Guild Wars 2

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Oh look gaurdian and warrior buffs… how shocking and surprising…

Well at least they are consistent with every patch since launch….

It would be a lot quicker if they just gave warrior and guardian IWin buttons and were done with it.

What are you talking about, Grdns have been getting nerfs since betas lol

Do you even play this game?

Nak.8315:

Yoke.4671:

Higher tier you gotthe more/bigger zergs you have to avoid and who will ruin your day.

Also the higher you go, doesn’t mean the quality of player increases. Just the quantity and the coverage.

Yep very true, in fact having moved down tiers to escape blobs Ive noticed a rise in the skill of the average player on lower tiers servers. Top servers are quantity not quality.

Id move down tiers again soon as wvw has gotten zergy everywhere but the new daft random match-ups kinda rule out the fact you can escape blobbing servers, wvw is dead in this game imo.

*Oh and also to say there’s alot of people in here from servers I know well, and example such as Deso are not good for roaming, if people tell you they roam all the time on that in small grps then they either have the patience of saints, enjoy getting lag stomped by 80man zergs every time they turn a corner or are just lying.

And be wary of that, people just being stupid and trying to recruit you or big up there server for no logical reason, See it all the time on these forums esp with top tiers servers in the EU. Denying zergs and blobbing and the likes, lol worthy.

Higher tier you gotthe more/bigger zergs you have to avoid and who will ruin your day.

Anet have some serious problems with WvW. But Ill be honest the reason servers/tiers are so unbalanced is because of the dreadful wvw community, and the ‘hopping/stacking’ mentality everyone has.

Ive seen it countless times:
Desolation are losing they get influx of big US guild(RUIN) IRON get way more active same time funny enough, they start winning come 1st in EU, they start to get lot of transfers/every sunny day pvper is out now cause they are winning.
All of a sudden they have hours of Qs and the server starts to break down, RUIN leave, IRON get flakey Deso start losing. People transfer away.

Seafarers rest start to gain momentum up the tiers do well for their size against 1st/2nd place EU, they get huge influx and get massive Qs and have zergs as big as everyone else now, server implodes people transfer off.

Piken Square gets influx at same time due to med pop free transfers, from people trying to escape the top tiers Qs and blobs/lag. It starts to get big Qs, and massive zergs. Alot of its wvw guilds leave to other servers (they say to escape the Qs and to fight against PS themselves) they all flood to same server and it then gets Qs longer then the ones they escaped from and they blob more then PS ever did.

Its the same always on US and EU(blacktide in the past too, BarachBay will be next) the cycle of selfish players trying to take the easy ride. Anet cant stop people being total Dopes.

Example of why this game will never be balance due to its player-base;
Vizunah Square the literal embodiment of ‘Stacking’. It has Qs round the clock a zergball of 80+ where noone roams and everyone on it complains about the imbalance and the lag in WvW. Its mind-blowing how narrow-minded it is a server community and how it hates the problems it has made itself by pure Stacking.

Or take dragonball/Spvp matchs. 4v3, new player joins he can join either side(an example) 9 times outa 10 he will make it 5v3 for the easy win. Not 4v4 for the good & balanced fight.
Sums up this playerbase and why Anet can give everyone a free transfer to any losing server and noone will take it, cause majority of the pvpers in this game are just looking for the easy ride and to be honest are very bad players, afraid to roam to 1v1 or to fight with even numbers. They cling to the zergbus and never let go in fear of having to do some work.

Totally off-topic but for gods sake lads use better grammar and structure in your posts, Spelling doesn’t have to be right or anything but good lord I literally have to go over some of these posts a few times to try understand what your saying. (looking at you Wemil)
I’m in work trying to waste time so its all good, but cmon your better then some of this gibberish.

To go back on topic; nice to see SFR are still zerging away like tier1 days.
Can’t help but notice a lot of PS commanders who were out in force last week are nowhere to be seen now we have a tricky match-up, those sunny-day pvpers must be out in the sunshine :/

negerleif.2106:

this is what i mean with what i said earlier:

we are the green ones…

Sorry to be totally random for for some reason you censoring out the server names irritated me. You realise anyone can just go to MoS match-up site and see exactly what tier/server you are from those scores. :/

Shpongle.6025:

It’s my game and I can do whatever I want.

