Guild Wars 2

It’s possible that it actually only heals for a certain amount, if a player has increased downed health (there are traits/runes for that iirc) it won’t revive them fully but instead boost their health to 90% or something.

I did notice something similar with other classes revive skills a few months back.

2000 hours in 10 months is a lot. I played GW1 on and off for 8 years and got to around 6000 hours, and that’s my most played MMO. Play some other things for a while! It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just hard to be entertaining for 7 hours a day every day!

Just take a break until the next batch of content… oh wait that’s today! So, do that, get bored, then take a break for a few weeks!

You can move away from it, so no I don’t think it’s a problem. I realise that it’s usually used right after a tp/root but it’s one of the reasons to have a stunbreaker.

Kharr.5746:

I’m curious, what is your tpvp rating? The only time I’ve seen behaviour like that is from very unskilled players in custom arenas . I have not seen any trakittenalk from folks > 80 percentile in solo-q tpvp, though maybe I’ve just been lucky.

I’m 95% atm, dipping in and out of the top 1k. Played about 15 games today, didn’t have any issues. One person did take offence to me saying “gg,” but I got blocked before I could explain I didn’t mean to cause offence.

Never really noticed a problem before… or when I did it was isolated incidents. Played a few games this afternoon (tpvp) and kept seeing insults flying around coupled with refusals to play if they saw it was a guild group. Figured I’d screenshot a few:

http://i.imgur.com/joc0Q27.png

I don’t do a whole lot of tpvp, though I try to get a few games in a day, so maybe I’ve just avoided the attitudes previously. It was just a little disconcerting to have 4 separate incidents in a 2 hour period (6-8 games in that time). Is anyone else seeing a rise in people being kittens? I don’t want this turning into LoL

Usually for an MMORPG to “die”, it has to lose players to other similar games. I don’t see any games out there that are growing, or games that people are leaving GW2 for. TESO will be the next big competitor, but from what I’ve seen it doesn’t look very impressive at all. The regular updates here far surpass any other game I’ve played, and imo GW2 has raised the bar so high that I don’t see myself leaving any time soon.

If your guild feels like it’s seeing less activity, or your server feels like it’s emptying, try a new guild/new server. My “medium pop” server still sees overflows in LA, the trading post still has sales/buy orders going through instantly and my guild (which has less than 50 people) has ~25 people online every evening. I’m also seeing new players starting all the time.

Sure, there are things that need improving on, there always will be… and there probably are less people playing now than at launch (launch saw 2 million players with some half a million logged in at the same time), that’s just the way things go. Not everyone will stick around forever.

Shay.7534:

This decision with Top 50 QP Leaderboards is plain wrong. Why not base it on current leaderboards I have no idea.

In EU there are currently 51 players in top 50 ( 2 ocuppy the same spot ) . Out of the 51 players, 30 players have stopped playing. That means 21 players will have access in EU to custom arenas.

I agree with you… I don’t see the sense in selecting players to test something that don’t even play the game anymore. The top leaderboard rankings would at least ensure you have players who are active.

Observing tournaments needs to happen at some point, and will have to have a 10min~ delay. For now though, as others have mentioned… the best/most entertaining matches may well be custom tournaments where teams sign up. Will seem a little odd though in comparison to GW1 where you could view the top 100 guild matches, so you’d know what you were about to watch was a high quality matchup. That said, since the “top ranks” are player based, rather than team based, there’s no guarantee that a tpvp match will be any good.

I’d like to see rankings return based on guilds, so we have a ladder of “pre-mades” – I’d also love to have proper HA style tournaments back too, the gold lined capes for the top guilds, and the excitement that came from winning in HoH and holding it for a few rounds!

“Doesn’t look like anyone actually fell apart though, since Piken look to be doing fine where they intended to be playing. What rebuilding did you need to do?”

I agree… since the guilds left 6 weeks ago, it allowed the smaller, previously active WvW guilds/players to get into WvW without being deterred by long queues. Unfortunately those primetime queues have returned since the free transfers

I wouldn’t say we fell apart, at all.

I just finished levelling to 80 exclusively in WvW. I lost most 1v1s but I was able to spam my skills and stay alive when in groups, by 40 I was taking out sentries and dolyaks on my own, largely avoiding fights. I don’t think food makes much difference… I still would have lost fights against 80s.

So, no, I think food should stay as it is.

