Guild Wars 2

The DB & DH team has had some decent times; however, part of relinks is to have a new team to fight beside every 3 months to keep it interesting.

I second the OP. We could both use a new team to refresh, and should have been!

Agreed Incupatus. Not the same time commitment; however, lots of time if you have multiple characters. After doing full map complete on 3 characters, I just do not want to spend the time doing it for all my others, but still would like to use them in all of what GW2 has to offer. Therefore if WP unlocks could be purchased, I imagine players would buy them, and potentially rejuvenate other long time players like me that do not want that grind anymore. Again, a prerequisite of finishing full map complete on at least 1 character would have to be complete to open the purchase ability, and once purchased as suggested by Aryiana, the reward if eventually finished would be forfeited for that character.

Thanks for the luck wish, hope the Dev’s see it and consider the possibility.

Good point. I would be fine with that.

I just want the WP’s to participate in everything without having to map complete every character, so that would be a sacrifice I would certainly pay for.

Our game is getting old, and sometimes players want to make a new character just for something different, as simple as another class but a different race. Not sure how many characters is the average out there per account, but my circle of friends like making new characters and do spend gems on extra slots because we have fun making specific groups with a story.

My suggestion is to have a gem store purchase available to open ALL WP’s. This would not give map completion as POI’s and Vista’s would not be included; however, it would allow newly created characters the ability to participate in all events without the task of running for hours to open them up.

By simply giving WP’s, it would also allow those that still enjoy the map discovery to do so for completion, or simply just not purchase said item.

Furthermore, I would also recommend that in order to purchase an item that opens all WP’s that an account would already have to have a minimum of 1 character with 100% completion as a prerequisite of purchase. That way the exploration would still have to be completed at least once, and be an incentive to get map completion in order to purchase WP completion for other characters on the account.

I personally have done map completion on 3 characters and the grind is not appealing for the little reward it gives; however, it would be nice to run guild trek missions for example on a new character other than a main that has done them for years.

If this is possible, I am sure it would be good for sales and likely get a boost in both character slot purchase with a WP opening purchase, offered separately and even as a combo for special purchase at launch.

Thoughts? Would like to hear thoughts from Dev’s as well.

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blackmac.2685:

Funny story, or is it possible to actually have a cursed account?.

Maybe it is not your account that is cursed, maybe it is you. Or your Keyboard. Or your mouse.

Have you ever tried to remove the curse with dancing naked at midnight in the moonlight when it is full moon?

Blast, I knew I missed something…was only a crescent moon :P

To the other suggestions of keeping a tally, since posting this, and continuing daily fractals (T4), still no ascended boxes; however, still like doing them and will continue to do so

Ill Conceived Was Na, that is why I opened with “in jest”.

The joke is that my account is cursed as others around me get rewards. Thought it would be a funny share to see how many others are as truly unlucky as I am. Does not take away from my enjoyment of the game at all, we have a fun group of guildies.

I have witnesses in the guild Illconceived Was Na. I wish I was joking. Been doing all the T4 dailies for the last 3 months with friends, and they watch as I have pulled only 1 box in that time. Cause we are nerds and have 3 game rigs set up in my man cave, they often get a box, and the laughing starts….I know why they laugh. I’ve even tried maxing out all magic bonuses and opening 100 at a time from all 4 tiers together. 2 friends at that time watched, and will vouch that they turned up not a single box….i did get a useless non infused ring or 2 lol.

Anyway, as much as it is frustrating, I continue to do fractals with my friends because we have fun. Loot or no loot, we will continue. But I still maintain I must have a cursed account.

I say this in jest; however, I do wonder at times if it is true, that I have a cursed account with the inability to get good loot in fractals.

I know it is all random, but when I have done all 100 levels, and do nearly every fractal daily, daily (lol), to get a total of 2 ascended boxes in that time seems cursed.

My guild mates find it hilarious, and we all share a laugh at my expense, each time they get an ascended box, when I end with nothing. It has become a game, how many boxes my lower level guild mates can get before I do. We were doing training today at T3, and my guild mate got a pink chest in the first run. She laughed and laughed and I confess once more, my account must be cursed.

Funny story, or is it possible to actually have a cursed account? Been playing since launch and have gathered quite the magic find bonus etc. Long completed to fractal 100, and have not got 1 single ascended chest from T4 dailies in months….2 or 3 lifetime.

Maybe I should move to EU and get a blessing of the shamrock? lol

All in good fun, but at times it does get frustrating.

