Guild Wars 2

Darnock.1752:

I’m still needing help on which class to play. I’m looking for something in the middle between hard to play and easy

HoT is worth the price – and the next expansion is soon.

Druid is one of the best for PvE, just don’t go all “zerk”, put some healing and toughness in the mix at least on the trinkets, which, btw ARE easier to get now that HoT has given the vendors in those maps ascended trinkets for each of the new map currencies.

If you want to stop being poor, look in LFG for both Silverwastes and Cursed Shore, both of which are available in the older game.

What makes Silverwastes unique is the 5X multiplier on magic find, which does matter and does help you gain more gold and loot faster than any other map for new, returning and veteran players.

Crafting and gathering go hand in hand, so if you are a gatherer, you will be making more gold than those who do not.

WvW has gone downhill – after five years it is now more of a mess than a competition between ‘servers’.

Fractals are now a lot easier to do and also, like all other game modes, have not only unique loot but also ascended and infusions.

If your gear isn’t all exotics and you don’t have the cash, I’d be happy to talk to you about getting suited up to start! Message me in the game. Remind me who you are.

With mounts coming up and harder content and ‘forced’ groups, I am not sure I am even getting the next expansion – solo players, those who don’t play in ‘prime time’ time zones (I am NA, but live very backwards from most, very allergic to sunlight and other even more toxic fluorescents), if one can’t find groups, those bounties in the Ex-Pac will be frustrating and nigh unto impossible for many.

Builds are in the usual places, metabattle but now qtfy.com has also come to the table with specialized builds for raids that also work for some people.

You will constantly need to tweak your build when changes occur – so just remember if you find or create ascended armor and weapons, you can change them with a few items including an exotic piece, not an ascended one – cheaper than creating a new piece.

Glad you’re back.

Wish the over 250+ whom I have seen leave in the last year would do so also.

Welcome back the best MMO ever created so far.

I really do not think Anet not many players understand “exponential”.

We’re being forced to play ‘out of tier’ which makes for a very empty week in WvW – I can prove it but Anet doesn’t want anyone to do that.

Scores tell the story, look at the score and the huge difference between scores where ppk and ppt are one sided and usually the ‘other two’ (from one to THREE in one servers) are left with few people on EBG and none on two bls and maybe one or two on the home BL.

If anyone can’t see this as a problem, maybe Anet should just shut down servers ‘at night’ when the lowest populations of the ‘losing servers’ can’t be taken advantage of.

Or we can undo the links, have a dedicated WvW channel that can broadcast on all maps and raise the Vitality by ten times at the very least.

Why the latter?

How is it a ‘fight’ if one is oneshotted or stunned, interrupted and dazed by a whole two against five?

Just happened to me – for over half an hour, with less than 10 people ON EBG, outnumbered, losing properties and being overwhelmed by smaller numbers and interuptus disease – this scenario plays out over and over and over – a useless fight unless you add a LOT more life and make a FIGHT a chance TO FIGHT.

Pensadora.9478:

How can we even rally the people on our map if we are suppressed for posting 1 message and then 12 minutes later… another? Both were callouts to defend our north camp with fast yaks working on upgrading our north towers.

Can anyone explain how two messages within 12 minutes deserves suppression?

First text: 12:36 AM: “n camp incoming”

Next text attempt: 12:48 AM: Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging.

Anyone else noticing similar problem?

This happens, seemingly randomly, to many throughout the game, not just in WvW.

But nowhere else is ‘message suppressed’ such a problem. It can and does change scores as those who work as scouts are shut down.

There should be no message suppression in WvW.

Block works if you need it to deny abuses.

Stop the suppressing.

Natto.5819:

I did some research and discovered an upcoming meta for WvW. With the Deadeye skills, a full zerg can pin snipe effectively, and wipe out enemies from a distance. What you have is 30 Berzerker Deadeyes and some boon strippers/stun lockers on voice comms. After your Commander marks the target, you boon strip and stun lock first, then everyone kneels and fires. The target enemy dies instantly. Between shots, your stealth squad will cast Shadow Refuge and hide your entire zerg. 10 players can hide up to 50! While in stealth, you move to prepare for the next spike.

This spike strategy was very popular in GW1 PvP. And thanks to Deadeye, it will make a come back.

This is totally ridiculous.

Today is a prime example of “out of tier” and no answers.

Management of WvW is an abomination.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

New linking, worse balance. I have argued with other about not blowing up worlds. So much for that…. There is not a single balanced matchup on any tier. Yes, there are new links, but this is the worst I have ever seen it across the board in five years.

