Guild Wars 2

The amount of lag I’ve experienced all weekend has been far worst than any other time in Guild Wars 2. My question is, how is it we’ve had these fights before and haven’t had this much lag? I’m roaming right now. Not even CLOSE to the zerg fights, and it’s taking me 20 seconds to cast my heal fighting 1v1.

Other than the massive queues and lag, this season 1 has been incredible so far.

Omne.4603:

Raven Paradox.1860:

Read the new update for the overflow WvW map. Sounds like a terrific idea. One issue though is that it appears you have to be in a WvW focused guild in order to participate.

Now here is my issue. On SoR, there is a server teamspeak, and “pugs” are allowed to join it and listen in on any commander their following, whether you’re in the guild or not. This is an awesome idea by the “leaders of WvW” for our server. Because of this, and because I’m not entirely WvW focused (but PvX), I’m in a guild that is generally PvX. I’m in a guild that has around 130 members online at a time, and we do everything, but are more PvE orriented.

However, I do WvW often. It’s part of the game, and again, I do everything.

Does this mean that, despite being a WvW player, I’m exluded from doing any type of “stress testing” or will there be an application to sign up as someone that roams the map, or follows guilds in WvW but are not in the guild?

As an active WvW player, I’d like to participate, but I’m a bit nervous that I cannot unless I ditch my guild and join a WvW guild that is constantly in it. Guilds aren’t the only thing in WvW…

Guilds aren’t the only thing in WvW, but WvW is not about roamers or individuals regardless of who they are. WvW is about the server and the team. The best representation of that is indeed organized bodies that collaborate to make something bigger.

Not true. Without roamers you have no scouts, no orbs, and camps hardly ever get flipped, which leads to supplies. Good roamers can put a lot of pain on the entire enemy server. Every server wants those that roam.

Read the new update for the overflow WvW map. Sounds like a terrific idea. One issue though is that it appears you have to be in a WvW focused guild in order to participate.

Now here is my issue. On SoR, there is a server teamspeak, and “pugs” are allowed to join it and listen in on any commander their following, whether you’re in the guild or not. This is an awesome idea by the “leaders of WvW” for our server. Because of this, and because I’m not entirely WvW focused (but PvX), I’m in a guild that is generally PvX. I’m in a guild that has around 130 members online at a time, and we do everything, but are more PvE orriented.

However, I do WvW often. It’s part of the game, and again, I do everything.

Does this mean that, despite being a WvW player, I’m exluded from doing any type of “stress testing” or will there be an application to sign up as someone that roams the map, or follows guilds in WvW but are not in the guild?

As an active WvW player, I’d like to participate, but I’m a bit nervous that I cannot unless I ditch my guild and join a WvW guild that is constantly in it. Guilds aren’t the only thing in WvW…

Xillllix.3485:

Miss Firesss.3704:

Hate to break it to you, but look at the mini map, where the orange swords are.

I tried to take pictures of where the arrowcart was.
It was on top of the little ledge shooting through the keep wall.

Hack of not it’s an exploit of the game’s transparent walls. If Anet could get their kitten together and make it so arrows dont go through walls then this sort of kitten wouldn’t happen.

Hate to break it to you but if this is the kind of thing you guys are ranting about, you’ll absolutely hate T1. What ArenaNet should do before anything is fix the scoring system in WvW so that coverage means nothing more than having a few more allies in each battle. PvDoor is what is ruining WvW. Not transparent walls that everyone in T1 “exploits”.

The best way to stop people abusing this is to not make it murder to rank up in Spvp. It takes like a week to get 15k points.

Norr.7680:

Funny how all the server jumpers from BG are now bragging (or feeling more confident) now that finally we are losing……

Double teams are legit for sure but pluuuueeezzz don’t act like it takes some skill and make videos of a few moments in time, we wiped ALOT of JQ Zergs in their BL last night as well as SoR. But yes I agree we could not hang on to lead getting battered everywhere…..

Of course when the wheel turns and JQ and SOR start losing again who will jump servers again?

Isn’t this the reason there are so many forum warriors? There is a reason we disliked BG. Now, BG doesn’t like (ex)BG. Ironic isn’kitten

Had some great fights right at reset in EBG against Black Quarry. I loved the attempted double team which resulted in JQ getting wiped twice and BG losing Bravost and Durios about 5 times. You guys should do that more. I need more rank points for the upcoming season.

Nice WvW point reset. Now time to be OP on a flame ram

Hows your fundraiser going BG? lmao.

Depending on peoples interest in completing Tequatl daily, I think this boss is perfectly fine. Today on SoR’s overflow we killed him with 5:58 left on the timer. Rumor has it that is the fastest LEGITIMATE kill in all of Guild Wars 2.

At this rate, the boss may need a future revamp. People are starting to learn the fight.

