Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Ok, seems there are a few concerns, so let me give some info here (with no slight intended for the OP or anyone else participating in this thread):

• We encourage our team members to play the game. Many of us do. This is a good thing for the game and for the community! This is good for every aspect of the game, from PvP, to WvW, to PvE, and beyond.
• Sometimes playing the game in a competitive sense means.. you win! It doesn’t seem fair to suggest that a developer — who has absolutely no advantage on the live game — should back off, or intentionally take a dive, or move to a different server. After all, it’s likely they are and have been a participating member of a particular world for some time, and moving isn’t reasonable, nor is it required, nor should it be expected. I’m on a world that isn’t highly competitive, but I don’t find myself feeling the urge to move to a higher-ranked world. Conversely, if my world suddenly becomes competitive, I won’t be shuffling out of there to satisfy some edge-case expectation of me as a player or staff member.
• No one is required to represent the ArenaNet guild. In fact, no one at the company is even required to join the Anet guild. Both are entirely voluntary. I rep other guilds, sometimes, but I rep Anet most of the time because that’s my choice. Other members of my team are not members of the guild at all. It’s very much an individual decision.
• We don’t have a fully decked out guild hall if you mean in the decoration sense. You should have seen me scrambling to decorate for Wintersday. I’ve thought of taking up scribing to do more. Quite frankly, I feel we have a real dearth of decorations and going to other guilds’ halls to see how they decorate is always a treat for me, because they do it so well!
• Did I mention ArenaNet playing ArenaNet’s game is a good thing?

Ok, going to jump in here, Gaile (and btw, thanks for all the communication lately, it’s been sorely lacking here) and I have been meaning to send an email to you guys (I think I may have even sent a mb message to someone here?), so thanks for starting this thread, everyone.

As a former community manager for a variety of very large companies, including America Online (where I interacted with a large number of online game developers, assisting them with building community), the Anet symbol above someone’s keep or garrison, especially a losing server, as in the one beginning this thread, is a PR nightmare for you guys, TRUST ME. When you do that, you 1) completely alienate a large number of players from a PR standpoint, whom you do not need hating on you or quitting your game (right?), and 2) you lose any perceived objectivity, as the developer and/or community liaison, coming from the WvW community.

So, yes, of course you are allowed to play and enjoy your own game, however, please know that claiming large objectives (small objectives seem to be taken in stride) is causing you a whole lot of negative perception within your WvW player base. Even if you claim large objectives on all different worlds, they immediately forget about it when you claim something large on their world, trust me. I state this with absolute certainty, as I play WvW on a number of different servers and some of the very players I see posting here defending your rights to claim, I have also heard complaining about it in Team Chat, when you do it to them.

I’m just sayin’ – take it for what you will.

Hi McKenna, et. al.,

I was glad to read your post about devs roaming in groups in WvW and the recent glicko formula tweak because, I have to admit, I was starting to think y’all had given up on the revamp. In fact, I don’t come to the boards here much, anymore, so I actually came here to see if there were any news/info posts and to look up the recent server links (which I haven’t found yet, btw).

We haven’t had a poll since November, either, so that makes many of us feel like we are on the back burner again. We know that PvP is the priority, so there are a lot of “news” videos on that particular game area, but maybe a few for us in the future? Also, have you considered that maybe some “news” videos, like the ones you do for PvP and PvE might create new interest for the WvW game area? Maybe some of those PvP and PvE players would give it a shot, if they saw a good video of what it’s like, from Anet.

Also, I know the players did appreciate the polls, irrespective of the troll comments (and please none here!), because it made us feel like someone was still working on our game area.

Any updates would be very much appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

I don’t read these boards often, but this thread caught my eye because I main ele and necro 99% of the time in zerg WvW.

First off, the trick to an ele build (and I won’t post mine here, but I will post enough info that you could come up with it on your own, if you wanted to do so) is to decide if you want to do damage, heals, or boon buff and stick to one. The mistake I see a lot of eles make is trying to be all things to all zergs, so to speak.

