Guild Wars 2

morrolan.9608:

msalakka.4653:

The DBLs cater to zergs and blobs, which is the only thing we ever faced when matched with Elona, RS, or Kodash.

Funny considering how the desert BL is meant to break blobs up.

I find it difficult to believe that was ever the intention. Everything favours large numbers, from barricades to the PvE event.

Straegen.2938:

I think the concept that WvW needed new maps was a red herring. WvW benefits almost entirely from more enjoyable fights. Anything that doesn’t serve that purpose is extraneous and while it may have importance it should be considered secondary.

Personally, I never could relate to the notion that we needed new maps. Even after 2+ years of playing primarily WvW, I wasn’t bored with the borderland maps; I thought they were great. I loved those maps, and my familiarity with them just made them all the more fun to play in because they “got out of the way” of fighting.

The only thing we needed was fixing existing bugs and issues…not creating a whole new batch of brand new ones.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Fairly often I see it posted that we didn’t make any changes to WvW or the Desert Borderlands map as a result of our Desert Borderlands stress tests. While it’s totally true that we didn’t attempt to completely overhaul the entire map a month or two before the Expansion shipped (as that was definitely out of scope), we made more than a few changes and bug fixes as a result of the playtesting and feedback from those pre-HoT beta events.

I only have the release notes from the 2nd beta handy (which I’ve posted below), but we made similar numbers of changes after each of the three closed beta events.

With that being said, we understand that there are many issues the community still wants to see addressed with the Desert Borderlands and we are still working to improve the map, as well as our other high priorities like bringing back Alpine, skill balance, improving rewards, and correcting population balance.

//Old Patch Notes Begin
General WvW Changes

• Arrow Carts (all types) now require 10 more supply to build.
• Supply camps now auto-upgrade faster.
• Supply depots now are marked on the map.
• Players can no longer rally off of basic creatures in WvW. Only veteran rank or higher.
• Objective bosses now have health scaling based on the number of allied and enemy players in the area.
• Sentries will now mark enemy players on the map for 30 seconds.
• Keeps will now mark enemy players within their perimeter, for the first 5 minutes, after being flipped.
• Shield Generators (all types) have had their range reduced.
• Exotic WvW equipment can now be salvaged. Badge gear yields badges. Tournament ticket gear yields standard exotic salvage materials.

Desert Borderland Changes

• Skysplitter damage reduced.
• Skysplitter now attacks all enemy gates, not just outer gates.
• Fire Keep lord difficulty somewhat reduced
• Air Keep lord difficulty somewhat increased
• Tower and Keep guard damage slightly decreased.
• Some Tower and Keep guards have had their CC durations reduced.
• Gate guard aggro range increased.
• Range to activate the Dolyak Protected Caravan buff increased.
• Certain very large capture points have had their radius reduced.
• Flame’s Embrace shrine bonus now grants 40% increased movement speed, instead of reducing burning duration. It still also grants immunity to lava damage.
• The north supply camp guards repositioned.
• Fire, Earth and Air shrine blessings have been converted into a single blessing that just increased movement speed by 40%.
• The objective walls that only act to block shortcuts have had their health significantly reduced.
• The north keep’s telepads now put a short duration debuff on players that prevents rapidly teleporting back and forth.
• Vista cinematics have been made smoother.
• Repositioned guards at shrines.
• Reduced the number of creatures on the map.
• Added more ranger pets to the map.
• Reduced the number of air turrets.
• Reduced the knockback distance of the air turret attack.
• Rearranged some jump pads.
• Keeps now have interior supply depots.
• Terrain changed in a few places that will open up additional paths.
• Tower cannons repositioned.
• Fire Keep mortars repositioned.
• Champion wyvern reduced to elite rank.
• Improved shrine tooltips.
• The Additional Guards upgrade will now also post guards outside breakable walls.
• Rebalanced the frequency of Oasis event dinosaurs spawning and the number of Power Cores required to turn-in.
• Oasis Power Cores will now ping the map when a new dinosaur spawns, or a player picks one up.
• Oasis Power Cores will now clean up properly after the event completes.
• Earth Keep rock maze control console cooldown increased.
• Earth Keep interior rock maze reworked to be less obstructive when only allied players are present. Half of the rock walls stay hidden until enemies show up.
• Skysplitter now creates camera shake, at the temple, while firing.
• Skysplitter now is marked on the map, during the event and while firing.
• Oasis event now has mapwide announcements and voice overs.
• Nights are less dark.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where life siphon damage was hitting object that normally can’t be hit.
• Fixed some lava locations that weren’t properly damaging players.
• Fixed a bug that caused camp guards to respawn faster than intended.
• Fixed a bug where the Inferno Transform buff would linger after leaving the transform.
• Fixed a number of terrain exploits.
• Added further protections against the elusive untargetable gate/wall bug.
• Fixed a bug where wood walls could not be repaired.
• Fixed a bug where waypoints were available for a few seconds between repel events.
• Fixed a bug where patrols wouldn’t respawn.
• Fixed a bug where supply depots sometimes wouldn’t update properly when empty.
• Fixed a bug where the Fire Keep could sometimes become randomly contested.
  //Old Patch Notes End

