Guild Wars 2

Tyler Bearce.3427:

This daily is no longer possible. Yes, we need to fix the fact achievement still shows up as a Daily. The same is true for the WvW Veteran Slayer achievement.

“Need to fix” becomes a regularly spoken lie after a while when things go on being broken year after year – and so many things and mechanics are broken already in WvW.

We were promised a better WvW, not one where solo and small guilds are not only left out but you opened the wrong servers who were already overwhelming those who are against them.

When the “new” maps were first noised, there was no talk of replacing our beloved Alpine BL maps! and then you made them almost exactly like the hated and mostly avoided ETOM that most of us would love to see deleted altogether.

You guys have no idea what you’re doing ot WvW and it seems you don’t care.

vgomes.7380:

So i decided to start posting some sketches i’v made, i’v quick painted em even cause i can’t rlly digital paint, it’s just so the diffrent “materials” were easier to tell from one another a Palm Tree Pony, and a Flowery Long Hair

Hope you like it :P more will come meanwhile, i rlly enjoyd drawing those

They need skin artists like YOU.

Sorry ANET, you’re taking from a pool of “employees” when you could have contests for best skins and award real money – what a silly company.

cafard.8953:

Found on reddit:

ArenaColin posted:

As an engineer main, this remains one of those things I’d love to see addressed…But the reality is we need the bulk of our own internal engineers (coders!) to continue to focus on stuff like our major WvW overhaul right now we’ve been working on for over a year that’s much higher priority for the game over-all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3u7bo1/no_hope_for_legendary_effect_on_engineer/cxcqyvo

Bit split here between cautious optimism considering the current state and cold cynicism considering pretty much every single new ‘feature’ introduced until now. I guess i’ll hug EB while i can in case it’s replaced by EotM by surprise.

If Anet takes away EB they might as well close WvW.

DevilishLyx.2340:

So as always no real WvW updates or fixes, as usual.
But again, just before a DLC release, sorry expansion, they will release some QoL improvements to make it seem they are again going to work on WvW, to get us to buy the DLC, I mean expansion.

QoL improvements before a DLC release, TICK
We cant talk about it TICK
Soon™ TICK!

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

we release on our own cadence

As before, you cant release something you dont have!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kk3CDbAO0M

WvW will be destroyed when they remove the stats that so many worked so hard to get…

New content? We haven’t seen any good new content for WvW in over three years.

Removing some would help. Starting with links.

I think you and the other devs are going at this issue all wrong.

You have a population of WvW’ers who do almost nothing else BUT WvW.

Why not WvW dedicated servers?

I’d rather “guest” to do pve (pvp doesn’t matter since it’s still an instance in an instance) than be stuck on uneven servers where numbers matter more than strategy.

Anet is giving $25,000 to a pvp (cough) winner when the real end game is WvW and the possibilities are endless what Anet could have and can still do with WvW do make it a far more challenging (not grind, just even) with numbers being about the same during the “day” and “night” by balancing by region – shutting the door on any server that gets to its numbers – case closed, until – say 1% is lowered in any server then people may join it.

1%-5% isn’t a problem but 20-50% more is a continuing issue on some servers – ask some who are going against numbers they are not able to counter – not at all.

Imbalance is built in when some have a choice not to go into WvW and some don’t even know it exists.

I certainly didn’t know WvW existed AT ALL for the first eight months of the game – and I was in on Pre-Release weekend and haven’t had a break from the game since…

WvW Servers -no more huge inequities and demoralizing of servers – guest to any server to play pve – but give us our playground – please.

Same here.

Many times getting events done – getting gold on those events but no completion of the achievement.

Bugged is a thing for this new story line…

Now we know why it was late – now we know that it wasn’t ready.

Huge mistake Anet… all these arguments against you making this a moneywall and nothing more.

Making guilds far less accessible than they are now – not as much community members and examples but walled off from all.

How can you do this?

How can you ignore that the very poor will NOT be the only ones who suffer in this horrid but needed quality of life change that was requested probably more than any other to be able to support our BLs in WvW, not to enrich those who take our idea and make it what it was never intended to be.

The very nature of "warfare’ that works? It’s the fact that you have good communication – and this is and will be horrid for the poor; but it is terrible for any WvW community.
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Our (WvW Community) original idea:

Line up! (Two tags are up, BLUE and RED are up and there are 25 players around both tags(and guys the other colors are STUPID – GREEN was just left out????))

The tags separate and the groups even out… the odd person choooing either side.

Ok, BLUE go get xxx tower

RED will be zergbusting and keeping them busy

READY?! GO!

A simple change that we needed for the quality of life to be organized in WvW, Anet has taken as a sign that many will whip out that credit card – and many will have to – but that doesn’t mean it isn’t painful and a slap in the face for all who are in WvW.

Zaith.9132:

Just thought I’d mention Healing Spring is still broken – still not healing the ranger pet as intended.

DANG it, that’s the FIRST thing we told them was wrong.

Does it even heal ALLIES? I haven’t seen it do it yet.

I hate the idea of taking elements from existing maps, EOTM, fractals, PvE and PvE and putting them into WvW…

That’s not a new map and those with balance and eye problems are going to hate you again Anet… what is wrong with you?

If you wanted it to be a decent map, why didn’t you ask the players? Why?!?!