Said it before and I will keep saying it…

The links need to go.

I can’t believe the servers that have links that don’t need the links or link at all.

Linking is a beta fail. We need WvW back to the way it was, flaws and all.

Zephyra.4709:

Dunno about you guys but my team chat has been broken for what seems like eternity.

Players in game told me I’m pretty much screwed and it’s un-fixable yet others have seemed to get it fixed.

The game can break over time.

Between memory leaks (easily proven) and database errors, I have to delete and reinstall the game about every six months or it loses a lot of cohesion.

FogLeg.9354:

Activating tactivators (even at wrong times) is not reportable offence. If it happens a lot, don’t make them public or just don’t rely on them.

There should be a way to report chronic and purposeful people who are on other servers who change toons and hit the tactivators just before any keep hit.

Period.

Being darn tanky, pretty good at not getting killed, I was one shotted several times in that last preview weekend, never before is it more apparent that the health pool, our vitality is far too low in WvW, and only WvW.

Let me try to explain why;

In pve, one has a world to run around in, some things will give conditions, run after you, stun, block, interrupt, all these… and more… but unless, like in the Bloodstone Fen, you are alone at the very bottom of the Fen, you can get away from any mobs. Down there, you will be toast if you stay still for long. Not many areas are like this but it illustrates that some areas we aren’t meant to be alone. So in most other maps, DS, Bloodstone Fen and a few others, vitality isn’t a huge issue – nor would it be.

In pvp, it’s a sandbox, but you have equal numbers, a very controlled by still equal in numbers in theory, if no one sits down or leaves… If you are decent in pvp, you will be about 50-50ish in your matches with better and worse players, but your loot will march on and your skills matter to your teammates – your health pool not so much.

But in WvW, you can have anywhere from 2-50+ run across a map and mow you down if you aren’t fast enough to outrun that fastest toon of theirs. Pew, Pew, no skills you try will go off and you are dead. No questions, no mitigation, dead.

Add to that lag and, scores are changed by lag, everyone has to admit that by now.

Also, havoc and large groups, against one another are not even numbers in any scenario I can think of – we pick off the weakest hoping the group collapses. Most fall easily with condi bombs well placed and one side or the other is usually down and out in a very few moments or minutes – rinse repeat. The quickness a 40 man squad can be downed is awful.

But what if you had to work a bit harder for that ‘kill’?

What if instead of being ‘one shotted’ you had a health pool that gave you a chance, even 50-1 to slip the noose, so to speak?

Fights that are over in seconds would last much longer, give it a cap so all can hit a number but what we have now, no matter how you figure it, the health pool is far too low with the scathing builds I come across that can’t be taken down with any less than 5 now…

Give the rest of us that same chance that ‘some’ are being given.

The new skills, as I stated at the outset, are even more devastating (I wish nerf proponents would go away) so why not raise the health pool and make people work for that kill?

Chinchilla.1785:

Kovu.7560:

atheria.2837:

Undo the links.

Undo the Megaserver.

Give us back our communities.

Give us back tournaments.

WvW, fixed.

Without megaserver pve would be a ghost town for most servers on all but the newest or most wealth producing maps. Communities, as they were and are in wvw, never existed in open world pve to begin with. There is no “world” chat.
Tournaments steer the flow of ppt even further towards the servers with higher population, better off-hour coverage and only serve to burn people out and cause drama.
Without links many servers are basically dead on most of the maps, and all servers have fewer opponents to fight.

How are any of those things a good idea?

~ Kovu

:(

The fact that players suggest tournaments would be a saving grace for WvW merely proves Raymond’s point that they lack crucial understanding of the game’s data. By ANET’s own admission, in this case, tournaments caused permanent burn out of many players that participated. Which even I could have predicted considering victory is by who plays longer…

I suspect in this case deleting servers just isn’t viable for this business especially considering the game is 5 years old now. It may awaken sleeper accounts, but it may not generate new players. It would be even worse if 1v1v1 and 24/7 persistence is kept after such deletion. Which are two variables that lead to poor game play (back capping emptiness, and coverage wars). At the end of the day, posting ideas on a forum is going to be far easier than executing the idea itself.

https://youtu.be/JKgEsuEBhqI?t=621

I lack crucial data?

An algorithm isn’t going to tell you what thousands of WvW’ers can.

The links are a failure.

The megaserver destroyed our communities – good ones.

