Guild Wars 2

Let’s face it – Feature Patch brought in a LOT of new/quitted players… for a day or two.

Meantime I SEE population falling man. Coz wardrobe and Balthazar backpack is 3 days worth of content at best. And even then it’s not anywhere near worth losing your home server to all the hordes of alien players and gold spammers, or doing silly content [for traits] which you’d otherwise skip wholeheartedly.

I see entire communities quitting for the sucky state of WvW (and PLEASE let us never call that bridge-intense karmatrain twink-lvling map WvW). Meantime there was not a post on any WvW concerns. As a matter of fact there wasn’t any posts on anything interesting after April 15th, just monotonous news on ticket resolutions and PMs about my posts being deleted. As if everyone just quit already for the summer and left the game floating.

Gonna wait ’til June 3rd and then move on I guess, shame really.

Bullkitten strikes again!

8g for skins + charges that you need to apply them + the time you spend to through them out of the inventory! Bullkitten! Or Horsekitten! Just insert the most abhorrent type of -kitten and you’ll be fairly on-point!

Just make order (and cultural, for that matter – who the kitten wants rare 80 armor anyway) applicable skins like what you get for badges in home BL! They don’t even look good to spend anything on them anyway. Or put the price up but make them Exotic at least (like Karma temple armor), give a bit of worth to them anyway!

Uncool Anet, gotta fight the Bullkitten!

Disclaimer: no QQ, just simple facts:

What we’re witnessing now in EU Silver league:
- already well-to-do server gets free transfers from all over the place just pre-tourney -> round the clock PPT against any possible competition;
- just as season draws near it’s end the server decides that simply winning the league is not enough, starts pushing an otherwise inferior 4th place AM into its match-ups and pulling it by its balls straight into 2 place by capping the map and ceding the control points to it just pre-reset (happened last week to Farshiver, happening now to Piken, gonna happen to Farshiver next week again);
- result: Abaddon – to its own surprise – takes second place, Piken and FarSH outplayed by the system.

I am not blaming Gandara for this, as any other server – with that transfer program pre-season + the way the point system works – could be in this position.

I am blaming the WvW management for failure to forecast such ludicrous scenarios and practically letting a single server decide who gets what in a championship. There are, of course, other issues with the transfer program, such as several Bronze servers’ population being devastated by free transfers to Silver, but that is of no concern to anyone anymore.

Hope to see a red post with views on the situation (yeah, right).

iMac is not a gaming rig. Any NVIDIA card with an M on the end is not a gaming card. You will have to impose limitations even on older gen games and hope that future ones will at least run at all on it.

I have long learned that a custom game rig and a separate comp for work is the optimal solution. And Mac is just a cool thing to have for status purposes and interior decoration.

Hiya techy people!

I surfed Google quite for long but haven’t found a one-stop spot for tweaking GW2 to suit my highest expectations and squeeze the most out of my mid-range last year system.

I’d be very grateful if smne could give an in-depth explanation on how/what to do. I have NVIDIA inspector and would be ready to install any other side programs like sweet fx or whatever.

My system is:
- i5 3470
- GTX 660Ti
- 8Gb DDR3
- GW2 runs off SSD.

If smne could spend their time to help me become happy with the looks of my game they will receive, my endless gratitude aside, a memorable in-game present for their efforts Thx.

Why are people only now getting an understanding of the point system? Last week Far Shiverpeaks realized they could actually lose and not get penalized points-wise just to skip a match with Gandara. Most other servers that are tied for second place knew of this from the beginning and didn’t withstand unfair PPT wars every second week ^^

Not in WvW yet.. thought they came from some server due to Megaserver merges.. but not WvW, please kittening kitten kittens, no!

Nice! Keep up the fun times in EB!
And don’t forget to #stompforpiken!

