Guild Wars 2

This ‘feature’ never should have been introduced. Just refund the gold to those guilds – shouldn’t be too many lel…

please do it
good old times

Guys please dont loose focus — this is about how to fix a mode that is totally broken atm, not about collecting ideas to enhance a working mode to make it more shiny. TY

PS: please don’t forget about stability…

1. STABILITY REWORK (I cant stress this enough — almost NONE will return even if everything gets fixed and you give away free legendaries but stability isn’t looked into)
2. reduce power creep, or give us something similar to guard stacks (un-tie them from wvw lvl and remove the need to kill guards to get them)
3. the new borderland needs to go. reworking it might also be an option, but let’s be honest: considering the time it needs to shrink it and to remove its mazes, it might be easier to start from scratch, reusing only the graphics etc
4. reset night. we were promised to get it back on friday few weeks after HoT launch. check your calender!
5. QoL stuff… maybe start communicating with us? Finally you ask for suggestions, after all those years. Guess what: check pages 1-500 of this subforum and you will find a hundred copies of the same black box containing all those reasons why people finally got frustrated enough to make the choice of ditching their favorite-game-for-the-last-3.5-years only weeks after the launch of the so anticipated expansion.

First 1.5 years I played PvE only, then moved on to WvW (fracs and dungeons from time to time, pvp when in wvw queue). Had a great time in WvW, but you guys now the rest of its story… Had some hopes for HoT, but it brought even more frustration:
- dungeons not worth doing for me anymore
- together with a friend and pugs we played fracs to 100 for the skin, took us 3 days, then never touched again (hard fracs not worth repeating, farming easy fracs→NO TY, Im no robot srsly)
Last 6 months of playing this game, especially WvW, was just frustrating, only nostalgia keeping me on board. HoT was the final proof that Anet has NO CLUE what made this game great. I hate them for HoT. I made a Rev, played it for 30min in WvW, then relogged guard and never touched it again.

HoT turned your gf GW2 into a cheating b!7ch. It’s time to ditch her, simple as that.

If you don’t know what to do:
rocket league and naval action are my new gfs

Frank Underwood. <-First letters only.

I really like these changes, cant believe it myself
But the “no revive while in combat” might have a bigger downside since it makes commander focussing more rewarding. On the other hand, ressing a dead commander is impossible in most occasions, so yes I like these changes. Please keep listenening to those WvW peeps! PS: How about giving us back old reset night next?

@rewards
I know rewards suck BUT think about the sort of people who get attrackted and cause queues when there are big rewards. I wouldnt want to play side by side with them, just saying.

Wow I just woke up and was like “time to try rev” even though im married to my guard. What a coincidence, wow. Guess it’s Wichter 3 for today then. And I was about to buy a total makeover thingie… What an idiot I was to believe character creation would work. You know, normally they only **** wvw in the ****

KaosNinja.4967:

a month and 1 day. still nothing but words and inaction.

Come visit the WvW Forum, 3 years of ignorance you will find. I remember when they released a patch introducing such incredible lag making it unplayable. Took them 2+ weeks to leave a word on forums. We can’t demand so much, a ‘count skins in wardrobe’ bug is serious business :O It’s not like you payed for a working game. Such standards unreachable!

Thank you! But really, FIX THE COLLECTION NOW!!!! all your algorithm has to do is count the fractal skins O.O

9 days, still no fix. GJ, I knew I could trust you with my 100 bucks… NOT. Thank you so much for working so hard….

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I want to play fractals and WvW, maybe continue HoT story from time to time. I dont have much time atm and mastery leveling taking so long prevents me from even thinking about proceeding story. Instead I spent 2 hours in CoF so I dont have to worry about getting gated in fractals. So atm, all I experience are the QoL changes from HoT and finally some use for my experience boosters.

About the problem with ring and infusion not appearing in mystic forge window after being extracted: I took some other rings which are visible and crafted new infusions from the extracted ones, using both artificer and the option of the fotm supplier. Seems all of them are not visible in the mystic forge window and I lack AR now so I cannot proceed with higher fractals as planned. GG

Just used two of the new fractal extractors to split the agony infusions from my infused rings. Both the infusions and rings do not appear in the mystic forge window, so they cant be used to craft an attuned ring now.

