Guild Wars 2

How about the 3 hour timer they give PvE?

Prime time soft reset of wvw… My guild had 10 alphas and an omega training through the borderlands with much success. We all hurried back in to reclaim the golems when we loaded back in and they were gone. 15g down the drain.

Im Not Braxton.6283:

Radiodread.8469:

Actium.8765:

Radiodread.8469:

Is the DH guild GoF a pretty big wvw guild? Our 10man group with pugs kept getting stomped by a 40-50 man zerg which seemed to consist of a high density of GoF players. It was a lot of fun! We had lots of back and forth between Klovan and Quent.

Yes GoF is a huge guild. I think they had about..40 or so members in our public mumble doing WvW the other day. That’s just what I seen too, I know there was more. lol

Correct me if I’m wrong, don’t they have a podcast?

I’m in GoF and i have no clue what your talking about. Podcast..? Plus we have very smart leaders who know how to make use of the people they got. Which is why we succeed.

There was some WvW podcast I listened to a few times and for some reason your guild name was ringing a bell with that. Just a fault memory. :P

Is anyone else unable to see anything in this thread now? I’m really confused. I’m blaming my ancient version of IE at work for now…

I agree with this. I probably miss half of my bags. I normally lead the charge into the enemy forces and don’t have time to turn back for my drops.

Actium.8765:

Radiodread.8469:

Is the DH guild GoF a pretty big wvw guild? Our 10man group with pugs kept getting stomped by a 40-50 man zerg which seemed to consist of a high density of GoF players. It was a lot of fun! We had lots of back and forth between Klovan and Quent.

Yes GoF is a huge guild. I think they had about..40 or so members in our public mumble doing WvW the other day. That’s just what I seen too, I know there was more. lol

Correct me if I’m wrong, don’t they have a podcast?

Is the DH guild GoF a pretty big wvw guild? Our 10man group with pugs kept getting stomped by a 40-50 man zerg which seemed to consist of a high density of GoF players. It was a lot of fun! We had lots of back and forth between Klovan and Quent.

I don’t mind the concept of camping the jumping puzzles at all. Thats all and good fun. When I hear about enemies camping it I am glad because it means there is less red on the battle field. Once the match is pretty much decided I say go for it. I just get annoyed with people wanting to do it at reset and through the first day or so.

I’m running 0-5-30-30-5 altruistic healing build. I run with 3 shouts (flexible) with soldier runes for aoe condition removal. I do very good damage and am extremely tanky. I constantly keep 5-6 stacks of might on the entire group, have a plethora of boons with my shouts and traited virtues (just the 5 points). I typically run with 2 of the 3: hammer/staff/sceptor-focus.

I’m not at level 20, so I couldn’t speak to that, but seems like individual survivability will be important as you move up. At low levels a strong support could carry you through, but I doubt that wil be the case in the upper levels. (Don’t read this as me frowning on support, I bring as much support as I can while maintaining my own viability.)

Arcadio.6875:

One guy will not upset the balance of a tier, lol. He just wants to have fun.

Anyway, I checked the stats and it looks like Tier 7’s competitive nature will end with the current match. Eredon Terrace and Borlis Pass will be trading places. That’s really too bad.

I don’t think ET will settle in the 7th bracket. When we played them last week, they had a solid 30-40 man group a few nights of the week, but couldn’t sustain anything for more than a couple hours.

Darksidhe.6740:

Better clip plane options might help. Players, armour details and enviorment.
Even in DAoC with a hot system I scaled detail back for performance when heavy RvR was eminent.

What it really is…cost vs performance.
With no monthly subscription Anet relys on a less than ideal income base.
Debugging, updating and coding expansions are more prioritized based upon funds and time. Which is easiest?

I would prefer more rewardimg and SOLID PvP/WvW over new content for at least a year in the future.
Don’t add more broken content or problems to fix without repairing the old problems.

~Bait and switch tactics are to keep you distracted from the old problems.

Changes on the client side do not affect the rendering issues. They only affect the load on your machine. For people with big rigs this doesn’t do a thing.

