Guild Wars 2

I can’t even get onto my character selection page in order to change my graphics settings The page begins to load… but doesn’t complete, leaving me without the links I need to change anything.

I debated the Ghostly Outfit. Almost didn’t… but I thought ‘dude, support the game’

kitten!

Mine was fine until 18:00 CET, when the sales changed in the TP. Since then, I can’t log on. Character selection page starts to load, but only half the graphics do so. I can’t choose a character.

Zerkereaper… because Reaper’s Shroud is as cool as it looks.

Until you achieve balance by fielding three equal-size teams, so that skill matters, WvW will be fundamentally flawed. All other ‘features’ are mere distractions from this failure.

RoyalD.9782:

Will Arenanet offers some kind of compensation for this?

:D

The aggrieved party demands restitution!

:D

CRUNCH

I’m happy to report the crickets are no longer chirping.

Of all the issues that need fixing I hope they don’t spend even a second on this one. Seriously, dude…

1. Open the chests as you get them. The stuff inside stacks;

2. Stop being silly.

I agree with the OP. I, too, have already leveled all my alts in EotM… so it’s no longer useful

Hmm, previously-earned extra WvW ranks are still worth nothing. That is unfortunate.

I have a friend who started GW2 about the same time as I. He chose map completion. I chose WvW. Until recently he sat on 1600 worthless hero points (200 per alt, 8 alts) while I sat on 1500 worthless WvW ranks (above the 900 or so I need to complete all WvW tracks).

Now his 1600 hero points are very valuable… while my 1500 extra WvW ranks are still worthless… despite the fact that my 1500 took longer to gather than his 1600. They should at least be worth as much. Wasn’t there talk about WvW and PvE being treated equally? Why is PvE rewarded while WvW is still treated like the unwanted stepchild? With 200 hero points per alt, he’ll have all elite specializations done quickly… while I’m forced to GRIND map completions… or GRIND a lot of additional WvW.

That’s a lot of grinding in a game not all about the grind

Please take another look at this decision. It appears quite unfair to WvW players. If there is good cause not to value our time in WvW as much as PvE is being valued please let us know. Right now the decision feels arbitrary and anti-WvW.

Cheers, and thanks in advance if someone actually responds.

I must be doing something wrong My Guardian now has 200 less armor and needs an extra hit to kill… what used to fall after GS 2 now requires a 1 followup for good measure.

Oh well. At least my beloved Necro feels like he discovered steroids

Screw the Hero Points. Reaching level 80 is TOO easy. What really sucks is that some characters have changed so much that their current gear is no longer appropriate. For instance, I spent a lot of time finishing ascended gear for my Guardian. Now, having lost 200 points of armor, I’d have chosen different armor to reach that all-important 2800-3000 armor mark. Result? Guardian gets shelved… and a small list of reasons to keep playing shrinks further yet.

:(

Ascended equipment reset!!!

:)

Yeah. I’m aware it’ll never happen. Cheers.

I’m not sure about ‘best’, but some seem to have improved more than others. All characters are level 80 and have 100% ascended, armor, weapons, and trinkets, including back. Relative to before…

My Necro seems significantly stronger.

My Warrior and Elementalist seem slightly stronger.

My Mesmer seems about the same.

My Guardian seems slightly weaker.

No hard data. Just a feeling I get from playing. Cheers.

Brewergamer.8357:

I think WvW should have megaserver technology like EOTM so it can stay populated, WvW maps are dead as of now.

Not sure how that would work, but I agree we need a dramatic change. Megaserver WvW just may be the answer…

Be honest. Do you think the majority of players in the bandwagon blob had the hundreds of gold needed to transfer? Think of the skill level… or lack thereof. My sense is most are newer/younger players spending mom and dad’s money. Real world money.

Imho it’s pay to win… and it’s messing up a feature that might have been… potentially… cool. Both WvW and EotM suffer from server/team imbalances… and the ability to transfer to the blob, however you pay for it, is a large part of the problem.

Balanced WvW and EotM could be SO cool. Yeah, probably won’t happen… but one can dream

It is pay to win… and apparently a tougher concept than I thought. Is there anyone there who can help you?

You must be part of the blob. The only players clueless to the effects are the ones doing it. SFR… or the NA version?

