Guild Wars 2

The linking seems to be here to stay, and what seemed to be a temporary solution to struggling servers now appears to be a permanent fixture of the game. The question is, will their ever be a permanent linking, as the MU causes much frustration. I am on a single server that was last linked months ago, yet every week, we are fighting against 2 , or even 3 linked servers. I am certain that soon logic will prevail, and hoping that linked servers should only be matched against linked servers, and unlinked against unlinked, and that way a far more accurate picture may unfold on the status of the WvW, and the populations. Sometimes manual logical intervention are more practical that a program that works out matchups that clearly do not consider practicality or human logic.

I received a Guaranteed Wardrobe Unlock in a Black Lion Chest. It unlocked “little white kitten” This little white kitten was Unlocked 3 years ago, and therefore NOT an UNLOCK. Please check as these chests leave much to be desired, and this cannot be an unlock if its unlocked already.

So I have purchased a few BL keys, as well as being rewarded a few keys for map completion in the last 3 days. If you right click on the BL chest without a key, it indicates what you can possibly get when you open it. Under common tag, which is common to that whole row of items it shows Black Lion Material Bag and Black Lion Booster amongst other items. I have opened and bought maybe 10 chests in last 3 days, and the contents are: Black Lion Material Bag which contains T6 crafting gear (Not much), which you get EVERY TIME you open a chest. The BL Booster gives 4 benefits only, but seems you get one nearly every time. I don’t mind a booster but here’s the rub, it last 30 minutes only, and has less benefits than previous boosts although its been dressed to look nice and new. So where does that leave my chest? Exactly 1 slot to get one of the other items. So I only get a chance of 1 slot amongst 3 to get something decent. I appreciate the effort that goes into the game, but maybe split chests into dropped keys versus purchased keys, one is luck, the other effort, time and money.

How can you put “3” linked servers against 2 unlinked servers, its diabolical. How many weeks must we fight against blobs that run 24/7 because they linked? Logic says, put linked servers against linked servers, unlinked against unlinked till you figure out what you doing, enough is enough

I am coming up for 5 years of playing, so been through every change from the beginning where you had exotic gear with rune of the pirate to todays MF through salvage. I have had 22 precursor drops of which I’ve made 15, plus legendary fractal and pvp backpacks. What I can say for sure, although its hard to prove, is that with each patch, the drop rates decrease in spite of my MF going up to where it is now at 286%. Silverwastes, Tequatil, worst drops I’ve ever experienced, even salvaging rares or exos with BL salvage kit does not yield ectos like it used to (I know, 100% upgrades and 50% for rarer items). I have played 13k hours, and at level 2905 in WvW, have not seen any decent drop. I think you could take every stat ever made with percentages to try prove or disprove stats, but if you eat KFC every day for 5 years and they keep changing the recipe, no matter what they say, you know its changed every time. GL to you all for the future, its looks more like slim pickings from here.

The servers were never designed for 3 blobs converging on a single point, lag, skill loss, ad naseum. If a blob is bigger than 10 players, cause them to have vulnerability, the more players, the more vulnerable the group becomes, major on the major issues, not major on the minors, but then, this is my opinion, enough said!

I have to agree, this should have been thought through more carefully in order to upgrade servers or something prior to this. Today, prime day for playing, some BL’s have zero in que, and that’s after 1 week only. Biggest servers are also linked and smaller aren’t, and to me, something is wrong with the system. Players are so frustrated with zerg fights, zero skill, all bars flash, and 3 times I dc, and unable to get back and save my participation of 100% because now a que. This game is becoming increasingly stale for me, and maybe this is what I needed to just quit, gg Anet

WvW has been so devastated by core issues not being addressed, which has resulted in many players lost to other games or real life, that I fear this is to little to late, but kudos to Anet for trying to address some issues for the WvW community. I do not think this will rescue WvW, but then again, this is just my opinion.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

Its funny cause they adjusted Pikens glicko months ago, drastically for no reason at all. They should stop this linking experiment already and just merge servers/tiers, adjust transfer costs where needed, so we see more stability.

Couldn’t agree more, and if some servers need to be merged, then make it permanent and lets move on.

