Guild Wars 2

Aneu.1748:

DevonCarver.5370:

I have said it before and it clearly bears repeating, our focus is on making improvements to WvW as a game type. When we implement changes it is with that goal in mind. We are aware of the GvG scene and we think it is really impressive, but the effects of any of our changes on GvG as it currently exists are not a priority for us. As such, when changes do come in, like the new map, some of them will be a positive for the GvG crowd and some will not. However, none of the changes we make are intended to stamp out GvG nor are they intended to make GvG more popular. When/if we focus our attention on GvG we will do our utmost to make it a game type that fits the needs of as many people as possible. That time is not now.

We are focused on WvW right now and improving it. Please try not to conflate our decisions in regards to WvW as some sort of judgement or endorsement of GvG in any form.

So we both know how stubborn you are. We know it from this forum, we know it from that “other” place that you blatantly disregard any feedback given and you once again come out of the ignorance cave you quite blatantly live in to shock us once again.

Let me make it quite clear for you, since my last post was so easily missed. Your changes are NOT making WvW more entertaining, nor is it making it more fun. All the changes that have been done in WvW (minus culling) have done nothing but turn it into a casual mess where people run around in a single zerg ball. Now the groups that dont do this are groups that pride themselves on competetive fighting and showing how strong that can be when not having to resort to the whole zerg meta – You are basically giving the two fingers to these people, the people who are attempting to be good at your WvW game. You are actually giving the zerg meta more of an ability to influence and essentially turning WvW into the largest blob wins…

Hopefully you can understand this and remove the whole WvW vs GvG thing since most GvG guilds are WvWers and they play the WvW game far more than most…

Opinion of a GvGer.

Luiz Swordbreaker.6547:

http://youtu.be/u7BLhqhtszk?t=8m45s

Think Ogre has been a kind of voice of the PvP community for a while

Who? … I don’t like when people proclaim people that barely anyone other than your GvG community knows about. This is World vs World.

This guy just can’t be the voice for WvW, he’s after an ideology that’s not implemented in the game.

Actually even, GvG guys are trying to break or manipulate a mode to their advantage. All in fun’s name.

I wish they won’t allow anyone to turn the buff on and off. This is World vs World. 1v1 is SPvP.

GvG is.. well… not an option supported by Arena.Net yet… maybe in another game you will find what you are looking for.

HDD is old technology, it’s worse than having outdated ram in your computer.

Poplolita.2638:

I can’t tpvp without listening to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6fuPQ-294

Am I the only one? Is there other people that can’t play gw2 without listening to their favorite music? And I want to know how people deal with their emotions without listening to Alizee while playing gw2 !

*I might get a weird reputation with this thread, but this section of this forum feels so toxic that I felt the need to post this.

Its even better when you understand what she says

I have soft skin
In my bubble bath
I splash myself
I’m cracking up about it
My goldfish fish
In my bubble bath
I’m wrapping him up
I tell him:

I don’t have a problem
I’m just being lazy
I’m not feeling unwell
I’m just being lazy
In water I’m bathing
That’s important
I’m feeling at ease the way things are

My skin is soft
In my bubble bath
I’m lazing around in the shadow
of bombs
Everything is a pleasure
Obidient offenses
I’m making a list of things that annoy me

I’m fed up with people who are always whining
Who roll at only 2 miles per hour
Who are comlaining and who are stuck
On the idea of a fixed idea
I’m fed up with those who keep nagging
Useless terrorists
Who keep painting everything black
Who call me a hypocrite
I’m fed up with the big sister
Who complains about everything and who keeps crying
Fed up with rain, fed up with courgettes
Which make me throw up under my blanket
I’m fed up with cynics
And near saffron meadows
I’m fed up with being fed up

I have soft skin
In my bubble bath
No seismic vibrations
I’m relaxing
And I’m unwinding
In my bubble kingdom
There’s only one catch

Anyone noticed if they removed the water? It seems to me like the middle was empty.

What do you think?

Shifty.4985:

Nuff said from the BG side, honestly though i have no source of Waha wanting to double team, but I think he just doesnt like SoR in general.

You make me laugh. This is war, what do you expect? We’ll mail you flowers?

#dealwithit

Happy 1 year anniversary to the World vs World community!!!

-The Outnumbered buff now provides a 25% boost to all WXP gained.
-WXP rates have been increased across the board. All activities that award WXP should now reward much more.
-The Siege Decay buff is no longer visible to hostile players.

