Guild Wars 2

Hello

My feedback would be

1. Bring Alpine BL back- I even preferred it with out the
2. Allow players to earn experience to unlock masteries via wvw exp
3. Merge Servers or fix population issues (as above)
4. Increase good loot (as above)

kta.6502:

Plus military folks in the US earn their ranks via hard work or by graduating from a military college like Westpoint.

You are really so rude. Members of the Army in Europe work just as hard as those in America, shame on you quite frankly.

I feel I may just be feeding a troll here (which I hope to god is the case cause otherwise I am so embarrassed for you) but the fact you think that America is a country were death and violence is a taboo is just laughable. May I remind you that the Americans bombs Vietnam’s cities despite knowing that the Viet Cong where in the jungles and practised guerilla warfare? Can I remind you of the unnecessary use of 2 nuclear bombs on Japan? As for films and popular culture, how about films like American History X, Hostel, Training Day, anything Tarantino has ever done, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, The Saw movies, Apocalypse Now, TV shows such as The Walking Dead, Dexter, Game of Thrones is produced by HBO and the novels it is based off are written by an American author.

In fact it is well known that violence, especially gun violence has markedly increased in American films in the last 3 decades. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/business/media/gun-violence-in-american-movies-is-rising-study-finds.html?_r=0

America is just as comfortable with death as the most of the player base. If you want to look at countries who are less tolerant about violence in video games feel free to ask an German or an Australian about their experience and compare what they have to deal with to your point of view. Make sure to ask them whether they think their censorship is necessary.

Also the reason anet use the word DEFEATED and not DEAD is because we are not dead because we can be revived, either by player or by waypoint. Death is finite, and clearly what we experience in the game is not.

kta.6502:

This is very easy to explain: In some parts of the world, death is taboo. The United States is one such country. That’s why some RPGs, like Call of Cthulu, never became popular in the mainstream. Plus it doesn’t help that the US has been through 2 wars and that has made people more sensitive to death. Some people may have even lost loved ones so scenes in which everyone dies bother these individuals. The ending of the marionette was not something that is expected by the Americans playing this game. I know for a fact that some teens playing this game were distressed when they saw the ending. It’s too simillar to events in the RL War on Terror.

To me, something like this comes across as “too European”. Scenes where everyone dies and the naked Marionette is not appropriate for the T rating in the US. If Anet continues this, they’ll need to consider changing their game rating from T (for Teen) to M (for Mature) for the North American market. Let’s face it: Europeans love seeing death in their media. I’ve seen enough films, games, and shows from the other side of the Atlantic to know this. If I had been part of the dev team for this event, I would of included an alternative event for people who don’t like Cthulu-styled RPGs and placed a warning for those folks who are too sensitive. This is what happened in the past with D&D’s Tomb of Horrors as well as the old PnP version of Call of Cthulu. It’s only fair to warn people.

FYI — I’m not against the Marionette event. I do have enough experience to explain why this event doesn’t appeal to everyone.

I really hope you are trolling.

Bill, Bob and Ben.

Also, why no facebook post for deso? Huh anet? huh huh?

HellsPriest.6745:

People who are complaining about the “bugs” and such. I’m not saying they don’t exist or anything, but stop complaining in their Worlds First thread. They deserved it, congratulate them and move on. We are better than this people,… again CONGRATZ DESO!

LOL calm down people just having a laugh about it not complaining, as you can see for youself with the replies from deso themselves, I’m sure they have had, and will continue to have their omg god guyzzzz gratzzzzzz posts.

At the end of the day, if you don’t like the new skin you can get a refund, which i would expect (are you reading this Anet) will include 6 transmutation splitter stones. That way the gems are refunded, and armour can be reverted back to skin.

But with any luck it will be an entire new design exclusive to that gem armour that is epic then everyone will have it lol

Personally I wasn’t happy about the use in tier 3 cultural, probably for the same reasons listed here many times over.

However I am not without sympathy for the people who bought gem armour. But I think it was the right decision in a way. Maybe they could make it the armour depend on your race, if you are a sylvari, the flamewalker armour could be t3 sylvari, same for norn etc etc.

Or address the skin for t3 cultural is the issue, since t3 cultural costs double the gold (if covert the gems to gold) perhaps it would be worth adding a different, and maybe better glow and particle effect on to the human t3 cultural armour. Perhaps make the effect dyeable as well. This will allow those who bought the gemstore armour to retain it and those who own the cultural armour to feel like their effort and amount of gold spent isn’t rendered pointless?