Taking one of the most populated servers for WvW and then linking that against servers that are struggling shows me someone’s coding is wrong, or you seriously don’t know what’s going on in you’re own servers. The more I play, the less I care, the less I care, the more I look to other games. I’m a gamer, and will always find one to play, my days here are numbered.

I am currently busy with my 5th stack of Tomes, that means I have over 1000 in my bank. I have 18 lev 80, all HoT elite specs, so have absolutely no use for tomes. I buy chest keys in the hope of getting something decent but I get blue dyes if any, and more tomes than black lion scraps. I am extremely irritated with you’re chest drops, as it seems you have to buy 30 to 50 chests to be able to put together enough scraps for 1 weapon, which these days sells for 50 gold. That means average of 115 gold for 5 keys x 6 to buy a SKIN, (Im sure you can see the futility of buying chests). I have posted before but it seems the less players that play the game, the more the drops and rewards get worse. I would like to point out you advertise in you’re BL trade posts, making it look like its easy to get the skins? Please, think about this seriously, my last 5 chests, 2 transmutation stones, (170 in my bank), 2 tomes, 1 SCRAP, and 1 miniature ticket.

Anet doesn’t control the market, and when people find out what you need for collections i.e maguuma Lily, now selling for 12 gold, the greed sets in, and the flippers buy and sell to make profit at the average players expense. I think this could have been more thought through, and unique items used that are not available on tp, as in tier 1. The crafting of the precursors was supposed to be able to allow people to afford their own, not grind to the enth degree at someone elses gain, and youre time, effort and more gold for the same basic precursor. Smell the roses, its a con from our own players, and nothing can be done. Im busy crafting zap, and again disappointed in the procedure, cost and gold to craft it. Forget the title, I just want to be able to craft something that is a process, and yet the same cost as a precursor, that would be fair.

I honestly cannot understand why a dedicated person cannot sit down with the communities, and figure a workaround to bring life into WvW before its destroyed completely. Unlinked server against 5 linked French servers last week, same unlinked server against 4 linked German servers this week, I call that diabolical, enough said.

WvW has already died long ago due to poor management imo, and would like Anet to provide feedback on the way forward, and how they plan to resurrect an important part of the game. I don’t care for opinions give me some facts.

Point 1. When you grind to get gold, and then purchase 5 black lion keys for 113 gold (that’s a lot of grinding), then you get given the 3rd “guaranteed wardrobe unlock”. After 4 years of playing, do you think I care about wardrobes which are all unlocked 2 years ago. Its a program, surely you can put stuff like that as an optional purchase and stop wasting my keys on you’re nonsense content. Seriously, if you’re devs cannot use their imagination and figure out some basic stuff on the game, then their is no more point in having these keys available.
Point 2. Please take some time and look at youre fractals and the point of the different levels, as I get more damage and killed more often in some T3 and T4 fracs than I do in level 100.
Point 3. Surely after 4 years you would have addressed the lag issues in WvW. The fact that you have to link servers is a red light to the fact that people have left the game, as this has been ignored for so long, that it becomes frustrating to play rather than a joy.
Point 4. I enjoy the game, I enjoy the content, and sometimes don’t mind a bit of grind to get an end result, but please realise that people play games to enjoy them, and when issues that are important to players who make the game, then please could you address the same issues that have appeared in forums for 4 years now.

Please don’t give yourself or skilful commanders credit, and rising from 4 months ago to number 1, what you people smoking. The only way you get to number 1, is link the server to other severs, so you just become one big blobadon. Its not you’re direct input that makes you number 1, its the inability of devs to balance the servers correctly, and this is because people move to the winning servers every time, till next time you on youre own, and you go back down again. Enjoy you’re position as number 1, but in the end, its all meaningless. Enjoy you’re brief, but unmerited number 1 position.

