Guild Wars 2

A lot of people who upgrade towers, camps, and escort dolyaks and scout, are going to be burned out and might simply give up after this change.

Living World
Just my thoughts

I mostly play in WvW, but I really like the stories in Living World.

I really liked Super Adventure Box and the Bazaar of the Four Winds. The music and the scenery there was amazing, and I hope they will come back soon. It’s also really nice with the soundcloud page you made. Thanks a lot.

I also like Scarlet’s invasions, and it’s nice that they still appear once in a while. (I don’t attend though, since I play WvW.)

The last story, Blood and Madness, was a very nice little good story too.

In Bazaar of the Four Winds the number of tasks were quite a bit too large and difficult for me, since I also wanted to play in WvW, but also wanted to be able to try out the celestial gear, and get the crystal node for the crystals to make the gear, and also just walk around in the flying city doing my own things. For me there were too many difficult achievements in a much too short time frame in Bazaar of the Four Winds, and it was a shame since that city and the music was so beautiful. I’m glad that it got much more casual friendly in e.g. Blood and Madness. I didn’t like too much that the opportunity to acquire the recipes for the celestial gear were time gated either.

For me, the number of tasks, one had to complete to get access to the last part of the story in Blood and Madness, and the candy node, were a bit too many too, but I was happy that it wasn’t nearly as many as in Bazaar of the Four Winds, and I really enjoyed the story, and I got happy when I found out about that I could complete the tasks in the dailies, and that they luckily weren’t that grindy.

I really like to take my time and listen to the npc’s conversations and look around and enjoy the music and the scenery, when I’m not PvP’ing.

And for me, it’s nice if there is time to relax and enjoy the beautiful game world, and the stories, and not too many achievements in a short time frame.

I don’t mind either that there are Living World things in WvW. It’s nice with some small surprises. The last update did have a bit too large impact though, imho. It could have been done a bit more subtle.

But thanks, and I generally like the Living Story a lot. But the more casual friendly it is, the better for players like me, who just like a good story and to relax with a bit of computer gaming and enjoy the good music and scenery and WvW.

Just my thoughts, and thanks for the preview.

Warriors:

Defense XII – Spiked Armor. Reduced the recharge from 15s to 10s.

The buff to Spiked Armor seems much too strong in WvW, imho.

Even without boon duration it’s near 50% retaliation uptime in WvW battles, just from a passive trait.

Thieves:

Acrobatics X – Assassins Reward. Increased healing scaling by 35%. Moved to Grandmaster Tier.

Moving Assassins Reward from master to grandmaster tier makes it much harder to incorporate that trait in builds unfortunately.

I liked the old trait better, since it was easier to actually incorporate in a build (e.g. double pistol builds), even though it healed for less.

Rangers:

Nature Magic XI – Spirits Unbound. Moved to Master Tier.

I really like that change, since it makes it easier to have a pet spirit, or a family of pet spirits, following you.

It would be really nice if it could be possible to have the spirits stay, instead of the poor spirits dieing after the 60s, and having to recast them all the time.

World population
Suggestions to help people on servers that are outnumbered (vs night zergs etc)

1. Diminishing returns on damage to gates and walls

Diminishing returns after e.g. damage equivalent to two rams.
Because zergs can currently melt gates extremely fast, and because out-manned groups only have supply for one or maybe two rams

2. Adjustment so swords on towers give a bit better warning in time.

Both because spending all your time in WvW being the tower scout can be honestly plain boring, and also because you don’t have the numbers to have tower scouts if you are outmanned.

3. Guesting low populated servers as a WvW mercenary.

This one could be a bit complicated though.

It would for instance be unfair for the people on low populated servers, if they don’t get an equal chance to try to be a WvW mercenary, since they already are on a low populated server. But it could be solved.

Ideally maybe people from European servers could only be mercenaries on American servers and vice versa.

Queue priority based on WvW rank?

No.

There are already far too many rewards for being a zergling and farming wxp in the farm train, and it’s not good for the game.

