Guild Wars 2

Gear grind happend 2 months after release.
A bombshell dropped created a schockwave trough the WvW community.

Every forum i read this has become the #1 topic.
This may backfire to Arenanets reputation about what they told us months and years back.

Realy dont understand how they changed their minds so quickly.
But its to late to discuss this stuff already.

Many posts in the WvW section with great sugestions are read, but not with Anet interaction or a response to improve aspects of WvW.
1 reply from a dev with, in the upcomming months we have some good WvW changes…….uuuuuh ok.

I be back in a few months then, or maybe not.

Happens to alot of servers Krosan, the whole WvW system is borked derped and broken.

Tier 1 EU is a complete and utter joke.
Tier 2 servers dont even want to join Tier 1 as most of the EU ladder doesnt have off peak hour guilds / players and are tired of getting nightcapped without putting that weight on members to skip sleep to defend towers and keeps.
Ive put in 600 hours in WvW so far, and my enjoyment stopped since last patch.
Soon to be roflstomped by carebears made my vieuw change a whole lot.

Best days of WvW are over for me and time to move on soon.
Maybe they can change it again when WvW gets the attention it needs to have, but currently its just an arcade minigame with no real purpose anymore.

My vieuw on WvW has complety changed since this patch.
I went from 100% faith WvW had top prio to -100% faith and they dont care about WvW maps + players + balance.

This patch was a shockwave trough the WvW community.
So many glaring bugs
Gamebreaking glitches
Culling
Soon PvE guilds stomping WvW guilds with their new top notch gear
No real updates since lauch to make WvW better or more diverse
EU ladder a complete joke with free transfers
We can go on and on and on but you guys know the fracking drill.

Here i was thinking Anet could do it right for the RvR/WvW folks, seems we where wrong once again.
Time to pack our bags and move out again.

We have a clear statement from Anet already.

Anet focus on PvE then WvW.
Dungeons crawlers get their gear then WvW players afterwards.
PvX guilds in WvW will dominate versus Pure WvW guilds that cannot or will not do PvE.

Clear statement from Anet, i do not need to know what the future holds or brings, i do not care for such promises anymore from no studio, be it Blizzard , Anet , Bioware , SOE.

Its back to Eve Online and soon PS2 for me and my guys.
Hope Anet doesnt get punished to hard for their decisions, they do not deserve it, but this patch showed me the way that WvW is just a arcade minigame with no real focus or dedication it needs to have to be competitive.

Taiance.6213:

Jeliel.8372:

“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”
-Mike Obrien, President of Arenanet

Fun impacts loot collection. The rarest items in the game are not more powerful than other items, so you don’t need them to be the best. The rarest items have unique looks to help your character feel that sense of accomplishment, but it’s not required to play the game. We don’t need to make mandatory gear treadmills, we make all of it optional, so those who find it fun to chase this prestigious gear can do so, but those who don’t are just as powerful and get to have fun too.”
– Colin Johanson

Lies, lies and more lies.

“I’d like to respond to concerns players have raised about ascended items. Please keep in mind that we’re releasing this as one portion of a massive November update that introduces and improves many aspects of challenge, progression, and rewards. With this and upcoming updates, we view ourselves as introducing large amounts of content with supporting systems and features, akin to an expansion pack, building on Guild Wars 2 through a series of live releases. So it’s important for us to be able to add an expansion pack’s worth of progression and rewards to support that content.

Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill. Our goal is to ensure we have a proper progression for players from exotic up to legendary without a massive jump in reward between the two. We will slowly add the remaining ascended gear items and legendary items in future updates to allow people time to acquire them as we add exciting new content that deserves exciting rewards. We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. PvP will remain unaffected to ensure our intended PvP balance going forward. We are also working on other reward and progression systems for the game that tie into current and new content and features. As you know we care very much about your support and opinion and are listening intently to what you say.
Finally we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the upcoming content, and we will ensure we share our thoughts with you on the experiences we share in the Lost Shores."

Chris Whiteside – Studio Design Director

Lying about lies, that must be a sad joke.

I’m disgusted.

/signed

/Signed

If there will be no WvW set on par with that set its game over.
Iam ok with a new vision of Anet even tough they promised GW2 wont be a WoW gear threadmill.
But if that means iam forced into PvE to stay competitive inside a WvW setting versus players who do PvE i curse them to oblivion.