There are now people from other countries other than “NA” and “EU” where they are being paid in real cash to play in guilds and blob the other two sides. That alone speaks volumes about how unhealthy WvW is right now.

There are people telling some in WvW that they are not welcome, they will not be able to understand the language for hours, for example Korean characters are blank space – you can’t tell what they are saying if:

1. You aren’t standing next to them to see the chat bubble – otherwise it is totally blank from across map or team chat. Communication is the crux of WvW – without it, without the ability to understand main forces, dozens of players or even any commander who might be on is a very serious and growing issue.

2. If you ask for English, one of three things will happen. 1. Silence because of no understanding of the request. 2. Griefing in English. 3. More blank pages as the laughter and derision becomes anti-WvW-anti-“outsider”.

There’s more than just one issue going on for WvW.

At the beginning, we had separate spaces called servers, we could call out to the main community on any map and only our forces would ‘hear’ us.

We had tournaments between tiers – not only for ‘tickets’ but, just like pvp, for bragging rights and a way to lure good players to our server.

Team chat is very abused by some, so while its addition was an amazing thing for inside WvW, it also gave real trolls the ability to do some real harm to the WvW community that now didn’t know its own players well as they started to shift from server to server or quit altogether.

WvW is a different kind of gaming mode , so as one who played it more than any other mode for the last five years, I can tell you the algorithm doesn’t tell anyone who manages it much except raw numbers – to be able to see what WvW is doing and needs, more of those who make it would have to play inside of it, daily.

We were supposed to be able to get to know our companions in WvW ‘well’ enough to trust anyone in it…

With the removal of the ability to call out, with the advent of the Megasevrer, the problems I outlined above and many more started right there and right then.

WvW was a community.

Now it is mercenary heavy, commander poor and expertise in mechanics as seen on many servers and many commanders quitting in sheer frustration as 25-40 people can’t even stay on a tag as like numbers or more roll over them like they aren’t even there.

Callouts are called into question or not responded to, dozens of people log out in the middle of NA Prime Time many times a month. I’ve seen it , many have.

Trust is lost in most of WvW. Not all, I said most.

How amazing it would have been for Anet to know its game so well that it had guilds that had training in them to show the best of the best gear and mechanics, mitigations and techniques?

sigh sadface

Tiawal.2351:

atheria.2837:

Most duelers are toxic – they need to be removed from WvW.

In any case, I wish they’d be addressed and moved off WvW.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Judge people one by one, piece by piece. Toxicity and broad generalization are the problem, not dueling…

GvG and duels are the purest form of PvP, they should be embraced, instead of being vilified; if you want skilled players on your side…

I guess that is the problem though, WvW is seen as an exclusive place for unskilled zerging and PvD by some – and sadly they are right, most of the time.

The most toxic of people in WvW are duelers whose ‘fun’ has been interrupted by those who know the duelers are reporting our whereabouts.

Hexalot.8194:

So you transferred off a stable server on to one of the tiny servers that, depending on the whims of chance, can get linked with anyone ?

And then complain that you don’t like your new host link ?

face palm

The links are not a good thing for WvW.

Never have been.

Never will be.

Dante.1763:

I…i want to know what bosses you are having trouble with?

The only one ive so far needed help with is the final battle with mordremoth due to their stupid prison idea which i kittening hate. Im also running a full vipers/sinister, so i have no defense. Theyve also nerfed them a bit already, both the core story(which has been nerfed really hard) and HoT.

There is only one toon I’ve been able to go from beginning to end with little help but I still needed help at the end.

Other than that one toon, there’s no way I can do most of it without help. LFG is a joke for this kind of thing so one ends up begging in maps – I’ve done it and I’ve helped dozens and dozens who have no one else to play with either and would have preferred to finish the story ‘alone’ to feel accomplished, but nooooooo.

Kolisch.4691:

The bandwagoners are just going to jump on the next bandwagon servers and it will repeat all over again. If they say it’s for friends and guild, it’s still the same because their friends and guild are moving because of bandwagoning.

The links gone or new worlds.

One way or another someone needs to address the imbalances in numbers.

caveman.5840:

just add automatic anti air craft guns to the castles XD —would be easier than changing the terrain so people can not glide in to the castles !

not to mention but it is really easy to get bugged out in the new terrain changes that have been made

Gliding in WvW is good.

It has its no fly zones…

Better than running which slow toons are very grateful for.

Kovu.7560:

atheria.2837:

Undo the links.

Undo the Megaserver.

