Guild Wars 2

I would say I am bored and disappointed with the lack of variety in builds now. Time gated zerg events leave me playing other games now but I am sure there are others who find them much more palatable.

Well given that as a deer i am often facing off against dragons means I rarely pvp anymore.

Every mmo has players leaving then returning when there is no content to play. I doubt gw2 is immune to that despite what anyone else would have you believe. The mega servers (disguised server mergers) mean you will never really pop figures. Other games tell you how many are in a map and how many instances of that map exist. gw2 how ever hides everything. If you find the game worth the time play it. If not there are more games than gamers out there so you have a plehtora to chose from.

This is a luxury product produced by a company I have zero faith in to tell the truth let alone provide a fully fleshed out expansion. I would say WP was quite on point with his latest video. Anet has a lot of work ahead if they want me to trust them let alone spend money on anything they produce.

I am hugely disappointed with this new since I love collecting legendary weapons. I have 20 currently, though this along with other decisions that have been made have caused me to spend almost zero time in the game. While i understand that decisions have to be made, I also understand my time is valuable an I will spend it where i have the most fun which is elsewhere.

I have no issue with grind. It is just not the reason i started to play gw2. I have mmos that are grindy and do it very well (They are also way more upfront and honest about their expansions.) It is also why have not played gw2 much at all now and moved on to other pastures. Just a lesson learned about how i should never pre order.

Poorly thought out and ineffective. Pretty much what I have come to expect from Anet.

Well I missed these events first time around and have to say I did not miss much. There is challenging and then there is stupid kitten and any other word that comes to mind. Completing the boss blitz takes longer than tq, for what reward? Once again they mistake tedious and mind numbing with challenging. No worries thoguh I got plenty of other games to occupy my time. Thank you for making the decision easy for me.

I am very happy they are back(or were). It allowed plenty of newer players to grab the dyes and those that missed it last time a second chance. I am sure Anet is happy with the gems being bought and all the gold that got exchanged into gems and thus removed from the economy.

Well I do certainly believe this is a great improvement over the last living story events, it does need quite a bit of improvement. Since my own actions seem to have little to do with the success or failure of scenario now that I have the meta done(indeed the achievements were my primary reason for doing it more than once.) There is little incentive to return now(Last 4 times I was in the overflow we hit the 5th boss and then failed each time to end the event). Indeed the rng elements to the platform part LS will have me avoiding Lornars pass all together for the remainder of this fortnight to avoid random death, lag, and overflows. I have never been able to do this event with my guild mates or even my party. Another example of ‘Guild’ wars being a misnomer.

Her story is terrible, and not engaging at all. It would have been more exciting to me( for example) to have her entire one fo the colleges then have her earn honours(or top honours as you wish) then have politics and pride come into play so that she is denied her them and given a normal graduation. You could even have her failed or sabataged on purpose to protect asuran pride and and superiority. This could have then lead to a multitude of events from protests from her classmates about her unjust treatment. Given her charisma she could have used her plight to get help from people from the other colleges to assist in her endeavours. She does not need the multiple colleges much like the innovators in the real world do much of their genius work along side their education, not because of it. Then it could be a mystery of was she actually wronged, was she allowed into the college to expose those nasty asuran traits they like to keep hidden, was their some other reason.

From this little seed of an idea and about few minutes of thought comes amuch more fleshed out and for the lack of a better word human character rather than the 1 dimensional super amazing at everything she ever looked at twink clihe villian we have now.

When you are watching a 2 hr movie it does not matter if the reveal at the end ties together the movie cause it is 2 hrs not a year waiting. If they wanted me to care about this at all they needed to make it far more engaging with more hooks (heck even a single reason to give a kitten) than what they did. While I do have hope things will improve as it stands the LS is just a checklist for me.

It is easy to think that since well Anet(an most companies in genereal) tend to have an easier time nerfing one skill(or skill set) than trying to make everything else viable. It is pretty much a case of how much of thier resources will they devote to fixing this problem. I don’t think it is a problem with a set of gear honestly since dungeons are the worst aspect of this game, they are poorly balanced in terms of time vs rewards.

I can say I have blocked more people in spvp than I have gold sellers, so yes I would say some people are pretty terrible examples of maturity(if not humanity)

Gold like everything else in this game is easy to get. While I was never fond of it being being bought only with gold I would suggest that this is something that should be bought with influence or merits. The game seems to place very little emphasis on guilds with I do find amusing this could be a step towards making them much more desirable.

Not sure what the QQ is about I spend 50 at starbucks in a fortnight, and while i havn’t bought gems before I did so happily this morning to get the mini. My money my choice as it has always been. I would happily give them more if they had more exciting things in the store. I am a sucker for exclusive cosmetic items.

Congrats to the servers everyone knew were going to win at that start.