Might aswell go back to WoW who does have a little better PvE and woth Rob Pardo back in the seat to replace the fail Ghostcrawler one can expect raids / dungeons as they where in Vanila / TBC / Uldaur style.

Anet better give an answer very soon, as letting WvW players in the dark with this news out aint going to do much good for them.

I love Anet and i love GW2, but this hits like a bomb shell and scatterd my entire feeling for Anet who i defended and supported without a second doubt.
Give us WvW an honest answer please.

Kinda strange they mention new tier PvE set but no mention of new WvW tier set.
That alone makes me feel sick inside, i tought Anet made a pvp centric game with pve as aftertought.

I have no problems that pve players get a new tier set, but they cannot offer a new tier just by doing PvE.
WvW players needs to be on par with pve players, or this is just WoW 2.0 and many have no desire to play that game again, no matter what jacket you put it in.
We are not paranoid, but dont forget that many left WoW / Pve games to join GW2 for PvP only, WvW is for many endgame, and so it should reward the best gear for that part of the game.

Can a we have a response from Matt or any other Anet dev on this matter ?

if Anet launch this without upgraded WvW gear i will uninstall the game.
I have been grinding dungeons in WoW for almsot 8 years and will not do another dungeon with a carrot on a stick design.

This is WoW all over again where dungeon crawlers get the best gear and own face and the real pvp’s get smashed to oblivion if they refuse to do PvE.

I realy want a response from Anet about this matter.

It seems there is already a drop off in population in WvW.
Dedicated WvW guilds are burning themselves out on grand scale.
Many members have put in massive and massive amounts of time into the game to keep position high in the ladder or trying to remain the top server.

But besides bragging rights and hate versus another server there is not much you gain.
Sure the thrill of the hunt and kill is rewarding, but after 600 hours even the most epic battles start to feel normal.

WvW needs a little more cosmetic stuff / ranks / whatever to show your such a dedicated WvW player.
Iam getting tired of seeing the same colors / servers / players banging on my door.
Dont get me wrong i love GW2, but i only play it for WvW and it is becomming a little more boring with each day passing.

Weekends are great midweek is huge dropp off and often outmanned buff.
1 months ago i was standing in a 5 hour queue, it seems that iam also logging in less and less.

I hope Arenanet have something more planned then a little pve in their patch, or i jump over to Planetside 2 for the time being and have some fun there.
Come back when some more WvW changes are added

People who have put in 600 hours into WvW are a little burned out, its commen that you get a little burned out.
There are many things that needs to change in WvW to make it more fun.

Any1 playing WvW with massive time investments knows culling is a very gamebreaking bug.
But its not only 1 thing, WvW is getting a arcade feeling to it, the honeymoon is over and its daily business.

Log in
Cap and defend
Log out
Nothing to show for then bragging rights.

More rewards are needed to keep fighting for stuff other then Tier 1 / 2 /3 etc etc
Iam sitting at 200k karma but nothing to spend it on.
Red vs Blue vs Green, almost no faces to remember.

So you reached Tier 1 and won it, was it worth the blood sweat and tears ? yes it was
Is it worth keeping it up ? no it takes to much dedication to remain #1.
Effort versus reward issue also comes into play offcourse.

Desolation needs more WvW guilds to many times outmanned buffed kicks in, this is not good for a server that fought its way to T1.

Combine this into 1 feeling and you see the results.

It doesnt mean GW2 WvW is bad, it just needs adjustments asap before wvw guilds move to PS2 or to TESO next year.

Blacktide is awesome and have alot of dedicated WvW guilds, but ask members to put in hours and hours of play to remain #1 and you will ask for a burnout eventualy unless you have more WvW guilds that can take over the losses of players getting a little time free to do other stuff

most talk about the off peak hours that needs to be put in to remain a healty point per tick.
Iron and RUIN are 2 of those guilds that makes that happen.
Wihout it VS / Blacktide would pass Deso in ranks.

Sure there are more guilds doing WvW on prime time, and are doing a good job.
But it only gets you so far in the ladder.