Please can you just for the love of Grenth confirm that you are not scrapping the server system (and thus killing off server communities) in favor of some sort of GvG alliance system?

+1. It’s nice to know we’ve got someone in Anet who cares about our class.

Would you prefer a subscription instead?

Kirito.2195:

Mypinkbunny.4513:

waypoints in keeps should be a t3 upgrade and not give to you for free. I hate defending home now when i cant use fire and air wp.

Yo for real I don’t see at all as to why they changed how waypoints work…

Because they had to come up with something that guilds would be willing to grind their eyeballs out for. They needed guild upgrades. So they came up with the Emergency Waypoints, which no one would give a kitten about if the waypoints worked like they used to.

Guild upgrades require HoT — ch-ching! — and grinding. The new grind zones are filled with vertical bullkitten so you need to glide everywhere; gliders were designed for selling glider skins — ch-ching! All roads lead to the gem store.

Meanwhile they completely shafted small roaming guilds in the process.

The thief was an example, not an accusation. Get over it.

He has a valid point. I’ve seen teleporting in action and it’s not specific to one profession, just to individual kittens. Catching and banning those individuals is an endless and toothless hunt, what they need to do is render their hack tools non-functional. Those tools are easy to find online, there are whole forums dedicated to them, and if you read them a bit you’ll see that there are rarely any real consequences to using them. The irony is, if you call any of those tools out on these forums, you get an infraction.

This thread will soon be locked down or deleted, mark my words, since as far as ANet is concerned, hacking doesn’t happen. Meanwhile, here, buy some RNG chests from the Gem Store.

If you think releasing more elite specs will improve build diversity, I don’t need to read the rest of your post.

Svarty.8019:

Straegen.2938:

Now that the HoT meta is starting to settle anyone else notice that a handful of elites have become nearly unkillable in skirmish without heavy focus and many of these builds maintain a solid DPS?

Sustain has become too prolific in my opinion at least on builds that can output decent DPS. I have completely stopped engaging Dragon Hunters, Tempests and Scrappers. Any of the bunker Chronomancers also get a pass.

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing but a lot of fights have become an exercise in futility or a bring three friends sort of deal.

This is where being rubbish at 1v1 has it’s benefits. I can’t tell if someone amazing killed me or whether is was an OP class. I’ll always say it’s an OP class tbh.

No one has to be rubbish at 1v1 anymore.

If you are, just pick up one of the pay2win elites.

The update has killed the fun for me, but what probably is even more depressing is the knowledge that, as Devon said himself, they don’t care one iota about what people say on the forums. I feel like giving feedback on why the game isn’t fun to play anymore is pointless due to that. He said they’d only take a different approach if people stopped playing, but then how would they know what the sticking points were? When people quit playing they don’t fill out exit surveys, they either just leave or they post here.

Go to Metabattle, locate the condishatter build, and enjoy the mindless boredom of having no build options.

icewyrm.5038:

I must say that elite specializations effectively killed off any desire to play my alts. I’ve been slowly moving any good gear, toys, consumables or other stuff off of them and have basically just been using them as mules or node farmers since HOT dropped.

This. I have several alts at 80 with decent gear which I intended to slowly improve upon and develop my skills with when I take breaks from playing my main. Now, I have no desire to do so, as it would mean having to grind the elites for each of them since the core classes are so painfully weak in comparison, and I only play WvW.

The fact that my main is a Mesmer is just adding more salt into those cuts. Thanks Anet.

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

I’m a rather bad mesmer myself and every time I play mine, even full glass, with a minimum of stealth and blink I’m next to unkillable (never mind using PU) even when the opponent has 20+ The only time I die is when I get kitteny which, to be fair, usually happen to anybody who feel so untouchable…

I think your bullkitten story is the evidence Anet needs to nerf Mesmer some more. You should email them your findings immediately.