Jumping; disorientation, nausea, headaches, dizziness… Why do you think so many don’t do some of those instances much if they do them at all?

I have a damaged brain – yep, functional but so twisted easily by “direction” it’s nauseating.

You’re making my only outlet without major jumping (WvW) uncomfortable to impossible to maneuver.

This is sad… This is very very sad.

We needed so many things balanced / fixed and then a new map, but even to this day you won’t fix the problems that are known in WvW and you won’t allow the game to have more input from players at all – we have no weight in your game design, which is insulting, come to think of it.

Why is it I have so much more power/damage in PvE than I do in PvP or WvW?

Why is my pet never growing up?

Why do thieves get the choice to be continually stealthed by bouncing off surfaces of any kind?

Why are players allowed to jump into ’unassailable" areas and kill all the vendors?

Why aren’t the fights in WvW balanced to insure you don’t die within a quarter of a second but PvE the many more who are there, the harder it is to kill anyone or anything?

I could go on all day and every single one is an issue that WvW’ers deal with every single day and have for over two years.

I didn’t find WvW until eight months into the game. It’s been my replacement for what I called my most favorite MMO of all time, and I don’t play any other game, I never leave GW2 – nothing does what it does and it’s a joy when it works, but WvW is still broken, the siege is still not always working, the towers still don’t always upgrade and fights that aren’t fair in a large group is a zerg not a test of skill or will.

Zerg fighting is what we all despise… it’s mindless and the strongest win, period. If we all had to fight to kill a single player in a larger group, it would change the way the MMO world works… and would draw far more into fights where one’s skill is far more important than how many hit points or conditions clears they have.

Please clarify “Entangle” since I use it, I can see the icon (so I know it went off ON the person) but they still come at me full speed and the immobilize didn’t work at all.

If the icon is there, shouldn’t it have some effect?

Distaste.4801:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Pavel.8531:

Let me start with this quote:

DevonCarver.5370:

When I’ve been working on WvW for 11 months, then we’ll talk.

So, 11 months have passed, let’s talk then?
1. What is currently being worked on for WvW?
2. Why are things, that have been in the top of the player requests for over an year not only not implemented, but even not talked about from your side?
3. We haven’t heard from you since you posted in the “new maps” thread several months ago… and that was after around 6 months of you not posting. Do you think if you communicated better you’d avoid some of the huge negativity and toxicity on the WvW forums? Any plans to do something besides hiring more mods and creating additional CoC rules?

Feel free to add more questions guys.

I am going to jump in here answer these as honestly as I am able.

1. We can’t talk about that right now. Once the in-development features reach a state where we, as a company, are comfortable talking about them, we will.
2. Some player requests are under development. What those are and when they will be completed, I can’t say at this time for reasons mentioned above.
3. Devon is very busy with his job duties and only has limited time to devote to reading the forums. If he spent the time demanded of him responding to threads on the forums, his work would suffer. My job duties have me reading and reporting on the forums regularly to ensure that Devon and the rest of the team are aware of active concerns within the WvW community. I do this for other parts of the forum as well. As has been mentioned a multitude of times previously, our developers read the forums as much as they are able, but time prevents them from responding to everything they read.

1. This is the exact mentality that has lead people to think ArenaNet doesn’t listen or care. You guys might want to rethink your information strategies as it’s having a large negative impact on the community. Sure talking about features you might not do or even scrap can be bad, but if you keep the community updated about them it won’t be nearly as toxic as your current strategy of letting the community wallow in despair and hate. Of course the only reason I can think of for continuing down this path is that the updates for WvW are so lackluster that informing the community that is all that’s in the works for them would kill what’s left of the community.

2. While I don’t doubt that you’re using some player requests, that was also true a year ago and we’ve yet to see or even hear anything. See point #1, you cannot just keep saying we can’t talk about it.

3. Then you need to report back to the WvW team that their silence and lack of a simple MONTHLY or even QUARTERLY information update on what’s happening is helping to kill wvw. We don’t need devon to make posts here, he is just a figurehead, what we need is an ArenaNet representative to keep us informed and hopeful. It doesn’t take buy 10mins to throw together some basic information on what’s being worked on, what got scrapped, and what they would love to do but aren’t working on yet. Yes, some people will be upset if something gets scrapped, but do you think the negativity then is anything like what it is currently?

Honestly you guys are doing way more harm than good. Let’s try a different tact and put it into business terms. You guys need to think of players like investors, if every 3 months at the investor meeting you say nothing the players aren’t going to invest. Not only that they are going to dump your company and invest somewhere else where they get the information they want.

You can speak for me anytime – dead on, clear and concise.

Many of us here feel exactly as you do.

Dusty Moon.4382:

atheria.2837:

Dusty Moon.4382:

People don’t factor in their connections and the servers in between A.Net and themselves. I know for a fact there are US players on that server who have less lag then their EU counterparts but we in the US usually have faster connections. People need to check what is going on between the game servers and their PC before they blame A.Net. When I was having lag, I found a server in between, one of my ISP servers was dropping 50% of the packets. That needs to be looked at first.

A.Net has done a lot to lower lag in the game. BUT, they could do better.

Also this game is not multithreaded as it uses one core on a CPU and will hog that, so if that CPU core is at 100% usage, that will also cause lag.

I am in the US, Washington state to be specific, NEAR Anet, NEAR the servers and the ‘stop action’ and now ‘dead’ is overwhelming in many areas, with or without a ‘zerg’ present.

