Granted and accepted. But this doesn’t explain why you guys still stick to this kitten concept. I remember this very thread where we were called to discuss about rng as a concept, still everything is tied to RNG. Even more so when it’s possible to get some of the most valuable items (precursors) for the least challenging content (killing trash mobs in open world).
An no, I do not consider precursor crafting as a relief here. A mindless grindfest that simply doubles the cost for a legendary is no compensation for those cursed by rngsus.
Dude, rng is everywhere in all MMOs. In fact, grind and MMOs almost always go together hand in hand. Why don’t you propose an alternative system of reward. How about all character have a job in game so we can accumulate credit to pay for our items. Meanwhile, why don’t you also propose an alternative system for the economy so I don’t have to be stuck in a job
Raids are too hardcore for me. It fails if anyone in a party of ten makes a wrong move hence the hours of grind to get that perfect execution. People start blaming each other when things go wrong. People have expectations of each others gear and playstyle. you need a timeslot where ten people you think are up to it can commit for some hours. Raids are best played with real life friends and since I don’t have that number playing gw2 I don’t raid at all. Plus I sometimes don’t like to talk on teamspeak because if this and that reason. So.. I don’t raid.
I think the presence of siege enhances the feeling that we are in a war and not some barbaric all out slugging of each other in a vast open plain with no structures and no other motives. Besides, siege itself is very costly (the ones that are effective) and this balances itself out to some extent. So nope, I don’t vote for less features in game.
imo this thread seems interesting and at the same time, I don’t get it at all. Maybe it is the lack of specifics. Unkind words are said on the internet all the time and unless it spills over to your real life friends or personal life, I really don’t get what the big deal is about. The moment a post goes towards being overly aggressive or trolly or just out to give me his best shot, it goes into the part of my brain that doesn’t process anything at all. Are you saying you went to team speak and people were outright nasty, or people didn’t include you in raids, or people making sexual jokes in map chat and you being a girl and all. Hell I’m a girl and I say lots of very inappropriate stuff sometimes. bite me
The game doesn’t have to be structured around your life to make it easily accessible. Think of the dungeons before HoT and LFG, how easy it was to play dungeons before. Each Silverwastes run takes an average of half an hour plus it can start whenever you want it. AB boss fight itself takes around half hour or so, I didn’t really notice but it feels like that. And that is without counting the pre-events you generally have to do to ensure a successful map. I have been on maps where no pre-events were done and the boss was still defeated but that is rare and it requires super determined and cooperative players, imagine fighting the boss for half an hour and it fails? I personally contributed alot of salt myself and I am not ashamed of it. TD maps require alot of coordination too, I think it is shorter than AB after the patch but you need 4 people willing to tag up and enough people on the map to disperse themselves out yada yada etc. Let’s not get started on DS. GW2 is now less a game where you can easily log in, do a bit of something and get loot or rewards.
I feel that if the old content was not nerfed out of existence, it would have given players a choice in the type of content they want to play and probably discontented people will not need to leave the game. I’m sure the new maps can be tweaked such that there is no need for an entire full map to make it successful and ensure rewards. There is a way to please all sides.
Sometimes in the heat of things, my squad tag just flies out of screen. Left and right has no meaning after I pan my viewcam and sometimes I jump into 1v blob because of lost direction. Pls put a tiny arrow to show the direction of the squad commander!
This whole argument is ridiculous as hell. Hot brought alot of damage to the game I don’t see these boons as overpowered or needing nerf. They are a necessity to any organised group. Besides, if players take time to organise themselves, why shouldn’t they have an advantage over the average player. Are you trying to kill guilds? Why have a guild when I can just pug it out all the time
Hmmm. Cant really relate to the problem. I chose my title cause it matches my character concept, not cause I want everybody to know how expensive it was.
Only sad thing is when cool titles like killer queen or dark traveler become a sort of an indicator for beeing a newb, so you literally cant use them.
