Guild Wars 2

Well why should you play a competitive mode, that has been butcherd for years? Server linking makes the whole ranking obsolete.

Umbramare.9156:

Anet found a bug where players played other classes than power tempest.

This change will fix that.

ANet found out that rolling your head over your keyboard while drinking a coffee is the way to play conditions, therefore they nerf it. :P

Kell.9365:

Just another No Fun Zone death grind. No thanks Anet!

Same.

Came to orr, thought “maybe this time i can play the story without doing stupid things” i was wrong. i logged off.

Do you remember the good times with the old maps?

It’s been quite a while, would be nice to have an update from Chris.

Vavume.8065:

Rank 10k ultimate dominator and I still enjoy WvW, don’t know what your problem is, this thread is just a thinly veiled rant that you cannot get tickets fast enough, prob your third thread on same subject now isn’t it? give it a rest…

Well the numbers speak volumes, that’s why his “rant” maybe does not aply to you, but it can’t be denied that a lot of players feel that ANet has abandoned us.

Look in your FL, look how many of your friends are still playing, if you are in a wvw server community ask yourself how many “old” and “new” faces you see every day, week, month, year and tell me this: do you have the feeling this game is still popular or do you think it is slowly dying?

Pimpology.6234:

if these aren’t the official forums where information about the state of wvw is released what reddit? url is it? Doesn’t make sense anet using reddit instead of here.

What should they say? They are fixing nothing, it’s “just” WvW things so they don’t care anyway.

Jayne.9251:

Odinens.5920:

Good for you, I’m proud of you, but you still haven’t answered MY question – do you, or do you NOT want more people playing WvW?

My goodness.

Answer: No, not if you aren’t going to be a team player. In fact I’d wager most WvWers feel this way. WvW is a team sport. It requires sacrifice and cooperation to work well.

Odinens.5920:

Do I need the rewards, no, but I am NOT most people. MOST people new to WvW are going to look at this reward system and how long it takes to get anything as a new player and not even bother.

And that’s fine, that’s their choice.

And it’s your choice too.

So you rather sit on the pile of ashes what used to be the WvW alone, insteat of encourageing new players to play as a team for your server?

I don’t know what your server did, but my server was pretty open to newbies (well we had some idiots who were ranting all the time).

Some players are now part of our gamemode and our community which is a nice sideeffect. Unfortunatley they lost me, because after all those years i really have to say: this mode is dead to me, sometimes i log in and try to support a commander i like and sometimes i lead, but compared to 1 – 2 years ago iam pretty much finished with the game. ANet killed to much fun.

“Oh look! The players can farm the pips waaaay to fast.”

“But well Sir, it still takes a lot of time to get all chests and even if you get all chests it still takes some time to get the things you want for the tickets…”

“Yes you are right: let’s nerf the pips!”

“Sir thats not what i wanted to…”

“NERF THE PIPS!”

Seems like a typical ANet WvW thing, hear some criticism, come to an absolute false conclusion and give the players a “fix” that breaks more than it fixes.

Well done… again…

Raymond Lukes.6305:

Hey Bunter,

We made a change to the way Outnumbered works that should help this feel a lot less bad. Outnumbered is now applied each scoring tick (every 5 minutes). Swapping to a map right before a tick will no longer grant an Outnumbered pip bonus. Instead, you must play on an Outnumbered map for an entire tick to earn the bonus.

Makes scouting sooo much easier… oh wait.

Baldrick.8967:

Played for a while tonight. Our border had been pretty much wiped, so started by setting a ram up for others to use (3 of us there) while I killed 3 catas enemy had left and a couple archers on the wall (NPC). Capped tower. Tier 1.

Capped sentry.

Moved to EB as it had been reset. Capped keep, 3 towers, two camps, met 3 enemies that we killed over the next 30 minutes or so, so 39 minutes after I had logged in got to tier 5. Took a long time to reach tier 3 and start earning- probably 20 minutes.

One decent zerg fight will put you to tier 6….

Then ran out of objectives to take. Enemy camps t3 and defended, no enemies flipping our sentries or camps, not enough players on map to try and round them up and push for another tower. Take a look at Deserted BL, nothing within distance to cap. Same with home BL which has only com on and is now queued. Other enemy BL has 3-4 man thief gank squads roaming next to all 3 exits, and there isn’t enough people on the map to push out.

We’re scoring last in the match up. No wood chest last week, and only 3 pips for rank 2300, so a grand total of 4 pips.

Decay set in. Logged out. Logged into another game. Had fun in the remainder of my valuable leisure time.

