Guild Wars 2

that argumentation about adapting to ´force´ may work on your planet or country.

greetings from germany & bye.

Forced Humor simply won’t work for some people.

what a crappy idea. total dislike. dont like it. i see the joke, but a forced joke upon us is foolish not funny.
ESO starts to get more and more attractive.

// EDIT: ok i see log off and log on turns it off. at least something. it´s ok if others like it. have them see the world in that “funny” way, just dont hassle me with forced premature jokes please. thats in my eyes a form of customer disrespect.

an option would have been to have 1 hour bobble head after the login and introduce some tonics for those who like the effect.
by that way ppl would have a good laught with the effect wearing away after some time but leaving it to the player control to extend the effect.
taking away control about appearance or length (even if the effect doesnt shows now on my client, you still control how my character is shown to the world) is a form of disrespect. full stop.

[reopen]
after the wvw reset (which occured with the metabolic primer active) consumed food will again disregard the remaining metabolic primer timer and go for its specific sustain time.

something is still wrong.

[solved]
seems there was a silent server ? update. it works today as intended.

would still be good if the remark in my last post can be checked. i dont see any reason to buy the metabolic primer again (which is a pure convenience feature) unless it affects all buff food.

Meglobob.8620:

Berserker gear Power Precision Crit Damage

Please consider it from a PvE and WvW point of view, in how many 100’s of hours and resources in gold, laurels, possibly real money via gems players have spent getting there berserker gear.

A lot will quit, rather than be forced to make new armour sets/weapons/trinkets and redo there appearance.

Its easy to change gear in PvP.

Very, very hard in PvE and WvW.

truth be told, in my eyes it becomes even more visible that the main part of “balancing” is to ensure recurring revenue for the company. (thus yes, it a balancing of some sort, but more related balancing the investor report of the mother company maybe)

i´d expect that a peak in gem purchases could be detected following the introduction of ascended (ie convert to gold and to buy the non ascended mats required).

what once was about real gameplay ´balancing´ in old mmo´s nowadays looks more like a biz generator/sustainer ensuring continuous investments through the community into the game. to be honest, i´d rather pay monthly instead of this.

/my 0.02$

AFAIS confirmed.

expectation:
“any food eaten while the primer is active will have the same remaining time…”

problem:
while it seems to work as intended upon the initial usage, it will stop extending its effect on food under certain (but usual) conditions during the anticipated 12h uptime of the metabolic primer effect.

how to reproduce:
encounter a server reset, or just exit client and log in again. this is apparently breaking it. the food consumed before logging out will have its lifetime shortened, while any new food consumed will not get any benefit from the (still running) metabolic primer.

somewhat unclear:
A sharpening stone remains unaffected by this, alas it´s still being categorized by the game as “nourishment”. the best use for this buff would be to have its effect spread on both, such as soups and sharpening stones/crystals etc.

remark:
no hard feelings, but wondering somewhat how this could pass QA (former test manager for some devices you may use regulary for communication).

again the same matchup. Kodash here. give me a break. first time ever after a reset that i am not motivated at all to log in.
i only do wvw but i cant stand that anymore.

im just downloading the mmo i used to play before gw2 now.

i feel you m8. good hunting.

have yet to find a roamer happy about this matchup being extended for a week.

yes, no zerg from whatever server is hesitating to usually kill a lonely roamer unfortunate enough to cross its way, but in my experience (may differ from yours, yes, thats cool, no problem with that) BB in special is going any length to hunt one down. especially in the nights when they seem to fight empty maps. (that fun?)

starts often that way:
- you try to get the blood buff or check blood buff locations for smallscale fights,
- foudn one? great!
- k. one add. ok.
- two. ok.
- three. ..well ok, must be the grp taking the buff. they mean business.
fighting and doing my best.
if you dont go down, in enough cases shortly after some larger group will arrive and bravely add to the fight.
if you run, apparently no distance will be far enough to stop the zone blob chasing you. after finally moa´ing you (yesterday alone 5 times moa´ed by BB, tks guys, welcome to pvp), you´ll get a good /laugh from the victorious blob.
srsly, that much fun? you have ppl fighting in uneven odds dedicated to give you a good fight and you yell for additional assistance?
why not just fight and have maybe a more entertaining wvw moment than the usual zerging you encounter. whats with all that /laugh´ing when fighting ppl obviously give a stand.

now i´ll fought a lot of single and group BB roamers, had great fights with them and instant understanding about duels going on.
cool, thanks&kudos to them, but those r the usual suspects, the smallscalers you recognize after a while& wvw-pvp society in general.

/rant:off, cu in game. no hard feelings. cheers.
ps:If you search me, kos, hugs, whatever: im ~80% of my onlinetime on the baruch BL.

DevonCarver.5370:

It is also the case, that we want people playing all the parts of the game, so there are always going to be optimal ways to get specific rewards and those may not always include WvW. We are building the whole of GW2 and we try and balance things across all the game types.

Look with all due respect for the great work provided.. i dont really care so much what -you- want me to play in my free time.
I (you remember … the customer .. which provides recurring revenue through so many of your gems) enjoy a specific aspect of this game which is wvw. apologies. play how you want was advertised. great, here i am. dont try to hassle me now.

