Guild Wars 2

I got infracted for posting balance as my priorities in the last WvW thread.

Seems like they don’t want to know about it.

They should rename this the Druid forum. I see no rangers at all.

The core game is a snooze, and it just gets easier with every change. Anet are unlikely to ever make it harder.

The newer areas are significantly more challenging.

It’s nothing compared to a DH trap build.

The harbinger and E: two things that Anet completely forgot about.

Arden.7480:

I have proof, that Scruffy didn’t die

Technically ‘he’ was never alive.

You’re level 11 in WvW?

That’s… Ballsy.

Bright wizards ruined W:AR. Elementalists and necromancers would ruin WvW.

Drain siege, delay them if you can, but don’t feed them bags.

You’d do more for your team by going out and sniping yaks or tapping their keeps.

Swagger.1459:

But here is the thing… 95% of game development efforts have gone to PvE.

Too be fair, 95% of the player base are probably not interested in WvW. All the effort goes into PVE, which is often to the detriment of WvW (in terms of imbalanced builds).

And too many WvW players are too invested in their PVE builds to accept a separation of PVE and WvW builds.

At least Anet are working on population balance.

We don’t know how many elder dragons their really are. If the domains of the Elder dragons are proportional to their geographic reach, there should be several other elder dragons that are ‘off the map’.

The oceans alone should have room enough for dozens. We know almost nothing about ‘bubbles’. There is no reason to assume that all the worlds oceans would hold just one.

She was far too unpopular to be revived. I’d be less surprised to see Zhaitan or even Abbadon make a return.

Presumably they use all those windmills to make flour. Not all flour is made from wheat.

Edit: possibly also used to hold up the queen’s frock (starch is also made from corn).

Edit 2: according to Wikipedia, more than ten times as much corn is consumed by livestock as by humans these days. It’s possible that a lot of that Tyrian beef, bacon, and chicken is corn fed.

Ogre.3124:

You can win against them outnumbered with a revenant spamming aoe resist w/ demon stance

So funny to watch them drop a pile of conditions with no effect.

Attitudes towards people’s age have changed a lot in the last century. It used to be common for people that young to have jobs, get married, and even fight as soldiers.

Men not much older were put in charge of armies; Henry V and Richard I led troops into battle at 15 and 16.

Playable undead/evil races tend to come off as cheesy and unbelievable when shoehorned to fit in a multiplayer story and setting. There’s too many elements you have to ignore, like the characters motivation and their relations to others. Suspension of disbelief gets really hard when your character is essential running around constantly and determindly obvious to their single most defining characteristic.

It’s bad enough that you have tainted Sylvari being so blindly cavalier of their condition, but if you have corpses shuffling around Lions Arch and Divinities reach without anyone raising an eyebrow you may as well throw plot and story out the window.

Justine.6351:

2,277 armor is not part of the problem at all…

Glass eats Glass

Glass also eats tanky, and sustain. The only way to win a 1 v 1 these days is to go for maximum burst.

Anet does seem to have a infatuation with them. They’ve taken over everything, from festivals to dailies. They even put some in WvW, of all places. I’ve never seen an MMO so obsessed with jumping.

It’s a shame that the game engine and camera and networking is so unsuited to them.

Give us a proper parkour engine like Dying Light!

Block and report, rinse and repeat.

selan.8354:

i think desert should be an optional wvw map. its good for beginners that are moving over from pve to wvw. alpine was always more hardcore cause u need ts and coordination to attack and defend.

No, it’s good for people who are hunting beginners. It’s a terrible map to start your WvW experience in.

I can’t see you doing the battle for Lions Arch with fewer than 20 people, certainly not if they’re mostly pugs.

Not sure how they’d make the open world content – like clockwork chaos – work either. They’d have to create instances of whole maps.

And what about the festivals like dragon bash and the Zephrites? How would you handle that?

With so many possible S1 instances it’d be hard to get enough people to do them all.

Blude.6812:

My main (Ranger) appears to have only one option, Point Blank Shot, with a long cool down, so I have to be exact when I use it. I appreciated when some one calls out ‘CC Now’.

Rangers have so much CC I’m not even going to list it all – all the different weapons, traps, pets, and traits. One of the Druid sigils has a stun on a very short cool down, and you can trait it to add immobility and bleeding.