I too seem to remember us holding our own in T2. It was only when a few guilds switched servers that we dropped out of the bracket. I don’t like long queues, that’s my single biggest gripe… the guilds leaving solved that problem and for a few weeks we enjoyed little to no queues.

The last few nights though, the queues have returned (up to an hour or so) and that’s probably the source of the vitriol towards the newly transferred guilds. I’d welcome anyone to join the server if it didn’t diminish my game experience… but unfortunately it does, it’s not much fun having to queue.

Constructively, I’d like to add that it’d be nice to see a queue size/length counter on the WvW menu, just so it’s easier to get in to a map, and to play with friends.

Also having the same issue.

Have spent quite a bit of time in WvW today, and I’ve noticed that sometimes I’m not getting any rewards from taking camps or towers.

I’m in the circle long before the NPCs are dead, I’m attacking them and looting bags (so I’m doing a decent amount of damage)… the bar ticks up, then completes with no reward. No medal in the corner, no xp over my head or added to my bar – No money, xp or WXP.

I’ve also noticed that I’ve been getting silver medals, while being in the circle the entire time in camps… even with doing damage to dolyaks and the other NPCs.

EDIT: These things only happen sometimes… I’ve noticed it two times each.

I know you mentioned no PvP… but thought I’d chime in! A couple of nights ago my guild did a 10 person round robin pvp tournament (everyone played everyone else, 9 matches each) and with a full minion specced necro (Toughness/Vit runes I think) I won 7 of the 9… the two I lost were to Ele’s. It’s also a great spec for WvW (imo) as I’m able to solo cap camps and stand a good chance against anyone 1v1.

For dungeons/fractals I’m currently using a lot of wells, I found it was more beneficial to my team. I don’t do much damage, but I’m extremely tanky. The minions didn’t seem to benefit the team at the time… so I got rid of them. I’d not go back to minions for dungeons/fractals…

Chamone.6890:

Ouch, looks like they’ve reduced the chances of getting a precursor even more then. Used to be that 500g+ on rares would pretty much assure you of one.

Thank you for sharing your pain with us.

Anet. Please fix precursors.

To be fair, with 500g previously you could have bought 2-4x as many rares :P

But yep, it needs to change… I get that it’s supposed to be rare, and no we don’t want everyone to have them, but it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down.

I think it’s for people that don’t want/need the agony resist. So for example, a spare set of rings for running explorable dungeons =)

Guesting -

Many people are unhappy with the result of the guesting system, they feel lied to. Are you at least working on a way to allow cross region guesting, or are you just giving up, and cutting guilds (communities built in GW1) in half?

Loosifah.4739:

Sounds like an entitlement argument to me. “I paid the $60 for your game and have been playing for 5 months now, but YOU OWE ME THIS,….it doesn’t matter how much it costs! You aren’t delivering 100% of what you implied was going to be in this game. No it doesn’t matter that you’re still releasing new content all the time, it should have been here from the start!”

I think it’s more like:

Anet: “Hey guys, you’re going to like our game, you can play with friends all over the world! It will be free with a system called Guesting! Don’t worry about where you choose as your home, you can play anywhere! We don’t have a release date for the game yet, but you can be sure that it’ll only come out when it’s ready! Oh, and if you pre-purchase, you’ll get into Beta!”

Beta arrives.

Anet: “So we have a fantastic game for you to try and beta test for us, guesting isn’t available yet but we’ll have it in for launch!”

Launch arrives.

Anet: “So it’s been a busy time, guesting isn’t ready yet, we’ve had some problems, so instead, server transfers are free until we have it ready for you! Until then, feel free to play on any server in the world!”

5 Months later.

Anet: “Citizens! Remember guesting? It’s coming later this month! Unfortunately we can’t allow you to Guest outside your own region. Remember how you bought the game so you could play with friends all over the world? Yeah, you know that’s not even technically possible. Bummer right?! You’re probably going to want to hug the next quaggan you meet.”

At least, that’s how I remember it.

Lafiel.9372:

The amount of unappreciative people who greatly underestimate the amount of effort required to design and implement these features are appalling….

Well, honestly… I don’t care how much effort they’ve put into this feature. It’s useless! I’m not going to appreciate a waste of time for a feature I will never use. The appeal of guesting for me was being able to play with friends across the world sometimes, a dungeon or two a week. I’m disappointed and I’m far from alone.

