Guild Wars 2

easy, you’re using a signet.

Vol.7601:

My fondest memory of RISE was when they were on SoR during S1 and they decided to GvG on the map while we proceeded to lose a T3 tower.

good job.

Ya…kitten , those people need to get a clue. Some people fail to grasp the concept that you need to defend stuff until friday night, when it starts over and goes on like nothing happened.

//salute rise

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

If the devs have time to add an annoying bobbing head to characters for April Fools, they have the time to fix bugs which have been in WvW for over 18 months!

If your code is organized properly, doing something like increasing your head size takes exactly 2 keystrokes.

These dudes are a pretty fun bunch , prolly your best shot if you’re looking for a guild in SBI

Video of a raid from last saturday, just some EB pug farming

Am I the only that finds it weird someone that need to screenshot compliments he gets? o.O

RG reformed as [ST], so some of the old members that used to post videos will continue on the same channels.

VII:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYy633HY6YpVx44g2aBZag

Just search and you’ll find some more. Since someone posted the NA link up there, there are some exceptions (NS and EP have some good vids), but most of the others are just videos of them zerging pugs down with a friendly blob

Best I can give ya is part-time :P

WRod cutest asura NA , EU , SEA , Mars

Hiding the utility bar so people don’t find out that shout guardians are good in WvW?

Tl;DR:
1- Naming your guild hardcore won’t make scrub players magically play better
2- Find a good guild

Same here… have any of you gotten it yet? (through support or something)

This would be awesome.
Got 500 Skill Points on my mesmer, around 100 on guardian…but I’m way too lazy to level other alts :/

Sabull.5670:

Made a discussion video about why I think featureless circle arena is very very bad (kitten) for how interesting and depth the GvG deathmatches have. It’s slow and casual but it’s true talk.

Empty arena brings really boring fights, with no different feel and storyline. Compared to the vanilla area we have currently. Alot of depth has evolved to every hill and corner in that area, that does not happen in a circle pit. Lower viewing value, and through time lower playing value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTD5k4Wk0Y

Arena has to have small, smooth features that leaders can use to coordinate with and direct the fight. Different types of gameplay rise if the area has different sections.

Can you make a 15 minute discussion about a circle with red and blue torches? No depth.

What if we declare that the stairs part, all the way up to those pillars are fair game? Then there’ll still some room for terrain advantage, LOS breaking, circling, etc

1) Pick one class, and practice with it. If you’re hoping from one class to another you’ll never be as good in a single class as someone that specializes on it.

2) Watch other players. There’s plenty of youtube videos of roamers. Pay attention to skill rotations, self combos, dodge timings, etc. Try copying a build you see someone running on the videos. That way you already have a decent build and a guideline on how to play it.

3) Work on keybinds. There’s not much time for clicking, try reworking your keybinds to something you’re comfortable with, and know where each skill is by heart.

Still looking for skilled thieves!

Good fights tonight at the fight club and SoS BL after

Sorry to whoever was the kitten engi I was fighting just now, queue popped in the middle of our duel.

Tried to fight with it in the middle of my screen until it was running out though :P

Aurust.8961:

I just had to put this in here, cuz I was saving it for just this moment.

From AGG leader:

PredatoR.5247

Here to put an end to “if and when Agg leaves” rumors. We made our Chinese friends in Jade Quarry a promise that Aggression will be staying on Jade Quarry for the long run this time, longer than our longest stay on any server previously (Sea of Sorrows) during our PPT days. The rumors upset our friends and I just wanted to verify that Aggression is going to stay on Jade Quarry possibly up to our last day on Gw2.

I also believe no more transfers are needed, Fort Aspenwood and Dragonbrand could use guilds if there is an intention on having more than 3 “competitive” servers.

Jericho The Usurper[Agg] – Aggression

Found on

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/9-13-Sanctum-of-Rall-Jade-Quarry-Blackgate/page/4

Near the bottom of page four…..

Well, slavery was abolished quite a while ago, so even if they got paid to move, don’t think there’s an obligation of them to stay. Depending on what was agreed I’d say the right thing to do would be to just give the gold back.
You can’t blame them for rage-quitting the queues, don’t think anyone was expecting achievement hunters to come out that hard, even though it seems to be improving (they prolly found some new shiny item they gotta farm for already)

Chicho Gosho.6507:

Also this is the biggest WvW patch in what, 6 months? More? Of course people are going to play it. But it’s only the second day of the patch and you’re overreacting a lot.
I think after a couple of days it’ll get better. What do you think?

This is not the biggest WvW patch in 6 months, not in 1 month either, simply because it didn’t change WvW at all except for adding achievements and changing the matchup system

The wvw season is a great step in the right direction. You have an incentive to finish 1st and second now. None of this “Oh lets just focus on fights,” mentality.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling, but I hope you are. “We gotta switch focus from playing because it’s fun to playing to get a reward”… really?

