Guild Wars 2

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Every map will be invaded at least once per day, probably twice. In some cases, three times.
• Builds do not affect the rotation.
• The rotation is the same across all servers.
• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

So why are some maps playing twice and three times in less than four hours?

Why can’t we TRACK which maps we go to?

Can you IMAGINE someone with MS doing this?

How about a mom with two kids under 3?

What the HECK do you want us to do?

We’ve been begging you since the SECOND DAY to HELP US and now you give us the Cliff Notes of the RELEASE NOTES?

Man! How ridiculously unfair and shortsighted!!!

COME ON MAN!!!!

Bron.9647:

Thanks, I was wondering the same thing. I keep seeing CDI mentioned in the forums and until now, I had no idea what that meant.

Putting what the acronym means doesn’t say what the term means.

Exactly who is in the CDI?

How many players are in the CDI?

Please explain it as you would to an Army recruit – the term needs a clear definition from whmoever is using the term.

Many thanks.

Bubi.5237:

After watching “the video” (the presentation they streamed), for me it seems like an eotm +skyhammer+pve combo.

Ledges to knock enemies off.
Automated Turrets which shoots you.
Big Boom Cannon which destroys every enemy outer gate (basically opening every tower), so you can capture everything faster when you have superior numbers (timezones for da win!).
Keep Lord, which are.. “fun to fight”.
’Cos wvw players love to fight npcs, yup.

The map is nice, it’s beautiful, but.. I fear the mechanics will make it close to unplayable for me

Edit: Dulfy’s link for those who didn’t see it yet. http://dulfy.net/2015/03/14/gw2-egx-wvw-desert-borderlands-map-reveal/

It’s far from “new” and it’s going to be hated more than any other “change” in WvW.

I am insulted – we didn’t need disorientation, jumping and more cheating of the Devs, sliding maps sideways into WvW from BAD sources like PvP and EOTM!

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

From the update notes:

Personal story steps have been more clearly broken up into chapters that unlock every 10 levels so that each chapter can be played through immediately once it’s unlocked.

You might have been on a story step that is now in a chapter that isn’t unlocked yet. It’ll be visible once you reach the correct level.

We need direction.

My living story has green checkmarks all the way through, but ONLY season 1 says it is completed – HOW do we tell which aren’t done and WHY is it *so hard* to find what is NOT done?

I searched for “banging” and “Guild Wars 2” and found this posting, over a week old and no one has come from anet to answer this very disturbing bug or action?

This banging happens no where else, in no other program with no other programs open and quits/does not happen when the game is off.

The sound is jarring. I mean really jarring, especially when one has headphones on!

My take on this is that is it a bug and it’s in the sound modules. They could be trying to outsmart the sound card by using the same IRQ for sounds at the same time – uh, that doesn’t work.. never has, never will. The multithreading of the processor isn’t the same as the sound card which is still at a terrible disadvantage when it comes to processing sound to the human using that system.

Pandora has issues at times, they fix and fix and fix them. They are smart, they use twitter to get their tech to listen to their customers – they follow me and that’s the mark of a fixer who wants the kitten thing to work as fast as possible. Queues and tickets are a joke compared to the lightening fast fix I’ve had on Pandora by engineers. I’ve had several emails from Pandora – they don’t want even the “free” user to have issues since those issues reported are, as every manager/leader knows, for every one person reporting an issue there are ten who just won’t. The person reporting is doing the company a favor by keeping watch over the program and the integrity of that program and caring whether it improves or needs help at any time.

I feel valued by Pandora. They know how to use social media to do something that has made life hades for computer support and programmers alike, the blasted ticketing system that takes forever and doesn’t allow for personal communication.

We love this game so much that we will report that bugs that are not only annoying but dangerous, as this one certainly is.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1rm521/random_banging_noise/

Most of you sit with headphones so this noise is very jarring at the volume that many are setting their volumes. Lower your volumes and see if you still get the banging – mine went down when I turned down my volume. They are still there but they aren’t as frequent and they don’t jar my brain and body as much.

That kind of stress to your brain causes cortisol to be released – a HORRIBLE thing to do to your body unless you are under attack and running for your life, cortisol causes heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, and breaks down the immune system that is under enough assault already.

Just because a posting doesn’t have a lot of players up thumbing it doesn’t mean this issue doesn’t need immediate attention – and if that is the criteria for fixes, we’re sunk. This bug is dangerous to ears and to bodies.

It’s not one thing.

It’s many things.

Skills that go off, but do not do a thing.

Sounds going nuts again when you are totally alone.

TP not working again, and again and again through any given day.

WvW bullying is not addressed – ever.

Fly hackers who can and do change scores in WvW.

It’s like the game just imploded over the last few weeks – so many things not working…

…And did I mention the legally actionable bullying?