PUBG is pretty fun atm. the last Addons to WoW and ToR have been great too.
Try those till they “fix” this mess, well if they ever will…

Meanwhile at ANet.

http://new4.fjcdn.com/gifs/Wildcard+kittenes_4f5e7b_4582015.gif

It’s not that i have been playing much recently, but the kodash mu this week is a waste of my time.

The linkings are still a mess, the mus are a mess, no reason to play.

Kind of sad that the episode did not start with a certain persons funeral. :/

In terms of what kind of medium legedary armor i would have liked:

http://www.guildwiki.de/gwiki/images/2/24/Assassine_Elite-Kurzick-R%C3%BCstung_Weiblich_vorne.jpg

http://www.guildwiki.de/gwiki/images/9/9c/Assassine_Obsidian-R%C3%BCstung_Weiblich_vorne.jpg

These kind of armors and not another trenchcoat. :/

Apart from that:

- new map is nice
- new masterie is cool
- Story was ok (Episode 4 was better imo)
- the first “reveal” was suprising, in both a good and a bad way ^^
- we saw Primordus

I don’t understand why they have put in so much effort in these over the top transformer armors insteat of doing something really legendary: choose from GW1 prestige Skins, make 3 Armors for each mode and keep the transforming stuff out of it.

The most disappointing feeling i had was after i saw the medium chestpiece before the transformation. All i want is a good looking, not to shiny, not to special breast piece. And what do i get? Exactly that… but as soon as i equip my weapons: trenchcoat time… again. As an assasin player from GW1 i have to say: the medium armor is inferior on any levels to the GW1 stuff.

But well, at least the light headpiece is nice….

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Guess what else is planned for 2017? The next expansion.

I will bet anybody here a doughnut that these WvW fixes will be tied to purchasing the expansion. They did it to us before with the “loot in my bag” fix.

Iam affraid that exactly that will happen with the asc vendor. “You want to buy asc armor? No problem, here: buy the expansion pack and activate the new Asc Vendort mastery. Have a nice day!”

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

What’s the point in Double links these days?

There is no point.

FSP linked AGAIN What a joke.

Naurgalen.2374:

I sadly agree with this sentiment, while i like / play PvP, PvE and WvW sometimes I hate the fact that to get better WvW equipment fast (like ascended) Im forced to play other modes when I would like to paly WvW. Still you can put tons of gold and craft so its not 100% forced.

But legendary weapons and now armors are another thing. They really force you to play PvE/Raids. And while PvE can be palyed casually, Raids certainly not (good luck finding a group without meta equipment), making them to catter IMHO to just a little of the GW2 population.

Not to mention, that the newer Legendary Weapons require a huge amount of PVE grinding and no WvW at all. So they keep PVE Players away from the WvW mode and force us to play PvE.

In other words: we are screwed.

I still wonder how a company, which made a ton of great looking weapon and armor skins in GW1, manages to produce so many ugly skins.

GW2 in terms of locations, skins, minis is very far away from the GW1 Factions/EotN glory days.

On one side iam kind of upset, but on the other side: they are butt ugly.

Totally our fault when 50 of 50 Squadmates say “I can’t use any skills, god kitten EBG lag!”

Insert random “you serious?” meme

Lorus.4218:

Blodeuyn.2751:

My guild is looking for another game to play. Wvw is just so meh anymore, so why bother spening the time on gw2. We do still show up, but nowhere near as much as we use to.

Makes me sad to see a game mode I loved become…. kitten. Shame on you Anet.

Sums it up for me as well. Community is the only thing that keeps me logging on at all. WvW itself stopped being fun after HoT and now it’s just a big pile of kitten stuff.

I think thats why most of the wvw population are still around: the people you have fought with the past years.

But unfortunately, iam mostly just in the TS these days and play something else. :/

They lost me when they ignored the players wish to go to cantha and sent us into the jungle.

For me HoT was a desaster, i liked in GW2 that you had your solo heart quests and such things, but mixed with group based world bosses, dungeons, WvW.

Another thing i have been complaining about since the LS1 is, that most of the new content was for large groups of players (Defending LA for example). The game always treat you like you are the hero of your story and than bang here, be part of a 100 player clusterf***.

Same goes with other aspects of the game, small guilds were able to get some WvW bonuses in no time and for cheap money, now you have a lot to farm and lots of gold to pay to get things you had before HoT came out (looking at you +5).

The whole game content shifted from being for small groups or solo players to large number of players.

That and the fact that after 4 1/2 years we have not been to Cantha ruined my love for this game.

