Guild Wars 2

German bis is strong in the OP. Where is VII, Scnd, VoTF?
Anyways, never forgetti when you could have fun and jokes in WvW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vkoF5hsj38

You dont have to play any real WvW. Just do the easy dailys like Standing AFK in a ruin, spending 25 badges of honor (Anet gifts these to you for AP milestones), killing a Dollyak or capping a sentry. They take about 1-2 minutes each and you use them to finish your daily.
For every WvW you get the liquid WvW rewards that you can use until the reward track is complete. Takes you about 20-30 days if you just do you dailys in WvW. No additional playtime needed.

WvW Siege Blueprints. Nobody who is serious about WvW uses them for anything other than crafting superior siege.

Pathetic attempt to force players into zones with long loading screens and pathetic FPS.
Of all the things wrong with WvW someone decided to remove the convinient way to craft in this faulty game. Good job Anet.

Nothing changed, some sort of overhaul will come sometime. Maybe 2016, maybe not.

Dont play if you dont like it, easy solution.

Listen guys they worked on the overhaul for over a year already and still couldnt find an answer to things like population imbalance etc.
This should be more than enough proof they dont know what to do with the gamemode. So they’ll do something and when its ready we will be told its to late to change anything, enjoy whatever they came up with.

So just leave the game, leave the forums, let the game(mode) die its natural death and move on in life. Play some other games, go out etc, just leave this ship and dont force yourself to do something you dont like.
If you have any hope left just check out on GW2 news once in a few weeks and come back when you feel like Anet improved anything.
If you keep playing while complaining on the forums Anet wont care since you are active players and thats what they care about.

By creating 1000 low qualitiy troll threads.

Expect nothing. That way you wont get disappointed as hard when the update breaks it again.

If he didnt work on WvW content since march, does it mean he made the new BL?
OKOK I show myself out.

Kraljevo.2801:

Don’t make me reminisce about the metrornado days.

Predicting where an enemy will be in 5 seconds then being static rooted while casting and then using a 180s cs elite in the hopes you predicted it correctly is quite a difference to what people seem to be complaining about currently.

Please make the nameplates in the colour of their choosen team. So red vs blue in most cases.

Bubi.5237:

Trollin’ with the old meme-like pic, ’cos I was not banned yet on the forums which is a shame:

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/158908/ColinAlchemy.jpg

To add to this:
http://i.imgur.com/eACzJ4e.gif

Offair.2563:

To screw wvwers over once again. Anyway the chests you get out the rank chests are acc bound, they dont stack but you can just put in bank and get the proofs on another toon you want.

Edit: horrible typo

There is an even better solution.
- You open the chests because they dont stack.
- You put the soulbound Proofs Of Heroics into your bank.
- Log in into a different character and go to the Hero Points merchant.
- Buy the hero points, it takes the Proofs directly from your bank, you dont have to have it in your inventory. Despite the soulbound nonsense it still works.

Screenshots first: http://imgur.com/a/3vDF9

So at least in my matchup all the supply depots that are in base of your own BL and are refilled by EotM results are all red so only the red server can actually use them.
Its red on my BL (I tried to interact but there is no option, its not just the colour) and same goes for the blue BL.
I know this wont get fixed in a while, its just for your entertainment.

ggwp game broken rito pls fix

Lets be real here. Nothing will happen until another MMO comes out, drags the WvW playerbase over, management decides to fight back and another time x (whatever good development cycle is. My best guess is around 15 months) to actually fix WvW.
So set your alarm clock for CU release and then watch if something happens. Up until then its just hot air and talks.

Woop S.7851:

Anyone seen or used the new squad system? Does it work yet?

It was so buggy in their latest test before HoT that I was delayed.

Aeolus.3615:

Kanebrake.6192:

grifflyman.8102:

The new WvW map is what people have been asking for…

Absolutely incorrect. This new map is the exact opposite of what people have been asking for.

How so?

It makes people harder to karmatrain, it gives more objectives, more places to scout, more to zergbusting when other group gets scouted, more strategies, more places to pull of players/groups into cliffs , less brain dead PVD, where 1 player could capture stuff w/o much effort.