TehPwnerer.7215:

This Queensdale champion loot train needs to stop. Since the update, level 80s flock Queensdale all day and night and own the events in less than 20 seconds. It’s making it extremely difficult to level up in these zones when none of the events are doable because level 80s steam roll them before you can even get there.

I’ve been called a troll all night for requesting the level 80s to go somewhere more appropriate for them since I can’t go anywhere. “Go to other starter zones to level!” “Go to another zone!” “Craft!”

So because I’m leveling human characters all of which are under level 10, I now can’t do any of the Queensdale events because Anet has made them so appealing for level 80s to farm.

The people calling me a troll tell me that they log on and kill the champions all day – that’s all they do. Because it’s more profitable and easier than doing stuff like Orr or Frostgorge event farming.

So why does Orr keep getting nerfed but places like Queensdale have champions spawning every 3 minutes? Why do level 80 zones feel the need to populate ONLY QUEENSDALE (none of the other starters have this many convenient and this number of champions)??

Something needs to be done to motivate players to populate more maps in the game world – not just have everyone flock to Queensdale 24/7 to farm champions. Usually I’m doing dungeons or fractals with the guild to notice this but even at launch it wasn’t this bad.

Please tell me there’s a better way.

I happen to agree but with an even stronger caveat.

Lower level players ARE getting locked out of kills, but so are WEAKER characters – the stronger characters do “more damage” so get the “kill” and the “loot” while MANY are locked out.

This is supposed to be FUN for ALL, but some are trolling in there, some are being extremely unkind (!) and others are out and out lying to “noobs” thinking it’s funny – it’s not.

Aphs.9528:

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=585d28afe4b09017a83c32d8

I like the desert bl.

I like the alpine bl.

Now we need a unique one for the third.

Grow, not recede.

iateacat.3874:

I have a briefer evaluation:

Crap.

And as a woman who has played MMOs since the beginning of MMOs, I will add another brief, one word term:

Tears

Hammerguard.9834:

Ranger—Smokescale: Smoke Assault: This skill has switched places with Smoke Cloud so that it will now be the F2 skill for this pet. Fixed an issue in which this skill dealt higher than intended damage; it has been reduced by 50%.

Typical Anet. Always ready for nerfs but never ready for buffs.

Anet, since the inception of Guild Wars 2, has shown a disdain for Rangers all the way around.

1. F2 doens’t work consistently, if at all

2. Rangers pet’s have half the health of their PvE counterparts

3. Rangers, some, have been disallowed into PvP, our pets have been turned off so we are not tempted to go into PvP.

4. We are hated even now in WvW, PvP, Dungeons and Fractals – and for good reason

5. Anet closes down any real discussion of why Rangers are being nerfed while other professions continually become better, faster, stronger and able to one to two shot us while standing in stealth – and that’s not as a glassy Ranger either.

6. Anet doesn’t want the discussion about Rangers and why we are not as well thought out as our supposed peers.

Any additions?

We’re not asking for the world – we’re asking for things to work as intended and as they say they will and not to be put at a disadvantage in our favorite game modes – which for many isn’t PvE.

When players are blatantly pushing their AFK’ness in your face, time after time, it’s time for ANET to do something.

When the AFK’er flaunts his ability to AFK – all lose. The server’s honor is besmirched.

Out of all the pics I took of people standing afk at different times during the events, none speak as strongly as this one.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

1. World sizes are based on WvW play hours and players. People who do not play WvW, or are guests, do not factor into the population size of a server. If a world is locked, it is because it has a larger population than our “Full” threshold.

2. Yes and no. We look at timezone participation but timezone participation is hard to balance because people who play at certain times tend to all gravitate towards the same worlds so they can play with a lot of people. There are not enough off-hour worlds that we could link to create 24-hour coverage for every world. It just is not possible with our current world populations.

3. Yes, high population servers are usually the benchmark for when we link worlds. For example, if Blackgate has 10 players and it’s the highest populated server, then we try to link worlds so their populations are also around 10. We can’t be totally precise so sometimes worlds might end up with 12 or 9 but we try to get as close as possible.

We are having major issues in WvW mostly because the linking system makes it impossible for most servers to have enough players to cover what three linked servers or even two can field during many times of the day or night. can.

There is no ‘balance’ in the linking system, which I posit as a cause, not a symptom of WvW health and population roller-coaster ups and downs.

Secondly, where I used to be able to understand most people on my server, now I can understand few on many servers – Korean for one – doesn’t even come up on the screen – leaving blank pages and pages of chat text space where information about the enemy or properties should be. Spanish for another. I can’t speak either and I can’t communicate with others who can’t speak English at all. So how is that a ‘game’ and not a ‘we are working at cross purposes’ which we are much of the time, hurting the server and all players who are striving for points to win any skirmish or week?

How can anyone believe that if we don’t have a common language or approximately the same populations, that any ‘fight’ is viable or winnable? They aren’t.