Rvice.4835:

Underworld is not able to do any of these.

Honestly wish you could participate more, UW have always been a worthy server, I am sure it frustrating for you all, hopefully you get some transfers at some point.

AlanCMD.9205:

This is war, all about strategy, being tricky or not. Who cares about your heroic ego saying putting up a fight (well at least i don’t). At the end, we win and earn wxp/gold/karma and spend it to enjoy.

If you complain about night capping, you should stay up late and play (or perhaps you did but got rolled)

Lol you musty be one of the new people on FR. I guess we will never see you in GVG then. Cause clearly you all are frightened of even fights cause you know will be outclassed.

I am certain there are guilds on FR such as AzM, who actually have honour and talent, that are none to pleased with the blob monkeys. You are literally the definition of NA stereotype. Bravo, take a bow.

ParaldaWind.4523:

As an American, I apologize for these people. We’re not all this stupid, I promise.

Don’t worry about it, we know this doesn’t represent you as a whole. We can’t take it seriously, players who boast about camp spawning, PVD’ing when there are empty worlds just deserve derisive laughter in their general vicinity.

My personal favourite moment of the night was watching Fort Ranik zerg the door of the North West Tower on UW border, ,meanwhile there was a massive gaping hole right beside them as the wall was down, so Kale just strolled in and took the tower while FR just stood there…hitting the gate….lol. kitten

Terrorsquad.2349:

Won’t be able to fight alongside FSP since I’m moving to Gandara to join FSV guild when I get home wednesday (after saying goodbye to everyone)..
Will miss you FSP guys!
Cya on the battlefield

Sincerely,

Denied God(dess)

So to clarify, the guild Far Shiverpeaks Vanguard, has left the Far Shiverpeaks?

Way to ram the final nail in the coffin :’( there goes wvw.

Paavotar.3971:

Now, lets enjoy this pretty dang good match up, ok?

This actually. Especially come the end of the week we may end of in a German sandwich of doom again

Just FYI, I feel I should now post a Sheldon meme with the word sarcasm on it for people to get my intentions lol. Line has been drawn, move along.

Apologies for any offense caused

Well if I have to pick, then number 1. Yet I don’t see why you are still so defensive, tbh, you could probably do with ticking one of those boxes yourself lol.

Seriously though, lighten up.

Blacktoes.7623:

W
It’s a video in which you can see the way FIRE fights…and later in the vid dies…
We respect our opponents and we would like to be treated in the same way, I hope you can take some time to watch it and decide yourselves what to make out of the insults that were flying around earlier.

If your mantra is as it states then fair enough, that doesn’t mean on occasion during battle everyone gets thrown in the mix. It was the first time I had ever seen CRUX and FIRE and the one experience I had, I was fighting against members from both guilds at once. No matter how defensive you all get it will not change that it was my experience with the guilds this time round.

However I would love to commend the epic song choice around the 10min mark of your video.

Also, I have to say the amount of FSP people at the end in 13 mins ish is also obscene, I wasn’t there but that seems like…..dare I say it….we blobbed?!

Bero.2193:

natzmc.2895:

I am still standing by what I said, and the reason being is that it is not the type of style AG had in previous rounds, it was quite surprising and seemed out of character for AG. In my opinion of course.

To start with my guild hits an average of 12 guys in WvW max being 18 so your statement about blobbing nice try. .

At no point was the term blob every used, and multiple times I said I was referring to AG as a whole, I mentioned CRUX and FIRE 1 time. And yet I still stand by may statement because the only time we came into contact with you, we got it both teams. Was it intentional? IDK only you can say.

Any comment I made about huge numbers applies to AG as a whole. You do have bigger groups than you used to. TBH, but I said before, I am going to guess its because for weeks..and weeks, you had unfortunate match ups with Germans, which naturally will effect your play style and tactics to try and deal with them. We know this from spending time with them as well ( the reaction on our server either was “kitten this I won’t play this week” and numbers dwindle or “kitten it I am going to play them a their own game” and there were more blobs). I still stand by my statement and if you can read my reference in my first post to the “darkside”, a light hearted, so calm down before you have a hernia. All I am saying is last night I saw much bigger numbers in one place by AG than had ever seen before in previous match ups, and normally AG actively tries not to do that.

p.s, some people are mentioned blobs in EB, not sure it counts anymore, I thought it was forever known as Eternal Blobgrounds

p.p.s to the person trying to be witty about loot bags, I actually got just shy of 100, this tends to happens when fighting against large groups of people, having aoe and epic “f” key smashing abilities while fighting lol

I am still standing by what I said, and the reason being is that it is not the type of style AG had in previous rounds, it was quite surprising and seemed out of character for AG. In my opinion of course.

