Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand how its hard to understand why we have left GW2 and why we don’t come back.
1. Lack of Content.
2 Content that is put out is lacking and I see people comparing LS to DLC’s. but DLC usually are much more than what you get in a LS.
3. GW2 alienated the players with the hype of HOT, than didn’t deliver and worse they time gated stuff when it was released so you didn’t even get all of what you bought. Players didn’t want to wait 8 months of building a guild hall to get the arena set up.
4. Other games are constantly coming out with more expansions/trailers/hype and way better than GW2. ESO has had 5 in less than 2 years with another huge one coming this summer “ESO also just got one hell of a housing update”, Final Fantasy has had 4 big updates "as in adding continents and new classes/races in the last 2 years and another coming this year. Just about ever big MMO will have gotten a big expansion or update between November 2016 and April 2017 beside GW2.
5. GW2 keep relying and recycled content. but not the ones we loved the most like Dragon Bash and the Queens Gauntlet.
6. THE GEM STORE. It was fun at first than you realize that all the new armor “outfits” and all the gliders and anything you would actually want is sitting in the Gems store . This created an adventure vacuum. Because next to nothing is being put into the game, The players have no real motivation/reason to go adventuring, besides to go look at the beautiful landscapes.

7. GW2 has to me the best graphics and animations and it hurts that it turned out how it has and that the developers have some how always made the worst decisions causing the player to realize that they don’t listen to us one bit. I mean for instance lets look at heart of the mists. Why would you add a second WvW category on top of the one you have meaning you have to splitting your player base or that the players will just ignore one which is what happened in GW2’s case.

So if you didn’t know now you know.

Dyze.1580:

so in short. Class imbalance is fun and existing, so long as you’re on the winning side.
Go figure!

I very much agree that the classes are unbalanced. I don’t remember a time when they were not unbalanced though. Always 1 or 2 classes get left behind when large balance patches are pushed.

Hello Everyone. sorry for such a long post.

This is my take on season 2 which I actually enjoyed and how I went with tactics everyone says not to do to help my teams win. (attached at the bottom will also be a link to a video of many of my match and I think I add commentary at that start of my match at 21:50)

Even though I rarely play GW2 these days I do read the forums often and the of course Reddit. After seeing all the negativity about season 2 I decided to come back and see what the fuss was all about.

I started out by trying the current Meta’s for DH, Rev, Necro, Scrapper and Tempest. I found that All of them are actually very nice builds and excel in team play. Necro and Rev were definitely the most played and of course the strongest meta’s during this time.
In my opinion I think this is also where the imbalance accrues with the average players win-lose streak. It becomes a game of who has the better team comp, knows how to play their profession well and understands how to tactically adjust to pressure on a map. This can change every game.
90% of my games were solo que and of that 90% I had totally new people on my team I’ve never seen before 80% of the time which is awesome if you ask me.

So I started testing on the builds on 28 February and decided on my build 2 march. From 2 – 8 march I was able to make it to Ruby playing casually. 2 or less hours during the week days and 4-8 on the weekend. I was usually on sometime between 7pm and 11pm est.
In my own opinion I would say I am maybe a little bit above an average pvp player so the build I decided on was a ele build and far from any of the current Meta’s. This is because I had to come up with something that could help change the flow of a match by disrupting the way the current Meta that is pushing for team pvp vs solo play. (Basically I had to force the other team to spread out while my team stayed together more.)
I really only had a hard time with two professions an unknown warrior zerk build I faced maybe 2 or 3 times and mesmers with Moa.

So I went bunker ele. This gave me great sustain against both the condi and burst dmg professions.
what I did was based on one thing that everyone says not to do. Push Far, stop them from capping and than force a 1v2 or more for long enough periods of time that my team would cap mid and home. I would sometimes leave far if I saw a tactical advantage in it. Some times I would also take a risk and break one of my pvp pug rules which is don’t make plans while in a pug group and I would see if my team was willing to do a 1,1,3 split letting me solo mid while we capped the sides.
I also don’t normally talk smack but I did for this build in the hopes of kittening off my opponents so that they would get mad and want to fight me even when it was not tactically very smart of them.
The only tier I think I got stuck on was the last tier of Emerald. It took me 2-3 hours.

