Guild Wars 2

“Guild Wars 2 is currently full. You have been placed in a queue and will automatically enter the game when space is available.”

same here. was fine earlier today, now i’m getting error 42:0:9001:3858:101
“The game client is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time” after starting the game and trying to select a character to play.

sample size of one: I have played exclusively on DBL since it was brought back.

what video card? updated drivers?

that used to happen to me when i was running an old Nvidia GTX 460. Hasn’t happened since i upgraded to a GTX 860.

i will probably spend most of my time on DBL, just because it’s different.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

It will not be tonight, or next Tuesday, but sometime after that.

I can’t give you an exact day yet, since there are still some technical changes that need to happen before we can run different Borderlands at the same time, but I will let everyone know once we know for sure it is ready to go out.

hoping to see DBL return with the 26th patch…any update on this??

i’d rather see arrow carts removed from the game than cannons added…

gavyne.6847:

Mysteriax.6049:

The forefront and selling point of your MMO.

This is because, quite simply, WvW provides a unique experience that other games simply haven’t matched yet.

Black Desert Online, Archage and even World of Warcraft are examples of games whose PvE environments compete with Guild Wars 2.

League of Legends, DOTA 2 and Overwatch are Esports games that compete with GW2 in the competitive PvP market.

Yet none of these games provide the kind of RvR experience that WvW has offered us. For now at least, ArenaNet, you have sole control over this very lucrative market.

ESO competes well against GW2 when it comes to WvW btw. Reading some comments here about ESO shows these individuals never played ESO past the first 2 months. ESO’s RvR is actually closer to DAOC’s RvR than GW2 WvW could ever hope to be. Its siege gameplay is built properly, as siege is set mainly to attack keeps & other siege, rather than utilized against players like we have it here. Heck ESO even got relic raids! If you want more DAOC nostalgia, I suggest giving ESO a look.

What doesn’t work for me about ESO is the clunky combat, GW2 has me spoiled. I just don’t prefer reticle targeting. Plus GW2 is more casual friendly, and that was always Anet’s strength (and its weakness).

GW2 being casual friendly is the main draw for a lot of players, both in PvE & WvW. Unfortunately the casual friendly nature of Anet’s development philosophy is why GW2 will never rise up to DAOC’s level when it comes to RvR. DAOC made RvR its endgame. You PvE grind and collected gear to ultimately RvR in order to progress your characters further. Here in GW2, you merely join in WvW as a side-game. There’s nothing special for you in WvW, nothing to progress your characters further in WvW. And there really is no goal in WvW, no relic raids, no player/guild stats to see, no reason to really siege a keep other than you just want to do it. A player could skip playing WvW and no one would notice a difference.

Anet doesn’t treat WvW as its endgame, that’s the problem. And they want to cater to casual players too much to make the changes necessary to take WvW to the next level. They want PvE players to step into WvW and feel comfortable & safe, hence why all the PvE gimmicks we have in WvW. The fact that in order for WvW team to make any class balance changes, they had to get the pass from the PvP team, shows you how wrong things are balanced. A dev slipped awhile back stating that in order to make some balance changes players were asking for, they had to get the OK from the PvP team. As if balancing 5v5 in a small instanced zone is anywhere the same as balancing 20v20 or 50v50 in large open world zones with siege gameplay.

I agree GW2 has the makings of a great WvW/RvR type of gamemode. I just don’t think Anet is the right company to make it happen. Just look at how GW2 had an organic GvG culture, and how Anet just closed a blind eye and did nothing to make skilled guilds to want to stay in GW2. Other games would kill to have that organic GvG scene. If you would remember, DAOC RvR was all about guild pride, all about skilled roaming squads, and its gameplay allowed skilled players to shine and mass kill blobby casuals. That just can’t happen here, not with 5 target limits on aoe’s, not with the class balance we have here, not with the siege infested culture we have here. We have to wait longer for that DAOC successor, and sadly I don’t think CU is it either, they are running into too much development issues and their team is too small.

your whole post is spot on… +1

GW2 combat definitely has me spoiled. i didn’t even make it past beta in ESO because it felt so clunky, and just getting to level 10 or whatever to get into the RvR zone was such a grind.

I definitely hope you are wrong about CU though…feels like at this point it’s our only hope

how about something other than more seige? voted no….

/chicken, /taunt (middle finger without the actual finger) and /slit (throat slit motion) were all great for infuriating the enemy in DAoC… this game is too carebear for that though i think.

Xillllix.3485:

mcarswell.3768:

I and many others have been chasing the RvR experience we had in DAoC for going on 15 years now, and everything has let us down. GW2 is the best/closest thing there is right now, but it could be so much more with the right attention.

It just needs more polls. You can never have enough polls.

That’s what she said….