It works like this: when we’re teamed with SFR I earn about double the karma and XP that I do when we’re constantly interrupted by SFR. Joining SFR costs money. Pay to transfer = earn more karma, XP, and loot = pay to win. It’s not a tough concept. Hope that helped.

Seriously? 1 and 2 versus 3 and 4 versus 5 and 6? Have you never played playground sports?

1 and 6 versus 2 and 5 versus 3 and 4 would be the logical solution. Even that won’t work because of the pay-to-win bandwagon blob… but at least the two losing sides are equally screwed and can compete with one another for the win.

You can’t win if you can’t lose.

Cheers

Dayra.7405:

But as usual ANet isn’t able to make a game mode that isn’t at least 3:1 imbalanced.

I think the bandwagon blob is planned… as in €22,50 to transfer for fast and easy farming of players who still refuse to pay.

Unfortunately, it makes any decent match-up impossible. Either you’re woefully outnumbered and constantly interrupted by some tool commander who thinks it’s funny to ruin other players’ enjoyment of the game… or you end up playing with embarrassingly unskilled players who’ve never needed to learn the game because they always outnumber their opponents 3:1. There’s no fun there… on either side.

1800 gems (€22,50) to transfer to SFR’s bandwagon blob for guaranteed maximum rewards from easy farming on EotM and first place WvW prizes during tournaments.

Anet can’t admit it’s pay-to-win but the message is loud and clear: pay it and enjoy… or save your money and remain a loot bag for those who paid

Buy 1800 gems and transfer to SFR for guaranteed first-place WvW prizes and maximum XP, karma, and loot bags from EotM. It’s amazing the difference ‘training’ that doesn’t constantly get interrupted by a bigger zerg can earn.

No skill required! Pay to win ftw!

Oh… and before you whine about hate… I’m serious. I’d transfer in a heartbeat. Servers mean nothing anymore. Why wouldn’t one want to be on the side guaranteed to win.

On sale now! 2400 gems (€30). Transfer to no. 1 server for guaranteed WvW first place prizes and easy, thought-free EotM trains for double the Karma, loot, and XP of those ‘lootbag’ servers full of players too cheap to pay-to-win.

Anet wants to get paid, yo. It’s a business model. Stop whining. Either pay up and collect… or remain a lootbag.

‘Outmanned’ is significant… just not for the reason one might wish. In actuality, the Outmanned icon is a reminder of just how poorly WvW is done in GW2.

It’s the ‘Dev fail’ icon

I recently reached silver and thought ‘I spend WAY too much time here’. Seeing this I don’t know what to say. Congratulations on the vitamin D deficiency?

Not even a well disguised whine.

I used to love WvW… but the lag is a drag… and boring, predictable, and repetitive match-ups have pretty much destroyed it. Now I go to EotM and hope for big zerg versus zerg battles. Less lag. Better map.

In fact, the map is AMAZING… but the match-ups are as bad, if not worse, than in WvW. It is SO much fun when a pair of equal-sized zergs meet. Yes there are flag bearers (some might call them commanders) who will run… but often a cool fight ensues. Is it really so hard to guarantee equal sides? I always wonder about that Dev-Fail icon (Outnumbered). Is it difficult to get three same-size teams? Server means NOTHING here. Why not assign them to colors as they join: green, blue, red, green, blue, red, etc. (playground rules) Equal sides will support more fights because the excuses for losing will be gone. Red can run from green without shame when it’s 100 versus 20… but at 60 versus 60 only the coward will run.

Great map… suckage match-ups. Could be amazing with just a little tweak.

Cheers.

Blanger.3162:

….when you’re leading sheep sometimes you have to give them the direction they need to follow.

Funny how the people who don’t play the way you think they should are sheep… but you’re probably convinced you aren’t a cowardly keyboard commando.

Jim Hunter.6821:

I’m sorry I believe you posted this in the wrong sub forum. This is the WvW forum, not the PvE karma train forum.

ykyk.2740:

We calling EOTM WvW now?

Jim Hunter.6821:

Please be careful with the sarcasm, Anet might actually believe that people consider eotm to be part of WvW and that the map isn’t a complete waste of time and resources that should have been spent on actual WvW.