Yes the start of most matches I would be getting flamed!! in chat. That would all stop half way though a match and we were winning.

P.S sorry for my crappy grammar.

Going to go ahead and say it. This was supposed to be our big PvP update. Your asking for our feedback and advice but clearly don’t take into consider 99.9% of it. With all the great suggestions on these forums Anet continues to put out balance updates that are just ludicrous.
It was nearly a year ago that our last huge balance patch came out ( which we will all call the pirate meta update) that patch caused large amounts of our WvW and PvP players to leave. Now we’re 10 months later and we’re still no closer to having anything we ask to be fixed to be fixed. This is why so many of us have left. The community has had enough of anets promises of that turn out to be a chocolate ball filled with $&:9 with a side of PvE. If we wanted PvE we wouldn’t be in PvP.

Was hoping it would be this week. Depending on how good Blade and Soul is. PvP may be missing the larger portion of there ranked players. Which could be good for GW2. Won’t have as many people on here posting about things that are broken with the new patch.

Are you not in the PvP lobby? The question is being asked where is stronghold every 10sec so obviously I’m not the only one wondering where it is. Get in the game!!!

and plenty of other Gem store items. Hurry go buy them don’t worry about how GW2 has no PVE to work towards. everything is pay to get. Hey look were getting new armor set…. oh wait nvm its a costume. hahahhaha

Actually there are multiply places, that say it will return with Dec 15th Patch. Beyond that Anet has said nothing. As to why its not activated is unknown at this point and time.

Ok. got off work a bit early. Downloaded the new patch and jumped in expecting to play stronghold, but lo and behold there is not stronghold activated.

Are we now not getting Stronghold back. Would really like to hear something from Anet on the situation with stronghold.

Heart of Thorns is almost upon us. Now is the time to join TBT and be apart of creating memories that will become legends.

THE BLACK TOWERS: Recruitment Banner SBI/WvW/TPvP

I could find no where, that is say’s One with Air is 50% increase. Also you can’t increase your speed that high in the first place.

Lastly I’ve used the stopwatch on my phone for a 10sec strait run. I go the same distance without using One with Air as I do when its activated at the start. This means ether the skill is broken or its as I stated earlier useless because I already have my top speed by only using Zephyr’s speed.

Ok I like the new trait system. Maybe simply because its something new.

I’m at a loss for words, on how some the trait lines were put together though.

You put “Zephyr’s Speed: 25% speed increase while in air attunment” as the first trait. Awesome. So WHY would you then put “One with Air: Gain movment speed for 3s”.

One with Air is nullified by the fact the I already have Zephyr’s speed on. Its a waste of perfectly good trait point.

I mean common if your going to do something put some kitten effort into it.

PLEASE FIX THE ENEMIE GUARDS ON FRIENDLY OBJECTIVES!!!!

I know the season have brought out the worst in some of the WvW community but it also helped some community’s become more bonded and created some awesome Rivalry’s.
Also part of why I want another season is for the Claim tickets. Maybe Anet can make another reward system for getting them. I have 150 tickets sitting in my bank I can’t use.

With summer fast approaching I’m curios to know, are we not having any WvW seasons this year? I’ve seen lots of stuff for TPvP tournaments but nothing for WvW.

Is there any plan’s to fix the ranking leaders board system? What I mean by this is. PvP is currently based on how many games you play, not what your skill is. So for an example. A team of 5 people that play together and can only play 5-10 match’s a week with 15-20 matchs on the weekend will never get onto the leaders board. Even if they had a 80%-90% win rate. Simply because 30 games a week won’t give you enough points.
Instead we have people ranked with large amounts of games played and bad win rate ratio’s
To use as an example: currently Ranked 84 as I write this has 203 wins 305 losses and a win ratio of 39.96. How is he above someone like say the current ranked 125 person with 174 wins and 148 losses and a 54% win ratio? How does those 29 more wins add up to a higher rank when he has 150 more losses?

