Guild Wars 2

fizzypop.6458:

ecwoodrow.7034:

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

blah blah blah, greedy customer wanting everything for free, blah blah blah

This is game has no subscription. Their income comes from the in-game store. Stop qqing because they encourage you to get COMPLETELY OPTIONAL FLUFF from the store for money.

I like how fanboys literally make kitten up. If I wanted everything for free I’d be asking for it for free. I’m asking for them to get rid of stupid kitten like a grind for a halloween weapon. Just put it on the gem store I’ll straight buy it. So what’s that about wanting everything for free again? The problem is ya’ll want people to work like this is an IRL job. I’d rather just straight buy it for a reasonable price. At least that’s honest.

How dare I want it to take a week to get fluff for an event that lasts a week!

and lol, “reasonable price”. You mean low enough that you can just get a gold or two and convert them to gems? i.e. free

fizzypop.6458:

Joey.3928:

yurtshone.7325:

sigh I have not spent a single penny on keys or chests, infact I am enjoying selling all my chests and candy corns! But what you “supporters” are NOT recognising is that most people complaining are complaining about the crappy odds Anet put on the gamble chests! I think the people complaining have a point. Anet has set out a stall of being on the side of the gamer but it is patently obvious they are a corporate greedy machine that could care less about its customers.
They need to sort this out before it bites them on the backside. YOU will not have a game if the complainers do not spend in the cash shop any more because of RNG low drop rates.
Please do not come back with a “entitlement” argument. It is old, tired and plain wrong .

Do you understand game companies are a business like any other? They have to make money you know. This is their job. Calling them greedy isn’t really fair.

Running a business doesn’t give you license to be greedy. It’s 100% possible. Plenty of businesses don’t lie or gouge their customers. If people keep accepting it then nothing will change. As it is right now most american companies would rather lie, cheat, steal, and gouge you for every penny you’re worth. They’d gladly throw you over a bridge if it made them money. If ya’ll keep accepting it they’ll keep doing it….

blah blah blah, greedy customer wanting everything for free, blah blah blah

This is game has no subscription. Their income comes from the in-game store. Stop qqing because they encourage you to get COMPLETELY OPTIONAL FLUFF from the store for money.

I think something happened like this happened when the game first game out. It was something like too many people logging in crashing the login server I think.

OMG! The week long event has been up for a whole 11 hours and I haven’t gotten everything yet. I’m so angry at Anet. And how dare a non subscription based game force me to choose between buying gems from the store or grinding for a week to get my loots! /sarcasm

There’s not enough population to make all the servers competitive. Once everything starts to settle from this last group of transfers, serious WvW players need to look into moving up to the t2-t3 servers to make them more competitive.

Sea of Sorrows got some transfers from the TA breakup as well. Only reason they’re not decimating is because they are in a match against SoR which also got transfers last week.

I think Tarnished Coast looks like it may be the next closest after SoS.

For the Borderlands supply camps:

Each world has a “home” supply camp that has a back entrance to their home base. These have great chokepoints and are easily defensible, even against a larger force.

The Vale camp has a front wall with an entrance, an attacking enemy must come through it, or climb the hill to the SE and try to hop in. Build some ballistae right next to the supply so you can shoot into the entrance, and some arrow carts staggered behind houses/behind the wall/on top of the wall to kill/slow down larger numbers of enemies. Also have any ranged AoE spammers fire into the entrance, and onto the hill to keep them out. Also if you have control of the Briar tower, you can get a treb up and spam cows at the hill to keep out invaders.

The Water camp also has a wall in front of it though its alternate entrance is the lake, which makes it harder to defend imo. Pretty much the same defensive strategy as before, get some ballistae up close enough to hit someone in the door way, arrowcarts on the wall and behind it to kill/cripple larger numbers of people, and people to aoe spam into the entrance. And if you have control of the Lake tower, you can put up ballista/cats to help attack people on the entrance.

The Northern most camp (can’t remember its name off the top of my head) has a wall on both the eastern and western side, with the entrances on those sides being the only way into the camp. This camp is very defensible because it’s also the entrance to the northern altar. Basically you use the same strategy as before, build ballista to shoot into the the entrances, build arrow carts to the side to take out larger groups, and spam aoe into the entrances too.