Anet’s networking is abysmal to badly managed no matter when or where you are in the game – lag happens even in the most empty of maps at the strangest of times.

That said, during ‘prime time’, whenever that is in your time zone, if you are on a cable connection you are sharing your internet with your neighbors who are using it after work until bedtime.

It’s up to Anet to plan for and find a ‘fix’ since on the client side, we’re powerless, they are not.

Servers ARE IN DALLAS, TX in the NCSOFT server farm, not is Washington State. Just look at this pingplotter capture. I have circled the server of interest – in DALLAS.

People really need to get a clue here. Yes, this game is single threaded and if you do not have a fast enough processor or your processor core, this game uses which is CORE 1, then you will experience lag – plain and simple.

Ok, so Dallas to Washington state causes the game to do no more then stop action and dropping?

It’s Anet’s problem – they don’t care that their game has a horrid connection to many computers.

Period.

It’s getting worse, not better.

The disconnects are even when there isn’t a zerg at all.

Firelysm.4967:

I’ve been enjoying trapper ranger a lot, and i haven’t pay any attention on changes lately, but i did read them now, and got little confused, can some one give me some explanations:

• traps have 0.5 arming time
  Does that mean ranger has to stand still for 0.5sec and place it on the ground OR does this mean when you put it on the ground they will trigger 0.5sec after you place them down.

• traps are no longer ground target-able
  To me personally, throwing traps made trapper ranger unique, and elegant to play.
  I’m really curious why would they remove this mechanics that made this play style unique? Just because guardian specialization got traps, and Anet team consider to remove ground targeting on ranger just because guards can’t do it? Did they really break trapper ranger just because they didn’t want to make guardian players feel bad about ranger traps, because they would be superior ?

Currently i’m very disappointed and i’m enjoying my last days of trapper ranger. It’s braking the only good mechanics that made this class play-style unique:S I’m really disappointed about this changes.
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I really hope druid would give us trap throwing back.

Why do you think trapper ground targeting was removed, and why?
AND off topics, it’s about time for DRUID spec, don’t you think guys?

Changing traps not to be “throwable” is just wrong.

Heimlich.3065:

Diku.2546:

@Heimlich

Comforts…

That’s going to get really expensive to ask for a daily slap for “$50” in my opinion.

Hope that didn’t come out sounding too perverted.

Oh…meow!

It looks like I’ll play Heart of Thorns for dozens of days, so the daily slap-in-the-face price will be more reasonable. I did buy the $100 box as well, so if I make it 50 days each daily slap will only amount to $2.

Diku.2546:

Also, it would be nice to have the Guild Upgrades that I had access to previously before HoT launched.

Still hoping that the powers that be…will do the right thing.

Don’t punish the Little Red Hen Guilds that un-locked many upgrades in fair play & with hard work.

Guilds that didn’t un-lock the upgrades should need to work on earning the upgrades with any new guilds that start now…since HoT has launched…in my opinion.

I’m still trying to find my inner peace btw…as one fellow WvW here on this forum might say.

Yes, losing access to upgrades and features that we used to have, and placing them behind a wall of 7000 gold is very disappointing.

+1000 thumbs up.

We all thought we’d be getting more interaction not far less.

skullmount.1758:

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

Obsidian Shards are no longer available from Moto.

If thats the case, then why the kitten did you make the chests/digs once per day??????
I just don’t get Anet logic anymore. Obi shards were the only thing of use outside of SAB that were rewards for doing SAB. Now the only thing in there is skins, which requires grinding, and we can’t even grind it how/when we want to, its stuck behind another kitten time-gate. Getting really tired of these time-gates and farming removal (gold ones I get, but SAB is only for skins, so why the kitten do you remove it?).

To Anet:

I have to agree – the LOGIC isn’t following here.

Don’t you guys have logic CHARTS somewhere?

If this THEN that – but why does it not follow in the game every single time you “add” or “subtract” something?

The new maps will initialy replace the existing borderlands maps, but they will be reintroduced in some form at a later date.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2:_Heart_of_Thorns

Our snow covered maps going?

This is beyond wrong.

EB is special.

The rest should be different, I agree, but taking them all and replacing them? I totally disagree.

Anyone else feel like this is another Lion’s Arch where some are ok with the massive changes and the rest of us are confused as heck why LA wasn’t pretty in the first place…

EB is gorgeous…. and you’re going to take it rather than expand it or do something else that would make sense?

Dang.

trunks.5249:

Tragic Positive.9356:

that baby stealing dingo.7216:

From what I’ve experienced, Ranger can succeed in every phase of the game (WvW, PvP, PvE) and has a good variety of builds to choose from. I mean, if you ask the strictly meta players, everything sucks outside of the 4 or 5 total builds (across all classes, no less) they deem “acceptable.” I wouldn’t worry about those complaints.

No… This one is totally not right. Power builds are just not made for rangers.
We are forced to stick to conditions, that vary from straight condi to spirits – or we are running BM bunkers.
For PvE – No one runs condition builds, so we are practically forced into Zerker builds. We do fine, but it’s definitely not like we can freely choose from many builds.

i run a condition build ranger in pve this isnt me but proof con works just fine in pve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZH42X_doMc

We have never sucked in PvE…

In WvW, that’s where we really suck. Horridly. Compared to my PvE self, my WvW self is a shadow.