Give us back our communities.

Give us back tournaments.

WvW, fixed.

Without megaserver pve would be a ghost town for most servers on all but the newest or most wealth producing maps. Communities, as they were and are in wvw, never existed in open world pve to begin with. There is no “world” chat.
Tournaments steer the flow of ppt even further towards the servers with higher population, better off-hour coverage and only serve to burn people out and cause drama.
Without links many servers are basically dead on most of the maps, and all servers have fewer opponents to fight.

How are any of those things a good idea?

~ Kovu

Kovo, you can have megaserver in WvW and pve still separated, it can be done.

We don’t need guest servers, we need intact WvW servers with the ability to call out to the GW2 community of that server.

Hint: Make a channel for your world that can be seen by all players on your server, not a megasever per se, but a WAY to call out to YOUR WORLD!

ONE MORE CHAT CHANNEL WILL NOT KILL PERFORMANCE!

We NEED to be able to call OUT TO OUR RESPECTIVE WORLDS!!!

radiantbliss.6875:

Profanity filter. Fixed. Then you don’t have to worry. If it’s not good enough and more drastic measures are necessary, block.
If it’s teamspeak, then that is up to your moderators on whether or not they want to police that heavily. Expecting people to walk on eggshells based on the loose possibility of offending someone is a little much. Honestly I would have thought other R words would have been more offensive. Everyone has different sensitivities on a variety of subject matters. You can’t control the general public without it turning into some weird fascist state. As such, use the filter to save yourself the headache from the public, don’t join guilds whose personalities run directly opposed to your sensitivities.

The profanity filter does nothing if the person is good at their language.

1. Blocking might work, but then you’d have several issues:

2. The block is one way – so what others to damage your rep u tation (can’t say that word in game so I am going to break up here too, to emphasize some words are not supposed to be blocked at all) can be going on without your knowledge after any block

2. You must also block all the whisperers who are the troll’s ‘friends’

3. Block parties are not fun and they aren’t fixing the causes of nastiness in the game.

Jayne.9251:

I would love having the megaservers gone, but it works well in pve.

The next best thing would be to give servers back Lion’s Arch I think.

PvE can be separated from WvW in this respect. It can be done.

It just needs to be done.

MaxwellM.2075:

I’ve been gone for a little less than a year and just came back and WvW is in shambles or at least not is where I am compared to when I left. I actually transferred away from Fort Aspenwood who as in a terrible state at the time and now I come back and they are tier two and now aim in tier four. Where did CERN go? I’m lost and confused and don’t know where to go. Should Injust randomly choose a t1 or t2 server to transfer to or do people have any advice?

Answers:

Megaserver, the lack thereof to call others to batte.

Links, can’t get to know anyone anywhere on any server any longer.

Lacuda.8543:

Duels in WvW are hardly uncommon, you see them everywhere and the guys usually harass/give incredible attitude to you if you happen to slaughter their counterparts from other servers. Then the whispers start.
Obsidian Sanctum had a revision done to it to encourage duelers to move along to more appropriate territory. The Mists has literally set up servers to have a 1v1 capability. They even gave us the ability to great arenas in our guild halls!
Yet still, see groups of players dueling in WvW being a general annoyance to everyone, and when you mistake their group for roamers they act like we’re the problem.
They claim they do it mostly for their dailies.

My solution? Simple. Create a dueling daily/set of dueling dailies that work in Obsidian Sanctum’s arena, and that area only. Put a button in the “B” tab that teleports straight there, call it “Duelists Arena” or some such thing.

Most duelers are toxic – they need to be removed from WvW.

A dueling daily would just move it for a couple of seconds, can’t see how it would stop it in EBG or near south camp/ruins on the Alpine maps.

Killing duelers is sport for some, prescripted by others and tolerated to laughed at by many.

In any case, I wish they’d be addressed and moved off WvW.

Undo the links.

Give us WvW tournaments back.

Undo the megaserver so we can call our communities to war again.

AmberUK.5380:

Come on guys its 2017, and we are trying to get women gaming aren’t we? So is is the R word still used in WvW? I don’t see how it has a place in GW2 in 2017. Its not used often but its still about, please can it just go?

Thanks
A moo

How about the C word and so many more? Death threats. More…

The threats and verbal abuses in GW2 are growing.

Exponentially.

Just crashed again five minutes ago. The client just ended. No codes.

Not one of these crashes in the last twelve hours has had any codes whatsoever.

Four crashes in 12 hours.