I like the downed system. I’d even wager that a big chunk of my kills are a result of killing people trying to help their downed friends.

This would be nice. I have 3 level 80’s, and would like to use them on all my toons.

THIS THREAD IS A COMPLETE, TOTAL, COMPREHENSIVE FAILURE…and here’s why.

There are no good matches in WvW

This weeks matchups have been particularly bad because of a flood of guilds from top tier servers, namesly HoD and ET, down to lower tier servers. Or, in other words, the transfer system working exactly as intended. Now, rather than 4 top tier servers, there are about 6 (JQ, SBI, IoJ, SoS, SoR, BG). Once the servers flesh out, matchups will be more balanced than ever.

But what if it happens again?

The specific migration this week was a result of a break up of the Titan Alliance on HoD, a very specific event. While something similar is unlikely to happen again, it could. And it could still happen once they start charging for transfers.

But what about all the people who transfer to the winning servers every week?

Mostly doesn’t happen

Victory in WvW is entirely non skill based

Completely untrue. If the group you run with has never beaten a larger group, you need to find a new one. My guild has beaten out, or at the very least held for a long time against zergs many times. The trick is learning to pick your battles, how to fight your battles, and where to place your siege.

Also, zergs are dumb. A friend of mine was being chased by a zerg, when he jumped off a cliff. Ten of them followed him off, and unfortunately for them, he’d equipped the 50% less falling damage trait, and was able to finish them off.

Another zerg fail story, we were holding the supply camp just north of the bay in one of the Borderlands. The camp was in Crystal Desert’s territory, and they were in control of the bay. We had been fighting their zerg for a while, when above us coming out of the bay’s north gate was another zerg that dropped down over the cliff to attack. Despite the fact that they were in the perfect spot to flank us, they ran over and joined the original zerg and proceeded to get wiped, until an ET zerg came from the north and wiped us out.

WvW seems designed up to encourage snowballing and discourage the ‘losing’ servers

Sunshine soldiers will exist regardless of what information is shown. If things look good they’ll show up, if not they’ll go do something else. Anet can do nothing to stop this.

As for orbs, they are fine. I’ve seen them taken from the winning team countless times. I’ve even seen orbs hacked from a keep, only to have the winning team easily take them back despite not having any orb bonuses, and not because the other team let them have it.

Furthermore, orbs would be far less effective if losing teams would do what they’re supposed to do in 3 way pvp and team up against the winner. That is in fact the reason the winners get the orbs, not as a snowball effect, but so that they stand a chance to defend against two way assaults.

tldr; l2play noob

Here’s my engineer style:

Head: Nobleman’s Monocle
Shoulders: Orr Karma set
Chest: Guild Armor
Gloves: Orr Karma set
Legs: Nobleman’s Leggings
Feet: Nobleman’s Boots

@miriforst Is there any class that competes with engineers in regards to keeping people off walls when attacking? Or pelting down aoe goodness while on defense? As far as I know, neither rangers nor elementalists have spammable ranged aoe’s like we do.

Daish.6139:

there are 4 WvW maps for each server

folding = immaginary unless your on a very low population time of playing and you have no full servers

Um, no. Folding happens all the time. At least in the t2 matchups. Every week its the same thing, first day or so everything is really close, then one side pulls ahead slightly and the other two servers (mostly) give up and go do something else.

Not sure I understand what you’re asking. Do you want Anet to do something about players folding the minute one team gets a slight advantage? What are they gonna do, send them a pair of balls in the mail?

Its a bit annoying, but elementalists/rangers need SOME sort of purpose during sieges. We can’t have all the fun ;p.

All I can say is that in TA explorable mode, in that first boss fight against the worms, if my 4 party members are stacked on each other and I’m across the room flinging grenades, I’m the one that gets targeted for the AoE usually.

Also try getting your swiftness buffs down, + any other tricks your class has for traveling faster.