P.S. sure miss Dannehtbh’s mischiefs, wonder where the bugger disappeared

Locuz.2651:

iFruit.6190:

It’s just you bud.
Have still to lose a soloq on mine though^^

Weird …. doesnt show you on the leaderboard (top 1000). When ppl win a lot in a row they tend to end up in the top 100 quite fast in this game.

u pretty sure m8?
http://i017.radikal.ru/1405/0f/6c7892e58169.png

SFR/Deso for Gold League playstyle (blobish and far less skill dependant but queues will be involved).
Silver league – loads more guild wars, more fun open field fights, this is the oasis of skilled players, elites etc. Piken is my personal choice, Gunnar seems a solid option, Farshiver Hacks – wait to see how the hacking progresses and what it does to the server, Gandara – maybe after it gets wrecked in gold and falls back to its original rightful position, Aurora – doesn’t look to retain enough population. Underworld in Bronze league if you’d like to solo WvW for your server.

It’s just you bud.
Have still to lose a soloq on mine though^^

Yes, I rushed the Arah path to get a set of armor with stats of my choice and only got a single piece which was not even worth the tokens I made along the path lol. Please fix description to state that it’s in fact a single peace and not a set at all.. or better still make the contents match the description

Guild Wars 2 is dyeing

Corrected.

Bunny.3958:

KLM is by far the best commander

I think Siegeraiser is surpassing him votes-wise in this topic

Sesbog.8705:

Tom Gore.4035:

so 2nd place goes to FSP no question.

Tournament is so constituted that FSP will gain every 2 weeks (3+3 points), Piken (1+5 points)

Exactly. Only in the end we’ll have smth. like 5xplaced 1st and 4xplaced 3rd, while FarSh will have the same amount of points but only having placed first once or twice. Having placed 1st so few times would put them in 3rd place after Piken.

Of course, if their hackers get banned at last I’d expect their overall PPT to drop noticeably and impact their final standings.

For bound stuff – only mule alts and bank&bag expansion;
For unbound stuff – personal guild bank and more accounts.

BTW I’d like to cancel my previous post and state that somehow I get my dailies done a lot quicker than before and don’t ever have to worry watching them, sort of comes naturally now. GJ on this one Anet.

I’d only buy smth like this if it provided a tool for each existing and future character you posses. Or if I were a farmbot, ofc.

Didn’t read OP, just agree with the topic.

Piken Square:
Maltor [VV] – best pugmander capable of storming guildblobs with random rangers and other greenarrows;
Dannehtbh [PG] – does very fun open raids on a naked lvl 27 warrior^^ Peculiar, but effective and resultive;

Divinexzephyr (or Evil) [SWD] – best guild RL I could imagine. Yesterday lead us to victory in a situation where our 15+man group was ambushed by three guildraids from an infamous server. 2 down 1 fled. kittening epic person.

Of course, props to all other pugmanders on Piken (Moopy, Pluxie, Victimizer and others), Pikey could fall even further without you.

I thought is was common knowledge that any more-or-less serious young WvWer should get vita stacks→ power stacks before even looking at the other rank rewards

Well pure logic dictates that it should be the other way around (100, or even 150x Mithril (takes less to craft ingots, needed in less crafts, a lot easier to obtain) vs. 25x Silk (remember: needed for all armocrafting AND insignia) and 50x Leather – btw. Elonian Leather being the only one correctly balanced). Overly abundant Mithril wouldn’t clog inventories and Damask wouldn’t cost 3-7x times the other ascended mats do, being the most required element in the same time.

Would REALLY like a developer to explain/comment.

8 chars
5 80s
1 – 100% 1 – 50%

I think Devs are lurking in the shadow getting ready to unleash massive WvW improvements straight after the season.

Andrew Clear.1750:

most of the time the bigger zerg wins

Sorry stopped reading there. That’s completely opposite to what we play on our server, and we pride ourselves on the fact that we stand unshaken by overwhelming opponents. I have made 7k kills since tourney launch playing three hours a day with a 20man static. If our keeps could show similar results when we log off this thread would be inexistent.

Prysin.8542:

Do i play in EU? yes
Do i feel the effect of nightcapping when up against larger servers? YES
What do i do in light of this? I maximise my effort in order to secure more PPT while I can play.
Do i complain? NO
why? because i put in personal effort to make a difference!!

So why do you have any more right then me to complain when BOTH suffer the same problems??
I’d really like to know that.

Exsqueeze me? You sound like you feel entitled and superior to others. Everything you write about your beloved self is applicable to anyone systematically playing WvW.

No one’s complaining for kitten. We’re discussing a well known issue that is a preoccupation for many players. Current system promotes numbers over quality. It is common sense that it is unjust.

