Guild Wars 2

Bring back old borderlands, you guys are ridiculous for ever releasing this garbage. Who is running WvW over there?

It doesn’t seem like OP has played this game very much. There are many ways to get empyreal shards as stated above, S pvp, world chest dailies, and of course the best way imo: WvW. Try checking out the other parts of the game sometime, pve is boring.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Kolly.9872:

Make traps with no cooldown and unblockable

^^^ Would be an awesome thing for ANet to do as an April fools joke.

uh it must be april cause my dh has those amazing traps… wait a second could that be to make people buy the expansion?!?!?!

Most new professions are OP = cash grab just like mobas do with new heros

Jayne.9251:

Haha, I don’t even know where those nodes are.

Ok if you guys feel it’s fine, then I shall remain my mighty team of one. You shall not pass!

The nodes are next to the gate you should be defending with that treb.

I’ll assume that was sarcasm!

I literally quit for two years. I was pleasantly surprised that s pvp is indeed lots of fun and like the op said, seems to shower me in loot, dungeon badges, and the like. So me and my friends did that for a couple months while waiting for HoT and we definitely love the addition of stronghold.

However, we thought WvW would be our “endgame” because we used to play it back in the day and had a good time on the old borderlands. We are on t1 and even there the new borderlands are DEAD, EMPTY, it’s baffling. We ran around for about 3 hours last night just capping and the other team would just follow us around recapping whatever we took. We tried to engage them 3-4 times and everytime they would disengage, stealth, run away. This is the game ANET has created, its pve players getting rewards/dailies/guild missions done, they come to wvw to NOT pvp.

rant over

Jayne.9251:

I know we live in a world where everything is immediate and instant. Have some patience.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. They had a long time to work on these maps and they totally suck. People told them they sucked in testing. Then they replaced the maps that were sort of okay to begin with? What am I missing here?

I believe the WvW community has had 3 years of patience dealing with Culling, Skill Lag, Queues, Maps, Lazy Devs, …. the list goes on.

We aren’t exactly being entitled when they could easily just rotate the borderlands as they had originally intended.

Dumb dumb dumb, mounts = cash shop income.

The fact that I can’t glide in this new WvW map (yet they made it vertical) is the biggest reason I regret buying HOT. I don’t think I’ve ever regretted an expansion purchase as much as this one.

We need mounts cause you screw everything else up and we deserve cool stuff because we pay you money.

We need gliding in WvW cause you made a kittenty map, and it sucks without it.

Thanks Anet, plz fix expansion

I get lag on EB and not borderlands but that’s because I play at primetime on Blackgate and nobody is in the borderlands so… I guess it makes sense for me. You, I have no idea why you’d lag in those desert wastelands…

Really well thought out post. I agree with the OP, follow the dota 2 model as best we can with our population.

Can’t read it all but I came back to WvW and it is DEAD on t1. GG ANet, killed the best part of your game somehow. Guess you’ll pump more resources into making PvP work for esports… great.

Pve is stupid in WvW, isn’t there enough in this game? Really Disappointing launch

Eventually it probably will. Most of us feel the same. Just guessing.

ProtoGunner.4953:

3-4 people isn’t a guild. And if you really wanna do it, just ask friends online to join your guild to claim it or whatever you wanna do.

Sorry but I’ve been in a 3 man real life friend guild since launch. We had 5 but 2 quit early and never came back. Just because you don’t roll with 3 people doesn’t mean it’s not a guild as it most certainly is.

We should be able to do all the guild content too, why not just scale it down? We do 5 man dungeons with 3 of us all the time I’m sure we could do any 5 man content ANET puts out. Spam 1 = win pve

We have been a 3 man real life friend guild since launch. We were excited for HoT because we thought the new guild system would accomodate us more than the old one when infact it is the opposite. You say people can play your game anyway they want but what if they have a hard time recruiting anymore than the 3 friends that have always played together? Please, think of the small guilds! REALLY SMALL!

I like large and small maps, wouldn’t it be nice to have a REALLY small one that encouraged a different kind of pvp? I think it would be nice to have both but nice rant.

I have a small 3 man guild and we are wondering the same. We never did them before but obivously we would like to attempt to get a guild hall so it would be nice to hear how they work.

Great Necro thread as the problem still exists 2 years later. Conquest totally sucks and I play like 5-10 games everyday, more on weekends. Every beta weekend I love the new mode, love it so much I literally play all weekend.

That mode has shown me what GW2 can be, now for more modes that are not conquest!!! GVG!!! Whatever, something!

Just came back to the game after almost a 2 year hiatus to find out the super adventure box has been gone for a year?!

Here’s the old +1 for brining this back immediatley.

So far we have 2 videos and both are 3 times as long as the requested length. Reading comprehension is clearly not our strong suit. Fun thread though and a great idea to get the community involved.

Tao.1234:

Guild Wars 2 is the most P2W game available.

It’s a fact since it’s launch.

And Anet will not change this.

Not today.
Not tomorrow.
Not after tomorrow.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

He’s never played archeage or anything like that apparently.

