Guild Wars 2

1. Remove the laser

2. Fix the que problem – making people que for an empty borderland

3. Redesign the main keep so that mortar fire is not prevented by overhangs on the gates – mortars are almost useless because of poor design

4. Make it quicker to get from spawn to main keep when waypoint is contested

5. Redesign the keeps so it is possible to check the gates and walls when under attack without getting lost in the process

When SFR stopped being full after I left, and SoS mysteriously became full even though that is not possible… I jokingly thought that maybe my account might be causing some sort of bug…

now I am not so sure it is a joke…

Not for the first time, I have entered a borderland where there are only a small number of players to be told that there is a que to join the borderland. It was happening on SFR and now it is happening on SoS too. It just seems too much of a coincidence that these problems have followed me from SFR to SoS.

So please check to see if my account is causing some sort of bug. I’ve not tampered in any way with the program and don’t use any add-on type programs. So if there is an issue it will be 100% GW2 related.

Thank you

I can flip a coin on whether or not invisibility on a mesmer is going to work… been like this since the last major changes to skills and traits but since HoT it has become massively worse. Before HoT there was a 70% success rate that it would work… with a 30% failure rate… now it is 50/50.

It is hard enough hiding out in keeps with a red dot on you telling everyone where you are hiding… but I can dodge about long enough until the red dot disappears but then when all my invisibility fails when it is time to go and hide without a red dot… that seriously sucks… time and effort wasted afte successfully avoiding being killed by the enemy.

In all seriousness… I think Anet should check my account is not causing some sort of bug. I joined SoS two weeks ago and I’ve never been in a single fight where we have not been outnumbered. I’ve not been on a single borderland including eotm where we were not outnumbered.

I noticed some problems on SFR before I left there… coincidently, SFR is now not full since I left. More than once I was on a borderland where we were outnumbered but the borderland had a que to join.

It just seems strange that SoS is now facing the same problems that SFR was now that I’ve moved… perhaps it is just coincidence… but I play all times of day and night, so I have a good idea of the population sizes at various times in the 24 hour cycle… and there is absolutely no way that SoS is full.

SFR hasn’t been full in months… most of us transferred elsewhere for one reason or another… but you still can’t transfer there because the only way that Anet could break their dominance was by stopping people replacing the people who leave.

I really got stung with that removal… I had 3 guilds with a full set of wvw buff upgrades to be used on keeps etc. paid for with gold because I was the only member in the guild… lost them all and from what I can see, they were not replaced with anything wvw related.

The team with the most players is always going to win the competition to get the laser… which then reduces all gates by at least 50%…. it gives the team that needs the least advantage a massive advantage to just steamroll the map and the only thing stopping them is that they get lost but that won’t be the case forever. I am already starting to figure out large parts of the map and there are some seriously nasty ninja spots – you can tell you had a dev on Kodash.

I can learn to live with the new borderlands as much as I dislike the design… but that laser has to go… it is not needed for the side most likely to win it. Replace it with extra guards like the days of quaggans, or extra supply in all the keeps you currently own, but to reduce all enemy gates to 50% when you are already the dominant side on the map is…. lost for words at how bad an idea that is.

Get rid of the laser and I will learn to live with the rest in time but that laser has to go… replace it with some extra guards for the winner a bit like the quaggans used to do when you won the island in days gone by. But reducing all gates by slightly less than 50% is only going to advantage the side that needs the least amount of advantage (aka the side with the most players).

What a heap of kittene…. address population imbalance? address timezone players? address night capping?

Oh… great idea… lets stick a massive laser in the map where the team with the highest population is going to win control of the laser that then reduces all the gates both outer and inner both fortified and non-fortified to less than 50%!!!!!

We told you to put a dev on SFR if you wanted to learn about wvw… when SFR dominated wvw because we were ALL 24/7 wvw players… but instead you went and stuck your devs on a server that was predominantly pve and another that didn’t even speak your native language…. that is why you messed up with the current maps…