And if you have any arbitrary bones to pick any other classes, include those in your report too.

Chinchilla.1785:

I also suspect incoming damage cap increases server load because it adds that additional step of denial (sort of like DDOS).

What if we hit two birds with one stone and made a new condition called Ponderance that acted like skill lag. Stacks would increase the number of milliseconds between skills firing. “I have 14 stacks of Ponderance, I can’t fire anything off.” Surely spacing out skills being fired would lessen the server load? After all there’s nothing Anet likes more than releasing new conditions.

Whenever someone prefaces their MMO forum rant with some indication of actual professional expertise or experience in game design, I always picture an unemployed guy who made a Final Fantasy rip-off with RPGMaker 2000 that none of his friends actually bothered to play through.

If people aren’t banned for teleport hacking in WvW even after Anet is provided with video evidence, then I doubt Star Wars spoiler trolls have anything to worry about.

I think the problem was that people were having fun in WvW.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a game company – much less an MMO-publishing one – that’s as hostile towards its own customers as this one. Instead of developing and monetizing on the game with a long-term vision they seem to prefer ignoring us and doling out bans and infractions for voicing opinions. Everything about the way they conduct marketing and development now says that they want to squeeze as much money out of the game as fast as possible, and are not concerned at all about the long-term. GW1 ran for six years… I don’t foresee this game getting there. The mechanics and beautiful graphics are excellent, but the direction of their development is about as anti-consumer as they can get.

Last night as soon as the event started everything began rubberbanding and skills would not fire. It got so bad that the commander on the map said to just let the enemy zerg finish the event and not slow them down so as to be done with it faster.

If Anet’s intent was to inspire “epic” battles at the oasis, they have failed spectacularly. “Epic” fights does not equal skills that don’t fire and enemies that teleport around randomly.

I have zero faith left in their ability to save WvW. To do that, they would have to
1) Revert most of the HoT junk,
2) Remove the PvE maps and reinstate Alpines,
3) Balance the classes, especially the overpowered HoT elites.

They won’t do any of it since they will never admit what a failure HoT has been.

I wish you luck on your endeavor.

The problem is that in order to do enough damage to condibunker meta builds to bring them down, you have to survive the thick sea of conditions you’ll be swimming in, while sporting practically zerker gear. People think roaming Mesmers run condi because they’re unskilled, but what they seem to ignore is the fact that unlike Warriors, Mesmer physical damage is only decent in zerker. Knight’s = crap damage. This on top of our light armor. Condi builds don’t suffer from this as they can go full dire without losing effectiveness.

You can get away with it in a group, but as a solo roamer you’ll be spending a lot of time running from waypoints.

That said, I wouldn’t use duration decreasing food nor runes. I run Mantra of Resolve and sometimes trait for cleanse on heals (Mender’s Purity). That’s it.

Go to one of the national ones.

Here’s a build for you for the German ones: http://imgur.com/4rL23H1

There’ve been many PvE events before, and they never turned the WvW borders into a desolate wasteland. Sure, it may be part of it, but I think the fact that we only have one WvW map left – EB – is a factor, especially since many don’t particularly care for EB either.

Alternatively, you can perform the Last Gripe here in the forums…

Xillllix.3485:

There is a “major overhaul” for WvW coming and they’ve been working on it for over a year so it’s probably gonna be huge. I think we just need to be a bit more patient.

First of all, the quote did not say it was “coming”, only that they’d been working on it for over a year. What have they been doing for WvW over the last year that we know of? Building new borderlands. Is that work completely finished? Likely not.

There is at this point zero evidence, indication, or reason to believe that the “overhaul” relates to anything other than the borderland change which has already occurred. You’re deluding yourself into another year of waiting around for table scraps.

Off-topic, but I like how this Tyler guy has been answering many threads in this subforum lately.

If you want to play WvW and be anything but a staff guard, you can’t afford not to buy this “expansion”. It is so heavily steeped in pay2win that without farming the elites and all the broken runes and sigils hidden behind a paywall, you are going to have a bad time.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

We’ve avoided adding this feature because we don’t believe it would be healthy for WvW. While we can appreciate why some players would want a feature like this, lots of other players only engage in WvW when, upon entering a WvW map, immediately see a commander icon to follow. We try and avoid adding features that can be used to intentionally exclude other players.