The moves which might be lucrative for Anet coffers aren’t healthy for WvW which was supposed to be a cooperative environment with people who can and do get to know one another – it isn’t happening any longer.

And because of so many glitches and imbalances in blobs coupled with lack of a common language, many of us are spending fewer hours in WvW, both of which have yet to be addressed.

iwasoncecool.9734:

Darkhaven has been now linked with DB for 6 months, COME ON! Anet this has to be some kind of sick joke.

The LINKS need to go!

Give us back our servers.

Pets having half the health in WvW is becoming a thing that keeps us from being valued by our ‘groups’.

Pets not being able to keep up with us, forcing us to switch and forcing a cooldown far too close to any enemy.

Advantage enemy.

It’s time pets grew up. Juveniles no longer after almost five years as companions.

It’s time for the UI to be reworked so pets can stay with their owners.

Melanion.4892:

Hi.

A few weeks ago we had a dev do some amazing work reducing the lag in wvw and being completely honest with us about when/what was being done about it.

That was great, because skill lag really decreased in wvw. I was in SM fights with probably 40 players per side with minimal lag, but now it’s back. Did the same thing happen? Is it new problems?

Skill lag is back in a big way.

Skill lag is back in a big way.

Skill lag is back in a big way.

That’s about how long it takes many/most skills to go off after being hit repeatedly – read each line three times while hitting the 1 key and by the time you read it the third time, your skill might have gone off.

Or not and you are dead.

Thanks for more lies Anet.

Vavume.8065:

There is no point giving me back my server now, linking killed it, everyone left to other servers. I just hope they blow up all the servers and start again with 12 new ones.

If the links are unmade, the servers will shake out. I know it’s true because I went to a ‘smaller server’ even though it is a link for others. What makes it different is that I know people on it and I trust them, not the server itself. You will find friends, and that’s where you will be HAPPY to play no matter what.

I found out after 3.5 years of my heart and soul on one server, made gold galore, my reward tracks flew by but it wasn’t fun and it wasn’t friendly.

I found friendly people – and that’s what everyone in this game wants… a community spirit and a loyalty to friends as well as our servers when we get them back, we will rebuild them.

Those who desire a smaller server, will go to smaller servers.

Those who want BG will have to wait like everyone else who has had to wait to get into it over the last five years.

colesy.8490:

0/30/0/30/10, full berserker gear.

A full build with stats is probably, like me, what he was looking for – maybe with a bit of conversation and why and how…?

Balkep.9756:

Anet seems to hate rangers for some reason.
I wish there was a warning screen when you select a ranger class on character creation that “Rangers will never be fixed; their pets are absolutely useless and can only unnecessarily extend your agro radius, so you can get killed faster; their utility skills are a joke most of the time; they will never be able to deal with lvl 1 thieves”.

As a single-character kind of player, I’m now disappointed I’ve invested over 400 hours into a class that will always be weak and broken.

I agree with every single thought in your post.

Pretty sad to have a bug last over so many months.

awge.3852:

What to do against thieves overall? Do what I did:

Go into PvP 1 vs 1 arena with a thief friend, regardless of their skill level. Work your way to killing them, modify your build and gear as you deem it necessary. Use websites to build your character outside the game, so you don’t spend anytime in game looking for gear when you don’t know better. Put your ‘i think this works’ build in these forums so we can comment on your ideas. As you get better, challenge other thieves in the 1 vs 1 arena, until you feel strong enough, but do come back periodically to retest your skills and builds.

In my experience, I find that condition/toughness centered builds work best. There are certainly many variations in approach and I can share mine if you want, but it all will depend on your skill, your build can only take you so far as there are really skilled/experienced thief players out there.

Pro tip:
1. It’s essential for you to learn a thief’s approach, make a thief and practice with them in PvP, learn the flow of battle, or level them to 80 just for the single purpose of having fun.
2. Learn your ranger, we have a lot of (quite spreaded) survival options and damage options. When you have mastered your ranger, your weapon, utility and pet skills should flow as smoothly as an elementalist’s going through their elemental atonement rotation. The difference is that we can be more versatile since we have plenty of options, it’s just a matter of using them best the way that suits the situation AKA trashing the floor with that —- thief.
3. Learn to use your pet…. period.
4. Be open to losing, getting killed over and over by a thief until there is a permanent hole on your ranger’s back from all those backstabs, that’s how you will learn from your mistakes.

L2P?

How about you and anyone else who uses this phrase making youtube videos showing how instead of just ‘saying’ learn to play.

How is anyone supposed to learn without teaching in this or any game?

No, I can’t just “learn to play” – I have to have a mentor who is willing to show me how not just tell me to go learn how to play.

Inexor.7804:

Did want to do the Karka Queen for the trait, got on a “overflow-megaserver” (cz the original one was full I guess). There were only few player and most were afk, so possibility to spawn the Queen in time.
And after the old megaserver killed the Queen, no more players were put on the “overflow-megaserver”.

