarily the people there but our MUs in general…and surprise same link basically… now I might just do my own “relinking”

Well in WvW you also get other loot/drops.

EU national servers

RoF is getting worse because people are not playing. I am not even playing anymore hardly, simply because it is extremely boring. Same MU, same unequal numbers, over n over. Roamed a couple times over the last couple of weeks found nothing overly impressive except for the fact I don’t see many friendly names that used to be around. Snooze fest. Of course RoF is unorganized with almost no one on TS because many of the players that care are sick of fighting the uphill fight.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

Eh? We faced rof/wsr 3 times since the first link happened and we (GH) was getting dominated by them, now that we got linked up with a different server to make the numbers even, rof/wsr seem to of given up.

We use face you guys with much bigger numbers then us, a lot of the time GH had the outnumbered buff when yu came to our bl.

RoF only finished ahead of GH once all linkups recheck your scores… just because it was the very last MU doesn’t excuse you for having such a short memory.

RoF+WSR for last place guaranteed bottom of the barrel for 2 months /cheer GG anet

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Poll-6-June-World-Linking-Schedule-CLOSED/page/3

It’s been known for quite some time relinking would be done on June 24th.

I’m a WvW’er player… I made Nevermore because I really wanted it… So I was pushed to play PvE… I finished my HoT storyline and grinded to get masteries and using as many xp boosters to get xp and finish map completion… It was absolutely God awful and I’d never do it again. I spent way too much gold on making the precursor to give up. I spent way more time doing that than getting a Gift of Battle. It is just part of the process now. If it was always this way no one would say anything… The point is sometimes when you really want something you have to do some things you really don’t want to do… or in my case a helluvalot of crap I didn’t want to do. Do a little at a time get your dailies to give you a boost then go back to PvE or whatever it is you like to do.

Valejo.1950:

This thread is just rlly sad… to see how toxic some wvw’lers are… allways moaning, and complaining, and being happy others have to suffer. I can understand that you dont like 100% World, im not a fan of this either, even though i think seeing the whole world is a part of being legendary, i liked it far more when you had to complete the wvw map with it, since i thought it made sence. But the point with map completion is, YOU DONT NEED ANYONE or anything for that. I accepted the fact that i have to do the track… and guess what there are so little players on my server, and pretty much every time we try anything we are getting wipped that im already cursing this bs after 2h… maybe it’ll change, maybe my server will, after 2 months of constant decline suddendly get strong…who knows? Btw 500 Dungeon badges can now be acquiert by the tracks. I dont like the idea of binding stuff to certain content like they did it since HoT’s, dont know why the pvp back is in my Opinion so much nicer, but ill never be able do get it, but thats an other topic. so in the the end i dont like the change, and i think the reaction of some ppl here is sad.
sorry for ever spelling mistake.

Right…. because almost every “meta-event” on the PvE maps people aren’t yelling at other people, moaning, or complaining… IT is strictly just “wvw’lers” smh…

Anything us WvWers want that is shiny or nice we basically are forced out of our game mode to get so just stop. There are boosters you can buy to take off a significant amount of time

Obsidian Sanctum? At least for scrimming.

Wolfvox.7854:

Anet…first off let’s not use the terms WVW Population or WVW Community. There is NO WVW Population. At any given time anyone can be in WVW just like all the other areas of the game. It’s a SERVER Population. The WVW Community is the vast number of players who want to play WVW. Let’s see who is voting in the POLLS. At spawn there are 2 ppl in the corner practicing their emotes, 3 by the Laurel vendor talking about Game of Thrones, then the 4 ppl crafting and the others zipping in and out to use the bank/trader and finally, you have the boat load of ppl who really dont play WVW or know too much about it. They just come in to get their dailies and are gone. Sometimes leaving at a bad time to let other ppl die in fights. I wonder how many ppl just bought the game and are voting and possibly changing the future of WVW for the rest of us after they leave the game to go play DOOM or any other title of the month. WVW has been in a downward spiral since HOT. You have no idea how many ppl you chased away by just perm contesting the wp’s in the home desert bls. That was a bonehead move! Your quick fixes after the fact seem lazy to me. This forced “merger” called being linked has not accomplished a thing. The week AFTER the spring update was great. I saw more ppl coming back talking up WVW and it was a pretty fun week. You didn’t give it enough time. Then came the linking, then came the q’s, then came the zerg/blob fighting on most maps. Not too many nails left to be driven into this WVW coffin. Hire a full time admin person, give them a computer with a survey email address. You have all our email addresses. Send out REAL surveys to ALL the ppl. Yeah you are gonna get some stupid responses but i’m pretty sure you are gonna get some constructive stuff also. Not everyone uses the forums. Not everyone responds to the polls. I even know some avid WVW players who knew nothing about the polls. If you are gonna Dictate what is good for us like the link/merge just do it. Our opinion’s won’t really matter. I hope all the ppl who voted to keep the linking are enjoying DOOM after they log out of GW2 after a mindless zerg/blobbing romp for 20 minutes.. You could have left the servers alone and intact by using a map limit number. You know exactly when to shut off miniatures. Why couldn’t you do this with players on a map, oh wait…that’s already being done? Well how about adjusting the numbers then? Anyone who didn’t like the play was always open to transfer, instead half of us ALL got transferred whether we liked it or not!

