Guild Wars 2

Luzano.6983:

^ But EVOH was fun to fight against.

^_^ pewpewpew

Does CD still have [redt]?

I hope CD has more than a handful, otherwise who will we fight in the JP!?

Yeah but this thread has more chutzpah

This will be one hell of an epic reset though

We did it guys! T4, Harro

Shoutout to Fort Aspenwood [DKS] guild.

Zandria Zander told me you guys would bring us some friends, thank you sir!

kash.9213:

ViperWire.4261:

Quenta.2978:

Seriously though, badges are good, I am just running out of room (see picture).

Yeah me too, so many badges that I think the game is starting to glitch

If you had that many badges you could afford to buy new gear every time you died instead of paying for repairs. Then you might not have to run around naked half of the time.

:o

Quenta.2978:

Seriously though, badges are good, I am just running out of room (see picture).

Yeah me too, so many badges that I think the game is starting to glitch

morrolan.9608:

ViperWire.4261:

You are referring to Anet 2.0

Anet that was active during Gw1 before 2006~ was the best customer service I have experienced to this day.

Yep its amazing how they’ve almost completely trashed their brand since those days.

Very sad really

And the fact that I am 1 infraction away from a permanent forum ban is just disgusting to say the least.

Offer feedback, get infracted :\

Liquid.9672:

I personally think they went dark because Colin’s post got ripped to shreds to the point where they had to close their own thread. Why post anything that could change before it’s patched and only have more people jump down your throat?

If that is the case, they are the kid in class that does not want to read his presentation in front of the class in fear of getting picked on or someone not agreeing with every word they have to say.

If Anet neglects a game this much, they should expect bitter feedback. The longer they wait to respond, the worse it will get.

Best thing they could do is grow balls and communicate, whether or not they get attacked should never matter. This is a job/career, they need to treat it as more than an internship and defend their company by improving their product; not by deleting every suggestion and then some from their forums.

If your product is not up to par, and you are SO FORTUNATE to have a client/customer base telling you EXACTLY what is wrong with your product. Then, it is solely your fault if your product is not up to par with the standards that you have implanted into your clients/customers.

That is actually how product and service based companies operate. If they are doing a poor job and are told what they did poorly, they improve.

Anet has done a poor job communicating to their players, they need to improve that.

CHIPS.6018:

I think the best way to Esport is for servers to fight over random PvE maps, from one waypoint to another. For example Field of Ruins. Put a lord’s room in Fallen Angels and one in Rosko. One server would start in Fallen Angels, the other at Rosko. Whoever takes over the enemy’s waypoint wins.

Maps and waypoints should be randomized for each fight.

That would be very efficient, there would not be as much “work” involved with using current/existing maps and adding npcs/structures.

We are not in any way asking Anet to design 20 maps and launch GvG tomorrow, and I feel your approach shows that clearly.

There is overwhelming potential in WvW/Gw2, it just needs to be harnessed rather than neglected in favor of spvp/tpvp/pve.

I pewpew all of your siege

[Rant time]
How many guilds are waiting on GvG? (I don’t mean zerg vs zerg at South supply camp and posting the video if you won) I mean GvG where it is 8 or more against 8 or more, where guilds can learn/test builds/team compositions. Where guilds can get sponsored, have reasons to practice smaller team compositions, as well as get sponsors interested in Gw2/Anet even.

As of right now, there is NOTHING ESports about Gw2. Nothing at all.

I remember we had spectator mode for GvG’s, we had actual tournaments, we had sponsored tournaments, we had third party sponsored tournaments. We have no potential to have tournaments or anything that would entice sponsors in WvW (in the current untouched state) which actually is much better than spvp/tpvp (AKA metawars). I would love to excuse the lack of WvW attention for breakthrough spvp/tpvp updates; but sadly those players haven’t seen any updates to spvp/tpvp other than half of what was promised at release.

If there was a true potential to E-sport Gw2, it would be with WvW not with spvp/tpvp. It would be with teams of 8 or more versus another team of 8 or more. It would be GREAT if they implemented WvW mechanics/locations and made a 1 Keep/2 Tower/2 Supply camp map (Or similar, it’s the idea more than specifically what I suggest) and let 2 guilds with equal numbered teams go at it.