Still no official response, WOW.
I didn’t preorder HoT because i lost trust a year ago. Seems they have a whole team brainstorming day’n’night to prove all my doubts Whats next, golem week forever? No stab year? Fix lag and never touch wvw again, best solution for everyone (sadly).

I am very disappointed about the reset time change. It ruins half the weekend for the reason posted a hundred times before my post and if some of the responsible devs ever played wvw seriously they should have known this. Golem week was not enough, eh?! If you need to shift reset night to coincide with HoT release then pls do it one-time and make the first matchup a 6-day week (and following ones 7 again).

BTW: please change your name to EA 2.0, you earned it

Suggestion for a simple-to-implement shield rework

Shield of Judgment #4
add Apply Aegis (5s) on allies in the cone.
(Shield skills should be defensive group support. That’s what Aegis is for.)
maybe increase damage to ~1k but Aegis on 20s cd is nice enough

Shield of Absorption #5
change knockBACK to knockDOWN (2s) (-back is a nope for 99% of pve, -down is still nice for offensive pvp builds)
remove the ‘detonate dome’ and move it to the initial cast instead, increase the heal to 1.5k
Adjust cast time to 1/2s to pop the skill and dont root the player to keep the dome up.
Please fix the dome duration or update the tooltip…

Pretty sure it’s not perfect and needs to be tested. But srsly it’s time to rework this kitten…

Orochimaru.4730:

Lowering the cap is not a fix, it means less players being able to play.

Thats why it says temporary. In terms of lag, play might be the wrong word here And about HoT: Those queues on all three borders will last at most a week i bet, but after that EB might have bigger queues than ever before.

However, I prefer to wait longer in queue for fun in wvw than fast hopping into a lagfest and frustrated 1-spamming (if it even works…)

Atoss.1056:

can ArenaNet lower the map cap (…) this temporary fix would help all the players a lot to enjoy the game as we should be able to.

This.

Edit: I preorder the ultimate thingi if it gets adressed like this within this week.

Not to mention guardian shield, best joke ingame.

I know many ppl will disagree with my pov, but the recent reveal of torch for warriors and warhorn for eles led me to write this.

When GW2 was created, the game designers & co spent a lot of time to carefully create the classes we used to know, and each class got access to a pool of weapons. These pools excluded certain weapons for certain classes for a reason. Now with HoT every class shall get a ‘new’ weapon, which leads to the question: why NOW and not 3 years earlier?

So this every class has to get a new weapon with shiny skills feels like we need to sell our stuff and need sth new but dont want much work and thinking hurts .
At least that explains the weird weapon choices and poorly designed traits/skills (LB trap for guard with inversed order, low dps, virtue cast times etc pp).
In the mean time you increase WvW map cap without countering the lag at the same time. It all looks so shiny but I already see the ‘no elite spec’ lfgs one week after release incoming for a reason…

GN8

Glad to read this, though we read such promises before and you know the results. GL though, you will need it!

PS: Before you start to address enhancements such as matchmaking, scoring, population balancing, PLEASE focus THE technical issue first:
After 3 years we still have Lag, and it was ‘meh’ to ‘ok’ when the map cap decreased, but with the increase its often unplayable now……………………………………

You guys at Anet must be drunk as hell or just plainly stupid. I fear the latter aplies. Please log into EB now and try to cast a skill. GL!

PS: And you srsly ‘stress test’ your new BL… A whole community laughs at your face right now.

illenos.5134:

Liar! Anet doesn’t talk with us! xD

You got me But I swear I heard some Morgan Freeman voice inside my head

@Path of Exile
atmosphere looks awesome, reminds me a bit of Titan Quest (with different setting ofc), will try it out!

- finished my bachelor thesis
- listened to my PC downloading GTA V
- played some GTA V with a friend
- started rewatching HP movies for the good ol’ times
- finished 4th season Dr. House
- few pve dungeon runs (SHAME)

in case you wonder: semester ended ~2 weeks ago, last bachelor exam was friday, so my only week off before I have to get back studying for the next exam I enter WvW and Anet screams ‘fvch you’ right into my face ;-( I had been looking forward to this free week for a month :/

OOH OOH I HAVE ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!

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Why isnt golem event EOTM exclusive?
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How about you leave us a map without this event? Did someone think about the people who dont want to play messed up wvw for an entire week?