Sin.8174:

ecwoodrow.7034:

WvW is plenty fun. Giving up isn’t fun though, so maybe you should stop doing that.

Easy to say if you’re severely dominating other servers. ;D

IoJ has mostly been on the losing side of their matchups. Still had fun regardless.

WvW is plenty fun. Giving up isn’t fun though, so maybe you should stop doing that.

I already get plenty of kills against rezzers, would love for Anet to up the AoE cap.

As has been said, its nearly impossible to spawn camp a team when there’s multiple exits. The number of people it would take to just camp one team would leave you completely defenseless in the rest of the map.

“used an expoit”? Can’t even say what it was?

Raydaq.5421:

10. @ecwoodrow – im not proposing an hp change or anything, Just a model difference (hes supposed to be carrying twice the supplies right?) so why does he look the same. If a scout sees the dolyak is an upgraded one its going to be more important to take it out (obviously not a critical issue that needs to be addressed immediately, but I think it would add a lot).

Ah, my mistake. That’s not a bad idea.

No, WvW is a team game. While you can probably go out and do some stuff solo, you really shouldn’t.

Deadcell.9052:

Terok.7315:

Hype.9361:

There is almost no resistance and extremely low player skill on those two servers.

I’m thinking you equate player skill with massive numbers rampaging across all time zones. I have far more respect for the individual skill of Janthir enemies than I do Storm.

100% agree, there is zero skill in massively outnumbering both servers 24/7 in all borderlands, if either BG or IOJ had even half the numbers of Storm it would’ve been a much different week.

While it may be true that there is no skill in zerging, don’t think that means SBI’s players are unskilled. From my experience over the last week their players are much more skilled that ET’s were the week before. Even if it we had their numbers it wouldn’t be an easy fight, though it would be a fun one.

1. Instead of a map icon, how about give all the npc’s inside the keep the guild’s tag?

2. Does it matter if you know about the buffs while you’re not in the keep/tower? I mean, maybe for the supply camp +5 supply buff, but other than that I don’t see the point since they’re mainly defensive buffs that are only active while you’re in the keep.

3. I don’t have a problem with guild claiming as it is.

4. ABSOLUTELY!!!

5. There’s already a supply deficit usually, the way it works now is fine. Maybe give a discount if the person ordering the upgrade is part of the claiming guild though?

6. Are there really any guilds that are like, “Nah, we don’t get anything for claiming this, so we won’t bother”. I don’t really think it’s needed.

6(2) ;p. Wouldn’t make a lot of difference, as the oil will still be taken out right after the cannons are, then rams will go up. Might by the defenders a few seconds to realize what’s going on, but meh.

7. It really wouldn’t make that much of a difference. NPCs are barely a speed bump in this game to a zerg.

8. Arrowcarts are defensive weapons, with the intention of being the anti-zerg. If they were mobile, they would become the opposite of that as zergs would be running around with them. Do you really want to face the unstoppable arrowcart zerg? And God help us if they’re paired with a golem army.

9. If the nearby supply camp isn’t empty because the server hasn’t been making supply runs to repair their keep, they don’t deserve to have NPC’s do it for them.

10 & 11. See 7

Why would Anet listen to their players opinions, when those players are completely incapable of getting basic facts straight. Like the fact that most transfers have been from winning/high queue servers to losing/low queue servers, or that most servers have high/full populations and server transfers would therefore be impossible.

As I said the last time this idea was brought up: I want less PvE in my WvW, not more.

Prototype.9852:

ecwoodrow.7034:

Prototype.9852:

ecwoodrow.7034:

The minute Anet announces the imminent end of free server transfers, all the lower pop/losing servers will be completely drained of their remaining players.

Ending free transfers isn’t the solution to server balance, implementing guild transfers is.

/thread

They should’ve blocked free transfers one week after the release of the game…

That would have been the worst thing they could’ve done.

Not at all… believe me, all the people from the headstart thought the transfers would end after a week, and we were all happy to see that there was free transfers at the begining. Now it’s just too much. Especially in a game where there’s competition between servers.