For those that think this fight is too difficult, try to look at other servers for guesting and just overall overflows. This boss fight is fine the way it is. The reason I say it may need a future revamp is because, like the previous launch of these world bosses, people found ways to make challenging bosses easy.

That happened with culling.

I’m sure there will be changes to most dungeon paths, especially TA. A vast majority of players have problems with the F/U path boss, and Colin Johanson mentioned in the thread that TA is near the top of their list for dungeon Re-vamps. I expect there to be some changes, but generally the same path.

I’m also hoping there will be some slight changes to other dungeons as well. Making some more balanced, and hopefully making Arah p4 much more rewarding than any other dungeon.

Yesterday in an OF we killed him. He did the death animation. But… it said we failed because we did it at 0:00.

Decrypter.1785:

The last 3 living world patch,s have been nothing but frustrating , i would have sooner The devs made the existing content much better . Also a totally new Zone with permanent content like crystal desert or cantha i think would have been so much better. I think . Im sorry and this is just my personal opinion and im sure some people like the living world content but i find it really shallow …

Is that not what they did to Tequatl?

Really, people need to stop complaining because they can’t kill Teq. In reality, once all the people go away from him and go to other content, you won’t get as many PuGs and Tequatl will be farmed again. This time it just takes more than your 1 skill.

inazuma.7021:

Raven Paradox.1860:

Why does WoodenPotatos feel the need to constantly make overly long videos? If you can’t sum up what you like, what you don’t like, and what you feel needs to be changed about Tequatl in about 5 minutes, your opinion isn’t worth listening to.

It’s an in-depth review of the content, provided insights into -why- things about Teq are good, bad or ugly. It requires time to actually discuss these features. A 5-minute summation (“I like this, I hate this, goodbye.”) would be dull and pointless.

Did it take you 5 minutes to type “I like this, I hate this, Goodbye” or 5 seconds?

You can quickly summarize your opinion on something. I just feel WP makes his videos too long to get to his point, thus I don’t watch his videos anymore. I wouldn’t take 30 minutes to read someone post on their opinions on just about ANYTHING. A video makes no difference.

Why does WoodenPotatos feel the need to constantly make overly long videos? If you can’t sum up what you like, what you don’t like, and what you feel needs to be changed about Tequatl in about 5 minutes, your opinion isn’t worth listening to.

Smokee.1754:

Raven Paradox.1860:

Lol why the hell doesn’t ArenaNet just put Blackgate with these lower tiered. Maybe then they can get some kills during the NA primetime rather than having to nightcap to win. Oh well. Best of luck to everyone.

Your still mad cause your getting bag farmed by BG militia every night?

Have fun DB and FA, but not to much please. We wouldnt want the rest of SoR to tun into kittens like Raven here..

lol what? I never die in WvW, especially to Blackgate. I farm them every time I log into WvW. Even you and your guild. BG is nothing but night cappers, you being one of the big causes of that.

On a side note. What exactly happened Wednesday? Was too busy on GTA V to even log into GW2.

I wouldn’t mind this. After all I have yet to use any of the achievement reward items. I still have my fused gauntlets sitting in my bank.

Lol why the hell doesn’t ArenaNet just put Blackgate with these lower tiered. Maybe then they can get some kills during the NA primetime rather than having to nightcap to win. Oh well. Best of luck to everyone.

Why the hell do people hate Trahearne so much? I haven’t seen him in over a year…

Narcemus.1348:

I’d have to agree on the reason-ability. I think the difficulty level on the mechanics of the fight and such are spot on. What I disagree with is the ratio of health to time limitation. I agree it should be a struggle, but when it requires armies that can only be brought about once in a blue moon, it is a fail. Nothing in the open world should fail 90% of the timeor more and be considered a success…

Are you saying one of the most successful games in human history, World of Warcraft, was a failure because 90% of the population couldn’t complete end-game type content in less than a weeks time?

Once the overall community understands how to fight Tequatl, you’ll realize just how simple this fight really is.

I don’t get why everyone is thinking BG are the ultimate Tequatl killers. TC and SoR have been downing Tequatl consistently, the only times we don’t are during off hours. The last thing BG needs is more people.

Floryn.6307:

Raven Paradox.1860:

No. ArenaNet has specified that they do NOT want raid dungeons or content multiple times. 5 man dungeons are what we’re stuck with. Raid content is saved for World Bosses, and is much more entertaining anyways.

….and how many of arenanet’s original statements are still accurate?

They said this recently in an Interview with Matt Visual. Colin Johanson to be exact. ArenaNet wants their game to be open world, not stuck in dungeons. This isn’t set up for future 25 man dungeons. It’s set up for future world bosses and current re-vamps.

