Guild Wars 2

First few attempts spent to discover mechanics of the fight.

Then it goes like this:
At the 3rd summoned dude the portal is in the air. Retry.

Managed to get him almost to the defense phase, but the jump/updraft thingy not-so-suddenly just refuses to send me in the air, died. Retry.

Next opens with the portal in the air. Retry.

A jump platform bugged, retry.

Knocked off the edge by Mordy (yeah, my bad, such a terrible player), after few seconds of desperate search for updraft – death and retry.

etc

And the worst thing? Even without bugs the fight is boring. Timings? Lol. Dodges or blocks are barely required, just bring condi cleanses and some stealth to channel stupid rifts (no idea how classes without access to stealth do it, since The Evil Beer Belly was on me all the time). It ain’t even dps check. It’s just a boring long fight with most of the challenge coming from fighting bugs, camera, skills not queuing, etc.

And still better than Zhaitan fight.

I ain’t even mad, just bored and tired after this fight. Basically zero emotions about it left, and I hope to forget it asap.

…through the door not even noticing it, walk through the counter not even noticing it and leave through the wall not even noticing it.

All the spectators hanging out on the street are excited and tell visitors in the bar to calm down since it was fun for them and happened only once.

Being presented with a fact disproving his previous statement. Without any hesitation write it off as an exception.
What is he doing in Anet, he should make a career as a politician.

Oh, they also can’t cancel it because all the people who spent gold on Golems will throw a tantrum.
Same with disabling Glicko for this week. “We worked so hard to buy and build and use those Golems to squash those terrifying guys outnubmered by us, and now you gonna take away all those point we worked so hard for?!?”

This they will listen to.

Damian Vryce.9417:

Here’s an event, All anet employees transfer to the lowest rated server and then get match upped with the 2 highest servers. Anet employees get a mandatory 8 hours of WvW playtime per day imposed on them.

And they have to rotate through all classes equally while playing actively.

HitmanHaydon.1053:

If this is what they think WvW needs, what’s the new map going to be like?

The thought that scares me the most. After all, this week will end, but it is possible that this approach will stay.

Yeah, Anet, please add “morph horse” to the the skills Thief can steal from mesmers.

TJgalon.5012:

I am trying to follow the reasons of the hate, but I not seen any problem personally so I am afraid I really not understanding the issues. Could you point me to the topic where these problem are being discussed?

Do you even play WvW? To counter golems you need golems. No, ACs and ballistas do not work. Players on foot against Omegas are like WW1 infantry against WW2 tanks. Sure, they could overwhelm it with numbers. I dare you to call it “counter”.
No guild raids (except in golems), no skilled groups having some advantage due to proper composition, among other things, since there is only one class in WvW this week – Golem.

Defending? Lol, by the time your commander receives scout’s reports any gates are torn down by Golems. And it does not even matter if your zerg is full of Golems too (ofc it is) since you most likely won’t get there in time to prevent capping. Which leads to karma training, glorified eotm style running in circles capping stuff with occasional zerg clashes.

And when zergs do clash? Guess who gonna win? Right, those who have more ppl, since they have more golems, can build more golems when they are destroyed, and there is no point in using focus groups, proper party composition, any other tools that give smaller groups any chance against bigger ones. Oh, wait, its totally eotm again.

And I dare you to call all this stuff just theorycrafting that is not actually happening right now or just happens from time to time and does not have any significant impact on WvW.

tl;dr This event heavily favors servers that outnumber their opponents, and bigger zergs. And I expect even skilled WvWers from these servers getting tired soon from one-sided fights, so it will be herds of people with blobber mentality running in circles in WvW this week, nothing else.

They won’t. There is no outrage on Reddit or some article on something like Ten Ton Hammer and those are basically the only things they react to asap. We’re stuck with it for a week.

Orochimaru.4730:

Dawdler.8521:

“Does the WvW team has any objections?”.

It’s so cute you think there is a WvW team.

That’s why there were no objections.

No rallying… meh. How about no hardressing while in fight, so that smaller but skilled groups will have a chance against zergs? You know, something totally opposite to what is gonna be happening this whole week.

Firelysm.4967:

they can block your entire burst for 20 sec

Care to share engie’s rotation for 20 sec block?

Shiki.7148:

Also I THINK stacks in PvP are still limited to 25, at least I haven’t see it go over that once. Cannot speak for WvW though.

No condi cap in WvW.

Here it comes. Few guys insisting the change to CC was actually great, but refusing to post their buids/videos of their builds in play showing all the advantages they are talking about.
Do they even play necro?

Breedlove.1245:

The fact that so many Necromancers are crying over 4s of Vul is ridiculous. We should just be happy we still have it get rid of ALL conditions on us still, like so many other classes dont have.

You mean they could’ve nerfed it even more? Ofc they can.

hibari.9836:

A suggestion to do with Hero Points and peoples’ complaints about them having been spent in ways they don’t want (especially for mid-level characters):

How about a one time use only option to refund all hero points?

Sounds great IMO.