What did you expect? o.O

The Ghost Thief was annoying af, but not because of the traps, because of the perma stealth and what does ANet do? Well, we should have seen that coming.

Menyus.4610:

Im sorry but conditions other name is Damage over Time in other mmos they are called dots (dont get me wrong my fav type of damage), but atm they are Death in a Blink, which is a failed concept it, just look at the gears in the game, they were designed as the basic concept DoT giving you condi damage and defense, because it took time to kill someone , but with the new condi stacking system having 10+ stacks of conditons from 3 diff. type is quite common…

Did someone say dots? Ah the memorys:

:D “more dots. more dots. more dots”

This build is the definition of John Cena. O.O

“You can’t see me.” “Lets go thiefs!” “Thiefs suck!”

We are playing against Drakkar this week, we farm them, get exp, rank up… Oh my god we are doomed. o.o

Garfried.7295:

BLAST
LIGHT FIELDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj9WbKSfbao
BLAST THEM

Hahaha saw that too, condi meta is so dumb.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Judging by some of the threads they’ve closed match up threads are any threads where people are criticising anet.

Same goes with the “EPI/Condi” Threads: they get closed rather often.

Someone posted a .gif where it was clearly shown, that the condi cap is not working and they deleted that post completly.

Swagger.1459:

Match up thread

The ANet way of telling us: “Stop annoying us and go to PVE”.

Nobody understands the linkins, cause they don’t make any sense.

ANet what are you doing? What is wrong with you? Can we help you? O.o

The Linkings are a joke. Hahahah, jokes on you… well… on us. x.x

ANets Linking System does not make any sense at all, they have lost every conncection to the EU servers.

Well… since HoT the whole meta has become…

#akittenmetaforkittens :P

I used to play mainly with my Ele before the expansion, i got used to it a few weeks back and had fun playing it as a dmg class and especially to kill some siege.

Welp. :,(

Why don’t they use the WvW Rank for determing who gets how much Asc Armor pieces?

Iam now at nearly at a rank of 1900 and have 870 spare World Ability Points, why can’t we invest 200 of them into some ASC armor?

I spent so much time in that mode, i scouted for days, i leaded for month, i wiped, i killed, i pushed dolys, i build defense, i upgraded towers, i fought, i died, i respawned, i captured and all i got was crap compared to the PVE and PVP players.

We are unappreciated, ignored, abused and worst of all: we lost a whole bunch of players and friends to other games. We have always been at the end of the straw, our long praised overhaul was scraped, our community managers are changing every few month and the new ones rarely post here or communicate with us.

That is the harsh truth every WvW player has to deal with: we are not equal to the other game modes and we will never be.

miguelsil.6324:

Or at least if WvW will be adressed regarding some classes and their over the top builds?

Ofc not in what world do you live? ^^

My general thought about a thief condi build: use any metabattle condi build, put some tesa on your 3 key and enjoy your life.

Welp, wish they’d rework the thief back to the Assassin class from factions… good times.

I don’t care about the delay, these things happen.

What i do care about it the lack of communication, especially in the GER Forum.
There was ONE official post yesterday and that was Mikes Posts translatet into german, posted by gaile.

That post came at around 2 or 3 am, everyhting else we had to get from reddit, twitter and the EN forum. You might say “ofc, its been late evening/night in your region”, fair enough but the question is: why is it no problem for gaile or one of her coworkers to translate Mikes post into german, but why have they not been able to translate the previous posts?

On paper we have a Community Manager, but the only things he posted in the past weeks have been Patch Notes. Not even today, after this massive delay we hear a word from him, sucks to be us i guess.

Well, dunno what they are doing but they switched Kodash to full too. Lolz.

Oh and ER has now a very high population. ^^

This makes no sense.

Please don’t destroy my hometown, destroy something else… the Sylvari hometown for example.

Korgov.7645:

Thea Cherry.6327:

Korgov.7645:

Thea Cherry.6327:

Btw. how good 2-1-1 works can be seen atm in the BB – Piken – Kodash MU.

BB is second, with 19 first places 16 second places while Kodash is last with 13 first and 33 second places.

Mmm 2-1-1 is soooooooo rewarding. Not.

Finally someone who is actually looking at scores and not just expressing beliefs.

You just didn’t look close enough.

As you can see BB has won the 00-08 skirmishes almost every day. It’s called nightcapping. However Piken has been able to recover from 08 onwards, not leaving the PPT tick for BB all day.

Kodash won the reset skirmishes, Saturday noon skirmishes and 2 more on Monday’s prime time. And after that no more wins. Weekend warriors got their morale broken?