No viruses or malware. No other applications open.

Just crashing.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Maybe it would help if you describe the maps to yourself as a group and learn where the groups are on the map

For myself, I use something like this
Ascalon: Charr area, brown maps on far right/east
Shiverpeaks: Norn, white maps
Kryta: Humans, green central maps
Maguuma jungle: both Asura and Sylvari maps, core Tyrian maps on far left/west and maps below Lions Arch
Orr: brown maps in the south

Use whatever description makes sense to you and remember them as a grouped area on your mental map of the world.

“Learn” the maps"?

When some do not understand others’ disabilities it becomes necessary for someone to educate them on those disabilities.

I am disabled. I have no sense of direction.

I have a broken immune system – six pneumonias in eight years.

I am practically housebound – many times when I go out I become sick for days or weeks that isn’t ‘pneumonia’.

My genetic damage can’t be overcome by ‘learning’ which can’t happen in a brain damaged by medical personnel who abused medicines galore in sixty years. Genetics aside, I was medically abused by doctors who didn’t comprehend the drugs they were using on a very sick body with genetic damage.

If you don’t understand disability, I have no way to get you to understand that some of us can’t find Walmart without a gps – let alone ‘memorize’ maps even in a game we’ve been playing for five years straight.

I have some of my memory and brain function back after significant drug abuse by DOCTORS, but I can’t do directions, it’s a disability, not laziness.

This is an ADA issue, not something that should be ignored.

Many of us are disabled who play this game.

We need to be heard and not marginalized.

Bandlero.6312:

This. I bought 40 of the first boxes and 40 of the new boxes, and mostly got duplicates of minis I had already unlocked. Out of my 80 total boxes, I only got 1 skin of value and about 200 currency sprocket things; everything else was duplicates and junk. These boxes really feel like more of a waste of money and a gamble than the regular black lion chests do.

Suggestion to Anet:

Every item is in the database for rng purposes.

Ok, so put a tick mark against any that are already owned. Tick mark seen, that person rolls all the rest available. -Problem solved.

No one should be getting dups of recipes, minis, or any other gear if it is account bound, not sellable and not worth a darn thing.

Doombringer BG.3740:

Learning names of maps and pressing M is so hard, indeed. /sarcasm

And adding a quality of life item that is easily changed is going to hurt you how?

/Not Sarcasm.

fieraviolet.3160:

I’m not sure about the rest of the game, but turning nameplates/graphics down etc in wvw does seem to help many players

That’s a last ditch effort for very low end video cards.

We’re talking very good systems, fast, clean and huge internet pipes, and still huge, unplayable lag and not just in WvW.

I’d like to ask, again, why Anet is routing anyone out of the US, to Europe and then back again.

But so far, no answers.

The server farms are here in the states, so why is anyone being routed out of the US and then back again?

Hannelore.8153:

If this was happening, other people would be complaining about it all over the forums. You may want to get your connection to the ISP checked.

It is happening all over.

Ping times are ridiculous since Anet is sending our internet through Europe when we are sitting right here in the United States.

This is a horridly ignored issue, you don’t have it? Good for you; but many who won’t come into the forums absolutely do.

I don’t want links on the map or in the right panel, but inside, in the property sheet for each daily, say ore from xxx, xxx, xxx or a specific event such as a dungeon would be SO helpful.

I am very directionally challenged – so trying to find some things on the maps even after five years is not exactly fun.

Simple change, codes already exist, it’s a quality of life change that is long overdue.

-Thanks

dace.8019:

The only way to get a Gift of Battle (required for Legendary crafting) is via a WvW reward track.

Please change this, preferably by adding an additional method that can be done by playing exclusively PvE content; be that fractals, open world, dailies, achievements, crafting, dungeons, world bosses – whatever works.

Baloney! You can get that darn thing in less than a day, real time.

How ridiculous not to want to participate in the real end game of GW2

tigirius.9014:

I am a bit concerned about the skills for ranger’s new specs.

The spec has generic skills in the third slot particularly useless are the vine grabs really.

Also I understand that you want to make it more melee but it was melee already really.

I do like it but haven’t been able to try it in PVE honestly so I can’t speak to how useful the skills are.

I would love to know how people thought about the PVE side particularly when you combines this spec with traps. I hope that will work out well since it’s a condi damage build it seems.

Taking one of two utilities that gave us stability didn’t help either.

I feel I am being forced into a build that isn’t druid or ranger – and all soulbeast.

