All Anet has to do is bring back Alpine then see how many players in all tiers play the BL’s 24/7 for 1 week. then everybody know the answer.
The answer will be the same as now. 1 scout will sit in each keep (if you’re lucky) and then when a blob attacks, they will call EB for the zerg. That’s all Alpine was ever about.
During prime time, a few guilds will roam about on the south of the map looking for a fight, and will attack a keep when there’s no enemies. Just like on Desert maps now.
Alpine is not some magical map where everything is wonderful and sparkly. I think a lot of these forumwarriors are looking at things through rose-tinted specs.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
New Dolyak Skins – they look event appropriate and I expect them to revert after the event
Siege (Rams, ACs etc look SO much better)
Specifically ACs, which look like recoloured guild siege – BEAUTIFUL. I’d love to have these (or a new recoloured skin) replace the regular Superior ACs.
Great Guild Fireworks – These are a fantastic way to celebrate capturing a keep! More of this kind of thing please!
I note with a little disappointment that the other fireworks from this event can’t be used in WvW.
I am pleasantly amazed that WvW got some (albeit superficial) attention! Woohoo!
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
And this is why the game, which prospered so much at launch, didn’t feature any kind of “elite” or arbitrarily “difficult” content. And also part of why, HoT, an expansion featured as pleasing the “hardcore” crowd has failed in the eyes of a bulk majority of players when looking at sheer numbers.
Strictly speaking, not many people care. And those that do are likely too exclusive to not care about anyone not involved in their personal affairs.
Why learn to do raids in GW2 when WoW does it better and has a wealth of willing participants?
Personally, I did my raiding 10 years ago. It felt a lot like work and I’m no longer interested in doing a job when I get home.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
The WvW community requires that there be two dedicated members of staff working on WvW at Arenanet.
If it’s just one person, they’ll gets ostracised from the rest of “The Competitive Team” as the weird WvW person. They get ignored and their opinions devalued.
I believe this is what happened to Devon Carver. You never see him on Ready Up, yet as WvW’s sole representative, he should be on EVERY show.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Forget any buffs, the devs just did Ready Up 15 where they tried to justify the guardian’s current position, stating that they are happy with it where it is – any requests for buffs will therefore be in vain.
Extrapolating on this, Guardians who spec away from shouts and boon-oriented traits, such as Meditation builds, are not playing as intended. Perhaps the traits need to be reworked?
… I can’t see that happening because Guardians are in a good place, right?
Reroll OP warrior like everybody else, the only thing devs see as wrong with them is their movement.
Why does Guardian have cone abilities (shield #4 & torch #5 condi removal & Healing Breeze) when he is supposed to be in front of his allies?
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
This bodes ill for WvW. I wonder if John Corpening is still working at Arenanet or whether he has been sacked or moved? These promises are looking increasingly empty.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
A very regrettable and disappointing decision. I think this epitomises an unhealthy “our way or the high way” attitude. It’s my opinion that WvW should be about players expressing innovation via siege placement, battle tactics and overall strategy. The degree to which these are actually allowed to happen is debatable, but bannering the Lord allowed for interesting methods of delaying/preventing enemy captures. I think it’s a mistake to take away fun things, especially ones that help thwart massive blobs.
Banners Hold RIP
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
sadly, yes, this is true. but i have no idea of how to fix current situation on legendarys other than remove them from the tp, and make precurser have a increased chanse of drop and make then acc bound… but that would prob kitten me off even further.
I think they should take legendaries out of the trading post…
Legendaries should be a reward for playing the game and not for making money.
The recipe should be more about stuff like the badges of honor, karma, the dungeon gift, the gift of mastery, the icy runestones etc…
And I dont understand why they didnt put any item in the recipe that requires Glory.
I concur with this opinion;
There are many items which can’t be traded, why not legendaries?
Legendaries should be changed from being market-oriented in their requirements to being task-oriented so that people can have fun instead of just being expert traders, third-party gold-buyers or gem purchasers – as it stands, legendaries are tarnished with a bad reputation.
There are plenty of jumping puzzles and other achievements which could be made into a requirement instead of the tier 6 materials and ridiculously rare lodestones.
The legendaries are supposed to (sic) “show off your accomplishments and symbolise all of the things that you’ve been doing” (Lead Designer Isiah Cartwright – in this video) and “show everyone that you are a true master of Guild Wars 2” quoted from here. I think I speak for the entire community when I say that Legendaries fail to do both of these things and perhaps even suggest that their visual effects be changed to reflect the influence that the market has had in the acquisition of the legendaries, for example a trail of dollar bills or money that flutters out of the weapon on hit.
You guys beat me to it. After last week’s positive discussion on siege trolls I wanted to bring up the topic of population imbalance and ideas that you have on it.
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Thanks,
John
Thank you for endorsing this with your redness, John. It shows that you are reacting to the concerns of many posters (i.e. you read the thread names) and means a lot to us (i.e. makes us believe there’s a chance of an improvement in the future).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
World Linking has resulted in a lot of players having no interest in the score because they know that it’s almost impossible to change tiers now (“good fights” is the reason the links are made, not “a chance at first place on the ladder”).
