Guild Wars 2

I’m with you on this, OP. The first was filled with flashing lights and spinning circles. I couldn’t see much at all.

I have just come back from several months away, and have been playing through this latest LS. The Caudecus battle was annoying, though, as I main a necro, it might have been easier than, say, trying this on a thief. For me anyways.

I actually was able to do it…er…stumble through it…on a power necro since I can’t be bothered with the ever-changing metas. Did go down once and got resurrected by one of the NPCs (will wonders never cease).

One main reason to use TS that I have seen, is to be able to coordinate a map without a spy seeing what is typed in map chat. TS allows the server admins to properly vet a user (well, within limits – am sure some spies slip through).

Never had an issue I’ve ever heard on NSP. Maybe OP should switch to a more mature server. I think our average age is 40+

Bezerker.2379:

Glass Hand.7306:

Nobody wants to come out and play on it so if you are red it’s going to be a long losing week.

I don’t know who voted for this but it was a really bad idea.

I roam on it nightly. Some of us actually love it, and we often find fights that are interesting due to the land layout.

Please don’t assume everyone thinks like you.

Problem is, it doesn’t appear that many think like you do. I don’t think Anet is in business to appease a minority of people. If these numbers are accurate, they would be well-served, if they even care about WvW, to dump the DBL. People might protest, but you would be in the minority, it seems.

Just check one of the NA matches: There are, as of right now (according to wvwintel) 59,337 total kills in the match. Of which only 5741 are in the DBL – so 9.7%.

That’s bad. Really bad. Oddly, the top tier in NA only has 33059 total kills, and 3556 in the DBL – 10.7%. So few kills also doesn’t bode well…not for tier 1.

Haven’t been on in more than a week. Logged into the forums to see if Anet has even acknowledged issues with Necros. I see they have turtled as per usual. kitten ’em.

Cecilia.5179:

I used to love my Necromancer, but we’re such a joke now that we’re literally free bags if we aren’t behind allies or a wall.
We’re passable 1v1, but as soon as the situation scales up, we immediately get focused and die. There’s no way around that. As a roamer and someone who likes to run in havocs, the rule of any fight is to target the Necromancer first. Not because Necromancers are dangerous, they’re much less threatening than many other specs. We target Necromancer first because Necromancer dodges twice (3 times with energy sigil) and then has to take all of our damage. The Necromancer is too slow to do anything. It can’t even get into melee with us if it’s allies aren’t pinning us down.
We can still win 1v1s, but we are often a liability in anything bigger than a 2v2 that isn’t a zerg.
In comparison, my hybrid ranger has 16000 hp and 2500 armor, and she has more damage, range, mobility, and survivability than a Necromancer. The only thing my Necromancer does better is corrupting boons. That’s it. This ranger build isn’t even among the best condition builds, and it is blatantly superior to Necromancer.
Lastly, I am offended that we’re “performing well” in every game mode when the commonly expressed opinion is that we’re just scrubbing by. This isn’t just a small issue. People are quitting the game over this. Money is being lost. Necromancer jokes are being made. Please address this.

Yup. All of this. Haven’t played more than 2 hours since the “balance” patch on the 18th. Have actually deleted the game from my PC. It was that or delete all my characters and totally divest myself of GW2 altogether.

The fact that Anet believes Necros are “faring quite well” in ANY game mode makes me question their level of knowledge about their own frikken’ game.

That one comment, a throw away line in the patch notes, was a kittening insult to anyone who understands the game even a little bit. To have the Devs kitten all over the class like that makes me wonder why they even bother with that class at all anymore.

To the Devs…you have no idea what you are doing, the sooner you admit it and fix this kitten, the better.

Balthazzarr.1349:

In the last 1503 days (4 years) I have played 7663 hours up to this moment across all characters. That’s an average of 5 hours per day. GW2 addiction or what? Well it used to be.

…

I’ve said it in the forums how my 95% time in gw2 was spent in WvW at one time, and now it’s diminished. But my time in the game period has dropped to an all time low.

I’m with you. Have played maybe 2 hours since sometime last week. Sighed my way through most of that. Ever since the last “balance” patch, actually.