Sird.4536:

There is not ‘tutorial’. In the core game you are introduced to the idea of dodging early on but once you enter HoT there is nothing telling you this is how this works or that works etc. Not everyone reads blog post that outline new mechanics and it’s frustrating playing with others that have no idea of what I consider basic gameplay.

If you mouse over the break bar it tells you what to do.

I suspect that a lot of players never slot CC skills and don’t practice using CC.

Short bow used to be the go to weapon for a Ranger, because it was pretty much the only ranger weapon that didn’t suck. And no one used the longbow because it was so terrible.

In response Anet kept nerfing the short bow, until it (and rangers) were the official joke class of GW2.

Finally after a couple of years, they buffed the long bow and rangers stopped being the last kid to be picked for a team. But they never undid all the short bow nerfs, and it’s one of the least used weapons now.

We need more scaling, not less. Even with scaling the low level areas are way to easy for a fully geared 80.

Queues on HoD only lasted a few hours. I expect we’re going to spend most of the week severely outmanned, especially during oceanic time.

Third party tools mean a whole other level of setup and authentication. That’s a PITA

An in-game tool could be tied to accounts; excluding spies and trolls would be easier.

And TS default server settings are a disconnect fest for anyone with high latency. TS is basically unusable for me on some servers.

Not sure if these have been mentioned, but I didn’t read all 7 pages!

- Zeppelin glider (A small one obviously)
- Zephrite glider (bamboo and sails)
- Spinal blade glider

I just logged out of a WvW session where I took damage in our own keep from players I was fighting outside our keep after respawning.

Bug? Lag? Hack? Who knows anymore.

Daredevils are pretty hard to catch/kill. And that’s before you add hacks.

TheLastNobody.8319:

Why is it I see people, no matter what server, always seeming to copy paste the same tired arguement that their server is noble, honorable and wanting to fight while the others are filled with filthy cheaters, hacks and casuals? Seriously is there a Google doc for this?

Search and replace ‘server’ with ‘sports team’, OS, country, religion or race. Humans are tribal.

I play solo 99 percent of the time, but I don’t feel as strongly about this as some people seem too. Partly because skill challenges can be gained by grinding WvW, but also because I refuse to obsess over 100%ing this game. I’ll do map completion ‘whenever’.

Siege towers and ladders work best when the defender was heavily outnumbered. At least, that’s what my time spent playing Total War taught me.

I imagine siege towers were pretty expensive to build as well.

Did you ingest anything … unusual … before going to bed?

Dragons once having mortal personalities/precursors is an interesting idea, but don’t Dragons pre-date humans on Tyria?

Ricky.4706:

what about applying some real life / physics to it ? – if the cata is too close to wall, it makes a dent, but not as much damage as if projectiles had more distance to generate more momentum ? the ram, makes sense because it’s meant to work up close, but on the same hand if you launched a flaming ram from a teb distance, you will take down the doors in one shot.

RL physics don’t work that way.

IRL siege was not placed against walls because defenders would drop large objects and/or boiling hot liquids on the attackers.

Firstly: break bars.

Secondly: doesn’t matter how high your dps is if you spend the fight lying on the ground. I see many glass cannons melting like snowflakes when faced with difficult content.

Edit: thirdly, boon stacking. 25 stacks of AOE might provides a huge dps bonus that isn’t going to be picked up by any simple dps meter.

All identical and moving in tight formation? Clearly bots.

NotOverlyCheesy.9427:

Scarlet did some pretty impressive stuff. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scarlet_Briar

Comic book evil geniuses always have the best toys.

X T D.6458:

Wanderer.3248:

lmperdigao.2567:

BG focus on fights now, not in PPT.

The losing server always says this.

Remind me again what did you get for grinding ppt for hours to win last week? Oh thats right..nothing. Hollow victories are great aren’t they?

Nice try, but I’m not in YB. I’ve just seen enough of these threads over the years to have seen most servers claim that they’re not about PPT. When BG was in top spot it was the other servers claiming that they’re all about the fights.

But if it makes you feel better about pixels vs pixels, say what you want.

lmperdigao.2567:

BG focus on fights now, not in PPT.

The losing server always says this.

Sviel.7493:

JaKal.4538:

Proxy catas are, many times, the only way to do something against the ridicolous OPiness of arrow carts that make the gates untouchable, and you want to “fix” it?
You guys want more ppl leave wvw or what? You want destroy the wvw definitveliy?
I really dont understand…..
If you want “fix” the proxy cata ask for a big nerf of arrow carts then there will be no reason to go for proxy catas anymore…

Have you considered placing your catapults outside of arrow cart range? In some cases, this won’t even mean you need to charge the throw at all, so it’ll be the same speed.

