Guild Wars 2

Small scale combat should be balanced through sPvP, not WvW. If the developers feel like defensive stats are too strong for group play then I’d be alright with some nerfs/buffs for zerker.

Is the word even allowed to be said in-game? I don’t think I’ve seen it actually typed out in-game. I can understand why some people may find the word offensive, specially if you’ve been a victim. Anyways, I don’t see the use of the word changing anytime soon so if you’re offended by it then you have the options available to you to not surround with players who use it.

I hope not, they are already smaller compared to other races.

To say that HoT was only PvE content is laughable. Not only did it expand the playstyle for all the classes and added another one, they also added DBL without it being attached to the expansion(which was the right call, obviously). Anyway, I’d like to see gliding be free so it doesn’t space out players but at the same time it’s not like a few people getting delayed by a minute at most is going to change the outcome of a battle – If the majority of the player base in WvW were free then I’d be arguing for the change to happen now or to remove gliding since it’s only a trial as of now. As far as the Legendary armor goes, just like Grack said, it’s only cosmetic.

You need HoT for PvE legendary armor too. I think Gliding should be free too but at the same time it’s 20$ and you get so much content, support the game for pete’s sake.

BG had a strong presence these last two weeks. It’s not so much of YB doing that much worse but more so of BG showing up stronger than usual.

They’re fine but I do think having them rotate is the best thing for the game so it doesn’t get stale.

No one wants to stay up all night to remain competitive with other server who have a strong presence during off hours, maybe if the population was split 50/50 or close then I can see why it would be unfair but let’s be honest – most of the players play during the day not during the night. During the course of the day you’d have over 500 players participating in WvW and all of the work can be undone by a group of 25-50 players simply because they play while the majority of the server is sleeping now that isn’t fair.

I’d rather have map completion be account bound and be done with it. I have 4 80s, closely approaching 6. I want to be able to play whatever character I want and not be locked out of stuff I’ve already unlocked, there is no argument for not wanting it to be account bound. If you’re against it, then hell let’s separate WvW ranks agains and sPvP while we’re at it.

infinitenoah.8296:

I can’t figure out why anybody would complain about getting a free level 80.

People always find a way to complain about something. Not only did they give us a free 80, but a universal bag slot which is 700 Gems. PS to people who aren’t aware, other game companies are charging for around 50$ for level boost lol.

If it was claimed fairly then what difference does it make? Would you really feel better if he/she was on anonymous account?

TL;DW
Lowbies don’t make gold and trading post suffers
everyone runs elite specs
no new dungeons in the expansion
dungeons are ‘dead’ because of the rewards
F2P was bad for GW2
etc..
Don’t really agree but w/e people come and go

I like the current one better as a Necro.

The new borderland isn’t that horrible if you’re able to navigate through it, the problem is that there’s too many ledges, hills. stairs, etc. that you have to go through to get to your destination making it feel like the map is extremely big then add in the fact that people take wrong turns/get lost. I think the new map is amazing and adds a breath of fresh air to WvW, it just takes time to get used to. I did like that idea mentioned here before that instead of having 3 BL’s and EB to make it so it’s EB, Alpine and Desert to condense the population further for WvW and it would be nice to see Edge of the Mist only be available during the weekend(reset) or whenever there’s a queue.

sigh.. please people..

Hi Joel, thank you for your hard work!
I loved the stream and looking forward to playing with the feature, one thing that I do wish is that the crosshair looked better or more differently, is there any chance we could have different skin options for the crosshair?

I’ve been trying to figure out what stats I want for my Necro, now a days I just pug for WvW with random commanders and occasionally join a Guild Rally from my server. I don’t really see myself roaming too much and I don’t particularly like GvG so I rarely, if ever do that. The issue I’m having is that I don’t know how much of a stat is too much for my playstyle, I don’t enjoy zerker since I’m so squishy and I like to go deep with our commanders with Death Shroud to Torment a large amount of players followed by Plague Form for CC so I know what I want a tanky build. Here’s what I’m currently working, already have full ascended armor and working on some jewelry.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBmODbkjGapxaawyG4vxBuQJ/6uefppRb8FwrOAaBA-TFDBABdpE6q9HQTJoEPAAsUe8p6IAcRA8SJilqUkpKCBcEA0T3QAAEADdoDdoDdoBA-w

Stats:
2500 Power
1950 Toughness
23k HP
29% Crit
181% Crit Damage

That’s not including the WvW bonuses, so I’m willing to lose a bit more HP if you guys think it’s too much, or maybe the toughness runes? I don’t know, I’m open to changes if they make sense. One thing to point out also is that I notice a lot of builds don’t use permanent sigils, I’m a big fan of the accuracy since it makes up for the lack of precision and I think 25%-30% is a good spot to be at for non zerkers.

I like them at first sight, getting kind of sick of them now, hopefully they go away later tonight. For future events such as this, please add an option to disable it for those of us who don’t enjoy them, while funny for some, it does bother other people.

You have no proof what so ever that most “roam” guilds are GvG guilds so please stop claiming so unless you have actual proof, which you don’t. I’d like to see GvG implemented in some way but I do not wish to have WvW updates postponed/abandoned simply because a small portion of the population wishes to play a style that was never meant to played in WvW.

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1c2c9GW2_Anniv_Infographic-590x3215.jpg

http://gw2gvg.com/leaderboard.php?r=merged

I was being generous with the numbers, I’m aware some guilds have more than 35 members, but most guilds have a set roster for GvG’s, that’s why I clinged to the 35 since most guilds GvG in 15s,20s,25s. There is no point in trying to argue, the GvG community is small in coparison. As for how many people actually WvW, I do not know, I only claimed 10% of the online population to give some form of an idea. I imagine the number is much greater if you include cusual/hardcore WvWers. Unfortunately no one knows these numbers but arena net but if you honestly think that the GvG community is even close to that then you’re insane.