Guilds would be able to find sponsors and would field more people because there is now a real life reason to WvW/play competitive Gw2. This will grow the community and cause more guild-to-guild interactions, same servers, different servers, doesn’t matter GvG in a regard.

It is also ridiculous to see that in gw1 ON RELEASE, it had multiple “guild halls” in which Guild v Guild’s would happen at. You would fight at the defender’s guild hall (Different halls meant different tactics, some meant rush the guild lord, some meant split in 2 groups, much different than the 3/4 WvW maps that are copypasta and the 1/4 WvW map that is awesome but needs some lovin’/rework). There were at least 6+ guild halls Gw1, yet there are only 5 spvp/tpvp maps in Gw2?

If I remember from beta, I was told GW2 would be an esports breakthrough. 6 months later, here we are.

WvW is your potential money maker Anet, but you are neglecting it like a redheaded stepchild.

Introduce a small WvW map that is invite only for “skirmishes” or guild matches. Make it. It is very easy to do so and I will make it in MSPAINT if you need help.

This will keep WvW players hanging by a thread at least until you can tell us the Feburary update(which was pushed to March), was actually postponed until 2020.

Before I end, this is something that CANNOT and WILL NOT wait for the expansion to come out and for these issues to only get mentioned and not fixed yet again.
[Rant]

This is not as organized as it could be, but I spelled accurately and believe the points were made clear, I’ll edit if not just let me know.

TLDR; No/0% Esports in Gw2 right now. WvW has potential, spvp/tpvp does not. Make GvG with 1 beginner map, name it beta even, doesn’t matter if it has glitches initially just don’t make a Guild ladder until there are more maps and terrain issues are resolved. Voila!

Cactus.2710:

The single greatest source of customer dissatisfaction in any arena is the feeling that you’re being ignored or aren’t important. ANet has raised this to an art form.

You are referring to Anet 2.0

Anet that was active during Gw1 before 2006~ was the best customer service I have experienced to this day.

It’s terrible that even Gaile Grey cannot communicate as she had in Gw1, either she is being suppressed from doing so; OR whoever makes the decision, decided that keeping an open line of communication is not necessary if your goal is to deceive for quick profits then back with false promises.

The gem store would have never happened in Gw1 because Gw1 was too busy trying to grow the amount of players in Gw rather than what will make more short-term profit.

This is not a thread discussing culling as much as the communication lacking from Anet to update us on the game they told us would be earthshaking.

As I post this, unannouced new build that took me out of WvW 2 seconds after notification. Thanks for the heads up as usual Anet

Bern.9613:

I’m confused. I’m still fairly new to the game. I have just past the three month mark. Almost seven hundred hours logged in. So, is there some kind of stat bonus for getting threads locked? Just curious.

IBTL

P.S. I wish ppl would post score prior to the kitten wars. I like to have a coffee, do a crossword, read the score. And why kitten? What did they ever do?

I gotta say, I would not check these forums if there was no kitten wars (before it gets deleted at least)

I have enjoyed reading every thread for Maguuma since release because we actually have personality that other servers seem to lack. Good or bad, it’s made for some awesome threads that have players from other tiers read/monitor our threads.

Fuzzion.2504:

Dear Viperwire, We here at the-onion division of Anet wish to answer your questions

Culling

—>Working on it. May require another another 6 months to recode

WvW reward

—> Server pride including tier ranking pride
—> Drop rates increased
—> Daily events
—> Badges
—> Gold

Badges of honor reward

—> Gear including PVT light gear
—> Buy Siege
—> Sorry we gave you laurels for ascended gear. No BOH here
—> Adding new features including upgrades

Dynamic event credit reward

—> You currently get Karma
—> You currently get Gold
—> Possible addition of tittle system in the future

Dolyak guard npcs not efficient/effective

—> Dolyak guards are as per designed; Dumb, stupid and low ranking guardsmen
—> We are thinking of adding rocket missiles to Dolyaks. Pew Pew

Siege blueprints being soulbound but still able to transfer between characters (seems like 2 people in the same department disagreed on this solution which is why we can trade the blueprints by dropping them but yet they are “soulbound”)

—> Sorry this is a bug and we will fix this soon

Bigger or new map(s)

—> You pay zero subscriptions so please do not complain.
—> Dx11.1 based graphics including a brand new Map is in the pipeline

Rework npcs such as Grub/Champion Tree/Mosquito event/Quaggan/Temple

—> Working as intended

The water in the Borderlands that every single person hates

—> How dare you tell us to remove a feature we spent half our time on?!