The old BL’s were nothing less nothing more than off time karma train PVD zones.

Also it gives more room for improvements.

No actually its the same number of objectives with more narrow chockes in between them (esp the eastern half of the map is just kittened) where if you meed a zerg or another equally sized guild group you will never want to push due to chockes. Less to scout because lets be real the matches will still be decided by coverage and since even towers have WPs really quickly now you can travel around even faster if you are the dominant server.
Roamers might have a lot of fun if they want to pick peolpe off. There are long distances to travel if you arent owning the map.

Before LordAnetDefener arrives and tells me some tales, same story as with EotM. It was designed, build and textured before we even knew it is happening. Beta tests were just there to fix bugs and performance issues, not actually to give feedback on the map itself.

The western and southern parts are ok imo. PVE perma stealth and so on have to go quickly tho.

My best guess was that Anet designed the map with the thought that people who want fights will use the new guild arena for that which is funny because we actually wanted meaningful fights in WvW.

Having 500+ ping every evening I play in this game for about a year now. Anet fix your kittenty relations to ISPs in europe and make it playable again.

insanemaniac.2456:

Slomo.1029:

Dont screw it up on purpose since you obviously can do it.

why be rude

Because the only way this end up not working is a deliberate decision by the dev team.

You are right Frou, so here is my feedback:
Anet, please make it big enough for 20v20 matches in the same fashion we have in OS now. Dont screw it up on purpose since you obviously can do it.
Our limiting factor is size of the arena and the number of players that can join.
All you have to do is increase a number and make the space bigger if needed.
Thank you.

GrandHaven.1052:

Sogradde.8016:

It’s been ages and the lag is still very bad, every day past 6.

If you insist on not fixing this, I will insist on not buying your expansion. It’s that simple.
I’ve tried contacting support, I posted in the bug forum but still nothing happened. I am so done with this game.

You tell him!

/Sarcasm.

You make it sound like they don’t want to fix It.

They certainly make it look like it.

I mean, cmon. Map caps lowered and a month of no communication at all.
Ah BTW it was only a guy who was supposed to work on sPvP servers who caught the attention of this. So guess what he started to work on right after he made everyone believe something will happen about this just because he saw it?

EDIT: No offense, but usually Anet likes to talk how great they are as soon as they do SOMETHING “postitive” to WvW. Silence means only that nothing will happen in the next month.

gennyt.3428:

Windsagio.1340:

Trajan.4953:

It really does seem like A-net is missing a huge opportunity here.

Let’s be frank though, how’s it monetize compared to its cost?

Be a bit more creative with the vanity gem shop offerings for one.

• Custom commander tag packs (stars, swords, staves, hearts, skulls, letters, class icons, numbers, whatever; switch packs like we do finishers).
• More varied armor skins (looking at you trench coats) and not just entire all or nothing “outfits”.
• Guild capes.
• Gem shop only weapon skins that can be dyed.
• Gem shop emotes.
• Some more trolly finishers (they’re getting there with the rainbow unicorn). I want to stomp someone with the fiery breath of Balthazar or a knock off carebear that hugs itself while twirling around spraying confetti and sparkles. :P

Just stuff off the top of my head.
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I’m certain if they added custom arena with PvE rules people would pay for them.

Bruh, I would pay gems for a commander tag that you can see over 3 name tags instead of it being hidden behind everything and impossible to spot in a fight.

But I guess layer prioritisation isnt Anets cup of tea.

Its still funny to me to see the We vanquish Worlds tag around. So WvW went from WSR→AG→Disband→revive on WSR→AG now?

Cant sell lag reduction in the gem store.
Meanwhile black wings sell really well.
Combined with the work on HoT, I doubt anybody at Anet is currently looking into this. They rather have their players paying for WTFast than talking to the providers what this bullkitten is about.

Wanna get this banned? Start participating in this with lowbie characters for linen farm.
Suddenly Anet is interested and Proheals will be sitting OS 24/7.

