Guild Wars 2

Nice idea. Don’t worry too much about negative feedback, most people on the forums are arrogant/stubborn on their own ideas and just narrow minded. The only thing I yet to figure out is just a way to make people loyal to a server. people talk about bandwagon, its not a system problem, its a problem created by players themselves. Just need to add motivation to server loyalty and motivation to play wvw frequently.

Xenesis.6389:

Kano.3720:

Bringing the first year of gw2 with free x-fers is useless since most people didn’t really care about community as much.

Yeah sorry that feels like the reverse to me these days, there was much more server loyalty back then, when players had just picked their server and were willing to stay for a while.

There have been guilds who have been on multiple servers to get “fights”, there have been massive migration of players moving so that they can “play together”, servers have died and tumbled down the ranks because of these events. And they were willing to pay to do it, imagine if they had a free chance at it with no restrictions. Then you had tournaments with free transfers that also screwed up populations because “winning”.

Let’s be real here, players play a huge part with the imbalance of the population starting day -1 in beta when alliances and entire communities choose a server to stack on, to just last month when multiple guilds moved to TC, and then multiple guilds moved off TC cause they hated them.

You really want to hand out a freebie transfer with no restrictions other than an expiry date?

I agree with 5 tiers, but basically T1 unlinked, T2-4 linked, T5 the old T8 unlinked.

Also I’m for new names but maybe as placing servers linked together under names of Gods or Dragons, HoD/EB = Grenth server for example, that way one server doesn’t feel like they lost their server to the host, but each can now feel like they’re playing together for a side of a god or dragon.

hate when i click reply without typing anything >.< anyways, i mean in the beggining there wasnt really that much loyalty around the time free transfers stopped was when loyalty definately starting being a thing which i also miss a lot. This idea though is more or less to leave it up to the palyers to decide. I just feel like everyone has their own taste and a lot of people won’t be using the free x-fer just because no point going from server A to B if they both have the same things. only reason to xfer would be if you were going from zergfest to smallman /roaming server or you hate your server for some reason which i think players would have xferred off already if they really cared. but you are right about there are players out tehre that sort of screw the system but i feel like if you really think about it, with a tweak or 2 the idea could improve wvw. not saying 100% work just improve. but its just an idea so yea there are flaws :/

Heimlich.3065:

Kano.3720:

I mean you could obviously close a server or two like blackgate and maybe TC who don’t really need any more players at all.

That doesn’t change anything.

The rational behavior is still for every player to transfer to the same server (or two servers if people want fights) in order to maximize rewards & probability of winning.

It’s like putting out a poll: Do you like loot and winning? Yes/No

Again the point is for the top 3 tiers to be as full as possible. yes some people/guilds will want to be on same server but theres no point leaving to another server if everyone you know is in your server already. your assuming everyone is going to transfer 100% which is wrong. Also you said people want fights but they all wanna join same server and stack it up to win easy which is a bit contradictive. lot of guild and players want to have fight people, and even certain people/guilds they don’t like. also unless they know absolutely everything not many people will transfer to another server unless its a zergish one to a smaller groups/roaming one and vice versa because no reason to xfer to another server that has x,y,z when your server also has x,y,z you looking for.

Xenesis.6389:

Opening all servers and offering free transfers even 1 time will break servers.
Just think about it… the majority of players will move up on the top servers, not spread out as much as some of us would like that to happen. What did you think happened in the first few months of the game.

I mean you could obviously close a server or two like blackgate and maybe TC who don’t really need any more players at all. Majority moving up is sort of the idea in a way. Theres plenty of people in higher tiers who don’t like zerging and and won’t move just because they don’t wanna waste gold/money. the point is for bottom 2 tiers to not be so populated and have like a zerg or two at most at one given time and for top 3 tiers to be loaded as much as possible. Bringing the first year of gw2 with free x-fers is useless since most people didn’t really care about community as much. Right now people who want to move will move anyways. most people would go t2/t3 since t1 is a different ball game. at the end the last 2 or last tier will still be open and peopel who don’t enjoy top tiers can xfer there at a later time.

