Guild Wars 2

I thought we had started to get better, but seems every time we meet ET we have a relentless zerg in EB that insist on banging on the SM gate (or attacking the wall like they did tonight) without siege for hours on end.

Last week against ET we got demonlished and after the first couple of days there was never a queue (at least at any time I was playing) compared to this week where I was often queued for bordlands/EB.

Mind you having said that our play last week was sloppy at best. This week I have seen improvement and more organisation, at least this week I have not seen 20-30 players pointlessly beating on SM without siege, perhaps we are learning.

I agree there needs to be a reward of some kind for winning World vs World rounds. Even if it is only a 4 or 5 day buff for the server or soemthing.

Hazal Birunae.6082:

@Jakula Again, that was just a solution off the top of my head. Another possibility is the game adding more NPC guards in accordance to the population balance, so that even if a night team does show up they’ll have to work for their reward.

I actually really like that suggestion. Scaling the number of guards with the population. I also suggested in another thred the possiblity of changing Outmanned which included additional health to guards and fortifications when there is a massive score/population difference.

Hazal Birunae.6082:

I’m not sure what the best solution to this is, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is putting regional restrictions (i.e. Oceanic and French Canadians cant go night cap in the U.S. and Europe, respectively). If NOTHING else is fixed, then at least this.

Second on my rant list, orbs are ridiculously overpowered. I understand their point, and I believe they should be in-game; but in their current form they turn a roflstomping into a full-on steamroll.

What do you propose that the large Oceanic playerbase does exactly if we can’t play World vs World, it’s not like Anet are going to give us our own servers. This current round for us (IOJ) is against SOS (also with a large Oceanic playerbase) and FA and the match has been really good so far.

Orbs are overpowered and need to be balanced, absolutley agree with you on that point. In addition they need to do something about the oumanned buff as it simple does not serve a useful purpose at the moment.

I personally think there should be two seperate buffs. Numbers would be balanced accordingly.

Outmanned Provided to a team if they are outnumbered by a single server by more than X/1

- Players Health is increased by X%
- Players gains X to all stats
- Player Movement speed is increased by X%

Overwhelmed Provided to a team if thier point gain is below +X

- Damage verus fortifications by players and siege is increased by X%
- Health of friendly fortifications and guards increased by X%
- Damage of friendly guards is increased by X%

Orbs

Orbs should still hold value. But it should have diminishing returns for each orb you hold after the first, still giving orbs value while not being as powerful the more you own.

If a team owns a Single Orb they get 5% health and 50 to all stats.
If a team owns Two Orbs they get 8% health 80 to all stats.
If a team owns all Three Orbs they get 9% health and 90 to all stats.

I don’t think more servers will help queues or the matching system. People transfer servers because they are losing to the more populated servers (then complain about how long it takes to get into a game).

I personally would love to see a new map added, I would also like to see the three borderlands as different maps (although I do understand why they are the same).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/The-real-problem-here-is-invisible-enemies-Give-their-algorithms-time-to-match-servers-properly/page/3#post210271

People move to dominating World vs World servers and wonder why there is a queue?

Also (and I can’t find the link right now) there was discussion about the fact the que system isn’t working correctly under some circumstances, which was being looked at.

Wow 10,270 kills thats massive. I thought I was doing well @ 600ish and I have just over 100 badges.

I love world vs world and while there are some issues (which I am sure will be fixed over time) this is the single biggest issue I have with the game as a whole. I have a great rig and an awesome internet connection and find it frustrating to to wandering about and suddenly be in the middle of a zerg.

I dont understand people who complain about the queues. There are plenty of servers that never seem to have full queues. Creating more servers won’t fix the issue as people transfer to the server that they see winning, so the new servers will never get a large enough world vs world population.

We are not going to claw back some of the massive difference unless SOS and IOJ work together, so this is good to see.

I would like to be able to see queue times from the world vs world screen, not that I often encounter queues.

I want to play when I want to play, not when you dicate when I can play. As a Oceanic player who works shift work I would not have purchased this game if one of it’s key features was unavailble to me or crippled because you think it’s unfair I play while you sleep.

It’s unfortunate as there were a number of us last night actively avoiding SOS territory, however sometimes the zerg are mindless and just do whatever they want even if it is pointless.

“Tonight I saw IOJ and SOS for the first time work directly together. They hit us hard, and they hit us fast, and they individually threw everything at us until they each got their own keeps”

Last night (Oceanic time) we (IOJ) actually hit back and did rather well, we would have done better if people had of listened more about avoiding SOS and hitting ET, we took Klovan at one point, not sure how long we held if for though (I logged).

“Let us draw on the map. This is a huge one. Waypoints do not cut it. We need to be able to draw on the WvW map and have the drawings selectively visible to either group members or guild members or something along those lines.”

We can’t do this already? (can’t say I have tried outside of pve)

I went Huntsman and Leatherworking works well being able to make all my armor and weapons. My friend also made a Engineer which allows me to make all his stuff as well.