Blastide + VS also have great coverage, VS stayed at the top so long because they also had a massive off peak presence that made sure they could step back a little or slack a little in the prime time department.

Still for a Tier 1 server Desolation contains not a large force at prime time with instand to 5 min queues, for most borderlands.
Outmannded buff on a tier 1 server isnt healthy dont you agree ?

It begins to feel very arcade like gameplay (never imagend myself saying this.
You put in blood sweat and tears and finaly that magical 1st place is within grasp, once obtained you are left with pride only.

A few cosmetic items / gold / skins anything that shows you have put in the dedication and determintation to requires the effort you have put in.

Its not a disaster it aint there, but it tends to get boring day in day out tough, seeing i only do WvW on SBI / Desolation (2 accounts) i log in less and less the last week.

Would love to get something to show for after burning trough 5 / 10 gold a day
Maybe anet has something behind their sleeve’s soon ?

It happens to all servers Gunshow, burn outs, bandwagons, etc. etc.
Its easier to get to 1st then to stay there, unless you have 24/7 coverage and score a steady point per tick income troughout the 7 days.

Still wished we had more WvW guilds on Deso tough, it seems only 2 to 4 guilds on the field and the rest militia.

Wondering myself how this server can be full as queu times are instand / 5 min wait at EU prime time.

Clever use of game mechanics is not exploiting, thief doing it is kinda lame, but many thiefs do it on all sides.

Wall jumping on the other hand is cheating / exploiting and hope any player who does it get a perma ban.

Yes Desolation will have a hard time, but thats ok, do not forget we dropped alot of tiers before we started to climb again.
We lake to fight hard battles, dont let any talk like we dont.

The week is long, 7 days of battle ahead and the game hast even started yet
Epic game so far, quit the crying and bashing versus each other act like men not little kids.

Remember folks the week just started and its going to take a long breath to win this one.
Nug a force to be reckond with, keep your eyes on those killers, they murder innocent baby’s and their wrath is ferocious !

Desolation entering stepping up slowly

VS having a hard time

This week will be hard for any server, we all know each server has a weakness, he who wins T1 this week will be the new king of kings

Epic fight = epic.

Once a german server enters Tier 1 the cake will be quite diffrent then it is now.
80% of the time we are doubled by VS / AS, wich is normal tough as they are from the same country.
But it was impressive play from Desolation this week for sure.

I play on 2 servers with 2 diffrent accounts and i played on Deso alot more this week
Great to see what Deso has become !
Dont forget Desolation hadnt lost a match in all beta’s it was when Far Shiverpeaks and VS enterd the stage when kitten hit the fan and mass transfers to other server happended.

To come back to this stage in tier 1 is epic !!!

Better removed then let those cheaters continue to cheat.
People play WvW to fight for wins, not for some orbs.

If your server want to win, you need to be good at all 3 maps or you aint going to win it.<3 anet for this decision.

I just loged out after an 10 hour WvW session and we leaded the score versus both servers who focused us all day long.

Epic battles and Epic struggles from camp to tower to SM and camp again.
Any1 still claiming we dont belong in tier 1 is a flat out joke as we withstanded 10 hours of double teaming against us and maintained a lead in score.

Eat that !

Out of loop ?
You mean USA guilds having not only USA timezone’s but also Australlia / Europe / Asian timnezone’s

You mentioned Vizunah who has Canadians playing ( flat our deny from their side that offcourse)
But oh oh oh do we cry when 1 or 2 EU server gets more off peak players, all hell break lose.

Golden tip:

Recruit more off peak guilds / players
USA does it and now EU does it.

WvW is fine as it is, 1st November 1 week transfer in effect.
It takes time to balance it all out.

But pls stop bashing Desolation for having 1 USA guild with 60 players in Europe.

Look at this server and how they fight like lions for every point minute by minute.
Look at this server and how far down these guys are and not even taught about transfering to an easy ride.
Look at this server and see proof of what server pride can do for your server.

I can only say this…….you guys are #1 no matter what position you are in /salute Kaineng

My settup:

I7 920 @ 2.6 turbo to 2,9
Asus radeon 4850 1 gb
4ghz memory

running all zones at 50 / 60fps
running busy events 40 / 50 fps
running 30+ people 30+ fps
running wvw 10/25 fps

Its a lottery ticket as i have seen people with 4 times a better system then mine and run much worse performance wise.

