Guild Wars 2

Anet must know that they had a terrible idea with that. Only the 4 last bronze servers should have free transfers. Very smart, congratulations.

I’m only happy because archeage is coming this year, no more reasons to play gw2.

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nekretaal.6485:

Zerg PvE and WvW seasons are killing all but the biggest servers.

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Same problem here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Free-Transfers-Impact-Less-Servers/first#post3773097

This is not balance patch, this is the “Let’s destroy the bronze league servers” patch lol!

skullmount.1758:

Tolkien.4810:

Lunchbox.6970:

I think we are going to see a mass exodus from servers ranked 16 and down and people flowing into the 13-15 ranked servers. Not only does WvW suck on lower ranked servers, but so does PvE. I’m on EBay and I have to guest to other servers if I want to do Living Story content or world bosses and dragons. Why would anybody transfer to the 20-24 ranked servers even if it is free? More people will be leaving the 20-24 ranked servers than there will be people transferring to them.

Agreed.

I agree as well.
(And I’m still disappointed w/ those that abandoned us (DH mostly, but any that abandon their server for higher ones)).
I think it should have been any under 3rd silver (9th server) costs 800, top 3 bronze costs ~400 and any under that are free. As Tolein and Lunchbox stated, there is no incentive to go to bronze league. If you’re going to transfer, even bottom silver is more populated, both pve and wvw, then bronze ones.
Would have been interesting if they gave each player that moved to bronze from gold/silver some of the reward tokens (maybe proportional to the rank difference from original server) as extra incentive to move down (and stay there for the season).

+1

Yeah, this logic is pretty flawed to me too. I don’t know anyone that is currently in a higher tier server that want to go to Kaineng, EB, AR or ET.
But I know lots of people that are going to the higher tiers.
IMHO, just close the lower servers and put people at the higher ones, but just don’t kill it with those transfers.

Lunchbox.6970:

I think we are going to see a mass exodus from servers ranked 16 and down and people flowing into the 13-15 ranked servers. Not only does WvW suck on lower ranked servers, but so does PvE. I’m on EBay and I have to guest to other servers if I want to do Living Story content or world bosses and dragons. Why would anybody transfer to the 20-24 ranked servers even if it is free? More people will be leaving the 20-24 ranked servers than there will be people transferring to them.

Agreed.

I am a DH player, and for some weeks of talking with some other guilds I will just try to explain what will happen today. With the free transfers, and the logic that Anet create for free transfers, DH that is not one of the worst bronze servers will loose a lot of players to HoD and CD. Let’s see the logic:

- Lets give free transfers for the 4 last servers of silver and bronze leagues, and this way they can be more competitive

What will happen? Of course that people who are at the best bronze servers will transfer to silver servers!

So, a question come to my mind, why we still have bronze servers at all? Isn’t it the time to shrink the server list, for balance sake?

What are you thoughts guys?

Well, talking with more people yesterday I realize that people who is leaving DH are those who don’t give a kitten to what server they represent

Lots of people from guilds I know are transfering to HoD and CD because of the free transfers. DH for now is a not a big WvW server at all, and not a top pve server too. Is that the end of DH?

:(

1 – Multiclassing
2 – Guild Halls
3 – Better aquisition of ascended gear (or remove them )
4 – Profession balance improvements that all builds could be on equal level
5 – Every type of mounts (doesn’t matter that there are waypoints)

CHIPS.6018:

I am glad to see that most people agree with me. ^^

Gele.2048:

i like vertical progresion are u kiding me 5 years from now u gona use the same weapons ? for real ? u not gona get bored whit the same statc and same dmg numbers get real need more lvl’s need beter gear but not the way ascended is made thac just pure epic grind fest

I feel bored when I am forced to run the same build over and over again because I am stuck with my current gear. This happens when it is too expensive/time consuming to get a new set of gear for my new envisioned build.

This is my first post in this forum, because I read it a lot, but this is the first time I feel I need to say something here.

I agree with this 100%.

When ascended gear come, I almost quit the game. In fact, my friends hold me here. Ascended gear and the change to legendary weapons damage sux a lot for me. It was extremely perfect in the begining, with exotics beeing top gear, and the grind for skins.

Well, time goes on and I eat this frog, unfortunatelly, to keep playing with my friends.

I’m casual player, have a little boy to raise, but I play since the pre-access (pre-ordered GW2). Now, I have 1 ascended amulet and 1 ascended ring… Almost 2 years of playing…

Why? Because my son was born right after the ascended introduction, and I dont have time enough to do dailies every day, and monthlies every month.

When the problem affected me?
I just play wvw, really hate jump puzzles, fractals and guild missions. Dungeons I can accept, they are funny (but dont have ascended items :/).

I love to roam with my friends in wvw, so the first time I fight against a full ascended enemy, I feel the difference. Now that my friends that have more time to play then me have all ascended gear (or near all), I see that they can kill way more then me.
I’m not bad player, in fact, I do kill a lot with my almost all exotic gear, but there is a difference in power, and it’s a fact. And there is still the build variation factor, and the alts, and on and on…

Now I’m stuck in this situation where I only have the option to use exotic items to play with differente builds, and I had to “promote” one build to be my “main” build, to get those 2 pieces of ascended trinkets.

TL/DR: IMHO, ascended gear should not be usable in WvW, like sPVP. It really ruined the game for a lot of people like me, even if people keep saying the difference is minimal. For those, keep in mind that minimal diference <> no diference.
If ascended gear is part of wvw, there should be more ways (and easy ways) to obtain them, other then crafting and running those extremelly boring fractals. There are players here that play GW2 for the mass combat (so sPVP and PVE are not part of the game for them), and those players were harmed with those additions.

PS1: Everytime I watch the gw2 team manifesto (pre-launch), and remember the ascended items, I feel a sad panda.

PS2: Sorry for bad english, it’s not my main language.

Ty for reading, and ty for understanding and respecting.