Guild Wars 2

I suggest that Anet finally eliminates Tier 5 and merges all servers that are rest and make this game mode enjoyable for all that have been loyal to this game for 4+ years and STILL play it every single day. That is the least they can do for ‘population balance’ since server linkings have done nothing, because bandwagoners (I have been forced to become one too) will always move to a high tier server and overstack one server for the period of one linking. It is always the same, and if Anet had time to actually LOOK into what is happening in their game, they would know and maybe fix it. Highly unlikely tho, so hope for a better linking and not to be the main server …

Or just bandwagon like the most …

So,
after a long time I dusted off my old school ‘Worker Warrior’ for WvW, since the new epidemic meta is really annoying and big in condition bursts, and vanilla warrior build with shouts and warhorn did a job well for condi-clear.

BUT I realized that warhorn skills have been nerfed to only condition CLEAR instead of CONVERSION that was once a great skill on both warhorn skills.

So please Anet, if you give such power to conditions in all kittening forms, give us some tools to fight back, for once it was written:

“QUICK BREATHING: Reduces recharge on warhorn skills. Warhorn skills convert conditions to boons.”

I have seen this before and with some stubborn commander and a good group, you can take back your EB corner in few hours – especially if you have some contacts in the other server being ‘occupied’ and coordinate the attacks at the same time.

It’s a challenge.

In my opinion that’s a bad idea: people usually go to EB to get some big fights, because map is created in such a way, that sooner or later big fights happen. And we like big fights. Without any cliffs to fall off. That’s why nobody wants to go to the desert borderland, because it is too much similar to EoTM, too big and too vertical. I don’t think many people enjoy that kind of WvW …

Oh didn’t see that update, thanks!

You can close this thread.

Title says it all:
Anyone know when the next WvW server linkups will take place?

Thanks!

Honestly I don’t like EB at all, it’s full of kitten s and random noobs and 3-way Stonemist fights with skill lag of 10 seconds and it is usually not enjoyable. If I can choose I usually go borderlands, alpine of course, where a big server vs server can happen without any skill lag or random rallybots kitten ing around. And yes, game was mostly designed to huddle into big groups and have big fights, if you wanna small scale go play PVP I guess your 5 vs 5 is ideal then. But it is true then in EB most of the time you can find a big group to fight with, so yes – most people go there. In primetime, I rather choose alpine before EB any time of day.

Lower tiers are slowly dying and will be dead in less then six months if no changes happen. Compared to higher tier, when a new player comes, he thinks this game mode is dead.

OK so my questions is, what are the chances of top 3 now FULL servers (FSP, Piken Square, Riverside) opening again in future linkup? Or are they overstacked already? Because basicly they will always be tier 1 matchups and have currently on them a very big number of former ‘bandwagoners’ that have stopped moving around smaller servers and have settled there for a long time. And there is very little competition for them outside the tier 1 matchup, so it is THE place for any serious WvW player to be in, but it is closed for transfer.

How does ArenaNet plane to solve this? Or have they not even thought about it.

IF YOU WANT to create a competitive enviroment for all or most of the players, just delete on or two bottom tiers and create such big linkups of all medium servers that they actually represent a serious WvW population and challenge the top 3 servers . Because matchups in lower tiers are just sad compared to higher tier and make look like YOUR game is dying but it is actually very alive, but you HAVE TO transfer higher and of course PAY GEMS.

Think about your game ArenaNet …

Wait, what? How did the warrior get invisible again?

Thanks for you input guys.

My original thought was, that the defending team should have the advantage when defending their tower/keep even if outnumbered, so they stand a chance of repelling the bigger group. Would make only sense, since attacking a fortified installation has always been a hard military operation for the attacker.
Yet with shield generators ArenaNet made it even easier for the attacker to take any tower/keep, making defending an even harder job then it was before. Yes you can make shield generators for defence, but in the long run, the bigger group wins, thus negating any chance for outnumbered defenders to keep their forts.
Just sayin’ its kitten annoying.

No I think I never upgraded to 64-bit client. What is weird is that my older mouse M510 used to work this keybinds without a problem and you could assign them in GW2 game options itself, I never had to bother with some 3rd party program to assign mouse keys.

Well still haven’t figured it out. :S

Recently a lot of (especially German) servers used shield generators as offensive weapon as they assault higher tier towers and keeps. For example green keep in EB can easily be taken with just building superior rams on outer double gates (since nobody from ArenaNet bothered to fix this double gates in 4 years) and they also reach inner gates. So big blobs of attackers then build 2-3 shield generators to permanently bubble the numerous superior rams, making it impossible to either disable them or to damage them with either skills or siege. So defenders are again on the worse side of this situation, since bigger enemy groups not only outnumber you, but can also out-siege and making defending a keep or a tower impossible. Not to mention if you mix catapults (that can shield bubble) and shield generators. And as you are focused to either disable or destroy the shield generators, door are usually open and keep is lost.