Also dont compare mmo’s versus random games, mmo’s need much more cpu power then other games.
GPU wise not so much as game studio’s want to have as much systems capable of playing their mmo as posible.
So GPU is normaly only to boost eye candy on max setting.

I use 12.6 Ati driver and O.C. my card to maximum on stock voltage.
Hyperthreading turned off in the bios as it doesnt have a impact in games.

Just double check all your stuff from temps to settings ingame / gpu menu.

Anet ruined WvW when they dint close free transfers.
Its the only mistake they made when it comes to WvW, but its a big one, i dunno if it can recover from that insane damage done to WvW populations….

Time will tell, but kitten it would have been alot more competitive if free transfers dint existed.

What HoD had JQ gets…massive massive massive transfers from the bads filling up the queue and waiting to get carried.
You can pick them off blindly as they never drop Rams / Catapults / Balista’s and some dont even carry suply’s.

Those bads also pick up suply’s from keeps that needed to be upgraded and more anoying then anything else, the people that made the server good are standing in 2 / 6 hours queue to get inside WvW.

Thats what Far Shiverpeaks EU – HoD had to endure week in week out.

Yes i played on Far Shiverpeaks, one of the best WvW servers only losing due to no off peak hours guilds to keep towers and keeps.
Main reason i transferd to HoD was to assist in the off peak hours as iam From THe Netherlands.
Jade Q is facing these same anoying kitten any top server has to endure when they win.

Last week was instand queu on any borderlands for HoD…

So right now we would never know wich server would have won HoD / JQ as the server is running on 1 leg with 1 arm tied on the back.

Not bashing JQ as they deserve every inch of respect for building up their WvW community.
But please refrain from flaming HoD, its makes you look bad and thats not something you earn as you fought hard to get where you are now.

Also stop bashing ET and Ruin…even tough they hate HoD more then anything we realy like fighting you guys.

That massive Golem army marching from Anz to SM was epic, we almost lost SM in that attack.

Respect to JQ / ET / SBI

But HoD is in bad shape due to these free transfers and time will tell if we can build up a worthy community to go for 1st place again.

My cpu is overclocked even if i put it on stock clocks i dont have more fps in WvW changing settings from high to low have zero impact.

Ive tried evrything a man can do with his PC and i still get the same performance.
Happy to see you have fixed your problem many of us cant seem to up the fps in WvW.

It seems Intell + Ati cards have slighty better performance then AMD + Nvidia.
Also if you would have read technical issues you was able to spot that GW2 in WvW is heavy on the CPU.

At least you know you will have a beastly rig for any other game
It seems to me GW2 will be having these isseus for quite some time unless they know what the problems are, and if they would know it then we would know it also.

I give it some time untill Planetside 2 come’s out and play that for awhile untill the WvW fps drops are solved, if not then its time to move on once again.

Its not that GW2 is a bad game, but the whole gaming expirience is ruined when playing with 10 fps.

Also playing on low or high settings give the same fps for me, so i dunno what to make of it anymore.
We can only hope GW2 tech support can fix this gamebreaking performance bug before more and more people /quit WvW.

Ive posted a few times about low fps but will post again.

System is I7 extreme 920 – 2.6 turbo boost to 2.9
Asus HD radeon 4850 O.C. to 660 mhz – 1100 mhz
4 gig memory – mobo burned 4 memory slots last week xD

PvE high setting sky and terrain off = 60 fps
Big Events = 40 / 55 FPS
WvW starting zone 60 fps
WvW middle of the map 30 fps
WvW many players 10 / 30 fps

Ati driver used 12.6
Windows 7 Ultimate all updates

I was looking to update my system for GW2 but iam glad i dint.
Planetside 2 is around the corner and within a few months the new Ati line up comes out with the 8xxx series.
Price of CPU will go down to by the time those cards come out.

I only play WvW and i dont know how long i can take it with these issues.
Upgrading my system isnt the solution to low fps in WvW, as i see people with brutal systems performing worse then my 2008 / 2009 system.

Arenanet techsupport needs to communicate a little more about what is being done about this.
I know they are wokring extremely hard on this issue, but i do not see any communication to us about what is being done or what we can do.