It’s not much more welcoming for new players to beeline to the guild raids and be told in no uncertain terms to kitten off because, well, it’s a guild raid. Many servers use different tag colours to differentiate between open and guild raids, but not all do, and an inexperienced player wouldn’t know anyway.

Fluffball.8307:

msalakka.4653:

I am aware of the tournament. I don’t watch the tournament. Seeing more ads about it isn’t going to change that.

The tourney IS the ad. It already got its message across to you whether you like it or not.

I have a feeling that the message I get isn’t the one they were going for.

I main a scepter on both mh and I wouldn’t take the scepter trait – a measly five percent buff ain’t gonna change that.

Can’t get excited about any of it tbh. Whatever they release they will promptly nerf to uselessness anyway.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

It would be easy enough to move all the camp guards closer to the center, so you’d always have to fight all of them to flip a camp. But to be clear, you guys are arguing that you want to do ‘more PvE’, which seems to go against the forum’s current agenda of ‘less PvE.’

Well he’s got us there.

I hope they release them soon so that we can all have the exact same weapon skins, and walk around pretending that the one each of us has is a unique and special commemoration of the incredible skill we demonstrated running in an EB blob alternating between tab and 1.

I don’t usually follow zergs, but when I do, I never use veil. I don’t have anything on my utilities bar that I deem worth swapping for it. I’ve been asked for a veil before, and the answer was and is no. Its that simple.

I also don’t portal golems.

TJgalon.5012:

Here what I do not get. You do the same thing, day in and day out, everyday, for months on end. So anet decide, lets shake it up, have a event, and i see complaints. No construction on, how is bad, just saying, it bad and it sucks. But why, were you so set in your ways they this is a big change? Why not go out there and have fun

Next time you’re at a bar, don’t hit on the cute redhead, take home a dude instead. Shake things up, go out there and have fun.

Krysard.1364:

If you mindlessly run to the middle of a teamfight, you die. If you try to rezz someone under focusfire, you die. If you facetank an enemy, you die.
If you position yourself correctly, you dont die. If you manage your cds correctly, you dont die. If you do the focus right, you can force the enemy team to play deffensively, and so you dont die.

If the enemy team double caps, you can still win. If you double cap, you can still lose. If a tanky build holds a node, you can quickly win the node in a 2v1. You cannot facetank a 2v1. There are some underperforming classes atm, true, but do you remember at the start of HOT how DH were considered OP and condi revs trash? Its a little to soon to determine if some builds are really that strong or that weak.

Anyway, since patch Im enjoying fast matches were if I play correctly I wreck the enemy, and if I missplay I get wrecked. Dunno what is ppl complaining about :/

What invaluable insight!

Now tell me, which do you play, necro or thief?

I get bored at the very notion of logging on and facing this instagib festival. It’s the same zerker shatter stunlock trollmer or the god mode warrior or superman ele on every encounter.

Consequentially it’s also more toxic than ever, people emoting everywhere after the instagank because, obviously, Le Skill.

I am getting really tired of being rooted into the map in every single fight at least once when using Phase Retreat. If you’re not fixing bugs on Mesmer weapons aside from the tooltip typos, can I create a mouse button macro for doing an emote so I can actually, you know, move, and not be instantly killed? Is this allowed?

This is disappointing, because if my server draws the short stick and ends up as the one with the deserted map for the week, I don’t need to log on that week. I am a home border scout, and the desert borderland is undefendable.

If we’re red next week too then I guess it’s time to renew Netflix. It’s enough that we get the same brainless karmazombies and cheese clowns of Deso week after week, but adding the Deserted Boredomlands into the mix is too much for me.

thiagoperne.7340:

All these people that comes to post bad things about WvW still plays and love the game, because they can’t find anything better out there, otherwise they wouldn’t even be here. But they keep trying to scare Anet with all “oh you don’t care about wvw” “everyone is leaving” bla bla, but never worked. Sorry gw2 is a drug, once in never out.

Ummm not so much. I’ve been in each Archeage beta and am going to play it once it launches in a couple of weeks. I’ve bought the highest tier founder pack and will happily pay for a subscription. It’s all cash I’d have happily kept on throwing at ArenaNet, but unfortunately they don’t seem interested. While waiting for the final AA beta, and upon hearing the new season is starting, I came here to see what if anything has changed. The most stacked servers will win, condition builds continue to dominate, and nothing whatsoever has been done about hackers. Very exciting.