Without trying to be picky about the sentence in special, the core message still comes around like a Fast Food service stating: “yes eh we appreciate your interest in our burgers but you have to eat 9 chicken nuggets with bitter sweet sacuce before i can pass you the burger you ordered. sorry kid. dont like it ? well too bad for you. allergic to chicken ? well pass it to your friends. we do like our chicken nuggets and think everybody should enjoy all possible flavours our kitchen can provide.”

For myself, I never saw an instance nor did i ever saw any town beside the start towns.r do i care about ? not. at. all.

Could make them buyable, achievable, whatever but anyway present in or through wvw.
the guys with the least time are regurally the ppl with enough spare money to buy gems trying to catch up with the scolars, students etc in their clans and stay competitive enjoying the game experience with their pals.
you already abandoned some initial promises (no item spiral). i´d suggest to carefully elaborate and leverage further design decisions and the necessities for gameplay enforcements.
try to not turn borderlands sunken arena into an analogy.
customer loyalty is earned, not a given.

cheers,
nirax/ germany.

Sombike.6291:

I ported there when i saw white swords on map (Desolation BL), got there saw 2 rams and about 15 hostiles hitting the door, that was @ 80% Suddenly saw some guys on top of the walls :P and then a mesmer portal went up and they were all inside

Some say u can jump into the tower somehow from what angle i do not know.
Made a few screens as well …
Make of it what u want :P

thanks for your concern, we contacted EoW about this incident. On Kodash the guild in question has a good reputation and is known to be a community of fun-gamers rather than ´pro-gamers´. I hope it can be quickly clarified. We all enjoy the good fights and spirit of this matchup.

Cheers,
KriegskindTC (www.kodash.de community admin)

just to be sure my understanding is correct:
when Gw2-team states “xy has been reduced in pvp”, my understanding would be that it is not affecting WvWvW.

correct ?

cheers,

loaded.1938:

forum users are about 5% of gw2 community and the other 95% are probably looking forward to the new patch as i am just saying

yes, yes, i remember these same statements from the Mass Effect 3 desaster and the biggest fan-outcry in gaming history so far.
Everytime a company is messing up you will find these. Same Spin doctor ? Just check the metacritic scores in this example (industry, investor and generally stakeholder relevant) to get your full picture.

cheers

killed them. they were just swimming all together on one spot. no reaction on the attacks..

cheers,

DavidMonthen.4398:

It’s true, I actually saw 2 RUIN guys on thursday and friday the talked-about week. They must have made the difference! Thanks guys.

This is an absolute farce and you (should) know it.

on some planet the post may have been recognized for its wisdom.

Meanwhile please consider reading the post of maximumpanda, director of Ruin from the 12th.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/69472-kodash-vs-desolation-vs-seafarers-rest/page__st__30
( on page 1 and listed per day you can find screenshots of the ranking history of this matchup in question, 2 weeks ago)

cheers

@Offski

as written before i welcome the challenge through 24/7 servers and have no issue with RUIN joining you guys.
Having said that allow me to come back on one particular point you stated:

//You do remember that we beat you 2 weeks ago without RUIN? You even had most
//of the orbs all week due to the SF hacker and yes we still beat you.
//So pls stop moaning about RUIN.

AFAIR back than RUIN joined you 11 or 12 Octoberish.. During the first half of the week some @Kodash even tried to avoid fights with Deso stating it would fall in the category of “wildlife conservation” as we were joking in the community TS.
We barely saw any of your players after the initial weekend where Deso was massively losing ground.
If you reread the threads from that time-frame you´ll actually come to the same conclusion. Thus, when trying to flex your muscles, please get your facts straight first.

Again,nothing against Deso getting the additional forces and i fully recon the current strength, but theres no need to try to mess with .. well ‘history’.

cheers,

frankly i don´t exactly get why so many ppl continue whining about night-capping. and changing odds. (exploits are something else, and yes i was also in shadaran most of the day before the portal happened)

Although WvW has some fixed rules (&too many restrictions for my taste), it should be as close to a sandbox model as possible without trying to even down or dumb down the battlefield. This always means tailoring the ruleset in RL or VR around the least competitive guy.

It became such a trend to just whine to the ‘game gods (ie creators)’ instead coping with the rules, taking the competition and trying to organize, recruit other guilds, find ways around it.
Agreed there will be friction, but the overall experiences (bad& the great moments when you finally accomplish something against all odds) will be much memorable than an overtuned casualized game experience.

As ex nato/sfor military it is very interesting to see how quick a military-alike organization is developing on the fly ingame under such constrains and competitive pressure:
-> from pure karma trains non existing “swarm intelligence” (ie barbaric hordes) to organization, tactics, battlegroups, feint attacks to bind enemy forces or imply a movement pattern
organization of night shifts, specialized guilds, training programs and so on and so on.

i´d like to see some ppl relax a little more, welcome any challenge, understand that playing vs better organized servers will boost their knowledge (even though some ppl may get demoralized, but hey that´s life).
They can find ways fighting 24/7 servers with a larger playerbase (ie actively recruiting guilds, or by setting expectations right), getting alliances set (the infamous W&WvW) through the organized guilds.
This can be totally valid tactic (and is in any book or rl scenario) whenever 2 forces have to deal with 1 large force and can agree on a subset of common interests for the time being..

greez, Kriegskind-TC@Kodash