This is hardly cheating OP, although I am not sure why people would want to xfer to these servers with the queues they must have.

Theres are alot of people on IOJ which would welcome working with SOS, and I imagine ET would appreciate a bit more of a fight, because currently I can’t see how it could be fun for them.

“Even if you tell them in map chat whilst in WvW. Some either don’t understand English or are doing their own thing to spite the rest of the server”

This is so true. The first couple of days of this round we (IOJ) had 40 – 50 people just banging on the door of SM (which was fully supplied and upgraded) not even using any siege, was the biggest waste of time but you could not commnunicate with those people.

At least we have moved on from that. Last night (Oceanic time) trying to tell people not to attack Orgrewatch or to defend ANZ after we took it (just to clear it for SOS) just fell on deaf ears and the mindless zerg continued on doing what it wanted.

At the very least limit the number of transfers people can do while they are free. I would hate to see people who wish move server to play with friends to not be able to just because of World vs World, but being able to transfer once in every two weeks seems fair to me.

Looking forward to the longer matches thanks!

If people didn’t buy from them it wouldn’t be an issue. I had hoped that the Gems > Gold conversion might stop this. While I have brough around $150 in gems to convert to gold I have noticed the exchange rate for gold is much better from these spammers so I guess people will be tempted by that.

Arrow carts are pretty easy to take care of, I don’t see the issue.

I am Australian and often play at all sorts of hours (on IOJ) I have not seen these empty “pve” world vs world maps some of you speak of.

I would like to see guilds have access to in-game forums (if they so choose, could be a researchable)

I am on Isles, and we have a good Aussie player base but we don’t tend to win more than we lose. I would imagine some servers have large dedicated World vs World guilds and as such are more dedicated that other servers.

I notice it alot with the Fern Hound and the Apline Wolf. While I didn’t like the pets thing to start with it seems that speccing for pets is much better than speccing for traps. Therefore not having these abilities working is a let down.

Isle of Janthir also has a large Aussie following.

Excellent somethign to strive for.

It would be nice if these became a little easier to gather, however with some persistance I have been able to get what I need as I level.

Isle of Janthir also has alot of Australian players

Hardly consider character slots Pay to win.

Tom Gore.4035:

If you didn’t get it, this was also a post directed to ANet so they might in the future tweak the contents of the chests to make opening them more desirable.

While I agree that making the chest more desirable would be nice (and make Anet more money) I would like to point out this is not the place for directing feedback to anet. If it gets deleted or locked it will be because of this. not the content.

The Only One He Ever Feared.7168:

I know Asura gates are the traveling mechanisms, but how do I travel from my starting place to say Lions Reach?

Head into the city you start near, there will be a gate that takes you to Lions Arch and there will be more gates taking you to other cities.

Deepcuts.9740:

All I read was. " I have a powerful rig, blah blah"
Really?

Stopped reading at Alienware, but then reconsidered and gave him a chance and there was some good advice. While I think Alienware machines are indeed awesome they are normally purchased by people that don’t build thier own machines (I know this is a generalisation)

Every set of patch notes they have released seem to have contained fixes for various issues.

I have not heard of the vent problem you are having, however my guild and I use mumble and it works prefectly, in any case your vent problems really don’t have alot to do with the game and even if it does you can’t expect the developers to test thier software with every bit of third party software that is on the market. Is you version of vent/ts the latest version? It might be something worth exploring.

Also as already mentioned not being able to see your husband sounds like your on different overflow servers.

So he contacted support and they told him they would not restore the account?

Gear is pretty cheap on the trading post, I often buy armor (even though I am @ 400 leatherworking) just because if I don’t have the materials it’s usually cheaper to buy the items than buy the materials.

Of course I could not be lazy and just farm the stuff which would be the cheapest option.

I imagine (while not having done any instances as I am having too much fun with other things) that speccing to be tanky or speccing to be support/healer would make these instances somewhat easier.

I love the level scaling, I can hunt with my lower level friends at any time. EQ2 had a mentor system which was similar but you would still be overpowered for the areas event mentored to a low level. GW2 does it much better.

Thanks heaps for that I might just need to get thier four digit number to ensure I can add them :p

I have friends on the Euro servers and when I attempt to add them to my friends list as a US player, it doesn’t work. Does anyone know if there is a way to add friends from the Euro servers? (or am I just being stupid!)

I often purchase Arrow Carts and Rams, but I think the idea is to pool resources with your friends/guild. Buying these things by yourself especially at a low level will send you broke pretty quickly.

And as said already you can punt the person using your seige weapon as the owner.

Probably should be in the guild section?

This sounds a bit odd.

It’s a bit disheartening if your a crafter and you purchase some components (such as the fine ingrediants) only to see that you paid way more for them than the item you made could fetch.

I would also like to see this option, as I often forget my own name.