FreeLampie.5349:

Your missing what they are saying.

In the current way that the routing is done, it isn’t possible to guest on to another region because they are on two separate data centers. Look how long its taken them to develop guesting in the first place, the game has only been out since August. I think guesting in other Regions if Arena Net are stating that the routing would be complex and reading in between the lines saying that it would interrupt game time is a BAD idea. , if you have players that are on a NA server go join them.

Heck, for all the comments that are acting like you know better than Industry Professionals, where all the Network Admins, game developers and so on not commenting & why aren’t any of you working for Arena Net?

I honestly don’t understand the condrum, got friend on US server go play with them=Server Transfer
Got friends on the Eu Server go play with them=Server Transfer
Got friend on both? =Tough go and become a Server Guru and solve it for Arena Net I’m sure they will buy you your legendary for you.

People are disappointed because they were under the impression that it would be cross region. It got people excited. People were disheartened that it wasn’t available in Beta, then furthermore at launch. 5 months in and when it finally gets a release date, it’s a half-measure that solves relatively little. Those that have wanted to do group content with friends have already been doing so through overflow servers, or zoning into instances. They were also made able to transfer servers (including between regions) after launch at will… a week cooldown was later added because of WvW issues. This was a measure put in place while guesting was being worked on.

It’s disappointing that a feature lauded by ArenaNet and the community doesn’t actually do what most of the community wanted in the first place. I can’t see how it serves a purpose for the majority of those that wanted it.

Surely those that are playing in a certain region are already with people they want to play with. I know before launch I spoke to my guild and my friends and made sure we ended up in the same place. The only problem was the friends in the other region, but we didn’t think it would be a problem because we were told guesting would solve that!

It seems like dungeon tokens will be collectibles soon, if that eases your mind any.

Maybe a pre-cursor… :O

Pre-launch they said it would be global. Pre-launch they said it would be in at release… so yeah we’d really need Anet’s official input here.

Raincrow.1840:

Illiander.8049:

I think you’re missing the point of the second “M” in MMO.

I think you’re missing something more important than a pointless acronym.

Yeah… no. It’s group content, we should be able to choose our groups. That’s pretty much all there is to it. A big part of playing together is teamwork, or at the very least communication. I imagine people would have much more fun if they could be doing these fun activities with friends. I get that you like to play solo… but most online games are online so that a person can play with another real person – so forgive me if I don’t care about your solo-style all that much, and I don’t see how it’s relevant here. Pre-mades are not an issue here, or in the bell choir. I don’t even have an issue with them in the PvP related activities.

I just want to play with friends and guildies… and every time ArenaNet comes out with these restrictions, players are turning away from the game. There’s not a single person I know that would rather play with pugs than their friends/guildies.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

Like Snowball Mayhem and the Bell Choior, the Toypocalypse is an activity. They are using the same systems, and these systems do not permit joining by party. Unfortunately due to technical limitations and time constraints before the holidays, we cannot change it. We understand that this is not ideal for people who wish to play in the same party and who are finding it difficult in random groups. We will be adjusting the “Toypocalypse Cancelled” achievement so that you will need to keep only one gift dolyak alive. We do not have an ETA on when this change will be live. Thank you for your feedback. We have been listening, and we will take your comments on board for future game updates.

I hope you’re working on these technical limitations. Pretty sure people brought this up during Halloween, you know, 2 months ago… I know I did. I think Wintersday is great… but I think you need to work on this grouping issue as a priority. I’d rather have to face strong pre-mades (which could be split up across teams) in PvP activities than not be able to play with friends. I mean heck… how fun would it be to have 16 guildies in the snowball arena!

Parts of the game, namely cosmetic items such as minipets and town clothes have always been very much cash shop items. People complain about it, but it’s a fantastic game and provides as much/more content than subscription MMOs. Minipets in GW1 largely started as part of players 1st birthdays, 1 year into the game, and that could still happen. I guess I’m just not understanding why people are surprised…

Yes please… the only thing that isn’t awesome about this event… is the fact I can’t play these wonderful minigames with friends.

On a semi-related note… you can get 3 “free” 20 slot bags per character from fractals.

Ruien.9506:

My intent is to give the devs a full picture of what is being discussed. If only those who cant do the content come here and complain, then all the people who do play at a higher level get stuck with content that is too easy. I never said my group pulls him into a side room. We actually kill all the adds. We just dont try and take them on all at the same time. You can pull him to the cages and the adds become more manageable.

