Guild Wars 2

Puck.9612:

Gorani.7205:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Yes.

That said, we’ll be increasing the cooldowns on all tactics by 5-10 minutes. Also, once the scribing costs come down, as part of the april build, we can start looking at rebalancing their actual effects as well.

Thanks Tyler, because this is a reasonable approach to dealing with the tactics.

To all the hateful people here on this thread:
Have you been the same people that complained how stale WvW was for a very long time? Tactics & Improvements actually offer a lot more diversity to the mode, when they are not just used by the powerful & wealthy like now. Reduced scribing costs will allow more of them being placed on the maps and smaller guilds and roamers to deploy them as well. Reducing some super powerful effects is what can be evaluated in the beta-phase of changes in WvW.
Alpine maps will benefit from them in the long run.

If you ate spaghetti every day for a month you might get a little tired of it and want something else to eat. If someone gave you a plate with a big steaming pile of cowkitten would you happily eat it and say, “well at least it’s not spaghetti” or would you prefer to just have spaghetti again?

HAHA i love this !

Tyler Bearce.3427:

No.

We aren’t changing anything regarding the layout of the map.

Thank you so much !!! now you just need to remove the Tactivators because clearly nobody wants them.

dubstax.9102:

I don’t think objections to the way World vs. World has been handled are noise. Many valid concerns have been raised over time. I just feel as though with some older players ArenaNet is doomed no matter what they do because some people refuse to adapt or compromise at all. It’s like our current political system in the US.

The thing is that facts are facts.

The good old days.

Comprissent.3856:

Ogre.3124:

FUN was adding at least four people to Hymn when we scrimmed against them. The trolling is getting worse

There’s no way we would add any to those dudes LOL get your info straight

yeah, hymm don’t need more players, they are already using “rat wells”

PowerBottom.5796:

Shieldbash.5304:

Sorel.4870:

The real problem is the timer. Even when your defense is strong and you’d probably win in the long run, the amazingly short timer rewards the most aggressive strategy every time. If the timer was, say, 20 or 25 minutes, I bet defense would be a more viable option.

Exactly, this reminds me of Alterac Valley now a days…. It was a great campaign of resources and bosses, now its a Zerg and over in mins.

I think Strong holds timer should be extended by a large amount. This should be a great back and forth battle to win, not a first to zerg wins!

Agreed, timer can easily be upped 5-10 mins.

Timer ran out in easily 50% of my games I’ve played so far and it was even sometimes the case, that we would’ve killed the Lord in the next minutes but somehow the other team won by points.

Not as much time-pressure just gives your team more freedom how they want to play the Map.

just be more offensive and the timer will be just fine. Play more damage base builds

FrownyClown.8402:

tluv.5821:

What does that have to do with anet supporting gvgs finally?

gvg’s aside. less blobby and more 25 man guilds doing open field.

25 peeps is kinda big, 15s are 20s are the best imo

Roe.3679:

Quint.3765:

the map would be cool if there wasn’t any PvE content in the map and only pure “PvP skills” in the maps. But no Anet always have to put PvE content for the casuals players.

Courtyard

Excited for this.

Courtyard is really badly design and it is a snowball map where making a comeback is pretty hard. What i would like to see are maps that dont have “PvE” stuff to help your team. In that way i think that the fights will be more based on individuals and team synergy skills instead of using a skyhammer or a trebuchet to help your team win.

the map would be cool if there wasn’t any PvE content in the map and only pure “PvP skills” in the maps. But no Anet always have to put PvE content for the casuals players.

Michael Henninger.7451:

Bonezz.4961:

I was following a group around and was threatened to be mass reported by a guild

I love WvW and think you will too – you should stay. Don’t let the downers chase you away. There are some great suggestions above on how commanders should be using up-levels.

As for the reporting bit you’re doing nothing wrong by playing WvW. In fact, mass reporting for a false offense is an offense itself.

You obviously never ran with a dedicated GvG/Open Field fighting guild that are trying to win fights where they are really outnumbered. Up-levels players die way quicker than fully geared LvL 80 players and when a player die, he can rally alot of people. Let me tell you that it is really annoying to have Up-level pugs following a guild group. Also he got asked to leave the guild raid and he didnt, so i can understand that the guild that was raiding was angry at him. It is already hard to win outnumbered fights in WvW (because of all your stupid seige changes and the fact that you prefer to see large blob fights in the game mode that you rarely play then small scales fights). Anyway, i think that Up-levels should got to EoTM instead of the alpines BLs because WvW is not a place to level.

was fun the first 5 minutes, now it is just really annoying !

If you can’t beat them, join them.