Justine.6351:

atheria.2837:

I looked through this thread and I didn’t see a single WvW build that includes staff. Staff is amazing.

Another build type missing – Condi Druid – I know at least a good strong hybrid towards condi + damage mitigation is possible but I can’t find a single one.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQJATWjEqCVqZ1sWu6Xxl1yCVrr1ihgxEAGdNgm3VqrFA3VHrp1UWRaIDD-TVTFABrpjg6DgQb7PaCWSJVtaQqSpCAPJgkvgAJcIAY4AEokygDV/pPlgBAQA25OTn7MduzbezDdoDdoDdotzduzduzdWKg7WWB-w
OP abandoned thread before HoT came out over 6 months ago.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQJATWjEqCVqZ1sWy6Xxl1yCXrr1ihg18uSdtAmAworBA3VHrp1UCT6VgE-TVTFAB1qhoKlKrpDRJlBJcIAo+AC0nSwkvACLpkihDEQb7PaCA4JEco6PbGEAuxGJb///dbbTKg7WWB-w

If the OP abandoned this thread, it should be archived and certainly not on the main Ranger page as a red above all thread

Thanks for the build. Anet also doesn’t understand that we aren’t getting any notifications for these postings…

Wanderer.3248:

20 years ago we had forums and software that let you sort posts any way you liked. You could sort by the date the article was first created. You could sort by last post. You could have options to only show the new posts in a thread. You didn’t lose your place in a thread every time your browser dropped a cookie.

Necro threads are a software problem. Sadly the forum software these days is a pale shadow of what it used to be.

You said it!

This is some of the worst “forum” software in existence.

There is no way to search – as soon as you type just ONE single thing in the “search field” it searches – not allowing one to even finish typing.

Even if you can trick the search field by cutting and pasting a word or words, you will still not get relevant searches or anything that is sortable and usable.

Fixing the forums would be a miracle…

The fact that we are locked out or our “rights” to post are truncated if we are too vocal (and I have never been rude or used bad language) shows the control freak nature of the people who read the forums – but I know they aren’t necessarily the ones who can fix anything since the real “devs” for any segment of the program are incredibly absent from these forums now.

Fixing WvW would be past a miracle.

JediYoda.1275:

Working as intended?

Don’t even try to say this is an intended consequence.

So is my supply being used to build my golems also an intended consequence?

Go look, it’s one of the things that isn’t supposed to happen this week.

Anet screwed up.

I haven’t seen such a mess since they destroyed the best events of the game the “second” time around ahem Pavillion

Anet seems to really be asleep at the wheel here.

Want answers? Go to twitter, speak to parent company and the computer gaming magazines.

It’s time to tell the gaming gurus out there that this game is being torn to pieces from within.

Even GMs are bullying some people or just as bad, sending form letters that have nothing to do with the issue being reported…

“Play like we want”, has now become “You will play like we want you to and if you don’t like it, tough.”

Avit.3165:

basepi.9768:

Additionally, please please please add guild commander tags. Being able to only have your guild see the tag would be such a boon. I’d pay separately for a tag that only my guild could see.

If normal commander tags cost 300 gold, imagine how much they’ll charge for guild only commander tag.

A German Guild magazine is stating that Anet is already setting the price at 300 Gold for EACH level.

We asked for a simple color to be able to be changed so we can field more than one commander with more than one job at a time – and we got the shaft.

Sarika.3756:

I would rather just see GM’s in the borderlands to deal with the trolls and flames. A little bit of enforced civility wouldn’t hurt the game.

We have been asking for this since the beginning of the game.

The vileness of some people’s gossip and lies spread like wildfire – players who aren’t known by anyone can be destroyed in a matter of minutes and for all time on that server.

Trolls rule much of the time and many of them wear tags.

Anet ignores them.

Kron.6938:

Here is the thing, the new decay timer waits about a minute till aggressive decay. Each kill tacks on 30 seconds to the timer for a total of 1 minute. Are you kitten kidding me, you basically took the module for the kill streak booster and added it to the timer?!?

You just basically hurt WvW right there for the reward track system and pip system. There are commanders who wait for those to gather up at a gate before moving out and sometimes it takes them several minutes to gather. Then you will have roamers who are trying to kill stuff on large maps.

Adjust the timers to something more reasonable, the current decay rate is way too fast.

Without real testing, without input from players, without those who create playing the game, is there any doubt left that WvW is being given such little care that single players can’t play any longer – at all?

“Play your way”

I can’t.

WvW was supposed to be the big end game for GW2 but now WvW has become a ‘hey is it outnumbered there’ and ‘wait here for the decay timer’ and ’it’s all about the pips, community be darned’.

Give us our game back, please!

Tricare.2946:

Uraoen.5640:

Well Crystal Desert seems to not tolerate our own players using the exploit.
Right now I am sitting in spawn as a Maguuma guild full of exploit users are spawn camping and near 1 shotting everyone. This is ridiculous and makes the best feature about GW2 a complete joke.

Get off your up-level and go out 1 of the other 2 exits.

You do realize that many of us are not on uplevels and there are times when all exits are blocked, right?

Are you even listening?

This event isn’t working as intended at all and it’s making a mockery of WvW.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hey everyone,

I wanted to address the idea of moving world linking to monthly instead of every 2 months, since it is being brought up more and more frequently.