Have to bump my own topic since the answer is clear now.
Have this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2yoyjo/chris_whiteside_leaving_arenanet/
Thanks for your work on GW2 Mr Whiteside, sadly it had to end earlier than I hoped.

Bonus post by Mr. Whiteside himself: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2wglwz/api_cdi_2015/coqusk4?context=3

For some reason after the Guild Hall CDI we got a break. Then we got a new subforum for CDIs, and then the CDI communication stopped completly just when the CDI list said GvG would be next.
So I am asking, is there something planned for before HoT release or has the idea been scrapped completly in favor of the expansion?

lordkrall.7241:

They had semi-open beta for EotM where guilds could apply for access. Said beta went on for quite some time, and rather many things changed based on the feedback.

Stop telling lies. I am 100% certain you werent in the beta then.
The beta was about finding bugs of this map. Not about the features of the map. Most notable change that happened due to the beta are most of the fences you see around there so you dont get knocked off so easily.

When the map was released (with the changes made due to feedback) people raged like mad about how that was not what they wanted at all…

When the map was released people wanted a new WvW map. Since EotM isnt connected to WvW in any way apart from some supply for the green servers, its simply not a WvW map. Instead Anet gave the map ridiculus rewards and created a Karma train map.

…and that it was the worst thing ever and that ArenaNet are useless and can’t do anything at all right. Despite them doing exactly what people in the beta said.

Not gonna argue about Anets capabilities, I know you are their unofficial PR man.
But kitten , you are so wrong about what happeened in the beta of EotM, its not even funny.

Dear Mr. Katzbach. Consider using the tools you already have available and you’ll see there isnt even a problem to fix.
http://i.imgur.com/DFBPmYu.png

The direction of the game is qute clear. Its making money via gem shop.
The rest of the game is what doesnt earn money, so it only gets lucklaster updates.
Thats the only explanation I can come up with. I cant find any other reason why Anet sometimes does good and sometimes bad updates. But regardless of what feedback they got from the last “content” update, they keep on trying something different and “new” every time.
The gemshop however, gets its new items every other week, and most of the time you know what to expect and what it will cost you. If that isnt a obvious scheme then I dont know what is.

lordkrall.7241:

Sirendor.1394:

Oh yeah, in be4 the people saying we got Edge of the Mists… that’s not World vs. World… that’s a pve/pvd champion karmatrain.

And yet it was something that was created and tweaked based on what the WvW-players said and wanted during the closed beta of said map.

So maybe that is why we have a lack of big updates (because we do have updates)? They don’t find it worth spending time and resources doing something people say they want when it just ends up with people complaining about how bad it is and how it is not what was asked for (despite being created with the help of the players)

I dont know if you were in the beta that you are always using as an negative example, but bro let me tell you how it went.
One of anets Living Story team build the map.
They designed the mechanics of the map.
They invited the players to test the map for bugs and maybe tweak the mechanics a little.
They did not, and I repeat it for you since you love everything Anet does, they did NOT ask us how we would build the map, what a new WvW map would need etc. They asked us to BETATEST a map that was already there. They didnt ask what we want, they asked what we thought of their creation.

So please, for the love of the flying spaghetti monster, stop using EotM as a negative example in every thread to defend Anet from the evil minded WvW players. Simply because the WvW players didnt design it.

Sirendor.1394:

Isn’t there an upgrade extractor in the gemstore?? It’s probably overpriced, but it exists.

At the cost of 250 GEMS PER USE I wont buy one just to try out.
Even then, its cheaper to rebuy all the Runes/Sigils again.

Like seriously, having 200g+ worth of runes and sigils being stuck in armor sets/weapons I dont use anymore really sucks.

So since I leveled a Necro to 80 with the new player expirience I feel eligible to necro this thread to post some videos because Enns is too lazy for that.
In other words for twitter people #GvGrevival

Heyho,
a few days ago I noticed that the Rata Sum and Lions Arch respective Master Tailors dont have the Runes tab if you want to buy some Runes for inventory bags. I didnt look for other Tailors, but I suspect they are all bugged.
First a picture from LAs Tailor: http://i.imgur.com/730P5Zh.jpg
Note he has 4 Tabs.
Now a picture of LAs Leatherworker: http://i.imgur.com/qWbSkRi.jpg
5 Tabs and the 2nd one is Runes.

