Guild Wars 2

Gamadorn.2659:

Omne.4603:

Alex.6483:

oooops wait… we cannot.

Dear Anet,

Please allow us to reset our WvWvW ability points on the fly.
If we are able to specc for different builds, why force us to spent ability points without the freedom to change these on the fly?

e.g: If i feel like playing a tower defense game, i don’t need to be specced for Ram Mastery, i would like to be able to reset my points and respec into Cannon Mastery.

e.g: If i want to roam with friends & cap supply camps, I do not need to be specced for Build Master, i would like to be able to respec to Guard Killer.

Furthermore, if you are new to WvWvW, i can imagine players speccing in random Mastery traits without knowing you cannot undo the points you spend.

Would be great to see this implemented.

Ty

TLDR:

Dear Anet: Please make this game even more casual than it already is.

I don’t mind it not being casual…I do mind it when playing my alts though…kitten should be account bound…that is all.

This I definitely agree with, should be account bound. Doesn’t make sense how it is.

Resetting devalues high rank. I stand by that it should have a high cost, and only be able to be done in a city. It’s not needed to win, it’s a perk for people who put in the time, it shouldn’t be something that anyone can spec into the best stuff on a whim. Making it easy to respec would hurt WVW by removing the reason to be high rank, and keep WVWing.

Colt.9051:

Overall I had a nice week of fights this week. Good memorable fights when roaming, zerging/getting zerged, etc. Strangely enough I haven’t gotten in any duels with anyone tho… Hopefully we matchup in the seasons again soon so I could get the chance to!

We only matchup again with AR, 11/15, not DR.

The whole thing was predtermined.

Alex.6483:

Why would that have to be done in a city? Why not simply use a trainer in EB or Borderlands? small fee would be fine, same as changing your build.

For the same reason the person below this post said. Allowing people to do it in WVW means there is no reason to have more than say 100 rank in WVW or so. If people can constasntly, easily, reset their points within the battlegrounds, it negates the usefulness of having a high WVW rank.

Alex.6483:

oooops wait… we cannot.

Dear Anet,

Please allow us to reset our WvWvW ability points on the fly.
If we are able to specc for different builds, why force us to spent ability points without the freedom to change these on the fly?

e.g: If i feel like playing a tower defense game, i don’t need to be specced for Ram Mastery, i would like to be able to reset my points and respec into Cannon Mastery.

e.g: If i want to roam with friends & cap supply camps, I do not need to be specced for Build Master, i would like to be able to respec to Guard Killer.

Furthermore, if you are new to WvWvW, i can imagine players speccing in random Mastery traits without knowing you cannot undo the points you spend.

Would be great to see this implemented.

Ty

On the fly, no, but for a cost, maybe even a significant cost, yes. It should also have to be done in a city, not within WVW.

I’ve actually been surprised that from what I have seen, GoM hasn’t been bullying too much. I’m sure some spawn camping has happened, and some AR abuse has been done, but for the most part it seems like our attention has been focused on DR, which to me is the right way to play. Some would say you bully 3rd to increase lead in first, but I think taking down 2nd is the best way to stay in first.

I wish the numbers have been better, because it would be more fun if DR and AR were putting up numbers, but we’ve had some fun fights nonetheless.

RICH was a big WVW guild on GoM, but as many know, we lost some of our core WVW players to Blackgate over a month ago. We actually have some who have come back, and some who might come back (T1 isn’t all cake and rainbows!) We are looking to build up our WVW playerbase again. We have a handful of commanders, and we have some great WVW players now. We’re looking to continue to train up our existing players who haven’t done a lot of WVW, and bring on new and experience WVW players.

We’re not just all about WVW though. We do guild trek, bounty, rush, and challenge available, and if we get more active members, guild puzzles and run them on a regular basis. We also have active fractal groups from low level to 48 dailies, dungeons, living story, you name it.