I and many others have been chasing the RvR experience we had in DAoC for going on 15 years now, and everything has let us down. GW2 is the best/closest thing there is right now, but it could be so much more with the right attention.

just say no to more seige…

any class can be fun or boring depending on the build. you can completely change the way any class plays by changing the build.

For those of us who can’t log in every day to craft Spiritwood planks, Charged quartz crystals, etc. it would be really nice if these would “roll over” so that if we log in after an absence, we could craft all the missed items at once up to the total for the missed period.

JustTrogdor.7892:

PyrateSilly.4710:

Ubik.8315:

Gw2efficiency gives you this info on account summary. I’m fairly certain that PvP deaths don’t count.

For my part, SAB ruined my deaths per hour ratio.

Fine if you want to give access to another company and it may be ok but I can get the information straight from the game itself so no thank you on letting someone else having access to my game.

GW2E uses the API provided by ANet and is read only information. There is no risk to your account involved. It is actually the most helpful tool I have found in my opinion for many things GW2 related.

+1 for gw2efficiency…reallly cool site.

the option for standard models already exists. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Options

Team Colors — Determines whether players are shown in team-colored armor in WvW. Available options are Everyone, Enemies Only, and None.
Standard Enemy Models — If enabled, uses the standard model to display enemies, their armor, and their weapons.

all my xp is maxed out, so i vote selfishly for changing my existing chests to reward track potions

i want mainhand staff, offhand longsword, and a pet….like the Loremaster class in LotRO

I always like it when a yak pops in a camp while we’re capping, esp. on yak daily days.

UmbraNoctis.1907:

bLind.6278:

It then stacks one team by design, making it so that the WORST player on the best team is equal MMR to the BEST player on the other team, and then making EVERYONE else on the higher team better than that.

Where did they say this? Because i really doubt, this is, how the system works …

read the whole thread…i quoted Evan Lesh in the 4th post…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/50-50-is-a-good-thing/first#post6185691

just because someone is in the same pip range as you doesn’t mean they’re the same skill level. That’s where MMR comes in.

here’s another dev quote:

Evan Lesh.3295:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

season 3 we get both
i.e.

red – blue
8 – 8
8 – 9
9 – 8
8 – 9
9 – 8

something like that maybe.
otherwise, one team gonna have slightly higher overall MMR.

Season 1 would have been closer:
6 – 7
6 – 5
5 – 5
5 – 4
4 – 4

Your season 2 example is accurate, though could be closer in some circumstances.

Season 3 will be like a sorted version of season 1:
4 – 5
4 – 5
4 – 6
5 – 6
5 – 7

your analysis is incorrect. the matchmaker isn’t trying to create matches where both teams have a 50/50 chance to win in a given match, it’s trying to give each player a 50/50 win/loss ratio over time, and it’s doing so by bouncing back and forth between blowout wins and blowout losses.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4lx2gx/may_31_new_wvw_poll/d3qwc2f

[–]Anet-TylerB 32 points an hour ago
If simultaneous borderlands wins, we’d be more likely to work on another borderlands map. So that each team could have a unique borderland, but it’s not something we are currently working on.

I use Glyph of Equality for the stun break and daze (which can proc the Ancient Seeds root), but imo Celestial Shadow is better than Verdant Etching for my power/LB build/playstyle.

Shiyo.3578:

I just want CCing someone to be a conscious decision a player makes, not something that game automatically does for them.

agreed. control effects should never be passive procs.

+1 for having both BLs at the same time.

i’ve been running LB/staff shout druid since HoT and think it works great for roaming. good mobility with staff 3 and perma swiftness from traited shouts, good damage with traited longbow.

so i dc’d during a match, rebooted my router and got back in before the match ended, we won, and I still got dishonor and the match shows “desertion” in the game history.

bug?

i’m trying to dial in my staff tempest roaming build and this is what I have so far. the build is built around lightning rod and runes of radiance. i have a ton of hours on old school D/D and staff ele pre-HoT, but have just been playing the easy LB druid since HoT since I couldn’t get used to the Tempest playstyle. Trying to get back into ele now so here’s the build….any suggestions appreciated.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQFAWn0XCFOgVYCOYCcYilHAjYIEE2BuT2L7nVIAcAahA-TFiIABLv/ASK/2WHg7PAAAuAArrSgSKBZXdnAAIA3cnBghO0hO0hO0azf+zb+zyAovFA-w

TorquedSoul.8097:

I think its odd that with the rise of RvR as the staple of MMO’s that Anet doesn’t realize how important WvW is to their brand in the long run. And they currently have a head start on all the new games that are coming out in the next few years to lock it down and get it right. Half measures will not get them there, they need to rebuild the underlying scoring framework. PPT as it is, has to go.

very true. you stated in an earlier post that Anet has said PPT is here to stay. i’m curious if you have that reference…because if that’s true, then it’s discouraging…

hey, thanks for posting these. I just started playing my ele again and am trying to get used to the tempest playstyle.

do you have any videos of the roaming build in action? i tried it for a bit over the weekend and was struggling not having access to lightning flash/armor of earth. do you rely solely on FGS to disengage or escape from zergs?