1. Casual-friendliness

For the daily achievements, all of the five tasks have to be completed the same day. It could be made more casual friendly, if one could complete for example 2 of the tasks one day, and 1 task another day, and so on, until 5 tasks are completed. (Just as one example of a change that could make something more casual friendly).

2. Roleplaying

3. User interface (also sounds), and immersion.

Some of the new sounds for achievement rewards and such are a bit loud compared to the other sounds in the game. (At least for me, maybe it’s different from person to person. I had to turn down the volume a lot, and I kind of miss a lot of the sounds from the game, since I had to turn the volume down. It would for example be nice with a slider so achievement sounds could be turned down.)

It would also be nice to be able to hide the xp and wxp bars, the WvW score bar (the big one that is also in sPVP), and make some of boxes to the right smaller, and the achivement chests smaller, to be able to see more of the game world.

1. Defending towers and castles
2. Rewards for taking care of towers, escorting dolyaks, scouting and other non-zerg activities.
3. What are the good things about WvW. Which things got worse or better in the game.

I really hope the news are true, and they will add the map soon.

I don’t play GvG, but I have enjoyed a lot just to stand at the sidelines as a spectator and watch some of the matches.

If they added some cheerleader pom poms too in the gem shop, for us spectators to use to cheer for the teams, I would definitely buy them.

Lord Kuru.3685:

sminkiottone.6972:

I haven’t yet found anyone with full stack+full ascendent ( trinkets+weapons), but I bet he will destroy me even if hes not good.

Quotes like this are somewhat worrisome… who’s going to play if they think they’re going to be destroyed — not by skill, but because their opponent has owned the game longer. New players will especially be discouraged from WvW.

Yes, this.

I don’t like the buffs. Buffs such as +1% against guards are okay, but not 2500 more health.

Yes.

Thanks for making this topic.

Making the playing field more even, by downscaling ascended to exotic, would do a lot of good for WvW, in my opinion.

I’ve really enjoyed playing in WvW, but grinding isn’t excatly my favorite cup of tea in games. I mostly play games just to relax a bit.

Vena.8436:

Have you seen an upscaled level 2 with Guild Buffs?

They have more raw stats than you do in max gear, and they barely even have any gear equipped.

I don’t know if there is something odd min max thing with the guild buff.

I usually let the upscaled run or let them heal up and run, since I kind of feel bad about killing them, since they never had a chance due to gear and stats.

It’s not that my character is particular strong.

Please no more stat bonuses.

WvW used to be an epic story about an epic battle where you fought alongside people from your server.

You could even play and be part of the epic battles and the epic story as a low level who were new to PvP.

But it only works if you are on an even playing ground.

The new achievement reward “ding” sound is very very loud. (The new one that was added some time ago.)

I haven’t figured out which one of the sliders to turn down, so I play with all the game sounds turned almost completely down now. I really miss how the sounds used to be.

It’s a really nice idea with a tavern. It would so be nice.

/signed It would really be much appreciated.

I also like Sabull’s idea very much.

I also really hope that the WvW team would maybe consider a fourth map for GvG, like the area behind the windmill, some day, where all the servers would have the same bonuses. Please.

A fifth map could actually solve the skill lag, I guess.

The skill lag is caused by large zerg battles. And with a fifth map, they could lower the limit of how many people can play on each map, and still have room so everyone can play in WvW.

jdmThor.3806:

dodging would immediately cancel it.

It’s not possible to dodge when you revive someone unfortunately. You have to press some other keys to cancel the revive first. It would be nice if they made dodge work though.

I don’t like the change.

It has just made it easier for zergs to ninja towers and camps, against only npc defenders, and do easier night capping of empty towers, and left outmanned defenders in an even harder position.

It’s so much more difficult to find the small battles and skirmishes now, compared to when the game started. When the game started there were orange swords everywhere, and it was easy to find a small skirmish or battle, and try to help out.

I like the loot bags, as they are now, quite a lot.

It looks so nice, the rare times, when there are loot bags scattered around ones feet. It makes for nice screenshots, and it looks good in youtube videos, and it kind of adds a fun aftermath to a battle, looking for the loot bags. It looks nice, and it adds something to the game.