I’m still waiting for a bikini skin for females to drop. I want yellow with two black dots on where the nipples should be. Or two red flowers for sylvari. I’m forced to wear clothes in real life and now being forced in game as well? kitten!
Being one if the colour blind people what I would like to see is a tag that glows if its the one I am following. Similar to what it does when you cursor over it now except it doesn’t stop glowing.
That would make it super easy to spot always.
This is valid, all the other requests are not valid. Were not gonna put a giant COMMANDER text wall ontop of everyones map for the sake of one human defect.
Actually this is a pretty good idea. It can be enabled or disabled as an option. I’m not colourblind but I will surely say yes to this on asura commanders
I ran a condi d/f build on my ele and I DIDN’t do those huge burn numbers on players that people think it should do. It seems that players take less damage from burns than mobs do plus the burn damage is a terribly spikey number with no consistency. It seems toughness and armour does affect burn damage somehow, so please post some videos of huge burn damage on players in a proper pvp fight where survivability and mobility have been added in before claiming burn needs nerfing.
Gaile Gray.6029:
First, to address what I feel is the reason for this thread. I agree that posting an opinion as an opinion, not fact, is the correct thing to do. I also agree that making sweeping statements isn’t appropriate, for each of us players represents ourselves, not the community at large.
Problem is on these forums you invariably get throngs of ‘clever’ posters attacking any opinion as ‘illogical’ or whatever other buzzword they’ve latched on to. Clearly insulting peoples intelligence but getting no punishment because it strictly isn’t an insult, but a descriptive of their argument, though used with full intention to insult intelligence and character of the poster.
And worse, these types of posters frequently get moderator support for their actions simply because of the subject matter.
Heck try posting a thread in favor of mounts or open world PvP if you don’t believe me. You could post bloody fully functional code and the thread would still within minutes be filled with spamming, sarcastic remarks, and round after round of the most vitriolic attacks on the character of anyone who dares share a supportive opinion of the suggestion. And if you report any of these attacks, nothing happens, I know, I’ve reported many such posts which were incontestably against the rules. Entire threads of hundreds of posts of nothing but mockery and insults and general mean-spiritedness, totally ignored. Seemingly for no reason other than it has just become the norm to treat those of certain opinions like second class citizens on these forums, to the point that even the moderators turn a blind eye to it.
What if whatever the OP posted was indeed so ridiculous that it makes whatever logical response to it seem sarcastic. Maybe OP posted, oh I want to PvP in the blighting towers in dragon stand. How do you respond to that kind of post in a way that is not sarcastic nor derogatory. I’ll slap myself if I needed to respond to such posts in a sugary coated politically correct response like honey dear you know killing players during a boss fight is just not civil or sweetie pls leave ppl alone in ‘x’ and ‘x’ situation because it is rude.
Really the only servers who seem to want to be t1 and enjoy it’s blob play style is BG TC JQ, and really after spending so much time up there by themselves building for that style of blob play it’s to be expected for other servers to falter after a while, YB and DB. Can JQ rebuild their NA to stay up there? they’re open again, or will Mag push up there by default when DB drops.
NA prime in T1 is blobby as hell but OCX/SEA actually isn’t that blobby and is the only tier where there is consistent action. If you’re looking for GvGs in OCX for example, T1 is the only place where you can do it (eN/LATE/TF/KnM etc).
If you want blob fights in SEA? T1 is the only place for it. Every other tier is PvDoor and that’s boring. There is a reason most OCX/SEA players transfer UP not down and it isn’t to PvDoor or win the PPT. It’s for people to play with/against.
What NA prime people fail to understand is, there is extremely low population of OCX/SEA players nowadays such that even to congregate on 3 servers there’d be maybe 1 map queue on each, or 2 if lucky. This is evident in all game modes, there aren’t enough of us to go around unlike NA. We don’t have that luxury to move to different tiers.
So sure you can cheer for DB’s collapse and look at it as lol wagonbrand kek but in the end all this NA bandwagoning is hurting OCX/SEA players on JQ/DB who just want to play the game really.