How does a developer at the level of Anet deploy something so broken (cannons)? In the face of that, how can we trust they know anything at all about balance? How can they possible state that necros are “…faring well…” then proceed to nerf a major source of condi damage that only worked in group play (needed heals)?

Can’t be bothered. In fact, uninstalled the game entirely, am so discouraged by it all.

What’s “ajust”? This is the 2nd time I’ve seen this word in the topic of a post in the last few days.-

It has to be a free account thing. I think I was level 4 or so when I jumped from Rata Sum through the portal to LA. No issues.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

The last balance patch was for wvw.
PvE (Raids) got screwed over by it.

You really are out of touch with what’s going on..

Really? What, exactly? The slight Boon sharing nerf? Necro axe “buffs”? How was the latest balance patch for WvW?

Abelisk.4527:

There’s a magic tool called LFG that seems to connect players from around the server. Idk, maybe give that a try.

I would really like a NMELFG tool (No Meta Event looking for group) that would enable me to get onto a map that isn’t doing the meta at all on the HoT maps. Right now, just want to get on one that has people getting the HPs. That’s it.

I would hate to take up a slot on a map trying to do the meta when I am just flying around trying to get a specific HP.

Dahkeus.8243:

Looking at patch notes…and it’s pretty clear my wallet is staying closed.

Rev – Now probably useless in raids.
Engi – Still useless in raids.

…

Bleh…

You could add:

Necro – does Anet even play a necro? Their laughable assertion that it’s “just fine” makes me wonder. Maybe in PvE it’s…okay…certainly can solo more things in PvE than I can with other classes. But in WvW – you get focused and you die.

Horrible patch. Wallet staying shut. So “gnihc-ahc” (which is cha-ching backwards)

When I got to this line in the patch notes:

“We feel that necromancers have been faring quite well gamewide, providing play and counterplay in many spots over the last few months.”

I knew we were in trouble. Big trouble.

BloodyPanda.6789:

As a condi necro with 2000+ hour, just wanna pay my final respect before you vanish in history… you will be missed.

I keep reading these kinds of comments. How is condi necro dead? The nerfed rats on Lich form? That’s the thing that killed condi necros?

Endless Soul.5178:

I too, am waiting for Halloween.

Lol. Well, Halloween is fun, but I was thinking more along the lines of getting cheesed off at the changes and not wanting to have wasted real $ on gems prior to them.

:)

I was all set to buy some gems. Some recent changes to the game, even in WvW, made me want to “reward” Anet for a somewhat better job of late (imho). Then I thought…yeah…wait until these changes hinted at by Gaile.

Anyone else doing the same thing?

I kind of agree with the OP. Had a stack of Tomes Of Knowledge (from WvW reward tracks – it’s crazy. Something like 500). Anyways, decided to delete my thief (never played her anyways) and created and leveled a new thief, sold/salvaged what I could, then did it all over again. Tedious clicking, but besides the point.

Finally came to the last one I could level to 80 with the Tomes I had. Decided to do the personal story (got me some Lion Chest keys). Thought, for fun, I would level up and get the Elite traits.

Now am in VB looking for anyone else doing ANY of the Champ HPs. Relative to a few months ago, VB is dead. Oh, you might get a few people doing the meta, but not many doing the HPs. A couple of shout outs allowed me to get a couple, but the response was not as before. I can’t go 10 minutes without the “This map has few players on it…blah blah” message popping up.

All of this was to be expected, with Bloodfen and Ember Bay, but it’s only going to get worse. When you wrap HP acquisition around Champs you are going to have issues.

I like this suggestion!

I agree with all of these. I had suggested an increase to the outnumbered buff and actually went further: the outnumbered buff would decrease the amount of supply to deploy siege, and would also increase things like base stats like Power, Toughness, Vitality, etc. The size of the decrease/increase would vary depending on how outnumbered the server is.

I also suggested an “outnumbering” debuff. The server with the heavy numbers would get a debuff (increase in supply for deployable siege, decrease in base stats) – it would be like a handicap in golf.

Both these changes could provide the ability for a low population server to compete against a higher population one.

…and people flamed me a bit for these suggestions back then

1000g? On what??

But if you are level 80, you can “use” a tome to gain a spirit shard. More clicking, of course, but you do get shards.

Jaina Ashlynn.1043:

Most are probably working on farming for the new ascended gear which probably accounts for seeing fewer people everywhere else.