Are you serious OP? Thank you for what?? All the ’’soons’’ ? That guy is paid man don’t forget that.

I call troll.

get your exotic gear
Farm/grind/buy your favorite skins
get your ascended gear
Farm/grind/turn gems to gold for your legendary
get WvW ranks
do the same fractals or same dungeons
Participate in the two-week events

enjoy GW2 endgame

Today marks the last patch we will have (next one being September 3rd) before the 1 year anniversary of GW2!! After this, we will be passed the 1 year anniversary mark.

What do you think Arena.Net has in store for us World vs World players today?? I’m excited! I cannot wait to see!!

What’s your predictions??

And on the field agg has poor awareness of their surrounding… a little panning wouldn’t hurt them.

Believe it or not Aedil, people will actually take Arena.Net side on that one and will play with your words too.

Don’t even start to wonder why companies feed us this kitten.

Atherakhia.4086:

DevonCarver.5370:

The commander system is only the barest hint of what we would like it to be in the long term. There are a lot of things that should be better, including the visibility of squads, and we’ll make sure to not only incorporate feedback we see on the boards but also actively seek out feedback as we flesh the system out in the future.

The future should be now though…. this has been complained about for 9 months (I’ve only played for that long. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a day 1 issue). I realize things move slowly, but you’ve been here for 5 months you said? And all we have to show for it is WXP chests and a poorly implemented WXP skill system.

At some point things need to happen now instead of constantly using Blizzard’s ’SOON’tm where soon is any period from 3 months from now to never, but certainly never now..

I support this 100%. I’m in a 40+ players guild who think the same.

DevonCarver.5370:

Krait, eh? Oh, they’ll get theirs! As for the skritt and the centaurs, I agree that they feel extremely out of place in WvW. Replacing them is not a simple matter, however. As we continue to improve on WvW we’ll be taking another look at the borderlands generally and what we think needs to be made mo’ better. It’s a safe bet the centaurs and skritt will not escape notice.

I thought the centaurs were there to help with our 25 sigil stacks.

I guess we don’t play the same game.

You forgot to take your meds.

DevonCarver.5370:

Knightmare.8634:

DevonCarver.5370:

Magnetron.5823:

Devon, we should say bye bye to you, cause in 11 months nothing has changed.

When I’ve been working on WvW for 11 months, then we’ll talk. I’ve been here for 5, so I still have 6 more before you boot me for someone else. Also, the orb mechanic is coming back.

Devon,

A few questions/suggestions hopefully you can chime in on.

1. Any news/updates on making winning the match up more rewarding? There is very little fanfare or even acknowledgement that your server won. The passives are ok I guess, but at the end of the day it just feels hollow.

2. WvW Abilities – All in all I have to admit, they are just boring. Passives blah, some of the siege abilities are ok. I know you have to be careful with balance… but I would really like to see more creativity here.

3. Any chance of getting WvW Rank locked unique skins? Maybe an Aura around you? Something/anything unique to WvW to show off??? ( Same for SPVP, but thats a different topic)

4. Guild Claiming really needs to mean more. Defending in general needs to mean more.

5. I honestly think with the modest size of your maps and how many people are crammed into them. The waypoints upgrades should be removed.

6. Commander System – That is all the needs to be said.

7. How about DAOC style killspam? Just throwing that out there. I know a lot of people that loved it. At the end of the day we all want to be the hero!

Ok this is turning into a wall of text so I’ll stop here.

1) There should be some movement on this in the very near future. And that version will not be the final version either, but we wanted to make some changes quickly.

2) We will continue to work on these abilities in the hopes of making them more fun and providing more variety. We are however quite set on not adding power creep, at least not much, which makes them fairly constrained. We have yet to unleash our craziest ideas.

3)That is not something I had thought of, but I think it’s a good idea and I’ll at least start the ball rolling. Skins take forever and a day to be made though, so it won’t be for months if we do it at all.

4) We will update guild claiming in the future, but there are other tasks we are focused on at the moment. It’s also something that we want to do a very serious overhaul to, so it isn’t something that can happen in bits an pieces.

5) I agree and we will likely remove them at some point in the future. However, to do so requires additional work because of the complexities of the upgrade system. It’s not as simple to do as it should be. But we have to work with the tools we have.