Is the “glitch” where the waypoint is available for 1-3 seconds after Repel Enemies event going to be “resolved” with this patch or is that still a method we can use to reinforce falling Keeps

—> Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will be making changes and will keep you posted soon!

Is Outmanned buff going to receive an update? We all know how pointless that buff is and HAVE known since release of this game 5months+ ago

—> We Want to discourage WvW, and instead recomend you try s/tPvP so that we can become the e-sports of the decade.

Will Orbs come back? If not what are we doing to replace them? WvW has become even more stale since the removal

—> We will introduce orbs again after further testing of current geometrical updates of maps

ADD THE OPTION IN REPORT FOR HACKING/EXPLOITING PLEASE

—> This feature already exist.

Resolve current queue issues that have recently been reported but have not been addressed recently

—> one of our employees missed out a zero on the population cap of total players.
—> We will give a public explanation soon.

Current WvW titles are far out of the limit of many if not everyone who plays GW2, all kittentalk aside nobody can rack up one of those titles in 6 months – 1 year unless 24/7 focused on that single title

—> We are reworking tittles. We will keep you posted !

Guild claiming currently has no purpose unless to activate guild buffs when under attack, why can we not see who claimed the location and or have additional options upon claiming a Keep/Tower/Camp

—> We are working on this.

Additional rewarded loot for killing enemy commanders (and/or higher loot table)

—>To obtain additional reward, stand on said kill and type laugh to receive an extra 100 Badges

Invulnerable zones/anti camping zones that reach into supply camps in the Borderlands (These are not a big issue by any means, but lots of people are ….. and believe this is hacking/exploiting and I’m sure that’s racking up the bug reports/paperwork, would be efficient to remove so that frees up time for whomever has to read all those support tickets)

—> We consider that exploiting. Please report so that we may investigate.

Address siege locations that “cannot be countered”, remove or maybe even add more

—> This is a bug. Please report it so that we can fix it soon!

More high ground/cliffs everywhere, Borderlands and Eternal

—> Sorry, but this is not called Parachute wars. Our hills are already quite high.

Thanks,
The-onion division at Anet

I think I died irl reading that

Actually, I can confirm that I died irl while reading this xD

Let’s hope they do not answer like this though

I wood like to cungritulaet everone 4 not gettin thred lucked, good jerb

Haldunius.7864:

Viperwire, any chance for score or map update?

Nuuuuuu I was sleeping

Haldunius.7864:

Score and map update by chance?

Yay score update!

Keira Ferland.5619:

While Maguuma camps jp, they get dunked on in EB. And every other map for the matter. Perhaps it’s time to actually use that 30 or so people you got in the jp.

I assume you were in one of the groups we’ve killed xD

I am switching to sunrise mesmar for more luls

Score update at the recently remodeled EVOH Garrison in DB BL

Besetment.9187:

It does not matter to me where we are in terms of tiers as long as everyone in our bracket has a fighting chance. I personally like fighting outnumbered but theres a big difference between being outnumbered and getting “kaineng’ed”.

The only enjoyable thing for me here with this timezone coverage disparity is skirmishing against BT and players of that caliber and temperament. Even if you lose they make you a more competent player because they force you to be aware, to think about counters, to react in a measured way. But its clear to me that whatever tier FA belongs in, Maguuma should not be a part of. Honestly, you should be fighting Tarnished Coast. We should be fighting Dragonbrand. Its just unfortunate that whenever you do fight Tarnished Coast, you also have to fight Blackgate or Kaineng and then you find yourselves in our position.

Unfortunately this is just a continuation of the precedent set by Titan Alliance on HoD and it is a very dysfunctional way to play any competitive game. You maintain timezone coverage advantage at all costs and let attrition grind your opponents down faster than it grinds you down. I dunno. I’ve played on the rough side of the attrition game for a long time in the HoD daily matches, the pre nerf Dragonbrand beatings, the SoS 2.0 match, the Crystal Desert beatings, and then FA and Kaineng. It wears you out.

