Guild Wars 2

In light of the inaugural World versus World season, a troubling issue has come to my, and others’, attention. Namely, a large influx of players, who normally participate in non-WvW game activities and types, are struggling to enjoy the gameplay which many of us have had several months to learn and master. Perhaps the greatest issue which interferes with these players’ enjoyment of WvW is the current meta of high-player count “zergs” (also known as “blobs”) which dominate combat. With this in mind, many players who are not prepared for the state of gameplay find themselves in the downed state quite frequently, without much of a chance to rejoin the large-scale battle that is WvW.
Quite frankly, if something is not done to help these players, the state of WvW will be placed in jeopardy – the developers cannot neglect these players if they expect long-term growth and stability.

Now, with this problem outlined, I now bring a potential solution to discussion: Downed State Mastery

The intention of this WvW Ability Mastery Tree is to balance the current disparity present in WvW for newcomers, both PvE veterans and under-leveled players alike. In other words, this line of abilities seeks to strengthen these players’ chances to stay in the fight!

Below are my preliminary ability suggestions:

Level 1: Gain 300% more hp while downed.
Level 2: All down state skill cooldowns are reduced by 70%.
Level 3: You transfer 1 condition to your attackers once per second.
Level 4: Once downed you will be rendered invulnerable for 2 seconds.
Level 5: Instant rally once downed on a 180 second cooldown. Once rallied you will recieve: protection, regeneration, retaliation and swiftness.

Because Condi spam requires infinitely more skill ofc.

Slips.4692:

“Only a WvW player?…Low priority then.” Anet.

Best quote in this thread. Period.

250 Guild Merit cap. Beyond fail. AFK Hello Kitty Online.

Yes this is in fact illegal. Please be sure to provide the internet police with the appropriate account names/fraps recordings/other circumstantial evidence so that we can be sure that justice will be swift.

Fantastic match up so far. Learning a lot from BP as always, just an awesome learning experience.

Agree completely. Thieves can do too many things at once with little cost.

Further Exploration Tour

We unlocked this about 13 hours ago, did not get a cut scene or any other visual queue besides the npc becoming noticeably excited with our purchase. Also as stated during this livestream level 80 should be the guild hall max, but we only have enough upgrades to reach around level 64 as this upgrade didn’t unlock anymore upgrades or proprietors.
http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/gw2-guild-week-day-two-livestream-notes/

The most interesting part of this upgrade besides the fact that it automagically deletes 2 mountains is that it still leaves many rooms and doors locked. The most prettiful of said rooms you can take a look at below. It’s a crystal locked in a room that is just off the guild vault.
#illuminati

I’m most bothered by the lack of communication about topics which matter, not the new content. Guild Halls, Precursor crafting, new legendaries, and all the other stuff that was mentioned last year and not since then. I fail to understand why communicating with the customers on a more regular and open basis is not of a higher priority. I don’t feel that asking for general information is a massive request.

I’d rather they take 1 of the 4 living story teams and have them work on something that matters and get less trash temp content. Such as idk, guild infrastructure, gvgs, alliances etc.

Fair. You knew information was being released today and left your items on the auction house, things like this are commonplace around times such as this. People that were aware benefited while those that were unaware did not.

http://i.imgur.com/r5seQ5l.jpg

We have also just conquered the Pleb Hall.
http://i.imgur.com/Xpf61RQ.jpg

Can’t say myself or anyone in my guild are appreciative of the mega server system. I don’t like being put into a map with people I don’t know or care about while my guild is spread across multiple overflows.

Found this about 2 days ago, but didn’t get a chance to upload it. Apparently this is what we unlock with the level 40 upgrade from the Guild Initiative NPC. I hope you all enjoy the shinyfuls.

Gilded Hollow Full Tour

Irony.8056:

Astyro.3910:

I’m impressed how nobody from HOD or SF not say anything about having fun fighting [MoB] last night…

Nice fight at bay mob.. just in time to get rolled. Thanks for the laughs. You guys new ?

So quoteth Mathew 7:7

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

1 year anniversary. Surprise us Anet. go for the pro troll.

Defending competently is also an option.

Honestly thought this was going to be a Trump troll thread.

Supply is that expensive rightly so because new players with the ability to carry more supply can be destructive and also 40 organized players with 20 supply is going to be pretty ridiculous as is.

More than 10 guild ranks would be awesome.

We unlocked further exploration about 9 hours ago, no epic fight. Video will be up soon.

Darkothe.1253:

PrivateSpeaks.1637:

I think something you need to realize is that no server on NA had medium pop. So no free server transfers were given, SF kicking some kitten has nothing to do with the free transfers

SF kicking “kittens” has everything to do with Anet adjusting the points in Tier 8 – and only Tier 8. If it had been an across the board adjustment, I’m certain that it would have been looked at differently. However, since it was not, evidence would suggest that the louder one whines the faster the devs respond. GG.

