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Would PvP's Standardized Gear be Bad for WvW?

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I like min-maxing stats. It provides me with hours of game time, finetuning my build. I can’t do any of it in sPvP. It also gives me the only reason to purchase gems: to convert into gold for gear purchases. I’ve spent months developing my build, which is one I have not encountered in WvW yet among my opponents (to my delight). It does not exist in sPvP.

I don’t play sPvP often because it’s made of cardboard cutouts. Every class runs the same build, because due to the fewer available options to choose from, there are only one or two good builds and a whole lot of trash. I don’t want that in WvW.

Whether or not it’d be good for WvW as a whole, I couldn’t say, but Anet would lose me as a player and as a gem customer.

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Amusing anecdotes

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I thought I’d lighten up the mood here with a recent anecdote, I think it was from reset day. If you have any of your own, please share.

I was in the enemy borderlands (blue) when I see one of my own waltzing down the road from our spawn in a golem, all by his lonesome. I don’t know where he is going, but I know golems need to get there quickly, so I spam staff 3 and Retreat to try, albeit ineffectively, to get him there faster. Pretty soon we are joined by a growing crowd of my allys, speeding him up and scouting ahead. It’s not until he turns towards the bridge leading to Champion’s Orchard that someone asks him: “Where the hell are you going?” To which he replies, “I don’t know.” He is promptly then told to take the golem back to spawn, which is where he had found it.

Guess what we had there was failure to communicate.

Just reminds me how often we end up following someone simply because we assume they know where they’re going.

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A Quick Update on DBL

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Over all just make all the maps more fun, challenging and enjoyable to play on.

See this is where it all goes off the rails.

I bet “more fun, challenging, and enjoyable” were pretty much what the goal of the designer’s original concept for the DBL was.

I am very thick-skulled so it takes me a while to grasp things, but I still don’t understand why people keep yammering about new maps. They took years to fix the trebs from spawn issue on the Alpine, and now the DBL has trebs at the southeast spawn that will undoubtedly take years to fix again. If Alpine has an issue why it’s no longer sufficient to play on – fix it. Don’t just introduce new maps that couple the same old problems with fresh new ones.

People put too much faith in the power of a new map. To create one is a massive undertaking in terms of employee time and resources. Why dedicate that amount of man hours on something that isn’t going to solve the problem. Taking 40 stacks of bleed from a necro isn’t going to be more fun, challenging, and enjoyable on the new map.

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Too many servers, not enough players

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Any suggestion which uses “megaserver” in the description or involves dissolution of servers is an instant no-go for me. Stripping server identity and culture from WvW would ruin it just as effectively as it has PvE. Thanks to the megaserver idiocy, my map chatter is filled with German, and I always need a taxi to join my guildies on the same map for a guild mission because, obviously, the megaserver system can’t comprehend why guild mates who play on the same server should be directed to the same map instance during an active guild mission.

If you want to fight for a faceless team, there’s always PVP.

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Current Chrono is Turret Engi V2

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It’s kind of funny to me to read these whine festivals about condi chrono, when while running power shatter I’ve often been suggested by team mates to go condition instead.

I trust that when your team has a condition chrono, you suggest to them they go power shatter instead? Or is this the old case of being fine with it when your team has one?

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World vs World Holiday Sneak Peek

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It’s good to know that when the enemy zerg shoots me through the walls they can now get points for it.

Another bullseye.

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Wvw and Condi

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Now this is very important, because the counter question is: why you want condition damage to be at the same level of power damage, instead of beeing just a side effect for the kiting classes? Why you just don’t go power build then if in fact condition dmg will be the same as power dmg?*
The answer is really simple: you want something that helps you concentrate more on defense, while still beeing able to do high dmg, and that ignores defensive stats and force opponent to change his build and adapt to your.
In a few words: you want condition dmg to be high to eliminate the possible counterplay from the opponent, you want to be CARRIED by condition dmg.

I don’t pve. I don’t spvp. I only solo roam in WvW on a core Mesmer. No Chrono, core. There are no power builds for core Mesmer anymore. The summer patch and the pay2win HoT elites saw to that.

Condition is nowhere near as fun to play as the old Power Phantasm, but it’s kitten sure more fun than auto-dying to every clown spamming traps or chill.

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100% Problem with WvW Development

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It’s hard to say what they know or don’t know when the people who write the actual code are not the ones who decide the direction of the game.

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There was a time GW2 was Casual Friendly

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I do not anticipate that a dev would be posting here in the immediate future, but please don’t take silence for inattention, and do post to share your thoughts!