Well no server is the villian, they are just other players playing a game and having fun. (or at least I hope you are having fun otherwise why do it?) What does happen is people want to make the transitory nature of wvw into something more important like x server is a bandwagon lets camp them and make them uninstall the game. It is silly pathetic immature etc, and to be completely ignored. Learn from your opponents and as many say you learn very little from victory but massively amounts from your defeats.

So what will happen is fa will trail till monday when sbi goes back to work etc and then out no lifers will take everything during sea. Then we will talk about how much trash they are and how hard core are like some how being good at a game maks us better people. Then if there is a drop (perceived or actual) we will be all gloating and proud pretending we made people uninstall the game all the while a small core will continue to whine how we should have been in gold so we can have these mysterious good fights. Which hides the fact wvw has serious issues which will likely never get address but hey we will no longer fort aspenwood but frackin arrogant.

All it will mean is less people playing wvw and that is always a bad thing. No idea why people can’t just play the game without the elementary school stuff.

Well FA got pretty bloated with transfers, though the queues are lessening a bit now they are easily 2-3 times as bad as they were pre-league. Karma training is now the norm not something that happens on thursday-night or friday before reset. So while their milkshake has brought a lot of people to the wvw(Which I am sure will have Anet labeling it a success. If more participation was the goal then it indeed worked.) I would say it was an inferior product to what we had before. Not a lot of reason to fight the queues not with so many other games in my library. I like playing games not waiting for queues.

Well on FA we do not curse anyone out of existence for playing the game they bought. Though having stonemist flip alot is in peoples best interest if they want to achievement tied to it. Besides holding stonemist is a resource sink for little return.

Hardly anything new here, when they are losing it is cause it is all numbers no skill. When they are winning it is ‘Look at our leet skillz.’ They can not even troll properly so not exactly surprising they are getting steamrolled.

No shock people flooded to the servers they thought would win. Happens all the time and will continue to happen. Still it is funny to watch it happen and all the antics that go along with it.

It is not supposed to be balanced it is pvp rofl. I think Bioware said that about their open world pvp too oh yeah they closed that down. The leagues are just another way for anet to hide the flaws in wvw (glaring obvious flaws) while flooding (some) servers wvw community with achievement hunters in an effort to make it seem like it is still relevant. Quite simply if you want open world3 faction pvp this is it so really they have no incentive to make any changes at all they just keep feeding us the bull and string us along till another game comes out with this same style and then we all leave.(Then maybe they might make the neccessary changes.) The only thing amusing about these discussions is how many people think this is fun. Maybe you like steamrolling servers with no chance of losing but I actually want a conest with even a slight element that it will not already be decided by sunday night. or Sat in some cases.

FA has ego’s and arrogance in abundance it is sad to say, though many have forgotten we sucked for quite a while back in tier 5. It is no secret with experience and communication things do get easier, servers do get better. The differences between the various tier can be immense as I know sbi has already experienced. I am quite sure if we do win silver we will be the next band wagon server people will be out to stomp into the ground. Sometimes you become that which you profess to hate.

Plenty of reasons why SBI lost this match and it has nothing to do with coverage or numbers. But I always learned more from a loss than a win so this is a good opportunity for your server to reflect and improve. ANET changed absolutely nothing about wvw it terms of fairness and addressing imbalances, all that happened was the inclusion of achievement points to give the illusion that they actually care about wvw. Oh and the top three servers in every league get a dolyak finisher woohoo. If you liked wvw before the league nothing has changed if you thought it was garbage before nothing has changed. I am sure anet has some pretty numbers they can show investors saying oh look at that spike in activity in wvw and the game in general we are doing fantastic improvements to the game.

What coverage this has always been our worst time slot. Still it was an amazingly fun time. Oh the bags.

Not like it matters what happens in wvw friday comes it all gets wiped away and you get that big fat nothing no matter how you place. Still i got my guardian almost to 80 now woo hoo

Nothing golden about that league more like the kiss of death. But you asked for it and now it looks like you are going to get it. Hope it is what your server wants not just a vocal few guilds.

Well I doubt any of us from this match are heading into gold league so hope you like pvd

moomincat.9816:

etrigan.4213:

Hey big shout outs to INC and Ark.

You guys are doing pretty “ok” in WvW for being PVE guilds.

Props!

Shhh don’t tell [RET] they were beat by a Orr grinding guild ^^ x

Most of the hardcore wvwers long since left RET and the server just so you know

SBI deserves full value for the win. They played for the ppt and the results show. Not sure what the issue is here, why try to troll a server playing the game how it was designed?

