Guild Wars 2

Lornars Pass, the vista just outside the Durmand Priory. Hear the wind blowing, see the clouds pass by and feel like the king of the world…. It is especially impressive in stormy weather.

Walking down the river in Timberline Falls, very scenic, reminds me of summer vacations in the alps.

There have been lots of discussions about population imbalance in WvW almost since the start. I remember very heated ones in this forum around November 2013. There have been development threads and very detailed ideas on what could be done. To no avail I guess.

This is not the first time Underworld has had such low numbers and a rather depressing WvW experience. I have been on UW from the start too, and do not plan on leaving. (A suggestion for A-net – how about a title for accounts that have never changed server ever – like “true blue” or “well grounded” or “till death do us part” and the server name next to it ;-) )

But not switching is MY choice, I actually feel bad for new players who recently bought the game and who will buy it in the future. They stepped into this unknowingly. If the expansion does not change something and servers are left as they are now, picking a server will be like buying a lottery ticket. Some new customers come out with the short end of the stick, they will find out they can’t play parts of the game as advertised. It would be ruthless deception on A-net part to let them walk into that without warning, having to delete all chars or coughing up another 10 Euro to switch to some server with more reliable action.

On a side note, when numbers are low, commanders are also lacking. That means at prime time there is nobody tagging up in EB or home border. Many players log in and see no tag, they log out again. Maybe lowering the cost of the tag back down to 100 gold (maybe add some badges and karma) would help activate the new players that came with the recent sale. They probably do not have 300 g left over yet to play around with something they are not sure about. If you are afraid of comm spam on pve maps how about a wvw version that can’t be used outside.

And for everybody who has not understood yet what is happening in the lowest tier:

Think of it as a swordfighter’s trick. You deal a couple of blows with the hand as close to the hilt as possible. When your opponent has gotten comfortable with your range, you sneakily slide your hand to the end of the hilt and whack him with the couple of cm you just gained.
Another use for this handhold is to bait your opponent by making him think you’re not ready. Most of the fight between halfway skilled fighters is a psycho battle.
As fighting scenes in (online) games are completely and utterly without any relation to real fights anyways, I mostly just try to enjoy what is presented and go swing the pixels for fun. ;-)
Choose the look/weapon you like and roll with it, just ignore the rest…

I think the story parts of this game are ok. I like most of the voice acting, especially the Charr, they are fun to listen to. Most of this instance was ok too.

But after reading the comments here I got a question: Am I the only one who put off by the Kasmeer and Marjory voice acting? The fake southern vampire TV soap drawl sounds to me like chalk screeching over blackboard. I could not watch True Blood because of that. Why are you assaulting my ears with it in a fantasy game.

Every identifyably american accent in such a game setting is a turn off. It beams me back down to earth in a heartbeat. Escapist fantasy moment over – exclamation point. I think its supposed to be smexy, but it’s just…. fake and grossing out my temporal lobe.

This instance was the most irritating performance for both yet.

- My peeve and I am sticking with it ;-)

PS: I found it strange that it was over so apruptly. No closing words or winding down. I looked at the screen for a minute thinking “was that it?”, “what happens now?”. No instructions to leave or go somewhere else, everybody just stood around looking bored……

“All is vain” is actually a quote from the bible too:

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas

Old Testament, Ecclesiastes 1, verse 2

“Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

and again same book, verse 14

“I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.”

Vain can be interpreted in different ways, see the following synonyms:

1.
arrogant ,kitteny, big-headed, boastful, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, pleased with oneself, proud, puffed up, self-important, stuck-up, swaggering, swollen-headed, vainglorious

2.
failed, failing, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, miscarried, unavailing, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, worthless

So which meaning did you derive from the tragic poetry published here? Is Mighty Meek lamenting his girlfriends (and the world’s) egoism and shallowness or the futility of his efforts? Or both?

Soo deep….. ;-)

muahaha, just noticed that one of the thesaurus choices got kittened, this forum just does not like roosters :-D

Server: Underworld
League: EU Silver

Enjoyed Season 1: I dont know, there was this weird buff called “outmanned” almost permanently on our borderlands. It made regular play fairly difficult. <— sarcasm

S2: would try again, but please please please check the wvw competiteveness of the servers before you sort them into tiers. Then stop all transfers on the day the new league is announced. That way all the opportunistic server hoppers are grounded and have to fight it out wherever they are.

At the end of the season I feel like we were just reduced to NPCs that flip the same 3 camps and 2 towers so the enemy can flip them back. No use playing like that.

What can I say, we pulled the short straw in this competition. Small fun and small reward. That happens once – well, file it under just another life experience. But if the next league starts out like this one I will not participate.

If this new wvw map only pops up when all borderlands are full, us peeps on UW will not see it often. Maybe in week one when everybody wants to check out what its like. If it can be accessed directly it means it will spread our meagre forces even thinner.

For stacked servers it might make some happy who would have to wait to play for hours. But I bet there will there be lots of shouting and grieving in chat trying to get anybody who is not in an op pvp guild to leave the maps that counts for points. There is now a convenient bench for the slow and awkward kids – go play in the sandbox, leave the jungle gym to the leet…..

Oh well, lets hope for the best….