Thoughts?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe

First of all, thank You for helping!

Secondly, I made some screenshots of my settings in the Logitech SetPoint program (it is the newest version) – so maybe I did some mistakes there, but it should work if I set up like this. In the game only my basic two mouse buttons and scroll bar work.

http://imgur.com/a/4RHw1

So here I am trying to set up heal (keyboard 6) to mouse side button, which is mouse 5.

Not working so far.

Hello all,

I just bought this new mouse and I am having problems keybinding skills to the side buttons. I used to have M510 mouse and it was no problem to keybind heals to side button (mouse5) and swap weapons to other side button (mouse6). But now GW2 does not recoginize this buttons in order to get them assigned. I also tried to the SetPoint software and in the advance settings customly assigned the mouse keys to my desired keys, but it still don’t work.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thank you!

Bumping this thread of our server, since we just experienced another exodus of guilds to higher servers.

So we welcome everybody that wants to join a friendly silver league server – either if you are bored of constant ques and lag wars of gold league servers, or if you’re bored of bronze league low wvw numbers; Aurora Glade is a place for you then!

WELCOME!

To the small party of Riverside, that capped our northern towers without opening the doors or whatever you guys did with the help of hax, abuses, ‘features’ or anything else – I really hope honest members from your own server ban you from guilds and ArenaNet bans you from the game. Apparently you have no shame and are at the same time throwing a really, REALLY bad light on your entire server that is now in my book listed as THE server of chaters, abusers, hackers.

Have a nice Sunday.

Very Well said commander Knox.

This week I sure will have my eyes peeled for any weird action coming from RS players, and it looks like, we can soon make a compilation of screenshots of all ‘features’ and abuses that they have to use to get into keeps/towers despite the fact, they have bigger numbers almost everytime.

So see you on the battlefield RS, I will be the one with camera in hands.

Ekwah.8152:

Are you new to WvW? Otherwise you should know that this is not a hack. It is just a stupid “feature” (extremely high screen resolution + large screen). I know it sucks but you should blame arena net for making it possible.

‘Feature’? I would call it an exploit, because I presume most people do not play on stupid high resolution and extremly large screens so they can not use this ‘feature’. I am blaming you for not playing fairly and even now, when your golden league server is winning this matchup, you have to resort to ‘features’ to get into the keep? How sad does that look like? To me, it looks very sad and pathetic. So much for ‘golden’ league servers …

And after seeing this, who will ever know, if you used some other kind of ‘features’ to help yourself to win.

Silent Shino.7239:

This matchup in a nutshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj11Pj2T7Bw

Ye I also noticed a big ammount of rangers and arrowcart fire in this matchup. I guess we shall have to fight in the shade …

Some guys got ascended weapons, some even legendary weapons – I myself got 4 rares, rest greens. I am ‘dissapoint’ ArenaNet …

I heard Vizunah Square did alot of night capping to Desolation and guess what; now they are doing it to us. Kind of hypocritical, but HEY – all is fair in love and war they say, yet that is the only reason you are winning. Let me show you again, how prime time for Aurora Glade on Monday (somebody complained, Saturdays are reserved for beer drinking in pubs) reflects itself on the battlefields – yes, all Garrisons belong to us. And the PPT of 450 points is more then deserved. I will not comment the situation on the battlegrounds, when I woke up and turned on Millenium maps. Just win this matches and go back to Gold, so Vizunah can nightcap you back …

MistMirage.4706:

1.You will not believe, but the prime time of my guild is different from yours. UTC+8.
Do you think we should wait when you wake up?
2. You always hidden in the towers. The best way find you – cap everything and then wait for capping something for catch you.

So my gut feeling was correct, when I said to myself, they must definetly have guilds not from Europe – guess you’re from Australia, how much fun is it for you to play versus the doors all the time? Secondly, when your team of 20-30 people arrives late at night to our borderland, when there is 5 people all togather scouting the towers and keeps, do you really think, they will jump down and fight you?

PsYcHoSeAn.4835:

Oh and btw…are you really proud for ticking the highest on saturday evening? The time where people usually go out and have a beer with their buddies or watch a movie? Dunno but I think you could’ve picked better examples than that…

By PRIMETIME I mean the time, that even Aurora Glade has que for entering any borderlands. And judging by the numbers of Desolation players, you had ques too. And guess what; some people drink beer with their buddies and play WvW on Saturday evening. Looks like for you the best time for playing/farmin points is Monday early morning, when people go to work, school, college … I would not be proud of the fact, your biggest opponent at that time are reinforced doors and veteran guards.