Wallach.7291:

xitsLuisx.2480:

so what you mean is, necro nerf again? because why not…

In this case it’s mostly other classes. Necro just has even more powerful transfers now. So there are classes that are basically killing themselves with their overpowered condition setups because they can’t defend against it themselves. For the most part it is Burning, which Necro can hardly leverage – but they can certainly help, say, Engineers cover themselves in their own ridiculous burst stacks of it.

Can confirm. Did some WvW roaming on my engie and basically killed myself off “new necro” few times.
I just hope they won’t nerf necro AGAIN because of that, in some inexplicable kneejerk reaction.

Working as intended.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Probably because they want to see Necros use other heals.

More like they want necros to play another class.

Just did some testing in SW. Loading time near the Priory Historian ~30 secs.
Loading times on the same map (same ip) at Camp Resolve wp and Hidden Depths wp ~15 secs. Tested with 2 chars.

Same story in LA. Loading time when going through HotM/WvW ~35 secs, at waypoints usual ~15 secs.

The last few percents of the map take more than 10 secs to load, you can see it if you use -maploadinfo.
When MapLoadCompletion reaches 97%, “streaming est” in brackets next to it starts to go from 0% to 100% and the map won’t load until it reaches 100%.

When taxiing to another instance while standing on the “slow” spot it takes no more than few seconds.

Repairing the game does not help.

Looks like sorting by price is broken now.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

cheshader.5081:

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Just wait a month and no one will wear them.

At it already. As a result I have enough time to engage in entertaining discussion on forums.

Well in that case do dungeons or fractals and kick everyone who wears them and never look at them again? Lol

I don’t like to kick people.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Just wait a month and no one will wear them.

At it already. As a result I have enough time to engage in entertaining discussion on forums.

phirefox.2568:

While they’re at it, allow us to toggle off:

• Norn
• Fractal Capacitors
• Twilight
• Sunrise
• Eternity
• ugly Asurans (nonugly ones are okay)
• Quip
• The Dreamer
• all kinds of Spinal Blades
• Wings with stupid static Animations (Holographic Wings and Tequatl Wings)
• Scelerite Karka Shell
• The bulky new Crafting-Discipline-Backpacks
• Job-o-Tron
• Slick Pack
• Zephyr Rucksack (a.k.a non-engineer Hobosack)
• Anti Toxin Injector

Had all those things generated requests from players to toggle them off? If yes, give me the links, please.

phirefox.2568:

why exactly the backpack in Question? Why not another one?

Because ppl never asked to toggle off other backpacks?

yanipheonu.5798:

..to be fair, if we really didn’t want to see other peoples (admittedly sometimes obnoxious) attire, it probably was not wise to play an MMO.

Personally, I absolutely love this argument. “If you don’t like it, don’t play it”. One shots absolutely anything.

Ok, on a serious note. Realistically, I do not expect such option to be implemented by Anet exactly for the reason lordkrall stated, it will hurt the sales (even if the current sale is over, the wings will return to the store, as well as their different coloured versions, so we won’t see less of them in game, rather other way around).

So all I can do is to try to kitten off wing lovers by telling them they are ugly. Yes, guys, you are. Ok, back to the serious note again.

There is a lot of other “huge” or “not lore friendly” or whatever else stuff, but none of that yet generated requests to have an option to toggle them off.
Anet could see it coming (I bet they saw) and while an option to “toggle it off” was not an option, they could at least try to make them less obtrusive/obstructing.
For example, by tilting the wings back a bit, so they stay at about 45 degrees angle, so at worst the character wearing them is at least twice as big, not triple in size.

But, judging by those lame animations, the wings were just a quick baked moneysqueeze. And I bet they won’t modify them since the outcry will, well, out cry those who would like the change.

So, all we can do is just deal with it. Or stop worrying and learn to love the wings, equip them on your hugest characters and go hide other winged chars under your wings. I bet they will appreciate it! :p

From my experience from few weeks ago on EU best SW is night SW, somewhere from 9pm to 5am server time. Breach is usually success with occasional 4/5, and most of the time VW champs are killed with first attempt. I have some ideas why this is the best time, but I rather keep them to myself, lol :p

Azhure.1857:

cheshader.5081:

Azhure.1857:

lordkrall.7241:

cheshader.5081:

Main selling point is to clutter screenspace of other players? Ok.

No, main selling point is to show your cosmetics to other people. If they can turn it off at will, why bother buying it?

The very same question I’d expect a troll that buys musical instruments to have just so they can have their giggles at the expense of other players.

Actually, for those guys there is an option (though as a result you can miss those who are really good at it).

“Actually”, that was my point.

Actually, I had to actualize that.

Azhure.1857:

lordkrall.7241:

cheshader.5081:

Main selling point is to clutter screenspace of other players? Ok.

No, main selling point is to show your cosmetics to other people. If they can turn it off at will, why bother buying it?

The very same question I’d expect a troll that buys musical instruments to have just so they can have their giggles at the expense of other players.

Actually, for those guys there is an option (though as a result you can miss those who are really good at it).

lordkrall.7241:

No, main selling point is to show your cosmetics to other people. If they can turn it off at will, why bother buying it?

So, they enjoy shoving that stuff in other players faces even if those players do not like it. Perfectly explains wing-lovers mindset.

