Guild Wars 2

What failed was the new maps. I know multiple people who don’t go into the new borderlands just cause of the map design.

It’s not the servers that failed but they could use a tweak to balance to population out.

There’s a trend that when people don’t like something they are very vocal about it on the forums. When everything is fine the same people don’t come to the forums.

Trust me if this was an issue people would have been here crying about it since Tuesday. Instead people are more concerned about Legendary Armor and the story itself so the boss battle isn’t an issue. Otherwise there would have been multiple threads and they would have been merged.

And no having bad luck isn’t a reason to nerf something. This is bit exaggerated but having both of those mobs crit you at the same time is like you complaining about not winning the powerball on your first try and wanting better odds.

So try to give some solid reasons why there should be nerfs otherwise there is no point in this thread.

Not even worth going for the tactics, just getting the auras cause makes more sense even if the most useful one is the last one…

Have to agree with the Auralae. Partially feel like I’ve been robbed of things. For example, I’m leader of small WvW guild and we sometimes do PvE events. With the guild halls we are forced to upgrade to war room to be able to claim objectives in WvW. So we are missing on lots of the stuff that was common like +5 supply capacity. Also for a small guild getting the buildings feels just so grindy. I’m sure it’s all fine and mighty when you are part of a bigger PvX or pure PvE guild with 200 members. We only now managed to get workshop but even that was with multiple guild members investing lots of their gold plus hoarders putting their stuff to good use.

So I’d say scale the needed amount of stuff based on the people in roster.

To people saying we should play more or go out of our way to enjoy the features we used to. Try forming a small guild starting from a scratch money and resource vice and building a guild hall. If there are people who are part of a small guild. Less than 20 active members and have had no problems with getting guild hall up and not feeling like grinding I’ll take all my words back.

ps. I recall guild wars 2 being advertised as not grindy game.

EremiteAngel.9765:

They beat the other servers and went top.

You mean they got paired with two other servers and had population way larger than anyone else?

Funny, population is what gets you to T1

Thanks DVG for all the fun. I’m disapointed and sad for the decision of you leaving Desolation. Hopefully we’ll meet in the battlegrounds in the future. No hard feelings

Respect, good luck, have fun and keep singing

Sincerely Finnish pug from TLA

I know this might be unpleasant matchup for some people at least if the last thread Deso/Gandara/Abbadon’s Mouth is accurate. But cmon guys and girls let’s keep the fights clean. Nobody likes to be corpse jumped or laughed at after losing a battle. It’s childish even tho there are some people from all the servers doing this.

If you encounter a Deso player jumping on you just ignore it or contact that persons guild.

Personally I’d like to keep the fights nice and clean even tho there’s is so much blobbing and some people don’t like it. So, good luck guys and have fun

X T D.6458:

I think one of the problems currently is how much boon duration you can get from a single source, there are foods that can give up to 20% and combined with another 10% from utilities, thats already 30% or as much as you can get from 6 leadership runes just from using 2 consumables. I think those need to be toned down a little bit, especially compared to other consumables that dont give anywhere near that kind of buff let alone a secondary buff. That 30% extra boon duration from consumables equates to 450 concentration, I dont know of any of stat that you can get so much of a flat out boost from consumables.

All the condition duration foods? That also happen to equal 30% longer duration from food and utility effect, oh and that 30% condition duration also equals 450 expertise. What a coincidence.

1. Our guild roster is 27 people at the moment, all tho half are in-active due to the WvW changes. We are solely WvW guild

2. All of them give a nice little buff but the +5 is essential for our guild at least.

3. We have unlocked Tower claiming and are working on World Experience enchantment. So we are quite far from getting the +5. At this moment I don’t think it is achievable. We are currently lvl15. Most of this has come from our pockets as we aren’t hoarders so using kitten ton of gold was needed.

4. We have been going out of our way and done PvE on the off hours to get materials to ease the gold sink. I would have rather been playing WvW if it would have given me all the stuff needed. 5 hours of getting shovels doesn’t even come near they feel like the biggest obstacle at the moment.

5. We would definitely prefer the pre-HoT system where you would contribute to your guild by just playing the game and not having the need to do something you don’t enjoy.

6. One thing I would change is making the amount of needed materials scale based on guild roster. To avoid exploits you could track the roster for example two weeks so massive guilds don’t kick everyone to get cheaper cost. To balance it with the massive guilds with lots of people not playing the game you could track the active amount of people along the roster size.

So the OP’s argument seems to be that “Prime Time” which is about 3-4 hours long period where most of the players seem to be online, usually facing resistance. On any given server and in WvW. And “Night Time” which is about 6-9 hours long period where the minority of players are in WvW thus facing less resistance. Then we could add the day “off time” where there may or may not be action but not guaranteed, lasting from end of “night time” till the start of “prime time” Equal the same amount of points in the first place.
Now clearly anyone should be able to see that “night time” lasts longer with the added effect of “off time” continuing the momentum gained. Meaning there is more points to be had during night and off time.