This part is important, we are recruiting people who want to be a part of our family only, this means Teamspeak. It doesn’t mean you have to be on at all times, but we want people who want to be a part of the guild, not just show up for guild missions, or for a karma train in WVW and never say a word. We have a core group of people who have a blast together, and are looking to expand on that. We’re not just ninja inviting anyone who wants to join, we are looking for quality players, who want to be a part of the RICH family. If this sounds like something you want, let us know. If you’re not sure, still let us know. You can hop on TS with us, run some WVW with us, a dungeon, a fractal, whatever, and see if we have fun together.

Please feel free to contact us in game at Tex Rob, Gatts the Red, or Thandolus (guild leader) if you have any questions, concerns, want to join, etc!

Dairius Stillgard.1953:

I really dislike being called a hack, and being falsely accused of it, the GM’s will have a look at the logs and NOTE that I CERTAINLY was not hacking, Next time check the placement of your Catas DR make they are not in range OF our mortars “not an insta CATA” also properly placed siege I.E. Arrow carts in front of the inner gates can reach quite some distance outside said gate I have never hacked nor will I ever hack I dispise hacking PERIOD, also GoM is not “The Hacking Server” Get a life I left the accusers name out of my post if he reads this he will who he or she is also next time MAKE sure you have proof VIDEO if not it didn’t happen. I had alot of respect for DR up until this point. Have a good day rant over.

I don’t claim to know you, or your situation, but I will say this:

The handful of cheaters make people scream cheater incorrectly a huge percentage of the time. I’ve seen cheating in many games over the years, but I don’t see it hardly ever in GW2, not like you did in Warhammer, EQ, etc. My guess is most all of the claims of cheaters in GW2 are just people being ignorant, or hurt in the posterior.

irishhaf.1692:

Sure I had some great 1 on 1 fights against folks from GoM, I know RH is a really good guild and a tough opponent.

Everyone knows how the match is going to turn out there is no need to do a self congratulations comment about how many points per tick you were getting… and If your that offended lets meet up some where and have a go at it.

Your inference is your own thing man. My comment was for those of us at GoM who are genuinely as shocked as anybody, that we went from last place with horrible turnout, to some sort of craziness where we are sitting on queues. I’m not self congratulating, I am just commenting how insane it is that we, one week ago, would lose everything over the night and during the day, and then when we all get home from work would have to take it all back. This is how it’s been going for months. So, to see 600 points a tick when we’d normally have like 50, is very very weird. Just because you put a negative spin on it, doesn’t mean I did. I said, and will say again, we are winning by sheer numbers, not skill at the moment, not sure how I can be any more clear than that.

irishhaf.1692:

TexRob.5183:

Apparently we still have a night crew? Who knew, we hit 600 points in the middle of the night, insanity continues.

Congrats?

You guys had a coverage advantage before the start of the match… the mad rush of PvE folks through it completely out of wack, hope you enjoy patting yourself on the back because they will bail on you by mid week the first match you don’t have massive number advantage.

Do you post anything that isn’t whining? I didn’t attack your server in any way, didn’t claim we didn’t have superior numbers, yet you still feel the need to flip out.

baseballguy.4865:

I hope Anet only puts things that the players can help change.

1) the ring for the keep should encompass the whole keep/tower like they do for camps.
2) keep/towers should go neutral if no one is in it.
3) siege should not give wxp when destroyed and should only have a 5 minute life
4) Supply from a single doylak should fill the keep/tower
5) Attack on a keep should be based on amount of damage percentage not just Attack.

No, to all of this, where did you get these from?!

2 is the only one I am kind of on board with, but just your reason, not the way you are going about it. I’d love to see defending have more value, but that is not the solution. Nobody wants to do the T1 thing where you just sit in a tower and defend against zero attackers for hours.

1. Commander abilities and additions
2. Mappable keys for revive downed player, interact, and ressurecting dead players (at the very least split revive off from ressurect
3. Shared WVW ranks

Apparently we still have a night crew? Who knew, we hit 600 points in the middle of the night, insanity continues.