Just came out of WvW, EB with 3 way fight for SM. When I say its unplayable, I mean everyone is complaining and leaving the map because its unplayable. I suggest you have an urgent meeting and discuss this as priority, it was supposed to be addressed after HoT. The promises we’ve had remind me of some politicians, enough said!

step 1: open guild panel
step 2: look at players history to see how many people have stopped playing
step 3: If its in black and white, its fact.
step 4: Lag, skill lag, new maps, same ol, same ol already killed half the wvw gamers
The reality is, a year ago, you couldn’t get into a bl because of que, now peak time, theirs no que, not even on EB, why….Anets idea of joining servers together, and creating even more disparity, and unmatched games. gg guys, seriously, stop rolling wvw in cotton wool and make it look pretty, its a sad fact, but after playing for 4 years, wvw looks nothing like it used to, now its just monoblob when you have 3 servers joined together against single servers, no skill required. No point in playing!!

so 2 days ago, 114 gold = 400 gems, today, 154 gold = 400 gems. Please explain how the specials work, as whenever their is a chance to buy keys and stuff, the exchange goes through the roof, and its now more expensive to even buy the special, meh, time for TV

My server was dying a death with half the guilds moving to other servers. Then Anet linked us with Vabbi, and after that RoS. Now FSP has 2 servers linked, and we back to empty server on our own again. I am sure youre devs working on WvW are trying their best to rectify imbalances, but when this happens, the fun factor goes out the door, and then its one server just blobbing another, no fun in that, surely!! Good Luck with the development, you have to link servers due to low populations and people leaving for other games, please get serious, give it you’re attention before its to late. I remember you stating this would get youre full attention after HoT.

with all the buffs, mist singularity, food the whole bang shoot, on a lev 52 frac, you start losing players after 3 attempts and not killing it. seriously devs, what were you thinking, challenging is one thing, but this rates more along the other lines, and in order not to get a ban, Ill keep my thought on this to myself. I have full ascended gear, full ascended weapon’s and all the buffs….what’s the point?

How many trapper thieves must I encounter on a daily basis that you cannot see, and just kill you. I cannot see how you going to bring people back to this game when you have to deal with this kind of gaming. Please deal with this, its clearly an exploit, and killing the game. You’re free to play players have killed this game with hacks, exploits and have no jurisdiction, or don’t care along with 50 gold sellers every day. Fix it please or is this another WvW joke that’s here to stay.

I have played HoT since launch, but cannot get my mind around how unpolished the levels of different bosses are when it comes to trying to kill them. I feel this area needs some attention, as some veterans are harder to kill than a champ, and just seems like either an oversight, or it will stay like this indefinitely. I find this frustrating, and it spoils the dynamics of the game for me.
I have also just come off a Verdant Brink map where we tried to kill the legendary wyvern with 20 players, and after 20 minutes, boss was on 5% but event failed. I find this pointless, as their are multiple bosses, and the Meta takes so long to get back to this event. This is one of the frustrations I find with this game, and for the loot versus effort, its actually quite pointless, and one of the reasons players don’t bother much, unless they either farming, or need something for an achievement/levelling.

almost 4 years later, and their seems to be no end in sight for high ping, extremely bad lag and skills loss when fighting in zergs. If you are attacked by a 40 man blob at youre keep, you have no option but to defend (cant help the blob). If you attacking a keep that is heavily defended, you have no option but to attack as a single unit due to all sorts of strange defence mechanics that force you to attack in a big blob. Is their an end in sight for this, will servers be upgraded (I realise the Internet side also needs to be upgraded). I have to say when this happens, I have to switch off my pc, as it is actually pointless to allow frustration to set in, when after 4 years, we back at full lag festivals.

I started crafting Nevermore in earnest yesterday, and have found this to be the most expensive exercise I have ever undertaken since I started playing after launch. I cannot understand how the cost of materials is so open to exploitation with everyone trying to get rich at their fellow guildies expense. I have crafted 9 Legendaries already, and at this stage would have been cheaper to BUY a precursor and Craft for less Gold. Surely Anet, this was not the intention to make this more expensive than standard crafting. The whole point of the exercise as far as I can remember, was to give the average player a chance at crafting his own legendary. Somehow, it seems you have lost the plot, because it is probably going to cost me over 3000 gold to craft my very own, wow!!!

So a few months ago, their was major complaints about the level of items dropping from mystic and farming, which changed for the better. It seems after last 2 patches, I am back to dropping my hard earned time, effort and gold into mystic to get level 75, waste of time stuff out again. I farm Silverwastes to get mats, but this to give me green after green for my effort, and mats not dropping so fast anymore. I dropped about 60 rares in over a 2 day period to get 1 exotic worth under 2 gold, no point, absolutely no point. Also ectos drops from rares also been changed. Mystic is and has always been part of the game, so mystic stones with 3 exotics which is you’re design, is supposed to give better chance? I would love to know where we going, as I am currently wasting my time and effort for no reward, and this is as important for me, as wvw, or pvp, or fracs is to other people. The BL trading system with flippers making gold, plus gold sellers killing the game, but it seems the honest players who want to enjoy the game get penalised time after time. Almost 3.7 yrs playing, 23,182k AP, 9 Legendaries, 2144 WvW level, PvP Lev 80 Dragon finisher twice, so I tend to notice these things in plain sight.

