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WvW Commander Build?

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I noticed that when I pushed, I could not push as deep, as fast, and as hard as I wanted.

This sounds like a bad Saturday night, but otherwise, a very thoughtful and informative post.

DB Matching This Week

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In b4 thread shutdown for being a matchup thread…

NA Top One Tier Concern

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@OP

You have my sympathy. Too tired atm to try & convince ANet to do the right thing…when the post will be deleted.

Anybody see the ANet report card yet?

http://www.mmogames.com/gamenews/ncsoft-q4-2016-lineage-guild-wars-2-wildstar-disappears/

Diku

Uhhh, clearly financial analysis isn’t a good career choice for you. They shipped the first major expansion in Q4 FY15, so they’re obviously going to see a big pop in revenue in Q4 FY15 through Q1 FY16. After this, it’s the ongoing gem sales that’s driving revenue (which remains remarkably stable). You should expect to see a similar, albeit smaller, increase in revenue after the release of their next expansion.

Remember, this game is nearly half a decade old. By all measures, it’s been quite a success from a business perspective.

GW2 & their WvW game mode could, should, and would be the next huge eSport on par & scale with the NFL Franchise…if they have the right vision & guidance…sadly…the current team is clueless on what really drives & can make this game mode incredibly epic…imho.

It’s depressing to see this golden opportunity squandered because there is no solid vision & a steady hand on steering it to that destination.

I don’t see the NFL Franchise in the next decade of slowing down…although anything is possible if given enough time…so the NFL SuperBowl might become the next big flop.

Think economies of scale…if a team could be the size of a WvW world…the community would drive demand internally…now imagine fans loyal to their team…and what they would spend for the love of their team.

Peace,
Diku

Well, you’re entitled to get upset over a video game, I guess.

I, for one, plan to keep having fun in WvW for what it is – the best existing large-scale PvP game on the market. I’ll buy the expansion, too. Hopefully, Camelot Unchained won’t be far off at that point.

WvW Commander Build?

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Much like these guys said. Minstrels is the way to go in the current meta if you want to go balls deep while providing good support and damage.

NA Top One Tier Concern

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@OP

You have my sympathy. Too tired atm to try & convince ANet to do the right thing…when the post will be deleted.

Anybody see the ANet report card yet?

http://www.mmogames.com/gamenews/ncsoft-q4-2016-lineage-guild-wars-2-wildstar-disappears/

Diku

Uhhh, clearly financial analysis isn’t a good career choice for you. They shipped the first major expansion in Q4 FY15, so they’re obviously going to see a big pop in revenue in Q4 FY15 through Q1 FY16. After this, it’s the ongoing gem sales that’s driving revenue (which remains remarkably stable). You should expect to see a similar, albeit smaller, increase in revenue after the release of their next expansion.

Remember, this game is nearly half a decade old. By all measures, it’s been quite a success from a business perspective.

DB Matching This Week

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This can’t be fun for Maguuma

Oh, don’t worry. Maguuma had plenty of fun wiping you guys tonight.

A for effort, though – BG has been avoiding fighting us for months.

Open server ajust JQ

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Even for people who are new in jq, " who’s this cloud fly guy? I don’t know but he doesn’t fear death and he’s typing with stars, I must Ctrl t him and press 1"

I must ask, as an NA JQ player who has been on the server for a few years…who’s Cloud Fly?

Wow…

Where are the promised scoring changes

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Wow, that’s incredible.

Rollback details

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Wow

Update on +16 Infusions

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Wow

Account hacking incident

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I’m pretty sure Gaile was the Team Lead for the CS Team, just as Michael is now.

According to Michael, she used to ‘handle tickets’, just as he does now.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/339870-a-little-movement-here-in-cs-world/

My bad then. I stand corrected.

No, Rose, you were correct.

I was never CS Lead. I was Support Liaison, and the thread I created and maintained was in place to allow me to review CS decisions and see if we could come up with a better outcome for players. It also allowed me to ask CS of they could handle tickets that may have lingered too long in the system, or have fallen through the cracks. I didn’t make CS decisions; I aided players in getting the most positive outcome possible. So as you can see, I wasn’t making decisions — I was helping players.

And whether I was CS Lead or not, saying “You deserved it” is inappropriate and cruel.

Saying I failed at that job — which incidentally I have not held in two years — is unfair and inaccurate. If an agent erred in handling someone’s issue, or if there were security issues that were not handled to the satisfaction of a player or group of players, whyever would it be seen as “karma” for me, personally, to suffer loss?

And saying “We/I did this to get your (company’s) attention” is reprehensible. Hurting a person to send a message is inhumane and wrong.

Wow

Account hacking incident

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Wow.

Linked Worlds Transfer Restrictions

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Wow

WvW Since HoT Was Released

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Wow…………

Confused by polls

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Wow

Just go vote to keep it, dude. Problem solved.