I notice myself loging in less and less last 2 weeks, and iam not the only one looking at the queu times for WvW on HoD (ye i know TA left and the zerglings moved to JQ)
But iam still having fun untill you get 10 fps…

Dear Anet’s Tech Support can you please respond if your making progress for the low fps in WvW ?
Any eta on when we can expect a patch that might improve fps alot for poeple having these massive fps drops inside WvW ?

Many thanks in advance

Wonder how long Anet is keeping free transfers up ?
Soon WvW guilds just give up and move to another game.

You would have expected that the top tier brackets would have 24/7 coverage in W3 by now.
But its not like that its: Hey look !!!! JQ is winning /logout /select JQ / select join / relog and voila !!!

I R ZE BEST !!!
/flex

It might even be to late already to have epic W3 fights, but time will tell if GW2 will succeed or fail in that regard.
Hope they realise this before its to late.

I still think the damage of free transfers can be repaired.
But its showing to be a heavy burden for some servers already.

Servers need to attack the strongest server that is winning and keep up double teaming untill they have nothing left.
But it doesnt work that way it seems, they rather attack the weak and let the strong get stronger and stronger.

This is causing people to leave WvW and not queue again or to transfer off the the winning server.

HoD is getting a beating right now and hasnt have a queue for over a week,
Jade Query is the new place to be and they have hours and hours of queue.
Erredon Terrace is comming third with even less players then HoD.
Instead of both HoD + ET grouping up and wipe JQ you see no double teaming most of the time.

Its hard to attack a server who has double the players, but its a vicious circle and we all know what the zerglings want
karma and Exp nomnomnom doesnt matter if you lose Tier 3 upgraded keeps and towers as long as you can cap something the zerglings are happy.

I wish that more alliance’s are made inside servers who cover 24/7 – 7 days a week WvW.
And that they shut down free transfers to stop the bandwagon effects.
I also wish servers woulnt prey on the weakest server but double team the strongest server.

I have alot of patience, but things have to change before even more WvW guilds call it quits.

Go back to WoW and whine there for nerfs, i heared its World of Stuncraft or World of Botcraft at this moment.

Any server can use the Mesmers or Gaurdians skills, there is no need to nerf a class for this.

Seriously do you see my crying about thieves 2 shotting me ?
No offcourse not they are made to be glass cannons.
Do you see me crying about any other 1 trick pony ? no there is no need for this as this
is a server effort of who can make the best out of all classes / zergs.

The moment we see these kind of stuff nerfed we see other posts about other classes OP ability’s.
And we all know where this is going to end do we ?

I want to buy back easymode pvp
My repair costs are making me not joining WvW again

Had a big chuckle tough !!!

The way WvW works now is the zerg with the bigger number always win.
They cary more suply’s, they cary more siege equipment, they have more raw power to attack and defend.

Thing is a few mesmers with 10/15 good AoE classes can realy one of the most deadly weapons on the battlefield.
A good commander should use mesmers more often as of right now its the only way to stop a bigger attacking force.

It seems to me some commanders just have no clue and think they are god when it comes to leading, even they are wrong and a simple soul making a sugestion is ignored most of the time or is quickly disposed as a noob and yelled at with comments like buy commander tittle if you wanne lead.

Lik ein real life you have good commanders and bad one’s, ive seen a few good one’s but they almost never seem to take adivise from us simpletons.

Best way to fix this issue is like somone sugested:

Vote for your commander and refund current commanders their 100 gold.
This way you see at least a commander that most of the WvW population agree’s with instead of a bought tittle.

Commanders need to earn that tittle not buy one.

There has to be a balance, a sweet spot.
To hard to take down a tower or keep and none will try it.
To easy to take a tower or keep and none will upgrade it.

But a nightcrew taking over a whole map is kinda lame atm
I know W3 is a 24/7 timesink, but it needs some tweaks to make it a little more difficult to defend a tower / keep versus a massive nightcrew or a few players with 1 ram capping a whole map.