No idea why you dislike people with light armor so much, but now its getting weird. :P

#AdoptHabib
Message Body length must at least be 15.

1) Nothing, I stopped playing/caring about it. When I did, it was the fun I could have with my guild.

2) Its stale.
Devs have a lot of stuff to catch up QoL wise before any new “content” like a new map is even imaginable.
But whats worst about it is the ammount of wasted potential I had to witness in the past 2 years.

3) T2 currently (EU)

4) Yes, twice actually. In the beginning of 2013 from WSR to AG cuz WSR WvW was already dead back then. Sometime before season 2 because some leading AG figures didnt want my guild on their server, so we left them.

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

• How does that player feel?
• What questions is that player going to ask?
  * Is this a bug?
  * Why is it only different in PvP?
• Who is going to answer those questions?
• Are they going to try and seek out someone to answer these questions?
• Is the person they (if they do ask) going to know the actual reason for this change?
• Is that player going to stop playing PvP or GW2 all together?

Was any of these questions relevant in GW1? I dont remember a single player in GW1 who quit/stopped playing a gamemode because of some skills being different in PvP than in PvE.
I know the playerbase has changed over the years, people have a much shorter attention span etc. but I am just genuenly interested if someone ever asked these questions in GW1. Because IMO this is a very good solution because PvE and PvP are THAT different combat wise. I could imagine a split could even help people to play better PvP.

ArrDee.2573:

Why do you guys at Arenanet think us players are so stupid! One of the reasons you guys gave for locking out the new grandmaster traits was “so new players don’t feel overwhelmed”! That is the worst reason ever! And from that reasoning came an awful decision to have these traits cost money! Crazy! We are not all dumb! Stop treating us this way!

Look there is this other game developer out there who made a game called League of Legends. And the way Riot approaches their customers and makes a lot of money I feel like upper Anet management decided to copy it. So Devs use the terms “unfun”, “too complicated for new players” and generally know better.
Its refreshing to play a different game where the developers actually treat you as an adult. Valve would be such a company right around the corner for Anet. Dota2 having a playerbase that basicly LOVES them with a game that was designed being a burden of knowledge and is still insanely popular 10 years after starting as a little WC3 mod.

Have it.

Sorry Mark, but I think you understand yourself where the frustration comes from if all WvW gets is a “we’re working on something we cant talk about”. Because the past 2 years we got the same answers and most of the time the actual “something” turned out to be not what the players have asked for.

Either you say “we’re working on commander squads/guild commander tags but we are in a very early stadium of development” and show some progress within the next month (for example screenshots or ready up streams) or people wont believe you.
Good luck though.

Hule.8794:

Devs dont read wvw forums

They do. They just dont answer because all they can say would disappoint the playerbase.

Look, when Season 2 ended there was a stream on the very same day talking about “how the season was”, they mentioned that there will be another CDI the following week on some topic I cant remember.
The fact that they didnt even bother to open the CDI Topic on this forum should be enough hints how many people actually work on WvW.

The old CDI threads didnt bring any change to WvW anyways. So basicly nothing of value was lost. Looks like Anet staff had the same opinion.

Except it wouldnt work because of a huge influx of trolls and not enough overflows to supply every GvG with their own one since the game creates overflows only if the current ones all reached their soft cap.

Welcome back! \o/

DevonCarver.5370:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

It has come to the point that as WvW has not received real updates since launch that we ourselves would not mind doing the testing.

I can appreciate that many people don’t like EotM, but don’t conflate a lack of updates that you personally like with a lack of updates. WvW has added a great deal of content and rewards over just the last calendar year.

Hopefully you will find more you like in future updates and we’ll continue to add to the game.