All Stat Sets Available in WvW

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Wow…………

All Stat Sets Available in WvW

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But still no trinkets

Anet, please please please add Nomad’s trinkets to WvW vendors. Although I’m sure you guys put a lot of work into the living story (I’m sure it must be great and all), doing PvE achievements just isn’t fun for me. The lack of ascended gear puts me at a competitive disadvantage to others who can buy them through the standard laurels route by default.

Tips for running with the Militia

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Wow…………

Supply Troll - Yak's bbl - video

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How is YB going to be able to keep up its constant AC spam if this individual keeps spending its supply?

WvW Film study with a commander

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Due to the high popularity of these videos and positive feedback, i’ll be posting the video series in this thread until ANET locks it for whatever reason. Hope you guys enjoy.

I’ll lock it if you belittle anybody or anything.

I’m PC, bro. I’ll thrown down!

Reset Time Change Please

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But if you make it an hour early with the daylight savings it would 8pm est ;-; more time for us est players to play. So basically with the current time the people who can’t play rn will only be able to play reset every 6 months?

Which is 5pm PST. Too early for those living on the West Coast.

Unless our internal R&D project is successful— flattening the Earth so there’s only one sunrise/sunset for everyone— there is no time which exists that will please everyone.

Lol!!!! I take it you’re not one of the flat earth conspiracy theorists overtaking the Internet.

Reset Time Change Please

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No. Just no. No way.

WvW Achievements

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+1 to this. Not super high priority IMO, but WvW achievements could definitely use another look.

I enjoyed this fight

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I’m no expert of game design, but my empirical observation was the hard fought captures on Alpine Borderlands and EBG could get quite awesome. I have many fond memories of such instance, but literally 0 on the DBLs.

WvWvW isn't duel zone

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WvWvW isn’t duel zone, it is warground, all around cry pls dont kill me, pls dont kill my oponent, pls go aways we have a duel, no one help u in combat coz they think it is duel. Stop it guys pls, and dear Anet, pls make a duel zone (not guild arena) in pve world, that all over the tyria can enter and use comand /duel or use buff from npc to make dialog with another player and duel him

A sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with, conveyed in broken English. A big +1 from me to the OP!

THANKS

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Agreed. WvW has been significantly more fun since the quarterly patch.

Make WvW Great Again!

The fall of JQ

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Friday Match Resets Starting March 25th

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Your top 5 priorities for WvW-Overhaul

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Hi all,

This is a great thread. It’s constructive. We’re all reading it and referring to it in team discussions.

As we said in the AMA, our top internal priorities have been population balance and rewards. From this thread, your top five priorities are, in order:
1. Stability & skill balance
2. Fix or revert DBL
3. Rewards
4. Population balance
5. Scoring

Yes, we will take the feedback and make stability, general skill balance, and fixing/reverting DBL our top priorities. We’re not currently working on scoring and that has to be a longer-term project.

Karl is working specifically on WvW-focused skill balance. He’s looking for the wins for WvW that don’t screw the rest of the game.

We’re investigating whether to fix or revert DBL. They’re both a lot of work. These next couple days will be your last chance to give feedback before we make a decision, so speak now or forever hold your peace.

I want to reiterate that everything we work on either ships in April or starts beta-testing on Live servers in April. We’re locking down dev work for the April release soon — next up is localization, QA, integration and regression testing — but we’ll extend the deadline for WvW skill balance.

There is one thing that doesn’t need to get wrapped up into the April release: Friday night resets. That doesn’t require a Live build. We’ll do it.

Mo

Thanks Mike. This is definitely a step in the right direction, and I agree with the ordering of priorities as well. It’s very refreshing to see the better communication and listening to player needs on your guys’ part. I truly hope you can follow through with it as well, as I really love WvW and miss how great it used to be.

Also, big +1 to bringing back the Alpine borderlands maps. While I applaud the efforts on creating the new maps, they definitely need some major revision, at the very least, to be as conducive to fights (i.e. the part of WvW that’s truly fun) as the old borderlands.

Potential Change to Reset Time

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Our tentative plans are:

  • NA resets on 6PM/7PM PST/PDT Fri (2:00 UTC Sat)
  • EU resets on 10AM/11AM PST/PDT Fri (18:00 UTC Fri.)

2) Do the above times seem reasonable to you guys? If not, what time do you propose that you believe would please a greater percentage of the community, while still not overlapping with our hotfix window?

*Edit: Corrected the listed hotfix time to 4:30PM PST/PDT, rather than 4:30PM/5:30PM PST/PDT. Thanks Veron.

Yes, I like the idea of bringing this back to 6PM Pacific on Fridays for reset. It was great because, if you had the night off, it was super busy in WvW and a great time to play (assuming you made it through queues haha). More importantly, it made the whole weekend a fresh start and a great time to really duke it out before the weekly rankings set into places later in the week.

Blackgate WvW

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In b4 the thread gets locked or deleted.