My ele is a straight heal ele and that’s what she does, although I do have a little condi damage thrown in with the ability to do some ranged damage, although not like a staff ele can do. She does major healing and can keep an entire zerg alive by herself, for the most part, as long as everyone stays on tag like they should be doing.

If I want to do damage, I switch to my necro.

As for the new rev tablet hype, yes, I’ve heard it and, yes, I have a rev. I have played with different stat and skill and armor and rune and trinket combinations over and over since the patch and I have not found a way to even come close to the overall zerg healing that my ele can do. I’m privy to healing rev builds from several different servers and I have tried them all and NOPE, not even close. Therefore, I’m not sure where all the hype is originating from, but I suspect it is coming from folks who have no real concept of the healing power of a true straight healing elementalist.

Don’t bother replying to me because I doubt I will read this thread again.

Best to you all!

Josh XT.6053:

That is nothing new, pretty much vanilla warrior. My Revenant and roaming ele builds are burst + condi removal or mitigation.

My roaming ele: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-elementalist-marauder-variant/

My roaming and group spec Revenant: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/

The rev stacks 30 seconds of resistance pretty easily when fighting condi classes, the ele clears a condition every time it applies regen and applies regen with every aura. Has I think it was 15 condi clears if I remember correctly lol.

I use virtually the same ele build, except I use zerker/marauder weapons and trinkets too.

People saying they don’t want players from PVE are just afraid some of you will be better at WvW than they are, so just ignore and come join us.

Love the log/ban idea. Guilds should have the right to say who uses their stuff since they pay for it, without having to disallow everyone on the server who isn’t in their guild. I would like to see this made a priority by the development team as it is something that truly affects the “fun” aspect of gameplay.

Did this go into affect yet? I noticed it looked like some of the servers changed levels, but not the ones that were full, so I thought I’d ask?

They just need bigger servers, or set them up like the PVE servers are set up. I know that would mean WvW would be combined, but that might be for the best with all this cross server hopping and guilds being split up. Surely they could code people like they do on the regular servers now so that enemies appear in red. There have been many proposals to do something like this but the problem, I think, is that this is one aspect of the game which has basically been ignored by Anet for the past four years and now they are finally giving attention to it, but things that took four years to get this way cannot be fixed over night.

“Good God let it go already, this change is not just about queues, its about players who have no interest in wvw going onto the map and taking up limited space with no regards to anything but their own convenience to do something that has nothing whatsoever to do with the content. This is something that has been asked for many times over the years. Learn to adapt like everyone else and go to a city to do all this crafting that you claim you need to do so often.”

AND

“What was it a bandaid of? Having the crafters in WvW was stupid to begin with. There is absolutely no need to ever craft anything in WvW. The NPCs took up space and bandwidth and so did any useless player using them. It doesnt “solve” anything on a larger scale.”

And many more . . .

I think you should READ what she said. She wants a solution the queues (thread title) and is saying that removing the crafting stations did not fix the long queues. She is referring to the removal of crafting stations as a “bandaid” to fix the long wait times to get into WvW. I don’t see anywhere in her post that implies she wants the crafting stations back . . . just the opposite, in fact.

You guys need to learn to READ, instead of just flying off the handle.

Yes, an approximate time would be nice? At the normal patch time or later?

The link with JQ seems to have revived WvW in AR, unlike the link with YB, who totally ignored them.

YB does this all the time. Also, they use Golems for defense.

“Push-to-talk is default & not impossible. Most commanders command with push to talk. you can request other option from a mod if you handi-capable. hf!”

On JQ maybe. And that is just stupid, like I said. No need to start personal attacks and – fyi – I really don’t like that word. Many people who play these games have motor skill issues and other types of conditions which make it difficult to do all the things we have to do at once with our hands. Some are home bound and that’s why they play these games a lot. As a special education teacher, it’s my opinion that a bit of compassion on your part would be in line.