Everything, but mostly WvW, and whatever PvE is needed to fund/gear for WvW….

i’m not an expert necro by any means, but i think marks and wells should be cast at the beginning of the fight, thus triggering (and damaging) live players. then you go into shroud and aoe the crap out of everything.

i generally get more bags on my necro than my other classes because of the ridiculous aoe.

yeah this poll is terrible. it’s not clear what these options actually entail.

i don’t think people voting for “Adjust scoring to be relative to current activity and population (Large)” understand that this is what everyone was railing against in the other scoring thread…

might need to start posting in the new thread for this…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Poll-13-May-Scoring/first#post6152794

Can you clarify what the first option means? is this just increasing the contribution of PPK, or is there more to it?

Rebalance scoring for actions that are not included in Points-Per-Tick (Small)

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

The poll on this topic is up: https://feedback.guildwars2.com

Can you clarify what the first option means? is this just increasing the contribution of PPK, or is there more to it?

Rebalance scoring for actions that are not included in Points-Per-Tick (Small)

annoying environmental effects are one of the most hated features of DBL…you’re probably not going to get much support for that part of your idea.

people like the towers on ABL because they encourage engagements by being important footholds in the enemy territory used as jumping off points to attack the keeps/garrison. environmental effects deter engagements and make people want to avoid the whole area…definitely not fight in it.

nevertheless, we should have a thread for this since Anet has stated DBL will be coming back eventually, so…

idea: allow waypoints in all structures at T3 including towers, but only if both supporting camps are owned as well (losing a camp would make the waypoint contested, even if the tower is not necessarily under attack)

TorquedSoul.8097:

I posted a scoring model a few weeks ago that doesn’t use PPT. The only passive scoring is dolyaks. The rest of the scoring is based on activity (fighting, capturing, upgrades). Since we are making suggestions here …

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/PPT-less-Scoring-model-Fights-and-Dolyaks

+1

Chaba.5410:

mcarswell.3768:

what if no-one played

How many points would tick by each server if only sentries killed yaks and guards killed sentries and river drake? xD Would anything even get upgraded?

i don’t think a sentry can kill a yak before it gets out of range and the sentry tethers back…can it?

DeWolfe.2174:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

takes steps to bring the value of off-hours coverage in-line

I’m still beside myself that people are so arrogant to think that the 4 hours they personally play, should be greater than or equal to the other 20 hours in a day.

what if no-one played the other 20 hours…should the structures still tick at the same amount?

i think the only solution is to get rid of PPT entirely, so that points are only awarded for caputures, defenses, and kills. that way action = points, no action = no points. problem solved.

lil devils x.6071:

mcarswell.3768:

lil devils x.6071:

briggah.7910:

Jiminy.8340:

briggah.7910:

Jiminy.8340:

briggah.7910:

Aphs.9528:

RIP JQ and DB hahahahahaha

umm they both have numbers during primetime. pretty sure every tier now has numbers during primetime. i could be wrong but i take word from all those that now claim the old map has brought back players and there are massive queues all over the place.

Ironically, DB and BG are both queued for EB right now…smack in the middle of non-primetime. I guess all the people playing now are not as valuable as those that queue in primetime.

you’ll prob still have queues during primetime. again reread what changes are coming.. you will still want to win as many 2 hour time slices as you can. chances are you will still win if you have better off coverage than just a na heavy server.. it justs won’t be a complete blowout after the first few days

I have no doubt there are queues during primetime also. My point it, the same number of people are playing the game (or close – not sure of TC’s queues) yet one subsection is considered not as important and worth less overall. While timeslices can be won, the contribution to the worldscore is less.

It’s the Queen Karka event all over again.

You guys are all stuck on the part with the multipler which is an additional plan that will not likely happen since it will be polled on. chances are if you are fighting other players round the clock you will be getting the full credit.. its manly for those 600+ tick nights that happen at times which leads to blowout scores over 1 night. like i said before you will still want to win as many time slices as you can.. every time slice is important to win. the more you win the better

Not every time slice, only the time slices that are scored the highest. If you do not play in the allotted 6 hour time slices, your time is not as valuable as everyone else’s so you should just go play a game that you are of the same value as everyone else playing. The message is pretty clear on that here.

you’re still not getting it. re-read the OP

Potential (controversial) additional change:
While the above change takes steps to bring the value of off-hours coverage in-line, there’s a good chance it’ll still be overvalued. If that’s the case (and we’ll eventually poll on this), then we have plans for an additional system.