Sreoom.3690:

NargofWoV.4267:

Aside from Friday at release, all of our same commanders are leading… >shrugs< And I’m on one of the highest population servers. WvW has been pretty amazing once in. Enjoying it a lot!!!

Ditto.

On my book, amazing fights require my skills to work :/

Regarding the ability of knocking players off the map, I believe this shouldn’t happen at all on “normal” paths. If knocking people off is better than actually attacking them, all we will see are tornado eles, mesmers, etc. It really isn’t fun for group battles.

What I would like to see instead is some high-risk/reward paths, where you can be knocked off. Like a narrow bridge or path that can lead you behind the enemy lines and gain you a positional advantage if taken instead of the normal route. But it also means that if you are scouted, your group could easily be knocked off and wiped.

EDIT: Added an example using one of the SS’s released

Rama.6439:

Disastro.4086:

azizul.8469:

this is a known issue for a year now, nothing new.

I think the issue here is things have gotten worse recently. Not that it’s a new thing.

Much, Much worse, it is almost a constant thing now with no lag being the rare thing were it used to be skill lag was the rare thing in the beginning, now its almost constant, and not just in WvW, anywhere in game I go I have skill lag, LA, Frostgorge, The Mists, any map, my skills lag to hell and it sucks real bad, if Anet doesn’t confront this issue and soon, it will be the death of this game.

Weird part is, back on launch there were even more people playing WvW and the lag was nowhere near this bad. My guess is that as WvW population started dropping, they started allocating servers to SPvP and PvE overflows. Now that WvW activity is back up, the remaining servers can’t handle it.

Avigrus.2871:

Kitiara.2706:

CuRtoKy.8576:

Markus.9084:

DevonCarver.5370:

Queues will be fixed as part of the new map. They will continue to operate as they have since launch until then. The queue does not function as a typical queue and we are fixing it. It will just take some time. It has been a lower priority than the other things we have done and we’ve only now been able to devote the appropriate resources to it.

So it means : no change before 2014 ??

And does anyone know how queue appears ? Sometimes we are queuing and when we finally enter, we realise we are 40 on the map with 80+ ennemies on both other servers…

I believe map caps are server related meaning if a server has a 100 man EB BL cap it doesn’t mean the other server you are fighting against has the same cap.

Queue is totally random.

That is screwed up and needs to be fixed NOW. No reason for one server to be allotted more players than the server they are fighting. If that is the case, then indeed servers are stacked in favor of others……..

I always wondered about this – we have a queue to get into EB, yet the opposing team seems to outnumber us 3 to 1, is this because of the broken queue system?

This is something that we tested a while ago and might be related to the issue, posted on the forums back then but no confirmation:

Me and a couple guildies from JQ were playing, when one of us left and went to the character screen. After he left though, guild tab and party tab said he was still inside WvW, and his dot was also still inside the map, but when I went to where the dot was I could confirm he wasn’t there.
Party window (samiss):
http://i.imgur.com/Ra2lCLy.jpg
Minimap showing guildie in front of me, when he clearly isn’t:
http://i.imgur.com/NqLK773.jpg
Guild Window:
http://i.imgur.com/J20loiX.jpg

People should be drawn to WvW because its fun, because they want a fight, because they want to PvP. They shouldn’t be banding in waves to get achievements and rewards.

Mentor new players you say? Well, I would try if:
1) I actually managed to get in
2) If I found someone that wanted to be helped. So far most of the newcomers I’ve come across wanted our guild to go help them do the JP..

titanlectro.5029:

From: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Well-played-Anet/2924568

DevonCarver.5370

I’d just like to make a note of one thing that I think people aren’t considering when they transfer to stacked worlds. You will not, repeat will not, be able to receive the reward based on overall world place in the league, unless you achieve the meta achievement for the season. If you aren’t able to get into WvW much, you won’t get the rewards. So it is absolutely taking a risk to transfer to a world that has a large WvW population.

You were warned.

Frankly, its about time that there was a downside to stacking T1. Unfortunately, this will not be that downside. The excitement will die down and T1 will be back to normal soon.

There’s only 1 problem with this. The people that were actually WvWing for the past year before any kind of reward are now the ones that gotta transfer due to the wave of PvErs and achievement hunters, not the other way around.

Yes, it probably has more to do with everyone playing it on all servers instead of blobbing like the previous lag issues. What is weird is that this really wasn’t an issue back on launch, when almost every server would have long queues.
There was either some bad patch or ANet shut down some of the WvW servers or allocated them somewhere else when the activity there dropped, now that it went back up the remaining servers are overloaded.