Last night while defending SM I could see 8 people at our gate, then I’d step forward and then 40 would render while my team disappeared. I could toggle which team I could see by moving back and forth about 3 feet. All the while both teams were maybe 800 range apart.

For as much as this issue is supposedly unfixable and supposedly never been solved in any real manner in an mmo… I doub this. I’ve played about 20 hours of Planetside 2 this week and have witnessed battles of HUNDREDS of people over much larger distances, and everything renders. I know that I don’t have a clue about the technicalities of the different engines and such. The fact of the matter is there is at least one game that handles a MUCH larger scale battle landscape with no limit on distance rendering and seemingly no limit on quantity of characters rendered.

If a guardian can’t lead a charge then we are playing a different game. This is almost purely what I do in WvW. I run the altruistic healing build with full knight gear. I hit like a truck and am pretty much impossible to kill. I charge the front line and push to their rear ranged players and make them panic/flee effectively taking 10+ people out of the fight while the group behind me mops up.

If there is no que then yeah, It is not inherently detrimental to the team. I disagree with your playtime preferences, but thats about it. But people asking for free mesmer portals to the chest in EB only 90 minutes after reset… These people are hurting the team. What is the point of getting the seige from the puzzle when we are losing ground while you get it? If buying seige with badges or silver is too much for you then don’t worry about it. I never see a shortage of blueprints. Just make sure to carry supply with you at all times.

I logged in for a quick 30 minutes before work and I was pleasantly suprised at NSP’s stay power through the night. We lost a few things as was expected, but we held on to a few fully upgraded towers and keeps. That made my morning.

Yeah, I’ve seen both DB and DH morning presence and I’m not thrilled with the prospects facing me when I wake up for work in the morning. Hopefully we own 25% of the map when I wake up.

Some kitten good fights tonight. Here’s hoping NSP can keep up the pace through the morning. Good job so far, everyone.

Good luck and have fun!

Delmorgan.2174:

Of course your post was at the guy transfering, I was commenting in defense of them and their decision. Reading, its ftw, try it.

Let keep things civil. In a text base conversation is it easy to misunderstand each other. We should have discussion to benefit the community and not tear it down.

You make valid points about your prospective on the game and how you play and everyone does too. We may not agree or even like each other but lets leave the killing to the WVW battleground and work here to grow a community and have fun playing a game.

How DARE you! You and your talk of “valid points” and how it is “easy to misunderstand each other.” I pity da foo.

Make sure you pick a winning server. Amirite?

My one time event experience:

Get home late at night excited to complete the event. Was informed that it was over and non-repeating, but that if I was lucky I might find it on an obscure overflow server.

Later in the night I get lucky enough to have a guildy find above obscure overflow server and join him. Kill bugs for 2 hours rezzing probably 200 or so people in the process (people can’t get out of poison puddles apparently).

Server bugs out, almost everyone from guild gets booted including myself. Log back in on a different overflow server which has the event already completed.

After a bit of searching find another overflow on the early stages of the event so I bring my friends to this new server. Another hour or so passes and we recieve the announcement that there is a New Build Available and our client will restart in 3 minutes.

I preempt the timer hoping to rejoin my party on the server we are currently on before we are all booted simultaneously. Upon relogging the event is reset.

At this point I said screw it. It was 1am central already and I was fed up the whole thing. So, despite investing 3+ hours I got nothing but frustration from the whole thing. Terribly executed.

Good forethought there. I am about to give up on this after several hours. I get booted once due to falty servers, and then an unannounced non-content patch boots me after another couple hours. So dumb.

Same experience. This whole even was terribly executed.

An SF HOD ET matchup would be completely one sided.

Perhaps in the future these events could be scheduled or designed in such a way that allows more flexibility in when they are completed. In my case I work late hours at a bank (ironic I know) and got home around reset time for WvW. My main focus in GW2 is WvW, but I would like to participate in the events like the lost shore. I didn’t want to skip out on the reset night because it is the more important and most fun. Now because I made that choice and am working through the rest of phase one and into the evening I cannot complete the full event.

The best option (that I can think of) is to have each phase be completable until the end of the event. Either that or give them a longer time frame.