Am getting it perfectly clear. They stated prime time was not based on the prime time for THAT server but on this:

Prime Time would be universal per datacenter. For example, all worlds in NA would have the same 6 hour period (of highest activity) as their Prime Time hours. All EU woulds would have a different 6 hour range for their Prime Time.

What you just pointed out was if those servers still score more outside of prime time they may take even further actions to punish those players for not playing within the 6 hour period.. and this is good how? What do servers do that have no NA prime coverage but their prime time is OCX or SEA?

Allowing them to drop tier by devaluing their scores only ensure they would be matched up with servers with no OCX coverage since all of those that have OCX coverage at all will be in the higher tiers.

you’re right…. IF they implement the second part of the system, which they probably won’t, because everyone is losing their kitten like you are.

lil devils x.6071:

briggah.7910:

Jiminy.8340:

briggah.7910:

Jiminy.8340:

briggah.7910:

Aphs.9528:

RIP JQ and DB hahahahahaha

umm they both have numbers during primetime. pretty sure every tier now has numbers during primetime. i could be wrong but i take word from all those that now claim the old map has brought back players and there are massive queues all over the place.

Ironically, DB and BG are both queued for EB right now…smack in the middle of non-primetime. I guess all the people playing now are not as valuable as those that queue in primetime.

you’ll prob still have queues during primetime. again reread what changes are coming.. you will still want to win as many 2 hour time slices as you can. chances are you will still win if you have better off coverage than just a na heavy server.. it justs won’t be a complete blowout after the first few days

I have no doubt there are queues during primetime also. My point it, the same number of people are playing the game (or close – not sure of TC’s queues) yet one subsection is considered not as important and worth less overall. While timeslices can be won, the contribution to the worldscore is less.

It’s the Queen Karka event all over again.

You guys are all stuck on the part with the multipler which is an additional plan that will not likely happen since it will be polled on. chances are if you are fighting other players round the clock you will be getting the full credit.. its manly for those 600+ tick nights that happen at times which leads to blowout scores over 1 night. like i said before you will still want to win as many time slices as you can.. every time slice is important to win. the more you win the better

Not every time slice, only the time slices that are scored the highest. If you do not play in the allotted 6 hour time slices, your time is not as valuable as everyone else’s so you should just go play a game that you are of the same value as everyone else playing. The message is pretty clear on that here.

you’re still not getting it. re-read the OP. based on the reaction so far, the Action Level bit is not likely to be implemented at all…

Potential (controversial) additional change:
While the above change takes steps to bring the value of off-hours coverage in-line, there’s a good chance it’ll still be overvalued. If that’s the case (and we’ll eventually poll on this), then we have plans for an additional system.

don’t think this has been posted here yet:

*[–]Anet-TylerB 4 points 1 day ago *
It’ll likely take a number of months to complete all the scoring changes, though we plan to release incremental progress in the form of live betas. The timeline also depends on if the community maintains that scoring is a priority, and they don’t vote for us to shift focus to another feature, like World Linking or Reward Tracks.
No additional WvW Tournaments are currently planned. While they were good for the game in the short term, in the long term they’ve proved to be unhealthy. This means we’ll want to repurpose WvW Tournament Tickets, possibly just as a general match reward, so that players can continue to earn the unique WvW weapon skins.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4ilemt/current_plans_for_wvw_scoring_overhaul/d309hco?context=3

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Commando

[Idea] : Track PPK separately from PPT

I think it would be cool to have multiple scoring mechanics tracked separately, so that players with different goals can feel like they are contributing to whatever system they want.

PPT (or points per capture/defense/dolyak/whatever it ends up being) would be the world score.

PPK would be tracked separately per player and per guild, and not added to the world score.

At the end of the match, there would be a winning world, but there might be guilds and players in the 2nd and 3rd place worlds that did better in PPK.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

This would be the end of Power of the Mists buff. Most players don’t really notice the buff. Nor do they play WvW specifically for the buff, so it hasn’t served as an effective motivator for winning matches. It also tends to reward PvE players more than WvW players. The upside to removing the buff, for WvW players, is that it should help our case for further improving WvW rewards, because it’d be lowering the rewards entering the game from elsewhere.

PotM should be intantaneous, not cumulative. So the buff would be based on current territory controlled, not cumulative score. This would work fine with the new scoring system.

looks good. even if it has problems it’s better than the current system. let the testing begin!

At the very least you should either run Druidic Clarity or swap Glyph of Tides for Glyph of Equality so you have at least one stun break.

This is what I’m running for roaming and zerging and having good results in both.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqA1Ci9CCWsCctgl9A7JOUueawv166fd52FAOblMtzA-TlTBQBCSTwDeAAW4IAcFlKhRJBe0BAgLAQCVPALKhoy+DnRJ4zOEAZUZACVxJAACwN3Z6cnBO6RP6QH6Q7o38n38m3sUAfN1C-w