Guild Wars 2

First thing I notice is the typeface. Why that ARMY stencil look? What message are you trying to convey with it? Also I notice that three of your characters are reddish-orange and one is blue. Why the color difference and why are they so segregated? Now that we’re talking about color, why is everything orange and blue? They compliment each other nicely but does everything need to be orange and blue? Maybe mix the background colors up, it could help your characters pop a little more, especially Mr. Blue who is really washed out.

I kind of mentioned earlier that your characters are segregated, orange on one side, blue on the other. I can understand the decision to group colors together, it makes sense from an organizational standpoint, but does it work in the composition? I feel like it’s very left heavy, not that that’s a bad thing, but you might want to try moving them around. Mix them up, push some back, move some up, make them all the same distance, etc.

One last criticism, watch out when you invert colors. Often it can look washed out or be too bright. Try playing around with your “curves” or “levels” on that layer. See what cool or not so cool colors you can bring out.

I think that you’re onto something that could be really awesome. I like the space backdrop and the reflective floor. You have some very unique characters, which could be show cased better, but you’re well on your way to doing that.

One final note. Always try to start a project like this on paper. I know it seems silly because you already have the characters and it seems like a matter of layering things together. While that is somewhat true, sketching an idea out in as many ways as you can think of really facilitates the photoshop process because you already know what you’re going to do! Drawing things before hand is ALWAYS helps and is a lesson that I didn’t learn for a while. Also, look at signatures you like, things that remind you or are related to what you want to do. Make an image board of things you find on the internet, it could really help you say “hey that’s cool how can I copy that or incorporate it into my work?!” Remember there are no original ideas. Take from others, as long as you give credit or make it your own in some way.

Really these are tips for design in general, not just signature design. Everything matters and everything counts. Don’t let technicality limit your imagination. You can learn everything and anything you want to know about Photoshop online.

Good luck, I look forward to seeing your finished product!

I’m talking about three servers here,

Blackgate
Fort Aspenwood
Henge of Denravi

Although their coverage and WvW participation are in different leagues, they all won 7 rounds undefeated. Besides the first week match with BG/JQ/SoR all of the matches that these 3 servers had were blowouts, the competing servers never had a chance. The players on these servers are not to blame, they all should enjoy the rewards they earned, however I think it will be unhealthy for WvW in the long term when some servers have a monopoly on winning. I’d like to see more competitive matches in Season 2, WvW will be more fun for all of us if that happens.

And I’m from Dragonbrand, I’m not sore about anything, we never had a chance at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

This is kinda odd. How would you chose a real commander of the year? People will only vote on commanders they know (the ones on the servers they play on). There is no way to compare commanders from other servers. If I only know a few commanders (not even all of them) on the 1 of the like 30 servers there are, I can’t really accurately select “the best”

I like these ideas, borrowed from the other threads.

1. Give winning server players 1 free transfer, usable until the start of the next season and.

2. Give the server the prize pool, and give each player with a key a share of the pool, So for example. BG: 1000G, split among 10k players, Mag, 850g, split among 300 players. (Totally made up numbers)

What a fuss about nothing.

wvw colors back to normal please!

ANET,
please revert changes back! it really hurts eyes, i can get an epilepsy soon

New ‘blue’ color looks very similar to ‘green’, also very similar to commander icon color.

MAPS ARE UNREADABLE

Please don’t stare at this for too long, it’ll hurt your eyes.

Joke of the week: 30 Vizunahs walk into a bar, they proceed to build arrowcarts inside. Another group of 30 Vizunahs storms in and yells “Mon dieu we’ve just escaped a very dangerous group of 10 Seafarers! Can we stay here for the night?”

Truebanana.5936:

Interrupted by mos click ?

Ahh so are they clickers? Now it all makes sense

Interrupted by mos click ?

First of all, I want to make something very clear: I have absolutely nothing against any particular server. This argument is based purely on something obvious that seems to have only one logical solution

I know this sounds like a provocation, but please hear me out. In NA there are 24 servers, in EU there are 27. By looking at the matchups here for NA: http://mos.millenium.org/na and here for EU: http://mos.millenium.org/matchups it is clear that week after week having the last tier in EU makes little to no sense.

The average server population in EU is lower than in NA (look at the server list in world selection for proof), and WvW players fear for the week they will be matched up against FoW and Vabbi: that week simply means complete boredom with one server completely dominating all borderlands for the entire week. This has been proven to be the case for months. A lot of guilds/people actually transfer to different servers during that week, so that they can have some fun in WvW.

I know that what I’m proposing will upset a lot of people that want to stay in the bottom 3 servers, but don’t you agree that it simply makes sense to remove the last EU tier entirely? Currently, because of the random match-up system, there are guilds that are moving away from lower tiers simply to avoid the possiblity of having to face FoW and Vabbi. This simply creates more imbalance in WvW population and more blobs in higher tiers, which is exactly the opposite of what we need.

I believe that removing the last tier has obvious benefits. People from T9 would most likely move to servers that are similar to what they are accustomed to, meaning probably T6-T8, which would mean more population balance throughout the tiers. Servers/guilds will not have to fear facing 2 empty servers and a wasted WvW week (which could also have repercussions in the future, for example a lot of RoF people transferred to RoS this week and a lot of them will not go back). The only negative I can see would be for people that feel like they “belong” to their current server, but I think that’s just a small price to pay for what would be gained.

What do you guys think? Am I crazy for thinking this?

ps: this is purely my opinion and does not necessarily reflect anything that my server and/or guild thinks

edit: I’ve also created a reddit to discuss this more, if people are interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1hmjw6/should_the_bottom_3_servers_in_europe_be_removed/

Our PvE guilds are doing WvW now too.
When we asked them why the sudden change, they said:

“We saw that we’re against VS this week again. It’s easier farming them than Orr! "

:-(

Thank you Canada !!!