Guild Wars 2

lil devils x.6071:

Sir Mad.1092:

Serith.3712:

mtpelion.4562:

Lyp Sao.1375:

anet removing good things
will this help the game??

This will help WvW but will hurt all the PvE players who used WvW for quick crafting so we could return to PvE in the same place we left it.

Exactly……WVW is for WVW players, not a “quick crafting” stop for PVE players.

So basically, not having the 2 or 3 players we used to see around the crafting stations is gonna fix the queue issue? How exactly?

It is going to help solve the population balancing issues. This was not just about Queues, it was throwing off the numbers they used to determine which servers should be linked, and how much transfer costs to the server should be. The server that had the more players doing this, the more unbalanced their population would be. They do not determine population by the 3 you see there at a time, but over a longer period of time so all of the people who used them over that period of time. Even if it is 50 on a server doing it, that is 50 players offsetting the numbers.

Except there are in your example 50 players on every server. anet is not going to mass reduce the gem transfer costs – its too much of a money maker for them so if every server goes down by 50, then the limits as to what makes a “high” server gets reduced by 50 ie no change.

mtpelion.4562:

Lyp Sao.1375:

anet removing good things
will this help the game??

This will help WvW but will hurt all the PvE players who used WvW for quick crafting so we could return to PvE in the same place we left it.

How will it help wvw exactly? By me going to clear my inv in my home BL to find the keep under attack and running to help save it? Me being in a “megaserver” town and not in a large guild means there are no call outs in LA and hence my assistance is lost.

If you think people at crafting stations make more than a 5% difference in the stats then Id be amazed. However, people standing around waiting for their wvw track to get used up, thats something that should have been addressed.

Xenesis.6389:

For the people that missed this note by McKenna, and complaining about banking without the crafters in wvw still.

Bank vendors will be added to all start areas of alpine, desert, ebg.
Please also note you can still use the guild registrar npc to access your bank through the guild bank, there’s a pull down tab for it, they are also at all the start areas already.
You can also bank at all upgraded keeps.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hello everyone,

Many of you have been inquiring as to why we made the decision to remove the crafting stations in WvW. We made this decision because we have been seeing an increase in queue times with world linking. Upon observation we found there have been players taking up space in the maps who are only crafting and not participating with their teams.

However, we’ve been listening to your feedback today and we wanted to let you know that we will be adding a banker to each team starting area in EB, Alpine and Desert. Thank you for the continued feedback!

If you want to craft, feel free to check out Rata Sum, all the crafters, bank, guild bank, trading post are near each other.

Its a shame they didnt do a kitten survey about it first rather than doing other pointless ones they then ignore. I am a wvwer and I use the crafting stations, be it to move stuff around to make space after salvaging mats from kills to crafting foods to progressing on a piece of armour I want in wvw to taking mats out of storage to make sup siege while I am on scouting duty. No, I am not going to take all these items with me on a character beforehand.
what they should have been doing is making a way for wvw reward track gained to be carried over when you left wvw rather than making the situation where you have to stay in wvw for 15+ minutes to use it up before you leave – THAT would have been a QoL improvement, not this stupid move they made.

No, unless you tell me that your birthday is based upon your parents. Ofc a birthday is and should be by character.