Guild Wars 2

I fail to see the problem. Focus and ranged party can still tag up, so..?

Svarty.8019:

[b]As work on Heart of Thorns wraps up, we’ll be treating resolving the remaining core areas in WvW as our #1 live development feature priority[/b

WHat is this “WvW” you’re talking about? Is it another open world boss you can mindlessly auto attack?

It’s lag and it has been going on for a while. ANet doesn’t bother fixing it because it’s not on their priority list.

Lag is worse than ever. I guess this will be ignored for another 2 years?

How do you have a guild without having ever played the game? Something is fishy here.

The current ANet has nothing to do with the ANet that brought us the original Guild Wars. Back then it was about fun, now all they care about is money.
They only work on stuff they can monetize so don’t get your hopes up.

Who cares? It’s not like you gain anything from winning a week anyway, lol.

minbariguy.7504:

So yes, if someone has an aversion to the entire group of people who identify as gay, or discriminates against the entire group of people who identify as gay, it does mean that person is homophobic, whether or not they experience fear as a component of their homophobia.

Arachnophobia is the discrimination of spiders then?

coso.9173:

the amout of people that don’t have any idea about what they’re talking trying to pass as soe sort of expert on the topic is saddening.
I guess what they say is true, “the problem with closed minds is that they come with open mouths.”
your hairdresser wouldn’t even be able to mention his husband if it were not for all the advances in lgbt (a.k.a human) rights.
Do you think those rights were won because of people casually mentioning their husbands? or by people actively looking to fight for a more equal society?

I guess you have looked at the video I’ve embedded in my post. Is that how you picture “fighting for equal rights”?

This thread reeks of Reddit and Tumblr.

I have a hard time understanding where people get the “homophobia” and “transphobia” from because nobody is scared by gay people. What actually scares me though, is the effect these people have by enforcing their agenda.

Interesting anecdote at this point: My hairdresser happens to be homosexual and other than sometimes mentioning his husband and what they did together, he doesn’t bring it up that much. That is because he’s a respectable man who happens to be into other men instead of women.
The people pushing the agenda however, are mostly flamboyant, attention seeking narcissistic drama queens, that try to out-victim each other. That’s where terms like “cis-privilege” come from. These people are either from really broken homes or so incredibly boring, that they have to make up an entire fake persona, just to feel being part of something.

And this is mainly the reason why no sane person values your opinion.

Great, so people who play games to leave reality behind for a while get force-fed the stuff that’s shoved down our throats everywhere. Same-sex relationships, transgender NPCs.. What’s coming next? Demonization of masculinity? “Healthy-at-every-size” promotion?

Well, as long as we’re politically correct, by force if necessary..

Hurr durr toxic!

Nice meme there, edgelord.

lordkrall.7241:

Sogradde.8016:

I really don’t see what’s cool about removing more content to make the game even more casual but hey, whatever floats your boat I guess?

It will more or less completely change how WvW is played though. At least for a while. And that is big.

As for making it more casual I would say that depends on your point of view.
As of right now you can more or less completely ignore the enemy keep and tower and just keep killing off dollies and they will remain wood forever. With the upcoming changes they will get upgraded sooner or later no matter what. Which means that you actually have to attack the targets themselves to stop the upgrades, which is quite a bit harder than just killing a dolly.

What Astralporing said, basically.

At the end of the day, it will make the stronger servers even stronger and nightcapping will have even more influence than before.

Imho they are purposely sabotaging WvW because they want to push their stupid HoT gimmicks. We’ll see how it works out but I am honestly disgusted already.

lordkrall.7241:

and the more or less complete overhaul of a major part of WvW is something extra cool.

I really don’t see what’s cool about removing more content to make the game even more casual but hey, whatever floats your boat I guess?

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.

Gunnar’s Hold WvW today from about 7 to 10 GMT+1: Unplayable.
Massive lag, skills not working, disconnecting, etc.

Why would you offer an online game if you cannot handle the players? It’s been like this for months now and I am growing tired of it.

So, last dev post was 2 weeks ago. Do they consider it fixed now? Because it’s not, I can barely play around prime time.

Did I understand that correctly, we will not be able to put points into every trait line if we like? It’s 3 lines max?

What about builds like this, this, this or this?

What happened to “play the way you like”?

FearedbytheGods.8617:

Sogradde.8016:

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You came to this thread 3 days ago……

Your that guy who wants to have a drink after the bar is closed.

Just relax.

You don’t have to trust ANet but don’t bring your spam to a thread that largely seems resolved.

Come back after the patch if theirs no update and spam then.

So my opinion is less valid because I didn’t post a “same problem here!!!111” in this thread 2 months ago?
I guess you’d be surprised if you knew how many people read these threads silently without posting.