Come to Gates of Madness!

Stuck on Blackgate, and wish you weren’t? You’re going to get the reward if they win T1 anyhow, even if you switch now. GoM is seeing a huge resurgence in WVW after a lot of discouragement from guilds leaving in the past couple of months. We saw queues for all WVW zones throughout the weekend, but never worse than roughly an hour for EB on Friday night. GoM is far from dead, but we could use more. All are welcome, but more day and night crew players are definitely needed if we want to continue to compete throughout the week!

Guess everyone shouldn’t have abandoned home servers for Tier 1. GoM has queues for all wvw zones, but minor, so it just means awesome action everywhere.

I feel bad for the people who were on T1 servers since release, but not much for anyone else.

Drakaer.8623:

Its been at least 1 hour 30 minutes since GoM flipped anything of DR’s except camps…

GoM may have numbers during weekends and primetime, but nights and days we suffer bbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddd. I hope we don’t lose our lead during the week, but it’s possible. GoM is a server full of 9-5ers it seems. We used to have RISE, but they bailed a while back, and I think they were our only real nighttime presence as an Australian guild.

All that said, yeah, this weekend has been insane. GoM hasn’t had these numbers since release that I’ve seen, it’s unreal. I just hope it lasts.

So, I like this change, but I think there might be some unintended consequences with it. It makes things like the first time you fight grawl shaman super easy killing the adds before his bubble is down. It makes the following final fight, quite a bit harder. It’s not that the elementals root for a long time, but when you are getting hit by multiples, it becomes an issue. When you first do it, it seems minor, because it is, but it makes a fight that is always borderline at 48+ fractal level, and makes it just a bit harder. We had a very good group last night, all of us one shot him daily, and it took us 4 or 5 tries to get it to all fall in place.

I do like that it has it’s trade offs, like it makes some PVE easier, as I mentioned, but you have to be careful to not over immobilize now. On dredge for example, too many people were immobilizing the elemental, and so it’d stay rooted in the lava pour spot for a really long time, which slowed things down and could be a hindrance seeing as how his cycles are timed. Wasn’t a problem, but something different.

So anyhow, what other instances have you all seen that seem to be better or worse as far as encounters? I didn’t really notice it in WVW last night, but I am sure it could be an issue there too.

This is the beauty of the gem store (for them). I tell the younger guys in my guild that I wish there was something like Planetside 2, an optional subscription method. They all think I’m crazy. One where you say pay $15 a month, and get $10 worth of gems, and some bonuses like XP, MF, etc. That way you can save up gems if you need them. This allows players to budget. The problem is, Anet does not want that. People say, “Oh, I don’t pay a sub, so it’s ok if I spend $10 on the gem store”. The problem is, they often say that multiple times a month. That’s why GW2 is doing so well and they are not planning to charge for expansions.

For those of us who like to budget, I wish they would put in something like the system I mentioned.

The only problem with these challenges is that some classes have it so much easier. Would be nice if you gave rewards for the fastest of each class. I know it’s your money, so not trying to sound unappreciative, but it would make it more interesting I think.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

DevonCarver.5370:

We will have an announcement about the NA leagues and seasons generally soon. But there are changes coming in.

“We have finished analyzing all of the data we collected. Thanks to feedback from our valued player base, we have decided to double the orb bonuses for the first season. We are also condensing NA/EU into 1 league each, so get those transfers in now before it’s too late!”

Rarely does one actually Laugh out Loud when they say lol, but this one sure made me.

Also good to hear some other servers that are doing it, to guest on if needed. The GoM train was so out of control yesterday when I was doing it that even with 25% innate run speed and swiftness, I was having trouble getting to the champs before they were at half health. I zone fast too. I missed one where I took literally 3 seconds to respond to a whisper.

I’ve never not seen it running on GoM, but I don’t play at weird hours except on weekends.