1- Server population balance
2- Open field fighting vs Siege warfare
3- Ways of spreading out the zerg

What are you most interested in? PvE / WvW / SPvP?

Specially looking now for 2 really skilled and active thieves to join our raids and GvG team!

From Devon has told us in the past, they can’t know or set a match before it happens (coding issue), so the schedule will prolly be random also.

I wouldn’t be surprised though, if Season 1 ends up finishing with servers that don’t face each other due to some bug.

Bump1111

#GvGReviveNovember

Beside our normal WvW groups, with the upcoming JP arena, we’ll prolly go back to doing plenty of GvGs. With that in mind, we are currently in need of 2 active and really skilled thieves to join our GvG team, so make sure to check us out if ya think you fall on that category.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

So what i am asking you guys and gals to think about is how do you want to go about choosing the list for WvW, PVE, and PVP

Chris

WvW:

1- Population imbalance / Server Transfer options / Matchup system
2- Ways to encourage open-field fighting and small group play
3- Power creep and stat equality
4- Rewards / Loot / Badge of Honor items
5- Map Design
6- Other core functionality (Commander system, upgrade system, etc)

Cool n all…but why is this in the WvW session exactly…

Actually, the first (and easiest) thing to be done should be splitting the suggestions forum up. It’s really hard trying to make suggestions there when most of the good ones get instantly swept away by the millions of “Why don’t we have Mounts”, “Why can’t I use pajamas as town clothes”, “I want this weapon in red instead of blue”, “Change asura camera angles”, and all the other fluff/delusional suggestions.

Kosmo.5187:

Be careful with polls. They may seem like a good solution to many people, but they can also be incredibly deceiving. Different people often answer from various contexts based their own interpretation of the question, but the results are still piled together in specific predetermined groups.

This comment actually made me rethink my opinion on adding in-game pools. This guy hit the nail in the head. So let me add in with my perspective:

I’m a strict PvP/WvW player. I have over 1.5k hours played, and my highest world completion on a character is around 50%. I don’t know what happens on the living story, never been to SAB, and don’t know where Tequatl is.
I also understand that the majority of GW2 population is composed of PvE players, that casually/never play WvW.
So imagine you add a pool: “Do you think there should be gold/item rewards for the winning server of a WvW match?”
For someone that doesn’t really play WvW, this might seem like a very good and reasonable idea, this player might be thinking he’s helping the WvW players to get some rewards. Since these guys constitute a huge ammount of the player base, the result to this pool would probably be “yes, add gold rewards to winning WvW”
But then you have the people that play WvW everyday, for the fun and the fights, and know that adding something of the sort would end up causing a major exodus to the top servers, due to people looking for rewards (that would imbalance the population situation even further and break the experience for some servers). But these people’s point will never come across because they will be drowned in a simple yes/no question.

It also works the other way around, if I never do the Living Story, why should vote on whether the next hero will be the kitten Charr or the cute Asura?
So I think the form of feedback has to be more elaborate than simple pools, (read the suggestion I made a couple posts above)

Another suggestion on how to organize player input:

What about having guild representatives discuss specific topics with devs?

The way I imagine it working would be, someone from ANet starts a thread with the following: “Feedback/Discussion session regarding XXXX (e.g: Gear progression, SPvP game modes, ways to implement GvG, ways to balance WvW population, etc)”

Then you allow signups for of guilds related to the topic to bring out a leader/officer that would like to debate the subject, and bring his guild’s opinion on the subject. (No more than 1 player per guild, and you’d probably need some filtering system depending on how many signups you have).

So after getting the names of the people, you have an actual discussion that could be done either via a separate forum, a voice com session, or a chat (again, the way of communication would depend on how many representatives are in this. You could do a “progression”, first invite these guys to the separate forums, then those people that offer valuable feedback, call them for a voice chat session, where a better discussion can happen).

It would basically work like the alpha test team, but you can get a broader range of opinions, without having to worry about leaks and all that, and you will be able to get some valuable feedback without having to pick out the one good post in the middle of 10 that are just trying to troll it.

No need to implement anything, no immersion breaking, work is reduced to allocating time of devs willing to participate in these, and filtering out a bit on who’d be called to the discussions. (but that is something that with time will become a lot easier, since you’ll already have a list of the guys that provided useful feedback and the ones that just joined this for kittens and giggles, so you already know who to call for the next one)

dragon.8071:

Luiz Swordbreaker.6547:

Let’s be honest here…
All 3 servers blob, all 3 servers zerg, all 3 engage in a crazy recruitment/coverage wars, all 3 run inside towers and hide behind ACs, all 3 have guilds that will fight to the last man even when they are clearly outnumbered, all 3 have skilled and bad players.