Don’t worry… We know better than to anticipate something that extreme and extravagant.

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Please let us directly whisper enemies.

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emotes work, you could always use the /emote ‘type stuff here’ thing… They only won’t see your name but ‘server name’ ‘wvw rank’ ‘your emote’

They can’t see custom emotes.

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People want change, but............

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You can add new content without removing the old. Perhaps one day Arenanet will figure that out. We’ll be playing something else by then of course.

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Pay to win. [Merged]

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The expansion offers absolutely nothing I want, while the lack of it is detrimental to my existing gameplay experience due to elite vs core profession imbalance.

The “expansion” removed core capabilities from my guild – which we had worked towards and paid for – and made them unattainable for us.

This is what you consider worth 44.99£?

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How's Guild Wars doing after colin leaving?

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They’ve lost most of their talent and brains to Amazon Games.

Idk what this supposed “focus on WvW/eSports” is supposed to be about. Class balance is still a pipe dream, the same power creep clown show carries on.

Basically they are producing the least amount of content necessary to buy time until the next expansion comes out with more power creep.

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Done with WvW for now

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1. lag, skill lag, fps drop:

No argument there.

2. exclusions from fights from other guilds; I thought WvW was a server vs server battle. so why do some guilds feel they have a right to tell people who they can and can not fight? (due to schedule guild vs guild battles)it just breaks the immersion when you are going round fighting and cap bases when people are using map chat to tell you “dont attack this guild as they are fighting that guild” i should not have to tip toe across the battle field, also the fact that there are a group of players taking no part in the WvW battle makes it pointless. there needs to be a separate server where guilds can have schedued battles.

WvW guilds are the heart and soul of WvW, and server identity. I’ve never been in the GvG scene myself so I don’t know how well other possible scenarios (OS, Guild Halls?) have or could work out. I think it’s very easy to spot impromptu GvG battles on the borderlands and you can watch them or ignore them. Let people have their fun. Besides, if the GvG is scheduled and not spontaneous, then it’s probably in a more out of the way place anyway.

3. one on one pvp in WvW; again same problem with number 2. i see two people fghting and the 1st thing that comes to my mind is , “are they in a dule?” should i help or not?" why am i thinking like this in a wvw map? again there needs to be a pvp server where people can have one on one dules with there gear.

Spontaneous duels between roamers are the best, from a roamer standpoint. No, we don’t need a “pvp server” for it. As you get more experienced in WvW, you learn to spot the difference between a duel and someone who needs/wants your assistance. Many people ignore the duel concept altogether and err on the side of caution and jump right in (so-called “red is dead” mentality).

4. mass blob, common denominator; i feel people blob up because the bases are to hard to take in small groups, this casue the fights to become monotonous where the most useful skill is the only one used. if bases were eaiser to take people would not feel the need to blob up and fights could be more spread across the map. (could this explain why people one on one pvp in this map? so they can actually use their class to the full?

Making objectives easier to cap does NOT discourage k-train blobs, it feeds them. It fuels them.

5, poor rewards playing wvw;

Spoken like a true PvE/sPvP player. It’s not enough that you get to relax and play a game and have a great time, you should also be rewarded for it. WvW enthusiasts don’t play the game mode for rewards, although I agree they need to be improved without encouraging k-training even further. It’s enough for me to make enough gold through normal WvW gameplay that I can afford gear, food, and upgrades/siege. The pwetty skinz I’ll leave to the likes of you.

I will be in pvp pve for now.

You have chosen….wisely.

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Guild Wars 2 April fools 2015 [merged]

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If only they had added an opt out function many many people would be playing today. But it was not only offensive to many many people, but it also caused a health risk. Alot of people have only been able to play for a short amount of time as the screen flickering caused headaches and migraines. And I hate to think what it might be doing to the epileptic crowd.

You can turn off the sepia and flickering effect by turning off post-processing. Just FYI. I turned it off myself because it was giving me a headache.

THANK YOU. This crap was giving me a headache, and your tip helped immensely. I don’t have a problem with the prank itself, it’s just for one day after all, but I wouldn’t be able to play for more than half an hour were it not for this “fix”.

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So uhh matchmaking right?

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I just had a match where we were 3v5 and the other two in my “team” got their cutscenes and didn’t use sups, just rushed in and insta-died. I’m no pro or anything but why after 700 games am I getting matched with these morons? Can’t you match them up with a team of other clueless idiots versus a team of comprising of the same. It’s a complete waste of my time with no chance at all.

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Legendary Weapons worth it?