HaHa, then don’t come moaning and making threads about self-inflicted problems.
grow up.

Vegadonis.9154:

Love this dungeon, good job Anet. Giving people with skill something to do

Long fight =/= skill ??
(I agree up to that, I secretly love the zerk/CoF crowd say dungeon is impossible due to them not knowing what stability or a clean is)

MithranArkanere.8957:

It’s not long if you do it properly.

Takes us 11mins~ every time with no deaths, I assume that’s proper or close to it, don’t change fact it drags/is boring.

OP don’t complain when its your own fault. Play the game correctly and it will work, the reason its not working is because one or more of your party alted/reset to get the cannon miss achievement or another reason and the timer reset to their time when they reentered the arena/last boss.
So although you took longer then X time the game says you 15min-X time left.

I’m not even sure if 9minutes left is possible on the original 15min timer, seeing as the 3 cannon phases take near 4mins and losing her stacks then blasting her with full dps range grps takes at least a few mins more. And Id take a guess and say your warriors are shout build not full zerker, and the grdns ranged dps isnt gona be mind blowing. So…. Ye.

Tomb of Courage? staff4 and some utility skills let u tank boss in field to lose stacks, and 30s~ CDs not 3min.
And Ive like base 300 Heal-power…

Riss.1536:

Yoke.4671:

but that last boss is one of the most boring/pointless fights Ive played in an mmo.

Did you ever tried the boss of the permanent dungeons ?

Of course I have lol, And I get your point but as said already even the meatbags aren’t as boring as at least your not spending 50% of the time just running/standing still waiting for a phase to end.
Its just a shame they couldn’t work on-top of the Molten-facility success, that end boss was great fun, and looked great/felt rewarding to fight I always looked forward to it.
I cringe at the thought of the end-boss in AR, its a shame cause everything leading up to it is great.

This is not a QQ about difficulty, I do the dungeon a several times an evening and we never have a bother with it, from the moment you walk in till the last boss its fun and rather fast/easy. This is a complaint about the daftly dull/bland last boss.

Its not hard its just boring. 15mins for one fight where its the exact same mechanics is such a lazy design, neither of the bosses change tactics or gain new mechanics, the 1st minute and the last minute of the fight are literally the exact same.
The only thing that changes is the cannon phases get longer not even harder, and my god the 100seconds 3rd cannon phase lol, what the hell is that, we get it he has cannons, it drags on for so long I nearly feel like logging off the game :P

Molten facility was a great dungeon and I was hoping for more of it, Up till the last boss id say this is on par. Why couldn’t we have gotten 3 bosses, another boss with lasers or more trash with laser parts and shorten the last boss by 10mins. It kinda reeks of ‘oh crap’ we ran outa time/funds we had set aside for this dungeon and its a bit short and easy, I know lets copy-paste the last boss for an extra 10mins.

Very big missed opportunity, When MF vanished after two weeks I missed it greatly, I wont miss this is dungeon in the least, its not that it is bad its a new fresh and fun dungeon, but that last boss is one of the most boring/pointless fights Ive played in an mmo.

Suffering lag at peak since patch several weeks ago, not my end have exhausted all tests/fixes.
Anet please sort your mess

Ye just bugged out for us on last trash mobs before final boss, so frustrating.
Shoddy ANet code as usual. lets kick-starter them the funds to get some testers.

One reason. Big wave of bot bans

Wow that’s harsh buddy, Its a pity Anet don’t have a system to not punish people already after being hard done(By being account hacked etc)
I hope they can take into account your predicament and find a prompt solution.
It is hardly fair to punish someone if they are not in control when the crime or whatever happens.
Problem with Anet’s support system is the majority of it is automated responses, making threads like this is sometimes needed to give it extra attention and have it properly looked at/fixed.

Good look with your problems, and god speed!

Its not fully Anets fault alot of it is the way people just work, but quality control and what seems like laziness on their part does seem to lead Early birds to catch the worm. Or people who can by chance make it to one event regardless of time played/level of character or work put into said event chain/special event to benefit greatly over other players/the community.