I think the only people who do not understand this are the ones who do not lead/contribute to their servers

Magiofdeath.2745:

I’m seeing mag people say two different scenarios here. There’s a group that wants to go down to tier 4 and then there’s a group that is getting annoyed with the 2v1 and wants to actually do decently. So what is it Mag? Do you want to move to tier 4, do you want to do well or is there two grps of people that want different outcomes?

Also, Eva, more score updates please. :o Your score updates the best in this matchup. :P

Nobody can be this arrogant.

Maguuma has fought uphill battle after uphill battle, the only time we’ve had an “easy” match is DR and BP matches. Every match we have played we were outnumbered, except of course when band wagoners joined us (before the Kaineng match) for a few days until Kaineng won the weekend, so those band wagoners transferred to Kaineng before paid transfers were in effect.

Only recently, our team chat is full of people that have never played but 1 day on Maguuma but are bold enough to say “Maguuma deserves last place, Maguuma deserves to lose, qqqqq”. None of these complainers have been on Maguuma since beta/release. These are the people that DB and FA have been fighting.

People need a break, Kaineng put us on overtime, we are humans and have lives outside of GW2 and need rest. FA and DB get an easy week because of these factors.

Sincerely,
Someone who has been on Maguuma since beta and has played every match we’ve had

They were delicious

This is a really close match, good fights all over guys!

This is a really close match, good fights all over guys!

Wait for enemies to go to sleep, auto attack their gates down.

This is how most servers gain tiers

Zephyrus.9680:

I’m usually running solo flipping camps etc… but here’s the first time I saw WM’s zerg (or rather, first time when it wasn’t being insta-wiped).

http://youtu.be/xok2x4PKrdk

What incredible discipline and organization!

Zerg of 18 can’t even take a camp from about 6 people (was less when I got there, before I started recording).

Why on earth would a zergball stay balled up vs a disorganized force of ~6?

Why do they NEVER split up to clean up and take the camp? Has a WM zergball EVER split up?

Why don’t they stomp downed players (or even finish them)? Just run by and let them get ressed.

Why would they let us res the superviser over and over and ultimately fail taking the camp, leaving before things actually get messy?

Why don’t they touch anything behind them or to the side right next to them?

We already know the answer to all these WATs…

I’m guessing multiboxing isn’t against the GW2 ToS. It isn’t on WoW from what I’ve heard, though I’ve never played that game. But it’s just stupid fighting them… feels like PvE.

Anet has yet to comment because they cannot find the source/proof that multiboxing is happening.

My favorite part is how they all chased 1 person consistently in Danelon, 1 person requires 30-40 WM apparently.

We held Danelon with half if not less than that zergball in the video. Call that lovely blend of guild tags on Maguuma “PUGS” or whatever you want to call them, but they are the muscle of Maguuma. Rather than rely on 1 single guild to win for our server, we have full participation in WvW, from all guilds, from even the guildless players too.

I would like to mention, these players in Danelon were not coordinating on a voice chat or even team chat much from what you can see, just inherently playing better than “T1 zergball”.

This is the only proof anyone should need when they ask how is Maguuma losing. It is solely numbers.

Edit: Moderators, do not infract me, I have no idea how this can infract but I know you will find a way. Do no delete.

I thought Kaineng guild [RE] was good

But then I remember them from Darkhaven

Now…..they send 15-20 to wipe on our treb because they didn’t think we had siege??

T1 tactics

Sure thing! Here’s the score update

Keep em coming, this is EVOH territory

Bumping for score update

They tried to take East Keep.

But we had already spoke with GLFR and it was too late

:) NW Tower was pretty fun, would love to do that again

I wurs the gerdiun

We are unable to proceed with our Temple of Balthazar on Maguuma because somehow central reinforcement have glitched. It has been this way for at least 5 days and will remain so unless Anet intervenes.

Over the past few days many groups have tried to reset it or complete/fix it so that we can somehow open it. Really ridiculous if the only answer we have is to wait until January 28th for the patch/instance reset; that would be poor customer service at best.