Justine.6351:

[EBAY] is linked with CD who run massive karma train zergs. If they opened EotM ticket acquisition we would see CD posting about how they don’t have high enough population to compete in WvW.

I mean just think about it,
Crystal Desert
Where does the next expansion take place lol…
Of course this guy is fighting que.

This is why HoD and Ebay are destined to be perma linked.

Why are you not addressing the symptom instead of the cause?

Anet keeps putting servers out of their tiers – and expecting what?

Who the heck wants to play against five or six servers ABOVE our own tiers?

No One

Raymond Lukes.6305:

I’d like to start off by saying the WvW team works hard to keep up with forums and also reddit. Your feed back and discussion is awesome and we love reading what you guys have to say. The unfortunate reality is we cannot reply to every post and so it may seem as though we aren’t reading things.

I’ve stated in a previous thread that deleting worlds and letting players choose a new world is something we have considered in many forms. At this time we do not have a solution that we feel solves enough of the issues with population balance while also hitting enough of our requirements for a change to be made.

As I said above we love the discussions and suggestions you guys have for WvW this particular problem is tricky as you guys don’t have all the details we are working from. A lot of the ideas we’ve seen have been well thought out and detailed they fall short because you guys are working from a limited perspective and not solving the whole issue.

Undo the links.

Undo the Megaserver.

Give us back our communities.

Give us back tournaments.

WvW, fixed.

Long ago, not sure how long is that, maybe 2 years? A small group of players, including myself, advocate for something really simple and that is deletion of servers. We saw something many couldn’t and that is a inherent imbalance between servers, something that is pretty much impossible to fix without hurting everyone’s gameplay.

There was a few officers from some t1 wvw guilds opposing it greatly citing community reason but well, we all know that isn’t true since they always transfer around. However, many months down the road, those same officers asked for deletion. The reason being because the t1 servers they were in got affected by the imbalance. This make me realize one very important thing and that is unless the majority get affected by this imbalance, the majority will not care enough to know. In fact, they have no idea what is it all about. Realistically speaking, by the time for the silent majority to actually learn about what all these balancing about, the tiers would likely to be compressed to 2 by then which pretty much too late for any rectification.

Back then, I suggested deletion repeatedly over many threads and I am sure, really sure devs did read it because devs did drop hint that nuke is a option, with repeatedly nuking every few months. It was almost like what I suggested.

Of course, we all know linking is used in the end which I assume because is the least resistance change.

Still, months and years down the road, has the balancing improved? Not really. The only noticeable different is all of us get more people but imbalance still the same in ratio. Are people happy with the balancing? I don’t think so since we do have groups of guild leaders and officers across servers banding together talking about the imbalance. They plan to submit something concrete to the devs, honestly speaking, I have no idea how far they went since I stopped keeping up to the progress.

I personally wanted a more balance gamemode, I am not expecting perfection but at the very least, a fighting chance and not just a one sided gameplay. Unlike back then, now I have even better understanding of the servers and now thought up a slightly different approach.

Regardless, I ask of you all, do you all want balance or do you want to keep the current imbalance?

PS: I will talk about servers and the modified approach on the next two posts.[/quote]

I never see you playing on HoD…

1. That said, the issues absolutely started at the advent of the Megaserver.

2. All was worsened by links.

3. WvW hanging by a thread, it is now populated with real world mercenaries who are paid to be there – literally and not once has Anet addressed the fact that these are out of country people who are infiltrating other than their own area servers.

Not once.

All three issues are the causes, not the symptoms of all the rest of the issues laid out.

Raymond Lukes.6305:

Unfortunately we cannot give you all the details. It’s as simple as that. I’m not trying to be mean but there are details of the game and the studio we cannot share with players. Though… If you are really passionate about this problem we’re always looking for good people to join the team https://www.arena.net/#careers.

You seem to think that many can code.

Just because we can’t doesn’t mean we can’t see the issues. Worse, we know how to fix some of the issues but few if any times have players been listened to about anything regarding WvW, ever.

Starting with the Megaserver – which took away any way to call the COMMUNITY to WvW to the links which makes sure not one of us knows the others well at all, Anet decided to make WvW end game content without consistency.

Bad enough our tournaments were ripped from us – our communities were as well.

Pensadora.9478:

Serenity.6135:

You cannot have actual population balance in a game mode that is based on having 24/7 matches, it is not hard to understand.
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There will always be imbalance because it is the nature of this content, plain and simple.

