Guild Wars 2

As stated above.

Bugs:

1. Applies a stack of Grants 10 agony resistance. Does not stack with other sources of agony resistance. Anguished Tear of Alba that only lasts 30 minutes instead of 1 hour as described by the tooltip.
2. Applies a stack of Incoming damage in fractals is reduced by 5% per stack. Fractal Defensive that lasts 1 hour but this effect is missing from the tooltip.

Those new maps are garbage and the main reason why I completely stopped playing wvw. They are way too big and too varied in terms of terrain. I feel more like playing GW1 Nightfall campaign because it looks as if I was running through Kourna fighting npcs.

Too much running too little fight. I’d rather have a plain simple flat ground with few bushes and trees but more fighting.

WvW, as exciting as it used to be when it first appeared, is becoming so boooriing when compared to pvp or even pve. I don’t even want to talk about zerg stuff. I guess people are getting bored because 80% of play on these map comes down to:

1. Walking……
2. Running…………..
3. Roaming………………..
4. Running away…………….
5. Strolling………………………………..
6. Hiking……………………………………………
7. Wandering…………………………………………
8. Swimming………………………………………………
9. Diving…………………………………………………………….
10. Brainless following………………………………………..

Untill you finally have an opportunity to cross swords………I mean……aoe’s with enemy zerg. And then, you have but 2 fascinating options: you win the fight and you continue the process (1-8) or lose the fight and die and……guess what….. restart the process (1-8).

Seriously? When my zerg and I are in our main castle on my borderlands I have to run through the whole map to face the enemy zerg and have some fun fighting them just to be beaten and…….teleport back to my castle….
And while the enemy zerg recuperates, has a tea, eats a pie, smokes cigar, takes a bath and reads a book our zerg finally comes to fight them again and, because the enemy is fresh and ready for us, takes a beating yet again.

My point is: make WvW more “mobile” and fast-paced. Put some waypoints here and there. Or give us freaking tanks or armored transports lol. Do something. For now, it looks like 80% of running, 10% fighting mobs and 10% of actuall pvp. <abashed>

EVERY single warrior runs the same build, at least on EU. Traits, skills, weapons…you name it. Everything the same. 3 obvious stances + desparate rampage. It’s kinda fun to see all those warriors dueling and shouting “noob rampager” at each other
Whoever uses rampage first – wins.
I just join custom arenas to laugh as a spectator.

Ohh and btw…… great job on screw.ing up pvp Anet devs /clapclap /bow.

Try to see a bigger picture, will ya? I know dodge is a countertactic against high damage but I critisize both since it seems (judging by negative opinions of Gw2 players) that both have negative impact on the game, despite complementing each other.

If you would read closely to what I have written you would see that I actually complain about both, which is expressed in the sentence:
“There was no dodge, no downed state, no skills with insane damage (or at least they were not spamable) and no silly stealth in Guild Wars 1 and everything went just fine. "

But it has always been like this. Your protest amuses me. I posted many times on this forums that thieves with their ridiculous Heartseeker dmg and its spamability paired with constant stealthing is op. Warrior with their insane hammer dmg and CC are op. No dev pays attention or gives a crap.
But it is not only about the skills or people using them. It is the core mechanics.

There was no dodge, no downed state, no skills with insane damage (or at least they were not spamable) and no silly stealth in Guild Wars 1 and everything went just fine.
“You though that using IWAY will always grant you victory? Well, guess what…. we use contagion”
“You though that using bloodspike will always grant you victory? GG wp, we use RTL”
“Ha RTL noobs. We use balanced. Insert coin and try again!”

Gw2 is light-years before Gw1. Don’t count on skill balancing or mentallity change to do the job here.

I played it and like it but there are some things that need to be addressed:

1. Archers are way too weak and, as a result, useless. The range of their attack should be 1200 and they should deal more damage to players. They should prioritize guards, yes, but they should also imidiatelly attack those who attack them (players).
2. Guards are too weak as well. Either buff them (also against players) or enable the players to get new guards by using supplies.
3. Trebuchets are useless. If at all, they are only sometimes used to aoe the supply area, but players prefer to use their own aoe which is more than enough.
4. The gates should be tougher or enable the players to repair them by using supplies.

Twonineone.3490 reminds me of those self-proclaimed pros from Gw1 who played HA and GvG (mostly HA). They would never allow you to join their team and have fun unless you get rank10 gladiator (or whichever title was needed). Thankfully, those dark times have come to past.

If you are mainly a pvp player and you’re getting beaten by a pve player in pvp it simply means you are a noob.

Colin Johanson: “(….)when you finish the story version of a dungeon you unlock the explorable version of that dungeon. Those are intended to be *the super hard, very coordinated group style content like Slaver?s Exile, or Fissure of Woe, or the Underworld.”*

Pfff hahaah. Gotta admit, this guy has sense of humor. He compares the great/challenging/elaborated Gw1 dungeons to those flimsy excuses for dungeons we have now.
Just add the hard mode for dungeons (the lazy option) or close this thread.