Now SFR is in free fall because you locked transfers to the server and it was unable to replace the players that left… initially to FSP to create more competition on EU servers… and then those who left to Deso and AG initially because of internal trolling and then later because there was nobody playing during their main times of playing the game. It is unlikely that you will ever have that concentration of wvw-only players again. The only server that came close to the dedication and organisation of SFR was Vizunah Square and although Viz is once more on the rise, I would be surprised if it was the same as it once was. SFR had dedicated server-wide guilds providing services to ALL commanders on the map – from a server bank for siege to a list of dedicated players willing to scout to a guild designed to train people on how to play at their optimal best in wvw to another that trained people to be commanders. If you wanted to learn about siege then you could’ve talked to [Hovi], if you wanted to learn about scouting you could’ve talked to [PIST], if you wanted to learn about guild v guild fighting you could’ve talked to [RG], if you wanted to learn about all round wvw then you could’ve talked to [SLAY] or [ZDs]… these are just some of the obvious that you could’ve talked to… Anet really dropped the bomb by not sending a dev to learn about wvw from the best there has ever been…. and in all honesty… from some of the features on the new maps… you can tell.

These are going to cause material prices to massively drop on the market. Take advantage of them while you can… be surprised if they are still there next month… although considering how long it takes them to do anything wvw related… it might be next year… but they are the least of the problems

omg… that laser thing is the worst idea ever… oh… let’s give the team with the most people on the map an even bigger advantage by damaging all the gates… who in the kitten thought that was a good idea? I was thinking the person/people who designed the maze like qualities of the new map needs to see a shrink… that laser idea confirms it as fact.

awful… the maps are too large and too complex… something comes under attack and by the time you figure out how to get there it is too late. It is like being inside a maze with very few clear pathways connecting anything.

Then there are the forts themselves… just awful… where are the walls? I was stuck in one place for 30 minutes trying to work out how to get out without going to the spawn point… the place came under attack, and I still have absolutely no idea where the attack was coming from or how to get there to defend it and I was inside the place!!!

Perhaps it will get easier with time but while I think the maps needed shaking up, the current new maps are a step backwards… there are also far too many npc on the maps.

lol you think your stealth is broken? Try playing a mesmer for long periods of time, you will see a lot more broken things than a thief.

this needs fixing… put it back to the way it was before until it is fixed. At the moment it disadvantages defenders far too much.

The worse one is that you have no line of sight through arrow slits in walls… kitten … those slits on the sides of real life castles are not just there for decoration or to let the light inside. They’re there to shoot arrows out of while making it more difficult for incoming arrows to hit gain entry.

I think you misunderstand my post…. I play all the time… I can faceroll just about every other class using a build that relies on shattering… skilled players will still defeat that – I defeat other mesmers all the time who use it… sometimes they get lucky but I win more times than I lose. I don’t even try and target them anymore because it makes it too easy and I would sooner lose a few fights and have a bit of fun.

My point is that if you try and do anything other than shatter you are penalized.

And perhaps I do have the worst luck or perhaps as someone who only plays a mesmer, I just play too much and notice these things over the day rather than just an hour now and again when my guild asks me to re-roll as a mesmer.

I am nowhere near the most skilled fighter in this game… I am a little above average at best. Yet, I have none of the problems killing a mesmer that you ppl qqing here seem to have.

Why does Anet want us to keep using faceroll shatter builds… any attempt at deviating to something more fun gets nerfed. The nerf to PU is far too much.

You finally get around to fixing the trait for pistol bleeding and then nerf it before it even gets a chance to be tested… at least when you nerfed torment you gave it a day of testing before you did so.

Too many people crying because they get beat by a mesmer… what they do not realise is that mesmer skills are notorious for failing and half them don’t even do what they are supposed to do and half the traits don’t do what they are supposed to do either.

There was nothing wrong with stealth because half the time it didn’t work as it was supposed to. Veil now is a complete waste of time… they nerfed the time before and then with the PU nerf you cloak and uncloak in a second because it was never working in the first place. If you use the torch cloak and come out of it next to some ambient wildlife then you go into cool down… if a ranger is shooting at you as you cloak then you automatically come back out of cloak and back into cool down if you have any sort of reflection skill equipped.

As for conditions there are only 2 that are effective… confusion and torment… torment was nerfed so it is nowhere near as effective as before. Leaving confusion as the only real condition that does any sort of major damage… if you can’t clear two conditions then you have no right to be complaining on here about your own lack of skill.

Mesmers are the slowest runners… half the skills don’t work… things like arcane thievery takes so long to cast that it should come with a 6m cast time warning. Blink feels like it is completely random of whether it is going to work or not. Power builds were never very powerful to begin with but were nerfed all the same a while back… you can hit a warrior with full berz on a power build and do zero damage.