Except that’s not what was happening for the most part, and to be fair, as the night went on, it was clear that there is blobbing, though admittedly not as bad from you as some other groups. But you have definitely lost some integrity in your style; one can only assume it’s the result of fighting hordes of Germans for so many weeks.

edit- the blobbing reference and “you” applies server wide not guild specific.

AG, you can tell you have been playing the German servers too long, you seem to have adopted their tactics. You crossed over to the the darkside!!

FIRE and CRUX plus pugs running together, huge numbers.

Amelia Knox.9362:

@natzmc The numbers were pretty close on both side UW didn’t have half of us, the commander said it was pugs that dropped siege is fine, it happens i don’t blame the commander, i understand is position, sometimes it happens the same on my side and i get mad at my own pugs because i want fight with skill not siege, in that case i try to move away from the siege so that we can fight not win for siege only.
In future if they want to build siege on open field WHEN the numbers are close is fine but you’re gone get callout all the time.
For my position, siege in keep is fine, siege in openfield when you have less than half is fine, in that case you try to get make to pair level with the opponent, but on open field with close numbers, nope, i think it doesn’t help the people to get better in combat and in wvw.

If you think that is a valid tatics and helpfull go ahead, do whaterever you like but you’re gone get call out.
AG is ready to give you a fair fight all the time, just ask/wispher you will find plenty of people rdy.

I said outmatched, not outmanned, You said yourself you wiped them and farmed them, they were outmatched by better organisation on your part, so the point is if they arent as good as your group then building siege is fair game in my opinion, cause its either that or just roll over and die.

Amelia Knox.9362:

So underworld, i was commading in your border at prime time tonight , i think the enemy commander was from AA atlantic army not sure, i hope to don’t see arrow cart in open field again from UW, was pretty bad.
Uw border was full upgrade so hill and garrison was taking too much time to have any fun.
Uw you come out and fight sometimes that’s good, just don’t build AC and ballista in open field is just bad, plus you got wipe and farmed for 40min, see you tommorrow.

For the super Sneaky thief, the ac our treb from inside the open tower, now we know a new place ty, very creative, GJ

So let me get this straight. in the same post you are telling them not to build ACs in open field but also saying how you wiped them plenty and farmed them for 40 minutes.

Seriously? If they are outmatched what do you expect them to do? How easy to you want the match to be? The should ( and I am sure will) be able to build whatever they like, wherever they like, and the rest of us should adapt out tactics accordingly.

I want to thank WSR, had an epic fun time with you on EB this evening, think it might have been your entire server! so much fun!! Until the new wvw build came and booted us all out at least

Opynn.2936:

So outside of your silli “gvg” or as I call it clusterkitten, battels goes like this:
Far Shiverzerg takes tower, keep etc
Let “owner” take it
Far Shiverzerg do not defend taken towers, keeps etc.
When enough towers are to siege (whole border) Far Shiverzerg shows up and 15 minutes whole border is paint green.
So basicly is just “trading” objectives for wxp
Hope you will farm enough wvw ranks to brag when you will go back to your normal tier.
Thank you arenanet for this mutch up, and you should thank to for free wvw ranks.

Calm down lad, it was always going to happen, its not fun for FSP either, if we had your way your server would have a better population to make it a decent fight, cause with the exception of you and a couple of [INC] people, WSR and BT are awesome servers for good fun and good attitude. If you had any concept of whakittens like to be stick with AM for weeks you would understand how refreshing it is

Milo Regard.2503:

About 10 min ago I was walking in eb to our keep noticing some fsp attacking the front gate.
While beaming their ram at inner gate, another inner gate got destroyed out of nowhere so when i turned around I saw this :

reaction: o.O

I was wondering are that 12 golems or 10? didn’t really had time to count them but I think I count 12 golems + that big one on the picture.

1st Point @Luna Deathwhisper who said “it takes them how many alphas, they are pathetic”- Catch a grip love, of course it doesn’t need that many they were trolling.

2nd- Kinda ashamed at all the fairweather commanders that have crawled out from under their rocks in FSP, and for the randomers who are blindly following them, it is utterly pathetic, and I say that as an FSP loyal wvw player.