No. ArenaNet has specified that they do NOT want raid dungeons or content multiple times. 5 man dungeons are what we’re stuck with. Raid content is saved for World Bosses, and is much more entertaining anyways.

So, we’ve had world bosses, dungeons, champions, and other content buffed recently to be rewarding to do. I’ve seen champions that I’ve never encountered in my year of player with the champion chest update.

However, one thing that is ignored that ArenaNet advertised so well is Dynamic events.

Doing most events rewards you with about 1.5 silver, some karma (useless at this point in the game), and some experience, which is only useful if you’re trying to level up.

I’m just wondering if ArenaNet has any plans on buffing up the rewards for Dynamic events, and making them more useful besides the ones that are associated with world bosses or that spawn a bunch of champs. There are a ton of events out there, but roughly 98% of them aren’t worth doing because it lacks rewards.

Maybe some ARMOR skins associated with Dynamic Events would help players participate in them. Maybe have a chest at the end of a dynamic event area that drops something like an armor token that, if you collect enough, can be exchanged for unique armor skins. Please make it armor and not weapons as we have already too many weapon skins that its making legendary owners such as myself feel like it’s missed content since we already have the best looking skins with the best stats.

I would agree for the most part. You see those videos posted of the successful Tequatl downs and the screenshots and you see people violently yelling at people. This to me is “WoW content”. WoW is a game that pins players against each other, even when expected to work together. This is the only reason I’d like the timer to be increased, even if just to 20 minutes. Players have proven to cooperate, but you get that one person being a jerk hogging a turret, and the fight is ruined for everyone.

I do think this will be toned down just by player actions however, as people are more understanding of how to defeat Tequatl. But in the current state, players are getting frustrated, and we all know that the person to blame is never yourself.

One thing I thought was strange was that I recall ArenaNet stating Tequatl will have a massive event chain, the end event being the current fight. I may have misheard, as this was far before released (like PAX 2011, a year before the game came out, when Tequatl was first announced). However, the current dynamic story in Sparkfly surely leads up to a Dynamic event chain. The first places you encounter have Hyleks fleeing their homes in the North, while an undead ship attacks a vigil camp. Then Hyleks are trying to defend their sacred ground. Then it leads to a Sylvari training area or something, and then to Tequatl. I’m hoping that ArenaNet does add a massive event chain that requires a lot of players to make this fight interesting. But before ArenaNet does that, they need to somehow find a way for players to be rewarded for doing the event chain more than those that pop-up at the last second to fight Tequatl.

They BETTER rework ALL the bosses to be this challenging. At least ALL the Dragons. It’s a bit strange now how Claw is much, much, much easier than Teq. This will once again be a farmable event, it just takes more than having one hand on our 1 key and the other around your… well.. I won’t go further.

The rewards should be equal to Karka Queens. Other than that it’s fine. You guys do realize, especially SoR folks, that we’ll be farming this boss daily as we do Karka Queen once things get settled down and it’s less pug/more organization. If the rewards are too extreme, it messes up the economy. We plan on completing this event daily and we will. Now we just wait for the next boss to be updated. Hopefully it’s Shatterer.

Eh… no server owns an overflow. When you get placed in overflow its every server of that region (NA or EU) being placed together.

Corran.4957:

That just sounds like the BG recruitment for wvw gone wrong … come stack on our server so we can win…. but dont do it in pve :P

This. You guys over recruit to nightcap and now you guys complain about people coming to your server? Make up your minds. You guys came on to these forums bragging like crazy, what did you expect would happen?

Tequatl is both challenging and fun, the only issue is the amount of health he has for such a small time limit. Most servers aren’t even getting close to defeating him, which completely ruins the event. The amount of health he has is just overwhelming compared to such a small time limit.

Still no screenshot proving me wrong.

Got it to around 60%. Not possible in it’s current state. BG also didn’t get it to 25%. That’s a lie.

I wonder if GTAV will have any effects on WvW. I know I won’t be doing anything but the daily in GW2 after Monday.

I nearly destroyed my new keyboard and mouse, along with my monitor because of the darts in 2-2. This thing is horrid, and needs to be removed from the game, burned, and everyone pees on the ashes of it. SAB needs to go.

Statue of Dwayna – Now instantly heals herself whenever she kittens into a corner. Added an extra .00001% to drop a charged lodestone for added time and effort. Players no longer can beat up Malchor. They have to pay him for his services.

Lyssa – Added more gorillas.

Melandru – Added more jokes about Asurans being short. Spiders no longer drop glided chests. Mobs have 50% less health so you can’t tag anything.

Quarktastic.1027:

Detonating orb of light doesn’t heal all that much. Staff guards are only useful for empower and line of warding.

lol what?

Staff guardians can pack a bunch to massive groups when buffed, which they can give themselves. Also everyone loves symbol of swiftness (besides the guardian that casts it, thinking they’ll run faster, but really a stupid deer runs over it and you’re in combat).