Wish Arenanet could shed a little more light on this matter what their point of vieuw is.
Lets provide some usefull data to them and see where this ends, i am sure if one game studio listens to their playerbase its Anet

Graphics looks amazing in GW2 their engine rocks any other mmo out there.
The optimasation on the other hand is crap (sorry)

invisible enemy’s is gamebreaking….
last night i droped a Catapult Balista and we where building on the Ledge of Quentin Lake to attack it.
We had around 30 people there, within 1 min we where wiped out as we coulnt see their massive army comming in….

Thats gamebreaking and i realy hope its a small overlooked bugg that can be fixed soon, but kitten i have no interest to play WvW when i need to spend 10 gold for gear repairs a day

There are alot of issues with WvW no doubt about it.
I realy hope Anet can pull it off and still have high hope that they will improve WvW.

But free transfers damaged community’s more then anything.
Even now we dont see the real strenght of a server as people jump ship over and over again.

Low fps issues on medium – high end systems are becomming anoying.
This should have been fixed by now, no way you cant tell me a I7 3750K +Radeon 7970 can run WvW with 60 fps.

And now invisible friendly’s – enemy’s – npc’s
Invisible enemy’s was there already, but it went from bad to worse

Anet needs to step up before most WvW guilds leave this game and a exodus begins like we have seen in so many other mmo’s.

I love Anet and iam still confident they pull it off tough

WvW enterd the Hardmode since today where you cant see your friend or foe or npc’s.

Good thing all mesmers on your side can use it to ?
Its OP if you get attacked but it aint OP if you just happen to have a mesmer on your side with a decent skill set.

This is becoming the WoW forums where the only thing you see is MOM NERF NERF NERF MOM NERF NERF NERF !!!

This is a WvW setting not a 10vs10 battleground.

Any mesmer can use this skillset, so ask you mesmers to use it to and quit whiney to nerf cool ability’s before this game turns the same way as WoW.

btw i play a ranger.

Evry1 has stealth now in WvW !!!!
Unless they tab you and hit 1 they cant see you

I gave up 5 min ago….

We coulnt see friendly’s or foe’s or npc’s or even some sieges.
I have no problem getting roflstomped by a mesmers stealth and his AoE groups nuking me down in 2 seconds.

But running into an enemy zerg and not seeing each other is craptastic to say the least.

But there was a post from a CM already and he ported this issue to the dev’s with high speed.
So we can only hope they resolve this issue in a matter of hours and not days

Many prey on the weak, its divide and conquer.

What people need to learn about WvW is it can never ever be balanced….

Winning is fun losing aint, but make sure you have fun with whatever you are doing.
You can have an epic battle at a tower for 2 hours and lose it, i have a feeling that even tough i lost that keep they had to make a massive effort to get it.

Just dont look at that score board every 5 min, just make sure you have fun when playing with your friends / guildies

Yes WvW guilds who’s leaders are known gets votes from their guildies and millitia anyway

Also ive leaded alot of people from beta to 1 week ago and know alot of people say listen to the commander….
I have no trouble doing that, but not every commander is a good one and knows evrything best

Would you give up a tier 3 keep for 2 suply camps in enemy territory ?
I dint and when i called / spammed / screamed / begged for help the commander said kitten we can retake it :P

And all the zerglings followed the commander and we lost a fully tiered upgraded keep in the following minutes.
If that commander turnded away and headed back we woulnt have lost it.

Thats what i mean with:

Its a bought tittle not a earned one

Top server drop sieges non stop
Bad server never drop sieges

Why should a server that dont invest in WvW gain an advantage ?

At the top brackets fights are realy close already.

If you have a queue time at your server and you are losing than your server is either not leaded very well.
Or your not dropping enough sieges to blitzkrieg towers / keeps to score points.

Ive been in battles where Suply camps where filled with 5 balista’s 10 arrow charts etc etc just to defend it to get suply’s to SM.

When i played on lower ranked servers people dint even made an effort do defend upgraded keeps….

Sorry but i think its a bad idea

You cannot punsish other servers for having more WvW players….
If you server dont field enough WvW players then its time to transfer off to a server that has enough players to fill up your queue.

Seems to me your on the wrong server to do WvW.

Yup i see to many fail commanders leading or lack of leading.
Also commander is a bought tittle not a earned one.

let players vote for their commanders who lead people and know how to win WvW.