Even if you look into the top 25 some of the ranks are strange. you have rank 22 with a 56% win ratio, 241 wins 187 losses and right above him at rank 21, the guy has a 49% win ratio 239 wins and 242 losses. This just doesn’t make sense at all.

I’ve been keeping up with everything HOT. I only have one question that I have been very curious about.

Will the amount of players for each server increase? If so by how much? The new BL’s look huge with a lot of layers to them.

When it comes to PvP your gonna usally get ether casual’s that are really nice or hard core who rage at noobs. The broken part of GW2 PVP is that they don’t have a good ranking system that lets the skilled veterans be seperated from the new players jumping in just for fun. I would love it if they made ranked play only open to rank 80 players. that way you know your atleast playing with someone that knows what they are doing.

I’m seeing a lot of people asking for free transfers to lower tiers. What I’m not sure anyone is understanding is that would do nothing. A lot of people moved to higher tiers because of the lack of numbers in smaller tiers.
People want fights, big fights, small fights tactical fights, and they want people to share those fights with. I don’t think the problem is same sized servers fighting each other. Its when you take one of the server that is much larger and face it off against a much smaller server. There has to be some kind of compensation to allow the other server to compete in a situation like that. Maybe lower the limit of players on each BL to 30 while increasing the limit in EB.
Also yes we can try double teaming as we are now but it really wouldn’t be easy or fun. your talking about need really good commanders that are cross talking with another server, Pugs needing to know we are on the same side, The ability to stop all the pugs during the week that are not on TS from crash into and dmg the other server in fights. Maybe we could do that for a week but after that the server Commanders would be burned out.

I can’t give a perfect way to fix WvW. For this match up if they had removed one BL and joined SBI and NSP to one team faceing SOS and done the same to EB, esentually creating a 2vs1 than the match up would be on closer terms and we could compete. So basicly you would have only 2 BL’s and Eb would only have 2 keeps. The down side to this would be long ques because if SoS can already que 3 bls than they have 1 BL worth of people trying to que for another map.

But again I’m asking the professionals to look into fixing this not someone like me that works a job totally unrelated to programing and game creation. I’m the user asking for a broken product to be fixed.

To all those responding. Awesome, thank you. Please remember this isn’t a bashing post, just a cry for help.

I know this will probably be taken down, but Anet please watch this Video. Maybe you don’t understand what it is like to face T2 servers that have 6x your servers player base in WvW.

http://youtu.be/RvXblRDwaOo

I play GW2 and WvW every single day. This is not a i’m gonna quite because of XYZ. It’s just a post that says hey, please it’s been a long time find a way to fix it.

The only way us T3 servers can do anything right now is to blob our server into a 60+ man group and jump between EB and our BL. 1 Giant group fighting on multiple fronts while the larger server can put the same amount of people on every BL and not blink an eye. If we try doing smaller groups well. the video shows you what that looks like.

Can we please get some Anet dev’s out in WvW with us Tuesday night in SBI. Would love for them to experience the Blank jam with us.
Also I have to say I think SOS has the best multi guild team work out of all the T2 servers we faced. Your Pincer movements are great. To bad its 2 or 3 of your 20-30 man guild groups pincering our smaller 15-20 man groups. I’d say get that practice in before you go back to the T2 scene.

Lazaar.9123:

You can get the recipes for these stats dirt cheap on the TP, by the way. And crafting is will be a lot cheaper than buying it off the BLTC. You don’t need to grind to get these recipes at all.

It’s not the cost to craft it. Its the fact it needs to be crafted. I’ve played GW2 for 2 years. I have 0 of my 3 accounts and 8 lvl 80s past 250 crafting. I extremely dislike the crafting in GW2. It’s horriably grindy. I mostly stick strickly to Tpvp and WvW unless i’m playing with my 9 year old daughter than I’ll do PvE. I would rather pay the company for its use in WvW than be forced to grind for it in PvE.