So RNG = Random Number Generator, but interesting fact, farming Silverwastes for mats, I get Truth-Axe, Bramblethorn-Staff, Stardust-Short Bow. I got 3 Truth’s in 2 days, 2 Stardust in a week and 2 Bramblethorn, funny thing RNG. Also, drop rates in mystic from rares seems to have dropped, and having played for 3 and a half years, I notice after every patch it gets worse. If the idea is to not only get new players, but retain the players who are the backbone of the game, please make RNG = RNG.

I realise this is a special event, and its limited for a short period of time. I like to do some of the Special Events because of the rewards, back items etc, but am very frustrated by Dragonball due to people leaving the game when they losing, which in turn upsets the balance of the game and if you on the winning team, you have a chance of randomly being picked to move. The problem is, you don’t carry you’re points to the other team, and don’t get reward, and I think to be fair, if you have 5 kills already, add it to the new team and deduct it from the old one. I also think it would be fair if people leave, for them to get penalised the same as in a PvP match. Just my thoughts.

I purchase quite a few BL keys to open chests, and usually 5 at a time which equates to approximately 77-84 gold. Their is always a lot of advertising of claim tickets and such every week, and I buy in the hope of getting enough scraps, or a claim ticket to buy skins. In the last few purchases, the drops have been extremely poor, and would like to highlight todays drops from 5 chests. 4 Tomes of Knowledge, medium crafting bag, 1 hour boosters, and a green dye, with a mini pet worth a whopping 1 gold. I mean really, is this the best you can do for people spending gold, and these days its hard earned. I did get 1 ticket scrap, and last time I got 1 ticket scrap, so lets practically work out you’re advertisement which seems to be leading you to believe its easy to get scraps. That would be 10 × 5 keys to get 10 scraps at approximately 800 gold. I can buy precursors for that price. Pease review

If you want to see if a game has lost its shine, go to you’re guild panel and have a look at non active players, and you will realise just how many people quit this game. Its not the game itself, its the changes with every patch.
Go to Verdant Brink, get 200% participation and see how many airship parts you get, or how many hours you have to grind on 1 map to buy one part for an achievement. (not worth the effort ^^).
Go to the mystic and pour out vast amounts of rares and get nothing other than another rare. I have noticed a change in drop rate with every patch, after 3 and a half years, I notice these things because I do them every day.
I know their is a community of players that wont leave due to the amount of time and effort they have put in here, but in all honesty, WvW borders are dead, PvP is a map of toxic players, and PVE has become nothing more than a marathon grind for a few pixels more.
What I cannot understand is that real issues that are killing this game are not taken seriously enough. So, I will still play, but my eyes are scanning the horizon for something better, and if map chat is anything to go by, I’m not alone.

I used to enjoy PvP, its a broken mess of toxic people in a toxic environment with frustrations reaching new levels because you’re builds and balances seem worse than I have played since launch. Yes, their are teams that don’t lose, and play together more seriously, but im talking casual players in hot join. 17 matches lost 2 days ago, in a row, and 12 losses today, in a row. I have never experienced such pathetic imbalanced games, seriously, I’m beyond frustrated trying to have fun. and fyi, I have all races all professions, so play them all, and some of them are just ridiculous, and virtually impossible to kill. So casual players have become cannon fodder for the teams that play together, all I can say is its toxic (and that’s about as kind as I can get).

What next, Revenant hit and damaged me though our gate while I was standing near the supply hut at Wild Creek, please fix this anomaly as its irritating and a pure exploit. I though I would bring it to you’re attention, as community normally has an opinion or experiences the same things.