Redefining WvWvW… Whine versus Whine versus Whine. My aching ears… um… eyes. It’s no wonder Anet doesn’t bother responding.

Rieselle.5079:

They don’t have to accept every random newbie.

You need go no further than right here to see why this would be a horrible idea.

Snowreap.5174:

Right now in NA, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21. The following are blue: 1, 5, 8, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23. The following are red: 3, 6, 9, 10, 16, 19, 20, 24.

In EU, the following ranked worlds are green: 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 25. The following are blue: 3, 4, 6, 11, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26. The following are red: 1, 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27.

The underlying assumption behind OP’s idea is actually not true.

-ken

Yup. That was my feeling as well. We’re green this week (EU no. 5) and we’re often outnumbered while during the Spring tournament the Green Machine was untouchable. A change was made? It’s great if that happened. I’m just looking for confirmation from Anet… in lieu of the announcement they apparently forgot to make.

Cheers.

Garcon! Cheese, please. No, thank you. We have plenty of whine…

Junkpile.7439:

Lot’s of fights in EotM.

Yup. Just came from there. Saw 20 red run from 80 green twice and killed a few PvE champs, capping for a bit of karma, XP, and loot.

But where we really rocked… where we crushed our enemies without mercy… was in PvD. Those poor doors, and there were many, had not a chance

I used to love WvW on Gandara… but can’t even be bothered to check our score at the moment. Until we have 27 fairly equal servers for WvW, and three equal sides for EotM, those features will continue to die.

Is it really that difficult? Follow the queues for WvW. Allow new sign-ups only on servers with low/no queues. Allow moves only away from full servers towards empty ones.

For EotM, where server means NOTHING, have a rolling sign up: first player green, second blue, third red, fourth green, etc. EotM could be cool with three equal sides encouraging zerg versus zerg conflicts. As it stands it competes for one of the worst planned features of any game I’ve ever played.

I really want to enjoy WvW and EotM. Why make it so hard to do so?

Cheers.

Waffler.1257:

I let all my allies die whether it’s a fair fight or not. It will only make them stronger… or they might just quit and go back to PvE, I don’t really care either way.

PvD takes SO much more skill than PvE

Bombsaway.7198:

None. I play a lot of characters and a lot of equipment sets. For me, the best use was getting more ascended accessories that take a LOT of laurels otherwise.

Laurels take a lot of time to collect!

Ditto. Three ascended accessories was too good to pass up.

soxx.7861:

Eotm is a great place if i want to ktrain, get badges, or level an uplevel. However the way the servers are set up is completely unfair. Putting all the leading servers in green, mid in blue, and the lacking in red. The outcome is horrible. If your green, your always going to have a fun time in eotm, same if you are blue, but for red you literally are nothing but some scrub in a matchup that people use for ppt. Eotm should be randomized, this is completely unfair that red side almost 90% of the time is sitting around with only 10 people while FR and OG have 50 man zergs.

GW2 has many strengths… and several GLARING weaknesses. This is, by far, one of the worst features of the game.

I didn’t actually enjoy green. That was pure, boring farming. Blue was, by far, my favorite. Running from one overpowered zerg while chasing the vastly weaker red zerg was fun. Red just plain sucks. I can only assume they’re being punished for losing in WvW.

Cheers

Loosmaster.8263:

Bunker down, build a #%+& ton of AC’s and have fun…

lol

Dayra.7405:

PS: as long as you do not give any of your good reason, I can only believe that you are a hacker or grief player that fear exclusion by the community or a wtj that sees a wall around the greener grass.

Reason number 47: socially inept keyboard commandos should NEVER be allowed to decide who may or may not join any given team. Thanks for proving that point…

Dayra.7405:

that can also reject someone to be in an alliance…

Not signed. EXTREMELY bad idea… for so many reasons I don’t know where to start Holy moly, that idea might even be worse than the current system for ‘balancing’ teams in EotM.

Speaking of EotM… teams don’t matter at all there. It’s just a train. One which might actually be more enjoyable if zerg v. zerg fights were promoted… by, say, a system of random assignment, regardless of server, as you join EotM. Three perfectly equal sides would be WAY better than that catastrophe of a system in place now.