To be fair thats pretty much every MMO. Eventually official forums just turn into pages and pages of crying and yelling until the game is terrible.

The irony is strong with this one.

lieutenantsharp.8967:

I think HoD and NSP need moar Anet employees

Honestly it helps alot having invuln players etc. Maybe try to recruit some, mail some cookies perhaps idk seems effective thus far.

The real issue is that Immobilize is a CC that is treated like a condition etc. Stacking should not exist in any MMO. CC chaining is something that should utilize player skill not target mark spamming.

Just like any other MMO in the history of gaming. Bigger OR more serious guilds are capable of more things than smaller OR less serious ones. This argument that small guilds can’t benefit as much is ridiculous. There are many people in my guild with well over 1k gold. They didn’t get that because there in a big guild they got it because there serious, dedicated, organized players. If you have a “small” guild of 5-10 of such players this would be incredibly easy for you to research even WITHOUT buying influence. All the complaining in this thread is basically, “I want instant gratification” and “I don’t want to have to work for anything that requires more than 5-10 other people that play casually”.

There was a time when people understood that everything wasn’t going to be easy.

Personally I agree with that decision on the part of the moderators. Bird really influenced PPT a little too heavily for NSP and for me at least it really too the skill out of gaining forum PPT. At least now on NSP when we win a forum match up we can say it’s because of pure forum warrioring skill.

Having a long term common goal is a beautiful thing.

Brace yourselves.

DiogoSilva.7089:

fixit.7189:

Welcome to the new and improved free to play business model; toxic behavior goes hand in hand with f2p like cookies and cream.

F2P players can’t use map chat nor do they have access to raids and HoT maps. And dungeon elitism has been a thing for years.

15 Charrs agree.

Honestly if after all this build up they aren’t multi tiered with the highest tier requiring insane effort/benefits ill be pretty disappointed. I hope it won’t be just another casual time sink/rp spot. And hopefully we see a day with any alliance support at all.

First world problems at there best:

Dear devs,

Hi mai servar is frust in the NORTH AMERICA an i can not be any but green so can not finis map(( . Plis to allow colour cahnge for map complete. THANKS.

AydenStar.4216:

The Ranger is the only class I enjoy playing in GW2 yet the GW2 WvW community and ANet just want to promote their trinity system of Hammer Warriors (Damage, utility) and Hammer Guardians (Healing, Utility, Support), Staff Necromancers ( Condi spamming, Damage, Utility) and Staff Elementalists (Healing, Support, Utility) down my throat because they are the easiest, no brain professions to play in WvW zerging. Therefore, I have lost interest in this game almost completely. There is nothing fun about playing a game mode that only benefit 4 cookies cutters builds.

I play a Hammer Guardian and Warrior too in WvW and it is so boring and routine that I rather play Mortal Combat 2 for its deep and complexity over these two cookie cutter face roll professions.

Players that are moving or have moved to serious T1 servers be warned that if you don’t play the cookie cutter build that the top guilds have come up with (which are all the same IMHO), you are going to have a horrible experience being forced to play the viable professions and builds even if you are not in these guilds but run with them.

To be honest, GW2 is not going in a good direction with these WvW leagues: let face it, WvW leaders want to win fights and they rather have 30 players of the most viable professions and I don’t blame them. If you play on T1 servers as Ranger, Thief or Engineers you will be forces into the Ruins because that is where zerg leaders will put you if they are having a bad day and need a scapegoat or have you sit in a tower all day long.

Subjective. Exaggeration.

Jscull.2514:

Toble.2968:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Rashagal.5867:

Nuzt.7894:

Actium.8765:

maybe I should make a dh/bp/ar/nsp/gom/hod 3/1 thread?

You can talk kitten about AR, you can talk kitten about BP, Everyone talks kitten about NSP (and we encourage it cause their kittenes), and even HoD I believe was once higher up and can handle some kitten talking … but don’t you ever bring GoM into this, they deserve better then all of us.

That and man for man 1 GoM = 10 NSP

:D

In fact, I’m gonna go ahead and say what everyone on BP and AR is thinking…

GOM? Would you like AR and BP to be your new mommy and daddy? We have the adoption papers right here. You just have to sign them.

Thanks for the offer, but we’re gonna stick around and beat up TCMM for their lunch money a bit longer. They deserted GoM long before joining and ditching out on your servers, so we’ve been looking forward to this match-up.

I wish they would ditch us sooner rather than later.

Then we can work on rebuilding like we had planned after kaening kitten our guilds and stole our night crew.

Pretty self righteous for people who only focus on Pvdoor. “resilience alliance?” lol

Geeeeettttttt ouuuuuutttaaaaaaaa heeeeeeeeeereee!