Then again, please accept my humble apology for not having enough “street credibility” to join your gang of cool kids who waited a couple of days longer.

Because they are so reliable…

We aren’t quite ready to go into all the details here, but what I can say is you will see a specific way to build precursor items on your way to a legendary. On top of this, you’ll also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013. Building your precursor will require a large amount of the new crafting material rewards listed above, 500 in crafting, and likely a combination of other items earned for completing more specific content in the game.

The addition of new skills and traits on a regular basis will of course mean expanded variety of abilities, builds, and tactics in PvP as well. As these additional skills and traits are added, they’ll be automatically unlocked and available for competitive PvP just like all existing skills/traits work today.

What about new WvW abilities? About the PvP matchmaking fix? About more dungeon paths?

I’ve passed the point of trusting what ANet says long ago.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

Different dog with different fleas?

What I mean is, if they released an alternative and it was buggy as well, can you imagine the out cry in this thread? lol if I was a developer and that happened I’d have to take a day to psychologically prepare myself.

A fix is coming for the BIGGEST roadblock, which is the infiltration bug. I’m content at this time because I expect a fix soon™.

My only concern is why it took them over a month to come back to us on the infiltration bug. My guess is they weren’t working on it (perhaps even aware of it). Then when the season 2 value pack was released, well, it was just insensitive.

We still have bugs from launch. We still have broken legendaries since 2013 iirc. We still have unbearable lag in WvW. What on earth makes you think they will fix this anytime soon?

Gaile Gray.6029:

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You seem to have missed the part where I directed my criticism at ANet and not her in particular.
Also you seem to have missed the part where most people moved away from asking when it’s done, to proposing an alternative. Because let’s be real: We know by now how you handle problems and how you love to ignore key issues for months or even years.

After all, you treat your customers pretty badly so don’t be surprised if we don’t bother asking nicely.

Yes, it’s nice that Lauren joined the thread and yes, we are well aware of her not being responsible for bugfixing. However, throwing a bone and patting yourself on the back is not good community work. I thought you guys had learned that lesson by now.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

robotosis.4872:

I do apologize for the increased negative tone in my comments, but after checking the instance every single day and checking the forums several times a day for over a month, it starts to get to me.

It’s ok, I understand. It’s frustrating on our end as well.

I really don’t understand you (meaning ANet, not you personally). If it’s so frustrating for you, why do you not offer a temporary workaround? As in: Offer the missing ascended pieces at the vendor. I mean, you are selling those bugged episodes right now at the gem shop for real money, right? One might go all the way and say this is blatant fraud.

However, I just want that stupid armor and it’s not like this is a particularly hard achievement either, the people who already have it certainly will understand this.

Can you please elaborate on the thought process behind letting people wait for weeks, possibly even months before giving us a solution?

Exactly. replace “soon” with “maybe” and you have a more accurate statement, regarding Anet’s history.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Hey everyone, I’d like to give an update on this.

QA has been looking at these for a long time, for a few months and since this thread was new actually, and our major problem is that we just don’t get them to reproduce on our internal environments… or for our personal accounts on live.

Unforgiving Infiltration – We repro’d this one and we should expect a fix “soon”

Dancer in the Dark/No Refuge/World Summit – We’re no repro on these, and it’s difficult with the thread merges for my guys to find out if these are still problems or there’s another step we’re missing. If you are still not getting these challenge motes any additional information (did you skip around in the story, etc?) you have would be really valuable.

If you have such a hard time reproducing the issue, why don’t you simply contact someone from this thread ingame? Feel free to contact me for all I care but stop this abysmal (lack of) support.
I really don’t understand how ANet can even think about justifying this sort of behaviour? Just deactivate the achievement until you can be kitten d to fix this so people can get their AP and luminescent armor pieces. If I had bought the episode from the Gem Store, I would sue you to get my money back since everyone knows how you “handle” bugs.

We all know outfits are a lazy way out of actually designing armor for three different tiers but can you at least make them significantly cheaper then? I like some of the outfits but I don’t like them enough to spend almost the full price of an armor set on something that can’t be mixed & matched. Something along the lines of 400-500 gems would be more appropriate for technically ONE piece of equipment.

How am I supposed to play like this? Look at the kitten ping, it’s like that every evening and you KEEP IGNORING THAT ISSUE!

Why are we not getting any answers on this?

Sorel.4870:

Kasteros.9847:

My point is that anet nefed small guild groups cos too many ppl qqued about being killed by em while in blob

I see you want to continue in this pro360noscope fashion. Very well. I literally never saw a single thread about that on this sub forum. The GvG community seriously need to stop thinking that Anet thinks about it every time they balance something in the game.

