Guild Wars 2

The flames the OP gets for his exit critique is so reminiscent of fanboi. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that 99% of all the flames in this post were made by people who are either not yet 80 or have been 80 for less than 2 weeks.

I imagine I will get flamed for saying this but in due time those flamers will have to eat their hats. I am 41 years old, I beta tested Asheron’s Call. Played Ultima I, etc. don’t hand me the WoW generation crap. What is your plan for the game post 80? Seriously, W3 is all about which server has more players. You can play SPvP/TPvP at level 1 so it’s not even an MMOin that regards and how many times can you be interested in explore mode dungeons for shiny gear? 2 weeks….2 weeks after hitting 80 at 2-4 hours a day. Your mileage may vary. Game was fun, worth 60 bucks to me to play it. It does have an end though, if you think it doesn’t you will eat your hat in time.

I agree with many points the OP made, maybe all of them. I want to point out hat I really enjoyed the game. Leveling was fun and flexible and I had a really good time. I feel I got my moneys worth. After hitting 80 I geared up within a few days, did a few weeks of WvWvW and it’s pretty much over. No hard feeling just time to move on.

I totally get people who are still leveling in this game not understanding the points the OP is making. Enjoy the game for all that it’s worth. It’s not important nor is it world shaking that the game has a set number of hours of playtime before it gets boring. Not real time but time in game. Some people will reach it quicker but unfortunately for Anet everyone will reach it eventually. The real concern is that so many are reaching it so quickly.

I haven’t been playing for a few days. I don’t really feel the motivation to play. W3 is broken and there is no reason to PvE after I had all exotics. W3 and SPvP are the endgame and W3 is broken from things such as…. server transfers, invisible army, orb hacking (also associated multiple hacks), class imbalances, and now everyone is invisible without continued relogs.
I’m at work so reading forums is still entertaining but believe me I’ll play plantetside 2 beta or LoL tonight when I get home.

Sadly I’m having the same feelings. played WvWvW for about 10 minutes last night and logged out of the game completely went to play LoL. Probably won’t log in at all tonight.

I didn’t exploit. The server didn’t exploit. Good job SBI night/day crew. I’m still trying to figure out why both IoJ and SBI continued to assault a heavily defended supply depot on IOJ borderlands taking turned assaulting the BG depot for 3 hours before capturing it to wipe us off the map. If the goal is to demoralize BG I suppose it probably worked, I don’t care but I doubt many will log W3 now.

You can shut the client down and restart to get it to work for a while again.

No reason to shut it down, it won’t get it fixed any faster. They don’t have a solution right now. When they do have a solution and tell me they need to shut down WvWvW to fix the problems I won’t complain(if I’m still playing). I don’t see why you would request them to shut them down considering you have no idea how that would help.

If it’s simply to preserve the integrity of the pre-season matches before we go to the 2 week schedule, then I think most will agree that you are overestimating the importance of these matches. Just play and when they need to fix it, they will, or quit, who cares there’s no sub fee anyways, you can play anytime… or not.

shield block, reflect GG

Signets are a solo build and offers nothing to a team.

I doesn’t give stability… at all, you will be CCed repeatedly I have tested this, as I said; it does nothing.

Well the commander is essentially a babysitter. Generally the people following around the commander( whether he likes it or not are zerg and noob. The people building defenses on the towers/keeps are also communicating with him as to whats being attacked and how severly. There are small strike forces running around asking for support or misdirection. The commander needs to know how to wield his large force of zergs and noobs to best benefit his team as a whole. Think main body of a force. He needs to keep them productive and keep them moving. Nothing disheartens a zerg force faster than getting wiped. Tactical teams are generally more effective at setting up an invasion/defense, the commander needs to know when to bring fourth the blunt object with which to beat them about the head.

Protip: You can be in as many guilds as you want at one time.
Protip: You can fire a catpult behind a door between the door and the arch above the door to hit other ranges.
Protip:Higher elevation shoots farther
Protip: There are 3 exits out of spawn
Protip: a well placed arrow cart makes you far more than 6 silver in lootbags.
Protip:The person who places a siege weapon can take it over at any time.
Protip: matches are won and lost via supply

You know there’s a maximum number of players that can be on a map from a server right? Thats what this whole crazy talk about queuesi s all about. Now that your up to speed that force 4 tiems as bigas yours and also fighting FA just goes to show that there were very few people willing to fight for dragonbrand in this ‘epic’ defense.

On another note, didn’t you transfer from blackgate then when DB started to lose transfer again? Yea that was you. Yea you ARE a real hero. DB you gonna let this guy speak for you?

AS the title says, This ability does nothing. Broken?

Here’s your winner for W3 guys, thank me later. Jalis’ armor set w/soldier runes Shamans sword/shield and Rifle. 0,20,20,30,0 w/shouts heal. Healing signet, shake it off, for great justice, on my mark, 60 sec ult. Unstoppable commander of the battlefield. And to all those that have been wondering this is how I’ve been doing it. Change the meta, change the game.