WoodenPotatoes basicly did the hard job for you already, lazy devs:

I can’t understand why is Gw1 after all those years still superior, in many aspects, to Gw2. A trip to Urgoz Warren or the Deep was an event everybody prepared for with excitement. Not to mentioned 20 min of consumable gathering, build adjusting and overall thrill because could actually fail (and when I say fail I really mean FAIL and reset the dung not just teleport back to the checkpoint lol4).

73 pages of valuable feedback + YouTube films and still nothing done to improve one of the most important aspects of MMO games.

I have a question about that spec. Reaper’s Shroud looks cooler than the Death Shroud and I would like to play with Reaper’s Shroud, but I don’t want to wield a greatsword. Is it possible to put 1 point into the first minor trait (Shroud Knight) just to have an option to go into Reaper’s Shroud but still play with old weapons (e.g. axe)?

That dragon fight is the best that could happen. You have to be on full alert all the time. Don’t worry about being thrown off, you got hang gliding, so you can return to battle without dying and respawning.

Taunt be good, veerii good! I can see more skyhammer farm in the future. When will the people from arenanet finally realize that this map is doing harm to spvp…?

If I were to choose between a new dungeon similar to those we already have or no new dungeons, I would choose no new dungeons.

Dungeons in gw2 are nowhere close to the those great ones for Gw1. No wonder though, if they decide to dismiss the guy responsible for cool dungeons in Gw1 like Urgoz, Slaver’s Exile or The Deep.

The only “dungeon” worth talking about is FotM, the rest is just for no-fun speed farming.

Some time ago I watched a documentry about a man who became “part of” a group of hyenas. They accepted him as one of their own. But the interesting fact was that, hyenas were more likely to become hostile towards each other (towads their ex-leader in the documentry) rather than this man. I guess it’s not about the race/skin color/physical features as much as it is about whether you behave according to specific rules. We should learn from animals.

Although I’m in love with the game mode and it’s mechanics, I have to say that some of you guys apparently missed the point of this mode. You said yourself this is something big and new, hence it doesn’t make sense to just add it to the conquest que like a new common map. People will constantly leave games when the conquest map was picked simply because they prefer to play a completely different game mode. If it splits the pvp community… well that’s only natural when you (finally) introduce a fresh, new, interesting game mode. You promised/gave us something that resembles gvg from Gw1 so people got hyped but now I see people (from pvp) who are reconsidering buying this expansion because of afore-mentioned mistake.

Also, there is this little problem with how many people should participate in battles for Stronghold. Your “internal testing” is fine but don’t take its results for granted because like 50% of players prefers 8vs8 and I’m in favor of this, because it sounds resonable. It can work here just as it worked in Gw1. Let’s say there’s gonna be:
1 Shepherd
1 Defender
1 Smuggler
1 Trebuchet master

So… 4 “static” or “occupied” classes with defensive builds and that leaves us with only 4vs4 (slayers/assaulters) fighting for/near supplies. Is 4vs4 a zerg fest? I doubt it.

So either you allow all players to create custom arenas for free and without time limit or create a separate que for stronghold with 2 stronghold map versions (5v5 and 8v8).

Fully agree, 200 gems is way too much. I prefer to watch someone else playing that crappy living story part on youtube. F2p game my kitten ….

Happens almost everyday at evening/afternoon because they can’t figure out how to fix the kitten servers.

Another day, again at evening gw2 servers are down/malfunctioning. Seriously? This isn’t funny anymore.

Huge lags confirmed. The server likes to malfunction after 9 pm.

Your location: Poland
Time and date of incident (plus time zone): last few days, whole day, gmt +1
ISP: Promax
Game World: Gandara
Brief description of what you’re seeing:
Sometimes when I click “Log in” it just keeps loading and loading and I get an error. And if I do finally log into to game, it just keeps lagging (I can’t see the parties in LFG and I get an error: Lost connection with the server).

Maaan… when I look at those gods…. Gw1 was so great, so dark and gloomy, so mature. Fighting Dhuum in the Underworld and the Shadow army, going through the Realm of Torment, Ravenheart Gloom and fighting demons. Even battling the 3 meters high Destroyers was awesome. Gw1 was not for everybody, not for 10-year-old kids like Gw2.
Gw2 with its pitifully looking dragons and destroyers the size of a man should be given Pegi 7.

My necro would have said: “It is not up to me to judge her, my lord Grenth will. Remain calm instead of fooling around.”

My engi: “I don’t care as long as I can add her technology to my kitten n a l”

My sylvari ele: “…..”

What’s to problem with SAB lol? You don’t like it – don’t play it. I don’t like it either but I will play for funny skins.

ASAP clip/film in which they show new game mode – labyrinth in 8-bit style.

Anyway, I didn’t like SAB that much, but I will play it anyway (for skins) if it comes back.

Well, there are some companies like wargaming, the devs of which told and shown what what they will add tomorrow in world of tanks. So I’m still waiting for Anet.

This still sounds more exciting than spamming button 2 to INEVITABLY kill an end-game boss roflmao21

There was only 1 sylvari, all the alliances were made of charr, humans, norns and corrupted sylvari who were obviously evil. So it’s not only sylvari’s fault.