The team isn’t opposed to this idea; we actually think it would be beneficial to move to monthly because it would allow us to iterate faster on how we are calculating which worlds should be linked. However, the main reason for not doing this right now is the matchmaking algorithm, Glicko. Each time we shuffle worlds via world linking it takes about 4 weeks’ worth of matches before Glicko begins to reliably match make those new worlds into balanced matches. If we did world linking monthly, Glicko would not be able to create balanced matchups.

Our next priority poll is going to be asking if players would rather have us work on adding rewards to skirmishes (and possibly other feedback items being collected from this thread) or replace Glicko matchmaking with a 1-up 1-down system (wherein the winner moves up a tier and the loser moves down a tier.) The 1-up 1-down system should work better with monthly linkings than Glicko, so we are most likely going to hold off on 1 month linkings until that system is in.

Another possibility we could pursue is 1 month linkings, but use the Glicko offset system to guarantee the matches. Alternatively, we could manually change Glicko ratings to what we believe they should be for each world. Either option would force worlds to start out closer to being in the correct tier and thus give better matches faster. These options are contentious, so even if everyone on the forums seemed to like this idea it would be something we would poll on.

Monthly?

You said monthly ???

We can’t even get to know the linked servers in a single month!

That’s ridiculous to say the least!

Batlav.6318:

I swaped my elementalist for ranger and i wont change my ranger because i like it
we might need some changes but the main problem seems to be you

You are so wrong. It’s not the players, it’s the lack of power to our pets and our gear.

atheria.2837:

danbuter.2314:

Love this event. Easily my fave since game release. However, almost ever time I do it, there are probably 15 or 20 people just standing either at a gate or in a hidden corner. It’s pretty apparent they run in, then shrink the game to do something else, while receiving bags for doing absolutely nothing. If anything, they are keeping out players who want to actively participate.

For those of you who still insist that I am seeing “players who are just coming in” check the time.

It’s getting worse.

And directly after they all move out of the portal after NOT moving for the WHOLE instance.

Jns.1059:

Why do they fail when the pet is moving? The game is all about using skills on the move.

It’s very annoying to wait for the pet to use one simple skill.

I find it unfair how many times my “pet” has not been able to save me even though his skills SAY he will.

It’s unfair to tell a player that a skill “will do this” but it really doesn’t.

That is not truth in gaming – gaming needs to be fair – and if the f2 key doesn’t work, it should be removed or replaced with a skill that DOES work, like now.

If this were any other kind of business and an “error” this “large” on a product was seen, it would be recalled.

As it is, I can’t even 1v1 a single player unless they are just really bad players or are dying anyway.

My world is WvW and without the skills to survive in there, the game is flat and humorless since dying all the time isn’t fun for anyone.

AMEN!!!! Good posting and I hope those in Bellevue Washington are listening.

This is about trust and we trusted you to make the Ranger equal to the rest of the world and you have not.

I live close to Bellevue – would you like some of us to come visit in person?

Truthful communication starts in the game and continues in these forums but we have not been given the truth, what is really happening and why we are so much less valued by Guild Wars 2.

One of my most visceral feelings is about our pets; these hugely magical creatures that can kill us before we tame them can’t do a freaking thing after we tame them so why bother making them so ferocious in the wild if we don’t even get the opportunity to keep the names (goes back to default every single reboot, terrible programming), get to have a conversation with them (they are magical for gosh sakes) and don’t have any relationship with them, not even good enough for them to attack what is dangerous without our mashing the buttons over and over and over again hoping that our tamed pet, our beloved even at level 80 will just go a different direction, attack something at random (really? agro’ing from a pet we tamed and depend on to have a bit of discerment and some sympathetic thoughts shared between us… you guys are really dropping the ball on the most important character in any MMO.

Static is bad but we’re close to that with the pets and the relattionship/underpower of these magnificiently characterized animations… I think we all lose because our other “half” isn’t doing it’s part for our survival but if the same animal at our level attacks us in the wild we will be hard pressed to put it down alone, one without the other – in other words it takes one of them and two of us…. still doesn’t make sense.

We are scolded in email to “report” here to the forums but when we do, nothing happens.

Why in the world are we being told to come here for if nothing is addressed for weeks at a time?

Arzen Solorit.3591:

This has probably already been put out there before, but I’ll say it again since we don’t have this option. Please give us this option since not all of your jump puzzles have the “no fly zone” feature. For example, accidentally gliding while doing the Troll’s Revenge jumping puzzle makes me never want to try the jumping puzzle again because if you fall off at any point, it’s a reset. Again, this would be an amazing quality of life feature that would save the player base a headache.

P.S.: I understand how holding the space bar causes the gliding and I should only tap the button, but sometime when making a jump, I’m moreover focused on the spot where I’m landing rather than the space bar.

I agree and we’ve been saying this since the beginning.

Most keyboards can’t be ‘adjusted’ in how long they are going to stay in a ‘pushed down’ state and JUMPING can’t be done when this happens and it’s most of the time.

Give us the ability to control flying abilities as we asked for the month flying was released.

Jumping for some of us is almost impossible with bad camera angles, bad keyboards and connections to the servers which are not in sync, so with flying added to that mix, you are telling us we are not allowed to even try to jump.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

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

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

You mean nerfs, not balance.