Tongun.1509:

You judge a whole server because of few actions.

I judge the server by its continuing actions and by my experiences, when its a fair fight number wise, equal-ish numbers, AM were kinda easy.

edit- but not as easy as fort ranik

Also, like I said I understand the blobbing, it makes you win so why would you change it? It is your blob that wins the matches.

Ahaha well I meant more us in FSP, but I can understand your desire.

Also Gandara are better than you, when we fought them gvg it was an actual fight, when it was AM or millers in the past it was pretty easy. The only tactic for success for you is to blob, so I can understand why you all keep doing it. How else would you win.

Tongun.1509:

Ok just one thing:

And another thing about facing blobs: It’s pretty easy to counter them even with small numbers. ACs are designed for this purpose.

Thats all well and good except one thing, every time the blobadon approached it was instant skill lag

Just a suggestion but if we are going to make it fun this week, then why not just ignore the points, cause the system is messed up anyway, and have more arrangements/ communication with Blacktide and WSR. Invite them on a TS, have fun. I think after dealing with the Germans and their bad attitudes for weeks it might be good for morale to just have a laugh with other players

I have gave up a bit on this thread but I have to admit respect for Nauda has grown exponentially, however some of the AM posters have just been …well…they should learn from Nauda’s responses. Respect to that.

I also love that randomly in this post we have a person, nay a poet!, serenading us with his lyrics.

We all blob at times, accident or intentionally either way it does happen. German blobs seem to be the biggest but Guild Wars has always had a huge German community so maybe heavy population who knows. The only thing really I would ask of the German servers is to understand , for me, the reason it stops being fun is that as soon as they arrive the skill lag is just awful lol

Also why do German servers hate each other for being German? Not very patriotic there fellas! lol

Actually I think all 3 servers have done their fair share of QQing

I would just like to actually play against AM but the lag the numbers give me makes it impossible

Nauda.3678:

Yeah and like we heard from Zeti on page 2 who was on Gandara: Only a few people on Gandara care for their randoms. I call that a bad servercommunity. But whatever floates you boat I guess…

I actually agree with you here, I have a problem with certain guilds in FSP telling randoms to get lost because they are not in the guild, or telling randoms they shouldn’t be getting a tower etc (even though I witnessed 3 pugs take bay on their own one day) We actually lost a friend to game because of such a guild telling him to kitten off when he was trying to play wvw, he will not come back in the game due to it. It is a problem, and I will have no problem naming and shaming guilds/players if I see it happen again.

Tongun.1509:

Sometimes gw is nothing but a Big Party

Look OK, i get what you are saying its for fun, totally get that and support that. However, what about the fun for everyone else in the game that likes to play wvw in a way that it uses more tactic thinking, more brain involvement. Fact is AM is a hated (it is not nice but it seems to be the case)server. And not just by Gandara and FSP, every server match you have been in recently there has been hatred directed towards AM, even from Riverside a fellow German server. It underlines a problem.

Look fact is, AM keep saying not enough wvw guilds etc but in reality you are just as organised as fsp, maybe 1-2 less guilds. But you do have good guilds. And you could be more organised if you made an effort. Right now you have only been against servers that prefer tactical play and splitting (ofcourse zergs happen too but not on the scale) Eventually you are going to come across servers like Vizunah and you will understand how boring and disheartening it is to play against swarms.

When it comes down to it, if you really say its about fun, then if you are a fair community you would understand that it is not fun for the other 2 servers against you, and for the sake of decency maybe adapt play style, have more gvg events with us, communicate with us and organise thing so then it is fun for everyone.

Unless wxp is more important to you but that is really not why I play gw2.

I think maybe call a ceasefire on any insults now and talk constructively. AM want us all to understand their point of you and I ask that AM try to understand everyone else’s as well.

SOR member, I thought Tarnished Coast were at number 4 on the leader board, so really they should be putting up more of a fight, they are not far from your own tier. I wouldn’t feel to bad, it not like they were a bottom tier. Maybe instead of refusing to play wvw, invite them for gvg and maybe give some advice.

as for the original post, the new system has really only just come out, you cannot reasonably expect them to stop it right away, it has already been confirmed they are taking in data and listening to our thoughts and will be adjusting the math involved.

TBH, my encounters with engineers is that they are ether brilliant and smart in gameplay or kinda awful. I wouldn’t lay blame in nerfs, nerfs are there for a reasons eve if you don’t agree, the point was something was having an unfair effect on gameplay. Just adapt is my advice, like I said some outstanding engineers out there.