My ping is slightly higher at USA server, but not much tough.
I gladly pay that price to have fun on any given time then see my whole servers effor gone in smoke when you need to catch some sleep for a working day.

Eu servers have a lack of night players and this wont solve itself as all Australian / Asian / South Americans etc etc play on USA servers.

EU has a what ? 4 hour time zone diffrence from west to east ?

WvW for me is importand as i mostly play that, so it was a easy choice to make the step from EU to USA.
And it seems more and more guilds are doing that looking at EU servers lists now and 4 weeks back.

The 1st mistake is thinking WvW is balanced or will ever be balanced.
You cannot make WvW balanced…..you just cant.

Sometimes you get doubled sometimes you double the weakest or strongest.
Sometimes you have a big zerg in offpeak hours and gain alot of points and sometimes you dont.

People need take WvW with a grain of salt and have fun and stop looking at the score so much.

I know i was looking at the score every 10 minutes, now i dont care for it anymore and just try to make as much fan as i can.

Arenanet made 3 faction WvW and this is as good as it gets, so either love it or dont

Nothing is done to balance WvW.
So far free transfers are still up.

WvW is one jumping to enemy server and use their suply’s as much as posible
WvW is jump the bandwagon each day to who is winning
WvW is a 24/7 – 7 days a week battleground where life is unfair.

I dont like it as much as i did when GW2 was released.

So its either play and have fun or dont join WvW.

What also can be done is trying to form an massive alliance with diffrent time zone’s to score points 24/7.

Most serious WvW players already left EU servers to join USA servers who have alot more 24/7 WvW going.

I used to get mad at Vizunah Sqaure for theur Canadian Beavers night capping all WvW zone’s when we where sleeping.
It opened my eyes and made me migrate to USA for alot more fun battles

EU is a Mickey Mouse competition compared to most 24/7 USA servers.

Soon its french versus french and germans versus germans, any international guild moved away from EU.

What TA forgets is that you also had people who where on the server before you came here…
You also brought many bandwagon scrubs…
Now that you leave we are left with a scattered community…

Its hard to predict what will happen with HoD now, but one thing is sure HoD will never be HoD again.

Dont blame you for this, but you attracted alot of those transfer to best WvW server and we can only hope they leave with you.

But not only TA is leaving all the Millitia including me are not staying as there are way to many idiots with commander thinking they know what to do wile in reality they just zerg around like chickins without a head looking for a easy ride for karka / exp or whatever rolls their boat.

But still we wanne thank you for your assistance of making HoD #1 for 1 few weeks, but kitten now you guys leave the whole server is one big mess and many aint staying to clean this kitten up.

Server HoD = destroyed

Looking in WvW now already shows HoD has broken their back and is not realy able to fight JQ / SBI.
The score

SBI 305
JQ 225
HoD 165

Jump off the bandwagon people HoD has officaly died.

Mass Exodus starting in 3….2……1……….HoD empty !!!

Ashame TA pulls the plug so fast, game isnt even 1 month old and already 1 major alliance falls apart.

Many reasons why WvW aint optimal, but calling it quits when other servers are still building up community’s and WvW alliance’s doesnt show the real strenght of servers yet.
Iam HoD player and i realy dont wanne discredit any members of TA as you guys have a excelent record and its realy impressive what you and we the millitia has done.

But war is fought in many battles and while we have won many the war has not even started yet.

Make sure you change guildnames or each server you guys tranfers to becomes the next HoD magnet for scrubs and noobs we are left with now.

I think Anet is not realy ignoring the issue, i think they are working with full manpower to make this game a succes.
The biggest problems is cpu+gpu optimasation.
There is a lack of balance between high end system and medium systems.

Running this game on a HD4850 + I7 920 = 60 fps on most zone’s except WvW where i drop to sub 30 fps in massive zergs.

Last patch i gained massive fps increase in Black Citadel avarage of 40/50 fps.

There is a whole tech team working on improvements, patience is what we need to have and if we dont have that we can play another game untill it is resolved.

They already stated to keep sending in reports with DX’s info to assist their tech support with as much data we can muster.

I dont believe for a second they are happy with the current performance drops in WvW or massive Dragon Fights.
If there is one studio out there caring for their people its Arenanet.