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They’ve lost a bit of their appeal to me now, since I see so many of them out there. Seems like everyone and their mother has one. The skin is alright, but I’d prefer something that looks more like a real greatsword. Also, it would nice if ANet added the ability to sheathe the legendaries, since it’s apparently missing.

I think they should be soulbound without exception so they would not be sold on the TP like they are now. If they truly are legendary, their price should perhaps be measured in the sweat and blood needed to craft them, and not in terms of paying gems for gold and just buying one off the trading post.

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Farewell [RET] Reticle

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Another one bites the dust. Wake up, Carver.

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Power Mesmer question

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With these new changes I am sure some good power builds will pop up for mesmer

No.

and I was wondering if assassin gear would always be superior to berserker for dps.

No.

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Time Warp Tweak

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Well perhaps in another 9 months, when the next nerf patch can be expected.

Until then, the “balance team” will undoubtedly be hard at work creating new elites to maintain the power creep.

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spoiling star wars in map chat

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Four pages of back-and-forth about Star Wars spoilers?

Really?

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Many bug fix, still no duelist's discipline

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By all means, nerf torch. Bring it in line with Chaotic Dampening, the new MtD, the mantra nerf, Mirror Blade nerf… Keep on balancin’.

Just don’t do anything about burning, d/d ele or cele necro.

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Does nobody solo roam anymore?

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Not that you’re wrong, but why don’t you like PvE? The colors, locations, detail, content, everything has so much MORE to it.

I mean WvW is basically glorified “Capture the Flag” and kind of a one trick pony, isn’kitten Whomever has the biggest population wins. To be fair, I’ve only been in it for a few days, after playing “regular” PVE for almost 2 years.

I’m not the one you directed this question at, but I’ll answer for my part.

I played PVE almost exclusively for a year before I “found” WvW. I had the preconception that WvW was Team Fortress/Call Of Duty set in GW2 surroundings, and I haven’t enjoyed those types of game modes in the past. It wasn’t until a guild mate took me to do some JPs in WvW and I had to get the vistas and POIs for world completion that I got to see there was a strategic side to it, and that’s what I fell in love with.

The reason I’ve pretty much stopped doing PVE is because compared to WvW it is so horribly stale. When I log into WvW, I never know what’s going to happen, who will be there, what I’ll end up doing, and so on. Conversely, every AC run is the same: the same stacking, the exact same bosses with the exact same moves. We all know what’s going to happen next to the last detail, we don’t care one iota about the story, and we are there simply for the loot.

The world bosses are no more enticing, now more than ever as they spawn at a specific time. It’s like fighting a pixelated cron script, there’s nothing dynamic about it at all. The Living Story is nothing more than “what do we farm now to get a chance at a big box which may or may not contain the weapon skin of the week”, slapped together with Gem Store promotions.

The PVE world is gorgeous, there are many awesome locations. I’ve seen most if not all of them while doing world completion and completing all the jumping puzzle achievements. But there is very little to do there. More is not better if it’s just more of the same.

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Threads being deleted for PR damage control.

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these confirm that wvw alliance is happening

The really worrying things about that is the restrictions on alliance chat- and the fact that it mentions grawls, ie PVE in what is supposed to be wvw.

The application is using a search string for the word “alliance” so it displays all lines including that word, but not all lines are associated with one another. More than likely the grawl bit has to do with a PvE quest, like the Priory & Vigil stuff before them in the results.

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How could you!!

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Toys are disabled in WvW cos a few of them give an unfair advantage. So instead of fixing, they just removed, the usual Anet way.

Meanwhile, we get months of Hammer Revs…

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Adding rewards b4 Alpine will fail. [Merged]

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I’ll have to agree that with toggling it back on, we would break and lose all the additions from HoT.

Wouldn’t that be pretty much the whole point of bringing back the Alpines, terrain aside?

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The change to mortars is OP

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Was there a thread somewhere that I missed wherein people whined about the mortar stacks not being painful enough? Because I fail to see how buffing up the mortars’ condispam ever got on Anet’s radar to begin with.

Is someone at Anet doodling at their desk, trying to come up with ways to pour more conditions into this game mode or what?

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what i think of PPK

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One thing I’ve noticed as of the implementation of PPK is that guilds from brainless PPT servers like SFR and the Germans are more likely than before to chase down individual roamers. It used to be that “real” WvW guilds had so much discipline that as a solo roamer you could stand by the side of the road and they would run by and leave you alone because big battles were why they were there, while chasing solo guys was not. I thought it was amazingly disciplined, organized, and respectful. Nowadays most of these “WvW guilds” are nothing but glorified gank squads.