Now you can call me crazy but I don’t think matchups should be decided when the majority of players aren’t playing. I’m not saying to remove “night capping” all together but just reduce the effect it has on the points and outcome of MU’s.

All the cons we are talking about were normal at the first WvW season or has everyone forgotten that. That’s why EotM was brought out, so people could play sort of WvW while waiting in Q to real WvW.
Border spreadsheets anyone? That was normal too. Guilds telling where theyll run for their raid day.
Yea no, I don’t see issues with this. Only issue would be if anet changes the pairings weekly. Then it would become almost impossible to co-ordinate properly

Cirian.8917:

Bauer double-crossed Caudecus and resurrected the real Lazarus.

I just had this pointed out to me – it’s in Bauer’s Memoirs, supported by Grand Savant Valis the Learned’s Reasearch Journal. The whole “it’s not Lazarus” is a feint… it IS the real Lazarus the Dire.

Genius trick, but someone spotted it!

I don’t know, as seen from Bauer’s memoirs, he had great dislike for Xera. So can’t imagine why he’d go and send all of the pieces to the keep.
Then us as the players raided the keep and as Grand Savant’s Journal shows he feared the worst so we can imagine the pieces of Lazarus were also headed there.

If it was the real Lazarus don’t you think he would have slayed Caudecus the instant he saw him. For being non-believer and trying to use white mantle for his own uses.

Still find it hard to believe it’s the new Lazarus, but that’s at least something more than saying it’s him without backing it up.

But what I was really after was to know the reasoning for 80% Lazarus people.

Bertrand.3057:

Manuelito.6081:

TheMAC.1582:

Manuelito.6081:

Maskaganda.2043:

LampGhost.9658:

Bergflo.3867:

Yh, you really wanted that… we could feel that. GJ and thx for bringing ur lootbags in anyway and thx for founding PT. I really like to stomp you guys.

Bergflo.3867:

Yh our commander needed to go off and so we were even more unorganized in your last pushed as usual, otherwise we would have tried to give you a proper fight for sure.

It’s allright! there’s no shame in being proud of getting a lot of lootbags with siege when you’re barely able (or dare?) to properly fight us!

I get my daily ambient killer achievement killing PT guys. True story.

PT gets golden dolly finisher in exchange. True story.

Little things please little minds

…said the fox who could not catch the grapes.

That is not what the fox says.

What does the fox say?

This thread The best kind of comedy for me. But anyways thumbs up for viz, hope you win the gold league!

Too little too late.
See yall when kitten is ready and maybe in BnS

Victory.2879:

1st place server attacks your left flank, 3rd place server sees you are fully occupied on left flank, of course 3rd place will attack 2nd place right flank, as they see it as an opportunity to grab something that they might be able to hold without becoming the focus of the 1st place server.
This is just simple logic. There is no alliance between SFR and any other server, it’s just that the sensible thing for the 3rd place server is to grab what it can while the 2nd place is being focused by the 1st.
Personally, if it’s choice between attacking anyone (except Viz) and Deso, I’ll always go for attacking Deso as it’s just more fun:-)

Thats what you’d think normally right? One server attacks the others, lets say longview, so defender goes there. Then the the other offensive bl servers best plan would be to go for the defenders other upper tower or garrison. That would be logical right?

But what I’ve seen, not always but few times while being on SFR bl, we decide to focus SFR as it would be the logical thing to do while being 2nd. So according to the logic said before. It would only be logical for JS to go for SFR too. But what happens they go for our tower. Meh, maybe it’s the 3rd goes for 2nd or something.

Not saying it’s a bad thing to do or wrong thing to do just makes the game more interesting when it’s not the same boring kitten day after day. Today’s “hard” focus was a nice surprise tbh. Moar fights and kittens. Been having the most fun during the league while we’ve been against SFR. And I thank you for that.

I feel bit ashamed for all the deso people coming to QQ about double teaming since there really is none just hard focus or slack days. It’s all for the lols after all.

@Xao You scrub enjoying this thread even more than i am apparently at the moment

I’d like to thank and congratulate all the silver league servers for the fun season even tho not everyone feels the same.