^ exactly, when the enemy thinks they have you beat is sometimes your best opportunity to rally. The only sure way to lose is to give up.

You realize you don’t have to play an aspect you don’t like right?

I’ve enjoyed the fights all week and I can attest that Mr pickles has not been smack talking. Some guys from Dragonbrand have however and it’s gotten pretty quiet from them now. I said on monday that they were counting their chickens kinda early even alluded to the fact that we didn’t have our full representation. Now Urge and RQ went on a bender. We got some morning coverage to match what DB had and look. DB has all but given up the ghost.
If you guys would have come out in force yesterday evening you could have kept yourselves in the game. Instead you could barely hold onto a supply depot all night, actually you did get your tower back in FA Borderland before I went to bed. It’s always easy when you are winning. I figure you guys for scrappesr that would fight even when down. Don’t make me wrong about that, come back and fight. You lost a lot of ground yesterday, don’t lose face tonight.

Name one Orb hack that Blackgate has EVER done. One. Don’t give me this everybody’s doing it crap. It’s our job to let you know you have cheaters. It’s your job to deal with them.

Drove you out of Yassam, drive you outta here too ;P

If Blackgate is so bad why are there so many DB threads on the first page of the W3 forum trying to recruit players from Blackgate? Nervous much? Once again, Henge already took our fickle players, we are still high/full pop and a much more stable player base with low Queue times, why would we want to transfer again?

this from omgwtfbbq, nah you guys must be legit ;P

Perdan.1045:

Of course people are going to rag on the server that is ahead. Its common to make excuses as to why you are losing.

As far as you know, the person doing the hack could of been a black gate transfer. I bet that’s what it is! Lets make up a story about it and then claim the entire blackgate world is a bunch of transferring hackers to shift blame!

This isn’t making you look any more innocent nor does it justify your position.

I think the though pattern is wrong here. I’m relatively certain it SHOULD take a numerical advantage of 2-1 or even greater to take a keep. I think the bigger problem is that is to easy to take garrison, even tho the spawn is really close and WAY to easy to take DB.

Wait until just before the free transfer move deadline hits. This is when many guild will make their permanent home.

I enjoy it more than any other aspect of the game, does that count as an answer?

Oh I agree with that too. It’s been a good match-up in general, I hope we have more like this. I don’t need a scoreboard to play W3 but it doesn’t make it less fun to have one.

Was funny to pick on him for a while, now it’s just getting boring and sad.

Weren’t you guys winning by more on Sunday? Wasn’t Henge losing last week on Sunday? hmmmm How many chickens do you have?

It’s never about a server when it comes to exploiting, it’s individuals. It’s always a grand generalization made to influence weak minded people. Kinda like what the OP is trying to achieve, right ;P

Take it easy guy, you just are as persuasive as Mitt Romney. Second layer deep… sinking in… now you get it.

I play on BlackGate. I play almost exclusively W3. There is no such thing as what the OP is posting. It frankly does not exist so I can only assume this is a smear campaign with the probable backing of some kittens on Dragonsbane.
A sad attempt to feed from a server at that. For your information Henge already took the fickle from Blackgate guys, you’re wasting your time.

You’re paranoid.

Only players of the claiming guild should be able to pull supply from a tower or keep.

W3 is a huge karma fest anyways. You can W3 and buy the karma exotics. I think everyone knows there are some exotic sets that are cheap and some that are expensive, figure it out.

If that bugs you consider the southern wall of DB can be trebbed from the tower down there. Having said that, it’s not hard to take the outer wall of DB down. Getting past the inner wall is a completely different story tho. Definitly the best inner keep wall where as askilon has the best outer wall.

I know the names differ from map to map, figure it out ;P

You know the owner of a siege weapon can kick anyone off his weapon at any time right? I place my arrow cart where I want to shoot from. They easily pay for themselves that way. Of course if you are spending a gold a day on siege weapons you already know this.

The real expense comes from upgrading towers, keeps and supply depots. SO important but this is truly a thankless job and nets you nothing in return. Guild buffs for the keep is really important but it can be expensive for a guild to maintain. There needs to be incentive for a guild to upgrade their keep. I also still firmly believe that only the claiming guild should be able to spend the supply from a tower or keep. This would largely solve the server transfer issues in this regard.

Close Match, that’s for sure.

It has nothing to do with GPU, CPU or Hard drive. I am running 12 GIG RAM on a quad core 4.0 processor with two 5870 video cards together and a vertex 4 256 GiG SSD hard drive. The invisible army still exists. It has nothing to do with the client computer or it’s ability to process. This is entirely on the shoulders of how the game is set up to render character models.

What is the current score in this match-up?

The weekend is one thing, The workweek is another indeed. Dedicated players have other obligations, it will truely come down to who has a larger asian presence. We all know that at the heart of 3W is jsut who has more people, you call cry skill all you want but at the end of the day it’s how many boots on the ground that wins wars.

Whawha wha I got owned, fix plz Anet.