If they didn’t know about the polls that is THEIR fault…especially if they are “avid” players… Like you actually get in game mail from Anet when you gain a WvW rank giving you a link to the polls… It is their fault if they don’t read them and just delete them. It is also their fault for not being aware and informed of what is going on.

Reisinger.4203:

Regardless of whether or not it was announced or someone is crafting their legendary right now, it was a bad change that unnecessarily gates an otherwise reasonably accessible item for legendary crafting

I think all the PvE BS that is often required is unnecessary gates BS as well… so what’s your point? If we don’t want to do dungeons for tokens for some of the legendaries we are forced to do time gated reward tracks that reward those tokens…

Bogomil.6180:

Well when did they ever communicate such a change? I mean if they would have done this we all would sit on 20+ gob. So you can guess it was intentional.

They did in April… I thought the change had already happened before this. When they announced it I bought 1 just for the hell of it. Glad people who are now complaining learned how to read patch notes and updates finally.

Hushy.9530:

apharma.3741:

Fazz Um.1537:

As Vova points out correctly, this link has been on for quite some time.

Friendships have been established.
Recruitment might not have been standing still either and we are now at a point where unlinking us now is going break more then it could have fixed initially.

I understand that you apharma, I don’t want you to lose your server or community, I want to expand it actually.
I would actually opt for a clear merger where our names co-exist:
Ring of Fire & Whiteside Ridge.

I don’t think you do understand, RoF has never been bottom, they have never been in a situation where at prime time there might be 7-8 people in the whole of EB. Where people have had time to take a camp, make 3 trips to build a super cata, take down both hills outer and inner, then had to solo the Lord with no-one coming to defend.

Where you could go a full hour without seeing anyone at all, where you have lost everything because it just happens that at that time the enemy server has 10 people and thus can take almost everything (before disablers) and you had to hope you could build enough super ACs in the keep to stop them PVDing it.

These are the bad times I talk of, these are the times that people on WSR, UW, FoW, RoS, Fort Ranik and a few others know of and have clawed themselves out of nothingness to make a difference. Where you have been bottom of bottom, there is no point in doing WvW as you actually get nothing from it and certainly when there was the whole hacker fiasco it was pointless doing anything.

That’s without mentioning that some people do not like how blobby these linkings have made WvW. A lot of people would welcome a good old RoF, WSR, Arbor type match up where there’s a lot less blobs and small roaming guilds like AoC, OTAN, CURE and TasH can actually do stuff without having 30 people respond by WPing in and training over them.

Actually RoF has been bottom and has spent most of its time around rank 19-21. I remember the days when we fought blacktide etc and were rank 22.

RoFs history has been pretty volatile through bronze/silver over the years with many guilds building up on our server then transferring up to higher ranks (im sure this can be said about most servers). We have never had a huge population, just a dedicated community who have work hard to try and push us forward and keep us as high as possible.

We have always had stints were our community pushes really hard and gets into silver league and starts to look competitive then we burn out and fall down the ranks again.

We have experienced the pain of losing 5-6 main guilds all at once a basically droping tiers while being unable to do anything about it.

I do feel strongly however that regardless of what happens Anet needs to unlink some of the more popular servers like Deso, Gandara, Drakkar.

Due to the way that server linking has worked servers like the ones i mentioned above that already had high population have received links where as servers like RoF and WSR which have pretty low populations have been left at the bottom of the pile merged together.

Currently from a RoF/WSR pov we have several days during the week where we have barely anyone that plays. While DL/MS & Viz/arbor still have 1-2 60+man blobs running round with several guilds as well.

That’s not bottom. Try being stuck in T9 and you’ll understand T7 isn’t all that bad… a MU or 2 in T8sucks but it isn’t the bottom

Well being only a wvw player here, the reward tracks have actually made me quite a bit of gold. The rewards in WvW were almost nothing before these reward tracks so it just helps us WvW players receive something. The countdown on reward tracks is because they rotate some in and out. Also they help you complete collections if you’re into that kind of thing. They removed the memories of battles from rank up chests so reward tracks are the only way I know as of now… buy them now before they go further up in price.

You should be hitting these players before they are even downed… marks before engagements, wells during, more marks, shroud AOE… marks triggered will still hit a downed enemy. Downed enemy use that famous 1 skill.

Making Thursday worth more will cause a lot of resentment from many players.

fishball.7204:

You must be in some wood tier if you can make 20k-40k points in 1 night.

In EU the “night hours” are longer in the sense there is more downtime hours when you don’t have “SEA/OCX” players So if you get multiple T3 objectives and the players waking up from your server defend those T3 structures even if they are in enemy Bl’s… it snowballs into that 20-40k points in a day. With a good night cap team that basically tick 600+ dumps off to a decent 8-9 am morning crew.. Game Over.

I know it is a big problem on EU servers.

Bay is the only thing that upgrades fast. Even garri isn’t that fast unless no one takes any camps or snipes dollies, which was gthe same case before. Hills and north towers takes ages…