So in short: If you get on a “overflow-megaserver” for a Worldboss, just log out, you will not achieve anything.

What a great system.

So “World Boss” with the megaserver overflow just became “World Loss”.

Superior fail.

Rem.9627:

It seems as though after this most recent patch, I notice a huge lag spike when doing anything outside of tequatl. I cant even farm ores without lag spikes, I cant hit enemies without at least a 20 second delay. Also If I move to far from my starting position I get disconnected.

Please fix this, there are a lot of users with the same issue. Your QA better step it up a notch.

Yet another posting thread, the fourth, all about LAG.

If all these threads were merged like they should be John would be ANSWERING the question that every single world event attendee wants to know right now;

WHAT, if anything, is being done about the LAG?

JOHN MERGE THESE AND FIX THE LAG it is NOT on our sides!

Norrath.5910:

ANet #1: “Yo dude this skill is bugged, it’s doing 50% more damage than it should and we didn’t know about it during beta, what should we do?”

ANet #2: “Oh wow, we messed up. Which class was it?”

ANet #1: “Ranger.”

ANet #2: "WHAT!??? NERF it and break a completely different skill’s utility too! WE MUST PUNISH THOSE FILTHY RANGERS FOR HAVING SOMETHING GOOD. I bet they are hyped about our expansion too, even after we tried to kill it by making them into dedicated healers, I bet they are actually adapting to it and are calling it “viable”. They will suffer for having something good. I want it destroyed next hotfix.

ANet #1: But those are only for bugs right now, we want to wait and see if things are actually strong and not nerf it 2 days into the expansion.

ANet #2: Ranger being viable is a bug.

See my post… I am disgustged that supposed adults would ignore Rangers, give us a glimmer of hope (but not in the game modes we need) and then, as you said, slam us to the ground…

Ranger – Slammed to the ground since Pre-Release

Thanks, I just found my tagline.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

It’s good that it’s that way, though. Excluding BG, everyone wins some and everyone loses some. You can’t expect to always be at the top unless you’re always manipulating the system.

I can understand when people get upset over losing objectives or having unfavorable match ups but the obsession with always being #1 is something I can’t understand. Sometimes being on the losing team can be fun, you get challenging fights and you don’t have to go far to find action because it’s always at your door step.

Start looking on the bright side.

I can’t say I’d be against unlinking servers but I just want to remind anyone who reads this to relax and to remember that score and rewards aren’t everything. Being passionate and competitive is one thing, but when it gets in the way of your enjoyment, you might need to remind yourself that there’s always next week.

Mag doesn’t have a dog in this fight.

If you have an alt, and many do, (I do not) you’d see what I am told over and over and over.

They go back to the ‘biggest’ server becuase the smaller ones are linked in incomprehensible numbers against tiers above them.

That’s not fair nor equitible in anyone’s book.

I’ve played against almost ever server since 8 months after GW2 was released ( I was a late starter, I didn’t know WvW existed…), when you are outnumbered you may get rewards but you also get people not wanting to come in when 5-1 or queued for 20-50+ minutes. It’s demoralizing. It’s not fun and that’s why commanders are screaming for big fights on most servers, they can’t find numbers unless its a blob they have no hope against.

There are many different elements to the linking, but one thing it has done is taken away the ‘down times’ that are necessary for any server to be able to make gains when everyone else is asleep – except with linking the strongest servers are hiring mercs, and their populations are 24/7 with a link no matter whom they are against.

Palleon.1657:

I’m fairly new to WvW, but a long time GW2 player.

However, I was under the impression that the other servers players were fairly anonymous – which made it very odd when, last night, a player started private messaging me giving me abuse because apparently I had killed him when I was part of a “blob” and that I sucked, and should come and meet him one on one where he would teach me a lesson. He kept telling me that my server’s “blob” was too big, and that I should stop them from doing this style of play.

How exactly he thought I was going to be able to influence all the players on the server I was part of, I don’t know.

However, my question is – how do players on other servers know my name (I thought it just showed my class and server)? Is it normal they then contact you to give you abuse? And then.. is my server bad for having a group of players following a commander as he runs around taking castles?

It’s normal.

Sad, but normal.

Evil, but normal.

Childish, but normal.

Are we starting to comprehend that we need to change the definition of “normal” or just learn that many in our world, regardless of “age”, will never mature and will never, EVER be the people they should have become?

Report, Block, Move on.

I was taught that by a gamer whose wisdom I embraced and now my “world” on both sides, enemy AND “friendly” has become one of teamwork and respect.

You can’t control others’ actions but you can control your own reaction TO their actions.

My advice – do what I stated above, find your friends in being in WvW “regularly” whatever that is, become “known” by your kindness, loyalty and actions – actions like staying on tag… responding to calls… and never maligning anyone including an enemy.