I am predicting multiple ways to get ascended armor, but one of them will be pristines, regular relics, and perhaps shards of cystalline mist essence. Perhaps also crafted via 500 armorsmith, tailor, etc using those as mats. I hate that 500 armorcraft is likely going to be needed, but it makes sense.

I think we might see a change to the payout of pristine relics, otherwise there is no real incentive to doing higher level fractals. You’d be better served running an 18 and a 28, then say one 48, as far as getting regular relics or pristines. You could run those lower ones in the same time as a 48 with your eyes closed.

We’ll see what they do, but I expect shards to come into play.

Shemsu.8721:

TexRob.5183:

One alternative to those complaining about stealth is to have two forms, one pre-combat, same as it is. One that you are translucent, like a shadows form, where you can’t be targeted, but you can be hit by everything if they position towards you and use target based attacks, or AE. This is how it is now, just with people being able to know where the thief is now. I’m not saying to remove where they can totally stealth, but maybe change some skills around so total stealth is on a cooldown that can’t get them right back out of combat multiple times in a fight.

Exactly what would be the point of invisibility thats visible?

What’s the point of being able to read words if you can’t understand them?

One alternative to those complaining about stealth is to have two forms, one pre-combat, same as it is. One that you are translucent, like a shadows form, where you can’t be targeted, but you can be hit by everything if they position towards you and use target based attacks, or AE. This is how it is now, just with people being able to know where the thief is now. I’m not saying to remove where they can totally stealth, but maybe change some skills around so total stealth is on a cooldown that can’t get them right back out of combat multiple times in a fight.

The trait that makes vengeance rally 100% of the time, should also half the global cooldown. You die long before it is even available, making that trait useless.

Meglobob.8620:

Once they are happy with it…hopefully will send all players a ingame mail to let them know it actually exists…95% of GW2 players never visit the forum after all…

They really screwed up by releasing this way. Adoption rate of it, once it’s even available to 100% of the players, is going to be poor because of the issues with autojoin and the fact that people have given up looking for it since we were expecting it on Tuesday.

People are saying you can’t get to it from contacts, but at the entrance of a dungeon. I don’t follow. Does something pop up when you go to enter the dungeon? If so, haven’t seen it yet.

marnick.4305:

Devils.3679:

I do not have access to the lfg tool yet, I would like to know if it keeps track of dungeons completed on a daily bases and also for the dungeon master achievement.

but i agree if you post for a group it should allow you to keep exploring others, but i understand them not allowing it.

Add a dps meter or allow 3rd party ones. so sick of dps debates

Me too. I hate DPS debates. Please do not add a dps meter to this game.

DPS meter would lead to people not doing what they need to do for dungeons and events. DPS meters are horrible. I love to just know what mine is, but the problem is the people who will not care about anything but max DPS to make their kitten bigger.

This is not an issue. If they shorten it, it further trivializes content. The whole concept of getting out of combat is easy mode. If mobs are still aggro on you, you’re going to be in combat, guess what, monsters don’t like you.

Go play Everquest for some perspective.

Sreoom.3690:

New BL’s Are A Huge Success

I agree. Well designed ANET. Much more fun in the middle!

All the people saying they are a success are in Tier 1. Tier 1 is not indicative of the state of WVW. Bloodlust is a bad idea, but not nearly as kittenerver balance problems. Bloodlust is made worse by the greater issue of server balance.

There are ways to fix it, Anet just doesn’t seem to see it as a problem, which is causing people to quit.

kefro.9312:

I can alt f4 log in and join wvwvw in like 15seconds

Lets see that video please.

If 10 to 1 numbers is what they think is OK, then I guess I’m done with GW2.

Crise.9401:

SAB main bosses have always reset when you enter “Moto Hell”, that should be nothing new…. or do they always reset now?

Toad did not reset for me yesterday at least.

Toad never reset for me in dozens of tribulation runs in the past. He will now reset about 75% of the time, maybe higher.

Toad also is randomly not registering the jewel throw when I have never had a problem before.