Going to metabattle, the powers that be saw that the boon share meta was very popular ergo, not “play as you want” again and nerfed to the ground.

Not just mesmers and necros, you have to put revenants in there as well as any other nerfs such as longbow on druid, one of the skills was changed without ever mentioning it anywhere I can find.

There has been no “balance” for WvW. None. I can go to metabattle in two months like anyone else and say “hey, that’s too powerful, we need to nerf that” and not even worry about real balance.

The lack of mathematical acumen in any game production seems to be a very serious issue and one that can’t be ignored much longer.

Bluee.1425:

As an Asuran player there are a lot of things that I can stand for being a small midget, such as carrying small weapons that significantly appear different from that of a Norn because of race scale (naturally). In this case, I’m actually upset about the selfless potion. So upset that I actually have to make a post about it. It’s literally too tiny. I’m not one to complain, but this I can’t stand. I really want it to look bigger by 25% perhaps.

Not only the size but the effect and color as well… it will disappear in most heads and headwear.

It certainly needs to be more apparent, glowing and sparkling.

Shifty.4985:

Dunno if its a ranger thing, or projectile bug but yeah.. obstructed by thin air is not fun..

I get obstructed in flat, flat, flat towers as well as camps when I am standing on the npc’s head.

I am so sick of the bugs that are just too easy to see and fix.

Sytakan.8596:

My wife is not the best gamer, let me state that now. Her favorite game was World of Warcraft, around the end of Burning Crusade/beginning of the Frozen Throne era. Even she thinks the game is too easy and “Fiser Price’d” now. She and I have been looking for a new MMO to play together for a long time now. We liked Rift, but it’s story was weak and failed to pull is in, so we dumped that. The Secret World was interesting, but the poor community killed it for her, and she’s not that into modern style games anyway. The Star Wars MMO was good, she liked that one, but she doesn’t really get into SciFi, so it failed to hold her interest.

So now I’m here. I like this game. I think it’s very interesting. But the lack of the “Holy Trinity” worries me a bit.

You see, my wife loves being the Tank. She also loves being the Healer. She is under the impression that she is not a good DPS because she doesn’t have the best reflexes. She likes to do more than just mash a combo as fast as possible until things die. If we were to play this, would it be possible for her to fulfill a role as a “Tank” or “Healer”?

She loves a game with a good story that will keep her running along. She found WoW’s story cheesy at times, but generally liked that it always had things going on and usually had her rushing along to learn what happened next. One quest, involving an Orc that yelled “Smell what the Lok’Tar is cooking” or something like that, had her in tears because of how a character in the questline died.

So I would like to know if this game, one without “WoW-like” quests would still have a story that she can get pulled into. She loves exploring, I should add. (I’m also curious how you know when you’re done with a particular area if there’s no quests or something similar to guide you to the next area.)

Those are my questions to you, good forum people. Can you help me?

If she gets interested she will get better regardless.

I am not “the best player”, indeed I am one of the worst players in GW2 and I am a woman.

I am not bad because I am a woman – I am not as good as others because I lack others to teach me more. The only way I learn is by example and by-rote doing it myself over and over until I get it “right”.

Rotations will help her if she gets key happy.

Ranger and Necro are two of the easiest levelers – both have “pets” – the Ranger’s being fun to go “find”.

If she is interested in gaming AND chatting, this is prob a game should would enjoy.

Being in a non-judging guild would certainly help, especially when you aren’t around to help.

It all comes down to her interest and your non-judging attitudes – I went through three guilds before I found one that doesn’t seem to be as judging as the others.

Good luck, let us know what happens.

Swagger.1459:

I’ve never experienced “motion sickness” while playing a game, but I’m feeling a bit “off” when I use mounts. I would like to strongly suggest 3 things…

1. We need a much much farther draw distance.

2. We need the camera to be fixed in place on our characters when mounting and dismounting.

Edit- 3. As others have mentioned… I also think precise, not delayed or overdrawn, movements will help.

UPDATE- I’m still having a negative experience even with lowering the Motion Blur (as recommended). It’s really uncomfortable for me and I’ve never been sensitive to these types of things.

We need an ‘non-bouncing’ option for those of us with inner ear problems. We didn’t choose our ears, but they rule how motion affects us

ALSO Sliding to a stop may be ‘cute’ but it really knocks the heck of out one’s equilibrium!

zhonnika.1784:

Why…. just WHY were matchup changes polled against rewards/loot? They are two very different things. It should have been “Should we implement 1u1d, y/n?” and “Are skirmishes staying y/n? Are we giving them rewards? y/n” and…. instead we get this.

Anet is still driving WvW where they want it to go but not where the players need it to go.

That “poll” was proof positive that WvW is being given little thought.

The number of dev players in WvW is amazingly low compared to the first year. If you guys don’t play the game, how can you say you know what it needs?

As it is we still to this day have people glitching into keeps, using hacks and no report in the game in real time or even in a ticket, seems to do a thing since we can’t all do a video on demand. It seems those of us who are witnesses to abuses will never be trusted by those who read those reports.

We have linking that throws a monkey wrench into the stability of any server leading to even more chaos and server hopping than ever before.

We have people telling whole guilds not to play. And most won’t play leaving those who do in a heinous situation when Anet clearly ‘depended’ on the normal population playing that week or even more than a week or two. Manipulation of the scoring internally by players has never been more apparent than it is now.