Please stop this ‘event’; people either karma-train and die from bordom or wait forever for someone being lost enough to tag up for fights…

One day ok but ONE WEEK… this is a punch in the face of the whole wvw community, you guys must really hate us ;(

yesterday on reset for 4hours, SFR bl, lowest lag in weeks (rubberbanding spike whenever we got into range of a 40+v40+, but the spike disappeared just as fast).

few days ago i was suffering the same unplayable skilllag as everyone, now it was gone for one night and there are many other mu’s WITH the same old lag, thats puzzles me…

Taking a break until they fixed it, playing a game with ppl teleporting every few seconds and skills going off with rng delay gives me serious hedache…

^THIS^
Since the stab patch introducing horrible lag I was alternating between ragequitting and then giving it a try again – i love WvW. But at this point it just stopped to be any fun playing. Though people will buy the expansion and Anet will be like ‘we do everything right’ so here I say bb, thanks for the fun fights, see you in another game that does not suffer multiple seconds of lag.

@dancingmonkey
You didn’t get anything did you? facepalm

|><| Voting for OS arena as BL map instead of Desert thingie |><|

Will the increased lag since last weeks patch be fixed with the release of this map?
Will the additional ‘game mechanics’ make lag even worse?
Will you ever play your map once it is released to realize ppl currently ragequit wvw during prime time as skill lag now makes it unplayable even in 40vs40? (not even speaking of 3way)
Will you ever realize that your target audience, the wvw addicts, widely detest the introduction of pve mechanics into wvw?

~Sincerely, a frustrated player.

The lag increase happened definitely on patch day last week, whole map/ts was upset about it, and 40vs40 is enough to cause it. You can even see ppl ‘stuttering’ around now too. This patch definitely did some great work on breaking wvw fun down, devs must be proud right now, GG! Keep it up like this and next season will be fought by NPCs…

PS: I bet 1g on Hyleks

stability at all times:
http://9gag.com/gag/awKyMGW

tbh the lag increase since last patch is kittening me off much more for now, not only skilllag, now i also see ppl ‘stuttering’ around while the game runs with smooth fps and <50ms ping, this is just BS and gives me headache, and it doesnt need a big 3way for this to happen, 40vs40 is enough

@stab from what i experienced so far the melee train is still running and the pirateship kitten is only happening during first minutes of the fight: it starts with a ranged stand off, and once enough casters died mt pushes in. groundtargetable WoR is frickin awesome right now, theres so many pewpew rangers who ‘know nothing’ xD but this doesnt change the fact that numbers rigtht now matter more than ever before, so its like in real life: f v ck intelligent ppl who organize guilds and stuff, we cant let stu p id scrubs loose to them even with bigger numbers, they need to buy our latest gem store thingies!!!

Its rediculously easy now to catch ppl with guard ham#5+medi port as was suggested earlier in this thread, didnt test it in a huge blobVblob yet but its the death for any outnumbered zerg now as they seem to run TONS of ranged slackers now… and most of them dont seems to realize what happens to them before support AoE and GS#2 drop them insanely quick while they are knockbacked from trying to run out. Might test that in a pirateship scenario later, saving my a22 with wor and gs#3+elite. Maybe wor and running through our ranged bomb might already be enough. Im curious, but at least guard seems far from dead

And if CCing backline to death becomes part of the new ‘meta’ or whatever, we have ranged slackers QQing about stab nerf incoming XD

@Nike
So i tried Eb yesterday, the pirateship was real, and it was dodge the range bomb with stab or dodge into a line w/o stab and be downed in 1s, dead in 3. GL with healing the few guys that get caught in the CC+range bomb and suck up the ranged burst of 50+ ppl

PS: the only real fun happened when we pushed with our melee after the opponents had many casualties and were a bit scattered. so we ‘boarded’ their ship^^

The ‘N’ isnt lost due to lack of stab – where i play, necros find places in melee parties and get stab from guards, only scrubs used to run 4+ guards in one party, thats why i dont get the ‘perma stab’ problem…

Another suggestion to nerf stab in an acceptable way that still allows large scale melee combat:
Introduce some sort of stab cooldown to prevent parties from running perma stab: like every 5 seconds are followed by a 2 seconds period, during which you are immune to stab, so no stab can be applied to you and stab stacking gets capped to 5s (or sth similar)