Anyway, if you want more new commanders then remove the barriers they experience when trying to command. If not, then keep going the way you are with players on EBG at all hours of the day going “no tag???” and the commanders there never using TS because, well, it’s just too kitten difficult. Haven’t you wondered why your TS is empty all the time unless HzH or some other big guild is using it? Why do you even bother paying for a TS, anyway, when it’s empty most of the time?

hf! :P

I really hope you guys get your TS issues cleared up before more people join. You are the only server I know set for “push to talk” which makes it difficult for new commanders to come up there. For instance, on reset last night, a friend of mine tagged up because there was not a tag at ALL on one of the BLs (on reset!!! what’s up with that??), but soon found that he couldn’t command since he had to “push-to-talk” while commanding, which is practically impossible to do. That’s just stupid. No wonder JQ is so short of commanders all the time. If people don’t want to hear other people they need to learn to use their kitten MUTE button. That’s what it’s there for. Enough said.

Mmmm…where’s NA?

“It is our pleasure to announce that ArenaNet is partnering with ESL, the world’s largest esports company, to host the Guild Wars 2 World Championship on September 17, 2016, at ESL Studios in Burbank, California. This single-elimination event will bring together three teams from North America and three teams from Europe to battle for a $200,000 USD prize pool—the largest in Guild Wars® franchise history.”

ROFL ok, I am ready for this in WvW!!! Anyone else? ;D

From what I hear, YB doesn’t integrate with their pairing partner, so that would be interesting if they got DR. However, why would they? If it’s done based on numbers, I mean? The devs can obviously tell who plays when, based on their comments in the “poll” thread, so maybe they will actually do what a lot of people have been asking and pair the servers more based on play times – who knows?

Teon.5168:

I think that any player that has paid for the game should be allowed to vote in ANY poll that concerns the game. (like it currently is….you have a paid account, you can get into these forums and vote)

This alone gets rid of any sort of elitist attitude when it comes to the polls.
(Ok, it doesn’t get rid of the elitist attitudes, but it pretty much makes them irrelevant)

Plus, it also irks those people to no end that think they, and they alone know what is best for the game. That’s an added bonus, imo.

So you are saying that someone that knows nothing about the game area being polled about should be able to vote on the questions about gameplay changes to that area? Sounds just like the voting system in the United States, so maybe you’re right!

Choppy.4183:

gloflop.3510:

Surveys are only as good as the person who creates it. They provide an outcome dependend on the question asked and the answers possible. The outcome has to be analysed and interpreted. In our specific case, we can ask many questions but it only provides us with a hint on what the opinions among the players participating is (not among all players). However, it does not tell us anything about why the players voted for what they voted for.

From a scientific perspective, the design of the surveys is simply horrible. I would not allow anyone using the data for a further analysis.

By all means, please provide your scientific critique of their survey methodology.

^^^ NOT productive.

“If it were up to me, you could walk to a guy in LA and get it with a Universal currency and never have to step foot in WvW if you didn’t want to. I think many WvW players would like to only be able to play WvW to get what they need and PvE players should be able to access everything they need from PvE as well. There is no point in trying to torture people who obviously do not like the other game modes just to be able to have fun the way they like to.”

I started another thread on this issue, with respect to the Gift of Exploration and the time involved in getting it versus the Gift of Battle for PVE’ers. It’s ridiculous (I know because I did the recent “Gift of Battle” reward track in a couple of hours and got myself yet another one), yet some PVE person (who I have no idea why she/he was even bothering to read these boards, other than to troll us) piped up and told me that Legendaries required components from ALL game modes and to suck it up (which they don’t, since nothing is required from PvP). Regardless, apparently it’s okay that it takes like no time for the PVE’ers to get Gift of Battle, but days (or even weeks) for the WvW’ers to get Gift of Exploration. How that is equitable is beyond me, but apparently most folks think it is because I never got any support behind the complaint – oh well – back to doing mindless, boring map completion. (which literally puts me to sleep – sigh)

Exciton.8942:

Mag should be bumped into Tier 1 to play against TC and BG. I don’t understand how those WvW veterans found it fun to stack onto a T3 server to just stomp lesser opponent week after week.

