Guild Wars 2

I have been experiencing intermittent TERRIBLE lag resulting from ridiculous packet loss ever since the newest PvP series started a few weeks ago. Is NcSoft, Anet, or any of its subsidiaries, parent companies, or lackeys diverting server power from the game to allow for this PvP event and, in turn, degrading from the overall quality of game for everyone else?

All my ascended gear from laurels is in MF. With limited endgame material, grinding for high tier crafting materials and precursors in order to get legendary weapons has become the norm for not just me but many of my guildmates and friends.
What happens to ascended gear?
Do we get our laurels back?
Are we forced to accept a power buff instead of the original MF buff?
Do we get to change the stats on these items out of combat like the new ascended crafting gear?
Aside from having an imbalance of incomes for Guild Wars 2 players, do we really expect in game inflation to not occur? If balancing the economy or MF for casuals to get a better experience is the goal of this change then several other options are more viable than removing a mechanic that so many players have spent months building and saving for.
Many MMO’s already have built in experience boosts for accounts (and even player specific boosts within accounts) for periods of inactivity. Why not apply this to MF? Every 3 hours of inactivity equates to 1% magic find for 30 minutes with, for example, a 50% max buff? This could be upped to 1 hour for 3 days inactivity, 2 hours for a week, a whole day for a month etc.
The same could apply to the purchasing and selling of Gems in the gem store. For example, a player has not played Guild Wars 2 in 2 weeks – now they get 10% off purchasing gems or a 10% discount buying gold with gems. Again, increase the amount for a month of inactivity, 6 months inactivity, etc. Bring players back to Guild Wars and continue encouraging them to invest in the game.
I don’t mind that precursors cost what would take me 9 months of 40hrs/week of farming. If and when I have one drop I will either craft one, or finish what I need in order to do so.
I do mind that a year after release developers are going to eradicate a mechanic that allowed a few players (I seriously doubt that even 10% of GW2 players have legendries) to get these extremely rare items and force everyone else to start at square one in their efforts.

You know what happens when the new kid asserts himself with a show of strength to the resident tough guys?
Well we do now!
Amazing fights with bags and glory last night, and amazing fights with a few less bags and far more repair bills tonight.
Keep up the amazing fights, and hold the line!

I’m thinking a change in the ratings without manipulating the base algorithm may be in order. It may, and I emphasize MAY, change things up enough to allow for variety while giving servers a shot at the next higher tier (or push servers down a tier even if they barely cling on just before reset).

What if Arena Net ranked WvW based on daily/weekly/monthly scores?

MOS gives us all a pretty good idea of how we fare throughout the week in our rankings/ratings; and most of us will acknowledge that until somewhere between Monday and Thursday that number is extremely fluid. Why not include these daily fluctuations into the overall equation?

Daily ratings get applied every day at reset or 00:01 server time.
Weekly ratings are applied as they are now – but are balanced with the bias of daily wins or losses as they would be now for weekly (anywhere from +/- 1% to +/- 5% for daily wins and losses).

Monthly ratings could be anything from what overall rank your server has been throughout the weeks to the total positive or negative rating points your server has earned/lost; again applied with a bias to the weekly scores.

Keep resetting the matchups every week and the servers that shine and throw their all into it at certain points while not being able to maintain the same level of participation all week long may get the reward they’ve been waiting for. Or I just had a fun thought while taking a 20 minute break from the game.

Good luck and have fun!

Wow,

I know I shouldn’t be suprised, but I still can’t help it. So much finger pointing going on in the threads for the last several weeks. And the worst part about it is all the “Forum Warriors” wearing their infractions and suspensions as if they were badges of honor. It’s just sad.

I personally am still enjoying great fights while witnessing evolving strategy and even seeing some old and reliable tactics resurface. Still have to hit PvE to keep my account coffers stocked but then again I never really enjoyed the chaos of large 30+ vs 30+ combat. I’ll try to get over it and earn my karma/coin while helping my server.

Good luck and enjoy the battles this week!

Ooooh, Shiney!

An unblemished topic to discuss.

I agree with the OP and the other posters here in that WvW is still largely undiscovered by the average GW2 player and still new to far more players than we WvWer’s care to admit…

How do you maximize your potential benefits and minimize your enemy’s to gain the upperhand? All the while, controlling your mindless Zerg and keeping things interesting for the new casual players? AND at the same time using your strongest, fastest, hardest players to storm your short term objectives… While looking to your team’s progression?

Exactly as stated above – training, discipline, and patience.

We expect a lot out of WvW when in reality we have put VERY little time in to it! 5 and 1/2 months and several claim to be Field Marshall’s just for the sake of glory!?!?

Let’s all learn and grow and have fun!