6) We are in the process of figuring out just what we’ll need to do to the commander system to make it what it should be. Much like guild claiming it is not a small overhaul though and it won’t be in place for quite some time.

7) It is on our list of things to do, but it is not going to happen until we’ve handled some other, more serious things. Like the commander system. While I certainly wish I had a legion of designers and programmers at my disposal, we have a finite amount of resources to be put to work and we have to prioritize them according to what is necessary for the game. Sometimes that means doing things that have seemingly little impact to y’all, but eventually pay dividends in other ways.

Hope that is informative.

1. One day
2. Maybe
3. Soon
4. One day
5. Not sure, maybe
6. Soon
7. Maybe

Very informative. Thank you sir.

MauricioCezar.2673:

Its RNG, what did you expect?

You had just spend 400G betting in your luck. Almost a precursor, so… you are doing things wrong. Soon A-net will introduce a form to craft precursors, so… stop wasting Gold guy.

After what the OP posted, you’re still gonna defend Arena.Net???

The guy wants his legendary weapon. Apparently that in this game, going on an epic adventure to build your legendary weapon = standing in front of the mystic forge and dumping items.

kittening Legendary.

Siad.3608:

Troop.1369:

lordkrall.7241:

And this couldn’t go into one of the 50 other threads about the exact same topic?

Look at the previous posts of this guy, if he doesnt work for Arena.Net then he’s got a replica of Colin Johanson in his basement.

The fact that you know who Colin Johanson is (I had to google it) says more about you being an ANet fanboy than any of his previous posts.

Man how are you even allowed to post?

lordkrall.7241:

And this couldn’t go into one of the 50 other threads about the exact same topic?

Look at the previous posts of this guy, if he doesnt work for Arena.Net then he’s got a replica of Colin Johanson in his basement.

lordkrall.7241:

Troop.1369:

Some people at a.net should stop putting so much effort into something that will NEVER beat SC2, WoW, DOTA and LoL on the ESPORT scene. Of course i’m talking about spvp.

Some people at a.net should stop putting so much effort into “trying” to please the PvE crowd with living story every two weeks and focus on GUILD WARS

They should create a new mode, a real GvG mode (not that boring kitten on WvW maps).

Rather weird to compare different type of game when talking about e-sports though. The only game on your list that can actually be somewhat compared is WoW, since that is the only other MMO on there. And WoW is quite small (if not non-existent) on the e-sport market.

The Guild Wars is ancient history. There are more pressing issues in the world now, especially since 2 out of the 3 kingdoms involved in said war no longer exists.

Fact is, most people who enjoy e-sports (including me) will invest time in whatever the type is (MMOs, MOBA).

So no, it’s far from weird to compare different type of games when talking about e-sports.

I remember a couple of months ago, one of your community managers said something about trying to punish zerging. Still waiting…

I remember a couple of months ago, one of your community manager said something about trying to reduce skill lag. Still waiting…

I remember a couple of months ago, one of your community manager said something about trying to correct and adjust the unrealistic World vs World achievements. Still waiting…

Some people at a.net should stop putting so much effort into something that will NEVER beat SC2, WoW, DOTA and LoL on the ESPORT scene. Of course i’m talking about spvp.

Some people at a.net should stop putting so much effort into “trying” to please the PvE crowd with living story every two weeks and focus on GUILD WARS

They should create a new mode, a real GvG mode (not that boring kitten on WvW maps).

Halo.8976:

It’s so unique and refreshing! Please, post more zerball videos, we don’t have enough of those.

I kitten on this community. That’s the game, go back to your kitten server.

This has been done by Henge of Denravi in September last year. But congrats nonetheless.

I’m still not 100% optimal on the stream. After today’s patch, my streaming program wouldn’t recognize GW2 anymore so I had to use a different streaming method. With this, I had to re-do my settings, including sound.

For some reason tonight, I learned no sound was coming out of my stream, even if I set it up correctly.

Tomorrow’s stream should be rock solid. If from this point everything’s good, I will start releasing previous broadcasts on the channel.

It’s just too bad that I took a full day to run all the tests before posting here, only to get kittened by the GW2 patch a day after.

I will also include TS sound in the future, since I received constructive feedback about not having it enabled.

Thank you for your comprehension!

Hi there!