We have players who abuse the team channel – and there’s no way to report that since it’s not a botting offense, it’s just a rudeness and flooding offense that is ignored no matter how much nastiness is spewed across the server, no matter how vile the words or thoughts conveyed.

“Manually” adjusting any server after the win or loss is about as “ok” as adding a grade or taking one from any school test or certification.

Suggestion for the next project?

Play WvW.

Please.

OtakuDFifty.2965:

atheria.2837:

QUOTE:

Instead, we got this mess.

Queen’s Pavilion is satire of everything that is wrong with really, really bad theme park MMO design, but it seems you guys are oblivious to the joke. It may be the worst part of the Jubilee, but the rest of it isn’t much better
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THE most COGENT and APPLICABLE posting I have EVER seen for an MMO. in 20+ years.

This game is going to die a horrible death because of the MANY "*currencies* and the fact that the DEVS keep CHANGING THE RULES.

Almost everyone in the game wants a Legendary – but many are now realizing that they will NEVER have a Legendary – either their guilds are too small or they have no help (!) or they just give up because the GRIND has beaten them down into a puddle of mush – only to find a first person shooter to take a vacation from this moronic grind.

I am horrible at math.

I am horrible at keeping TRACK of the myriad of currencies and what you need them for and what you have to keep and what you can safely sell.

Making the game more about rides on balloons that are just fake waypoints that go ONE WAY and all the other items already mentioned is pushing SO many people away from the game.

There are thousands of people in the last few DAYS who have said, just on my server alone, that they are hoping this doesn’t spin out of control as it has before with the “new” currencies and the “new” rules, but they were right – it is, it has, and we’re all looking for next MMO that won’t DO this to us.

Please tell me this is all overt sarcasm.

No, by the many who understood my posting and that of the subject of this forum post, we are not being sarcastic.

Disappointed, but not sarcastic.

Lord Kuru.3685:

… with aegis during the bombing at the queen’s speech = blatant attempt to make us like Logan more?

It has failed. PLEASE kill him off.

How did prejudice creep into an MMO?

Come on! I am SURE that there are characters, or at least ONE that you like that many HATE.

Does he really show up that much for you? Really?

Burnfall.9573:

" Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are "

We rangers do not feel we belong in guild wars 2. No one can feel the deep pain, loneliness and sufferings we have felt since the first day of our birth.

We’ve all seen the LFG tool notes “no rangers” “rangers=kick” and the irony, the curse, the marks… rangers have to bear, wherever they go..

Lately, i was asked by couple new ranger players of the same subject, why are ranger class treated like an outcast? is it because they are rangers?

Immediately, i was stricken with sadness and remorse; for I a ranger, know the pain of being the outcast class.

Why outcast?

From past to present, everything we stood for and depended on, were intentionally taken from us; our range, our mobility, our strength, our cause, our freedom to adapt to any situations without being forced to, without being limited to.

Those who sworn to protect and preserve our survival, are the ones who are responsible for our maltreatment, inequality, oppression and our Injustice.

To make an example of our complete rejection and isolation, they drained our pet, our spirit life support so much that we can no longer depend on them for our own survival… They Silence our cries, our Hearts to make us a much less a capable meaningful class. they Retaliate with severe Punishments ( untended and Intentional nerfs) Their hope is to make us more vulnerable, “easy kill” to their Superior Elitist classes.

It does not end there, any minimal chance of hope for us, always return with grudge, animosity, and malice treatment.

Where Injustice hurt the most, is when all are done in the pleasure for the Superior Elite classes.

Where Injustice also hurt the most is how the Elite classes are given license to commit injustice and oppression to abuse and torture our defenseless class, whenever they please at any given time, over and over again.

All in the name of Balance.

Arena.net, this is all we ask from you;

to end your campaign of injustice and oppression against us.

to remove this merciless system against us.

Once and for all…

Give us The Justice, The Liberty we deserve.

Let us feel belong to

Let us be Rangers

I agree with you and have said things very close to this many times.

Being a Ranger may be server dependent in some ways – but on my server Ft. Aspenwood Rangers are scoffed at, maligned as well as ignored if they are dead on the field of battle in WvW.

“No Rangers” is a mantra that is heard on my server by me since I’ve played a Ranger more than many – and I am loyal to my Ranger who I know could be a dependable, not facemelted, entity if allowed the power of a wild pet (nerf happens at taming).

Fix the myriad of bugs that are known, as well as giving serious consideration to giving us a different weapon set than any other profession since our profession is so vastly different.

It can be very lonely for those of us who just won’t give up and do what many tell us day after day “Go roll a warrior/guardian.”

Astralporing.1957:

Oh, please. I am not denying there are AFKers in this event, because there are, but if you want your screenshots to actually prove anything, do them in the x:20-x:40 minutes range. Not at the very beginning (when people are still entering/loading) or ending (when people congregate near portals in order to evacuate on time).

I have – you didn’t see my other postings with pics.

I have seen them every time I have had to respawn because the event is scaled WAY to large for the number of active players.

Stop trolling and try to understand that there are two types of players:

Those who follow the rules.

…And those who just want to get by and skirt ANY rules.

As above, every single dev and the forum managers should read MooseOfLegend’s reasonable posting.

It is not unreasonable to ask that we be given weekly updates, especially when so many mechanics across the spectrum are just not working.