WvW works for T2 servers atm

one thing for sure is that the EB Q will increase like crazy because those map completly looks annoying for guilds that want to play large scale PvP not bullkitten PvE

Honestly, I have been really disappointed by how Anet doesn’t listen to the WvW community at all. I am a member of a WvW guild and we are all waiting for the guild halls and actually arena where we can fight 15vs15 or 20vs20 in a open field map with no PvE elements, only “pure” player and team skills. The fact that Anet wants to make this game mode more “casual” for players that don’t really put effort into build a team comp and increasing their personal PvP skills really turns me down.

PS: I know my english is bad, it is not my native language

Maybe i didn’t understood what Colin was saying but it looks like the “GvG” arena will be the new “Stronghold” map. If it is the case, I think that it is a really bad idea because there will be PvE NPC in the fights and the current GvG is a 15vs15 or a 20vs20. So i wonder if its going to be a specific arena for GvG or that “Stronghold” map

try to make a new character, for me it fixed the issue

grins.6475:

I have the same problem as the poster above. Please fix this as it makes the game completely unplayable

hey man i dont know if they fixed it or something but, i made a new caracter just to see if it would reapir the problem because you cant acces PvP at level 1 and everything is fine now, so make sure to try that if you still have the problem

Justin ODell.9517:

Sorry about that, had a bug, It’s fixed, should be fine now.

why do i have that tab buggeg ? i cannot do anything now. i dont know how to close it and even if i close my GW2 client when i re-open it the tab is still there

Evan Lesh.3295:

http://i.imgur.com/fSV89.gif

pretty childish to post that. i would have atleast expected an update on what is going on and what are the delays for when it will be fixed and why it is bugged. Not a stupid image. It’s funny to see how Anet don’t really care about PvP. When there is a bug in PvE it takes less than 20 mins before you patch something and update everything. Ive had my screen bugged for more than 2 hours with the stupid map selection tab and i can’t do nothing because even if i close my client and re-open it the tab is still there. So please fix it…

KingMango.9785:

Kuruptz.4782:

its not about queue times, 98% if not everyone get kicked from queue after 10 – 30seconds impossible to do any unranked or ranked games

only practice works

Same for me.

i can’t even play, i am stuck in the map selection tab, its been more than 1 hour

hello, i hope a Dev see that and fix it,

So i queued up for a game and now the selection tab pop up. Everything was going well until the counter hit 00:00. Ive been stuck at that Map Selection tab for me than 25 minutes. I close my game twice and i am still stuck witht his that tab. I switched toon to see if it would make a difference, it didn’t. I went into WvW and nothing again. I went into LA, nothing there also. So now i guess that my account is bugged until they fix it. I am really disappointed because they couldn’t test something so simple. Anyways I hope that you fix it soon.

Gives us the Guild Hall and we will be happy

I miss the old Competitive Dev team…

Alot of players are QQing about the thief being OP and how our venom elite skill is way to strong. But let’s talk about the ranger, this is a OP class. Having a Endure Pain longer than the warrior, Having a 10sec immob elite skill, having a M16 as a LongBow, having a trait that reduce all damage by 50% when your health drop below 25%. During the september patch, pretty much all the classes got nerfed in the majority but the ranger just got buffed. Don’t get me wrong but playing a thief is much more difficult than playing a ranger where you can stay at 1500 range and only press 1 and some times press the 2 when it’s off cooldown. When you play a thief you need to time your attacks so you don’t run out of initiatives and at the same time deal a good amount of damage in the burst. So too all the people saying that thief is OP because our elite have a cooldown reduced of 5 seconds, in my opinion you are wrong to think this way.

Hello everyone,

I am looking for a hardcore WvW guild on the NA servers.

I play a Shouts Warrior and a frontline Guardian.

Whisper me in-game or send me a mail.

Thank you for your time

[CPR] Celestial Phoenix Reborn is now recruiting WvW players

We are starting to build up our WvW team, we play on the server Yaks Bend.

Please go apply on our website: http://phoenix-yb.enjin.com

[CPR] Celestial Phoenix Reborn expect you to follow the following rules when you are in this guild:

1) Be respectful to everyone

2) If you need help with WvW builds/WvW tips please ask our members

3) We expect you to rep this guild when you are raiding with us in WvW. We can understand that people have personnal guilds but in WvW you need to represent [CPR]

If you can follow these three simple rules, you are more than welcome to join our ranks.

Whisper me if you want more info, Quint.3765

i got kicked out of that guild

i would transfer to HoD, if someone pay me the transfer there because i don’t have enough

Commander of JQ

Hey guys, i need a big amount of karma for my legendary, do you guys have any tips for karma farming or a quick way to get a lot of karma, since they patched the daily karma gift. Anyway let me know if you guys have any tips and if you can put the amount of karma that you get per hour or something like that.

Thank you