Also now with the linking business going on there’s no more stability of T1 so if you get a bad roll week then that’s basically no action the entire week (eg. JQ capped 10 keeps in SEA on a Saturday night). But yeah yeah PPT PPT PPT scoring changes blah blah is all NA ever cares about.
Ocx, sea is actually a very loose term. People always go “Asians” “Asians” but how many are REALLY Asians lol. This game is really unfriendly to people outside of NA and getting unfriendlier by the minute.
~ At they ran over my dead body I counted no less than 40 JQ running WITH the YB group amongst them. They weren’t fighting… they were working together.. By the time I picked my jaw up off of the desk I realized I didn’t even hit record. Seriously? JQ needs that? YB needs that? I have to say I’ve heard of these things but it’s the first time I’ve seen two servers really running TOGETHER like this.
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I need to have some of whatever it is you are having! How do you manage all these images :O
Tbh, people that sit on siege all day don’t really care about loot since they don’t really get loot unless people are kittened enough to sit under AC fire.
Also you would be denying loot to outnumbered players trying to defend a structure from a far large group (somenthing you’ll normally can only achieve by the use of siege).
And what if a pug drops an AC that get built in the middle of a zerg fight? That will deny an entire zerg loot just because some random troll dropped an AC?
That’s not true. I get loot on my cannons and loot from my superior ACs. It’s not a lot but it’s still some. I get more when I am on my characters but at least I still get loot. How do you know 1 person doesn’t drop bags to more than1 player anyway
I’d like community’s help stopping this exclusionary practice as it harms people, squads, servers and a great game I love for 14 yrs! Show a little respect to Anet pls and help them have the game we all want!
I agree, I think wvw commanders who exclude people for any reason (class/ts) when the squad is not full are hurting their own game mode and possibly even killing it, especially when they are the only ones tagged up in a map. But hey there squad there rules, just don’t be surprised when spvpers/pvers/new people get turned off quickly to wvw w/this type of behavior.
So run another tag and form a squad. The real problem is that people are generally closed minded and if they see a different name, they probably wouldn’t consider running anyway. To me, it is the people that defines the server, not only specific groups.
I managed to cast the tablet and used it the first time but it didn’t appear after I died and re-entered the battle. It shows the casting animation but the tablet doesn’t appear. The tablet utility skills appear castable even after I moved a very long distance away from where I supposedly re-casted the tablet.
It takes player slots to run boonshare as well? Like that slot could go to another role? The counter to boons is boonstrip as mentioned earlier in this thread. Boonstrip as indicated by the name is the stripping of boons on another player by a boonstripper. :O
In fact, I have occasionally encountered the outnumbered buff during Sea time on JQ for the past few weeks. Of course you guys won’t believe me, only anet has this statistic. There were the rare but occasional evenings when I couldn’t play wvw during sea time because of a lack of players in my own server.
From my observation, JQ just needs to come out to play once in a while for server to reach full status whereas TC and Mag can blob all day and blob all night and still remain on very high with a server link. Lmaooo
You should not be punishing players for having numbers. This is the draw of wvw in the first place. Large scale combat brings alot of dynamics with it. I can see this creating a toxic environment where players will yell each other to kitten off.
Meh who cares. Op is going to come back and create a few more of such threads. 25 threads and hundreds of tears later, this topic will go the way of boonshare.
From the company’s point of view I can certainly see why you wouldn’t perma ban a gold buyer as they’re likely to buy gems legally and sellers perma ban is obvious. I haven’t had to try 6 times to get into a JP since your ban wave so I guess you nabbed a truck load, GG.
I would want to see your face 6 months from now, when you will see that truckload of players coming back and wearing the skin of Wintersday you did not manage to obtain, because of them.
@Chris Cleary: Thank you.
I’m almost done with my 10k drinks I earned from doing the JP. Get on my level.
There is no level to get on, drink prices might fall later on or the very next day and suddenly, it becomes a cheap cheap skin.