It also adds some choices to the game. Will a group of enemies try to hunt you forever because they know they can easily kill you, once your swiftness runs out, or will some of them give up at some time, as they do now, to pick up the loot bags they have left behind, evening the odds?

Obviously I would have to turn on automatic auto-loot if that was an option, since there really wouldn’t be any other practical choice, but it would take away some of the charm, and it would take away some of the breaks from the fighting. I think the breaks are important.

I guess that the main worry some people have, is that they might miss out on a very rare item, if they miss a loot bag? A solution to this could perhaps be the following:

My suggestion:

I would prefer if the game would keep the loot bags as they are (standing with a bow in your hand, surrounded by loot bags, after an intense battle, is epic, and not having enemy groups always chasing you forever because they have auto-loot is nice too), but remove the chests, let the loot bags contain the good items too (the loot bags looks much better than the chests anyway), and do like: In case you didn’t pick up the loot bag with the precursor or exotic item, the game will remember it, and give it to you, when you find and open a loot bag at a later time.

You might like it on Piken Square if you are playing in the evenings from America after 6 PM EST American time. 6 PM EST is when it’s midnight in Europe.

If you are playing before 6 PM EST, there will unfortunately be long queues. We usually have quite long queues until midnight European time, on normal weekdays. But after midnight, we usually don’t have any queues, except from reset night, where we do have queues on all four maps, since a lot of Europeans stay up to play.

We do have a good amount of players in the night on normal weekdays (in the evenings after 6 PM EST if you are from America), I guess mostly Americans, but also Europeans who can’t sleep, and have off from school or work the next day, and like to stay up in the night, so WvW is not empty at all at that time.

I’m from Europe, but I really like to play in the night if I can get away with it. It’s usually a really nice and fun time to play. We don’t always have a commander in the nights, but we often do, at least in the weekends, and when we don’t have a commander, it works nice anyway.

We are a lot of small guilds playing at that time, and we often make groups where people are from different guilds. And there is a really friendly community at that time. The battles are also really nice, and not as zergy as in the day time. There are still many players on from all the servers, even though it’s in the middle of the night in Europe.

Piken Square is also the roleplaying server in Europe. We actually don’t roleplay that much in WvW, but a lot of the players are roleplayers, so we are friendly to roleplaying in WvW, and often roleplayers can be the key to defend a castle. It’s mostly just that we just say some funny (in character) things once in a while and such.

Apart from WvW, Divinity’s Reach is very much alive, since people roleplay there. It can be really nice to walk around there once in a while, and take a look. That would usually be in the daytime if you are from America though.

A good introduction video to Piken Square would be this one:

Or this one:

We don’t have a lot of cookies, since the evil mean meanies from the other servers probably stole them, :P or someone ate them (tries to hide a bag), but we do have Charribean Rum and a real Pirate Ship in Bay!

What we really had needed on Piken Square was to try and recruit some more Americans, to roleplay and help defend the castles and our pirate ship with us in the night time, and we should maybe have been better about warning about the long queues in European prime time.

I really hope that A-net will add another map or two to WvW. It is really needed urgently, since the long queues can be a bit frustrating.

It could be a five or nine server map or something, so we could get the chance of fighting some more servers, or maybe a map with a pirate ship and a treasure island with a big Grub guarding a treasure chest with siege blueprints, or something.

Just anything really, to give people a chance to WvW and have fun, without having to worry about the long queues.

Anyway, the following videos are what Piken Square is all about, when we are at our best, and do PvP roleplaying, and I hope our server will continue to do more of that, since it adds so much to the fun:

We need American roleplayer by the way on Piken. We don’t have that many cookies, but we have Charribean Rum and a pirate ship in Bay.

Ayanamy.6932:

Hey guys, how are ques on Piken Square?

The queues have unfortunately gotten quite long on Piken Square (maybe an hour or more to get into Eternal Battlegrounds – sometimes 10-20 minutes if you are one person, and you are lucky, was in queue around 1-2 hours yesterday, but I could have been unlucky), in the daytime and the evening European time.

After midnight European time, we usually don’t have any queues, or only short queues (less than 10 mintues), except from friday night, where the queues are long.