I started this game for WVW, and it’s what I love. I’m not gonna lie, I had slowed down WVW because of horrible server population imbalance. This just pushed me over the edge. Luckily I have had some fun in PVE, but PVE won’t keep me in the game, WVW will. I hope they realize this soon.

Shademehr.1397:

The Outmanned buff should be what the Bloodlust buff is.

Bloodlust is worthless as heck, from my perspective when you’re in a rank 20 vs. 18 vs 15 matchup (We’re 20.) I may be playing at the wrong times, but I’m not sure if we’ve even been able to keep Bloodlust for any fair amount of time.

Just to keep it in perspective, the score is 95,970 vs. 112,841 vs. 285,390. How do you even get an opportunity to grab the Ruins much less keep them?

The problem is people keep suggesting this, but it’s a bandaid to a greater problem of server balance. The server populations are so out of whack, yet nothing is being done about it. Nobody is going to transfer to a server to get an outnumbered buff.

People keep coming up with ways to deal with being outnumbered, changing buffs, changing the way bloodlust works, etc. The real problem, that if you fix it, fixes all of this other stuff, is server balance.

I would do anything for a dev to respond that they at least accept that this is an issue. Requiring people to transfer servers, or even merging servers, is not the answer. There have been plenty of suggestions on how to create balance, but as far as I know, no acknowledgement that it is an issue according to devs.

Esoteric.5490:

The new stat buffs are great. Try figuring out the meta instead of assuming everything is a zergfest. I’ve had more small scale fights in the last 2 days in WvW than in the previous several months. The new terrain is INCREDIBLE and the stat buff is able to be held by small groups NOT a group of 40. Until servers figure out how to play with small groups, they will just get s*** on by the servers that do. My server was ticking sub-200 while we were gaining points on the server ticking 300-plus because we held the buff and actually killed people. Whine and moan all you want, but I hope ANet never removes this. It is balanced, directly benefits small groups, provides incredible terrain for creative engagement, and adds more layers of strategy. If anyone proposes that we go back to how it was or take the stats away, people won’t care about the middle of the map and all of the sudden we’re back to playing “who has the largest zerg”. Actually try playing the game instead of just complaining. And uplevels can get the stat bonuses too to be better while they roam. Why don’t you go cap the points so that big mean level 80 (with ascended gear btw, but I don’t see you complaining about that) can’t crap all over you with his “unfair stats”?

You all keep quoting Habib. Let’s see. You can’t hack these and you can’t hide them in an upgraded keep to hoard all your stats. They transfer fluidly between servers unless you allocate people to protect and hold the points. Just because you can’t strategically comprehend a level of gameplay doesn’t make it broken or stupid.

1. Start reading post
2. Notice it seems insane
3. Check SIG…oh, now I get it
4. Go back to my horrible population server

I’m afraid, if that’s true about them only playing on T1, is that their mindset is “if people want to WVW, they should move” is the solution. It’s not. If their game requires people to pay money, abandon friends and their server, to further kill the server they are leaving, to play their game, they are messed up in the head.

There are so many ways to force the servers to balance, but they won’t do it.

Just another person coming to post that our guild is losing numbers, and discussions of “what game can we go to?” has been brought up a lot. The only reason the game has not lost more WVW players is because a percentage of players are willing to just server transfer, often multiple times, to get to a better WVW experience.

I like GW2, a lot, and I think it’s way better in almost all aspects from release. PVE, events, etc, all great, but WVW is getting worse and worse, and this patch was a huge change in the wrong direction. I don’t like to say, the final nail in the coffin, but it very well might be for a lot of people. I hope something will be done soon, before it comes to that.

Arenanet is quickly running this game into the ground from a WVW perspective. I’m on GoM, and people keep transferring away. We will be last place very soon. As has been said, it’s demoralizing, people see 3x BL against us and just skip WVW. It’s the dumbest idea ever.

There are things that could be done to spread the population out amongst servers, but nothing is being done. This is only going to get worse, and numbers are going to continue fall as more people quit.