As for bona fide gank squads, they can be avoided for the most part by exercising good map awareness and running a stealthy cancer build (without which roaming is pointless with all the HoT clown builds around).

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January 26th Update: Your feedback

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The balance patch was great for necros and thieves, and bad for balance.

Thank you, Anet. The gift that keeps on giving.

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Solo Roaming 2016 Nutshell, Uncut 7min

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Staff druid isn’t roaming, it’s barely even playing.

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Please don't scrap DBL

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  • Shrink Towers/have less attackable walls. There’s so many angles of attack it just places unnecessary strain on scouting defenders, and in a lot of cases people just don’t bother at all.

All of your suggestions are good, some essential. However, I’m not sure removing some walls is enough. Defenders/scouts don’t really bother with the towers because of the travel distance, but also because the towers serve no strategic importance. You can’t treb the keeps from any of them. On Alpines they were often crucial elements in strategic play.

Then again, strategic play and the DBLs…..

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Solution for Mesmers in Keeps

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If the only way you can contribute in WvW is as a portal kitten or veilbot, you deserve to be deleted.

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Soul destroying...

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They said there will be more elite professions later. You’ll need those Hero Points then.

God I hope not. They already can’t balance the existing ones. The last thing they should do is shovel out more of this crap.

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WvW and the Heart of Thorns Release

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Whoever the guy or team was that designed the original Alpine Borderlands and its mechanics understood the game mode.

Whoever is in charge of developing the WvW game mode currently is blissfully ignorant of what its appeal was in the first place.

Re-hire whoever worked on it and let them fix this disaster, and put the current team of clowns to work on new PvE content, since that appears to be their expertise.

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Ugly back item skins

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Somewhat off-topic, and maybe I’m not even talking about the right game, but wasn’t there a backitem once with loads of moving tentacles? I thought that one was cool. I wonder if that’s available for Asura Mesmers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sclerite_Karka_Shell

You can still get it from laurel vendors.

:O It wasn’t time-gated?

Logging in now to check this out… If I can get it, I’m going to shower you with kisses.

I haven’t shaved today, though.

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UFO spotted above SM

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I for one welcome our new eagle raptor overlords.

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Mesmer confessions

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I love hiding in keeps, but I don’t like to announce in map chat that I’ve done so. Partly because I feel it’ll jinx it and I’ll be caught or d/c, and partly because I hate feeling obligated to stay there while the commander goes on a WXP adventure in some towers instead of rushing right over.

If they ask in map chat if there are any Mesmers on the map, I keep my trap shut, because I know what it means: golem transportation duty.

I don’t like to slot in Veil, and I actively avoid circumstances in which I might be expected or asked to.

If I am being chased around in Bay, I like to die in the water grates, just because it annoys them. Sometimes I stay dead there and go grab a drink or a snack, and let them guard my body pointlessly. I never tell anyone in map that I am dead there, though, nor do I ask to be res’d. Getting res’d through the grate and portaling people in is an ethically awkward area for me. I won’t go so far as to call it an exploit, but it feels cheap. I’ve done it two times, out of peer pressure, and neither of those caps felt like a win.

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Precognition changes into wrong direction

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If nerfing ONE skill turns the class into “trash”, then perhaps the bigger problem than the nerf is that the class was trash to begin with and being carried by the skill.

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Do you want Unbalanced, Untested Maps?

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How about fixing the old ones first?

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Anet - Why would you...

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I used to enjoy WvW tremendously, particularly roaming and getting in 1v1 fights. Now I feel like if I do that, I am fighting the same guy over and over again at every encounter. Can’t move, skills are disabled, three seconds later I’m dead. And I run a PVT build now, with Pure of Voice and Soldier runes. Makes no difference, all my defense is paper. Forget about being in the frontline of zergs either, because it is the same condi spam times a million as soon as the enemy gets within range. I don’t mind that it’s tough, and I don’t mind that I can’t just Rambo in; I mind that I don’t have the proper tools to deal with these encounters.

Also, regarding how in every MMO every profession gets pigeonholed into a certain build… Yes, they do, based on widespread concept of what makes the profession perform most optimally to its strengths. Having to build your Guardian against this one specific stat – one which isn’t even within our range of particular strengths – isn’t pigeonholing you to be the best you can be; it is forcing you to diminish your capacity to play to your full potential due to unbalanced mechanics of other jobs.

Why not just make a necro, it take 2 mins. And deathly swarm/consume conditions is good condition removal.

