Guild Wars 2

A story.

Once upon a time I only played PvE, I enjoyed my PvE and did not play PvP or WvW. Then PvE megaservers happened. Everything felt strange, I missed seeing old familiar names so I dared to venture into WvW. It was fun again to be playing alongside familiar people (even if I didn’t converse with them).

WvW became my main thing to do. I dabbled in PvE as much as I had to, but in WvW I met great people and had fun playing with them often. All was well until Desert Borderlands came along, that was the first time I started playing WvW less. Finally, Alpine was returning but soon after so too came megaservers for WvW (essentially). I tried to play it, I enjoyed the reward track, I enjoyed playing Alpine again, hell, I even enjoyed being linked with a server. There was a sense of camaraderie.

As it were though, before long I missed the old ways. If I wanted to be on a server with this many people, I would have moved to one previously. Eventually it came to a point where I don’t even run on guild WvW nights, I’ve just lost the fun in it. It comes down to a simple thing, I can’t play the way I used to play, so I don’t play anymore.

Nowadays I am back to PvE, but not very enthusiastically. I’ve swallowed the PvE megaserver pill over time, it certainly has it’s perks and if I wanted to play with fellow server mates, WvW was the place to be. What now?

Please to be fixing it!

It couldn’t be worse than it is now! Would much prefer it just to go back to how it was, and if Anet wants people to move to low population servers (so they don’t get smashed every week) then give some incentive to do so!

Back to Friday 1hr after daily reset is nice to me.

If you want to actually make a difference and not just be another player in a blob, FC may be the place for you.

Just wanted to chime in and say these animations look terrible…

Not that another voice on it is likely to matter.

The way characters used to level up was nice wasn’kitten

Edit: Umm, the filter…

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There we go!

What skill lag in WvW?

Pants Are Dangerous.2079:

Also (I know I am going to get a lot of flak for this) but I don’t really like the name revenant, it doesn’t indicate very clearly what the class is.

I can agree with you on that. I mean…

rev·e·nant
noun: revenant; plural noun: revenants

a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.

So a newborn Sylvari has returned from what exactly?

I bought it, I regret buying it. I’m never going to use it but Anet won’t care, they already have my money.

Impulse buying… when will I learn!

Well, okay then.

Can’t wait to experience Zephyrites and Queen’s Gauntlet in megaserver….

Oh…

I would prefer monthly releases.

I was always lagging in those kitten arena fights. 80 players fighting mobs directly below me didn’t help whatsoever.

Before all champions dropped loot bags, trains did not exist in QD (at least not on my server).

This was much more fun. I would be in QD doing dailies etc, someone says in map “x champion is up [Waypoint]” and half a dozen people go to fight it. This was much more challenging than it is now. Now days the train rarely calls out a champ, never links waypoint, and downs it in 1 minute. I wish they’d make most champions in QD elites (all but Oakheart would be good). One of the first champions I ever came across in this game, and often fought, was the Troll. I avoid him now more than ever, especially with megaserver increasing the size of these trains. Another nice thing would be random timers on events. Instead of a given 10 minutes until respawn, why not a 10-20 minute respawn, changing every time? Anet has really went against their word, having everything on a set timer.

Fill your bathtub up, to as full as it can go without getting into it. Then submerge your body. You should now be in an overflow.

Real answer: There are no overflows anymore. They are now called Megaservers, and you are always in a Megaserver.

I’ve never understood why they gave Rangers Greatswords. Really doesn’t make sense to me.

Mesmers on the other hand… if you’ve ever seen one using it or played as one (I’m sure most of you have) they use it as a magic channeling device, and it looks really nice. If she was going up and swinging it like a Warrior does, then I’d have a problem with it.

In 1427 hours of playing, I’ve played more WvW after the Megaservers blanketed every map, than ever before. I want to play with people from my server, I chose this server because I like most of the people I’ve come across here. I also chose this server because it had low population, something I wanted. The people who wanted to see more players should have just been directed to join a high population server. They would get what they wanted to see, and I would still be able to play in low population maps. Now I’m forced to play in high population maps, with absolutely no workaround.

To the people spouting “This is an MMO, you’re supposed to see people” well… GW1 was an MMO, was it not? You couldn’t see a single person outside of a town in GW1 unless they were in your party.

There were some good points made in previous posts. Particularly this…

SirMoogie.9263:

The megaserver worsens the situation as there can no longer be persisting effects on the world as there are no longer worlds that stick around for you as the player to actually have any sort of lasting effect on. The Bloodtide Coast you entered 30 minutes ago is likely not to be the same one you enter again, thus any effects you may have had on the zone are quickly erased. Even if that zone still persists you have no means of reliably entering it again.

There are problems for sure. People have proposed fine solutions. But there is no solution that will restore the game to is former state, except a removal of Megaserver, which definitely isn’t going to happen. It took exactly one week for Megavirus to take over, I just can’t wait to see what comes next.

I agree, their value has been diminished some.