This means that WvW has become a zerg vs zerg game where the dominant server attacks keeps until they get a fight then they recycle the fight (wait for enemy zerg to respawn and fight in the same place over and over) until the other side hasn’t got enough players to put up any resistance, then they continue to attack keeps again.
Throughout all of this, they continually gain more points through PPK than their opponents can muster in PPT.
This is why PPK is bad. It makes dominant servers more dominant.
I beg Arenanet to make it policy to implement systems which do not make dominant servers more dominant. These are bad systems. Here are examples of what NOT TO DO:
shield generators make powerful sides more powerful – an enormous zerg can carry a LOT of supply for these extra pieces of siege
being unable to banner Lords has made powerful sides more powerful
being unable to use waypoints into keeps in between ticks made powerful sides more powerful
Arenanet has CONSISTENTLY made powerful sides more powerful despite logic and FUN demonstrating that this is NOT good for any kind of game.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
When doing the balance segment, instead of going through every class without specific questions, perhaps it’s better to ask specific class balance questions.
Because I noticed last SotG went like this:
Q: Rangers?
Devs: Oh, blah blah…blah.
Q: Necros?
Devs: Yup, blah blah..
Q: Eles?
Devs: Mmmhm, blah.
This went on for what, 30 minutes? The devs’ responses were not very informative because there were no specific class balance questions. And also, you can make this segment much shorter by going to the core of things and asking specific questions for specific classes.
Also, try to phrase your questions so that it’s not susceptible to “Yes/No” easy-out answers. For example, instead of asking, “Are we going to see changes to Warriors next patch?” (Devs will respond with “Yup” or “Nah”), you could rephrase it like “What do you think needs to be changed for Warriors? What problems does the class have?”
A good indication of whether or not the devs know what they’re doing is to make them state the problem in their own words. Have them tell us what the problem is, and what their solutions are. Also remember to challenge the devs with thought-provoking questions. Don’t let them off the hook easily. They are being paid by the hour, so really exercise their brains with challenging questions.
This person took media studies. Listen to them.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
My feedback is that it IS worthwhile spending some time to create content that people aspire to attain.
It ISN’T worthwhile spending an inordinately lengthy amount of time generating content that people will be forced into an unpopular game-mode to attain.
As with most things in life, you have to balance the time and effort.
IMO Arenanet spent far FAR too long creating legendary armour and although I understand that they wanted it to be special, I think making it animate, knowing that even static armour clips and takes super-long to make because of weird playable character models (I’m blaming the Charr model again, yes), Arenanet should not have attempted it.
I would like a type of legendary armour (simply for it’s stat-selection and rune refunding) to be available in other modes because there is no way I’ll ever touch raids. I finished doing those in WoW in 2006.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Pre-hot it was much easier for a larger force to get into keeps but the defenders also had more options for defending against a force that was inside the lords room. Bannering the lord and using the keep waypoint between events were ways to prolong lord room fights. Prolonging lord room fights allow a smaller force to potentially cut off reinforcements and whittle away at the larger force.
[..] In short I believe that keep fights are important for keeping a 70/30 fight win rate between uneven groups, which is important for the longevity of the game. For this to happen I believe that keeps need to be redesigned to prolong the fights in keeps, not the fights to get into the keeps. Examples of this can be seen in pre-hot gameplay that has now been removed.
Many of these points have been identified many times over many many posts on this forum. But they remain as valid as ever because; . A R E N A N E T . N E V E R . D O E S . A N Y T H I N G . A B O U T . T H E M .
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
The people that exploited the game early on will always be the wealthiest players in GW2, and no matter what they do, legitimate players won’t ever amass money comparing to those fortunes.
This game reflects the real world far too accurately for my tastes.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Judging by the replies here, no, but I believe it isn’t insulting and I’ll tell you why.
One game can only be so much. If you want more than that game can provide – look elsewhere. That’s not an insult, that’s logic. You might also make suggestions to the developers, and hope they adopt your proposal, but don’t hold your breath.
Ultimately, looking for another game is simply common sense and not something to be upset about – all games eventually come to an end (even WoW – actually, scratch that, not WoW. WoW will be there after humanity is long gone, still churning out raids – That’s automation, right there).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
WvW is also not even sides, and the siege weapons could help to resolve that problem. I think Arenanet should try to address the zergy problem first and this arrow cart fix seems like the start of that, with zerglings whining in their thousands in this very thread. Lulz at them.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I don’t mean this is a nasty way, but Rayya, you and all your server-hopping pals are the reason WvW never gets balanced.
Anet have stated before that the system takes time to work. When people transfer servers en masse you mess up the algorithm. It’s Anet’s fault really, they shouldn’t allow transfers at any time, there should be specific time windows to do transferring.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
First place winners should get 10g
Second place should get 50g
Third place should get 100g
Fourth place should get 300g
You see where I am going with this?
First place servers dont need the help, they are perfect the way they are.
So you want to promote not showing up to get better rewards? Turn the game into who can do worse? Keep the ideas coming….
Personally I liked his idea. I mean, the gold will help those servers buy some rare or exotic gear. They could also use some of it to hire a build crafter for their guilds.
Or they could use it to buy guilds.
Or hats!
Nightcaps.
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Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Does anybody else have the thing with the character neck that isn’t there when you port into a zone (for a brief time)? You walk around like Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Hahaha, I don’t care about your queues!