In actuality It wouldn’t have to be Nomad’s Armor. Any armor with T,V,H stats would work so that I can enjoy testing out new builds with it. Would be great if they added it to the WvW armor vendors.

Can we get Nomad’s armor on the BLTP to buy for those of us that don’t craft or do much of any PvE please. Thanks:-)

WHY YOU DIE!!!

On another note, TPVP stands for TEAM PLAYER VS PLAYER, so some builds and classes are built to beat down other builds. That’s the game. When you fight a class or build you can’t beat, you’re supposed to have a team mate that is built to kill them. So tell them in Team Speak to come help you, also if you are not using a mic. Don’t complain about losing on the forums because the rest of us are, and we are LAUGHING at you when you die because your group is running around with no sense of direction.

Everyone cry’s because they want to be able to beat everyone and never lose. Be realistic; learn what your build is capable along with all the rest of the builds and Classes.

Conclusion: Get good and stop bringing you PVE tactics to PVP.

I am a Huge fan of Robert Jordan (Writer) and the wheel of time series. I like to base my guild structure off of the Black Tower from the series.
Check out this link it will give you everthing you need or maybe some good idea’s.

http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Asha%27man#Organization

Hello. Looking for a NA PvP team, that wants to push up through the ranking system.

SindBowdragon

Why you die!!

cranos.5913:

Or you know… take 5 seconds to log in during the time the ls is active and unlock it permanently…

What if I’m a deployed soldier and logging in is not an option. I’ll have to come back and pay for everything I missed?

DanyxEleven.9162:

Sind Bowdragon.8374:

It’s not like your getting and ascended item with stats.

Did you even look at the rewards? If you check my post above, yes, actually, I am getting TWO ascended items with stats.

Which one? the one with the laurels? I saw your name a lot looking through this post.

First To Ilyaniii. Your money went towards the China release and other game productions.

Second: Why is everyone crying over a skin? It’s not like your getting and ascended item with stats. It’s a freaking skin. Everyone in GW2 is going to be running around with that skin so its not like your going to have some special skin that only a few people got like a legendary item.
Stop the crying and enjoy the game and go for items that actually give you stats and not an item that every Single Person that play’s GW2 is going to also be wearing for the next month.

Topic says it all and looking at the scores and the server ratings I think it will look like this….

1. HOD
2. FA
3. YB
4. IOJ
5. SBI
6. CD
7. BP
8. NS
9. SoR

I tested it by timing myself running from point to point with a timer. I had no speed boosts. my times were always the same even when using mist form. I should have been faster when using mist form, but I wasn’t.

As the topic says. Why does a lot of Healing gear have Precision added to it when you can’t crit your heals? So that stats you can chose for armor are ether
Clerics, Healing , Power, toughness.
Magi Healing, Precision, Vitality and
Apothecary Healing, Toughness, Condi dmg.
Why is there no Healing, Toughness, Vitality armor? This also goes for your trinkets.

Not sure if Anet is working to fix this but it’s been months since the Elementalist’s Mist Form worked correctly. But as the Topic says Mist form is supposed to give you increased movement. 66% for 3 second to be exact. It doesn’t change your speed at all though.

Would be great to have this fixed. as of now mist form is useless.

Just curious about this one. Is it true that NCsoft spent near to $100M for the Megaserver rights and software that ESO uses?

Does this mean that in the future the numbers Allowed into WvW will be greatly Expanded?

I see the hacking posts all the time so decided to dig into stuff a little bit. Most of what everyone is calling hacking is actually broken parts of GW2 and Later today. I’ll add a thread with a video that shows you what people are doing and how to do it. None of them are actual hacks that I could find. I’ll try posting it around 1700 est time.
I’d also like to say those that use these bugs/cheats give there servers a bad name and reputation.