I would love for a Dev to clarify here. Is the below picture what we should always expect and satisfy ourselves with? Is this the best that ANet plans to do for WvW going forward, as Serenity has stated above, and Raymond may have intimated here:

Raymond Lukes.6305:

At this time we do not have a solution that we feel solves enough of the issues with population balance while also hitting enough of our requirements for a change to be made.

At some time, you have to stop driving on that flat tire and change it, or it creates even more problems. Fixing the flat tire with a spare tire may not be the ‘best of the best’ of tire solutions, but at least it gets you back on the road, moving toward a next step – new or repaired tire. Not fixing it puts you out, on the side of the road, with no way to move forward.

It appears that you are telling us we’ll be driving on this crummy spare tire until….? Cause, by the looks of things, the tire isn’t holding up very well and the road is pretty potholed and bumpy.

The scores ALONE should be telling the devs that WvW is in dire condition and that many servers are being devastated by three, four, and five times their numbers at all times of the day and night.

I have said it before and I will KEEP saying it until the sense of it comes through to the devs.

The links, which are still termed ‘BETA’, are a total and absolute failure. We need megaserves AND the links to go. Not one. BOTH.

WvW was destroyed the moment the megaserver was instituted.

Further and worse damage was done when a bad implementation of ‘linking’ made it impossible for people to get to know one another and create communities that are stable and not moving as much as they have been and are now.

Without the ability to get to know players, to be able to group with others, WvW is and has been on a huge slide downwards. Elitists and trolls rule.

1. Undo the Megaservers

2. Undo the links

Let the servers fall where they may, even last place had its fun!

I have been sick, so sorry for being late to the party.

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It seems the food changes were driven more by raiding people than by any other mode. Bad idea to hinge food or anything else in relation to raiding. Totally different dynamic than WvW or PvE.

Destroying food for one group doesn’t mean you have to destroy it for all.

Precision was meant as a secondary not a tertiary stat.

Food being nerfed in WvW makes overwhelming numbers all that much harder to deal with and I will bet dollars to donuts that it’s showing in ppk as well.

Willkilliam.5012:

With new content on the way it will be impossible to play with each map q 30+ on reset.
My ideas are add another map or increase the population size per map

We’ve said this before.

The links need to be undone and a free transfer given to anyone who wants to move to any lower (tier 4) server.

Pensadora.9478:

Kaiser.9873:

At this point at any time that BG is even remotely threatened they are re-opened for transfer. BG has stockpiled so many guilds that it is the last true T1 server (if you go by the old description of T1 servers). It is bad for the game to have a crowned king, which is what ANet demonstrates everytime they re-open BG for transfer.

And here is what ANet said they wouldn’t do, 8 months ago:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

We wouldn’t force players to move worlds but stacked worlds would have a high chance of never opening for transfers again since we would be lowering the population player cap on all worlds. So for example in NA worlds like Blackgate and Jade Quarry would stay “Full” and wouldn’t be open for transfers unless player started to transfer off.

Which is why I continue to ask for clarity.

What is the current plan?

What can we expect as it pertains to servers being locked down, for how long and for what reasons?

When can we expect our servers to unlock as Blackgate did just recently, and what must we do to receive the same benefits?

Anet keeps shutting down or not answering anyone who ‘questions’ the BETA links!

It’s not over – the links are a TOTAL FAILURE.

Diak Atoli.2085:

Is stability required/valued only in WvW and sPvP, vs. having it in PvE? I ask because I don’t think I ever used it in PvE.

Ever play WvW in the Desert Bl?

If not, I can’t explain it to you.

Heibi.4251:

Looks like the ranger lost nearly all their stability.

Uh, uh, we lost not only our longest and most valuable stability – we lost precision from foods.

Between the two my build was destroyed.

Builds can’t do much without stability – you left us three total. Two in traits, a whole one in utilties.

Please refer to the wiki to see just how badly balanced the skills are now. Rip boon, Rip, Rip, Stealth, Stealth, Stability For Few, and no way to play builds all previously decent to good even in WvW and raids.

Stability from a single utility? One that has a really long cooldown? Ouch.

I’d really like an answer from Anet why stability was removed and why precision was deleted from foods except the most expensive writs.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

xarallei.4279:

You don’t have to buy gems with real money if you don’t want to. You can always farm gold in game and then convert to gems. If you haven’t logged in this entire time, then yes you will need to use gems to unlock the past Living Stories (not including Season 1, which is not available). The biggest QoL things to get are the bank tabs and bag slots. Shared inventory slots are nice too.