Actually it’s been this way the past 2 years or so, the only difference is: while we were able to minimize the loss in the night by playing for second place, with this system it doesn’t matter so the nightcrew has shrinked from max 30+ people to round about max 20. :/

Well, nightcapping will never be fixed and BB will always be a nightcapping server.

Btw. why is BB full and you rarely see more than 10 people during the day?

Maybe it is time to update your 2 years old strategy and play for the win instead of for the second place? :P

The skirmishes were a good attempt to diminish the effects of nightcapping. Unfortunately the increase in PTT worked the opposite. Luckily for your matchup Piken has been able to stop the PPT ticking in the mornings.

I think BB is playing their strengths here: let the other teams fight over the prime time, then night cap, and hope other teams cannot recover until next prime time.

Well Piken is pretty hyped atm. the ash remains have transferd there, i think TT and some more which have been previously on Vaabilation too.

That’s what i meant in another thread: population can’t be balanced as long as unlimited server transfering is possible. 7 Days Transferban? It is a joke, the bandwagoners will always manipulate the population as long as they can.
Piken is undeniable one of the top contenders for the top 3 during this linking.

So you have Piken who are not only more, but better players, you have BB who do there own thing and you have kodash who lost 30 players in the last 2 weeks, a partly demotivated playerbase, some inactiv commanders and voila: you have no chance to win.

The only reason i still play is, that we have an overall very friendly and funny community. Thank god for that. :*

Korgov.7645:

Thea Cherry.6327:

Btw. how good 2-1-1 works can be seen atm in the BB – Piken – Kodash MU.

BB is second, with 19 first places 16 second places while Kodash is last with 13 first and 33 second places.

Mmm 2-1-1 is soooooooo rewarding. Not.

Finally someone who is actually looking at scores and not just expressing beliefs.

You just didn’t look close enough.

As you can see BB has won the 00-08 skirmishes almost every day. It’s called nightcapping. However Piken has been able to recover from 08 onwards, not leaving the PPT tick for BB all day.

Kodash won the reset skirmishes, Saturday noon skirmishes and 2 more on Monday’s prime time. And after that no more wins. Weekend warriors got their morale broken?

Actually it’s been this way the past 2 years or so, the only difference is: while we were able to minimize the loss in the night by playing for second place, with this system it doesn’t matter so the nightcrew has shrinked from max 30+ people to round about max 20. :/

Well, nightcapping will never be fixed and BB will always be a nightcapping server.

Btw. why is BB full and you rarely see more than 10 people during the day?

Btw. how good 2-1-1 works can be seen atm in the BB – Piken – Kodash MU.

BB is second, with 19 first places 16 second places while Kodash is last with 13 first and 33 second places.

Mmm 2-1-1 is soooooooo rewarding. Not.

Kodasch has no ANet Dev, i don’t think any german server has one.

Last time i saw a dev was i dunno 2 years ago? During a tournament, i think his name was cody but iam not sure.

Pecar.1236:

This is one of main problem transfer cost too much

No, it is to cheap so everyone is joining linked servers to bandwagon there.

reddie: yeah ofc eu is fine, thats why so many eu players are complaining or just stopped playing.

Get your facts right, EU is broken and Serverlinking is one of the reasons why it is.

Baratta.1083:

Server transferring is what killed WvW period. Blob servers will always be on the top and the low pop servers will always be at the bottom. Anet is inept at fixing anything in WvW and they also look at WvW as a red headed step child.
Four year of total failure is only proof Anet does not care and that it will never be fixed in a meaningful manner. GW2 is all about PVE and PVP nothing more than that at this point.

This!

#needtowritemoredone

Orpheal.8263:

this ridiculous stupid linking of worlds as pathetic “pseudo solution” for population problems will only end, if ANet makes finally the neccessary step to redesign WvW into a Faction based Game Concept, because only once Anet makes finally the needed step to get rid of “Servers” as Worlds they let fight against each other, over to an server independent system of 3 Factions which get their players shared among all servers.

Only then will anet completely solve the Ppopulation problem this game has since multiple years now …

The question is only…

Should players decide, to which Faction they want to belong permanently.
Or should players get put by rotation each week into a different Faction by random?

However, the poiunt stands – Anet must get away from their outdated Server System, because as long they stay on this outdated system, they will never solve the Population Problems and continue shifting the real issue around on a scale with their senseless Server linkings only and annoy with this the playerbase only more and more each time.

Or maaaaybe they should restrict server changes to once every half year? The main problem of the population is that so many bandwagoners are kittening up all MUs.

And here we go… Dzabaddon all over again. x.x

Does anyone know when Episode 4 will be released?