Before you get the wrong Idea, I NEVER cheat at anything, don’t exploit, just play in the intended fashion. So, I have 3 accounts. What’s to stop me from moving the other 2 accounts around as needed weekly? I have over 100 gold so how would a gold a week affect me? I make more than that in a day easily. You could not stop me from doing this if I wanted to by limiting free transfers or making transfers cost a gold. You can’t stop me by giving people banning rights because frankly I could just as easily get YOU banned. Which is more likely how it would be abused. You can stop a lot of kids from doing it by taking away free transfers but multiple accounts (by the way, this is the people who are doing it) would still work.

I suggest only allowing the guild that controls a tower or keep access to the supply in the fortification. If a troll grabs the tower in the name of his guild and gives it away he can do that but he’s not going to get the claim very often.

As a player who has made WvWvW his main endgame focus I’d like for all the puzzle jumpers to stop logging in to WvWvW altogether so we can get people that are actually interested in helping the war effort in there. If the enemy team is wasting their time killing you and making you not want to join 3W…awesome! Stop hurting our team by queuing please if you want to PvE in the zone.

Anonymous.6935:

Hux.8739:

I second the fact that it was obvious from the start that the endgame for GW2 was PvP. Anyone who thought otherwise is delusional. I like WvWvW, I play on Blackgate, max wait at prime time is 10 minutes. Sorry you rolled on Henge but you can transfer to actually…play. For people wanting a gear grind/gearcheck game Pandamania came out yesterday, take care.

Why do people always suggest to people to go and play “Pandamania”? Seems like a very immature thing to do! I’ve never played WoW personally, but can’t WoW players just stab back at you and suggest you go back to playing your silly little plant character whilst you tell them to play a Panda character? Both of them sound as silly as eachother. Having said all this, you get what you pay for, hence why people over at WoW still pay their subscription and purchase the expansion due to the game always having a nice amount of content. I can’t justify paying a subscription myself, but each to their own!

On the contratry I played WoW for almost 7 years Raid lead, guildmaster the whole 9 yards. I know exactly what it has to offer. It may be truethat I think that playing pandas is a joke and it makes the game seem like a kids game to me.

That really isn’t the point to me though. WoW has the carrot on a stick, that’s what the OP was askign for, not being mean but seriously, pandamania may be exactly what he might enjoy, so I suggest it.

Truth is I realyl don’t care what game he play or what games you play. Play what you like but don’t expect monopoly to be Risk or Risk to be Sorry etc. Play the game if you like it, play something else if you don’t. I was jsut suggesting what game he might like by what he typed in.

I second the fact that it was obvious from the start that the endgame for GW2 was PvP. Anyone who thought otherwise is delusional. I like WvWvW, I play on Blackgate, max wait at prime time is 10 minutes. Sorry you rolled on Henge but you can transfer to actually…play. For people wanting a gear grind/gearcheck game Pandamania came out yesterday, take care.

Op has no idea what he’s talking about does he? HoD does night cap, HoD does have a larger player base, HoD did get beat over the weekend when the number of players was closer to even. Does that mean they’re bad, nah. Does it mean they are not particularly more skillful, yes, yes it does.

To think that the answer is, when all the other servers are full it will be even is really pretty dumb. MOST people would rather lose than wait 3 hours to get in. Only people such as the OP obsessed with his ego would put up with such an inconvenience to brag about his server. I’m glad they are group up on only a few servers, enjoy not playing but thinking you are better.

Ideally the enemy should not be able to take a keep that still has supply right? So that can’t really be a measure. Making upgraded keeps worth more makes them more attractive to attack doesn’t it? I think the situation is that people don’t realize how powerful reinforced doors and well placed siege weapons are. Its completely possible to defend a keep with 5 guys against an attacking force of 30 with enough supply and upgrades to the keep.

Yea I agree with this. I like holding a keep or tower and fighting players. If you want to go back and farm dungeons or Dynamic events you go on ahead, I’m going to place some arrow carts and hold up here for a while. Score doesn’t matter to me. I could care less what happens when I’m not on. When I get on I’m taking a tower or a keep or well something. Enjoy PvE if you want to.

Ummm where did you take history? Wars were fought in line formations with varying tactics until a certain invention made this impractical, not ambushes or choke points. For those of you interested this was the invention of the machine gun. It took several decades after the initial invention to be come a practical battlefield weapon but once it was made effective it completely changed the way people fought.

So unless your suggestion is to add machine guns to WvWvW, There will be paving packs. Having said that, I think we are already starting to see the impact of well used siege weapons hold off far superior numbers or being able to assault a keep without even being near the doors.
Frankly myself and I’m certain a great number of others have already scoured the map for proper treb placements and counter placements of Mortars. This Hasn’t escaped you has it? I know, I know, I’m a pompuskitten and you shouldn’t listen to a word I say. Take care guy.

Doesn’t matter, Pandamania comes out today. If you want to play WoW it’s available to you, enjoy. I’m tired of WoW, so very tired, can’t bring myself to follow that rule set anymore. Thankfully this is a different rule set.