WvW is the end game for Guild Wars 2 and it deserves much more respect and love from the Devs than it ever gets.

We will be getting a new, USED map in WvW…. looks amazingly like ETOM… and that makes me upset… we didn’t need more topsy turvey, disorienting, crazy-town maps IN WvW, we needed what we have fixed… like servers that are ten times your size going against you for no reason whatsoever… or having one so small against you that the win is not only assured, it’s embarrassingly lopsided.

Noir.3241:

Hi i’m working on astralaria t 4 collection and i have a problem with one item. Despite i got all 4 dragon magic collectibles , when i click to merge them 3 of them dissapeared(only Zhaitans left in my inv) and i didnt get the Elder dragons magic collcetible. Now im unable to continue my progress….I guess its some sort of a bug?!?! 0o

I had items returned for this very reason – it happened over a year ago and it’s happening now.

Novahh.7426:

To be fair, rangers and theirs are trash in WvW in squad lol I usually kick rangers and theirs too

You’d be alive far longer if you respected all good players on any toon they choose to play.

Don’t tell me you don’t wipe – all of us do, but when some are spec’d correctly and know their skills and abilities better than the other side, you get a huge bonus in all areas.

Not using all good players in a group because of ridiculous biases is why some very good players go into WvW, play for a while, do well but are never respected for the massive gains they are delivering to the team effort and almost never included when they absolutely should be in all things WvW, leave and never come back, being happier with groups that do foster cooperation and communication – which can be found in many groups in all other game modes BUT WvW. And this is especially pronounced in the last year.

Norrath.5910:

ANet #1: “Yo dude this skill is bugged, it’s doing 50% more damage than it should and we didn’t know about it during beta, what should we do?”

ANet #2: “Oh wow, we messed up. Which class was it?”

ANet #1: “Ranger.”

ANet #2: "WHAT!??? NERF it and break a completely different skill’s utility too! WE MUST PUNISH THOSE FILTHY RANGERS FOR HAVING SOMETHING GOOD. I bet they are hyped about our expansion too, even after we tried to kill it by making them into dedicated healers, I bet they are actually adapting to it and are calling it “viable”. They will suffer for having something good. I want it destroyed next hotfix.

ANet #1: But those are only for bugs right now, we want to wait and see if things are actually strong and not nerf it 2 days into the expansion.

ANet #2: Ranger being viable is a bug.

See my post… I am disgustged that supposed adults would ignore Rangers, give us a glimmer of hope (but not in the game modes we need) and then, as you said, slam us to the ground…

Ranger – Slammed to the ground since Pre-Release

Thanks, I just found my tagline.

Exeon.4358:

Send them some packs of salt in the mail XD

IF I were to do that… it would be cheese and wine… but I’d never do that.

JonPeters.5630:

Thank you all for being patient with this. Something we introduced on 3/16 broke passive mode. We believe we now have a fix for this and it is in testing. As soon as we confirm this fix has solved this issue we will push it to the live game at the first possible time.

Thanks,

Jon

And while we have your attention:

Why? Please why are pets not allowed to have a keybind? Why?

Are we the only ones who have this game breaking lack of a keybind that must be clicked on by a mouse????

I am really tired of this.

First it was mainly in WvW, but over time it has also been seen in PvE and PvP:

Our pets aren’t attacking – they are just standing there like they are stuck, they try to move, they try to animate, but they are stuck.

Why are characters, not just Rangers, not given the attention they need not to become corrupted and not be able to do “what is intended” in a game that garners millions of dollars a month for the game-maker?

Pets are told to kill – they don’t move.

Pets are told to use their f2 ability – nothing happens.

Pets are told to attack a character or person in-game, they attack or don’t attack that person – attack the wrong person.

Hello? Anyone home?

Pet mechanics are broken – not just f2, all of the pet mechanics are broken when you can’t get it to attack a single thing in any game mode.

It’s so darn intermittent it has to be written into the pet!

Dying is just so fun when your pet is your part of the reason you don’t die most of the time…

Not.

coglin.1867:

Sich.7103:

the old map with the new mechanic will be the same problem…. It’s not only the map… It’s all around…

How so?

I have seen no real evidence of any issue with the maps that would cause this, other then players feeding on one another fear and refusal to accept something new.

The maps are equivalent size.

They added varying aspects to each keep as was overwhelmingly demanded.

They changed the upgrade system to prevent the excessive supply trolls, as was a very popularly demanded.

They added an important event in the middle to draw all 3 sides into 3 way battles away from keeps.

They made it more difficult to turtle down and treb keeps from inside the safety of another keep, that was also strongly demanded to have done. Meaning you have to expose yourself more in order to attack and start a siege against another keep.

All changes that satiated the overwhelming demands of the public here on the forums.

How so?