Cheers.

I’m positive I haven’t got mine yet

Gaile Gray.6029:

The Laurels for April — if you did your Monthlies — were rewarded immediately when you completed them. A lot of players were in WvW and thought they were seeing a chest for gaining rank but instead they actually were seeing their reward chest.

There is some confusion because the screen may have shown 2/4, but after intensive research we have found no evidence to suggest that anyone did not get everything to which he or she was entitled to in terms of daily and monthly laurels.

Hi, Gaile.

Thanks for the reply… but I can’t agree.

I spent my laurels as fast as I collected them in April… five at a time. As soon as I had five, I gave them out on infusions. I’m having a hard time believing I didn’t notice the extra ten.

And even if that were the case, what about the people admitting they got monthly laurels twice thanks to the reset?

It sounds like some people got 0, some got 10, and some got 20… and there’s no easy fix… so rather than admitting that someone kittened the pooch you’re going with ‘no evidence’

It’s not like we can simply peruse the code and find our own evidence, right?

OK. End of rant. Sorry if I’ve been a pain. Thanks again for the response. Cheers.

constantLogic.3486:

I didn’t even get a chest the first time.

Had five achievements done before the patch, didn’t get a chest at 2/2, didn’t get one after four either. My achievements didn’t reset after patch, but apparently now others did, so that’s two chests I’m out now. One I earned (and didn’t get), one I’m interested in earning if that’s the way things should be.

And I did submit a ticket, and tried to fight over the course of a straight week now through it, forums, and reporting an in-game bug submission trying to get my issue resolved. Not a response on the other thread, and they closed the ticket on me.

100% ditto

Astral Projections.7320:

You say you wrote a ticket but no response? How long ago? You should have gotten a response within 24 hours. If it’s been longer than that check this thread for advice.

Will do, thanks. It was several weeks ago. Cheers.

Murth.5637:

UHmm.

No.

People like you crack me up Oblivious that it was even an issue, huh? Yeah, it’s often those with the least information who think themselves most qualified to answer.

There was already another long thread about the problem. Apparently many people didn’t get laurels in April. That thread disappeared. Has the issue been resolved… with or without a solution? If there’s no programmable solution then please answer the tickets. Simply ignoring them is sort of disrespectful.

Cheers.

Still sort of new here. Sorry if this the wrong approach/address/etc.

I still haven’t received any monthly laurels for April… and recently spoke to a bloke who received his twice.

Random bloke: 20
Yours Truly: 0

Wrote a ticket. Not sure where those go… but no response as of yet.

Any chance that might be rectified? Too optimistic? Cheers, either way.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I received my Monthly reward as soon as I finished the second one. I don’t believe anyone will get double rewards. Are you sure you didn’t get your reward? You may have missed noticing, as you weren’t expecting it.

Sure? Never I would never claim that. I am nothing if not infinitely fallible.

The problem is I currently have only 4 laurels. I’ve literally been spending them (5 at a time on WvW infusions) as fast as I earn them. I’m sort of thinking I’d have noticed the extra 10… and I didn’t. So I’m fairly sure I didn’t get them.

Then again, as an Irishman living in Germany, there is the beer…

Hi, Grimm. Thanks for the response. I’m still not clear on one thing, though. From chatter I’ve seen in chat it seems some did get their laurels at finishing 2/2 while others didn’t. I’m ALMOST 100% certain I did not. My laurels get spent as fast as I earn them and I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss an extra 10 after finishing only 2 monthlies. Is this the case… or is one side mistaken (i.e. no one has gotten monthly laurels yet)?

Hi, Anet. If we were supposed to get monthly laurels at 2/2, I may be bugged. If not, and we have to wait until the 15th, please make that clear.

Cheers.

Same issue. In game shows 2/2 despite having finished 5. Character select/start page still shows 2/4.

The above explanation says a lot I don’t need to know and little I wanted. Is there a way to get the 10 monthly laurels before the 15th (i.e. did anyone get theirs)? I didn’t get any at finishing 2 nor 4.

Cheers.

Only a WvW player is still reading this thread…

:)

Not sure we have one… but would love either:

“I saw this in a film once.”

or

“For Pony!”

Cheers