This is a very dumb post. If you want to experience pay to win check out Archeage, literally thousands of dollars are spent monthly by the top players in that game and they have to continue spending as new items come out to keep their position at the top of the food chain.

Gw2 is as far from p2w as I have ever seen, great job in that department, plenty of other stuff to complain about though =).

wow you guys are awesome and so is ANet obviosuly. I need to do better research I guess.

So, I just came back to GW2 recently after a long break. I read the awesome upgrade boosters were getting and I was impressed. But, why the decision to not change our current boosters into these ones that are actually useful?

Back in the day I spent a lot of dough in the BLTC so I have tons of the old useless boosters I would love to trade for these new ones. Heck I’d even go 2 for 1 if that was possible through the mystical toilet.

Maybe I just don’t know about a process of upgrading these to the current ones? Or is this just an obvious cash grab because they know everyone has a bank full of the kittenty ones and if they transferred them into these new useful boosters that could equal lost revenue? I honestly can’t think of another reason not to upgrade these automatically.

I have like 30 experience boosters and my characters are all level 80, I’d love to be able to use that towards my reward tracks in pvp, because that’s the only game mode I care about.

Cash grab seems obvious, Am I missing something?

Edit, found how to edit!

Vitality would become the most powerful stat in the game. You cannot combine stats into one, it just won’t work.

You honestly haven’t thought this through at all. You’re basically asking them to create an entirely new system and we’d have to start balancing all over again (like we just did). Round 3 of a brand new game? No thanks.

Maybe after 3 years they could fix WvW and make it so small teams of people have a reason to join? Still waiting for it not to reward the zergfest that WvW is. I hear that may come in this expansion, if that’s the case… I’ll be content.

I didn’t read responses because I’m sure it’s just everyone telling the OP he is a moron and you could say this about anything in any game if you didn’t like what you had to do to obtain it. That all being said (and true) I just started playing again and have gotten 3 ascended gears from S PVP. So Stop being lazy, there are a few methods to acquiring gear and I’m sure there will be more soon.

Is the expansion really just 1 zone and 1 new character class? I was coming back for this =(

Good point. Tough to pick a solution but I’d say the fairest way is to put the symbol on all mesmer clones.

DIsabling the symbol gives mesmers an advantage (very slight) and not knowing if the enemy has supply or not kind of defeats the purpose of the map.

You’re correct though, this needs a fix.

I just came back from a 4 month vacation from GW2 and it seems that these guys keep shooting themselves in the foot with WvW. It is and always will be the most fun of all the gametypes but the system they have set up for it encourages nothing but zergs and “tanking” games to get a favorable matchup… Just let me play my WvW character in an S-PvP custom arena and I’ll never complain again. Worked too hard for my legendaries to lose them everytime I wanna PvP against fair odds.

I would love GvG and think it would be massively successful if implemented as a 3rd seperate mode to s pvp and wvw. In my version of GvG we would get to use our wvw characters because for me it makes it much more fun. The reason I don’t s pvp very much is the fact that I don’t get to use the characters that I have spent long hours on. GvG could use the s pvp maps and even the same game types to make the transition easy but for me to make it interesting I need to be playing my PvE character.

Over time I would hope that new game modes would arise, leaderboards, rewards, etc. But for now I would just like to play a 5v5 or 10v10 mode that lets me use my regular characters in pretty much any capacity. I would even support a seperate mode that used a smaller version of the WvW borderlands maps but instead of taking objectives it would be more about team skirmishes.

They just need to bring the limit of people on a map down. Cut it in half and everything will be fixed. Then people will also transfer away from the top tiers because there will be huge Q’s. Hence spreading everybody out the way it was always supposed to be.

looks like they deleted your 4 other threads. now its gonna be even harder to find the uber nerd unemployed shatter mesmers that you seek!

It’s almost as if you guys haven’t seen wild bill’s videos. He is (was) the king of all things P/D. His build is king I suggest you all check it out if you haven’t yet.

side note: P/D was way better before the caltrops nerf and was better before everyone knew how to counter it. Although I still play it as my main build in wvw and s pvp, It’s just too much dam fun.

Wow thanks for moving my thread to players helping players otherwise known as where questions go unanswered or where good threads go to die.

Also forgot to mention that since the last patch my combat log has only been showing about half of what is actually happening which makes it almost impossible to accurately test things right now.

If you know of a place that explains confusion in much more detail than the wiki please link me here.

Confusion does damage anytime you use a skill.

Does that mean anytime I hit 1-9 and 0 ? I was just reading a thread where it said you take damage on dodge roll only if you trait it to use a skill at the same time (clone, caltrops, heal)

I am looking for specifics since engineers and mesmers are using this is WvW like it’s going out of style and I need to adjust but can’t find any definitive information that could help me beat them.

In my brief testing it didn’t seem to be hurting me when I used skill 7-9 on my elementalist but each of those removes a condition so this brings me to my second question: If I use a condition removal skill does the confusion get removed first or will it do damage for me activating the skill and then remove it?

Also my buddy is 100% sure that it does damage on heal, but unless im low enough to get downed by it my heal is still going to gain me a significant amount of health so this one is a wash IMO.