Black Talon’s live stream ( http://www.twitch.tv/btguild ) has original speed. The one in charge of creating our weekly recaps prefer to speed things up a bit because we have so much worthy content to put into our videos every week that he tries to cram them into 10 minutes or else we would have very big weekly recaps! And much bigger videos to encode and upload!

We hide the minimap because we sometimes use different strategies on the field (group split, flanks, etc) that we would like to keep secret from our enemies.

Since 2 weeks past, we’ve been running without a commander tag. We are a force on the field and we attract a lot of militia by running with the commander tag. This allows us to run tightly, move faster on the field and survive longer (kitten rally bots!).

Other than that, we rarely join zergs, except to create opportunies on the field. We run with 20 to 45ish players a night. We had to bolster our forces by 10-15 active players in order to rivalize with tier 1 zerging opposition.

Thank you again for your constructive feedback. I will personally transmit your idea of keeping the original speed in the recaps to the one in charge of creating them!

We do have weekly recaps on Quenta’s youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/QuentaSilmarillion/videos

Enjoy, and stream will be up starting at 8pm eastern time!

Blix.8021:

GvG is way more important to this game’s community than idiotic tower flipping, sorry

This game’s community doesn’t equal 10 guilds of 20 players.

Try harder.

Yeah, Sanctum of Rall was out in full force on Tarnished Coast BL tonight! We’re not the type to switch to a different BL when adversity is fierce, hence the massive blobs on tonight’s stream!

We’ll be online tomorrow same time!

We at Black Talons decided to launch our own twitch page! Come watch us as we plow through everything that crosses our path in World vs World or come check out our bi-weekly 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 tournaments!

I took the initiative to create this page for the following reasons:

-Promote World vs World gameplay to the gaming community
-Give a taste of World of World top tier action
-Show high-quality, intense, fun, entertaining fights
-Show the world what the Black Talons are made of

You thought you saw cool fights but you’ve never seen intense fights like this! We know how to get down and dirty!

http://www.twitch.tv/btguild

Schedule: Weekdays after 8PM Eastern
Weekends after 1PM Eastern

DevonCarver.5370:

These particular changes are indeed on the client-side. They won’t impact lag, unfortunately. We are still both investigating additional ways to combat skill lag, not that there are any particularly good looking options at the moment, and continuing to make improvements to overall game performance as we can.

Of course it wont… WvW lag is forever.

Maybe you can start working on the botched WvW achievements while you`re at it. We’ve been asking for 10 months now.

Aberrant.6749:

@OP the upcoming changes on the 6th should help increase your fps and clear things up visually.

Nuka Cola.8520:

PredatoR.5247:

t1 is stupid…………………

it is but so is T2.

At least on the NA servers T2 is nothing compared to the stupidity of T1. T2 has about 1/10th of the laggyness that I’ve seen in T1.

and about 9/10th more boring

PredatoR.5247:

t1 is stupid…………………

You heard this man. If your PC sucks stay away from Tier 1.

Bashido.8694:

Vash.9183:

Hoots.9564:

Kiltor.9362:

Quenta.2978:

Great video of RE and TW trying to wipe us at the same time. We utilized the bridge as a choke with the numbers they had on us. The fun part was positioning RE and TW between each other during the fights. Was a hot of a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP9DrPR5cmk

is there a reason why the video was cut short?

Have to cut their video short as they got farmed on every single engagement they attempted. I found it surprising that they were willing to put up footage in the first place!

Hope you’re having fun talking among your own guild members on the forums. I know you’re trying to put on a little show for everyone, but really, you’re not making any progress. Zerg the forums more. Always have something to defend, huh? As for the video, do those not count as engagements? gg

You keep saying you only had 15, but your other members who weren’t in the 15 for the GvG (they were standing by) joined you in the fight. All someone has to do is open the video to see how many numbers you had on the bridge. Numbers that BT so nicely dealt with.

I’m not in TW and was there watching the fight, the bottom line is aside from the 3 min video BT got ran off or rolled out every single fight. Literally every single fight they either ran into a tower, or were crushed so bad the rest had to run.

Good on them though, that 3 min video is probably the biggest accomplishment in their existence, so here’s to BT!!!

Now if they were only as good at fighting as they are at talking and running they might have something… unfortunately though…

Justdeifyme.9387:

Troop.1369:

Justdeifyme.9387:

Opinions are a great thing. You play 45 minutes a day. Great!
I play several hours a day, Great!

You understand?

What more do you have? After your 6 pieces of ascended. Missing the point?