PS – this nonsense mindset that some dev said, “the forums make up a small minority of players” is true, but means NOTHING. Small minority meaning maybe 5% of the user base posts, which means nothing other than just something dumb to say. If they think that 95% aren’t posting because they are happy, you’re just plain wrong. Take the time to talk to players, there is not one person on my server, GoM, that does WVW that is happy with how things are.

Talic.9608:

BG hasn’t replicated it because it’s a Daily chest that drops loots. We will reclear it once the server reset happens and the loot is back available to those that coordinated the strats to down him. Saying that BG “can’t” replicate it is silly; we just want to get loot for doing it again. It was a great encounter and we really look forward to the next downing on reset.

The biggest reason BG might not get it tonight is because every lemming is going to go there and get a spot in the zone long before it kicks off, knowing you all have the potential to beat him.

Llyren.3904:

TexRob.5183:

No more leashing, Everquest fans unite!

I’d be fine with it, I hate how everyone wants to skip mobs. I had someone complain last night that we weren’t killing trash, which was refreshing. I just run past most of the time because I get tired of people telling me “we can skip these”.

I do sort of miss blackburrow trains.

But some mobs should leash, even in mythology some behave in that manner, or are actually chained down.

Some should be skipped, some should be take timing to skip, others jumping, invisibility, or even stealth.

Some though, should simply be faster and more rewarding to kill, especially if they are “intended” to be harder or impossible to skip.

Blackburrow and Crushbone, two of my favorite zones, Unrest is up there too. Dvinn to zone!

Man, who is this unkillable ranger from SF? He’s amazing at staying alive. Never seen someone evade, jump away, sprint away, etc so much. Literally never landed a snare, root or stun on him except a handful of times.

Luvpie.8350:

Ricardo.5489:

well… eb in tier 2 would keep geting 3rd place anyway… and loose every single match up.. u’d just get more winners… not make them more competitive

IF EB is going to lose every match in League 2 in this scenario you are also going to lose every match in Anet’s current League 1 but not just lose, get demolished. Atleast with League 2 that I reference above you will have decent fights.

That’s why you move the winner of each league into a league of the various other winners after each session, like I suggested above. If EB loses like you said, then they will be the favor in the next series quite likely.

I think more leagues would certainly help spread people around. A guild transferring to a smaller league could then make a real strong bid to take that server to number 1 for the league. Likely you’d have strong servers in each league garnering more and more people, but then you shift the leagues around again putting the winners into the next leagues, 2nds into the next league, etc.

Seems simple enough, and would at least help the situation.

Leagues was the dumbest idea ever. They only serve to, and have, made this problem infinitely worse. Kaineng being on that list is humorous. Kaineng might have had better numbers, but they still dwarf others on that list. GoM is going to be at the bottom of the list in very short order unless something is done. Arenanet is doing a good job with most aspects of this game, but they have to do something about this, soon.

The reasons I fear they will do nothing is:

1) paid transfers make them money
2) if you consolidate servers (not really even the answer), it’s seen by many gamers and the industry as a whole, as the game is dying. It has had a very negative connotation since the very first MMO.

locoman.1974:

About three days ago, wandering around mount maelstrom after killing the golem, looking for one more event to finish dailies, see an event to kill a random veteran in the middle of nowhere, a black moa bird which called mini moas as adds… kill it, a portal appears, teleported to an area I had never seen before which turned out to be a jumping puzzle.

And also last night when I finally managed to complete it.. (kept falling to my dead in the last part which meant I had to find another event to get back in)..

Might be old news to most, but it was a nice surprise for me..

People just want to complain about lack of content, but the world is filled with stuff like this, that people would find if they took the time to look for it. Glad you found one.

No more leashing, Everquest fans unite!

I’d be fine with it, I hate how everyone wants to skip mobs. I had someone complain last night that we weren’t killing trash, which was refreshing. I just run past most of the time because I get tired of people telling me “we can skip these”.