What new ascended gear. Been looking and haven’t seen anything about ascended gear from Ember Bay currencies. Am I missing something?

foxcat.4096:

After i finished my HoT masteries months ago i haven’t been back to any of those maps outside of AB for profit making i don’t see them as having a ton of replay ability. Have been enjoying bloodstone fen and now ember bay which is where i think you will find most people in open world pve these days.

^^ This right here. ^^

Did the LS and masteries (the ones I wanted and that translate onto other maps – all the gliding ones, for instance). Then I did enough HoT farming to get enough of the various map currencies to get some items I wanted, and haven’t been back since…say 3-4 months ago was my last HoT visit.

Same with Bloodfen – did the masteries and achievements, got the item (back piece) I wanted, and haven’t been back.

Ember Bay – LS, map completion, masteries, etc. Done now.

Feersum Endjinn.4179:

misterman.1530:

Unless someone else asked this…

The Ember Bay infinite Hearts – how do you get map completion? It appears I have to do all the Hearts in the same session along with the rest of the map exploration? If I only have an hour or so, this will be a tedious thing. I would not have spent ANY time doing these Hearts if I had known. Teach me not to read Release Notes I guess. Also each time I log in, since the Hearts are “incomplete”, I can’t access the Heart Vendors?

Edit: Oh, wait. Just read the release notes and it said nothing at all about how Infinite Hearts work with map completion. So…can we get an update to the Notes to ’splain these?

Yeah, you have to do all 5 hearts in same day once you have everything else.

Thanks!

Same day or same session? If I finish a heart, log out, then log back in, will it still be there? Plus – how do you know this? Experience? Or is there something in a release note I am not seeing?

Don’t notice it at all on my Necro…oh….wait…this only impacts “teleportation” Well, tried the Wurm teleport and no change.

Unless someone else asked this…

The Ember Bay infinite Hearts – how do you get map completion? It appears I have to do all the Hearts in the same session along with the rest of the map exploration? If I only have an hour or so, this will be a tedious thing. I would not have spent ANY time doing these Hearts if I had known. Teach me not to read Release Notes I guess. Also each time I log in, since the Hearts are “incomplete”, I can’t access the Heart Vendors?

Edit: Oh, wait. Just read the release notes and it said nothing at all about how Infinite Hearts work with map completion. So…can we get an update to the Notes to ’splain these?

DeeSystm.1256:

Is Anet looking into this? Like I’m pretty sure this confirms that something in wvw is right borked.

Oddly, they haven’t replied. Not to this thread nor the one in the Bugs forum. Not that I am in any of the servers affected, but it would be nice to see what happened (since if it happened once, you can be sure it will happen again).

Sadly, they will wait to see if it “fixes” itself at reset.

1. New skill: Spectral Leap – range 1200 3s invisibility 20s refresh time
2. Change downed Fear: lower cast to 1/2 sec and make it hit multiple targets and make it unblockable.

Seriously. We need something. We have no blocks, no invisibility, no ports (unless you count the backwards Spectral Walk one, or the Wurm teleport – which I don’t).

No word on this at all? Any change?

Just to add something I read from the WvW forum post: BG isn’t getting any points for their BL at all.

Maybe this is Anet’s new attempt at balancing?

Oddly, it didn’t work last night. Then this morning I had no issues (didn’t have to use -assetsrv. Came home from work, and didn’t work…had to use -assetsrv. Something’s pooched.

ruzicka.4783:

Sorry for the newbie kind of question here….

I can download the curl zip file, no problem. But how do I actually install it?

You don’t. Copy the app to a folder directly on your C: or some other drive
Open a Command Prompt as administrator
Go to the drive/folder containing the CURL.EXE file.

Run the command as mentioned. It will seem to do nothing. Then open your browser to the site specified.

Once completed there, you will see that the Command prompt window has text (see mine above your post).

Follow the rest of the instructions.

misterman.1530:

Canada (Ottawa)
Rogers

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Glouryian.3765:

Jayne.9251:

Glouryian.3765:

The whole matchup Kodash vs Baruch vs Far Shiverpeaks & Whiteside Ridge & Fissure of Woe in a one picture.

Needless to say: I´m out of this.