So I have three ideas. First is open servers up and give everyone one free transfer by sending them a mail and the transfer expires a week/month/whatever after the mail is opened. Leave servers open for no more than a month. After servers are done from being open give servers back their real population whether its full or others. This way everyone has a free transfer and someone who was not able to play the game or know at the time would at least have the free transfer even if the server he wanted was full(can’t expect to not be punished on something while being inactive whether its and christmas event or other things). This idea is more of less to “reset” the servers and sort of let the players decide in a way.
Second idea is instead of 4 tiers where the top 3 tiers are really more zerg/groups than solo-roam/15man-zerg and 4th tier sort of the oddball make 5 tiers. Do this by leaving the top 6 servers unlinked (if follow first idea might work better? just and idea after all) and linking the bottom 18 together to form 9 linked servers(3 tiers). This way theres more of a variety making the bottom 2 tiers(hopefully) more for “casual” not as serious palyers and less zergfest and requiring a zerg to do anything and more about ~15-25 man and solo/duo roaming and the top 3 tiers more about zerg/guild fights and stuff.
Third idea is about server identity and pairing. Give every server a little icon for example if you are on jade quary it says JQ somewhere on your character or if you are from Devonas Rest it says DR and so on, whenever someone clicks on your character and shows the bar with “eroden terrace gold raider”. Or have every server have a badge and give us that instead. If we do this Would also be a bit better instead of having the specific server name have it say blue/red invader or like EoTM frostreach/badlands/overgrowth or whatever name Anet comes up with. This way servers don’t lose their identity and no one is really “forced” to be called a dirty [enter server name here] invader.

TL;DR 1) [reset? servers] give everyone free x-fers, expires after x-amount of time once recieved for inactive players & open servers for x-amount of time then recalculate pop.

2)[5 tiers] make 5 tiers instead 4 to distinguish between zerg/blob/guild/more serious players and small guilds/~15-25man/solo-3man roaming/more casual less serious palyers.

3)Give servers a set name like blue/red/badlands/frostreach and/or every server has initials (jade quarry = JQ, Devonas Rest = DR, stormbluff isle = SBI/SI) or a bad to represent that server, somewhere in the bar at the top where it shows target info when clicked on.

P.S just and idea. I hope Anet reads this and brings them ideas they have not though of or helps at least a little. just was an idea. I have a bit of an idea but not really of how hard it would be to do this another idea for server identity would be to give every server a finisher anyways bye. thanks for reading <3

Miss the first year of guild wars when everyone except necros ran power. Sure there were some things that were a bit unbalanced but I would rather have that than condi. Condi just seems bologna. Idk something about it.

Why would you vote yes? JUST TO BE CLEAR. What i see is yes make it permanent its good doesn’t need anymore tweaking. I put NO because there still needs improvement! Players shouldn’t HAVE to join squads to get partial participation thing. They should be able to be solo or with one other friend and siege a tower well and sit their and scout it for hours and still get rewarded. Building Siege and staying at a tower protecting it Does nothing for participation from what i can tell other than repairing and killing people that come but for towers like Aldons its not often or ever. I Hope im not confsing please correct me if needed. Also The tracks should be more WvW, yes there is a triumphant one but it give you like only 3 pieces of siege through the WHOLE thing.
TL;DR Needs improvement still So i voted no because no meant remove or in my case, needs improvement and yes meant its good no more tweaking, imo.

Infusion.7149:

It needs to be able to be used by non-HoT players.

Agreed. At the very least this should be it. Not using the blueprints I can sort of live with it but not being able to use is just insane.

Well im glad mostly everyone here agreed. I am just very disappointed at arena net. If a Dev reads this please give me a response that justifies this move/ the reasoning behind this kitten move.

Ychiju.7960:

The “funny” thing is… there was a patch some months ago which now lets you utilise the shield generator (when it’s already built), but not its skills.

That must have been what I done. I got on it but don’t recall if used skills or not. Will try to find one later (since Anet won’t let me build one) and test it. I honestly don’t understand what is the point in this.

Josh XT.6053:

Shield generators were part of the expansion, if you don’t have it, you can’t use them even if they’re already built. I’m pretty sure you can sell them on the TP still though.

I used one yesterday. Unless it was an extremely vivid dream or I was drugged or drunk without knowing.

So I bought a superior shield generator with proof of heroics and when I went to use it it said that i require the HoT expansion to use the blueprint. Wtf, is this a bug or a joke? I then tried to buy a regular one from the Trading Post and same thing happened. If this is for real then Anet please don’t let players buy it and waste their proofs of heroic or money on the trading post. If possible please fix this, i have been playing for over 3 years and since new HoT it seems you have just been screwing over the veteran players that have not bought HoT expansion. Also in addition I better not get them as a drop or a chest please or ill rage QQ and lastly we can still use them if they are built which makes no sense. Im dissapointed and I haven’t really said that even after all the lame things like how the new classes are way better than the old version or when you added more condi(cheese).

TL;DR Players without HoT expansion cannot use Shield Generator blueprints but can still but them with proof of heroics and from Trading Post aswell as use ones that are already built. Poorly implemented.