I believe that Anet thought about nerfing the zerg tactics in general, as well as how over-powered stability was in WvW. Have you ever seen a single engineer in your “skilled” zergs? Ask yourself why. Hint: (no stab).
Rangers? (no AoE ranged damage, no stab)
Thieves? (no AoE ranged damage, no stab)
Mesmers? (no AoE ranged damage, no stab)

Ok, WvW is unbalanced. Ok, the game is balanced about small scale. But if guardian was as brokenly OP in pvp as it was last week in WvW, imagine the kittenstorm on the pvp subforum! So you lost because you sticked to your GWEN outdated meta? Adapt or get rekt, that’s the tough law of WvW.

No offense m8 but I really believe you’ve never seen and/or been part of a dedicated raiding group. All of the classes you mentioned (savefor the rangers who still play a niche role) play a huge role in raiding groups.
The fact that you, even though it was explained to you, still believe raiding groups use the same tactics as PUG blobs tells me you lack serious knowledge about this issue and are not in a position to comment on this topic.

In other news: I think it would be a compromise to simply say you can only lose 1 stability per second (I think someone already made a similar suggestions) that way you still get to use the benefits of stability for a limited amount of time but it’s less of a win-button.

So is raiding dead now?

Another Friday, another unplayable reset.
Another lack of response from ANet. 10/10 customer support.

So, for the umpteenth time, this is a thread for improving the current situation in WvW because let’s face it: population imbalance really hurts the game.

First things first: If an ANet employee, preferrably one of the devs reads this, please give some feedback on how (im)possible it is to make this happen as after all, that’s the most important factor.

Since most of the ideas we offered in the old suggestions forum, in this forum and during the adop-a-dev thingie got ignored by ANet, here’s my next attempt at trying to even out imbalances somewhat.

How does it work?
This works by small pop. servers “borrowing” players from high pop. servers.The basic idea behind it is, that you as a player from a high pop. server feel like helping out, looking for a challenge or your matchups are simply full, so you queue up for “other realms”.
Once your queue pops, you get a message saying something like “The realm of Server X requires your help. Etc…” and you get the usual queue dialog with Travel, Leave Queue and Reenter Queue.
As you get to visit another server’s WvW maps, you keep your skills, traits, equipment etc. but you assume some spirit mist warriorish form for coolness purposes and to distinguish borrowed players from the native ones.

How does one server get to borrow players?
Well this is rather tough one to balance but here is what I came up with. One server should be able to trigger this only once every couple of hours (eg: 6 hours, meaning 4 times a day) and each event should last for one or two hours, this is for balancing purposes.
The exact time of cooldown and duration could also be linked to the current server’s placement but this is up to the devs. It should be somewhat similar to the Siegerazer event. Maybe costing gold and badges or requiring a pre-event to occur? This is something that should be discussed in this thread.

Rewards?!
Yes, there shall be rewards. Other than the usual rewards for capping stuff, there should be additional rewards. My initial thought was, to give bonus chests for every 15 minutes you stay in the match but this would only lead to people AFking everywhere. So maybe the rewards should be linked to a change in overall tick during the event? This would give people an incentive to actually try and improve the matchup.

Additional thoughts:
- Borrowed players count towards the player limit on maps, leading to high pop. servers having no benefit from it at all.
- Event can be used strategically to improve your numbers for a short amount of time to achieve something specific.

- Like everything else, it might be prone to trolling. However, the positive effects most likely outweight the negative ones.
- Server identity might suffer. On the other hand, borrowed players would not have access to their host server’s TS/Mumble so this might balance out.

- Players should NOT be able to join their own matchup in any way, to avoid manipulation!

Please add some constructive criticism.

Still having the same problem, now in PvP aswell. Can’t even see the server browser anymore. And i’m having several seconds lag (if I don’t get disconnected that is). AM I supposed to stop playing? Because that’s how people stop playing.

Since you, for some reason, removed the lag general thread, I will post this here.
The lag, especially in WvW is getting ridiculous again to the point where I simply time out for a minute or two before it goes on or disconnects.
This has happened before and with every iteration every couple of weeks/months it gets worse and I don’t feel like buying an expansion for a game that is unplayable.

No, I am not downloading anything, yes my internet connection is fine.

Victory.2879:

Welcome to gw2 Anni. Some classes can land 6+ crit hits in the high thousands in the same time as a staff ele hits one skill for 600 damage whilst having rooted you with immob and then disappear and run away to reset if you happened to dodge at just the right moment or their combo failed.

Because eles are so helpless, right?

This game is as casual as possible so you shouldn’t have any problems getting into it. However, please note that there is no such thing as endgame and the developers like to lock up existing content instead of making new stuff. I wouldn’t reccomend spending any more money in form of gems on this.