Actually you are missing my point completly, I’ll try to make it clear.

What I was trying to say is, while he plays 45 minutes without fun, I can play several hours with fun, which concludes that it’s his fault, not the game’s fault.

Next time you want to make yourself understood, try to use the word that has the most meaning in what you type (fun)

actually TYPE IT next time

Justdeifyme.9387:

Opinions are a great thing. You play 45 minutes a day. Great!
I play several hours a day, Great!

You understand?

What more do you have? After your 6 pieces of ascended. Missing the point?

Ultimaistanza.4793:

Seems BT logged early, I guess all the running really tuckered them out.

Deception is the key.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

One additional exciting release you’ll see on top of the high-level notes Devon called out in his blog post is the replacement for the original WvW orb mechanic in our borderlands maps. This change should provide more diversity in the gameplay of WvW and make our borderlands more exciting.

This was posted about two weeks ago. Can we have more information about this?

This thread lacks evidence

EDIT: and constructive feedback

Big hands?

Logitech G600/G700

Small hands?

Razer Naga Hex, Naga MMO

Enjoy

That thread title need some work. I read top WvW guild then this post is filled with GvG nonsense.

DevonCarver.5370:

We are going to have to do some complicated things to let people keep what they have already done in addition to adding new achievements. So, I’d love to be more informative in terms of date, but I don’t know either, so I can’t.

Uh… you knew these achievements were unrealistic at least 6 months ago. Today you’re still telling us anything good about it…

All I read is a lot of pretty words that when put together don’t mean much.

KAMIKAZEEEE!!!!!!

LetoII.3782:

celeron.3469:

Yes but you are saying that as somebody in a large guild (TW/TWL).

FUNFACTS:

There’s 70 players on TW’s roster. Some are legacy members who don’t actually play.
Our record online at one time is 34.
TW’s Perceived presence:

Sounds to me like the GW2 division of TW is slowly dying. That explains why we barely see them in WvW anymore.

GVG anyone??

PredatoR.5247:

what does everyone think of [Agg]s new video introduction?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjQZf5k1nGY&feature=youtu.be

It’s average. People were already dominating this game before half of you GvGers learned where to find the mill.

Hoots.9564:

zepp.4109:

Hoots.9564:

Has to be a Full BL or they won’t leave PK.

zepp.4109:

We can say the same about TW. ~~

^

lol, there is a meta called GvG’s, those consist of 2 guilds both equal numbers fighting each other with one winner. BT is more then welcome to challenge themselves to fight TW and prove my statement wrong. Until then BT will only ever be classified as a blob guild in my book.

Let me bring you up to speed.

There is something worthless* invented by a bunch of WvW weaklings to pretend they can bring accomplishment and competitiveness to their game. It is called GvG.

As a member of BT, i’d rather kitten on your GvGs and taste your forum tears than make a fool of myself.

This is only me though. I don’t represent the opinion of everyone in the guild.

After one year we still can’t have a proper zerg vs zerg without having lag as a HUGE influence on the income of the fight.

This is frankly embarassing. People are swallowing the pill and i’m surprised the only thing people do is sit on their kitten waiting for something to happen. One year we have this problem now.

What’s it to be done? Free to play isn’t pushing out enough funds to resolve this issue?

I’ve logged over 3,000 hours in WvW in this game. I’ve seen my share of lags, NOT MUCH as changed since the release of this game for performance in WvW. We asked for culling to be removed and we still have the lag we had with culling enabled.

Unless you work at Arena.Net and are able to explain in details what’s going on and what is done in order to resolve this, I don’t want to know about your amateur expertise on the problem. People shouldn’t bash on others trying to create a movement to let Arena.Net know what we are concerned about this and want to know, in a detailed fashion about what is going on and what steps are currently taken to resolve this.

I’d like someone from Arena.net to make an official checklist of what is being done to fix this. So we, the players of this game have some hope and consider a future in this game.

This is more lag than speed hacks. Calculate how long it takes this guy to get behind the supply depot. Only imagine a line from the point you think he starts to speed hack, up to where he stops…. I don’t really see speed hacks there.

Move to Blackgate! Play with the best guilds in the game!

Come face RG on JQ and the mighty SoR EU presence!

Blix.8021:

people like you are why wvw matchups are so stupid right now

There is a huge difference still, i can’t blame him for playing where real action is.

@ OP you should move to JQ