It is funny, because there are so many opinions based on reward. I have friends who have been playing far less time, that have received more reward than I.
I have determined, along with my friends, that my account MUST BE cursed!
I get the laughs as they get ascended armor and weapon chests from Fractals, AND various other game modes, only to see me get the junk gold rewards and truly unadmirable stuff! They laugh and laugh; however, even the laughter has ceased lately as my friends and guild have started feeling sorry for my several years of bad luck in getting good loot, particularly Fractal loot in the means of ascended chests.

So Anet…what is the formula? Can someone be THAT unfortunate to get NOTHING as others reap reward! In the guild I most frequent, and as the longest time player of GW 2 &1 for that matter; I have been the most unfortunate in reward! More magic find, more everything, but FAR less reward to the point the guild starts feeling pity LOL!!!!

All in fun, it is just a game after all; however, it does get a little annoying that after many years of dedication, my new guild mates that have played less than a year are reaping MANY more rewards than I, doing the same thing, even though I have played since launch. It is like I am Grandpa, leaving a family fortune in LOOT LUCK at the expense of my recruitment to the game/family.

Anyway, would like to get a few rewards for the many years of dedication, but having fun with my guild family nonetheless. Perspective perhaps that the MATH does not always work out for the masses.

LOL not at all. Coming from DH we have had some tough times. That being said, when we were teamed with EBay and SF, we had some good matches regardless of the score we lost from. So the fact I have stuck with DH has no bearing on the win/loss ratio. I just didn’t like the bandwagon train that CD had when 4 servers teamed up to win T4, and lose miserably ever after. Not the great server that players seemed to flock to when they were advantaged. I have enjoyed my WvW games with every team mate. FC, SF, Ebay, NSP and now FA. The only one that has been no fun at all was CD for me. Win or lose. The best commanders are from other servers, and so many, even on the forums still ask for a 4th server again….why? cause they are tired of losing and the transfers are starting to regret their choice of move.

I’m glad you, and I assume, your partner as a “couple” love playing on CD. I’m sure there are great people in your community you play with and I do know many great people on CD as well. Just for me, it was not that way, nor for my partner or the friends that have left for other servers. Home server should be where your friends are, and that should be where you have the most fun in WvW. Every person will have a different choice on how that looks. I’m just sharing mine for the OP.

I certainly did not find it a great place for “couples” lol.

each to there own, you have fun where your friends are mostly.

I did not like my time on CD at all, as a server OR as a server team mate. And as far as the bandwagon you stated Ni In, CD was one of the largest recipients of bandwagon servers when you were running wild with 4 teams. Since then, nothing but losses, and guilds that can’t afford to leave again, for the next flavour of the quarter.

I was a member of one of the guilds that left DH for CD. I stayed with them with my alt that was on CD server, and my main stayed on DH and still has a free transfer. I can tell you that many are regretting the move, and they jumped on a bandwagon for the 4 server team, and now have squat. Just calling it from experience. I still have my alt on CD, but have stopped playing it almost entirely, and some of my old CD friends have left for other servers already.

I would not go with CD! Been there, and hated it. Most of the population of CD transferred there for easy wins when they had a 4 server team, and since they went to a regular 3 server team, they have not won anything. Bigtime bandwagon server where some guilds abandoned there home server for the 4 server mega stupidity.

Better off with the other options IMO. I have had a great time playing with EBay, SF, NSP and HoD…but I think NSP is high pop now. I’m with DH, and as much as I would like to promote DH, we lost many guilds after the team merges. However, with the way many guilds etc. go, DH may become the go to server this quarter because of our team up with FA. Reality is that transfers each rematch/merge is one main thing that is killing WvW, and some of the guilds I used to run with in DH that left for the easy wins I find sad.

As I said, CD was a go to point when they had 4 server team, but without a win since stripped of their mega server status, nothing, and many regret the server switch since.

I also find it humorous when a few members try to call CD “Christian Decency”. That is a whole other rant that is inappropriate IMO for the forums. So stay away from CD, it has more poison than greatness in my experience.

i have heard this suggested before and think it is worth considering.
Toughness should mitigate condition damage as it does with physical damage.

In Bloodstone Fen, and continue to lose connection. Lags out to character screen.

I can get right back in, only to crash again.

unreal the lazy BS I hear!

WvW is for WvW players, not crafting, period!

This might be the most ridiculous complaining I have heard.
Plan it out and go to town, the walk might do you some good!

Those that craft during WvW just take away a spot potentially from someone who actually want to participate the way they should.