You sound tired from all the night capping. Maybe you should rest.

We have many threads here concerning the issue of unjust point distribution in WvW with certain servers winning the tourney due to being ridiculously overstocked on round-the-clock manpower – I’m sure everyone on EU is by now aware of the Gandarran Effect as someone has articulately designated it (free transfer to an already well-to-do silver server for people from ‘ELO hell’ bottom bronze tiers? Yes please, let’s flood it!).

I’m also fairly sure that there are dev people who do not find this to be working as intended – wins by simply PvDiing off-peak. This has nothing to do with personal skill, or tactics, or strategy and is pretty unfair towards other servers that have substantially less people but will wreck hell upon the opposition when online.

I have summed up two different approaches to tackle this:

1) Mad solution. Rework BL geography to match EBG more, where objectives are more densely spread and it’s easier to defend for a smaller group. Not gonna happen, so

2) Radical solution. Make WvW sessioned, not 24/7. Say, 12.00 to 22.00 GMT for Europe and then freeze current results till next session. This way PPT servers will have to fight their opponents instead of just stealing their kitten. I don’t favor this option myself, so

3) Balancing solution. Rebalance the point generation algorithm:
- award 2x normal points for taking keeps/towers that are manned (i.e. a fight actually takes place);
- do not awards points per sentry posts or camps;
- award 1/3 normal points for brainless PvD on empty border;
- award point-per-playerkill as that is the only 100% true indication of PvP activity in WvW.

Please consider and/or discuss.

Hating Megaserver’s guts completely. Language filters aren’t even pretending to be working. Gold spammers (!!!!) – something I never saw here before.

I want next hub to be in WvW where only my server’s dudes will be. I have enough globalization IRL to be haunted by invasive people in what’s suppose to be an enjoyable hobby.

On the contrary, I feel this achievement is very lacking. I had the meta done by the first Wednesday and now have all the others done too (silly ruin capping excluded). For a 9-week long event I’d like something more challenging next time.

Got a Theodossus weapon chest around rank 10 as a drop from a player.
Got a rampager armor chest around rank 50 and then a Zojja armor chest around rank 100 – both from a WvW rank up chest. My rank now is 150 and MF is 124%.

As support to certain theory that you get good drops for activities you don’t frequent much – I went to do Fractals yesterday for the first time in several months and had a drop of an account bound exotic chest piece (Colossus smth.), a 15g GS with quite a rare skin and a bloodlust sigil and the ascended-class thingy you use to infuse stuff (as far as smne explained to me in my group it’s supposed to be valuable).

Yeah well so is Soldier—> Trooper. Some runesets needed urgent namechange.

Post deleted due to getting merged and loosing original point.

alwinp.2791:

So, where is it???

You are graciously provided with more time to buy an additional bank tab before it is introduced.

domness.6719

It’s not like that on Gendarran yet, only low-pop maps whilst they improve the algorithms and such.

Yeah well Piken generally is low-pop maps. We have lived with that perfectly well all this time. So what’s the point to this exactly? Megaserver this and that, well go ahead and destroy named servers altogether, there no point to them anymore then. And make EotM the only available faceless purposeless 3way mass PvP based off color attributes alone.

People on different servers have grown a distinguishable domestic culture. I want to retain ours. I don’t want communism and globalization and everyone living happily in a free-for-all zone which is set up through an undisclosed list of dubious characteristics (friends and guildmates? Yeah right, and French mapchat FTW).

Wait, what? So when I log Gendarran Fields tonight it won’t be Piken ones?

They could be Gendarran Gendarran fields? With blobs of my sworn enemies that I have dedicated my life to haunt down for loot bags?

People from everywhere on GW2 coming together in random instances for no reason? I don’t want this! I want to stay on Piken! I want English chat! I want to only see guilds and people I KNOW!
Please fix ASAP.

A guildie got 6 precursors one evening last week. He used random lvl80 exotics of same type, the cheapest ones available on TP.

This hasn’t ever worked for me, though, and I decided to pause any Legendary pursuing until I just get a precursor as a random drop (which could and could not ever happen), but not otherwise. I believe this could theoretically happen as I have being getting a solid amount of Ascended armor and weapon drops recently (4 in the past 2 months). My MF is 123%.