Thanks Dia, I was in Hills for the portal and was made quite toasty by the invaders. We fought hard for the keep having just overcome outmanned buff not 20 minutes before but fell victim to overconfidence and would be equal numbers a little too soon. The simultaneous would be assault on Bay that failed kinda hit hard for several players for DB.

Having fun this week, tons of fights to be had on all maps!

However, I’m really saddened by the tone the forums have taken the past 3 weeks though. Seems our amicable bouts of wuvwuv are a thing if the past – if we judge the matches by their threads.

Keep up the good fights, awesome duels, and pleasant siege shenanigans. And hold the line DB!

I love GW and GW2 but it is very obvious that what should be and will be, as well as what should stay and what will stay, aren’t going to happen. Culling = poor infrastructure and wanting to deliver a service to the maximum number of people possible PERIOD. Skill effects hinder rendering so they have to be minimalized. Even players on the battlefield are too much at the current time – we can’t expect to have our cake and eat it too. We get our samples, and we can be thankful for them or get something else.
PvE works fine save for Dragon events but the bloodrage will not die anytime soon. WvW will get more perks to draw players and keep them interested in the game, whether they WvW regularly or not, but it will not make WvW what we veteran’s want. It will merely be that sample, the taste of what could be.

Kinda wish I could hit the rewind button to anywhere between Halloween and New Years. Familiar faces, smaller “zergs” and everyone playing together on map and team chat. Se la Vi, keep holding the line DB!

What a night! I made it a point to hop around and avoid lag in SM as much as possible tonight and it payed off!

Amazing battles in DB BL from reset to +3 hours. Defending Darrison was a true joy!

Great fights in Kain BL from +3 to +4 1/2 hours – Maguuma is a lot of laughs and held that garrison bitterly!

Hopped into EB to see DB’s Zerg roll for a few minutes and back into DB BL to watch (RISE) sweep our garrison with 10+ golems!

Mag DB was on lockdown after that with Kaineng pushing the East and PRO and NNK holding down Bay and the west of the map!

Shout outs to all the DB regulars out in force tonight that I encountered! Krew, WE, ToA, EA, UhOh, PRO, NNK, and all the others! A true pleasure!

ANet tried to quick patch the GiB issue and broke login’s? LOLZ – QQ serving our player base yet again!

I only /dance over corpses in one place while in WvW and that is in Pangloss when we are the red server. If you are in Pang as a red and you have time to dance, your server earned it.

Wow, this week’s reset is even better than last week! Epic Battles all over, and the numbers… I knew we got transfers from a few guilds over the last few weeks, but we too have an imbalance of new additions. There are a lot of new PuG and lone ranger types posting in /team, map, say etc.

Now to get ANet to properly support these ridiculously awesome fights w/out DC’s, crashes, and lag…

And to all the Maguuma players longing for smaller scale warfare – I feel you! My thief is relegated to Monday-Thursday play. Time to level my Warrior and brush up on my Guardian Zerg skills yet again.

I don’t really see DB considering this a grudge Tier and I’m hoping we can prove what we proved in Tier 4. That we are moving up.
The monstrous growth of Maguuma and Kaining only happened because of their diehard regulars proving themselves worthy of WvW fun. Noone swarmed to drama filled servers this last week (save for Tier 1 and 2).
IoJ guilds moved to FA to keep fighting decent sized battles instead of being relegated to smaller battles.
And DB holds our own because of the determination of our WvW core, Asian, NA, & Oceanic. Our transfers from the last few weeks gave our Asian and oceanic guilds a chance to stretch their legs against more equally numbered opponents and bolstered our NA determination!
I’m crazy excited to see what will happen over the next few weeks and later!
No grudges here Ser!

So the lag and crashing normal for reset night in T3? I don’t remember it being like this the last time we were here, but that was a long… LONG time ago.

Great fights so far, one of the best reset nights I can recall! Let’s all keep it up!!!

Great fights all week, I learned a lot and had even more fun! Good luck to everyone in this next week of WvW, I suspect those of us on Dragonbrand may need a little with FA’s newfound strength. It’s like Dolf Lundgren and Silvester Stalone had a angry roid popping lovechild… shold be fun!!!

To the EB thief outside Quentin Lake Sentry – I was really looking forward to getting my kitten handed to me in a duel. Of course a YB thief had to spoil the fun as I popped my food buffs 2 sec too late and proceed to down me. Then three of my heroic server mates showed up to join in the festivities… Good show putting down the YB defiler and I look forward to meeting you again in single combat and learning from the experience!