FateOmega.9601:

If there are alot of players wanting difficult bosses, why don’t i see karka queen being activated nowadays?

That boss isn’t challenging. It just requires a ton of people to get started.

My guild does it at least once a day.

They say his name when he spawns…

There’s something in the water….. help!
Brothers, Sisters, ready yourselves. Tequatl is here.

It’s coming!

It’s about to fart, stay out of it’s way.

You don’t get loot at Tequatl until the event is finished based on your participation. Clockwork, as Saden said, was a huge problem because you got loot with or without completing the invasion. ArenaNet learned from that horrid mistake that made a living world event be nothing but a farm for failing.

I love the idea of new updates for the struggling WvW, and a new way to score for your team. But one of my concerns is, “will this be another Orb of Power problem”.

What prevents me from logging in during my primetime in which the enemy has already nightcapped everything because that’s the only way they can win cough blackgate cough, aren’t they going to have massive +150 just like the orbs of power had?

I feel like these buffs should be disabled if you are already ticking over +350 or your enemy has the outmanned buff.

I know in the live stream showing this update they mentioned that they don’t want any kind of debuff for outnumbering your opponent, but I feel like these buffs shouldn’t be activated if you already have the huge advantage of coverage.

The other thing that I don’t like is that you have to STOMP your opponent. I know “mindless zergs” aren’t the best option but why can’t organized large scale group play get rewarded for wiping out the enemy organized group? All this does is give Thieves more reasons to run and hide and give certain classes like Elementalist and Engineer to abuse and exploit mist form and elixir stomp enemy players.

Other than that though, it’s nice to have an update to WvW and be getting improvements. I see these as positive changes and makes Borderlands more interesting.

Punny.9210:

feel sorry for tc / sos

SoR is well known as the best forum warriors …. I’m happy that we get rid of them for a while

Yet you come read a thread about SoR and not BG. Hmmm… Addicted to being upset on the forums much?

Gone Finshin.9452:

Can SoR please stop the emote spamming in EB!! I like to be able to see my chat log sometimes….

if this is a serious post I can explain this. While we were attacking QL, there were two TC players spamming emotes to the point where anything we typed wouldn’t even appear on the chat log because it went so fast. So, as some revenge, we took QL and assaulted the keep and took it. I shortly had to log after that. I guess some people still wanted revenge.

Kind of wondering why it seems like we are CONSTANTLY getting new weapon skins but are never getting armor skins. As a Charr player, who already looks terrible in 90% of the armors in this game, and a player that has a legendary, the constant update to weapon skins seems almost invalid to us. I’m not complaining about getting new weapons, that is perfectly fine, but I’m just curious as to why we haven’t received many armor skins besides ones that appear in the gem store.

Some new cultural armor would be awesome so not every Charr is running around in the same heavy armor. It’d also be nice to have unique armor drops to certain world bosses to make them worth doing over chesting again. Such as a new type of Orrian armor for Tequatl, or a some type of angel armor for completing Dwayna.

It’s always a win in my book seeing the score change so drastically overnight. Numbers are too important for some people/servers.

I don’t care if people want to play SAB. That is fine. What I do mind is that last time this content was released there were millions of those boxes in Lions Arch making really annoying noises and people were walking around with skins that simply do not belong in this game at all.

The other thing I mind is you have to do it to get a mkitten of Achievement points. Obviously we aren’t forced to, but you’re missing out if you don’t, and to those that want to get achievement points, it feels like we’re forced to play content that isn’t even close to the actual content of the game we play.

I feel content like this would be better as it’s own separate game. But to add it in an MMO…. not a great idea.

This fight has been basically happening for about 6 months now and people still complain about the same things.

We get it. SoR has egos, JQ likes taking advantage of double teaming, and BG likes to nightcap.

The only thing we should be talking about is the epic fights that have been happening all weekend. Great fun all around. Glad to be back into WvW after the long legendary grind.

A little late but the 2v1 constant attempts by JQ and BG early this morning were fun as hell at SoR Garri. I eventually went to bed, but I’m assuming it still stands proud. Was a lot of fun, and made a lot of money out of it.

Then I wake up and we’re ticking 350 at NA primetime. JQ and BG should really try fighting during that time. These are NA servers. Stop trying to nightcap.

I don’t champ farm at these events. I participate in them all and join at the start.

The achievement is bugged, and ArenaNet needs to either fix this or give us credit if we’ve done it. I once again went around and did every map since this post, and still am stuck at 11/13. I’m not in the mood to continuously spend 45 minutes grinding a map just to be stuck at 11/13 at the end of it again.

I expect to log in one day and have the achievement automatically given to me since I’ve done it over 3 times now.