Niim.9260:

Serebus.7314:

The smart thing to do would have been to deploy EVERYONE on a weekend like this because you can expect the other servers to be suffering, even though i could not field all 45 players online in my guild i got around 30 to come, sadly we were the only large guild on the battlefield (from what I saw I could be wrong) until 4 hours after reset, when people started to trickle in.

Reset happens once a week FoTM is now a PERMANENT addition to GW2.

Smart I suppose if your goal was the score board. I would guess that last night was rather boring for NSP play wise, not withstanding the odd good fight.

I play to have great fights, great defenses and to kill people, or die trying. Intentionally taking advantage of a servers down time to have a higher score is a false representation of our servers ability on the battlefield, imo.

I don’t know what else to say other than “Show up.” We have the same event. We have the same community that is doing pve all day. We DON’T have the numbers you think we have. We have 1 WvW group on a couple maps that have a few stragglers following them. Quit complaining and play imo.

Bios Element.7548:

Arcadio.6875:

Score update? Is ET beating SF? The posts here make it seem like SF just died, lol.

ET doesn’t even have more then 10 people bothering to fight as of a few hours ago. Sadly, I’ve made the difficult decision to move to another server in hopes of finding enough players who will enjoy WvW to make a battle possible. :/

NSP… Just sayin.

Its pretty messy. It (this) is the closest its been since the first hour.

Serebus.7314:

Radiodread.8469:

Show up then. Should we just sit and let your stuff stand there undefended?

Haha would have been nice, looks like SF’s PvE side wins again, this server seems less and less wvw friendly every week.

I know that feels bro. All that feels.

Show up then. Should we just sit and let your stuff stand there undefended?

I am predicting this weekend will not be the best WvW we’ve seen due to the PvE events. Hopefully it will be good, but not likely.

I’d wait for the full information to be posted first. Wait and see just how it affects us.

Suralin.3947:

Radiodread.8469:

Did SF get an influx of transfers this week? Your active population is at least twice what you guys put on the feild the last two weeks.

Either way, I think more and more people are seeing that we have a fighting chance this time around.

Speaking of that fighting chance, one would think you’d be a bit more focused on that green target :P

NeHoMaR.9812:

Phara Miu.2816:

if Anet launch this without upgraded WvW gear i will uninstall the game.

They cannot leave WvW with worst gear than PvE, has no sense.

I think the blog post is just confusing and incomplete, it fails to explain the system because says nothing about WvW and sPvP.

sPvP could and probably will be completely untouched by this. The reason it affects WvW is because it shares the same gear pool. Currently you have to do some sort of PvE for your gear, but its a reasonable amount that can for the most part be replaced by crafting or the TP. If in the next patch the top stats on gear is only available via dungeons then they are forcing my guild out of the borderlands and into a dungeon we don’t necessarily want to be in.

Did SF get an influx of transfers this week? Your active population is at least twice what you guys put on the feild the last two weeks.

I will be severely disappointed if attaining maximum stats requires pve beyond the current level. One of the biggest draws to this game for me was the fact that you could progress your character but were not required to because there was no strategic advantage in doing so.

Character progression should involve cosmetics, titles, emotes, non-combat pets, etc. Don’t drag me into a dungeon when I’d rather be pvping.

This is the biggest weakness of the current ranking system: Mass player fluctuations are not accounted for fast enough.

I play because its fun. I wouldn’t doubt that in the future, they’ll impliment some sort of reward system, but for now I don’t feel its needed. WvW is fun. What more reason do you need to play a game?

Severim.7938:

Are there any good posts on optimising GW2 for streaming our recording? I just began trying it fraps in PVE and it’s struggling. I have a high spec machine and Nvidia GTX 680 so it feels like I should be able to optimise it more.

If you find such a post please let me know. I built a rig the week before release to be able to stream, and haven’t had much luck with capture quality. I use the paid version of Xsplit and I can’t get a quality better than about 540p. I think most of my problem is I have an older monitor that is a weird resolution (1440×900), but I think I should still be able to record at a quality at least as good as the monitor I’m using, right?