PU condi builds that do not rely on shatter take ages to finish a fight with but at least they were fun and well balanced but now they don’t work because of the PU nerf. Heaven forbid if you try to do something other than shatter.

A mesmer is slow, has no real power worth talking about against heavy armor classes, has less stealth than a thief, has less condition damage than a necro, and has notorious skill failure. There are times when I can fight a warrior, ranger, or ele and half my skills do not even work against them… while the other half work when they feel like it.

AND If you are still complaining about being beat by a mesmer then just remember that the easiest way to kill a mesmer is to target the real one and stop them moving. It is not that difficult.

Turkadactyl.5308:

PU shatter is still strong if you know how to play it (as is shatter on the whole)

LMAO… if you know how to play it?

This is how you play PU shatter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A--5dhngMWY

The PU nerf is too much… a 50% reduction in cloak barely makes it worth having as a trait anymore… veil is all but useless now… it never worked properly in the first place, now I cloak and uncloak in less than a second. If they fixed the skill so it did what it says it is supposed to before nerfing PU then it might not be as bad.

Not sure if this is the right section for this post because I am writing it from a wvw perspective but it isn’t just a wvw issue.

We’ve been locked from preventing players joining our server now for a few months. This was fine before and helped balance the wvw side of the game with the surrounding servers. However, since the lock down, we’ve had a few high profile guilds and players leave the server. While before things were fine because it helped balance things out, now it is starting to become a problem. We are not at panic stations yet, but we are starting to become concerned.

It is time to lift the lock on SFR… it can always be put back again if things start becoming unbalanced once more but if it remains for much longer we are going to end up as a medium populated server once more but without the guild structure that we had previously when we challenged Viz. If we can count 20+ players who have left SFR, then that should mean there are 20+ spaces for people to join us.

I’ve had fights with guardians, rangers, other mesmers and eles where my conditions do nothing. And in the past when I ran a power build then I would do zero damage against a warrior and only minor damage against a guardian… At the moment wvw from a mesmer point of view is balanced for the first time. There are builds in each profession that can beat me playing a PU mesmer. You just need to be more flexible in your build.

so we should all play shatter mesmer and nothing else? They nerfed the best part of shatter mesmer when they reduce the number of stacks of torment given.

I play wvw every day… and mesmers at the moment are well balanced. We still get owned by condi-tank rangers and we still get owned by tank elementalists. There is nothing to stop a warrior or guardian coming up with a build that beats us too. We can still be owned by skillful necros, thieves, and engineers.

At the end of the day… it 80% down to the player’s skill and 20% down to whether we have skill failure or not because most of our traits and skills have been broken since the start of the game.

Most rangers still give me problems. The easiest way to defeat a mesmer is to stop it moving and make sure you keep targeting the real one. It is not that difficult.

The other day, I noticed that on Jade Sea borderland there was a que… upon getting on the border, we were outnumbered, so I assumed some people must’ve left allowing me to get on the borderland… but then I went to our home borderland and noticed that as I left, there was a que again for JS borderland, and when I got back on borderland we were outnumbered… I tried this a couple of times and got someone else to check too…
We had a que for a borderland where we were outnumbered.

skill failure on mesmers is terrible… plus there are cool downs activated when you come out of stealth under certain conditions… I’ve lost a few fights by accidently killing an ambient rabbit that has triggered stealth cool down without realising it before trying to cloak again and thus putting another stealth skill in cool down.

Today, I lost an easy fight with a warrior twice because stealth failed completely to work.

For me it depends on a couple of things…

first where is the duel taking place? If it is threatening an objective then it is a free for all… if it is clearly out of the way and not in anyway threatening an objective then it is not ok.

second, has someone called it in map chat and asked ppl not to interrupt?

third, if anyone else joins in to tip the balance from 1v1 to 2v1 and this includes if one of the duelists purposely pulls guards etc. to join the fight (which usually means they are fighting close to an objective)

finally, certain guilds that are notorious for interrupting duels deserve not to be respected when their members duel.

lol… now that warriors can be killed by a mesmer while before they were all but invulnerable to mesmers… you want to nerf conditions?

Sure nerf conditions but mesmers require a huge boost in power output to compensate. Otherwise we will be back to the bad old days when I could hit a warrior with everything I had with full berz and not even make a dent in their hp.