Cara’s at long range tend to be vulnerable to mortars, balistas and trebs. It also means you need a second set to hit the inner walls of a keep.

The real problem is the LOS rules that make it kitten near impossible to man the walls and attack proxy cats without being pulled off the wall.

You say you want a variety of strategies in WvW, but then you try and argue that YB strategy is somehow invalid.

Most of your ideas are slanted towards rapidly capping objectives and negating defense.

That won’t break up the Zerg. It’ll just lead to karma training.

RodOfDeath.5247:

For me it is roaming. I feel like the game mode is forcing players to use HoT. Every encounter is some stupid reaper necro or dare devil thief. I just miss the random classes you could fight. Every kid is running the same boring thing. I seem to remember a lot more variety pre-hot, at least I made some cool interesting builds with necro. Today I encounter a necro for example and think “ok….chills…reaper…chills…reaper…chills…reaper, oh look he’s using torment sigil”. Just getting boring, MORE DIVERSITY.

Roaming has always been about the cheese build of the month, with a generous side of hacking. New cheese emerges with every patch.

Unless WvW builds are separated from PVE builds, there’s never going to be small/solo balance.

It’s more of a lifestyle than a profession.

Too many players try HoT in zerker gear with class cannon specs, no sustain and no escapes or stun breakers.

You can’t wander into HoT with a purely offensive build and expect to burn down every NPC you come across. If you can’t re-gear, at least review the rest of your build to be more defensive.

Kamara.4187:

NotKalkz.1286:

DISLIKE

IF it was good, there was no need for this entire thread and the paragraphs above
I’ve spent over 5000 hours of total gameplay in WvW – ( ONLY )

I think my opinion matters as a HARDCORE WvW’er more than half of the PVE’ers in this thread.

Just my 2 cents

Ya know everyone who plays WvW is entitled to an opinion, and many of us love the WvW game mode in spite of its many issues. In the end all of our money holds the same value.

For me its hard to be callous. I played WvW full tilt when I first started. I was ate up with WvW, but I can see that the new map is also not working.

On the other hand I am also very aware of the talent and time that went into making that very dynamic map in a 3D program along with all the physics, and texturing.

I know they tried very hard to please this community. The map has its issues in the WvW sense, but it is not shoddy work by no means.

It’s a work of art.

But it’s just not practical.

No PPT will mean the side with the bigger Zerg will just camp the side with the smaller Zerg, and the outmanned side will have no incentive to risk coming out.

It would be the final straw for WvW.

Nero.8047:

Wanderer.3248:

Sylvari have some sort of brain

I’m sorry I haven’t done an insane amount of research into the anatomy or physiology of Sylvari but where does this statement come from?

Just an assumption: Sylvari think, therefore they have some sort of organ that I choose to call a brain, even if it is located in their butts.

Nero.8047:

I’m not even sure if our Sylvari friends have toes.

Off topic, but if you take off their shoes and run you can see toes – especially if they have a strong glow.

Nero.8047:

What I intend to say however is:

Wanderer.3248:

Sleep is important for the brain – without it you’ll suffer from reduced mental ability, and eventually you’ll have hallucinations and psychosis.

• Yes this is very true, for human physiology.

Actually any animal with even the smallest brain (even flies) need some sort of sleep. Fruit flies suffer memory loss due to sleep deprivation.

Now, while it’s true that all animal brains are made of nerve cells, and Sylvari brains are probably made of some other type of cells, I don’t think it’s a huge assumption to think that these brains would enter some sort of sleep, or a state resembling sleep, due to circadian rhythms. It’s not too much of a stretch to think that disrupting the natural cycle of this organ would result in impaired functioning.

On a slight tangent: even in the absense of a brain, Sylvari might still appear to enter a state similar to sleep due to circadian rhythms. Many organisms, even bacteria, have biological cycles lasting 24 hours, and curtail their activity at night.

I wonder how many people in this thread have even tried building a fire. It’s actually not as easy as you might think.

Sleep is important for the brain – without it you’ll suffer from reduced mental ability, and eventually you’ll have hallucinations and psychosis. Sylvari have some sort of brain, so it’s not too much of a leap to assume they need sleep to rest their brain just like animals do.