So I have been playing PvP for a long time, and enjoy doing the dailies even though its sometimes a grind to get a winning team. This tourney though has become snakes and ladders with winning 4 games then going back to zero, after losing game after game. My question is this Anet, how many professional player teams did you think this would create or make. Their are specialist PvP guilds, but these fail also, due to the number of players in here botting, using hacks and not being able to be killed (ive reported a few already). Really, I have never lost so much and been so disappointed in you’re game, its become toxic, and I’m not going to let this game dictate a constant irritation to me. The whole design has had zero thinking going into it, seriously, you knew full well what was going to be coming out the woodwork, yet failed to put anything into place to prevent this. I think you are walking around with blinkers on youre eyes. My thoughts are, wake up, take the blinkers off, have some coffee, breathe some fresh air, then go back to the drawing board, as I feel you have failed me on every level as a player, just saying.

I think what you have stated just echoes some of our sentiments, and unfortunately their will always be the do-gooders hoping to curry some favour or respect from Anet and players alike, yet their single opinion is meaningless in the grand scheme of things when so many people have already left, its like 1 versus 50 (youre opinion versus the 50 that have already left). I loved WvW, and even being on a Gold server, the maps are empty every day when we have one of the most active WvW communities. The maps imo are no longer personal, who wants to do PVE on a WvW map? and to run from one side of a map to another to protect a camp is ludicrous, so the old map, faithfull EB is full and has a que in prime time, what does that tell you?
I don’t hate HoT, and appreciate the time, effort and whatever it took to create it, its just that every time I want to do a Meta event on the map, its generally empty until you start the taxis, and as for Chak Gerrent, I’ve done it with community and failed 3 times with them, and about 5 with randoms, go have a look at the map as I type, its empty, and unless you have 4 people prepared to tag up and wait for the map to full, its pointless, and the reason its failed? because their are players on the map who refuse to do the event and are only their for the HP’s pois and Vistas, and they will tell you they don’t care to do it, so how do you tackle that?
I have 16 toons and have done all 4 maps fully completed 6 times so far, but again, the ascended gear I have gotten from here, from mystic has all been nerffed to the enth degree, and with every patch it becomes worse. To me that’s sad, as I enjoy playing, but play for rewards, purpose, gear, but above all so I can enjoy my time on here. So my effort to finish a level 80 map is a lev 76 weapon or armour piece and to top it all my Sigil today was worth 11 copper on the TP, Oh and those advertised weapon skins in the Black Lion Chests which I by from time to time, 10 chests 1 SCRAP!
Yes I have a choice to play or not to play, but its good to put you’re frustrations down in the hope that someone that can make a difference will read these posts, and do something before more players are lost (and that excludes players and their 5 cents opinion, as that’s all it is) .
Do it before its to late, please!!

I agree it is grindy, I have done all 4 maps fully completed 5 times already. I have also unlocked 3 full ascended weapons along with most of the parts for the rest of them. If I play in one of the other maps, and I do the full cycle of events, I get rewarded with tokens. AB has become a problem, as I have been running this through T3 to T4 then night and not and back to T1, and not getting rewarded with any airship parts. I do understand the principles and way it works, but thank you for the answers.

I have been on Verdant Brink trying to get Airship Parts so I can purchase Itzel Hunting Guide for 300 Parts. I have gone through 4 full day cycles and 3 night cycles doing every event, and running at 200% participation. So if you look at the 40 minute cycles, that’s a good few hours, and every chest Ive received has given me XP, but no airship parts. I’ve had to open crates to get 3 parts per crate and taken nearly 4 hours to get 100 airship parts. Please Anet, its become a time wasting drudge. Please fix the issues along with the impossible “Gold” Mastery points so we can get on with it and actually enjoy this game.

Ive been doing fallen masks for the last 2 days, and some people are really brilliant at these adventures, but one thing I am hating, is theirs no pattern, and when you sometimes try mushroom jump, the number of times it fails and you have to keep jumping on the shroom to activate it, or you jump and don’t want youre wings to deploy and you miss the target. So, my point is this, some people may have coordinates to do specific things in the games, but not everyone fits the bill, and to try get silver when after 2 days I can only get 12/15 is frustrating (NOT everyone is proficient at jumping puzzles) yet again, more JP’s, more frustration. The problem is not so much the mastery points, but they have linked weapons to this (Dark Harvest). So, is their any way to do this except using a bot which I presume people are using to do these tasks?
I am amazed at the complexity, the beauty and sheer brilliance of the HoT expansion, but their are so many things that need tweaking and looking at, as I am really at the end of this journey. I feel that as much as I enjoy this game, I’ve needed something new to keep the interest, but at what cost? Is it worth it for a few more pixels? (and just to indicate how much I play, I upgraded 16 level 80 toons within 2 weeks to new elite specs).