Now I’m sure people see it as overacting but Ill just take the recent canachs lair story mode ‘exploit’ as an example. People see a farm spot so farm it on alts, the normal users who play the game the way Anet intend people to play it don’t do this or think of it. And miss out. And lets not even mention someone who got the bugged no reward story mission and by time they learnt about it being character not account bound its been fixed so they get nothing after cheeky people got countless gold rewards from farming it earlier that evening.

We can look back to the Karka event last winter, there was alot of rage about that but imo it was warranted, Myself I done all the events played all the week but real-life called on the Sunday night and I had to go out (not to mention it happened at like 11pm on a Sunday night for people who work that’s iffy time) and missed that one event, couldn’t get back to do it in-time and it started to get janky/bug out and missed the rain of precursor others got who alot had just bought the game or played 10hrs previous.
Throw in the RNG of mystic forge, with most longtime players having to do insane grind to get the money for precursors cause we had no luck throwing hundreds of gold at the mystic forge, or because we just know we will never get one, yet someone who just tried twice gets Dusk and its all a bit to much.

I’m aware my post reeks of elitism, I played X hours and that lowly slob played Y hours how dare he have better loot then me. I know why people come to that conclusion and I see it all the time, but its just a lazy way of looking at it and its honestly not where I’m coming from nor where the people I know and play with come from either. Its just got to the stage where its like, what is the point? really any worthwhile work or grind or aim in the game is pointless as it is trivial when you see someone get the same reward for doing 5mins work that took you 8 months.

I know Gw2 is casual and that’s great, but its so extreme the fact you can get item X from 5mins work for player A or several months work for player B, the randomness of it just ruins the game and way grind works in the game tbh.
Why does everything have to be random why cant we have solid guaranteed rewards that can take alot of work but is the same for everyone, Everyone likes a level playing field because its fair.
Real life aint fair look at politicians and corrupt bankers compared to the average Joe worker. Why cant we make our game we use to escape that world be fair?

TLDR; I hate RNG and its not a healthy game economy.

No wonder Anet don’t release good endgame content when the player-base are so laughably bad, You can solo the exp Null boss(I done it on grdn moments ago) let alone do it with 2/3 man grps. You need a coordinated 5 man group?

Please mate try harder or you gota be trolling.

Wompage.4586:

Tere are good players on every server. We’ve had players join Scnd from Vizunah to Vabbi. Nothing wrong with advertisement. We work our way through the list periodically. We were doing the same when we were on Piken.

You sound so blasé about it, So I have to assume other guilds do this and you are not the only one. So colour me outa the loop.
But got dam is recruiting on your Ex-Server reek of no respect. One of the slimiest things a guild can do tbh.

Caedus.6571:

They changed it because majority of the WvW community hated the fact that carebears filled up queues in EB just to do the jumping puzzle.

Ye except its mainly PVP that is done in the JP. Far more PVE is done in EB itself with zergs rubbing gates all night.

Yes, it’s diabolical. Anet forced you to be bad at PvP so that you would die a lot and feel compelled to purchase their gem-store repair canisters… muahahaha.

I can assure you the people dueling and fighting in the JP are far more skilled then your average zergling out in EB.

Aioros.4862:

Aioros.4862:

Should also make the JP map queueable without having to enter EB.

No, access to the JP is reward for holding at least one garnison on the eternal battlegrounds.

Valid point, but bit moot now seeing as how the JP works now since Anet changed it.

LOL @ the whiners and true ‘pvpers’ who hate on the JP cause they are such godly pvpers and are worth more then anyone who goes into the JP.

I spend most my time scouting enemy zergs and running yaks for my server, I would consider myself a big help to the cause(imo ofc) yet I enjoy the JP aswell I tend to go for an hour or two before bed every night.
I would always portal people up on my Mesmer(so add in supplying siege prints for alot of my server on top of my other work) and me and some guildies would also camp certain spots and get other servers riled up. Nearly every night it was 3/4 of us V about 15~ of the other server we bottle-necked them and kept them at bay.
Now you work out we take up 4 EB slots when there is already NO queue and then add in our rival servers who always have Qs late at night and they have 15 in the JP fighting us. Who do you think is doing good work for their servers effort?

FYI being a zergling and hating on the JP cause you are clueless does not = good pvper for their server.