Because adjusting droprates and thinking of actual rewards is hard, whereas cluttering your inventory with junk and giving you a false sense of accomplishment is easy.

“Do it as lazily as possible” pretty much sums up ANet’s work ethic.

Zeivu.3615:

Sogradde.8016:

There will be no new classes, why do you guys keep asking for that?
Meaningful content isn’t worth their time as long as people still waste money on gems to buy the kitten stuff they put out.

They have stated that while no new classes or races are currently in the works, there is nothing to say others won’t be added at a later date. I won’t expect such occurrences to happen for at least another year.

Let’s be realistic here. We haven’t even gotten the scavenger hunt or new legendaries, wich were both confirmed to appear yet.
They don’t care and they won’t start to care as long as they can squeeze out maximum money from minimal work.

How is the lag from two updates ago still not fixed? I haven’t been able to play any WvW at all for the past weeks and could barely finish the living story with lots of rubberbanding and the obligatory disconnect every now and then.

There will be no new classes, why do you guys keep asking for that?
Meaningful content isn’t worth their time as long as people still waste money on gems to buy the kitten stuff they put out.

So, another rehashed holiday event replaces the Living Story release? Who would have thought…
They need to pad out the little content they already have I guess.

They cannot monetize a surrender button so it won’t end up in the game.

butch.8136:

Anet has a gemstore team. No resources are pulled from the other teams.

They should fire the gem store team and hire someone who knows how to make a game instead.

Vayne.8563:

Sogradde.8016:

Vayne.8563:

So the 200 people in my guild interested in PvE aren’t going to be happy about it? Gotcha. Oh, I forgot, PvE is only dungeons.

/rolls eyes

So you asked all 200 of them personally? Don’t speak for everyone Vayne, gosh!

I didn’t ask all of them personally. We don’t just randomly invite anyone to the guild. We don’t have an open application. We don’t recruit in Lion’s Arch and at some point, I’ve talked to every single member of the Guild about Guild Wars 2.

There are a handful of people who are unhappy, including one who posts on the forums. There are also a whole bunch of people who are VERY happy.

Everyone has some complaint about the game, whether it’s not being able to skip cut scenes in stories, or too many badges they need to get the stuff they want, or they didn’t like a specific episode of the Living Story.

But a hundred people in my guild log in every single week and play, most of us happily.

I’m not sure why it would surprise you that people who join a specific type of guild like a specific type of content and so would generally as a rule be happy or unhappy. For example, we’re not a guild filled with dungeon runners and the PvPers in the guild (such as we are) are mega casual.

The stuff they like is very similar to the stuff I like so why would they be happy?

Well you implied every single one of your 200 guildies would be happy, didn’t you? If you did not ask every single one of them, how can you know? Are you speaking for them Vayne? Are you the hivemind?

#StopSpeakingForMeVayne

I know how much you like arguing semantics.

Exactly what we needed, more gem shop stuff. Yay.

Vayne.8563:

So the 200 people in my guild interested in PvE aren’t going to be happy about it? Gotcha. Oh, I forgot, PvE is only dungeons.

/rolls eyes

So you asked all 200 of them personally? Don’t speak for everyone Vayne, gosh!

ANet ruined our server with their stupid system. We don’t have many WvW guilds left but we cannot acquire new guilds since we’re a high population server according to the gem price. This is thanks to all the PvE casuals who don’t want to and don’t have to leave the server due to megaserver shenanigans.

We will never get back the removed armor sets and they will never tell us why. That’s because the devs hate fun but more importantly: they hate us and they don’t care about what we like.

joshc.3129:

if you replay S2 from start to when it finally finishes and if we ever get to be able to replay S1 that is an expansion pack worth of content

No.. Not at all. Remember when ANet actually handed out large chunks of content for free? Remember the Sorrow’s Furnace update from GW1, that alone was worth more content than an entire Living Story season in GW2.
And don’t even try to compare the Living Story to one of the real expansions… Living Story is a failed experiment but ANet loves to hang onto stupid stuff because it’s oh so innovative and new, instead of accepting how it drives away their playerbase.

Inb4 “don’t speak for me bla bla”.

CMM.6712:

My gameplay experience is not the same as yours. Just seems like you made a post to complain and bash.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Meanwhile no one in my guild complains of massive lag or disconnects.

You really can’t read, can you?

You don’t want to give us new content, we get that but can you please make it so I can actually play the existing content? I couldn’t finish the Living Story update because it always lags out and I disconnect and now I can’t even play reset with my guild anymore.

I’ve seen several threads popping up all around the forums of people complaining about the lag since the latest update but still nothing happened. Why do you want us to ditch this game so bad?