I am one of those players that like to purchase Black Lion keys from time to time, as well as having one spare slot so I can create toon, story mode at lev 10, and 1 key. This has been stopped which doesn’t worry me, as I prefer to buy 5 keys current price 90 Gold for 450 gems. Since this change, only 1 person has posted that they got a key in a drop, so I assume the drop rate is extremely low. I purchased 5 keys today, and cannot believe the useless items I got for my 90 gold. Portals, I have plenty and have never used 1. Boosts to armour, MF and all the stuff we know doesn’t work anyway. The biggest disappointment was not 1 black lion scrap in 5 chests, not 1 dye in those chests, and 1 mini which is worth 20 silver. So what I am saying is, has the days come and gone for the weapons skins, because its going to cost you over 1000 gold to basically get a skin that sells for so much less that the cost to get it. It just seems like the people that play the game with a little integrity and don’t try rip off the system are always the ones getting penalised. No more chests for me, my hours spent to get this gold, wasted in 20 seconds flat ^^ salty and dissapointed

So I have joined the gamers patiently waiting for the release of HoT, and hoping for some excitement and new content. I noticed in PvP we will have a whole new track starting from Jungle rabbit to Jungle Dragon, wow, as much as I appreciate the work and the reward tracks, playing with mindless bots to another level 80 is not going to happen. Then legendary armour to do raids? We have ascended gear, we have ascended armour and weapons, but again its the same old thing, make the bosses harder so you forced to buy the next level to keep up, but in actual fact, the feeling when playing is like a real pew pew and the NPC’s do some serious damage, so you have to keep dodge rolling to stay alive (Exciting). So what am I left with? New maps, Story continues, but now levelling again, after levelling 15 characters to lev 80. Ive bought HoT already, but feel disappointed before the launch, that’s sad. And Revenant, been their, done that, to chunky, to slow blah. Anyone out their than can breathe some exciting things from HoT I may have missed, please comment.

OMG maybe awesome for new players playing this and unlocking all the new PvP jungle levels for the first time, but to get to Dragon finisher playing games with mindless rallybots has to be the single most frustrating part of GW2. The whole expansion is all about levelling and unlocking levels and materials ad naseum. Having played for 3 years, 5 × 100% map completion, 1857 level wvw, 80 lev PvP. Levellig is a grind, and these gifts Anets talks about is smoke and mirrors, its all about the nerfs to anything that gives any decent loot, its all about the greens and the blues.
Really, to start back at scratch again is to much for the brain, maybe its time to pull out something that will actually stimulate the brain. Ive bought HoT already and was looking forward to new content, but it seems, same ol, same ol disguised in true marketing style.

I noticed that all my Beta slots are blank again, does this mean that all the work I have done to open the gliding, mushroom jumping etc has been lost, or will this still be open at the level I left them at? I realise its a Beta test, but that’s exactly why I progressed in all 4 skills, so I can explore the higher levels, and although I will have to start all over again, I would like to be able to know what to focus on for levelling up when HoT starts on the 23rd.

Thank you all for the feedback, I can understand a bit more of the server dynamics from the feedback. I will say though that we have had quite a few guilds move server, and prime time which used to have ques on all Border Lands, now has a que on EB only. If the server is showing full based on WvW activity, how is this possible, and would this mean no one can then transfer to the server?

I have 16 level 80’s fully geared, fully equipped with 1 spare slot for revenant. I do like some of the differences in race skills, as Sylvari Mes has different skills to Human Mes, so that’s why I expanded to all races, all professions, but love each one of them. Some people have 1 main, and get just as much enjoyment out of 1 as some of us get on multiple toons. I just love the attitude of Asura Mes also, tiny little toon, but deadly and to watch her take down big opponents is part of the fun factor for me.