The argument that everyone agrees that its broken so it must be so isnt true all the time. Poor people complain about rich people all the time and whine because they cant seem to become rich. They totally forget that most of the worlds millionaires actually started out dirt poor. They were just better at making money than most people.

Lets face it, the average MMo player just isn’t very good. They complained about how impossible Lupi is in Arah on and on. A guy posted a solo video today of beating him legit. Just maybe, it isn’t the fractal that’s too hard. Maybe your just not doing it right or just not very good. i know its a hard fact to swallow.

Regardless of my opinions on the difficulty, there are bugs because it’s never properly been mass-played by the playerbase. As an example of just one bug, last night we wiped on the encounter in the third phase (the cage phase). We respawned, came back, and he stayed in the third phase the entire fight. Clearly it needs looking at, and while you might want to flaunt your elitism, you’re no better than those saying it’s too hard by saying it’s working as intended.

You folks complaining should have invented time. Bit late to be complaining now.

First off, this isn’t a huge issue, it’s more of an annoyance and I’m sure people on this forum subsection would rather have my issue than theirs but…

I have a pretty decent PC, but I feel the loading times are getting a little too long. As an example, waypointing between maps takes around 60 seconds, whereas internal waypoints (inside the zone) take around 15 seconds. Just wondering if this is normal really, as guildies have also complained about it in the past. Anything I could do to speed it up or is this mostly serverside?

I guess my main gripe is that it takes longer to get from Queensdale to Lions Arch than it does to boot up my PC :P

Gah I know right, I hate when games add new exciting content! When will they learn that we don’t want new content, just keep what we have in and then go make another game or something!

o_O

My feedback… events are cool, don’t stop doing them and don’t stop giving us awesome things to do! Fractals are awesome, but I’ve only done 4, so I can’t give a full review.

New tier of rarity goes against what you had said, that’s not cool… probably best not to go against your previous aims, and what you set the game out to be. And if you do, it needs to be handled delicately, having your community manager (even on a personal account) flip out at people (even in a minor way) is not a great image.

The “one time events” need fixing, you need to find a way to do them that doesn’t result in lag-fests. I’m not talking about FPS, my FPS was 15-40 the whole time on high settings @ 1080p, I’m talking about ability lag, SERVER lag. They’re a cool idea, and I’d love to see more of them, but they need to work without dropping people, or having prolonged periods where the server is unable to send anything clientside.

Until the above is fixed, I urge you not to offer free trials during these events. Your game rocks, but these events really cast a shadow over it. IF they worked, then yes, you could show off that you can do these amazing things, but they don’t, because of the problems above.

The event itself I felt was pretty cool… and if I wasn’t having the server lag issues, I would have really loved it. I feel the loot at the end was appropriate, and I feel you dodged a bigger, angrier bullet from the community, had they not been pacified with phat lewtz. The event was fairly long on Sunday… however I think it would have been half as long had it not been a lagfest, so don’t try to make them shorter… just make them work!

My suggestion would be to make the population of each overflow/instance smaller, if it were cut by 50% I think we’d all have a better time! Overall, great that we have a new zone (though no map completion or vistas?) and the new dungeon, but it was massively overshadowed by the serverside lag.

Oreos.2814:

Reading these forums is 100000000X more entertaining than this stupid event.

This.

But seriously… please never do this again especially with upscaling and trials.

Really need to fix this… it’s just rubbish really, sorry Anet :/

I’m pretty much a non-PvPer… but I did it in the space of two hours, one a day.

I don’t blame you OP… why ArenaNet chose to do something like this is really beyond me. It would have been horribly laggy even without the trials, but you’re going to throw in extra players and showcase this event to them? The smartest thing to do would be to never have trials and events on at the same time, for starters… but also either fix or stop doing these one time things. Perhaps lowering the overflow capacity would help… so that each map is capped at x/2 so we can play properly.

Stick with it OP… the game is awesome… it’s just the hardware/servers are not able to handle hundreds of thousands of people fighting at once… but it’s not a bad problem to have, all told.

As we’ve seen for the Lost Shores event, and previously Halloween, these events draw in a huge crowd. ArenaNet posted details about the number of concurrent users during launch and I’m just wondering what the figures are like for events like these a few months in. I think that boasting hundreds of thousands of players would give the game’s image a big boost, and give me something to spread around the interwebs about what they’re missing

So how many concurrent users were there during this opening Lost Shores event?