Balthazzarr.1349:

It’s so sad that the huge majority of the comments you see in here now are about removing the linking even though the apparent poll asked for it. But of course the poll was in favor since MOST people that play gw2 are on the top 4 tiers… that in itself skewed the results of the poll. Those of us in the lower tiers that really liked how we played had no chance.

We have also seen our community slowly broken down into either roaming guild groups or simply groups that come in for missions and leave. Most hosts are gracious and fun to run with but it is THEIR server, not ours. A large number of the people I know personally don’t like the big zergs and don’t run in them. I would rather run with a few people and run havoc on camps and towers and battle other roamers than be a “borg” drone.

ANet will continue to see these posts; will continue to ignore them because they know better; and will continue to see people like us play less. As I’ve said in other posts, I’ve seen so many of my friends stop playing completely. The other leader of my guild and her partner are two of them. My guild went from a nice roaming group of about 10 on average, to a group of 1-3 on a good day in WvW. I know at least 6 other people personally that stopped playing because of the linking…. and that’s just people that I know.

One positive thing financially has come out of this for me though.. I spend a LOT less money on gems than I used to since my commitment to WvW and even to this game has dropped off significantly.

I truly don’t understand why ANet thinks that it’s ok to toss people around from server to server and really think that they love it… because I believe most of us don’t. The ones that do (for the most part) already had moved to higher tier servers… :P

We asked for linking but we didn’t get what we asked for.

Anet used a model no one on the forums laid out.

Many players went to great lengths to show Anet several viable and server saving options for linking but they ignored all of us, giving us a horrid system that buries the servers, doesn’t create better alliances since we have no idea who is whom any longer.

Case in point? We asked that the top three never be linked – ever.

Case in point? Servers go from first to seventh in less than two weeks when “relinked”.

There are many more I am sure all of you could list.

The problem is, and has been, that Anet isn’t listening to players who play more than a couple of hours over those who are in WvW many hours a day and rarely in other game modes.

When Anet finally listened to players on many issues it was because there was a reddit that gained a huge up arrow percentage on that particular issue. Most of us don’t read reddit.

Reddit, more than the forums, (which four plus years on still can’t be ‘searched’ at all since the search NEVER worked) has driven this game’s direction.

Fix the forums.

Fix your listening skills of those who do WvW more than any other game mode.

Realize that the true ‘end game’ of GW2 is WvW, not pvE or PvP – always has been, always will be.

Until they realize it and put in the same effort they do in other game modes WvW will always be the red-headed-step-child-who-never-has-enough-to-eat-and-shabby-clothes-to-wear.

Go to any Vista in WvW… any, and see the ‘care’ has been given. There’s nothing… no name, no cool thing, just a blank space where a name should be and that’s four plus years of ignoring that and so many other issues, glitches and mistakes.

Ask many WvW’ers when the last time someone ‘glitched’ into a keep or tower.

Yeah, WvW is the red-headed-step-child-without-any-protection.

smekras.8203:

we suck at a range of 1500 if properly specced?

Yes, yes we do. WE have a huge CD on our only AOE while other profs have multiple aoes at range.

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

Anymras.5729:

They make it take forever

To get a random group takes 1 min + 15 to finish dungeon.
16 min on a random group is to much of your time?

I’ve been in many dungeons that took an hour to finish.

Get real – this person is a real person who is asking for people to be patient when in very long dungeons.

Add Ranger to the mess – we can’t use any of our condition skills either – and nothing mitigates anything.

This patch is a disaster to any condition dealer.

TastyTofu.3597:

I’m honestly curious.

I totally agree.

Any decent Ranger can give a hundred reasons from longer cooldowns than most to taking Precision as a ‘tool’ for us, the latter of which horridly game changing.

It’s not just condi damage!

It’s one shots.

It’s two shots.

It’s locking a player to the ground so they have NO way to use a single skill – then dead.

It’s our downed skills not working.

It’s our pets NOT working.

It’s our minions being nerfed to the ground.

So, what it really comes down to is very simple – there is no way that any character has “enough” life to live in WvW beyond 1v3 – 1v4 for VERY heavy classes or thieves.

Give us a LOT more
life in WvW compared to other areas – then it will be a FIGHT and not a “gee, that was nice being a bag for the enemy 15 times in less than 5 minutes.”

Not fun except for the zerg that walks all over the smaller server or “timezone” that has no coverage at all.

mistsim.2748:

back after 1.5 year hiatus, and honestly I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. back in the power meta, we had viable midliners, frontliners, backliners, and focus squad specs. even when you got caught out of position, you still had a chance to react. maybe you’d get spiked for 11k when making a mistake, but at least you had ONE chance to blow your CD’s and regroup with your squad. now it seems one mistake = 50 stacks of bleeds and instant death, unless youre spamming multiple condi clears preemptively. I’ll argue that condis dont really matter now, whereas they mattered before. cripple, poison, immob, chill soft cc’s plus status effects like daze and stun – it was a decent amount of condis to deal with and they all mattered. now you have to deal with these PLUS the unending spam of burns and bleeds.

so I’m wondering if I’m just mistaken. I’m really digging the WvW love with the recent patch, and the rewards finally seem decent. but now the gameplay is utter kittene. is it me, or does the community feel this way as well?

The lack of skills to mitigate the massive gains in condition damage has become a true ‘lack of care’ issue on Anet’s part.