Mag would get so overrun by BG and TC. I hear what you are saying, though.

I think it’s like the same three people complaining about the DBL. Just go to one of the other BLs if you don’t like them. Not everything’s always about you.

Yeah I did it once, I just don’t want to do it again… I have 8 characters with full elites.

LOL Legendaries do NOT require all game modes to complete. That just shows your ignorance.

Can we please get a “gift of exploration” reward track?

Wait, did I miss an unlock? I just looked and it’s the same servers locked as have been since the linking.

LOL, that is so wrong. I’m gonna make one. And, also, why does the trapper runes invisibility work on WvW traps? That should be restricted to traps related to the build or profession.

Vasdamas Anklast.1607:

RodOfDeath.5247:

I don’t know…..but all my friends are long gone from this game.

I feel so alone in wvw.

Good for you, I feel all alone in my aussie time zone because there are not really many PvPers running around when I play in any game mode and even if there are, they are boring and seem to be running PvE builds they can’t play on WvW.

LOL! Hello? It’s an NA server maybe?

I completely agree. This is an unreasonable limitation for smaller guilds, when half the quests we get can already not be done by our guilds because, even though they do not have a player limit, they are, by their very nature, non-completible (shouldn’t that be a real word?) by fewer than 10 people (examples: Puzzles, most treks, most bounties, WvW rank, etc.). Give us a break, here. Even if we have a substantial number of people more than 3, it’s still hard for smaller guilds to get everyone together to do things like this – by the very nature of things – people who join smaller guilds are less into organized activities or even the same organized activities – lots of time people don’t do pvp or don’t do wvw. That is what I have run into in my smaller guilds. Even in larger ones, on the pvp and wvw missions, it’s hard to find 3 people to do it sometimes.

I want to make a request to the WvW developers, with respect to legendary weapon recipes. Will you please make the “Gift of Exploration” drop somewhere in WvW, or at least make it easier to get in comparison to the “Gift of Battle”? It’s not fair that we have to slug through all those maps doing all those boring heart quests, jumping puzzles, and vistas, when PVE people can just get 20 levels in WvW to get “Gift of Battle.” At least, that is what I had heard it was. Alternatively, give us 6 or 8 or even 10 of them for map completion, instead of 2, as that would be more comparable to what is required of PVE people to get “Gift of Battle.” Doing that map completion was probably the most boring thing I’ve ever done in my life in a game – for real, I almost fell asleep at times trying to slog through it all. Just the thought of facing it again on another character is depressing the heck out of me! ;D I am seriously begging you, here.

I like the fact that you guys send us an in-game mail when you have a new poll up. I agree inactive players should not be pursued for voting.

I don’t want to be on the “winning” world. I want to be on a competitive tier. That is why I asked them to find out why people are transferring servers, before they made decisions. Not everyone transfers to bandwagon. :/

Going to bump this up and maybe it can be merged with the other similar thread?

YES! Please let us hide our ranks. This could be a toggle switch in options. Seriously, having to change your build because you hit mithril is ridiculous. I get sniped enough when I’m on my ele or mesmer as it is.

Ok, sorry if someone already posted these, but I don’t have time to read all 400 posts.

1. Player crafted gliders: Maybe a specific one for each profession, that can be sold! This would be a great way to reward players who have actually put the time into raising crafting, other than just legendaries, which are rare.

2. This is a functionality issue and may not be do-able – I hate it when I die because I lag out and don’t hit the space bar fast enough when I’m trying to drop down somewhere. Is there any way to fix that? Add a “fly to ground” option maybe? I don’t know but that is one of the most annoying things I have noticed about gliding, and completely outside the game.

I totally agree with adding the precursors as drops and not just in PVE. Please add them to WvW. As a mainly WvW player, I hated having to do the “journey” to craft my legendaries. It was just pure torture for me, really. LOL

I sent a question to ANet on this exact thing. They said the only way to do it was to buy it and then mail the CD Key to them. They said I could just forward the original mail they send when you buy it, if I wanted to. I don’t see why they don’t put this in the gift shop. I’d think they’d want to sell as many of these as possible. They need better marketing people. They should hire me.