Can’t speak for the entire alliance, but Os has strict rules against attacking enemy players. In WvW, Os members are only allowed to attack doors, walls and rabbits.

Nike.2631:

Omne.4603:

Wtb expansion for this.

Ok, realpolitik time:

While to many outside of eastern Asian the region looks like one big blob of dirt and a few island occupied by a lot of people with epicanthic eye-folds, the region is actually filed with a complex array of cultures and ethnicities that on the whole hate each other and have been killing each other for thousands of years right up to and including some massive atrocities in the last century. Seriously, ask the man on the street in Osaka and Shanghai about their opposite number in the other city and odds are you’ll hear things that would make the klu klux klan blush. During my stay in Japan I had some of the most pleasant folks imaginable go absolutely feral over things as small as casting a Chinese-descended actor to play a nominally Japanese-American character. We’re talking Hollywood day-to-day business as usual taken as a call for lynch mobs. Ugly.

Now introduce a bunch of dudes and dudettes from the American west coast who have a fondness for Asian architecture/visual stylings and maybe a little understanding of feudal cultures but little or no grounding in the actual historical events of the region. They roll out a setting featuring a mash-up of cultural cues about as insensitive and inappropriate as decorating a classical synagogue with swastikas to people who grew up in the cultures being mangled.

It kittened some people off. And it should. Rather than put a historian on staff to spot check a setting that’s largely unworkable from the ground up they have wisely decided to just NOT put their foot in that particular wolf-trap again after getting out of it once already by gnawing that limb off.

WTB expansion for this.

What I hear: I want more characters, but I shouldn’t have to work as hard to max them all out because thats inconvenient for me and does not fit my definition of fun.

Ethurian.3751:

Malik.6781:

Arguments so powerful.

What do you even mean? You didn’t make any arguments yourself. Why do you want this? What would it improve? What would it change? Why? And based on your post, the “Why” must be:

Everyone who plays in WvW must be a mindless blue icon following zergling or they need to be removed. Only my style of play should be acceptable. Anyone who spends 100g should be able to kick someone from the map, because you can do it in PVE. However to make this fair, the WvW servers will somehow calculate which people are allowed to Command. Using magic, because this is a 24/7 game in which players are constantly coming and going. There isn’t enough blobbing and zerging, I demand that everyone zergs. You guys should feel lucky that I didn’t go with my original thoughts, that if you don’t join a Commander’s squad, your game automatically uninstalls itself. Never mind the fact that if there ISN’T a Commander online, WvW would be unplayable. Ignore the man behind the curtain. Aliens.

Right?

kitten whatever point was originally trying to be made. This response is incredible. The thread really ended right here.

Why are you getting so defensive?

Huge step in the right direction. Now if we can get something that would reward healers/buffers for supporting players that kill other players then that would seal the deal. Lack of appreciation for support classes is a chronic issue in most MMO’s but Anet thus far has fixed quite a few common issues. I look forward to the next patch.

OIIIIIO.7825:

ZhouFusion.1826:

Perhaps other people got other idea’s please share them.

Not spending unrefundable points until you are sure.

Thank god there is sense left in the world.

aeroh.8930:

Can we talk about boons in WvW? You know, people running around in a train with all the boons, all of the time. Is this working as intended?

It’s not fun getting obliterated in WvW, and it seems like no matter what I do, where I go, sooner or later I end up getting steamrolled by groups with perma 25 might stacks, stability, protection, vigor…well you get the idea. It seems like the blob with the best boon stacking wins the fight. I’m not sure if this is promoting organized play, or simply the stacking of boon sharing classes? To be honest, I don’t even fully understand how so many people are getting so many boons.

But rather than nerf boons, could we maybe have a counter? It seems easier to get boons than it is to remove them from your opponent. I know necros and mesmers have AE boon strippers, but they are pulse based and the enemy simply runs across the pulse ignoring all but 1 or 2 ticks. And even then, they just reapply whatever boon they lost.

Could we change the mesmer null field skill to strip a bunch of boons all at once instead of over 5 seconds?

Your angry that organized groups kill you in WvW? Thats all I got from this post.

I don’t see how this is soemthing the game needed at all. If you don;t want to grind AP then don’t, the system should not have to forcibly prevent progression for you to take a break. You could play exactly as you wanted before, the OP just comes across as being selfish.

OMW.

Bump for video post.

Totally agree, all bags should auto-loot in any of the 4 WvW maps

I don’t see a problem with this especially since you can farm 100 gold much more quickly or instantly vs 10k badges takes time and space. More than reasonable imo. Good post.

Seems like a lot of AngRy posters in this thread.

kazi.6438:

Mostly I’m just pleased that Ronny ended up in T8. Did he happen to mention that he single-handedly made GoM, AR, and NSP?

I don’t have enough accounts to plus this post.