Mesmers do not need nerfing… at the moment they are well balanced in the game for possibly the first time ever. Sure I can put a load of confusion on you but you will only take damage if you use a skill other than a cleanse. And even with the current confusion levels it is nowhere near as powerful as the mesmer skills such as empathy in GW1. Even when you are using skills and allowing a mesmer to attack you full on, it takes quite a long time to kill you compared to a glass canon build.

So learn to play the game or go and cry somewhere else please.

other than stealth… I use my torch for helping to clear conditions. Personally, I find the biggest bugs are not ones that cloak me for a long time but failure to cloak, having ambient life (rabbits etc.) trigger stealth cool down, having reflection traits bring me out of stealth and then trigger stealth cool down, simple fail for no apparent reason, and coming out of stealth far too soon.
This idea of perma stealth is just nonsense. It might be possible in theory but in practice mesmers are notorious for skill failure.

This is my guardian… Auld Nick

Here is Nymeria Meliae…

UPDATE: I’ve worked out one of the reasons the skill fails but not all…

When using the torch skill ‘The Prestige’ to cloak… if you come out of the cloak then it causes damage to nearby foes – INCLUDING any ambient wildlife (rabbits and other one hit things)… this then triggers a block similar to a reveal trap that prevents you from cloaking for a while… if you did not notice that you killed some ambient wildlife when you uncloaked then you might miss the block on cloaking again and this then causes the next cloak to fail and recharge in full.

I am not sure if it is a bug or not that you get the cool down from damage caused by leaving the cloak but I do think that they should exclude ambient wildlife from that happening. Note… this is not a weapon attack skill… this is damage caused just by uncloaking near something – so you have a lot less control on it happening other than trying to make sure there is no ambient wildlife about before your cloak is about to run out.

The other thing I’ve started to notice but need more research before I can say for sure is that sometimes if a clone attacks or shatters then it reveals you with the cool down feature that prevents cloaking again. I’ve only observed this twice so far, so need to try and figure out if it is a specific clone or set of circumstances that is the cause.

Mesmer’s have a lot of skill failure since the start of the game but the last week in WvW has been shocking.

Mass Invisibility, Veil, Blink, Decoy, and The Prestige have all been failing far too frequently.

I have a feeling that this is being caused by one of two possible traits…

Master of Manipulation

or

Mirror of Anguish

My feeling is that if you try to cloak while Mirror is in operation and you are being attacked, then the cloak fails.

The skills fail most frequently when fighting Guardians and/or Rangers. As I don’t play these classes, I have no idea if they have a shout or skill that stacks that causes skills to fail or not. But I’ve had all 4 cloaking skills fail one after the other more than once both today and yesterday. Nothing worse than having all your cloak skills fail and be on full recharge while fighting with a PU mesmer build.

As for blink… blink has never worked with 100% reliability since the start of the game.

how do you delete the texture layers?

I am unable to upload my design for design and emblem contest.. says that it exceeds maximum size

same problem… checked 3 of the guilds I am a member of and all three have this issue

sounds like the problems are UK specific – been stuck on that one file since patch first came out

I can’t see why people are complaining about this… it just levels the playing field with all those cheats we’ve been complaining about since the start of the game.

Now all we need do is wait for the handgliders and we can all fly-hack too

Been stuck on 99% since the patch initiated…

coglin.1867… simply not true. The majority of people who have had bans have done so for reaching the max limit on infraction points. Most of these points have been given because of people asking Anet – politely, why they are not dealing or even acknowledging fly hackers in the game.
The second biggest cause of infraction points is given to people questioning the moderators and why they were given infraction points. I will get an infraction point for making this post because it is against the rules to discuss the giving of infraction points and forum moderation, or to question the moderators.
The third biggest cause of infraction points are people trolling other servers and each other… but the majority of infraction points are for questioning the lack of wvw support and questioning the moderators for deleting posts about our concerns.

I was in the middle of defending against a large garrison attempt when the game froze and I was kicked from the game.

When trying to log back in now all I get is the message – “Connection error(s) detected. Retrying” and I am unable to progress past this screen. I can see it attempt about 3-4x before it just freezes and I have to use the task manager to close the unresponsive program down.

Tried restarting the computer and everything else works fine on the computer. Obviously the internet works fine or I wouldn’t be making this post.

why is this thread in the wvw section? Mod – please move to pve section where it belongs

LMAO… you ready to quit yet?

Most people don’t really care about your wvw stats as they are hardly reflective of your knowledge… for all we know you could be a roamer or a scout.