Correct me WHEN I’m wrong!

Thanks in advance.

They tried to fix them in 3 patches so far, go back and look at the notes. It’s about time WvW get some love and that’s what is coming next.

The problem is resources, they have 3 game types and all take a lot of time and people to fix. S pvp has only had changes in 2 patches and I wouldn’t call any of these major. WvW has not changed since day 1, that is the priority right now. Dungeons will get some fixes here and there and I am sure they will do another “all out” dungeon fix patch within the next 3.

Frankly, they released far too many dungeons and way too much content to keep an eye on and it is clear that they can’t keep up with our demand and standards as players.

I think overall they have done a good job appeasing (MOST) everyone, and honestly that’s what they want. They want the casual players because they don’t rock the boat and they are the people who buy gems. That is who they want to make happy, and it’s a business I guess they have to cater to the paying customers.

we should rename this thread “pristine fractals useless if you’ve already geared your entire account.” then it will save us all some time, master of the obvious!

I am giving ANET 2 more patches and if I don’t see them implement some changes then I will take a break for a bit until I see patch or expansion that excites me. Seems like they are finally working on the game itself instead of working on events and ways to get us to use the gem shop. I see bright things on the horizon I just feel like it’s gonna take time to implement the stuff we’ve all been waiting for. Hopefully sooner than later!

I have 3 level 80 characters and am now working on my fourth. With the new achievement features being implemented there will be more reason than ever to go back and do some things that you haven’t in a while… Including making a new char…

Just make one because if they didn’t implement race change with the makeover kits then it is highly unlikely they ever will.

It is unlikely there will be one since they did not release it at the same time that they updated the event page.

I for one am glad that arenanet is taking a month off from these events (even thought I truly enjoyed each one) because there are some things in this game that need serious attention.

Thanks for listening anet

Just wanted to give this thread the Skrittsburgh Critters seal of approval.

However, I think eles would be op (the good ones anyway) if we were given a legitimate ultimate skill.

So I was thinking the same as the rest of you that they should just give us the option to use one of our regular skills?? And give that option to ALL professions.

I record a lot of wvw and am just wondeirng what the rest of the community is using to edit their videos? I currently capture with MSI afterburner and it records incredible videos but anytime I try to edit them in Camtasia I get a ton of errors and it never uploads to youtube correctly.

Hopefully you can recommend something with at least a free trial so I can make sure it works to my satisfaction prior to purchase!!!

Thanks in advance.

I really do love this game and I’ll be honest when I say that I participated in almost every facet of all 3 major events that have taken place. (except the mad king’s jump puzzle which i was too scared to enter after hearing it took people 10 hours.) I enjoyed each of these events in their own way and hope things like this continue to take place.

But, why do them every month when there are so many features in this game that need to be fixed? (solo keep capping, precursors 500+ gold, FOTM d/c issue, no in-game dungeon finder, culling, etc. etc.)

People are using outside websites to find groups, People are quitting because they’re done with every facet of the legendary except the precursor and how much longer do you think they will wait for this “scavenger hunt” to come to fruition. We all feel forced into FOTM even though some of us don’t mind the dungeon it still gets repetitive. There needs to be more ways than one to achieve ascended gear, although I hear this fix is coming.

TLDR: I love these events and everything in this game BUT I am patient enough to wait for the next one if it means more time being spent on key issues that MUST be fixed for this game to continue its success. Skip a month, or two. Whatever it takes.

Thank you for reading.

Don’t be lazy and reinstall the program! Or buy a pc, problem solved.

Im glad you made this post and I agree with all of you because I am in the exact same boat. t6 mats are definitely going up faster than i can farm and its making me very sad. I love this game and will continue to play it every day, but please please please arenanet just higher the drop rates on t6 mats and ectos to stabilize the market… Isn’t that a simple fix to this complex problem?

i feel your pain: legendary farmers.

I totally disagree with the fact that any account online for an hour should get a prize. It’s like giving the losers of a soccer game medals… It doesn’t make you a winner.

I spent 3 grueling hours of my sunday to get a chance at that big chest and I would be furious if ANET gave that karka earring/bag to everyone that participated… That actually made all the time i spent WORTH IT.

I was in an overflow and we got wiped a few times and a bunch of whiners were like “anet suxors im out” and you think those people should get credit? No.

For those of us who stuck it out, I believe we deserve what we got. For those of you who didn’t, better luck next time.

I have never in any game experienced a Holiday Event this awesome. Every 3 days you guys put in more content than I could believe. I had to stop working on my legendary to experience everything you guys had to offer. The Ascent to Madness dungeon was incredible, I got all sorts of loot that I previously thought you could only buy from the gem store (fine transmutes, black lion salvage kit, boosters, etc.) With every patch came more and more content which continued to blow my mind and I was truly impressed.

I haven’t experienced Immersion like this since Ultima Online, so for that I applaud you Arena Net..

Can’t wait for the next event already.

Mrbig, guardians were probably the one class i had trouble with during a 1v1. This changes that entirely.

nough said.