This is so true but not very well known.

Making gold may take a while to get rolling but once it is, you can do the game without money except for the expansions.

Azuset.5804:

I purchased the base game back at launch.

I was pretty put off that I had to buy bank tabs and that there is no way to expand that in game.

Now, im looking back into the game. What realistic cost is involved in playing?

I know ill have to buy the xpac’s but what else?

Does it cost money to play the living story?
How much have you spent on bank tab?
Is there anything else I will need to buy?

Thanks

Five years of play most have spent about $200-500 total for that time in gear that makes sense that you buy one time and then never again.

Five years of WoW on the other hand is and was and will be without any ‘gem store purchases’ over $900.

You make choices when you play games – the company makes money on expansions to create the next chapter/ex-pac/updates.

Until a game beats its model, I am here. Only game I play and Anet knows it.

xarallei.4279:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

Ashley.9304:

notebene.3190:

It’s why I probably won’t ever get to make one of the newer style legendaries, since you have to do fractals, and I’m betting no one wants me to tag along.

I did manage an old school Bifrost before HoT, and did Aurora, so that was fun.

It’s just not fun. Even if you “can” do it. People always assume that if you’re against meters you’re a bad player, but that’s not true. Whether I know what I’m doing or just kind of bumbling around, either way, the "meter’ makes it unfun. It’s like being policed by people I don’t even know, and since we don’t know each other there is a free pass to be jerks.

It’s unfun. I can’t tell you how many times in WoW we’d down a new boss and the first thing everyone would do is start comparing their meters to see who “beat” who. Uhhh… didn’t we just collectively beat the boss? Why are we now beating each other when we are supposed to be a team?

Maybe I just don’t have the same competitive mentality and therefore don’t “get” it. I’ve always hated this DPS meter stuff though. It’s a pass to be mean, unhelpful, and it causes real anxiety for a lot of folks to know that we’re all essentially being spied on by total strangers. I could count on one hand the times I saw someone use DPS meter information as a learning tool. The number of times I saw someone use it as a free pass to be rude? Boy, I’d need to grow 200 more hands to count that.

I have to agree with you on this fully !! and I will not say which one of the two dps meters it is but I can say when pof comes out next month one of thos said dps meters will be fully dead and thankfully never ever coming back . bad part is that it will still leave us in the same stuck point .with the other one and all these well not too bright dps meters peeps running around . trying to take away from our fun in the game . personally when I see people in the game or forums talking about this topic . I put them in the blocked list in game . so at least it saves me some headaches their .

I don’t know why you are anti-BGDM (the addon in question). You should actually be upset that it’s going down. BGDM only showed other people’s dps if they installed it. Not only that, but there is a setting to stop it from sharing your information so that it only acts as a personal dps meter. Which is actually a very positive thing because it helps you improve. With BGDM down, everyone will now be using arcdps which shows everyone’s dps.

Though to be honest, for me it’s been fine. I was VERY wary of things going downhill when Anet first announced that they were allowing meters. Especially, since they said they were ok with group dps meters. I could foresee all sorts of bad behavior. That said, I haven’t experienced this at all so far. I’ve used both meters and have had found them to be helpful overall at least in terms of self improvement.

I will tell you why that DPS meter is so bad.

1. It’s too small – the text is miniscule

2. Updates sometimes don’t work and the author denies anyone having any issues ‘but you’ baloney.

3. The owner has given up on GW2 and is looking for someone to ‘take over’ the project of the meter. GW2 isn’t good enough to play but good enough to gain from? NOPE.

Makuragee.3058:

So today I have been kicked out of a fractal party cause my dps was not maked out, they confirm using dps meter. So now people can use dps meter? So arenanet you change your mind? Can I ask a refund of my entire account cause I clearly remember back a couple year ago dps meter was illegal and thats was one of the reason I started playing this game. To avoid kittens players. If I recall the user agreement speak of this? Did anet change the user agreement without notice or I miss something?

Yes, they changed their minds with the advent of raiding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5sw8ey/arenanets_official_stance_on_3rd_party_dps_meters/

DPS meters are not the devil but few are made well at all

Holland.9351:

They better unlock all pets on the elite spec beta.

What pets? I haven’t found a single one yet.

Kitty.1502:

Really have to define viable. You will be getting carried in raids if you go power ranger. Fractals it is a bit less of an issue, since those are more about mechanics than anything.

WvW Roaming/sPvP power is still viable.

If you have a really good power build you don’t insta-die on, please share!