Too much nerd rage

Every opponent has something to teach us if we have the eyes to see. SBI is certainly the new kid on the block with a lot to learn but you get better by playing better opponents and they have that this week. I saw they had scouts in every tower last night which is pretty hardcore that they have people willing to put server first. EVERY server wishes they had more people like that. If they win kudos to you for a hard fought match if not well you were the underdog in the ratings anyway the math just showed us the truth. We still have fights aplenty for everyone Mags, Sbi your little dog toto too

Ain’t no troll like a Maguuma troll cause a Maguuma troll don’t stop.

Yes once again anet is clueless how how to balance their game. But no biggie i am sure they will add more and more pve to wvw as more and more people leave it.

dragonrage.8921:

Be careful SBI your aiming to get all the way up there to the big 6 if you get what you wish you may not like it. If Stonemist can be taken right under your nose your not ready and will be eaten alive in one bite.

The upper tier servers mostly view smc as a trap you can either hold it or go after everything else. The time and manpower to hold it against attack from an equal strength opponent requires a huge invenstment vs little gain in the ppt. What most of us want is the challenging oppponent not steamrolling servers with only one or two guilds coming out for the fight. Still kudos for the Yb guilds that came out thursday evening an played like it was reset night. hats off

I have noticed Yb keyboard warriors very quiet all of a sudden but no worries in a few hours it all resets. They can go do the same thing with another server and talk about how they wiped 6million man zergs with 3 guys and their grandmum.

Another snoozefest, still plenty of useless badges and an evening of work to get my montly kills. Thanks yb I certainly hope for better opponents next week not sure about the rest of you.

The problem started at launch when they promised us guesting and it did not arrive so Anet had to give us free world transfers so those who just picked a random open world assuming they could just guest with the rest of their friends for PVE. Would this problem exist without the long period of free transfers, yes probably(If you only wvw making gold to transfer is not that easy. Forcing people who wanted to transfer to grind out the other content or buy gems.) but Anets failure to deliver everything they promised at launch burned any chance wvw had of being relavant in its bed pretty much at the start. Just another case of Anet promising the world and delivering Cuba then pretending everything is fine.

Nikkinella.8254:

To the warrior on SBI who keeps teleporting all over the place. Multiple people have seen you and all screenshoted and reported you. Hope you get banned. And to the thief with the fly hack, we will catch you too. Bad enough SBI outnumbers us 20 to 1, you need to cheat too. Pathetic.

So you do realise this is the free to play weekend right? Anyone from anywhere (including your own server) can make another account and do what ever. Also you might want to read the forum rules because accusing people publicly (and causing the drama that is always sure to follow) is more likely to get to you the infractions and quite against the forum rules. Next time i would suggest more reading and more letting anet police their game.

We all know how this match up is going to end and it is not like anyone has a choice in who we get to fight.

Thanks for all the bags Ioj good luck with the next match up. It was fun fighting you nsp when i saw you hope your next match up is more even. (But it is anet they would not know balance even if they got a dictionary in the face.)

Considering the Devs themselves said wvw is not supposed to be fair, this week is a prime example of that, certainly few fights to be had unless we manage to portal behind the zergs. But fighting the grub was fun as was farming ioj in their garrison. The league cant come soon enough if you ask me(Assuming they can manage that without messing it up)

I would like to thank ET for the amazing fights and amazing sportsmanship. This DR salutes you

Fun is different for everyone though if I were on Ioj i doubt i would be all that excited about the matchup this week, but to each his own. There are plenty of ways to win, the most basic is the score. Though given you get nothing for your score or at least nothing specific for being first (They did try the orbs but all that did was make things more lopsided.) Sure you get unlocked pve bonuses but really who does that anymore. You have your volatility or evolution which shows how well your server matches to the mathematical expectations which again is only a base line. I know for example when the weather is nice who wants to sit inside playing when i can be bbqing on the backporch with friends and family. Then there is the more personal winning as in your guild wvw crew improves (stacking, following the battle plan working as a team.). This provides the most immediate rewards as the bags drop you get shines. (No not badges they have limited uses) Which you can then turn into gold for more of the stuff you want

Well you get the same thing for placing first that you get for placing second or third. Zip zero, zilch, some numbers move up and down and that’s it. There has never been balance in wvw and probably never will be. Servers were recruiting oceanics and euros from the start cause they understood what wins matches, numbers and coverage. While individual battles may be swayed with skill and tactics the match is ruled by numbers and coverage.

I would like to remind people of something anet has repeatedly said. You witness something you think is hacking, report and screenshot. Doing a public declaration only means you are going get the discipline. It is their game let them be the judge. As for the rest every server has those that flock when you are winning for map completion etc. And yes IOJ you are rank 17 facing rank 21 and 24 servers you should be winning.

Thanks Kaineg for the 500 badges this week all I have to say.

Nothing new just more pvdoor, we see it every morning and yet here we are in tier 2.

Trust me a lot of the hard core wvw guilds on FA want to be in Tier2 like Cartman wants cheesy poofs