I’m wondering if we will be getting more guild hall decorations to craft? Here are some glaring missing items from the current available ones:

1. Table top decorative items, especially floral arrangements – everything is too large. I have resorted to putting pillows and candlesticks on my tables to decorate them!! Any ideas here? Can we please have floral arrangements? We have all these balloon arrangements, I can’t believe you’ve overlooked this. Are all the designers who are responsible for guild hall decor men?

2. Wall decorative items – I do love all the statues, but can I please put a painting of Lyssa on my bedroom wall? Or maybe a painting of my husband? Just an idea. Maybe an award plaque instead of a huge floor thingie? What about credentials? Can we get credentials after so many hours played as a mesmer, necro, warrior, etc.?

3. Rugs and carpets – Even in genre, we should have these to cover the floors. I would love it if we could craft these to be individual too, based on dye combinations, etc. Maybe we could have one-of-a-kind things?

Also, a couple of availability questions:

1. Why can’t I buy a lattice? What’s up with that?

2. Why are maguuma lillies so scarce? I use them in my guild hall and in my armor and they seem just way too rare compared to comparable items in the game. Also, what’s up with the low availability of other decoration crafting items like flower seeds, lamp finials, and woods? Is that really necessary?

3. Can we please have more varieties of flowers, too?

4. Shouldn’t “guild” decorative items like furniture have our guild symbol just like flags, banners, armors and weapons? Otherwise, what makes them different from any random “table” or “bar”?

I have been having a lot of fun decorating, since the cost went down (although it is still WAY too expensive for one person), but I would love to see more variety. These are off the top of my head and, if you say it’s a possibility, I can probably come up with more ideas for you, as I am sure can others.

Thank you for your consideration.

BTW, is there somewhere to find the poll link regularly, or do we just have to hope we see it? Is there even one up right now?

Sorry but this is thread is completely inaccurate. I run a hugely condi build reaper, however, a high power build melee class can take me down fast and a thief using macros from hiding…well, I am not even going to go there, because it’s the weekend and I DON’T WANT TO START IT HACKED OFF!!!

Tyler Bearce.3427:

• Short-term prevention of bandwagoning. To do this, we’d need to make it more difficult to join a world that’s already low enough in WvW population to merit being linked in the first place.
• Long-term health of worlds with less WvW activity. To do this, we’d need to make it easier to join a world that’s already low enough in WvW population to merit being linked in the first place.

Some things we’re considering to help discourage bandwagoning:

• Increasing the cost to transfer to lower-population worlds (since they’re now often going to be linked to high-pop worlds). For example, possibly 800 gems instead of 500.
• Having merge hosts always considered Full, and their guest(s) all sharing the population their host would otherwise have.
• Locking out transfers for a period of time after world links become active.

Before you do any of this, could you please at least find out the real list of reasons why people want to move? I think you may find there are more reasons out there than just “bandwagoning.” Thank you.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Hey guys, below is a list of upcoming polls you are likely to see, in roughly the order you are likely to see them.

• Mixed Borderlands – Do you want a mix of Alpine/Desert Borderlands maps?
• World Linking Schedule – How often should we relink worlds?
• Deployable Mortars – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Mortars?
• Deployable Cannons – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Cannons?
• Repair Hammer – Do you want to be able to spend supply to repair siege?

Can we add:

Do you want to buy harvesting tools from your portable provisioner? LOL then it would sell something I might actually buy other than the blue shield generators.

Ultra Hades.4691:

4) If you want to really make meaningful progress towards population balance, you need to introduce a server and player timezone month-long activity metre and locks based on time. Players who are active in some time period looking to transfer to a server that is active in that same time period should have to pay more or simply not be able to transfer (because full server in that time period). Players active in a time period looking to transfer to a server with a low activity in that period should be rewarded.