It’s so automated that there is no personal interaction nor responsiblity to any solo person or small three man guilds and WOW are there a LOT of them.

Its sickening to see Anet nerft WvW instead of listening to the players in the first place.

We need far more health.

We need our pets to have at least as much life as pvE

We need mechanics that work.

We need our darn Alpine maps BACK, these are the worst ever and the daily to find the ruins can’t be done.

Fifty to twenty – Anet has no idea how to balance WvW but players do and many have said it, use only those who are playing to “place” any WvW server.

My gosh this is getting old after three years – now many of us have been told not to play our toons if they have specific bugs.

You may not know what’s going on in WvW, but the rest of us who have been here since pre-Release do and we are highly insulted by Anet.

Lazze.9870:

Toolbox.9375:

I’m half-wondering if some developer at ArenaNet was just giggling with a coworker going “wanna watch the Ranger players flip their lids? Watch this”.

Well, it’s either that, or they are clueless about their own game’s mechanics.

What was your first clue?

Sorry but they can’t even fix f2 not working, let alone not nerfing a needed skill to the ground, again… and again…. and again….

Gideon.6742:

I still really enjoy the game mode. I wish there were some new changes but there will always be a meta and some people won’t like it no matter what. Some people won’t like a new map no matter what. Some won’t be happy no matter how often Anet puts out messages. People are going to be unhappy no matter what. The game is getting older and older so the flare of many wvwer’s will die out, but it’s not totally due to lack of changes.

That is a terrible block of text op. Reads like a river of tears too.

Truth is either ignored, dismissed or acknowledged.

People are leaving WvW and the game… Anyone with a contact list over two years old knows this.

Bucket Lips.5017:

atheria.2837:

and what are you “winning”?

How about a context to your “question” which isn’t one…?

It’s a simple question that requires a simple answer. What are you winning by your server coming in 1st? Proof that you can PPT the most? or those ultra profitable extra shiny chests that you get? I’m curious

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Winning gives the server a reason to go in again NEXT week and try to win again.

That said, some servers are not given the opportunity to win by skill, they are hit by overwhelming and unbeatable numbers just because the servers are mostly in the wrong tiers.

Winning once in 3 weeks isn’t asking for a lot – some servers haven’t won AT ALL since the end of the 2nd WvW season which makes for transfers and lower numbers on servers that can’t win no matter what.

What do we get for winning? Morale.

Yuffi.2430:

Saving WvW (if it can be done) requires resources to be committed by Anet, a commercial company. Perhaps one of the reasons that Anet has not seemed to take WvW as seriously as they could is that it probably does not generate much revenue for them. I think there is a missed opportunity here, so I’m going to imagine a WvW vendor that takes Gems and ask what would have appealed to you. All ideas welcome, from the serious to the seriously fun.

I’ll start with a couple to get the idea rolling:
Custom Golem skins (new item).
Guild claiming fireworks (already exists, unavailable atm but I liked them.
Guild “upgrade” so dolyaks from claimed camps show the Guild logo (new item).

So… what would you have bought in WvW?

Upgrade for all siege to lower supply cost thereof to a manageable amount for small groups

Grant Gertz.7524:

Worlds have now been re-linked.

Here are the worlds for NA:
• Blackgate
• Jade Quarry
• Tarnished Coast
• Maguuma, Eredon Terrace
• Yak’s Bend, Anvil Rock
• Fort Aspenwood, Sanctum of Rall
• Sea of Sorrows, Ehmry Bay
• Stormbluff Isle, Gate of Madness
• Dragonbrand, Borlis Pass, Kaineng
• Northern Shiverpeaks, Sorrow’s Furnace
• Henge of Denravi, Ferguson’s Crossing, Isle of Janthir
• Crystal Desert, Darkhaven, Devona’s Rest

This is a HORRID joke, right?

Maguuma, who stands down just like Yak’s Bend did, never needed a link and now you like them IN Tier 1?

Whoever is working in WvW at this company has ZERO experience in playing WvW and can’t SEE what is happening first hand.

This is disheartening for all WvW players, not just those abused at the very top.

Ashen.2907:

anduriell.6280:

Mcrocha.3891:

Wildfang.3271:

Just posting this on behalf of my friend, Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 who got suspended.

“Apologies to all for my bad behavior. I will update the thread when my suspension is over which is currently the 13th of October, but I have contacted support about that duration. Thanks all.”

Brilliant lol, our thread leader got suspended.

That’s what you get for trying to help here?

I suppose its all a matter of what you consider help. Verbally abusing the moderators on the very boards they moderate might be the problem.

As one who has been abused by moderators in email, I can well understand why someone would “go off” after working so darn hard while not seeing improvements but seeing additions that are just as problem ridden.

Eroder.7698:

Pancake.3092:

Maybe they’re trying to create stable tiers?