Justin.7163:

Guild Wars sort of lost its minimalistic style when it transitioned to Guild Wars 2. Not sure what happened.

They took a look at the most popular stuff in other mmos.

Mini Lupi as a reward for soloing him.

Pifil.5193:

“My word, when I first saw these wings I was so aghast that my monocle popped out and shattered, I assure you I shall petition ArenaNet to ban them. And for a replacement monocle. "

Ban. Hm. I can’t see a single suggestion to remove the wings from the game itt. Are you also offended by the ppl who use lowest settings, cause, you know, they can’t see your armour skins?

lordkrall.7241:

You can’t hide it. Nor should you really be able to, seeing as that would basically remove a massive selling point to back items.

Main selling point is to clutter screenspace of other players? Ok.

Engie: grenade kit, hold #1 to keep throwing

Hamfast.8719:

The “official” reason for removal of the female human idle animations was that some players complained they were “immersion breaking” during some cut scenes (especially certain NPC death scenes, when the mood was supposed to be sad).

Any source on that?

Considering there is a lot of literally immersion crushing stuff, not only not being removed but being added to the game…

SakuraJD.4720:

You know those new wings we’re supposed to be getting? the black angel ones? I was wondering if maybe we could see a Bat/Dragon/Leathery version of those in the future. I’m sure tons of people hate these wings ideas, but i for one love em. i’ve loved my holographic dragon wings and the tequatl ones, but i’d love to see some giant dragon wings on my character’s back.
Like, the same dimensions as those feathered wings, height and such.. but instead of being feathered, you would see the dimensions of the bones, wrapped in leathery fibrous tissue, with maybe even a little claw at the tips. I dunno, I just think that would be awesome. especially if they were a good realistic color.. like a reddish orange, or a grey combo of some kind.. but yeah, thats just my thought.

I am sure all that stuff will be released, after initial success of black wings Anet should be insane to ignore all the variations. Just wait.

lordkrall.7241:

But how long should it save the spot?
Not everyone are able to get right back in. Some might take 5 minutes, should it stay reserved for that long then?

Even 2 mins is better than now. Why should ppl be punished for occasional disconnect/ctd? 2 mins is pretty much enough to get back even if you use hdd, unless your PC reboots.
Yes, it won’t help everyone, but is that the reason to discard the idea totally?

serenke.4806:

Why do so many in this thread care about how other people look? Aside from the obvious five wings blocking the view of the boss in dungeons argument everything else is about how OTHERS will look with the wings.

Personally, my only gripe is the size of the wings. I ain’t going to comment on taste, how they look or whatever, I don’t have a good fashion taste after all.

But the game has enough of the stuff that clutters the screen already.

An option to hide those wings (even if it’s just /hide wings command in chat) on others would be a perfect solution for everyone. Dungeon runs, open world combat, whatever. And it’s non-offensive in any way. Those who like the wings still can use them and show off to others who like them. Those who don’t like them won’t even see them.
(I bet someone gonna ignore this part and start with personal insults O_o).

Why only those wings and not all the backpacks? Because only the wings are that big, and non-transparent in any way.
But something tells me this option ain’t gonna happen in foreseeable future, sadly, leaving a part of the playerbase (yes, it’s minority, but still) uncomfortable. Yes, just uncomfortable, because the wings ain’t gamebreaking in any way.

An option to hide oversized items cluttering the screen. Ready and willing to pay 800 gems.

Rednik.3809:

I hope “hide backpacks” option will come soon. Those wings are not belong to this game. Looks plain kittened.

Not all backpacks, just these wings. Inb4 someone offended by it for no reason.

I generally like your design, especially the Hero Panel (btw, is it the drop down menu for build templates I see there? sigh guess is never going to happen). Yes, it looks cluttered, but it provides most useful info in one panel while not taking what already exists there.

But I find the guild panel atrocious. All those user pics make it look like an online store or something designed for touchscreen devices. Or both.

I totally like your redesign of LFG though (surely it will be easier to hit those rectangles with a mouse xD).
Well, almost totally. I don’t like the drop down menu for swapping between dungeons, it will require 2 clicks against just 1 now.

All other stuff looks just amazing imo.

Yeah, kittens me off to no end too.
I also believe Teq and SW deserve their own tabs in lfg, as of now the whole open world section is just one big mess most of the time.

Had some lags since the patch progressively getting worse, now it started to dc.

Ayrilana.1396:

cheshader.5081:

It has just spawned on my map.
So it’s fixed.

Or was never broken before.

Ofc it wasn’t. It’s just a coincidence that I did not see the boss since December, and it popped up right after this patch.

It has just spawned on my map.
So it’s fixed.

It’s not like it is the only bug on Bolt
I see people with bolt aura even when they have another weapon equipped all the time (in only the Predator was “bugged” like this with kits for engies!).

A bugged instance of DR apparently. Was ip .128 in my case.
.247 loads ok.

It’s the only one class that retal hits incredibly hard, and ppl generally don’t like engies, so no, not gonna happen.

Saw it minutes ago.

Don’t try to narrow the problem down to how OP should play with his wife.