I’m not sure why Anet decided to split if off, it has more pvp fights then EB itself which is just zergblobs. But regardless there is defiantly oversights that could do with being fixed.
The Ori ore nodes are gone, There is no way to repair your gear in the JP. So if you spend long time PvPing and you need to repair you have to leave the instance to repair then Re-Queue for EB again which just seems stupid beyond thought.

Not sure these are changes Anet done(maybe another money grab for gem-store repair canisters) or just oversights.

And a lesser problem and not one I have a problem with but does seem very unfair Is that the way-points aren’t safe at all, you can get Mesmer pulled down from them every spawn, or get range AoE’d. Not a big deal but just seems bit silly. It didn’t matter back when you would spawn at lowlands but kinda does now.

VS has been a plague since last august, Its the biggest flaw/off-put of tier1 and the reason so many guilds/players have left Tier1 for greener pastures. VS can say what they want about Anet and the way WvW is, I’m not going to say they are wrong, this aint about right or wrong. This is about one server pretty much ruining wvw for everyone else regardless if they are right/have the right to do it.

Id feel a little bit ashamed if I was a VS citizen right now to be honest. Its a shame Anet cant create a new tier just for VS, split it up into 3 thirds and they can fight each other in blobs. And let the rest of the servers have a somewhat fair fight most weeks. Its the way of life in alot of things, one person always has to spoil the fun, kitten shame.

Your defiantly in the minority, I’m glad you were treated so fairly but as someone who fought RG for months on two different servers/tiers I can assure you they never do that 99.9% of the time, they spend half the time farming pugs in their steamrolling guild zerg(which is very skilled, no doubt about that but that just makes the farming even harsher on pugs tbh)

FPS does not = lag let alone skill-lag.
really wish people could comprehend that, its only said 10 times a day on the forums.

The WvW lag is Server side and not client side, Please try know what your talking about before giving people dreadful uneducated advice.

Empyre.2531:

So far PS have been blobbing every night but two (the first night after we joined and another one) since I’ve been on AR during prime.
PS is a blobb server, I agree with you.

Thanks for not reading what I said at all
(also its blob, one ‘b’)

Its an odd predicament. I came from Deso while back to get away from Queues and the Tier1 server-lag(a.k.a VS blobs) I’ve loved Tier3/PS since I came and in the whole it is far better fights and more skill-full/tactical. (I was used to being out-manned alot so that still suited)
More and more Deso are coming here and the problem is that, that could generate more Qs and the fact PS may move up tiers and get skill-lag and Qs the same as Tier1 which trust me noone on PS could want, it sucks balls.
But guilds like FG and GH are really good(to the community not just skill wise even though they are) and I respected them alot on Deso, but I wonder do the PS natives feel a bit ragey about it all because we could be turning PS into the next SFR or blacktide(I include myself in that as I am indeed ‘new’ to PS in relative terms) I don’t see it as the guilds who moved to PS are ones who were on Deso since betas(as were most the solo players like myself) and not ‘bandwagon hoping’ servers like we see alot of going on in wvw transfers who have moved several times since august.

But I could hardly blame PS natives for being a bit put out by all the new influx, Its most probably a very good thing aside from Qs, but just a curious situation.

Its generally the people who corpse jump all the time that are the first to whine when it happens to them, Its just the way it is, always has been in PvP games.

Is it me or is wvw just getting overall laggier these days, I don’t mean skill-lag I just mean in general, everything just seems less responsive(and no its not my end,if only) I’ve gone back to playing tanky chars like Grdn and Warrior because I just cant play high mobility type classes(never been a fan of standing still and ranging on ele etc) at the moment most evenings, Its as if we are all playing at 400 ping and the servers are on their last legs, so so vexing.

Also BB I’ve nothing against yous, but in my personal view you blob way way to much, every server does it I’m sure. but god kitten just do it a bit less will ya, its like you want skill lag all over the place.

So several servers suffering from extreme siege griefing this weekend, due to the free trials no doubt. Some sad people on opposing sides creating new free accounts and griefing for hours.

Does make you wonder how sad that individual is, and hopefull he wasnt commanded by any guild or general server populace to do it, but ya never knows.

Piken Square couldn’t make a ram all night due to this. Some people from AR/BB were griefing.