I would like to address a problem that may/may not be answered, and that is the problem of full servers. I do not know how some servers appear to be full, when whole guilds leave for other servers, and yet the server still shows it as being full. I would like to suggest and have some thought on the following.
Their are an extremely high amount of dormant accounts, some 2 years old, and possibly older. (when being invited to other guilds, do a quick check for last login of players in that guild to see this). And some guilds hold these players and don’t do clean ups so they can advertise their number of “inflated” members.
What are the possibilities in moving accounts dormant for over a year to a holding server, and if a returning player, the opportunity for a free transfer to a same level server that they were on. This would also give you an idea of activity on a server.
I am sure that when HoT is launched their will be returning players, but at the moment some servers are being penalised by the inactive accounts.
I realise this is possible a sensitive area, but it would help if a solution could be found to free valuable space on full servers, giving an opportunity for guilds or single players to move to a more active server.
I look forward to any response or thought from fellow guildies on this.

So I have a Copper-fed salvage-o-matic which I use for greens and blues, I use a Master salvage kit for rares and finally a Black Lion Salvage Kit for Exotics if I want the Rune or Sigil. I stopped using the Master on rares as I was not getting many ectos, and started using the Black Lion Salvage Kit on rares, but this in now also yielding hardly any Ectos. The quickest way to lose players is to nerf everything to the enth degree, Mystic forge yields the odd lev80 Exo, but mostly they now level 75 to lev 78. So Anet, is this a bug or is the future of GW2, where it becomes impossible to play the core part of the game which is bosses for rares, then salvaging for crafting and gold. After 3 years of playing and with almost 19k AP, 1700 WvW, lev 80 PvP, I am finally coming to the end of asking questions regarding the way the game has gone. I seriously had more fun in the beginning, more drops, better Mystic drops, better Exotics than I do today. It seems with every patch we get worse, and have yet to see a precursor in normal PVE, WvW, or PvP, only from the Mystic. Can you please explain the dynamics that have changed so much that it has become increasingly evident in every part of play.

13 characters, 3 years of playing and tweaking, playing and tweaking, lev 80 PvP, 5 x world completion, 1640 level WvW. In my opinion the new balances have wrecked everything I have put my time and effort into. I’m not going to rave or get emo, but over this.

I somehow feel this will benefit the newer players that start out with the new system rather than the vets that may have quite a few toons. I have 13 different characters, and its taken me a long time to tweak to them to the point Im happy with the builds for PvP (lev 80), or WvW (Lev 1640). 13 toons all lev 80 taken me a long time to play and tweak. One patch has killed that, simple, don’t need to elaborate.

I remember reading a post which relating to Revenant Beta and expansion and cannot remember the exact info, but I upgraded to the deluxe version in order to play the Beta. This was trading for gems on BL TP, which I purchased. Please could you explain the breakdown of further purchases regarding HoT, and give some clear directions and reasoning behind the different packages apart from some marketing headers, it would really help us all to understand.

I have noticed with interest all the adverts around the purchase of Black Lion Keys, which currently cost 82 Gold for 450 gems to buy 5. The adverts indicate Black Lion Claim Tickets for new skins, new mail delivery items and other wonderful gifts. Firstly, I have to purchase these keys, so its not a freebee, and I would expect something decent once in a while. If you look at my records, I have probably purchased over 100 in the last few months, and to say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. Let me list a few of the items I have: 14 Black Lion Salvage Kits (now almost useless due to the low drops of exotics). 14 celebration boosters, 81 boost enchantment powder (you have to sacrifice a boost to use one anyway). 23 Teleport to friend (never used 1 yet). Today I got 3 blue dyes and one miniature which I have received at least 10 times already. Please Devs, I understand the object is to make money (and I do spend from time to time) but is contents are really terrible for vets that spend hours farming for little reward. It might be an idea to reward people for their purchases according to your exciting headers and prospects of actually getting something decent.

I would like to ask this question, why have most of the light armour professions suddenly become the “impossible to kill builds”? What is the purpose of having heavy armour, when 2 guardians cannot kill 1 elementalist. I would love to know the thinking behind where this game is going, as its more unbalanced now than its ever been. I understand the support role of a guardian, but ele is also support, yet its more op in light armour than a guardian in heavy. Really feels like your devs have done a disservice to this game, I would go so far as to say this is no more fun, its a pure frustration at the continual changes which make light armour more effective than heavy, exactly whats the point?