Pssst .. there’s two other exits. Sneak out the back and flip something behind them. They’ll lose their minds and stop with the stupid spawn camping.

Pssst .. guess what happens, if you sneak out and flip something elsewhere? Right, a group of fsp-gankers or the whole zerg shows up. And they will do so continuously.

Btw we still did not manage to get back our keep, cause they are spawncamping like crazy and the garrison is completely filled with siege. A very fine matchup indeed.

They should always allow you to build siege in spawn points in EB. That way you can “try” to take your fully sieged keep back, and do away with spawn campers. There could be rules on the siege in the spawn points, but allow them to be built and used.

Interesting, I guess.

But I can’t help but laugh at the byline: “The temperature in Tyria is rising, will we be consumed by the flames.” Seriously, I know the drama is for effect, but essentially if NOBODY plays the content, nothing at all bad will happen…anywhere. I guess that’s true in any game, but still…makes me chuckle.

I got the same email from Support about using -assetsrv last night. When I got up this morning, before I made that change, I tested logging in as normal. It worked. I guess “my” ISP “fixed” something.

Yeah. Am out too. My ISP is in Canada. So…every ISP on the planet is having an issue? If I have a business and no one can get to my webpage, I’m going to do the legwork and investigation myself, not drive every client crazy.

Cerby.1069:

What borderland has been the biggest loser since the Beta first started and pairings got introduced?

For NA I would say Darkhaven, on the basis they have been given the losing team every week in the lowest tier (tier 4). They’ve been third place every single friggin week (except once in the first pairing period i believe), and this third set (although they were 2nd for a while) it looks like its gonna stay exactly the same way for the next few months.

Honestly I’m curious why they gave FC to Yaks bend and not to NSP+DH+?. YB still dominating T4 easily in numbers and coverage on every map. NSP would be first place if they did this, YB second, and Hod+ebay+? 3rd, but at least DH wouldn’t be in the pits again.

RIP DH, feel free to move to Ehmry bay, ours was definitely the most natural pairing to date imo (ur players are exactly like ours) although we were losers together haha (through no fault of our own).

The strange thing is, until this linking, SOS+NSP were beating YB every week. Now this matchup is so bad, YB+whomever the heck they have are walking over the other two linkups.

So much for balance.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

misterman.1530:

How about NA? Are you SEEING what’s happening at the bottom. These are terrible linkups. Just horrible.

The Linkups are tolerable. HoD has been linked with EBay before, they’re good folks. I look forward to meeting players from ET.

Its the matches that are so lopsided they are almost laughable.

Sorry. You are right. I meant matchups. The links are fine.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hello everyone,

I know a lot of EU players are asking why Far Shiverpeaks is linked with Whiteside Ridge and Fissure of Woe so I figured I would clear up why this link was made.

Our goal with World Linking is good matches. This doesn’t necessarily mean that worlds in tier 4 are intended to be competitive with worlds in tier 1, but ideally every world in tier 4 should be competitive with the other worlds in tier 4 and likewise every world in tier 1 should be competitive with the other worlds in tier 1. It would be nice if worlds in tier 4 were competitive with tier 1, but it’s not realistic since the distribution of players across worlds is not consistent. The issue is compounded in EU, due to the fact that we are avoiding linking worlds with different languages. For example, there is only one Spanish world, so they’ll never be linked and thus might never be competitive in tier 1 worlds. Similarly making each set of German worlds have equivalent populations has proved equally impossible because if we were to link them they would have a much higher population than other worlds, making match-ups against them not competitive.

Far Shiverpeaks was linked with two worlds because we needed a third world that would have similar population to the French worlds, specifically Jade Sea and Vizunah Square so that the matchup could be competitive. Far Shiverpeaks, Whiteside, Ridge, and Fissure of Woe linked together gave us the best population to create competitive match-ups for that tier.

It is also important to keep in mind that this is the very first week of match-ups and it will take time before glicko adjusts worlds into their correct tiers.

How about NA? Are you SEEING what’s happening at the bottom. These are terrible linkups. Just horrible.

Jeknar.6184:

misterman.1530:

As smart people mentioned before, if you do not have the numbers, there’s no way you can successfully defend/take the DBL. My server has it this week. We aren’t doing well. We can’t. We are habitually outnumbered on any BL we enter. It’s doubly bad on the DBL.