I have no legendaries. I think people with duplicate legendaries have to be compensated. This should have been provided by this patch. What’s there to discuss?

Why does it cost just 50 Mithril to craft a lump of Mithrillum and 100 Silk to get a Silk weaving thread?

When:
- it takes less raw Mithril to craft ingots than it takes Silk scraps to craft bolts;
- Mithril is found all over the world in nodes and is salvaged from more useless gear than silk;
- Damask is required in all armorcrafting professions while Mithrillium in just one.

What is the logic behind this, if any? Thanks.

fadeaway.2807:

TLDR version:

You will do more damage post-patch than you did pre-patch in :
AC, CM, TA (non Aetherblade path), SE.
*You will likely do the same damage as before in CoF. *
*You will do 10%-15% less damage in: *HotW, CoE, Arah and FotM.

This [if true] sounds infinitely awesome and fantastic! So the most underplayed dungeons will become even less visited, while the overfarmed instances will still be zerkfested by everyone and their granny! What great fun!

Pandeh.5248

…can’t wait for Arch Age…

I can’t begin to explain how dreadfully erroneous your expectations are. Definitely not something that will appeal to a GW2 player by any measure; rather a nice next step for a Happy/Crazy Farm aficionado, though.

+1 very confusing with no option to preview skills in major traits. You’d actually spend more time retraiting mid-field now than previously with an instatraitresetter. Dah.

What? People should be able to get the daily done by any separate activity – WvW/sPvP/PvE.

I do not intend to spend time in PvE anymore. I do not intend to play sPvP while the tournament is on. This is wrong. Gonna have to quit doing them altogether.

What Deli said, otherwise nothing to write home about.

Bandara is surely unstoppable at this point, unless their old guys get dead sick of hanging in these ridiculous queues (although AFAIK WvW map capacity getting increased tomorrow?) and find the courage and resources to move somewhere decent, or their wagoneers somehow retire from 3W.

AG might get a sudden burst in performance from a certain transferring deso company – if they choose to PPT of course.

GH was doing ok first couple of weeks ’till they got to matchup with the running favorites. Their current score is far from ok and I expect that we, too, will have them under control.

Not gonna say much for the national servers; Blobaddon’s Mouth will predictably try to wreck stuff up a bit, but their bags, as always, are most welcome. Other Fr/Ger worlds are sadly inferior.

For us, I’d say, the main challenge will be FarSh with their sudden burst of PPT campaigning midweek-to-reset. If we can get our kitten together we’ll dominate them, though, no question.

We have made important conclusions from Week 1 and are keeping an eye on everyone and everything.

#stompforpiken, you know you wanna

Clearly whoever wins silver is a high-popped gate-farming server. Probably the freshly buffed Gandarites that will steal maps from their opposition in off-peak hours.

Of course, their performance could change drastically in next match-up when they’ll be getting an equally populated opponent – but with more skill to accompany the numbers.

Patch will accommodate 99%+ of players. How many people are there with two Incinerators? Very acceptable to sacrifice them for the greater good of the majority.

A thank you on behalf of Piken for your bags!
Love running down your countless hordes with our 30man pug raid xD
Yesterday took and held SMC against 100+ of your blobbers with 28men, taking your towers while you ran from resp.

But sure, Gandara’s very cool.. when Piken’s offline GL fighting those gates.

Allie Murdock.8152:

Hey all just wanted to update real quick! We’ve been investigating an issue that was introduced recently which we suspect could be causing increased lag in WvW. Today, we’ll be doing a hotfix to improve server performance with the hope that it mitigates the lag we’ve all been experiencing.

Keep an eye out once the hotfix is live and let us know if you notice a difference!

Madame, you are my new favourite ArenaNet representative. Luv ya!

So are we agreed on the fact that skills are unusable in mass standoffs in EG and the Borderlands?

Can we please now have an ETA on fixes? Or are we destined to spend the season in this absurd manner? Couldn’t help to notice no one stepping in here promising a hotfix before Friday reset. Disturbing.

I’m assuming someone wants everyone to do meta in EotM (where there’s no lags) and stay out of their server battles altogether.