I like BG as a JQ player. They’ve always put up good fights.

YB, on the other hand….

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Dear Anet,

Please bring back the Alpine Borderlands maps. You promised they would be rotated in on occasion, and we miss them.

I know you love ignoring WvW, but they were much more conducive to large-scale fights than the Desert Borderlands.

More fights = moar esportz

Kthxbai

Druids and the WvW Bag Conundrum

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If you are playing WvW for rewards, you have gone to the wrong place. I would recommend to keep playing Druid if you find it fun. That’s what games are played for anyhow, not just for the shinnies. But who knowes maybe when they start to ‘fix’ (not that I feel WvW is broken) WvW they may find a way to help support roles get more rewards.

I completely agree with you. In fact, I taught myself how to play the TP for money, because I was sick of being broke in-game and despise PVE for the most part. For a multitude of reasons, organized WvW is a massive gold sink for me, but since I consider it to be the endgame and have a blast doing it, I really don’t mind.

However, on principle, I still think it’s incorrect that DPS is rewarded exclusively with whatever minimal drops WvW bags give, while healers get nearly no part in it.

Druids and the WvW Bag Conundrum

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I wholeheartedly agree that there need to be some compensation for classes/builds that don’t to a lot of damage due to trying to heal/boon/condi remove/not dps.

What I’ve been doing is making sure that I’m in a party and i have a axe/wh set opposite my staff so that when i see that the moment is going our way, i can switch to a/wh and get some more bags

Yes, and my point is that using gimmicks like this should be superfluous when you’re more useful healing your team. I remember in Warhammer Online there was a similar situation where tanks would get screwed on renown gains in RvR, but healer and DPS classes did well. In my mind, at least the healers got compensated well, whereas in GW2, a far superior game overall, this is not even the case.

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I agree it really sucks but I think it wont change. Support characters have been in WvW since the start and they haven’t done anything to compensate them , why would they change now?

Also what build are you running? I have been looking a round for a good build and you seem to be having success.

Although I do think this should have been fixed before, it becomes all the more urgent in my eyes now that a “heavy healing” class has been implemented.

This is my build. It maximizes the group support aspect of the class by buffing heals, survivability, warhorn skills, and utility through immobs (I’ve found the glyphs to be a little underwhelming in a WvW environment). I run nearly full ascended Clerics on this, and it does amazingly well in organized WvW (i.e. part of coordinated groups on Teamspeak). Maybe I should throw this on Metabattle or something when I get the time.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNBmOD7kRFoWQslFwjFgqFskJYw10c6P15wt4mZNJrAwB4kNclVA-TJxDwAYLD8c/BIXEAAPBAA

Druids and the WvW Bag Conundrum

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The Druid allows me to be a huge benefit to my team, and can very often swing an encounter quite dramatically. I’ve also received quite a few compliments from guildies on the heals, which makes playing a Druid all the more rewarding. However, the Druid is completely, utterly screwed on bag drops in WvW . Empirically, I noticed my DPS guildmates tonight, during a very fun, fight-filled evening, received roughly thrice as many bags as myself during our session. Sadly, this is certainly far from the first time I’ve observed this, either.

I’m sure there’s probably a good reason why, under the hood, the game calculates this the way it’s done in the past to present. However, it truly seems unfair that, while you offer such incredible heal support to your team (which allows them to do their jobs, while reaping nearly all the rewards), you receive a mere pittance in return for bags. You should not be required to resort to gamey tactics to rectify this, such as “tagging” as many enemies as you can. You’re far more useful to your team in pumping out green numbers, utility, etc, and the game should reward you accordingly.

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Druid Astral Force Out-of-Combat Degeneration

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If regen were removed it would be in all modes. I’ve seen that in PvP it is also a pretty heavy gating, but in PvE it is appears worse due to the more frequent travel time between engagements.

Which, unfortunately, right now means you generally don’t even have the ability to throw in any meaningful heals in a large WvW engagement until it’s all too often already been decided (i.e. your team lost). Right now, you often can’t maintain AF for the moments you’d need it, and are required to do very weird stuff to stay in combat to keep it topped off.

Effectively, this has made Druid go from being one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had in 3 years of WvW during BWE3, to quite subpar in its current iteration. I really want to love this class, but the current state of it makes that very hard.

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Druid Astral Force Out-of-Combat Degeneration

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Thanks Irenio! I really love the class concept, and loved it in beta, so I’m definitely crossing my fingers that you’re able to nail the balance on it right, since its current iteration definitely feels a quite lacking.

FYI, the degeneration of AF out of combat makes Druid rather inferior for WvW healing at the moment when compared to Eles. Back in beta, I was able to quickly react to most any combat situation by switching into CA form to heal my team. Right now, the degeneration out of combat has meant I almost always never have enough AF to do so, making Ele on demand, ground targeted water fields far better than what the “heavy healing” class offers. Just some food for thought.