I have a some questions about the leagues and ranking system for the tournament. If a server starts at world rating 14 which is silver league and lets say they start winning matches and at the end of tournament week 5 are rated at world rank 9 will that move them from the silver league and into gold? If so how does that affect there points? Or once you start in a league that’s the league you stay in and play against for the duration of the tournament?

ok so if the skill says this….
Spray a cone of fire at foes while on the move.
Damage (4x): 1,100 —-— that is direct damage
Burning: 4s (13,674 damage) —-- this is burning damage
Range: 400
So what your telling me is that is actually works like this?
13,674dmg divided by 4 = 3418dmg divided by 4 = 854dmg.
so all that equals 854dmg per second for 16 seconds.

Why didn’t they just put16 seconds of burning for 13,674 dmg. it makes it super confusing they way its put and makes your relies how useless it actually is. that application of it becomes useful only in a 1 on 1 incounter or pve because of all the cure conditions that has been put in GW2. if you have more than 3 people with you than you can cure condi’s constantly.

Condi Elementals are great for 1vs1 or even better 2v1. There is however one Major thing wrong with the ele condi skills. Half the skill’s don’t actually do the tick times or dmg is says they will do. Easiest one for you to test out to see the problem is Drakes Breath. should be a 4 second tick skill but it ticks for a lot longer. So when it should tick for 2-3k every second for 4 seconds. what it actually does is tick for around 800 for 13-15 seconds.

Ok here are some very easy to test and very noticeable examples of Elementalist condi damage skills doing the incorrect damage and burn times. DRAKE’S BREATH with my build says is does ( Damage (4x): 1,100 ) and ( Burning (4s) 13,674 ). damage only hits for 300-500 and the condi does 864 a tick for like 13-15 seconds. Not nearly doing the damage it says it should be doing and the burn tick is way longer than it should be for that skill. The next super easy to notice skill is from CONJURE FIERY GREATSWORD and it is the number two skill FIERY ERUPTION: (Burning (4s) 21,806dmg) What it actually does is tick 900-930. I’m not sure how long the tick goes because it kills the bear in WvW I use it on after 18 seconds. Can these please please get fix because these are the two big Ele Condi Damages and without them were not very helpful and kinda gets to the point of why even have Condition skills for elementalist.

Now to the bright side. Love GW2 and thanks to the team for the constant work on it.

Gulesave.5073:

I’m sure ArenaNet is very sorry for having offended you by attempting to fund the vast enterprise that keeps this game running and growing without a subscription fee. They have certainly realized the error of having to gall to offer you things you might want in exchange for money. After all, they’re just a few hundred talented artists and technicians working full time to maintain a AAA title; they don’t really deserve to pay off the student loans that got them there.

You missed my point. Think of it like this. When you pick up a magazine. You usually pick it up because the cover on the front had something that interested you correct? Imo More stuff that motivated the player to be constantly excited about the game like this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOhMeYxhRM&feature=player_embedded
would probably help sale gem items more than constantly placing item sale ads.

Is it me or is there more updates about the Gem store than what’s going on or upcoming in the game? Its starting to feel like this game was just made so that Anet could create there own little store. Why can we come out with new costumes, skins and all this other stuff that you have to pay for from the store but we can’t come up with much needed fix’s for the game?
I would love to see less gem store news when I open the guild wars 2 app and more info on what the developers team is working on or ideas they have for the future. An article about all the things they have had to do to balance the game or implement to stop hackers/cheaters would be better than seeing (Weekend Sale!!) every other week.

Bowdragon
KWBH/SBI
WvWvW is where its at.

I have been getting a lot of log-in attempt emails when I am not on my computer. Is someone trying to hack my account? I’m in the U.S and the places trying to access it are surely not in the U.S. I have already had 3 attempts today.

Ok. I’m going to keep the short and simple. GW2 need another way to get SMG’s (Siege Masters Guide’s). this could be by making skill points buyable with Karma or badges or just make it so Commanders can trade karma for skill points, since were already spending 100g for our tags. As a Commander I’ve spent a lot of skill points buying these but I can only get skill points so fast and when you spend 5+ hours a night in WvW the cost vs returns does not add up.