FYI folks blobs of 50+ people cause’s skill lag.
You don’t have to all roam as one massive group you know, you can split into two big groups or have some small groups roam and leave the main zerg/blob as 30~

Most 30v30 fights for the most part are lag ‘free’ for example and its enough to take stuff if move smart and tactically. If two servers are determined to move as 50+ blobs all the time then its gona lead to skill lag for all of us alot of the time(and lead the 3rd server to eventually blob aswell even just to defend)
We all hate Skill-lag and although the argument for it being Anets fault is correct, you don’t have to encourage it by blobbing so kitten much.

I’m not saying PS never blob and only AR and BB do, but god kitten do BB like to not do anything if its not 50+
The lag just sucks the fun out of everything. That and looking at the score you can see that you don’t have to move as 1 massive blob to win(I never really worry about the score and play for the fun, but its a valid argument V blobbing)

Also while I’m being a forum dramaqueen I might aswell give a shout out to [Tz] the AR guild who kept dying to 3 random pug PS people in the arena today, they had 9 up top and couldn’t not kill us for about 40mins, just kept dying. We felt a bit bad for yous tbh.

Drama queens is the current state of SFR. I’m not sure there is any people even left on that server from back when they used to be very good with very low pop** in mid tiers.

**inc a low wvw pop, not that stupid we are med server therefore even though we fill every wvw map all time we are underdogs current gloat that they have. utter nonsense

Shout out to the AR [ROAM] Guild, you guys rock as a kin group.
4v1 and yous all die, then you get friends and still take few of yas with a 8v1.
I enjoyed the corpse party on my head aswell afters, After a long hard 8v1 you deserve a party imo, takes some serious skill
GG

rant mode off

Good fights so far, had good day in EB esp with the long 3 way in SM. bit to much blobbing(skilllag rage) but what can ya do.

Cameirus.8407:

true, its pathetic on SFR right now, so many people just not bothering to even try. First little bit of adversity and people pack it in.

Some of us are trying to keep fighting, but numbers are severely down, and we keep getting 2v1’s by deso and VS (no not alledging a conspiracy, thats just the way it happens).
Still, some of us will keep up the resistance!

Just keep fighting the good fight, the bandwagoners and glory hunters will bail(aka RG etc) to whatever server takes your spot in T1 eventually and yous will be the better for it.

Very handy aint it, Going gets though for SFR so all of a sudden its throw in the towel time. Lets drop a tier. And ofc if anyone brings up the fact they are doing bad or not coming 1st well we will get the we are dropping tiers routine.

Its easier to not try and have excuses then to try and fail and have none.

These days SFR are literally the biggest drama queens Ives ever seen. Its a game play it, get over the fact that the transfers didn’t do yous much good. You boosted your ranks and instead of making the best of it(Everyone hates long Qs, I know) yous lie on your backs and whine like girls. Instead of fighting when it gets tough yous roll over and throw the towel in completely till Its back to smooth sailing.

Its like talking to a sulking child with you lot.
Stop playing the injured puppy routine, stop feeling sorry for yourselves and play the kitten game.

BB players sure do like using thieves. Seems every 2nd player is one. Very curious.

MrZigwah.2165:

It astounds me how many people on the internet can’t read properly, did you miss the bit where i said i didn’t play for 3 months which would have been in errrr….February!

Fair enough, but to be fair you did start listing your PC components so I assumed you thought it was not server-side problems, cant blame me.

It astounds me how many PC gamers out there so kitten clueless to lag/fps/hardware probs etc..

This is called Skill lag, its due to inferior servers in Anet (Texas/Frankfurt)
It has NOTHING to do with your own personal PC hardware.

It will be fixed when either;
A. Anet upgrade servers
B. You move to lower tier servers where the zergs are smaller
C. You only play outside prime-time or on a Borderland that isn’t popular that week(a.k.a never EB)

Culling didn’t effect lag in any way shape or form, Skill lag is around since February and will be for foreseeable future.

The only thing that changed with culling is you will get worse FPS in big fights, it didn’t effect performance as much as people assumed though so if you have any half way decent PC you will be fine on low quality/show everyone settings. It did not effect lag at all, cant stress that enough.

mother of god I hate this community at times.