Armor rating for lvl 30 rare on a lvl 30 character will equal lvl 80 rare armor on a lvl 80 character, but after lvl 30 it does not scale equally. You will have a lower armor rating as a lvl 35 character wearing lvl 30 gear.
Not sure why, but I experienced this with my Guardian while doing WvW between levels 33-38. This might be due to masterwork armor having better stats than lower lvl rare armor while being 1-3 lvl’s lower in requirement than the next teir of rare armor. There is a point when using green armor is better than keeping old rare armor and waiting to lvl up to the next set of rares.

Ack! You jumped me and my guildees in the JP and got badges off of us while we were trying to get badges! How dare you! Never follow an inebriated GL into the JP on reset while inebriated…

Well the amount of fun I am having playing this week’s matchup is almost equal to the amount of moaning in this thread. I look forward to some great fights today defending what our awesome Oceanic/Asian players and guilds have captured, and losing them slowly until the end of NA prime.

I actually appreciate the time all of us on Dragonbrand spent falling from Teir 2. It conditioned us to enjoy playing the game whether we are karma training or scratching to hold on to the last few points on the map. Now – Come on, hit me! I dare you!!

Wow, last night was amazing! I think that in the last 2 or 3 months we have had 3 Friday nights where we were REALLY hard pressed in our BL! Our first match up with DH and BP and our last Teir 4 matchup. It kinda spins us for a loop when we aren’t used to having to throw up a decent amount of defensive siege in our garrison the first 2 hours after reset. Well played Yaks and EBay!

It was also nice having 2 maps que’d at the same time and decent sized groups on a third. Been over 3 months since that happened!

To our new guilds; 2 in particular – Krew, who helped keep EB out of crag on DB BL – and WE, who was out in force on YB BL – Welcome! I hope that in the next few weeks as DB adjusts to our new population size we can really start to shine!

And to our stalwart NA WvW guilds – EA, UhOh, Duel, War – and the others – NNK, KUSO, and Shva – thanks for keeping us in the fight to experience nights like yesterday!

Good luck in the coming days and I look forward to seeing all of you on the field!

3 Superior Arrow Carts or 5 Arrow Carts will melt pretty much any Golem Zerg. We always try to place 4-5 carts at our keep and SM gates specifically for this kind of defense.

Had some epic fights last night, and more fun on a Friday than I’ve had in months.
SM was too hot to handle for 3 hours and saw some great fights and strategies by both BP and DH in attacking and defending. I hated and loved seeing BP set up siege in the hallways after the Lord’s Room became a mangled heap of bodies form all three sides. DH masterfully flanked along the outside of the inner fortifications to pull stragglers and push BP’s or DB’s zergs into the other. And the 15 minute ninja cap on SM when we became overextended and weren’t paying attention.

After running yak’s and charging along with our zergs for a few hours my poor Guardian’s feelings were hurt by the skill of both BP’s and DH’s roaming gank and capture groups. Fought (and lost more than I liked) against some great D/D ele’s, condition thiefs, bunker engi’s, and nasty nasty mesmer’s across DB BL, EB, and DH BL.

Swapped to my thief to do my own ganking and capping and still had my feelings hurt in DH BL by the aforementioned classes from both servers (though the win/loss balanced out a little more, but still not quite in my favor). Ended the evening trying to hold DB keep against the steady flow of DH defenders filling the hill/cliff inside the outer walls will siege. Awesome fights all over the map last night!

It’s not always fun when your server starts to get a big point lead and opponents start to log, but I learned a lot (read as “was schooled a lot”) from the very skilled and devoted players who stuck around last night into the early hours of this morning. Thanks for a memorable Friday in WvW!

I think Yaks took naps to be ready for our Asiatic guilds. Great match up so far!

Thanks for the response! Keep the lines open!

Children across Kryta squealed with delight this evening as the unthinkable came to pass – - the Mad King appeared!
They flocked in droves to the city of hope, rebuilt from the remnants of time past and kindled anew the memories of yesteryear. Carving pumpkins, flinging food, busting ghosts, and reveling in the joyous frivolity of spooky antics and scrumptious goodies.
Alas, all were merry – save we few. We solemn few.
Those of us who leaped from our log-ins to defend our hard earned spoils in the Mists. Who fought single-handed the invaders who sought to topple oh so easily what we had toiled to build.
Dashed were the hopes of finding our friends waiting; meeting our comrades with arms held high in defiance to the overwhelming onslaught! Pain awaited.
Empty keeps and abandoned garrisons fluttered to an unfriendly hue. Frantic war parties scratched and clawed at their foes to no avail, the Mad King had arrived.
Limping home in defeat the survivors beheld an alarming spectacle before them. No battered soldiers awaited to console and counsel them, no weeping widows or orphaned children lamented the losses of the evening. An entire world reveled in the return of a long lost fairy tale, a vision of happy times long since past – save we few.
We solemn few.