Closing them after a week would’ve left servers far more imbalanced than they even are right now. There’s no getting past the fact that free server transfers have overwhelmingly helped bolster lower queue/losing servers.

Prototype.9852:

ecwoodrow.7034:

The minute Anet announces the imminent end of free server transfers, all the lower pop/losing servers will be completely drained of their remaining players.

Ending free transfers isn’t the solution to server balance, implementing guild transfers is.

/thread

They should’ve blocked free transfers one week after the release of the game…

That would have been the worst thing they could’ve done.

The minute Anet announces the imminent end of free server transfers, all the lower pop/losing servers will be completely drained of their remaining players.

Ending free transfers isn’t the solution to server balance, implementing guild transfers is.

/thread

IoJ needs more European players. Feel free to move here and you can be the “nightcapper” for once. Except you’ll be up against some other nightcappers from whatever t1 server we’re fighting, so you’ll actually get to have fun.

The orbs exist to provide boost to the winning team, because in 3 way wvw, the second and third place teams are supposed to gang up on the winning team. They don’t need to be removed, people just need to stop crying and learn to double team.

This happened to me once before the patch actually, but its definitely gotten more prevalent since the latest patch.

It was most likely an item. It’s not supposed to work in WvW but it still has some functionality. Report them for exploiting and Anet will investigate, and hopefully get it fixed.

During the weekends we (IoJ) fair pretty well during that time, but during the weekdays we could use some help. But our biggest weakness seems to be the period between Aussie and EU primetimes.

The 3 way fight at SoS DB a couple of nights ago was pretty awesome too. I didn’t video it though ;(.

My observations are that thieves are faster than my perma swiftness engineer. So I think they’d be a good supply running class.

TimTheEnchantor.6254:

Because all people who play PvE are scrubs? I really disagree with your sentiment and elitist attitude.

The more people, the merrier. Off the high horse, please.

No, people who go to a WvW area to PvE are scrubs. Please read the op’s post.

[Gets back on high horse and gallops away]

I played a bit with all the kits while leveling up. I found bombs to be quite good at PvE. Just get some power/crit and run in circles with them, the melee mobs will follow you and wont be able to hit you, and the ranged mobs will sit there and let you blow them up.

For WvW, I quite like my grenade/rifle build. Keeps people off walls, keeps them off gates, and massacres the kindhearted people trying to rez their friends. And if I have to single target something I can always pull out my rifle and take them out.

Don’t stand in that one spot?

Does Quickness apply to finishers? If so that could have been it.

For Narnia! I mean…. For Pony! I mean… For IoJ!

Funny, because ET is dominating the ET v IoJ v SoS game, and yet I (on IoJ) had great fun last night.

Was gonna post the same thing. Tonight was great fun, and proof of what happens when we get organized.

And yet that doesn’t seem to be actually happening, as my server is still a high pop server, despite being wrecked by a low pop server.

I don’t think server population rank would solve anything, nor will limiting transfers to low pop servers. Keep in mind that server population =/= dominant server. Take for example the current matchup with ET vs IoJ vs SoS. ET is a low pop server but is wiping the floor with IoJ (high pop) and SoS (unsure).

Agree that the main problem with people not transferring is that they would lose their guild buffs. If Anet would just allow that I can see servers leveling out quickly.

Another possible issue, at least for my server (IoJ), is that we’re a high population server with a low WvW population, at least during prime time hours. So larger guilds may actually have a hard time getting into our server.

oldthrall.7823:

mcl.9240:

oldthrall.7823:

What I’m saying is that the way WvW is right now limits you from using your skills to much…I should be able to knock people down the wall yet it doesn’t work and I have a shadowstep I should be able to port to people above…so if they take the fun out of this then add in ladders…but they didn’t do it.

And I have magic. I should be able to turn the entire opposing force into ants.

You’re stretching the metaphor too far. Which is why metaphors are generally a poor tool for argumentation.

I don’t think I am stretching it too far…why do we pretend we are fighting a real war in a game? if not then why not give us player names

Player names A) are irrelevant and put strain on servers.

Arrowcarts were intentionally made prevent zerg dominance, ladders would only undo that, and I’m firmly against them.