1. use longbow or rifle
2. use any/all of your FOUR STABILITY SKILLS in melee
3. use any of your ranged dmg utility skills
4. evade/dodge

Slyder.9215:

A Warg is tracking you . . . wait, sorry wrong game.

;P

good ol’ lotro

Just in-case anyone likes to solo these things(take there time, do at own pace etc.. etc..)
The whole thing is solo-able as has been stated everywhere so its not an accomplishment or anything, if anything its harder in a group because you gota find 5 keys instead of 1 for chests etc..

But anyways only problem solo is frog boss but its rather easy once you get hang of it, have solo’d it on all me alts now and each time gets faster.

Guide-
First off jump down from checkpoint/ledge jump across towards boss on the floating water lilies boss will activate as you cross them, whack him as soon as his crystal badge thing is active, crystal shard will fly off grab it and quickly back track to one(there are two)of the floating rock slabs in the water, The boss has 4 attacks :
-Left stamp
-Right stamp
-Overall jump/stamp
-Tongue slide
He does certain eye movements and noises before each one but they are generally in order, now the thing is you throw the crystal shard into his mouth when it opens which knocks him on the ground, if you do this right and time it right he will Never do the tongue slide attack during the fight, which is the only attack that can reach the stone slab you are standing on so you take Zero damage.

So let him do his stamps and ignore them, they wont touch you on your slab. wait for him to ‘look around’ as this means mouth is opening any second, throw the crystal as soon as his mouth moves to open, it will land in it and he will slump to ground, as the crystal is in the air on way into mouth run back across lilies to the boss and hit him(each time you hit you will have time to do 1/4 dmg as that seems to be what fight allows)
Straight after he comes back to normal hit the crystal badge and a shard will drop, grab it fast and back to your slab and do the exact same thing. Never miss a chance to throw a shard in his mouth and don’t be to slow or he will not be interrupted/knocked out so will do tongue slide and It’ll get you on slab and knock you in water.

Fight is daftly simple and fun like the rest of the Instance.

TLDR; Run to boss hit to get shard, take shard back to floating rock throw in mouth when time comes, run back over get another shard and back to rock, repeat four times dead frog.

(This is not even using evades/dodges once and assuming you have no lives or full health, so again its very very easy)

Crise.9401:

Once per day per character I think… needless to say they might have done something to avoid printing baubles by creating new character running the instance moving baubles and deleting character (rinse and repeat, did not test if this works, nor would I encourage anyone to do so… since it is an obvious exploit if it does work).

By time you create char do intro, run into rata sum to area and get in your talking 10+mins each time, you can make few hundred bobbles in same time id imagine esp in grp so not sure it be an exploit, its a lazy way I guess nothing more.

So the two Bauble Bubbles you get in the end of zone chests after destroying the cage(and avoiding the dude with the eye lazors) are a once off per character?
I went to do zone 1 and zone 2 again on the character I done them on earlier, and the end of zone chest just gives the normal Baubles no extra Bauble Bubbles, the other little chest inside the big chest had open animation and nothing in it/any way to interact with it.

Just wana make sure this is working as intended(I assume it is as skins are always a grind in GW and would make sense to be this way)

Also a big well done to Anet, I do love this mode its great and really good work just curious about the loot, tks..

Feel bad for the old school SFRs who have them Queues tbh. No sympathy to sunny day movers ofc, but it sucks. Was like deso last year with RUIN coming and every sunny dayer appearing for wvw , god the length of the Queues…

I’m under the impression Piken square got big influx, FG and XAOC and few others went there over last few days. Its funny people left t1 to escape zergs and Qs and now it seems T3 has as long as Qs. Shame

Zephyron.7081:

Now, I did this because it was free and I wanted to be on a winning WvW server.

Karma. for being glory-hunter

SFR are top server in EU at the moment, and have always been a wvw force(compared to server population) so to say your medium pop is pointless. You have spent longer in tier1 wvw then most(bar like 4servers) since game started. So realise you have long Qs and move further down the tiers. SIMPLES

you got personal pics in that album mate, heads up just incase

Anatolian Turk.4057:

nice start desolation, im proud to be desolation citizen living in sfr

Then ur SFR not deso. Why the hell go to wining server and try sound like honourable deso player.