@sorel
you will need min 2 portals for that, and its most likely ppl scout the mesmers and everyone stacks on the portals, thats why portal bombs arent really an option since idk when

Consider this:
Hills keep on Bl, one blob at the inner center gate, stacking at the end of the bridge, opposing blob holding the other side of the bridge. How to take the keep (w/o using the north inner gate to keep things simple)?
1. ppl pushing in small groups => free kills for free casters, even with auto attack
2. siege => other side will use siege too => siege wars 2 => sucks
3. ppl pushing coordinatedly, defenders holds cd’s till they push really close, then line/static/cc-bomb the push in front, on top, lines even behind, ppl perma cc’d, 10 icebows and well bombs=>everyone is dead
4. wait for the defenders to push, until next update will redirect you to LA
5. close game and have fun

PS: what really bothers me is from posts you can tell most ppl now happy about the stab changes are ranged slacking behind and most likely not on ts, never seen a gvg and did not figure how to dodge a pushing melee train (hint: they often move linear and predictable)

PPS: with this patch many good warrs/guards are likely to guit the game, including commanders, wvw eotm-style incoming, have fun (WHO THE HELL NEEDS TO FARM KARMA?)

@sorel
its not about using the exact same tactics, also about EXACT timing, banner coordination, stab chains, how often do you hear pug coms hoping for a single ele to call their water fields?

@kontrolle
“I hope the safety noobblob spam shouts ftw strategie died today.”
No need to hope, its already dead. Give it 2 weeks and youll regret your words…
“This is what you all deserve, feel the pain.
My main is engineer since release! So i am used to having no stability. "
Sounds like you are that kind of guy standing back there free casting, ofc not on TS, while others do the hard work…

PS: since when does aoe spamming require ‘skill’? what did i miss?

@sorel
here is your new meta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJokTxBjCd0
have fun dying from boredom, and thats even before stab patch

another patch and another time, wvw is broken to pieces. just rage quitted from eb where the map chat was full of ppl reporting same issues with normal ping (from what options now say). its not only skill lag like hell, also seeing ppl ‘stuttering’ around. im done with this kitten, spent a decent amount of money in your beloved gem store but this.. srsly, skill lag was already breaking the fun so often but ppl still kept playing, thats how much they love wvw fights, but now its kittening unplayable. GG have fun in pve and trying to get your pvp esport popular while ignoring gvg scene with more ppl watching it on twitch. this is just frustrating without end, you done kittened it up…

ps: your forum turning vulgar f v ckz into kittens, thats what you have time for?

After creating a full ascended PVT armor set for WvW(!), adding exuberance runes for ~60g and running around with 30k HP (inc. stacks)…

…I turned 180 degrees, theorycrafted a nice dps/tank hybrid build, got the stuff and like it much more. Simple reason: if you get your positioning done, you can survive easily with coordinated people on TS. If not and you get stuck, hammer stuns chained onto you while dazed, no available stat combo will keep you alive. So better kill your enemy instead of sucking all the damage and hitting like a mild summer breeze. Get the health/toughness pool you feel comfortable with, rest should be spent on optimizing dps/support, so no place for exuberance with medium health pool. Just my 2 cents about exuberance in WvW…
As for PvE, it is dps only so exuberance has no place there, PvP I never tried tanky builds so cannot tell, cheers!

Heya!

Suggestion:
Fractal titles (i.e. including personal reward level)

Reason:
With the growing amount of ppl ‘selling’ dungeons, fractals actually remain the only instance where success cannot be achieved only through money. The “Dungeon Master” title, once a sign of experience, now is simply buyable. Sure, to reach higher fracs one has to invest more and more money for AR, but one does not simply beat those without experience and skill (don’t get me wrong here, it’s that kind of skill achievable through ‘practice’). As such, fractal weapons to some point became the only items remaining that actually need to be achieved (not massive grind of whatever or bought with tons of gold like legendaries). Thus, fractals deserve an own category of titles (i.e. generic including lvl) imo.
Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment

Same problem over here with a similar system, might have something to do with the 4GB of VRAM. (driver 310.70, havent tried 310.90 yet)