Making JQ full and unlinked guarantees they stay T2 for a long time to come. TC without a link can’t compete in T1. Mag and YB linked and open mean they stay top tier, BG perma full but rightly so (even though its unfair that mag stays open).

But then they make weird matchups -

FA are going to lose every single skirmish this week. Everyone hates being placed in a matchup with YB – but you put 2 extremely volatile servers JQ and TC with them (as if trying to get them to implode).

Only goal I see is encouraging transfers. Maybe they see that WvW volatility can be lucrative ($20+ a pop to a “very high” server) and are going to milk it dry rather than actually making it fun and fair.

This is exactly it, they see an opportunity for $$$$, so screw logic and the players… just chase the dollars.

We need to know who it is in Anet who thinks that this ‘version’ of WvW is viable for the players !

Don’t pick on the servers; ask those who write the software why they aren’t in the game with us daily.

slingblade.1437:

I agree that the word Ranger in-and-of itself does not mean archer. However, Anet’s own description of the class opens with these words: “Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows.” This has already been posted a million times. One hand doesn’t seem to know what the other is doing after reading those words, and seeing the reality of GW2 Rangers and their bows.

This one comment should be all the “guidance” that Anet needs.

Why did OUR range get cut from 1200 to 900? That makes no sense!

Silberfisch.3046:

My only problem so far is something that has been already adressed, but it remains my main problem: These changes reduce build flexibility, and quite drastically so.
No more option to use 2 adept or master tier traits if you want to. No more builds that use more than 3 traitlines.
These do cut down on the options availlable to players.

Admittedly however, I don’t see any really applicable fix for those with the new system. At least not for the second problem. So giving constructive criticism is sadly not really an option for me.

But I’m trying not to be overly negative. I’ll learn to adapt like anybody else. And on the plus side, a lot of the changes inside the traitlines look promising.

As with most changes, we get one part uppers, one part downers and one part candy.

Big problem that I will find hard to swallow… you hit the nail on the head.

If I choose two skills that are in the same tier, as I do on many of my builds, I will be completely lost – as will many whose skills match their play style.

My play style isn’t anyone else’s but these changes seem to want to force every single one of us to play, not our way, but a new and more rigid way without any real choices.

Lord Kuru.3685:

In my day, we frequently saw announcements in Lions Arch like: “Massive Golem Rush in 5 minutes in EB,” or “Our Garri needs help right now, please come.”

This got people curious and excited about WvW. This is an MMO, people love community events, and that’s exactly what these were. If you never entered WvW before, you’d come in for the first time with a sense of purpose and belonging and that hooked you in. Now people come into WvW for the first time, wander about aimlessly by themselves, get ganked a couple times, log out and never return.

Megaservers was a massive loss for WvW. (Player-run PvE events are very few and far between also these days.)

I agree, the Megaserver changed the very basics of WvW – the callout and rally.

Horrid choice – and WvW hasn’t been the same since.

Oh, let’s not forget the recruiting aspect of megaservers, we can’t – too many NOT on our server whom we are AGAINST would hear us and know we are asking for more players… really the worst of all situations and Anet didn’t care one bit.

Megaserver=Contestant for biggest fail change in the game.

Eurantien.4632:

This pet was amazing. Was its damage too high? Yes. But what is it that really made this pet good? The smoke field. So, by nerfing the damage by 50% (which, I can live with) AND removing the ability to call on the smokefield when needed is asinine. Smoke field should, without a doubt, be the F2 for this pet.

This goes to show how other professions keep their overpowered abilities in PvE and Ranger gets zip to use where it counts, matters and would even garner many of us a viewer-ship online.

They aren’t comprehending allowing Ranger to shine…

Duel us – maybe the devs need to duel us and see how beatable or unbeatable we are against their darn overpowered OTHER toons.

Buffed NPCs mean less of us have a chance to get the three knights down.

Why were the NPCs buffed? WHY? They were hard enough with 60+ players, now we have 50 or LESS and have MORE damage to mitigate and the NPC has more hit points?!?!

Everyone was commenting on the conditions change – this didn’t get better, it just got much worse.

Gaile Gray.6029:

The team is aware of this issue, it was actually formally entered as a bug some days ago, and they will get a fix in place as soon as possible.

Also, just a note: When you see multiple threads on the forum about the same issue, it would be greatly appreciate if you’d flag them as duplicates. I became aware of the duplicates when someone pointed out that there were five (and I found a sixth) threads on the same subject. Please flag duplicate posts (by clicking the flag in the lower right). Also, please do not post identical comments in multiple posts, it just clogs down discussions and does nothing to aid in getting an issue resolved.

Thanks for understanding.

Blude.6812:

mrgn.9183:

Fix this ASAP please

Yep, and please respond to one of many threads about this concern.
I can see these threads being merged and that would concern me too.