BUT… unless this is your 3rd account ready in waiting after the last two were banned for arguing with the mods… then you are not really qualified for the position.

Before anyone will respect you… You need something like this:

“If this was your first time discussing Moderation and posting regarding exploits/hacking, we might consider your request. As you have 20 total infractions, and 11 of them have been about disputing moderation or accusations of hacking/exploit/griefing.”

Can we please have this skill fixed… it is supposed to be a 1/4 sec cast time and unblockable and 9/10 times it takes so long to cast this skill that I never get it cast.

It has so much potential if only we could use it with some conviction that it will actually cast.

I’ve tried it in spvp, wvw, and pve – all the same problem

The last three bosses were very easy… the only difficult boss was the colour one but even that wasn’t that difficult once you figured it out.

I am going to do something I might get some stick for on my server… I’ve been asking devs to come and talk to us for months now but no reply… However, last night Kresh summed things up perfectly… so I am just going to quote him – I am sure he won’t mind and if he does I will be back to delete…

[04:00:10] <Rayya tag>how are things going on sfr?
[04:01:32] <[Hell] Kresh >Fine if you ask me, server is still alive after more than 2 years of Gw2. That s already a nice goal. How to keep it alive is what bother me actually :sick:
[04:02:36] <Holm >good on sfr, but not enough enemies
[04:02:41] <[Hell] Kresh >it could indeed be better but just the fact we still have players and an active community after so long time is indeed nice
[04:03:18] <[Hell] Kresh >other communities are failing hard to keep the players together
[04:05:44] <[Hell] Kresh >and i personally blame anet for the following reasons. No new maps in more than 2 years. (wtf really i played 4,4k hours in the same maps, may i be a little sick about?)
[04:06:07] <[Hell] Kresh >no new class in two years (3k hours with my necro and i don t like other class, sick once again)
[04:06:15] <[Hell] Kresh >no new weapons
[04:06:43] <[Hell] Kresh >no new utility
[04:06:52] <[Hell] Kresh >game too static. it s easy to get sick
[04:07:13] <[Hell] Kresh >only luck Anet have is that there isn t any relevant option
[04:07:46] <[Hell] Kresh >they will notice at the first real good game that will release

sorry… let me correct my posts… at first it is not about numbers… but after you wipe the enemy a few times with inferior numbers they end up quitting and then by default you end up with more numbers. But the initial fights are not about numbers but about organisation and commitment… if the enemy did not quit then they would still outnumber us.

For example, tonight we got wiped 3 times at desolation garrison before we took it on the fourth attempt – we did not give up… but after we took the garrison, desolation who outnumbered us, quit playing… ER tried to take our keep with probably 3x more people and about 7-10 golems and we wiped them, at the same time they tried to golem rush our garrison, and they ran away before we could wipe them again.

We then took their maps and they quit playing.

So now we tick 500+ after less than an hour of our foes quitting. If they did not quit so easily then we would still be ticking high but it would be much closer. That is the main difference… we wipe and we try and try again… they wipe a couple of times and quit playing.

SFR were fighting with Vizunah for top EU spot for ages while still a medium populated server.

My head is out of the sand… you need to stop qq and making excuses for losing.

Chaba.5410:

Knowing that another server has an overnight presence that yours does not is one of the greatest demoralizing factors in wvw. It won’t change until Anet addresses the coverage imbalance.

It is a 24/7 game – why should off peak players be punished or rewarded just because they are unable to play for 3-4 hours during primetime?

The biggest problem is that some servers (like my own) are normally outnumbered during the night but still manage to tick high and defeat our foes. Any sort of buff given for outnumbered is merely going to increase our points further and when you are sometimes winning by 60-100k more than the other two servers it is just going to kill the game even faster. Take for example right this very moment in time, ER outnumber all with lots and lots and lots of golems but they are only ticking 40 pts more than ourselves and we’ve wiped them and their golems more than once tonight. Desolation were doing the same as ER until we took their garrison and killed all their golems while ER took their keep and killed all their golems so Deso gave up and went to bed. We never attacked a single structure all night with more than 2 golems.

So you see it has nothing to do with numbers… it is about organisation and not giving up.

Sicarius.4639:

Valdemas.4960:

We did not get where we are over night

Made me giggle given your tick …at night.

we are actually outnumbered most nights

Transfer SFR server to NA for two weeks please.

killed 10 Kodash in the last 30mins and got 1 loot bag – is this a dev thing?