I had the same problem, but managed to find out what caused the problem for me.

When I make a new passwords, I usually type it first in notepad and copy from notepad to the New Password field.
And in the Confirm New Password field I just type it directly with the keyboard.

I do that, because I usually don’t look at the keyboard when I type, and sometimes I place my hands so I hit the wrong keys. And this way I can be sure that I didn’t accidentally typed the same wrong thing twice. :P

However I found out that it didn’t work if I copied into one of the fields, as I usually do. I had to type directly into both fields, to make it work.

I hope this helps, if anyone has the same problem.

If feel exactly the same way as OP. :/

The reality is that gear makes an immense difference in WvW, so the daily grind is unfortunatly mandatory as it is now, if you want to be able to continue to play.

I don’t like the new dailies.

There is one thing I like very much about them however, and that is, that the rewards could make the playing ground more even in WvW, since everyone now have access to ascended amulets and rings.

However for that one have to grind the dailies.

I miss how Guild Wars 2 was in the betas, and when the game was new. I would just log in and play how much I wanted, and do whatever I wanted to do. And the playing ground in WvW was pretty even, since everyone was running around in green gear.

I didn’t do the dailies much actually, since luckily the reward was only some karma and some silver, and maybe a black lion key or a transmutation stone, if one was lucky, so it wasn’t necessary as such to grind them.

Unfortunately gear does make a lot of difference in the game as it is today, especially in WvW. And I feel that I almost only have the choice of grinding the dailies if I want to continue playing in WvW, since I’m hopelessly out-geared already, and since gear matters so much.

Obviously this is better than only having the choice of grinding fractals, to be able to play WvW, however I’d rather just if I could just play WvW and help defending the castles and have fun.

My suggestion would be the following: Let the dailies be about karma, xp and silver, and a black lion key, transmutation stone, or a tonic once in a while, and some titles. But give everyone who logs in, the free daily laurel, and let them play WvW, sPvP, roleplay, explore, craft, or sit somewhere on a mountain top and just enjoy the music, or whatever they want to.

I know some will say, “Oh, but you have to work for the rewards, it’s an mmo after all”, but I know that I have defended more castles and dolyaks in WvW than any of those who would say that. And it’s a game after all, and it’s supposed to be just good fun and happy moments.

It would only favor the servers with a large population, if the swords were removed.
When you are outmanned, you don’t have enough people to watch the towers, and you have to rely on looking at the map.

I think you should stick with engineer if you like the class.

They can be really powerful too, with very strong aoe damage.

I really miss being able to preview all the armor and clothing. I really hope that it’s just a bug, and it will be fixed when they have time.

I have the issue too. I’m really looking forward to when they will fix it. It’s such a nice feature to be able to preview different armor and clothing.

Please fix. I really miss being able to see all the nice different kinds of armor and clothing.

Signed.

It’s sad to see that a game that started out with a manifesto with great ideas; that promised a game without grind, where old content would still be fun and challenging, and where one could just relax and play a bit once in a while and enjoy the game, is changing into being just a meaningless grind mill like the other MMOs. :/

I hope that Anet is aware of the problem, and how game breaking it is.

It’s sad that so many guilds resolve to game mechanics exploits like this. :/

Max Lexandre.6279:

After that Patch I now experience “Breaks” ingame, it’s like stops for 1 second and it comes back.

Didn’t change the FPS, changed the fact since yesterday I start to get thoose Breaks when the games stops at 100%, it’s like 0 FPS for a second and it’s back to 40.
Can’t explain more…

I can’t understand what ANet changed, but something went wrong. =/

I think that it might perhaps be possible to fix that, until the underlying problem is solved, by setting the mimimum processor state to 100% in the power options.

I had excatly the same problem, with stange jumpy fps, when I tried to play today from my laptop. I had forgotten to plug in my power cord, and when I plugged that in, everything ran nicely as it should.

I did notice that my cpu wasn’t running at full speed, when I had the problem with the jumpy fps, and the only difference I can think of, is the settings for the minimum processor state. On battery it’s set to 5% on my computer but 100% with the power cord plugged in.

I hope that this might help someone.