You suggestion is great: Respond to one of many threads. Good advice. As you can see, the threads were merged, and now we have a cacophony of repeated, often identical comments from the same players. So what you said is effective: Post on one thread on the subject. In addition, flagging the duplicates for merging would be helpful, too!

A week goes by. Yet another weekend. Yet another WvW reset without pets working. More dungeon groups kicking out Rangers summarily. More fractals failing with the major DPS in some groups useless or worse.

“Aware of the issue” tells the players who are being hurt absolutely nothing.

We begged for help – and we sent in-game and forum bug reports but they were ignored and have been until this very day.

All of you took off for your weekend and left us with a horrid mess, which in any other business would cost you quite a bit, but since there is no “fee” for playing, the only thing we can do is… nothing… we can’t play with our pets continually being aggressive, we just can not.

It’s totally incredible that right after telling us it was being worked on, players were then scolded for sending in tickets because we have been and are being put off.

We did pay for the game or games we play and it’s so unfair for this company which tells all “play the way you want to” to not allow any Ranger to play at all.

OMNIBUS.2913:

Had another idea, Alternate character voices( i have 2 male humans and i wish 1 had a different voice)

I’d like a chance to choose my voice – one register for all races, some monotone, are annoying beyond measure.

Why isn’t Anet adding to the voices like they are adding to the Lion’s Arch art???

FrizzFreston.5290:

Personally I would’ve settled for a completely different system without the whole all traits that were previously belonging to a different system.

I think the one thing here that is more “damaging” is that they try to move from one system to another. All the old traits need to adjust to a new system which basically wasn’t made for these traits. Making the choices less "fun"as some are just alot less enticing than others, because previously you would combines some of the early traits for example. Also alot of people invested by buying specific armor and gear for their build in the form of ascended weaponary and such and after all that fine tuning they pull out the rug from under us because they want a new rug which will be better able for future additions. (Which could be explained as a necessary evil or something that’s not worth it) Plus who’s not to say they won’t do this later on when they change their minds again.

Both systems are fine imo, One has more customisation possible and allows for more experimentation. (something that was part of GW1) The other is very streamlined and makes it alot easier to switch between different builds because of the clearer and limited options. It’s also alot more accessible for new players. (Then again this game is too old imo to accommodate for new players, and should look more what it can do for the older players. Changing the foundations of the game to me feels like they’re just making the same game with the same content while changing how the game works, but not actually providing any sustainable new content. So hopefully this new system will allow for more future additions faster rather than changing the foundation again.

I honestly don’t think that anyone who has built the new system has even taken into account the hundreds or thousands in “gold” that have been spent on present gear.

Not one thought or care.

Missy.7356:

Xantalas.1732:

Official reply to my report, not forgetting to add that i tried MYSELF!

“We wanted to let you know that we are aware of player concerns about WvW griefing. In fact, the development team is currently reviewing WvW and assessing some of its properties to try to discourage disruptive gameplay while allowing players to gain their achievements.

World-versus-World gameplay is designed for everyone, and we do not want to discourage players from fighting for their world, whether they are daily players, occasional achievement hunters, or people who are completely new to the format. The team will continue to look at possible improvements for the future. We don’t have a timeframe for any changes that may take place in the future, but we wanted you to know that this subject is a point of discussion and consideration amongst the devs.

Regards,

GM Corvt"

Read: WE DO NOT CARE!!!

Thats a copy/paste generic answer, I had one that said exact same thing about 6 months ago when I reported a siege troll (who is still around today)

These GMs are abusive and are neglecting their “jobs”.

If it is a paid position SHAME on them.

If it is a volunteer, SHAME on Anet!

Darkness.9732:

1) Healing spring is a Trap now, so Rune of Trapper should give you 3 sec of stealth when you use this skill. But it doesnt.

2) In final (23 june) realease notes it is said:
“Hidden Barbs: Bleeding you cause deals 33% more damage.”
But INGAME it is 20%.

Can devs please help rangers on theses problems? I would love to fully test my ranger..but can’ t with this bugs

3) Healing Spring does not heal pets or allies — and it does still say it will.

4) Healing Spring is listed as a “Trap” but doesn’t do a thing that traps DO.

Diku.2546:

Hi everybody,

This is a sub-topic thread from a parent thread found here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Reboot-the-Base-Map-Mechanic-Population/first#post5762408

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Hi anonymous,

Thanks for suggesting the idea to Dissolve Servers & Embrace Megaserver as it relates to the New Map Mechanic that I’m poposing.

I’m setting up this sub-topic thread to continue this discussion in detail here to keep the parent thread focused on topic about Reboot Base Map Mechanic & Population.

Appreciate your feedback & looking forward to this discussion with you & the WvW Community.

Diku

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No,

WvW is where we are separate and not equal.

There are so many good suggestions that Anet hasn’t responded to about WvW – they are going to destroy their own game-mode with sheer ignorance and lack of care for their players/customers.