So are you saying that, if a player cannot play on a server because there is no one in their time zone, it should just be “too bad, so sad” for them and go do PVE because you aren’t allowed to transfer to a server with an active time zone that you play in? That sounds like a good way to really get people to quit the game fast!

Yuffi.2430:

So what role will you take Anet? Champions of Tyria? Or will you play Scarlett?
I’m worried; the Anet logo is bright red…

LOLZ! This is great, really.

I did think of one more thing, too… did you notice that friends on other servers now show up as your own server names, based on the map color. What is up with that anyway?

I miss the desert BLs. Why can’t we just have both?

Tongku.5326:

I like the server linking, sure there are lots of improvements to be made but it is far better then it was.

Some things come to mind with regards to server linking:

1. Some servers do not need to be linked at all, as their own populations far surpass low tier server populations several times over.

2. The very low pop servers have populations so low, that they can literally be linked 3 servers instead of 2, again because their respective populations are so incredibly low. Sure there will be issues to solve such as TS etc. but those will work themselves out in time.

^^^ YES!!!

Well, I can’t believe nobody has suggested this before, but there is a really simple way to fix time zone imbalances: eliminate capping PPT and base “points” strictly on the Kills/Deaths ratios.

LOL — let the banana peel flinging begin. Just kidding – sort of. I think they should make off-time zone capping ppt extremely minute (the adjective version of the word, pronounced MY-NEWT) and also they should make Keep/Garrison capping strictly off limits for off-time zone capping. What I mean is this: If a server is NA, then anything outside of normal NA times, should be considered off-time zone. I know we all play different hours but really, most of us have jobs that are 8-5 and sleep from midnight to 6 or 7 AM, so those times should be considered off-time zone. Peak NA hours are from, say, 5 PM to Midnight. Then you add a couple of hours either way for the three major NA time zones – PT, CT, ET and be done with it. This is a fast fix that would help balance some things right away. I know I am going to get mega-flamed by the EU/OCX/SEA players but oh well – it’s an NA server, guys, and you picked it, so suck it up.

I’m actually sad the new borderlands are going. I know I’m in the minority, but I actually love them, especially with the new changes. Any chance of keeping them around and just adding the old ones back, too?

Sadly, no “official” Anet response to even show us they see this yet… maybe you should post this on Reddit, too, as they seem to post there “officially” more than here, on their own message boards. :/

Hey, first, thank you for putting so much time, effort, and thought into this. I really hope the devs listen to you because this is a great concept and would make WvW a very fun play-mode. Also, I think it would bring a lot of PVE players into WvW, which would make us all happy.

I would add a couple of things to go along with this:

1. Better in-game guild communication and/or private guild message boards provided on these forums for guilds to use for the purpose of game related communication. I think the second would be very easy to add and, btw, I wish they’d do it NOW. If you have a guild in-game, you have a communication thread that is password protected for your guild members to access. This would help so much with guild-based communications, which are practically non-existent at the moment, especially with the very poor in-game email client.

2. Reward track variation – I see a great deal of customization ability available here for reward tracks that would perhaps allow them to coincide with the selected “mode” for that week. For example, maybe the “fight” mode would have access to things that fight guilds might find helpful: pots of food, books/scripts of oils, special armor and trinkets, other fight buff items?? For the “capping” mode – you could have siege, supply bundles, speed buffs and also still armors and weapons but maybe with additional speed stats and this type of thing? I can’t think of a large number of specifics off the top of my head atm, but the possibilities are endless and I would bet the WvW community could come up with a (huge) list.

Love your idea and it would not only revitalize interest in WvW but, I think, Guild Wars 2 as a whole for people who are leaving for other MMORPGs like BDO, CU, and Crowfall. I don’t know about everyone else, but every single friend I have lost has left a huge hole in my gameplay. In addition, ANet is going to see a huge drop in participation soon if they don’t do something to revitalize the game other than just one more expac like all the others.

Thanks again for all your effort here. Please ignore any trolls.