Came back after a long period of not playing this game and the state of wvw is appalling. Either the matchup is a Moneygrab or someone is painting roses for a nice statistical report. I will sooner turn in my real grave than spend money on transfer.
Yep, fully agree. My autotargets mostly aim the guys behind me and not those in front of me in my Los. This should really be changed. More priority to those closer to you and within your Los.
oh look here’s another “balance” centred around pvp/wvw and affecting pve along the way. If so much balance is needed, can there be 2 seperate game modes and 2 seperate traits, one for pve and another for wvw/pvp? I mean the entire environment is different, I don’t see why one has to keep taking the hit for the other.
In our guild we have noticed a definite drop in active player roles. We have also spoken with leaders of some other larger guilds. They have also noticed the same. People that previously would play a lot are just not logging in anymore. They are still around in TS, playing other games. I am sure they will come back for LS3. But as soon as that is done they will dwindle again I am sure.
I understand that this game does not have tiered gear progression. They don’t want your stuff to become obsolete. But, as a game dev, if you are going to do that you need to release more content, faster. People want either new stuff or to progress. Sure you can grind out a legendary and it might be fun for the first one. But it doesn’t make you any stronger, faster, better. It is just shiny. Anet really needs to up the production speed on new content otherwise the slow hemorrhage will continue imo
Tiered gear is gated gear and gated content, gated gear means grind. Grind causes people from f2p mmos to leave games as well. I enjoy this game because it is not f2p mmo styled.
I’ve been searching for light armour pants too, but the best ones belong to medium armour classes. These are the only pants I found for light armour, still has the light feel to it:
Lol and you said this kitten knowing full well tc is either tanking for links or not playing because of the cannons. Tc had a huge guild transfer there a couple of weeks ago and their size was always comparable to us during sea time. Using this dumb statistic now for proof is reaching anet’s level.
This! My first character was a Sylvari because of what I saw in the character select screen. But most sylvari in game don’t give off the same feel that the one in the character select screen gives off. I’m sure there’re lots of possibilities for Sylvari to look more like tree nymphs, or wood elves, or fairies
I agree, I am not advocating tiered gear. What I was saying is that players want to progress. Whether that is into new content or with new gear. The devs need to provide that. If you don’t have both, then you need to do the one you are doing faster. So since there is no increase in gear past ascended in this game. As a result new content has to come out faster. Otherwise the game gets stale for a lot of people. Sure there are many that will still play. Most even. But for many players, shiny and new is fun, exciting and the main reason they play. Whether that is gear or content.
Yea well I agree we are waiting really long for the legendaries promised to us. Maybe they are thinking of the market for amalgamated gems once the new legendaries become available. The gems will probably cost as much as a legendary itself, like a legendary within a legendary. Legception
This is a manifestation of the starved PvP player trying to PvP with the PvE community because his own bloodlust is somehow not being fulfilled in the current PvP state, based on all the unhappiness posted in the forums. How about explaining the state of PvP map chat once in a while, wise guy. Or do you want me to pull out all the lovely screenshots I snapped whilst hanging around in the PvP areas.
d/d ele never appeared to have that good a damage to me. There were many honest posts saying how many of them could be laid to waste. I played other classes and it was quite apparent how ele needed to be improved in pvp.
guess i’m the only one who thinks HoT story was an improvement from the old content. I feel it’s a bit more epic now, maybe killing off too many characters put ppl off lol
Most servers have a good population of non NA players. There are fights even during non NA prime time. SURPRISE!!!! Wow huh..
My suggestion is to designate 3 servers for EU, 3 servers for SEA and 3 servers for ocx. There is a significant population of Non-na players and this will prevent shaving off the player population by a fair bit
I find it hard to play even though I want to, because everything is time gated and/or group gated. In the old content, you could always do dungeons as and when you wanted to, do silverwastes and basically everything as and when you wanted to. LFG still worked for dungeons. but the content in Maguuma is heavily inaccessible.