If you don’t have the numbers you’re not going to defend anything anyway. This isn’t a map problem.

It most certainly is. If we are outnumbered in an alpine bl 2 to 1, we can still get to a disputed objective in time…and if we have siege, successfully defend. If you are outnumbered 2 to 1 and you have no one anywhere near an objective, good luck getting there in time.

DeeSystm.1256:

The worst part about the dbl is all you whiners who never learned how to navigate or fight on it constantly crying. All your doing is hurting your team and game mode.

Whiners? The fact is, it takes too long to run from one tower to the next. Way too long. By the time swords pop and you get there, it’s flipped.

Horrible, horrible design. Needs to shrink in half. So much wasted/unused space.

As smart people mentioned before, if you do not have the numbers, there’s no way you can successfully defend/take the DBL. My server has it this week. We aren’t doing well. We can’t. We are habitually outnumbered on any BL we enter. It’s doubly bad on the DBL.

Neftex.7594:

MidoriMarch.8067:

and majority vote for leaving DBL there with alpine which DOESNT MEAN THAT THEY WANT TO PLAY ON DBL.

we chose DBL to come back with alpine so everyone can be happy.

this and also because of devs saying they would ditch further wvw development otherwise

This. This right here.

I agree. They need to explain how these pairings were set. Take a look at the bottom tier of NA. Nothing “balanced” with it at all. It isn’t as bad as bottom tier in EU, but pretty close.

I honestly think they pull random names out of a hat, and that’s the pairing. They can’t be using, you know, math or anything.

Wow. Take a look at the bottom tier of NA. That’s some awesome pairing there. Jesus wept.

Well, have time for Fallout 4 now. Thanks Anet.

therapite.3645:

DGraves.3720:

“Except Quebec.”

Why me?

DGraves, here’s an external article about why Quebec is always excluded from these things.

http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.htm

Sorry no one loves you there </3

As a Canadian, I would add to that: the company would also need to translate everything into french (all promotional materials, documentation that goes with the prize, everything).

Linken.6345:

vesica tempestas.1563:

SO AGAIN WHAT SHOULD THEY PRIORITISE – stop kittening complaining and give your opinion instead.

They should cut the next expansion team totaly and deliver what this expansion was sold as, then take back those developers when its done to work in second expansion.

^ this…right here. I don’t even give a crap about Legendaries, but if someone said – “Hmmm. I will pay the $<whatever> for this expansion because of all these new Legendaries.” and then there are only 3 delivered, then, yeah, I would be upset. Regardless of this “new and improved” content they delivered instead.

To drive analogies into the ground – let’s use the car one from page 1 or so of this thread:

Car company promises a car with special headlights, and some awesome trim. They deliver one piece of awesome trim and one special headlight when you get your car, with the rest to come later. Then they say “Nope. Too hard. No good. Here’s a nifty drink holder and a bobblehead to stick on your dashboard…that you still have to pay for. And we’ll change the color of your car, cause reasons”.

To many, nothing Anet has provided since the expansion is any better than, nor a replacement in lieu of, the Legendaries. Not understanding that simple point is mindboggling in it’s obtuseness.

To me, the Reward Track they put into WvW (so I don’t ever have to set foot in a dungeon) is worth the price of admission. But that’s just me. Bloodfen was meh, as is Maguuma jungle zones. I did them…got what I needed…and now I’m done with them.

But if I was looking forward to something they promised then failed to deliver, I would be looking for/demanding something in return. Something specific (a free ascended item of my choice, perhaps?).

penelopehannibal.8947:

The non swearing environment on these forums (and the rules against it in the game) are there to protect younger players since this is a 12+ game, and also to keep a friendly environment for all players.

Try and learn to be a mature player.

Oh my….umm….OP was being sarcastically funny. You know that, right?

Maybe…all this time…they’ve been…gasp…TOADS! Wait…BattleToads™!

Update: Man did I make myself feel old with that joke…so old.

Five pages, and not one Dev response. This speaks volumes, no?

For me, might Raid if given a group that isn’t so elitist and stuck up. Maybe my guild will set aside a day to Raid. Other than that, nope.

However, I could not care less than I do with regards to Spirit Shards.