I have counted 8-10 new guilds in WvW that I have found and have no idea where the kittenkittenkittendogcat they came from. Be it a 3man guild or 30man guild. (This is not including SM or WaR)

I just met someone who sat on a flame ram for 4minutes and could not figure out how to use it.

All my wats

Name: Elite Vipers Of Hell [EVOH]
Raid Size: Lots
Specialty: Things
Server: Maguuma
Reason: Wat

The score, for now

Obeby 15 characters

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

Maguuma is the #1 Party Server. I miss them.

:(

It’s been years since I have seen you!

JaNordy.6149:

I just transferred off magummera. Its a awful server full of trolls and wannabe pro chest thumping gamers. Some guy stole my golem and ran it off a cliff while saying over local chat “waste of 1 gold”. Once I was downed in JP and downed my oppenet at same time, a NOVA magumra guy was there, all he had to do was finish enemy or pick me up. He did neither and I died watching as he autoattacked downed enemy who rallied off me and then killed him. They cant portal bomb at all, they dont even know how portal works. I cant count number of times I see golems ported backwards, or in JP a mesmer up top is under attack, he has 10+ guys below waiting for port to back him up, he tries to be a hero up top and dies like a moron. I saw a flame ram up near JP treasure, seriously the portal door up there does not take damage from siege! This is kind of server maggumma is, you may think this is a troll thread but everything I said is true and I left so I dont have to deal with it anymore. Get out now while you can.

PS: they have a awful troll commander named Invalid Telivision or some kitten that leads zergs off cliffs to crater deaths, I think he was in a guild called Bill Murray.

Excuse me,

*Sir Invalid Telivision

Truearrow.3527:

This was the assault on Borliss Pass garrison on friday, I challenge anyone to find more than one or two GOONs or a person hacking in this video, Mr Cox, before your go running your mouth about people cheating you might want to consider someone ALWAYS has fraps running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXCJzhNG9Zk

Obeby I loved watching that, thank you for recording!

All 3 servers felt the confusion of us hitting the inner main gate that we did not intend to breach, while our golems kittenkittykatkitty the watergate.

I figured it would only be a matter of time before someone claims hacks/exploit.

^^ it’s called a diversion. It worked so well that Maguuman’s were confused

saiyr.3071:

Also we totally have more fat people than Australia.

I can confirm this.

saiyr.3071:

Edit: I also think Invalid is doing this because of previous posts by this commander

Indeed. Morningstar rubs everyone the wrong way, I have RL relatives on Devona that refuse to play in the same map as Morningstar due to his rude way of leading as well as big ego. That plus the fact that I tried to whisper him friendly commander chat and he is as polite as a hemorrhoid.

Actually the first arrogant enemy commander I’ve had the pleasure of wiping countless times.

No problem with Devona’s Rest server at all, really wish you guys had a stronger Eternal leader is all.

Dynnen.6405:

ViperWire.4261:

Morningstar.6208:

We will born from our ashes again.

I was told that you left Eternal after DR took SM and received it’s first attack. I’m not sure why you would quote that after you obviously gave up when you bit off WAY more than you could chew.

Guess now you will see why you shouldn’t do that. Full 100% Green on Eternal

Congrats on being able to summon more zergies than anyone in this bracket, and so late in the week too! I think maguuma might actually break 300k now. Good to have you guys for another week, especially since you didn’t win enough to move back up into larger pop servers.

Strong work, lol

Sorry that I didn’t start leading until Sunday night/up until 6pm eastern Wednesday night

I was leading Eternal yesterday prior to 7/8pm and our zerg was half the size of DR’s in Eternal, and we still wiped them. It seems that while this particular thief from AoD guild leads DR in Eternal, numbers never matter!

We just wipe them everytime!!

Morningstar.6208:

We will born from our ashes again.

I was told that you left Eternal after DR took SM and received it’s first attack. I’m not sure why you would quote that after you obviously gave up when you bit off WAY more than you could chew.

Guess now you will see why you shouldn’t do that. Full 100% Green on Eternal

Morningstar, why am I on ignore

I love your zergs, they feed my stronger zerg full inventory

I had 152/152 used spots, 5 rare 1 exotic, TYTY!!!

I wanted to let you know when my zerg is coming around the corner!

Next time I DEMAND 100% Eternal!