I play most nights and stream on and off. I’ll stream tonight if you want.

www.twitch.tv/radiodread37

AsteriskCGY, you should understand that no one who cares about actual wvw gives 2 kittens about the status of jumping puzzles.

Like last night where SF let EB walk all over them for 4 hours while they dedicated 70% of their resources to constantly wearing down SM, only to break through one final time and let EB walk in and take it. SF is unwittingly EB’s best resource.

Most of our fighting against SF in EB is a result of their CONSTANT attacks. So we push back.

Keiel.7489:

HackerTeivospy.2031:

as a NSP user who doesn’t care about his server winning or losing and just wants to roam gank people in borderlands as a casual pvp affair instead of participate in the roleplaying zergy weak pvp (albeit less weak now that they’re removing their dumb orb idea):

If you see someone in my guild [DMG] pls stop and 1v1 instead of running for the nearest zerg group. You get better at your class by allowing us to kill you 1v1 instead of forcing me to Shadow Step -> Shadow Trap -> Shadow Return after shadow trap is triggered and juke your raid of 60 mindless try hards. Not that it is a bad skill, but I don’t like having shadow trap on my bar constantly in wvw, i’d rather have infiltrators signet for when I finally find someone who actually can do battle

Thank you. Until then me and my group will continue to camp you at EB jumping puzzle with log traps and other places in order to pass the time (ENDGAME GW2 = LOG TRAP)

Yeah you’re cool. If you really want a challenge in 1v1 or small group fights you and your guild would do so in SPvP, where they spec their chars for those scenarios and are assured equal gearing. Seeing as you guys are busy “trolling” EB Jumping puzzle, I’m guessing your skill is sub par and rely on rendering issue, ganking, or better small group pvp traits/skill choice to win. After all if you do get rolled it’s easier to blame it on being “zerged” than your inadequacy.

I’d trade your guild for VIP any day of the week.

Yeah, I personally design my entire characters around the large group battles for WvW. Only kittenes are in WvW soley for the 1v1s. Wrong venue.

AsteriskCGY, did you not play the last 3 days?

Also, as we get down to the last few hours, it appears that the maps will remain exactly the same. Blue and Green will not be switching. It will be a mirror match.

Adein.2031:

Surbrus.6942:

Ok this is just getting stupid.

EB you have so many character select/alt-f4ing when downed people with terrible sportsmanship. Four times last night, and four times already today. Only had one NSP character select/alt-f4 drop while downed in that time.

As an EB player, I run into that from NSP and SF at least a few times a night. When it happens I just laugh and move on. They saved me the trouble of taking time to finish them.

Yeah, I get it a few times per night. No biggie. I just do a quick check in my mind to see if they could have possibly been a theif. If not, I move on to the next target.

The 3 main objectives I’m looking for are:

*Tankiness
*Boons up the kitten
*Condition Removal

I started out with Cleric gear, 6/6 Soldier. Instead of the Might on crit, I took the trait that makes shouts convert a condition to a boon. The effect of this was 3 shouts each being able to both remove one condition and convert another. Effectively this was 6 condition removals on short cooldowns.

Now, I don’t want this build to kill people. With this build I lead the charge, draw the fire, and break the enemy lines. Having 2-3 tanky people plow through your team (followed of course by our own zerg) causes alot of chaos to the untrained zerg masses. Many of them turn for a partial retreat thinking that the tides have turned. As soon as 30-40% of the zerg turns tail, their doubts of victory become reality.

A thief who’s running scared of the guardian who can’t really kill him is a thief that is not contributing to the battle.

As soon as I’ve broken the lines I pop SYG for stability and renewed focus for invulnerability. I can almost always return to my group alive and safe and ready to reset and do the same. It is very effective.

Did they change shelter? Last I used it it was stationary which was terrible.

We all ready for the rematch? Green and blue will swap but other than that it will be a repeat of last week. I think (hope) we’ll have a better go around this time without the halloween distraction. We’ll see!

People will complain about anything. Orb removal is fine. I bet they rework it an institute a better system in later months. Its a good thing for right now.