Guild Wars 2

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This is a horrible bug and makes Trapper-Ranger completely obsolete :/

We don’t want to all run around with power/crit Longbow builds.

I also have the same delay.

It is simply horrible, makes using traps fluidly, completely useless.

I hope this is unintentional because there was no mention of it in the patch notes.

Monday according to Jonathan ‘soon is 8 years’ Sharp

One major question I was hoping would be asked of Jonathan was about game modes in Spvp.
I hope you read this Jonathan and give us a response.

Same thing here

I can’t decide if it’s some kind of a joke now… lets hope the ‘internal testing’ is working out for them.
I honestly had nothing but admiration for this game until recently. Now I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in it’s current state.

Strangely this is happening to me almost exclusively on thief deaths. That’s not a joke or attempt at humour. I’ve been monitoring the issue this evening and it has only happened 3 or 4 times as opposed to the 10+ some days and it has been after thief death each time.
I think Anet have stopped reading our forum posts unless it is to give them praise on thier amazing work creating PVE content or to enquire about Ascended gear.
I have decided that if it’s not fixed by the weekend I give up on the game altogether.

Well Double, apparently it’s only a minority of us that are experiencing it. Some entire Guilds are even immune to it! So it must be something we are doig wrong?
Perhaps we are even inventing this whole issue to feed **s-lickers on a forum who have nothing better to do than belittle other paying customers in some contrite and arrogant attempt to gain friends.

@Syeria
‘As ridiculous as that claim was, Evan was gracious enough to point out that claim is false.’
Firstly; The suggestion was not ridiculous, it was an attempt at debugging the issue and narrowing it down in order to assist the dev team.
Secondly; I’m sure Evan is a paid employee of Arenanet so it is his job to inform us.
Thirdly; I may be incorrect, but you are possibly not an employee of Arenanet so your attempts to challenge the views of several hundred players are neither helpful nor particularly welcome.

@Syeria You insist on trolling almost every post of grievance on this forum.
How about not making sensationalist claims like ‘…But another potentially larger group of players have never had it occur, ever’ How can you possibly in any way prove this statement? I can 100% prove to you that every member of my guild suffer this problem frequently, both in Spvp and elsewhere. Perhaps we are just incredibly unfortunate and in the ‘minority’ group that do have had it occur, ever.

‘It also has nothing to do with what profession stomped you :P’
Nice to see you trivialising things, like it’s not a major issue.. eh just a little annoyance that happens .. oh I dunno.. maybe once every map. Not that big a deal :P
Internal testing? I’d be doing some internal staff resourcing if it takes almost two weeks to fix such an infuriating bug.. but that’s just how I run my business and strangely I have a loyal client base.

I imagine you’ve decided to abandon SPvP on this game?
You have very few of us still actually playing for the dwindling amount of fun there still is and you leave a game-breaker like this for over a week.
Completely baffled.

To be honest that list isn’t very accurate. Unless faced with a well orgsanised and balanced (in terms of classes) the ranger does incredibly well if traited right. I don’t have much problem with any class as ranger except the usual lurking backstab thief you never see.
The major issues with Spvp are too many to list but a few are:

The loading screen bug that perma-roots you in loading screen during matches resulting on you having to kill the game and restart.
The complete lack of meaningful fixes to obvious and well documented class equilibrium.
0.5 second quickness burst deaths.
Bunker builds outlasting 3 or 4 players.
The lack of players actually bothering with PvP.

I could go on but basically nothing at all has changed within a month except perhaps less people playing GW2 in general, leading to either hardcore players or people just starting out. This often leads to 500 – 150 win/loss as an example.
I am very close to quitting altogether and like many posts I read recently I doubt I would return.

All I can say is that looking at the vast amount of bugs and issues reported constantly on these forums I hold very little hope of this being fixed in a timely manner (considering it was reported a week ago and happens every patch I use the word ‘timely’ liberally). I can’t see how you can possibly retain casual players for much longer as issues of this kind result in people not logging back in. Spvp is frustrating but still fun at times yet fewer and fewer players populate the servers. The percieved lack of dedicated support for it is disappointing and insulting if I’m honest.
Very disgruntled with this game right now.

This issue is infuriating when your adrenaline is pumping and you are enjoying the game and it happens all too often.
This has been reported at least a week ago, too bad it isn’t a PVE issue.
My patience is really running out now :/

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I remember the good old days when a very popular MMO was born. It really listened to players who enjoy open-world PvP and PvP in general. The MMO in question still enjoys a massive player-base and sustainability.
I can also recall vaguely a highly anticipated Sci-Fi based MMO that did not and kept people interested for little over 3 months.

I was hoping for GW2 to be the exception to all the fly-by MMO’s of recent years.
Times have changed.

Farewell GW2 it was fun while it lasted.

I knew you’d get a lot of l2p crap as an answer. The truth is you can’t. The 3 seconds you refer to is the thief without quickness, with that running you’re talking less than 1 second.
You will see thief after thief creating exaggerated defense ‘theory’ and that’s all it is.
The class is simply a mistake and Anet have created a monster, whatever they do now they are kitten
P.S What is with people constantly using the ‘kitten’ term… it’s like schoolkid speak.
Get a grip.

I didn’t know anything about the history of the server when I transferred to be perfectly honest. I was very shocked to see less than 10 people in EB.
Strangely my first experience of WvW on the server involved a ‘player’ who’s name I took no notice of, with a commanders badge. As soon as people started to gather near him they got “Don’t follow me, I couldn’t care less about objectives” and “STOP following me, you can burn in hell” kind of comments. Obviously a few stated that he was the servers biggest troll.
Kind of vindicates many of the current forum posts asking for changes.
Anyway I’ll head back to Eu. Was interesting if nothing else lol.

I am English but decided to go to a US server to see what kind of WvW they enjoy…

I won’t bother saying anything more than that I feel for these guys and hope this is what the Devs envisaged on a huge proportion of match-ups.

Anets failure to fix these things in a timely manner is mind-boggling when they can repeatedly fix Halloween themed events and items.
The thing that sets this game apart from others is the potential to have full on server V server wars on an epic scale (see promotional material post-release) whereas at the moment it’s becoming less appealing for myself and many great players I’ve met ingame.
I have constantly sang the praises of this game, especially the WvW aspect but lately I feel less inclined to do so.
Still too many very basic bugs and exploits even after an extensive beta that uncovered these potential issues.
More frustratingly perhaps is the silence. To keep your player-base you MUST at the very least assure us that you’re investigating things. People are leaving and will continue to leave.
Silence is the door to consent.

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The Orb bonus to an already dominating server is counter-productive and damaging to WvW populations.

I had spent more than 3 gold previous to the patch upgrading valley and setting down siege craft in SM. This will never be refunded but niether will my faith.
This is my story.

Enjoyed WvW since beta.
WvW is now decided between 11pm and 7am on match-up day. One server (generally the one with foreign night-capping) will own 3 orbs, all strategic positions and have erected siege craft to demolish 90% of the map.
The other servers may show initial spirit but it rapidly goes from being fun and competetive to feeling like a ridulous grind just to try get on even terms.
Factor in the apalling amount of bugs and exploits now being utilised by certain guilds and it’s becoming very volatile and stagnant part of the game.
Just my advice to fix things quickly Arenanet, I have never seen such dissent and shows of disapproval as I did today on our server.
The rest is up to you guys I guess. If you can honestly say you don’t know about the bugs or can’t find the time to fix them after so long then you seriously need to start looking.
Thanks