I think no one on Deso believed that we could win the silver league until the beginning of the first week. Seeing the queues was like early Christmas and at the same time it was pain in the kitten since no one could actually play. Not to mention the lack of organisation that is still bit of a problem. After winning the first week I was pretty sure we could win this, if we could make the players who came from PvE stay in WvW. And to our enjoyment and disappointment they did. But I think most of us were glad they did stay. We’ve seen new commanders rise from the ranks of our players and special thanks to Monsieur Grotesque for organizing commander training events. And organizing Deso’s community. Thanks to Ins and Rox for the fun 24 hour paintrains. The sleep is for the weak or something like that. Was fun to claim enemy’s bl to us and build waypoints in all the keeps. Mad respect for our night crew, one of the reasons this was possible!

Grats Gandara on your second place. You were fun opponents with your guilds and I have nothing but respect to you guys.

And the seasons surprise third place. Aurora Glade, I think no one saw that one coming. Loads of respect for your server and to your guilds.

Abbadon with your blobbing. But can’t really blame you since everybody blobs :P

FSP with your fun guilds, gave us good run for our money.

Underworld with hanging on even tho you were heavily outnumbered. Hopefully you’ll rise again!

Miller’s with your surprise guild [GD] tough opponents as always. Mad tactics.

Fort Ranik nice job I have to say. You did well when we first met and at least I had a blast.

Gunnar’s with some serious dedication and fighting back our insane forces.

I know some servers dislike us and claim we only came here for rewards. But I can assure you that rewards were maybe the third reason we ended up in silver league.

I wish the best for all the servers in silver league. No hard feelings!

Keep on fighting guys

So Lazarus not being the real Laz confirmed?

Boon duration gear and durability runes coupled with Herald’s F2 is just too much. 100% extra boon duration? That’s just cray cray

I thought the boon duration back at like late 2013 and early 2014 was nerfed for a reason.

Just stop with the nonsense “double teaming” alrdy. Our towers are paper alrdy so they use it to their advantage for easy PPT. Nothing else. Is it really so hard to understand or are you just picking a fight?

I see it going down like this.

First Braham rallies the norn and Rox to fight jormag. Lots of people die, Rox comes back to our side being the smart one. Braham goes all boo hoo, I hate you I love you.

Then he’s consumed by hate and it turns into Destiny’s Edge vs Dragon’s Watch or what ever the new guild is called. We hopefully get to fight Braham and he realizes he’s just a weak emo boy who cant control his motions and oedipus complex.

He wants vengeance and goes to Jormag for unlimited power and we get to kill him(finally) and while we are at it killing the dragons too.

No?

RyuDragnier.9476:

shakome.7458:

Braham is all about emotion in this episode, and honestly i don’t like it. Now that he had cracked the tooth, the norns will follow him into battle with Jormag. He said that he won’t give Jormag another minute, he won’t let another person’s mother to be killed. And yet, if he lead those norns into battle, that is exactly what he will do, not just another person’s mother, but father, or son.
Will he take responsibility for that?
Will he face those people when he came back and tell them that their mother, father, son had died following him into a losing battle?
(that is if Jormag has a twisted mind to have him chained up and witness all the norns that followed him to be killed or turned, while he can’t do anything and then set him loose as an example to other Norns)
I understand the Norns are a warrior race, but there is bravery, and then there is stupidity. I don’t think Braham quite understand that concept.

I’m expecting for Braham to try to lead them, only for there to be a massacre with heavy casualties, with Braham and Rox being the only survivors. That guilt will be the only thing that could possibly knock him to his senses.

Because right now Braham has kittened me off and I WANTED SO HARD for the PC to punch him hard onto the ground, chew him out, and mention the names of EVERYBODY from our PS (or just canon) who died that we knew during this war. I think that would hit him harder than anything…because we don’t forget those who fell, we never will.

Wouldn’t it be more interesting if Braham gets fixated on doing this his way and Rox leaving him and joining us cause she smart?

You clearly misunderstand how games work if your first thought while playing or failing was “this obviously needs to be easier” instead of “what can i do differently to beat this”. Now if you have used everything you have and asked other possibly more experienced players for tips and still failed. Then it could be argued that it needs to be easier.

Challenge mode isn’t there for people to get normal difficulty content, it’s there to offer that extra mile for players that want to really challenge themselves and push their skills to the limit.
What you are asking for is easy mode. Not the normal mode you think it is. Even if your suggestion went through there would have to be three different modes to satisfy people who just want to press f to kill the final boss, for people who want to do some work with a risk for the reward and for people who currently do the challenge modes.

Failing is part of playing games, that’s what makes them fun. If you’d only succeed in everything you do in the game that would become boring pretty fast.

Boss is fine as it is, no solid arguments have been put out to make it easier. Compared to the Caudecus fight where there were solid arguments for making it tad easier.

Resistance is hard to get for longer periods of time. Which is why it’s fine as it is. It’s not like it’s permanent with SoI as it used to be or close to permanent. There’s a clear counter to it called boon rip, so no issue really.

But do tell me in what style of play does the issue exist in?