Well, I had a thought but a bit nervous about posting it as some people on this forums can be straight up rude and mean when someone posts an idea they do not like. But here it goes.

If we all really want to make huge zergs less effective then how about an area debuff that increases in strength the bigger the zerg? Debuff could be more incoming damage, less outgoing damage. It could be a tiered debuff, could start tier 1 at 30 or more, tier 2 35 or more etc. It would discourage giant blobs and maybe encourage smaller strike teams. Currently some servers complain they aren’t organised enough, well this would make them get organised.

Some people say wvw is made for zerging but I disagree. In the ettenmoors in LOTRO it was rare that a small group could do anything effective, but in gw2 1-2 people can take camps, small groups can take towers etc. It is possible. I believe that the blobbing is a user created problem, the mentality of gamers. Its just an idea. I personally really would not mind debuff as it would encourage myself and guild members to make the smaller groups. Right now when we try we usually get steamrolled at a camp by groups of 40.

ok that’s my idea ~runs for cover~

Well this escalated. I suggest both side wise the kitten up, grow a pair, stop whining and get the kitten on with it.

Both sides are guilty of these accusations, and if you say you (as in your server) don’t blob, you are a liar.

Ah no I know you have a lot of wvw guilds, and ofcourse pugs tend to blob (the is a gandara pug blob on fsp border for example) and FSP is similar, has wvw guilds but also pugs who follow a commander so no one can help that, I was more asking that in general that’s your ethos

I am not asking this to start a flame war, its a genuine question, I thought as a server Gandara were against blobbing? Like as a rule of thumb.

ah Le French! Le Blobs!

>< nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo changed the match on us!! all that silver/ karma people spent on upgrades!!

Yay for match but dude. AG what is with the huge groups? lol

Glad to not be with germans anymore but lets ALL try and not to use their tactics

GL and have fun!

I like the Largos, they are relatively unknown so it would’nt be hard to write a story with them that makes their look more variable and more professions. The Largos remind me a lot of the wraith in Stargate: Atlantis

Compo.8230:

It’s weekend , so we have a higher night activity. Let’s wait for the rest of the match =D

Greetings from MS

you always have high blob activity lol

Fizzlefry.1734:

But seriously guys… Don’t let a few suckers ruin your perception of an entire server.

-Fizzle.

That ship has sailed as far as AM are concerned, I don’t think any server that has played against them has any respect for them, you just have to look at the old match up threads to see, and they issues and complaints about them go further than exploiting.

Beri.3156:

Gandara pls come back =)=) I miss you guys <3

No.

In fact we will take you too Aurora? OK? MS can play with AM and RS.

Kain Francois.4328:

I understand she made a choice only a human could make, yadayadayada, but what exactly did she do as a god anyways? I honestly don’t see why anyone would worship her.

Stole my Kill.

Silberfederling.9302:

“Ugh not again. Looks like MS are as much cowardly kittens as RS are. Didn’t these lads loose the war?”

sooooo….

really? you are playing a game ( well a fantasy game) and you feel urged to refer to world war II.? well I am 24 years old can´t remember when I lost WW II. but THANKS. its lovely that there are the international servers and the germans, it makes it easy to flame against the population of a country because you loose in a game.

I enjoy the fights vs FSP and the Gandy they ARE lots of fun but WHY do you allways have to flame about nationality in a fictive online game???

You are going to have to grow a pair regarding that I am afraid, the French get it too and it is not exclusive to one server, the french say it vs the germans and vice versa, not just international servers. Some of it happens due to alliances and tactics between some servers which makes people grab on to the “its their mentality sure look at ww2” I am not saying its right, I am just saying its going to happen. Its the same instance that with the french servers they honestly like to port back to way point or run away from fights, this leads to oh loook French surrendering again etc etc. Again I am NOT saying it is right, but I am saying it is going to happen. Best way to deal is ignore it, make some saying of your own and just think, kitten them.

It doesnt help that every german server thats been encountered by fsp, gandara, even aurora glade (just look at their thread right now, sheesh) tends to play by giant zergs, can be 60 vs 20 at times. Not all the time but it happens more frequently. This is seen as an unfair tactic by a lot of people, that it shows no real skill. I am inclined to say that maybe the case but also that you have a high wvw population and have the people to have multiple zergs on multiple borders, and no one can really help their wvw population.