Joey.3928:

Salamol.7963:

Rift just launched fantastic player housing (works for guilds too). I’d love for something similar to be in GW2.

ArenaNet HAS to match or exceed Trion’s implementation of housing. RIFT set a whole new bar to instanced housing.

Being able to open up your house instance to the public and add/retract editing privileges is really cool. Creating guild houses, jumping puzzles and visiting other people’s creations is a very very very cool thing.

I think the housing in GW2 will NOT disappoint

I’m not sure it’s possible to exceed it. There are slight annoyances… but as a base to work from, I mean it’s practically a level editor.

TheRamosOnline.2670:

SabreWalrus.8647:

I personally hope that PS gets smashed by the French on reset and that a heavy defeat will make all the fairweathers go away.

We have not been having a good time in WvW the past few days. It’s getting to the point of being more stress than it’s worth. Some of my guild members are getting really burnt out.

Even with commander badge asking people to get on me, it takes 10 mins for people to get where they’re needed and set up a treb on cliff to take out Overlook trebs. Unfortunately for you AM, your guys on mortars and trebs seemed to be awful aims so once my treb was FINALLY up I took out 2 mortars and 4 trebs with mine left on a sliver of health. If AM guys hadn’t missed so many shots it would’ve gone horribly. This is but an example of the mess on Piken EB at the moment. It was not like this even a few days ago. It’s plummeting.

I am expecting us to get steamrolled in the next tier up.

I noticed it too.
Something happened a few days ago and either Piken suddenly got bad or AM suddenly got their night cappers back, because for a few days in a row we’ve lost everything come morning. That didn’t happen last week or most of this week.
x.x

I’ve personally not bothered, same for most of my guild… last week we ran with 5-10 guildies, though after spending multiple hours in queues on Sunday, it’s just a hassle. I’d rather we didn’t get stomped, but I would sooner be able to get all our guildies in for an evening of PvP than have fragments of different guilds with no co-ordination thanks to an influx of fairweather-ers.

Rift just launched fantastic player housing (works for guilds too). I’d love for something similar to be in GW2.

Izanagi.7831:

Vakirauta.6397:

/facepalm

NEXT

yes next because my post isn’t worth your time my liege. Also it is F2P under my defiantion seeing as you don’t have to pay a subscription.

TIL Assassins Creed 3 and CoD: Black Ops 2 are F2P games.

+1

Hopefully it’s soon, not all of my friends are big gamers, so have rather shockingly slow internet connections and may take a day or two to download >.<

Given that the trials are also limited in number… I don’t want to miss out on sending info out to friends!

Not something I’d thought about or felt was missing… though I’m sure if a whole bunch of threads spring up about it I’ll start to want it.

5 Necros with minions turns your group of 5 into a 35-40 hoard of name tags! I’d honestly fancy that against any other team out there. When you consider AoE only affects 5, and trying to target a player is a 1 in 8 chance… I’d give them pretty good odds!

Katiechops.6807:

Yeah well BOON couldn’t even get into AM BL tonight and ended up stuck in PS BL baby sitting it doing nothing or queing as I am doing the past hour good kittenen game

Know that feel. FAIL start things around 7.00, had a couple of guys in AM so the intent was to join them… it was 7.45 before we could get 6 in… and took until 9.00 to squeeze in another 2. Two of our guys then DC’d, were back in the queue, so we said kitten it… and are doing dungeons >.<

It’s great that we’re “populated” and it’s nice to know that other guilds from other servers want to join us… but really, above all else we’d like to play together. Two hours to form two parties sucks. I’d rather not have other guilds join us tbh… we’re doing great as we are… nobody wants more queues!

19 attempts (random rare 80s) = 6 exotics, precursors 0 >.<

92 attempts with 4x rare80 = 18 exotic, 0 precursor

Before today I’d made 45 attempts with lvl 80 rares, no precursor but 14 exotics. Today however, 20 attempts, no exotics at all

If the monthly achievement stuff is going to vary, you’re going to get things you don’t like. Nobody is forcing you to do it though… the time it’s taken to whine about this issue you could have done 2 or 3 dungeons already. I assume you don’t like whining either… but at least you’d be halfway to your dungeon achievement!