Not sure what the history is with peeps rippin’ on DH, but the truth is, prior to any of these joint server teams and as some state the departure of many guilds off DH for BG, DH was 8th on the chart, even though most often outnumbered even then.

Great battles with EBay, HoD, CD, SF, NSP when we were all solo servers, and guess what, DH was ahead most of the time in standings, with Mag being the regular one DH couldn’t beat. All fun times though.

Any way you look at it, 4 servers “should” always have an advantage. I still like playing WvW, but it is getting really old being overwhelmed on every map, at every camp and so on.

I appreciate the efforts ANET is trying to better WvW, and was originally thrilled to join with FC; however, neither of us could compete in server pops with the other server teams. Likewise it is great to be teamed with EBay now; however, again, how do you compete as 2 servers against 7???

Anyway, will keep playing WvW, and enjoy playing with EBay until the next swap. Hope they get it right eventually, cause I’m missing the old days of solo server pride, and they were certainly not perfect either.

Sorry to hear of your experience Jente, that’s not cool; however, that certainly is not the norm from DH players, and certainly not my experience with the few FC I have played with.

Unfortunately, both our servers, DH and FC suffer from lack of high numbers and find ourselves in a constant state of fighting odds of 3 to 1 or worse. This was the norm pre merges and only got worse with all the servers that already had higher numbers grouped together. I was initially excited to have FC as a teammate and in general for server teams, it just didn’t work out due to us both having a lack of numbers to compete on maps. This is nobody’s fault, it was a beta move and will change in time.

There does seem to be a lot of server pride, and prejudice rearing its ugly mouth on the forum, and sadly that is unfortunate as well. All servers have good people and a few ars hats, same as life.

I have enjoyed most of my time on WvW, win or lose vs. all of our regular foes, ebay, hod, SF, CD, NSP; however, I am sure most can agree that being steam rolled 5 to 1 for days on end gets tiring fast. Even Mag, that commented earlier about spawn camping DH for 2 weeks. Even though I personally find spawn camping cheap, cowardly, frustrating and unsportsmanlike; I can’t argue it is a legal move and effective if all you want to do is win without challenge. It is just part of the game, even if Mag is the only server I have personally witnessed using that tactic over and over. I admit, Mag has always had our number.

To advertise for DH, I’d love to see those considering a transfer, come to DH. Other than the one unfortunate situation from Jente, I will boast that we have some great commanders on DH. Old and new, haven’t seen Hap in awhile, hope he returns, but Grampa is back! Gaema, Bfury and many others have been fantastic at picking up the tag and leading the charge despite any odds.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Ah, just to clarify. These hypothetical new worlds would be linked upon creation, and they’d be linked to the lowest/lower tiers (depending on how many we created.)

Using existing T4 NA as an example:

• HoD + Ebay + New1
• DH + FC + New2
• NSP + SF + New3

Please NO NO NO.

I am on the DH server, and originally was looking forward to world links, but have found it made a larger problem for DH players.

We have always played the above servers (HoD, Ebay, NSP & SF) greatly outnumbered when we were all solo; however, we had some great commanders and players that was more often than not, enough to win most weeks and climb the tier ladder. Now that these 4 servers are linked together, DH is outnumbered on any map by at least 4 to 1. Being outnumbered by this amount has killed WvW for many on DH and we have lost many great commanders now to other servers (I heard BG got a few of our best commanders/WvW guilds).

I’d rather go back to being outnumbered but competitive as DH alone. Even Maguuma’s cheap tactic of camping at our spawn point is more fun than the current set up.

I hope the vote changes to NO, because I’m sure that most of the yes currently don’t play WvW much. Same goes for the servers we are playing against, it is nice to win, but I’m sure better competition and good battles with even numbers would be better than the current state of 4 on 1 wipes.

If the vote is to be a “Yes” I hope more research can go into what servers team up. It is problematic just based on rank.
For example, I’m on the DH server. Previous to the server teams we were always outnumbered by other servers such as HoD, SF, Ebay, CD etc etc; however, always remained competitive, and with great commanders won more often than not.
So with wins despite being outnumbered, we team up with another server, who like DH does not have a large population of WvW players (FC), while the servers that already outnumbered us are now server teams, that just created a larger deficit of players.
So in the end, if the vote is yes, server population trends on WvW should be considered over server rank. Furthermore, the server teams should be updated each reset, rather than the current trend of the same teaming each time. Being outnumbered 5 to 1 no matter the map just kills it. Win or lose, a good battle will keep people interested.