White Knight Apologist:

My point is, people need to get out there and LEARN them; and if you already know them, well then good – but still, get out there and PLAY on them then. The more people that play in them the more fun they’ll be, that is THE point after all is it not? And like I said, I wouldn’t refute it would be MORE fun, if MORE people were on them. So everyone needs to quit the Q.Q and just go PLAY! Make the best out of what we have!

There are enough people. Lots of zergs and omniblobs razing the keeps on an hourly schedule. That’s not the problem. But you don’t get it, and since you’ve decided you don’t want to get it, there’s no point in trying to explain it to you.

Entenkommando.5208:

Shazmataz.1423:

Tobias Steele.2071:

Quint.3765:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

No.

We aren’t changing anything regarding the layout of the map.

Thank you so much !!! now you just need to remove the Tactivators because clearly nobody wants them.

Speak for yourself please.

Tobias, did you actually read the “5 things most wanted” thread?? There were alot of people who asked that the new gimmicks be removed or to revert to alpine pre HOT.

And I could already see the posts from all the guilds who spent hundreds or thousands of gold on the upgrade.

So? Tough.

Nobody reimbursed me jack kitten when HoT completely invalidated my three-man guild’s upgrades and removed us the ability to +5 objectives or build guild siege.

Well, admittedly, I like the new system better than I like the options that they came up with. Each day I look through those choices and check the boxes next to the ones I like or find least annoying. I wish I could say I can find five that are truly fun. If there were even more options to choose from, that would be cool. I just don’t want them to force people into dungeons like they did with February’s monthly.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

With reporting, you can’t just report someone without a reason, or you can get in trouble for false reporting.

That’s a myth. For you to “get in trouble” for a false report, they’d have to actually investigate the said report to rule out foul play. Just take a look at the Blackgate hacker Thief thread: all those reports, including video footage, and not a kittening thing has been done. Had they investigated something, the hacker would be long gone. Had they found him to have flown in through walls by legitimate means, surely all those people reporting would have gotten “in trouble”?

I mean it’s nice to keep dreaming that somebody’s answering phones or opening Outlook at ANet’s abuse department, but the fact is there’s no Santa Claus and Elvis isn’t cutting records anymore.

I wish they’d rework the system in terms of that travel dialog window as well. I understand that it has to move you back into queue eventually but the current short wait to respond seems harsh, I’d like to see it move me automatically and if I am afk it’ll just d/c as per normal routine.

On reset, I started at 176. Four hours later, I was about 12 or something, but had to use the bathroom. Came back to find that I missed the dialog box and was back at 200+. This is the first game I’ve ever played that penalizes you for taking a kitten.

Skeletor.9360:

DeadlySynz.3471:

Well the thing is, you stay in your Tier, this happens. You move down a Tier, your now the dominant server.

Ehmry Bay moves up a Tier and someone from Tier 5 moves down, it’ll be even worse. Someone from Tier 7 moves up while ehmry bay moves down; nothing changes in Tier 6, but Tier 7 gets destroyed.

So what exactly do you want? The only ideal situation is to fuse all the servers together into 3 separate factions where the population will be the same throughout all factions…

Are you up for something like that or are you one of the players that holds too much “server pride”?

The problem isn’t tier anything….When I took this I was the only one on the map for our side. Our heavy population time is 30 people (all maps). The problem is that once you go out and get rolled by 5 times your numbers you go do something else.

How is this fixed?
// Function to determine if player can log in or not to WvW.
bool CanILogIntoWvW(int mySideMapCount, int opponent1MapCount, int opponent2MapCount)
{
if (mySideMapCount < MIN_PLAYERS)
{
return TRUE;
}
else if ( (mySideMapCount < (opponent1MapCount + NUM_ALLOWED_MORE) ) &&
(mySideMapCount < (opponent2MapCount + NUM_ALLOWED_MORE) ) )
{
return TRUE;
}
return FALSE;
} // —-— End of CanILogIntoWvW —-—

The above allows you to log in if there are less than some minimum number of players allowed. If you have more than this minimum then you compare the other two opponents numbers and only allow logins if you have less than both opponents plus a allowable few more.

The call of this function brackets whatever login code they have now.
Its a simple solution that should have been done a long time ago.

Thanks

Can we also implement a PVP flagging system whereupon I can flag up and kill any friendly who’s standing around afk at the crafters or doing JPs or any other PvE garbage while taking up slots on the map from actual contributing players?

They move threads across subforums all the time.

Power creep and lack of class balancing render the fight outcomes predictable.

tom.7468:

The game is rated 13+

You can definitely tell.

there is no server pride

I feel sorry for you.