Anyone who owns Bifrost, does your Footsteps randomly stop showing or is it just me? I have to move my camera and character around for it to show again. It mostly happens when im looking at the character directly from behind

kurath.9406:

DR trying to spawn camp AR everywhere or something?

Was doing some solo roaming in DR BL, stumbled my way into the water camp near AR spawn and found quite the mass of siege. Five trebuchets pointed in all directions ready to intimidate any AR that dare wander close – a crafty strategy indeed! Totally mangled my AoE limit trying to clear the guards as quickly as possible too.

You kitten, it took me days to make dat siege lol. I was killing mosquitos and deer with them.

Spets the MilkBandit.9031:

Kano.3720:

BlazeQ.1095:

Kano.3720:

Is HoD and NSP married? you havn’t touched eachothers BL in the past 4 days and HoD take our EB while NSP hits our BL. Guess when one sucks the must use foul play

Who was in 1st place 4 days ago?

We been in first place until these last 2 days because have HoD hitting us in EB and NSP hitting us in our BL while you sip tea and do each others hair. I expected you guys to be better than IOJ, but i was mistaken.

1) I am the commander responsible for your BL wipes these past few days, hi, nice to meet you. Me and my associates attacked you because you are good, vigilant and fast responding, I like DR and many of your guilds. Whatever “deal” you think we have with hod, check last weeks matchup thread, i assure you there is no such alliance. We hit your BL, you go to defend (some epic defences btw, some terrible :/) and as a result HoD have a window to push you in EB…because you know… SM TO WIN ERMGHERD and all that jazz. Simple maths for them to hit you, and they do hit us and numerous times we lost large chunks of your borderland because we had to pull away and respond to a HoD threat elsewhere on our lands.

2) I hope you learned a valuable lesson with that golem rush on Garrison and Hills in NSP BL.

1) last week match up thread mean total kitten since that’s last week so i don’t know why your bringing that up
2) What are you talking about good defense, the times you attsck us is between 4am and 12 am when we have out manned buff and like 10 ppl on BL max.
3) The only time HoD ever took something from you BL was the first two days when they took 2 towers and maybe a keep, while in EB they have only taken Klovan and WC because they back capped us.
4)I think i only remember you taking a keep from HoD maybe one time this match up and its not because they are good because they really arnt.
5) yea we learned that your 30man zerg can kill our 6 golems and 3 ppl guarding it against a fully upgraded keep, while HoD and you guys fight over our side of EB, congratulation.
6) I would like to see you do that during prime time, oh wait, you can’t.

BlazeQ.1095:

Kano.3720:

Is HoD and NSP married? you havn’t touched eachothers BL in the past 4 days and HoD take our EB while NSP hits our BL. Guess when one sucks the must use foul play

Who was in 1st place 4 days ago?

We been in first place until these last 2 days because have HoD hitting us in EB and NSP hitting us in our BL while you sip tea and do each others hair. I expected you guys to be better than IOJ, but i was mistaken.

Is HoD and NSP married? you havn’t touched eachothers BL in the past 4 days and HoD take our EB while NSP hits our BL. Guess when one sucks the must use foul play

irishhaf.1692:

Ok… can someone give me a quick run down on what happened last night… I go to sleep we are hanging on by our fingertips in EB… I wake up and it looks like a blue wrecking ball hit EB.

I mean were we the only people to put bodies into EB last night?

We wernt expecting to take anything but when i got on EB i didnt see SF, so RegA commander and i decided to take ogres. dropped 2 golems. saw SF at veloka so we went to anz then mendons. WP back to Keep and made around 17 golems, took SM. Made 4 more golems took there keep. After ET hit ogres we Decided to Take there side then i wasted around 8g upgrading with others. We only had 15 or so in the beggnining and in the end maybe 25 a little more.

Mickz.8356:

Zultz dont kitten about with his buffs.

This one has more O_o

Man that 40man zerg of SF at 1 AM and 3 AM for others was pretty crazy. only about 20 max in EB. Had outmanned buff until we flipped your garrison. Managed to take it with 10 ppl. Hopefully You dont night cap us hard like IOJ tried to do.

Jaaded.1870:

SF you guys just kept making babies in hills!

Should had Brought the baby blender

Well after staying up till 5am yesterday defending hills i can only defend DR BL till 3am. been defending all day on my thief. Nice attempt ioj with those 4 alphas and o.e omega even though you didnt hit one gate with them. Im hoping to wake up and be in the lead or atleast just 2k behind. Sorry for typing im on my phonw. gl darkest on the all nighter.