Don’t worry guys, Lawless Helm and Shoulders now in the Gem Store!

sorudo.9054:

it’s better then being bugged with overflows……..

I disagree.

Now instead of being thrown into a random overflow with random players from random servers when your home server is full… you are now thrown into a random megaserver with random players from random servers and you have no home server.

Blair.3796:

As far as I’m aware (and I may very well be mistaken), Ferguson’s Crossing has yet to beat Tequatl. Maybe now the megaserver implementation will give us the needed edge to do just that.

There IS no Ferguson’s Crossing anymore. It won’t be FC beating him, maybe a handful from FC, but nothing more. Server names and communities are a thing of the past.

Killed it for me.

I’m not hating megaserver because it’s “cool”. I hate it because it has ruined the game for me.

I don’t know why we can’t just have a dialogue pop up that says “There is a Megaserver for this map, do you want to join?”

Similar to how the Overflow message worked to Travel to your home server (or guesting server), Re-enter Queue, or Leave Queue.

Megaservers are absolutely NOT fun. As a previous post, just did Ulgoth in Harathi Hinterlands. There had to be around 100 players there. Anet thinks this is good? To where there are so many players and effects that you can’t tell if you are even hitting an enemy?

Maybe some players like running with 100 other players. Many of us don’t. Just give me an option to choose whether to go to a Megaserver or to go to my home server, and I’d be happy.

I always knew something was going on. Thanks for the explanation.

Anything Skritt, I want. Shiny!

If I list 1 item for 1 gold, there is a 5 silver fee, but my projected profit is only 90 silver. Where does the other 5 silver go?

Sorry if there are other topics like this, I couldn’t find any.

It’s ok, it wasn’t a question particularly for me, or anyone logging on my account.

Might I know what the name was that was the problem? I’ve reported people with quite nasty names, but still see them play all the time. Just wondering what’s actually considered inappropriate.

Thank you for answers. This is what I expected!

Hi, I just want to ask a couple questions…

1. Is it against any rules to leave a character at a Jumping Puzzle chest, and log in to that character each day to open it? I’ve seen people do this and am wondering if it is allowed.

2. Is it allowed to log on to someones account WITH their permission and them actively knowing you are on it? I don’t mean in the same household, because obviously you could do that and no one would know any different.

Thanks in advance.

It’d be kind of them to do so. It’s not like the equipped items on your characters could be sold, as they are account or soulbound. Good luck though, hope something good comes of it.

Ticket #466647 she received automated message then later that night the standard escalating message.

Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars 2 Support Team!

The issue you’re reporting will require a bit of additional investigation.

I am escalating your ticket for further assistance. A member of the team will be in contact with you as soon as the issue has been fully reviewed.

I am sorry Gambino, for the (somewhat) thread hijacking. I didn’t originally plan to write more than the first post. Just needed to share my feelings on the situation somewhere. I’ll clam up for now.

KeyOrion – I think you mistake the intentions of my posts.

Inculpatus cedo – Thanks. I just wanted to relieve some stress by talking about the situation.

Yes, but waiting 72 hours (or longer) to get your account back for something you did not do is a pain. My girlfriend is very upset, and I cannot blame her. Also, we’re aware it could have been suspended/terminated for something some time ago, but given she has never done anything against ToS, it is a little heartbreaking. I know none of you really care, and some might even suspect otherwise.

In the end, they will either refuse to give it back, in which we will have to fight them on it (big hassle), or they will give it back and say “Oops, sorry”. The problem is that they really need to refine their methods. Because somewhere somehow, somebody kittened up and couldn’t tell the difference between a real player and a bot. If I seem annoyed or upset, wouldn’t you be as well? To tell me “they do the best they can” I cannot believe it. For the company I work for, when we detect cheaters we at least send them a message detailing what has happened, and why it happened. Rarely we are wrong. In the few cases we have been wrong, we were quick to reverse our mistake without the player losing irreplaceable time.

To be clear – I’m not pleading they remedy it quickly, or calling them out on screwing up. I’m simply detailing the little bit of havoc this mistake can cause. I don’t enjoy seeing my girlfriend sad and upset. I’m also afraid she might not want to return to the game after this problem is resolved.

This has just happened to my girlfriend’s account. Last night she was killing Trolls in Wayfarer’s (to work on Troll Slayer achievement), today she’s banned for the exact same reason as OP.

She’s submitting a support ticket, but I hope it gets resolved before dailies reset tomorrow. We never miss the dailies! :-(

It’s crazy because I see botters all the time, and I know for a fact when they are. Most are easy to spot, though some are tricky! I report them, yet I see them logged on for day after day, botting away.

I wish they would, would definitely buy it.

Also other additions would/could be Quaggan, Kodan, Tengu, and Hylek

Yep, I would really love to play as a Skritt. As others have said, I’ve wanted to play as them the first time I seen them. Just really hope I can someday :-)

By the way, really good job. Hope you don’t mind, I used the head for my Steam profile picture