Desolation, do you guys know anything else but late night/early morning capping? I see you enjoy player vs door tactic the most, which gives you most points, since we have like maybe 10 people online? Actually I wouldn’t be proud of that and would not post screenshots of how ‘great’ you are when there is nobody playing – especially on friggin’ monday morning …

And in the prime time hours of the Saturday night, the maps looked like this:

Kind of boring to see entire server, that only knows how to play keep-turtles with a gazillion arrow carts, stay inside walls for the entire better portion of the prime time hours, then when honest people go to sleep and work, come with your zerglings and golems and take all of our keeps just because it was 5 of our defenders vs all of your invaders.

Yesterday in primetime we have shown, how maps would look like, if we had actually people online also in those very late/early hours (see screenshot below). But I guess some of us play WvWvW because we like to have big fights vs big groups, others rather play 50 vs 5 and go for that easy win and for some of that good old über-ganking.

But not even all your fortresses couldn’t keep us out and they all fell sooner or later. Better start to learn how to fight properly, without help of arrow carts and behind the safety of concrete walls. There is an entire world outside.

Anyway, guys from Miller Sound, I am thankful for all the lootbags you bring, because on those rare occasions we actually do meet in open battlefield, you know what happens. Be thankful you had holidays in this matchup. Next time we meet, you won’t be so lucky.

Borderlands map look like this, when AG starts to clean up. Screenshot from yesterday night, MS garrison fell few minute after.

Gorrok.3187

therefore we have to learn to fight against the buff

I am surprised you haven’t started building arrow carts in the ruins …

Who needs skills, when you got 70+ man zerg running around …

Honestly, I expected much more from #1 server in Europe – seriously Vizunah Square basicly has numbers and apart from some guilds, most of them run when numbers of troops are equal. I have met some guilds (like some warriors and guardians) that actually do not run at all and gratefully give us the lootbags. So when I see a nicely stacked guild group (obviously on teamspeak) running away from a few pugs of ours, which are not even on the mic listening to commander, I just find it funny. I play mostly on Aurora Glade bordelands, so you all know how much fun is it to party there. We had some epic garrison defending with mighty TUP guild commanded by Dranul along with some FIRE and NP late night Monday, we fought like lions entire week, defending what we can and giving lots of lives for that – so respect our sacrifice, so you can have your lootbags (could at least give us some back).

Last night was very fun running with DAWN, fighting like biggest blobs I have ever seen with 30+ soldiers in front of Bay. Before that I remember, that some guys rather jump off the cliff then be killed by our swords and hammers. Sad really, because we have been throwing our bodies at you the entire week.

Honestly, with all this numbers (I heard you guys at Vizu have 1 hour of waiting time for all borderlands at night), it is really hard to loose …

All in all, very good fights, definetly more exciting then last week when we played like #22 server, so I hope it was exciting for Vizunah and Kodash too – which have proven to be well worthy opponents, that will fight to the bitter end.

So I wish you all good luck next week!

Respectfully,
Auroran Soldier

PS to mr. Faulye.8357: do not mock us, we have given you a worthy fight, respect that. If not, you’re not even close to being a good warrior. Just an average ganker I have seen plenty this week, when 30 guys chased down 3 of us. Really brave.

Oh come on (german) guys! As somebody already said here; this is a 3-way battle and its natural that two teams tag-team against the stronger one. We (Aurora Glade) have been in this situation numerous times, but what can you do? After all: all is fair in love and war, they say …

PS: Looking forward to some great fights in the upcoming week – after all, we all need (more) lootbags!

Hey, thank You both! I thought the recipes, once you learn them, are shared by all characters on your account. I mean when I was grinding around I found vendors for various recipes and bought them and used them even if my character didn’t have that exact craft. I guess with rare crafting ingredients it’s not the same. Anyway, thanks alot guys – I guess I will have to craft inscriptions for my weaponsmith by my artificer.

OK, here is the situation: I have an level 400 artificer and he has already bought all the rare inscriptions the crafting master/vendor/trainer is selling. It say that this rare inscriptions are account bound, yet my other character who is a weaponsmith does not have them in his crafting window. And when I visit the weaponsmith trainer, he has all the rare recepies on sale and the weaponsmith character does not know them.

So my question is : aren’t this recepies SHARED to all characters you have on your account? And if so, why doesn’t my weaponsmith see the artificers rare recepies?

Thanks!

… what can you do? In good faith I gave him the option to withdraw stuff from our guild stash so he took almost everything worth. What can I as the leader do? Can he get reported?