MrFluffy.9307:

bellrang.1628:

MrFluffy.9307:

Kano.3720:

Cmon IOJ, only jump on a body if you are actually good or did something great, 50+ golems to take back your own keep at 5 am with 30+ against 10=15 if probably a sign you should uninstall. We held you keep for 17 hours but unfortunately we have no morning crew. I try to invite you to party but you to scared to talk to us. Had fun hiding at Bay for 8m while 20 chased me in lords room, too bad i couldnt do it as long in hills. Sadly you only took hills not because numbers but because you use LOS on those AC’s because you couldnt kill us in there, thanks for the 200 badges today. Take some camps, you guys only worth 3 WvW xp

also the numbers were even, we had 20 and you had 20-25. We wiped a good 10 of you at outer gate and didn’t let those 10 re enter so you might have mistaken your forces for less then they actually were Also did you really think we could win even numbers against a choke with 3 superior ac’s and 3 superior ballistas? We took out the siege so we could fight on even terms.

Here’s the result

Yea, there was no way we had even numbers. Most of the people was in my guild and on TeamSpeak. Counted countless times and never had over 20. We lost cause we were out numbered, with the out manned buff. We wiped you guys so many times cause we had good already placed siege and communication. But for a fact you guys had way more then us. I mean really, gonna golem rush the keep twice with about 5-8 golems each with just that small of a group?

I didn’t count 20 on our side either, no you didn’t lose because you were outnumbered. You had plenty of opportunities to push us out which you missed and you had more then enough siege on all of the gates to defend against our golem rushes. And no you didn’t wipe our golems at outer we ditched them while we defanged the walls and stuff. I then asked the group in teamspeak to build more golems to help break down the outer gate (again you had atleast 3 superior arrow carts in non-AOE spots aimed at the gate we broke) so no rams wouldn’t have worked in that situation. And when we finally broke into inner we were getting pushed back because you had guess what? MORE superior siege! all of it just aimed at are already dwindling forces, so I got a mesmer to portal us to the left of the bridge but only 6-7 of us took the portal so I decided to order a pincer attack, it worked quite well and allowed us to bring the rest of our group to the left of the bridge. While we were rallying our forces we ported up anyone who died and then got ready for our assault on the lord’s room. We set up AC’s to get rid of the siege inside and then had a mesmer port us inside, again only 5 of us took the port and so we attacked you from behind and in front and we still managed to wipe you at the choke with equal numbers.

I remember it vividly and no DR no matter how much you want to say it was just numbers, it simply wasn’t

it was. We actually had Outmanned buff for 5minutes then it flickered on and off every now and then. Next time ill screenshot the outmanned buff. We had about 10 in lords and 4 running around trying to repair

Cmon IOJ, only jump on a body if you are actually good or did something great, 50+ golems to take back your own keep at 5 am with 30+ against 10=15 if probably a sign you should uninstall. We held you keep for 17 hours but unfortunately we have no morning crew. I try to invite you to party but you to scared to talk to us. Had fun hiding at Bay for 8m while 20 chased me in lords room, too bad i couldnt do it as long in hills. Sadly you only took hills not because numbers but because you use LOS on those AC’s because you couldnt kill us in there, thanks for the 200 badges today. Take some camps, you guys only worth 3 WvW xp

SO IOJ took our garrison and OL. Was it starks Idea. And i was hoping to hit ET today. kitten you guys and hitting gus when everyone is sleeping.

Of course we gonna talk about your 10 golem rush, i honestly thought you had hit, really unexpected and great us of SM WP and portal. was 3 of us in Keep when Legion ^ spotted you. Why you guys have to golem rush us. Now we have another reason to hit you and not ET.

KinkyGiraffe.4123:

Hey Devonaaaaaaaaaaa,

Can you pleaaaaaaaaase get out of hills and not fortify it, please? :’(

We will lose it soon enough. My guild probably won’t hit you tomorrow, ET kinda making us mad.

Nice job ET, taking NW tower DR with 20+ while 3 of us try to make AC. Just had to use that AC Zoom glitch huh.

Sororita.3465:

DR has a night crew…picture…they just dont have an early morning crew.

lies, we have no night crew just those from prime time that don’t sleep till 2am-4am servertime :p

sephiroth.4217:

DR using some serious hocus pocus today

Haha, Did you see our 3 trebs at QL?

Devon.9061:

Dear DR,

Please step up your game and try to get positive rating. We really want to kick SF back to T8! In no way shape or form am I trying to be rude. Sorry, if i do come off this way.

Sincerely,
HoD

We would be happy to help but With GoM Capping us at night and fergusons backcapping us and teaming on us when they have the chance most of our guys are tired of it.

Skinnie.4825:

gom nightcrew activate

If Siegerazer never existed I guarantee that you would never get anything but camps.

awsome job guys. lets keep it up.