You’re talking about pvp. We are talking about implementing SOME, not all, ideas from wvw to pve. There is no need for “WvW buffs, Bloodlust, Bonus stack stats, specializations”. Only siege engines and structures to capture like in wvw on those 3 maps.

DonRobeez.3560:

Don’t mind the story modes in general.
But Arah… that’s a complete borefest…
Spamming 2 to kill the main GW2 villain.

Agree completely on this one. Shameful and disrespectful for Gw2 fans.

There is nothing but ruble and dust + few friendly npcs.

Thanks for the link, his idea is amazing. I didn’t know I have a kindred spirit thinking just like me. I guess we have to create more of these topics for the devs to finally see it. Like 5 more should do.

“We can buy the blueprints and materials (let’s say 60 Hard Wood Planks and 40 Iron Ingots)” via trading post.

Blueprints, Hard Wood Planks and Iron Ingots are cheap now. The materials could of course vary depending on the quality of a siege engine.

Hi. The title may sound a bit confusing but it’s about some mechanics typical for wvw.

I was thinking on all those dynamic events in late maps like Straits of Dev, Malchor’s Leap and Cursed Shore. Most of them are boring because, well…. there are no insteresting mechanics there. They are just plain simple. You rush forward and kill mobs and that’s it. But there are some, like “Northern Invasion of Orr” which is great and has some potential.

WvW is fanstastic because of all those siege engines you can build and use on all those structures. Why not implement it in pve as well? A great example of this is “Group Event Sink the Ash Horizon” in which you use trebuchets and cannons to sink it while also defending them and npc (who repair them) from risen. I spent couple of hours leveling my char only this way, because this event was so much fun.
It would be so great to feel that my engineer is truly an engineer not only in wvw but in pve as well. Why not giving us an option to build a siege engine in pve?

We can buy the blueprints and materials (let’s say 60 Hard Wood Planks and 40 Iron Ingots) and baaam we got a catapult. Of course there should be a limit, otherwise the map would be all covered in trebuchets, but it’s something to think about.

You prefer to be a commander and lead a zerg? No problem.
You prefer to be a cool charr engineer (just an example, the class would not matter) and fire a barrage of stones from a distance at enemy mobs or fortifications? No problem.

In case somebody says “pve is too mobile for siege engines”, well…. after the event is done/mobs killed you destroy the siege engine and salvage some materials so you can run to the next group event and construct another catapult or w/e if there is a need for one (mobs spam or sturdy structure to destroy).

What do you guys (especially devs) think?

Very soon. When it’s done. It’s just behind the corner so keep your head up!

I hope they are DEAD or GRILLED and eaten by a random charr.

Rezz.8019:

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Also, keep in mind that not all traits are just for pvp. Some of the more focused towards pve and wvw.

And THIS is why traits/skills should be split into pve and pvp versions, like in Gw1. Because they will never balance something so that it will be equally good vs monsters and vs players.

Ehhh… why not just making the health bar becoming “flamy”. I mean the effect that guardian has when s/he activates the virtue of justice. The health bar would become flame’y around. You know what I mean?

Yea, especially Allie, show us your cojones xD
They won’t accept the challenge. It would mean they admit that they are incompetent when it comes to balancing things in pvp.

They would get pwned everytime by random semi-competent rabbits team. They push the untested things and expect the game to repair itself.
1 decap engi + 1 hambow + 1 thief/bunker guard + 2 randoms and they lose no matter what. They don’t have the slightiest idea about pvp.

Those 3 options to choose from just show how childish and silly the writer is. They show that my character is actually no better than Scarlet when killing someone.
- I finally understood the meaning of “kuh-Braham!”?
- Not as sweet as a kiss. (wink)?

Wth is this? Seriously, they employed a child to write these? Or a psycho?
We are the good guys here, we should mourn those who died or at least not comment on those whom we killed. Why not behaving maturely and give options like:
- It was really satisfying.
- It was not as rewarding as I though it would be.
- Let’s focus on the living instead.

Sometimes I got a feeling that this game should come with PEGI 2 rofl.

Guys, it will happen veeery soon, in the near future. Be patient, it’s just behind the corner, when it’s done! Keep your heads up becuase it’s going to shock you! I bet they are excited and shoked how great this patch will be, so you should too. Keep you fingers crossed.

Soon everything will be clear! At some point in the near future in a galaxy far far away.

Whit.2385:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFVzt6_YmGM

That’s exactly how I understand the pvp devs when they are using their PR skeeelz.

I’m afraid that by the time reasonable pvp patch in gw2 is ready Eso will become better. Soon this will happen.

At some point in a near future. Sooner than expected, that’s for sure. Around 3-4 months at best.

Whit, this is already happening, and it’s really big, man. You will see soon, when it’s done, and you will, at some point, kneel before them in respect. Next patch will shake the very foundations of mmos, it’s just behind the corner so get ready!

close topic kkthx

Next month? NEXT MONTH? Wow, you are truly being an optimist. That is actually very soon! Sooner than I expected.

Agreed. Can’t wait to watch ready up, just to hear all those “soons”, “when it’s ready”, “at some points” – a poetry for ears. And it’s really going to be soon, on friday. Maybe they should rename this to “Soon Up”?