Hey Devon,
could you please look into the following issue some nice guy has brought up on reddit?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2b5uib/trying_to_get_your_own_side_killed_and_fixing/

Thanks for your time.
(not expecting an answer, just wanted to bring this up due to obvious reasons)

Skady.5916:

Oh look! another GvG thread to be ignored by ANet

Surprised?

No honestly, I really like your idea. Spectators should be allowed in Wisp form (like at the Mad King JP last year) on the pods above the arena with some aditional fences or glass walls around them. These pods could be lowered a bit for better visibility.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

But those arent WvW maps, they are PvE maps.
And dont forget that most of the devs are working on PvE stuff, hence why they get biweekly updates called the Living Story. PvE actually has a TEAM working on things.

They even have 4 teams working on Living Story! TO THE PITCHFOIRKS!

Seriously guys, just embrace Anet hasnt decided to put EotM mechanics onto our beloved Borderlands. EotM just showed us why we should be happy with what we have.

Phoenixlin.8624:

Your every word is wrong.

We have exploits and exploiters (which I won’t explain them in here since ANet chooses silencing people that talk about hacks instead of fixing them) since day -3 which the most game breaking issue in this game. In Season 2, many servers wanted a fix or at least a punishment; however, all they did was locking and deleting the topics. Those hacks and exploits are still(nope I don’t use them) there and I don’t predict any fix them soon.

But I am good at predicting white knight arguments. Probably there will be “2 years is not enough for a fix. IT IS SOFTWARE, YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND!” post is coming.

No. Look at it this way: as long as your game doesnt crash when somebody else uses hacks this is NOT a game breaking bug.

And actually, this kind of stuff isn’t the fault or even concern the WvW Dev team (if it exists). If they would choose to ban the exploiters accounts, the hack itself would be still intact and most likely published everywhere. Imagine if even people who dont know how to use google would get access to the hack.
This kind of stuff is for engine developers. Sadly they have to do a lot of other work aswell and nobody wants to do bugfixing as a full time job, I can tell you that.

Xia.3485:

A game breaking bug would get more attention internally and would potentially be fixed faster. Unfortunately we’d feel it a whole lot more than a vendor who’s wares are “temporarily disabled”.

I’m not saying its a good bug, but it could be worse. One thing is certain though, the quantity of whining and blatant speculation in this thread is unwarranted. In fact, if I may be so bold, I’ll even say I’m glad I don’t work in the gaming industry.. where a bug can get you mountains of hate mail (and possibly even death threats).

I’m sure glad the industry I work in is much more civil.. heck, bugs in my industry don’t waste kids precious time waiting for pixel rewards.. our bugs only waste tens of thousands of dollars a day and potentially cause lose of life for our clients. And we never get hate mail when things go badly. Pretty telling.

Yes it would. And it would be a harsh reminder to Anet that WvW still exists. Seems like their management has forgotten this by now.
Not saying it has to be a change for the better though.

Me as a person is unable to rage at a the developers of a video game.
But nobody can stop me from making cynical comments about situations like these one.

Xia.3485:

Xillllix.3485:

There is no way a programmer would take over a week to fix a reward distribution problem when you can code an entire website in 2-3 days.

You have a lot of insight about code you’ve never seen before. So is the problem related to a database issue, or is it related to the client? Or how about the layers in between? Is it just the code that pops the chest that didn’t trig or is it the code that determines who’s in what realm and participated in the event?

Everything is easy when you gloss over details.

I agree its a bug that shouldn’t be in release code. But as a software developer myself for a medium sized company, I know details slip, priorities change and small issues can balloon to be quite large in a distributed system handled by different teams.

They’ll fix it when they fix it. Fortunately its not a game breaking bug. Its just a skin.

Kinda ironic. On one hand I feel the same about your first part. Software is never free of bugs, and will never be.

But I think its really unfortunately that it’s not a game breaking bug. Because that would make the Devs sweat for the second time because of WvW related stuff. (first time was the OS arena because of the GvG incident)
It could mean Anet would allocate more manpower to WvW for a few weeks to deliver some actual content to play with before the next dreadful season. And I’d consider this as a small victory over the usual approach to WvW related updates.