T1 is really well balanced, and I don’t think you’ll see much difference being in one or the other, it’s mostly a matter of finding a guild that suits what you wanna do (all of which exist in all 3 servers).

that is not being honest. there is a difference. sor do not pve as much as jq and bg . sor are serious wvwers. bg and jq more concerned about coverage. bg even created a war chest, lotto system and raffles for coverage wars. you do not see guilds leaving sor to join bg or jq. you see guilds leaving them to join sor.

SoR resident, correct?

Let’s be honest here…
All 3 servers blob, all 3 servers zerg, all 3 engage in a crazy recruitment/coverage wars, all 3 run inside towers and hide behind ACs, all 3 have guilds that will fight to the last man even when they are clearly outnumbered, all 3 have skilled and bad players.

T1 is really well balanced, and I don’t think you’ll see much difference being in one or the other, it’s mostly a matter of finding a guild that suits what you wanna do (all of which exist in all 3 servers).

Chris Whiteside.6102:

minbariguy.7504:

I want to echo the people who have recently been requesting in-game polls. Since currently there has been no real acknowledgement or response to player dissatisfaction with the pace of Living Story releases, I have chosen to simply not log in at all to avoid being counted as a “satisfied customer” in your concurrency metrics.

An in-game poll where I would have the chance to have my opinions actually be counted would be something worth logging in for.

I think this is an idea worth discussion for sure. But i have a question:

Would in game polls affect the immersion for the player?

Chris

Even if it does “break immersion” (which for me is total bs, but that’s not the point here). Would you:

a) Use early(ish) stages of the game, have a little immersion break, but use that to build a better game for years to come.

b) Be worried about the instant effects that a pool would have on those that feel it breaks their immersion, and waste valuable feedback that could make the game live up to its full potential, resulting in not-so-great experiences which could shorten the life of the game.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

How about the fix the things that matter than this. Sorry but SO many more important issues than this. Such as broken mechanics, broken builds, Unbalanced match ups, broken Bloodlust idea to name a few…

^
OP, are you seriously complaining about something that will diminish your score by exactly 3 Points?
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would even bother all the trouble of alt-f4ing, logging back in etc just for 3 points, (at most). He would be better off using the time to kill a yak and get triple the points.

Building a game together you say? Well.. some guys on your team consider that “Violating my game mode”

TL;DR:
1) Kill scrubs
2) Get lewt
3) Buy mercedez
4) kitten kittenes

Don’t know which server you guys are speaking for, but at least on JQ it’s been a while since I’ve seen a night with no queues.
Usually most maps have no queue till around 9 EST, by 10 EST we’ll usually have all 4 maps queued. (Yesterday night our map had a wait of 15-20 minutes)

Devon Carver just confirmed at least part of it on Reddit:

“That is a half-truth. The most likely plan is that we add a space to the EB Jumping Puzzle that is useful for GvG. We’d then pull the buff from the Jumping Puzzle. It would still, in fact, be a jumping puzzle. This is one of those times wherein the viable solution is a fast one and this made the most sense.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1nwh68/sfr_state_of_the_game_sacrx_with_information_on/ccmuhlt

t2-t3 and t4-t6, but ya.. this is what should be done.

Galtrix.7369:

CHIPS.6018:

Galtrix.7369:

ARE. YOU. KIDDING. ME?!?!? I just deleted all of my level 80’s, forsook my guild, left an entire set of armor AND trinkets behind, and gave up my main just so I could switch to a server where I actually get to see people, and NOW you give transfers a discount? RAGHAHGHAHRAHHH! Ragequit!!!!

-Galtrix has left the forums-

You should ask for a re-roll. You are far from the only one. I know people like you who deleted everything just so they can transfer for free. (Although they mostly only have one character and very little gold.)

I’ll try, but I very much doubt that that will happen.

You do know you could’ve prolly farmed a couple dungeon/champs for 2 hours and got the gold right?

Okay ANet I get that the point for the lowered transfer cost is to try and balance the population before WvW leagues start…but right now there’s a serious issue with the method you’re using.

World pop != WvW situation

For example, the #2 ranked server on EU is at medium population..which means they’ll be getting free transfers even though they already have really long queues on prime time.
On NA, there isn’t any medium server..so the whole thing is kinda pointless, and there are bronze league servers as “very high”…so it’d cost the same amount to go to a #20 server and going to #1 server…this is not gonna help with the guilds/players that actually want to try de-stacking WvW from top tiers.

So, can’t you make it so that, at least for this period of time…the transfer cost actually reflect the WvW ranking of servers? (Maybe make it so that the last 2-3 worlds from each league are set to medium) . Just manually set the “population” based on the ranks…then go back to the old system afterwards, otherwise this “lowered free transfers” thing won’t be more than a publicity stunt..

http://gw2gvg.com/