Anyway. I’m done or else I’ll just be repeating myself over and over. Non GvG-WvW community > GvG community, should not postpone/morph updates to suit GvG players, this is WvW.

Esuni.2498:

Izay.8725:

I’m the ignorant one? Show me the proof that 70% of small guilds are GvG guilds. The GvG community is small compared to all the players that participate in WvW, they shouldn’t be denied a fine update simply due to a style of play that was NEVER meant to be played in WvW.

Ill just go by the servers that I know personally

Aurora glade:
EB full of pugs
spread over the borderlands: TUP, vcy, FIRE, NR, NP, DAWN and a couple of 5 man guilds
all of the above said guilds GvG. they bring about 150 players to the field total, AG doesnt have queues.
This said, there are 2-3 small guilds that do not GvG, the big guilds are diminant in WvW and do GvG so here you could say its more than the said number.

Far shiverpeaks:
+- 50 pugs total mostly on EB
pvx guilds focussed on pve who only WvW 1-3 times a week and do nto gvg: GOT/GOTD and AoA, these guilds are not very active but bring a total of 60 players to the field on active days, they mostly command pugs aswell.
These people play mostly for points.
WvW guilds are punk, kale and DW they bring about 80 players, all of them do GvG aswell and are considered the roaming guilds there.

I’m fairly certain gandara, Gunnars hold, piken square and augury rock have it similar to this, some of the blob servers have roaming guilds aswell which also, oops, happen to GvG
Roamers want good and fair fights, this is why they GvG aswell.

Now stop looking at your server alone and think outside of your blob servers

What exactly are you trying to argue? That the GvG isn’t small or what? It is small compared to the amount of players who WvW and are not involved in GvGs. According to gw2gvg.com there are 144 guilds between NA and EU that have at least participated in some form of GvG, let’s say for the sake of arguing that it’s 200 Guilds with an active roster of 35 players, that’s 7,000 players between NA and EU. Do you know how many people are online at any given time? ~460,000 players, even if you take 10% of the logged in population that number does not compare. The game has sold over 3.5 million copies, who know’s how many active players truly play but that number is is far greater than the GvG community. Like I said before, I have NOTHING against the GvG community, but your style of play was not meant for WvW and WvW updates shouldn’t be shoved just to suit your needs, this is WvW. It sucks you guys don’t have your own arena’s maybe you should start complaining about that instead of arguing and pulling kitten numbers to try and argue.

Oh and Crystal Desert isn’t a blob server, lol.

I’m the ignorant one? Show me the proof that 70% of small guilds are GvG guilds. The GvG community is small compared to all the players that participate in WvW, they shouldn’t be denied a fine update simply due to a style of play that was NEVER meant to be played in WvW.

Magnetron.5823:

Dear GvG Community,

I know you guys are begging for some structured group combat, but I have to inform and educate you guys about something.

This is WvW.

End of story, If they want to implement stuff for WvW they have the right to do it. So please stop the complaining.

GvG wont happening anytime soon, it has been said a few times already. Deal with it.

This 100%. This is WvW not GvG, i’ve read several posts of players posting that they’re looking forward to this update because it suits smaller guilds and makes them feel like they have an impact, and let’s face it the normal WvW community is much larger than that GvG community, they shouldn’t get kitten just so you can have your way. Yeah it sucks for those of you that GvG, but deal with it until they properly implement a GvG system.

CaakEE.7109:

you forgot to mention how a game can start with someone afk or off.

thats just stupid.

This is 1 big issue though, only encountered it once but yeah, I think they should implement the queue system like league, it verifies everybody with an OK check before going into the game, if someone is AFK it just looks for someone else and removes the AFK from queue.

I don’t care if they nerf condi’s MM all the way :d

Only thing that irks me about the top players is that they sit on their ranks while other players such as Eurantien.4632, Kryptonite.6459, and stunningstyles.7054 are playing with 50+ games with a good win % ratio trying to move up. I know they’ll be moved down eventually but ya… it still bothers me.

1.) Skins, satisfaction
2.) What time do you play? I play at all hours and the longest wait time I’ve had was like 6-10m which isn’t very long.
3.) Don’t click on the play now button and take 3-5 secs to look for a room thats half full…
4.) Back to 1.
5.) That’s how it is in every game. There are people that run unorthodox things but yes you will see more of the same spec over and over because those specs are good.
6.) Rank is fine, it gives those who play a lot and invest a lot of time into spvp a cool way to show off.
7.) No, it’s not. It could be updated to have more meaningful uses though.
8.) … Back to 1?
9.) Taking out the ability to check solo arena que status and/or disband from group from PvP icon on top.
10.) Not all games can be balanced, it’s like this in every MMO it isn’t something that be fixed because that all comes down to the players. If you’re talking about SoloQ give it time for the MMRs to adjust and hopefully matches because more even
11.) It can be annoying if you’re on the winning team but hey I don’t mind going over to try and help the losing team plus you don’t really lose out on much unless it’s a complete stomp
12.) ?
13.) ?

If you’re talking about NA servers then yes, they’re connected. It would be cool if we could connect with EU as well, specially since they have a bigger sPvP player base.

Can’t wait to see how much you guys drop once you start to lose a couple of games.

You get ranked after your 10th game, or at least I did. How many games have you played?

I didn’t receive my 1st games chest right away, probably 30min’ish after I got it randomly. Second game I got my chest right away.