Because some of us like to play Guardians. Some of us have spent a lot of time farming for good gear pre-farmville, getting ascended trinkets, infusions, etc. Working on builds, becoming better at our professions. Just roll a new character? No offense, but are you an idiot?

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Stuns need diminishing returns.

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Let’s face it…we’re just talking about hammer warriors.

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This Subforum has no Dev Team Communication

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I don’t think they have any time or resources allocated to balancing/making sense of WvW. Moar Scarlet, moar gem store items.

It really is a shame because WvW is to me the most fascinating and interesting part of the game, or was back pre-WXP. Now I am lucky to find a commander who will bother defending a keep because “we can flip it for WXP after they’re done.” The people who are interested in strategic gameplay in WvW are a dying breed, and instead we get clowns looking for the win button.

My WvW doesn’t need change, really.

Oh?

Coghbyrn, 80 Charr Warrior
Alduin Nightsong, 80 Human Necro

Oh.

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January 26th Update: Your feedback

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Problem: Very little action in new Borderlands.
Solution: Time gate Eternal Battlegrounds. Forcing people to learn and get to know the new Borderlands. And hell they might even like the place.

Great idea. Precisely what the game needs: more time gates.

Why not add time tokens that you can purchase with gems? Each token grants an hour of play in EB; borderlands are f2p. Win-win ca-ching-ching.

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Invul Walls

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Fixed a bug that could cause reinforced and fortified walls to become invulnerable after having been destroyed once.

Your patch didn’t fix this, I had two walls on stone Mist become invulnerable after they were broke then it upgraded from paper to reinforced.

If it took them only one try to fix a bug, I’d go buy a lottery ticket.

Typically the bug fixes they get right on the first try are ones no one asked for.

Illusionary Elasticity took how many tries? Oh right, it was never fixed. Duelist’s Discipline has been completely broken 639 days. They took one shot at it, but managed to fumble it. They haven’t touched it since, because why fix something arbitrary like a trait when there are tooltip typos to hunt down?

On the other hand, these are the guys who brought us the Golem Week. Even something as simple as that couldn’t be conjured up without a game-breaking bug. Careful when you ask for fixes… They actually might work when you don’t want them to.

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Need advice vs some profesions.

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msalakka.4653

I recently posted a thread in which I asked for help on how to beat mesmers and thieves. While my issues in my original post were slightly different from yours, some of the suggestions may be helpful to you. You can find that thread here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/How-do-you-deal-with-Mesmers-and-Thieves/first#post2633196

One advise in that thread that has been of big help to me was Christos de Soufre’s suggestion to apply “constant pressure”. This has changed my game in two ways: I always felt that I was the underdog in my encounters with pretty much any job, and that my strategy had to be defensive first, offensive second. I’ve tried to change my approach, and I intentionally go after them very aggressively in an encounter even if I think I will probably eat gravel. I have also changed my gear choices to allow for a more damage-oriented build. It occurred to me that 1) if I don’t go after them aggressively, and for example try to run away, they will kill me. There is never a tower near enough for me to reach it with my kittenty mobility. And 2) turtling up doesn’t do me much good either, because I won’t be able to kill them, and the best possible outcome I can hope for is that I don’t die, and that either a friendly comes across us and helps me finish him, or the enemy disengages. If that is the best I can hope for, then what’s the point? It is less frustrating for me to go all out and die 50 times and walk back across the map than to blow my most offensive moves on some warrior killing a dolyak while completely ignoring me, and not getting his health even halfway down. True story.

I’ll say this, though: currently the condition spam is very difficult to deal with, and I don’t personally believe it is balanced well. I don’t think you or I are the only Guardians having trouble with these particular classes right now more than ever because of it.

TLDR; gear more offensively. Maybe you won’t survive as much, and the condi spam is hard to deal with anyway, but you’ll have a better shot at downing your opponents.

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Please Tell Us the Population Balance Details

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Wait for it to go live. Try it. Then decide if it’s good or bad.

That really sums up the whole experience of the last year or two.

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I don’t know whether to just sit tight and wait, or to submit a ticket so I’m not the 48,192th in line to get my account fixed.

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No confidence in coming Overhaul

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Its always gonna be anets goals for wvw vs everyones individual view. Regarding that particular quote about hiding commander tags, I can understand both sides so I dont really come down in favor or against it, because both sides have very valid points. Its just one of those things where they are kitten ed if they do, kitten ed if they dont.

What exactly is the developers’ point that you agree with?

No pugmander would hide the tag because they always need more people on them, not less.

The only difference between there being only one tag on the map and it’s a guild raid, and no tags at all, is that in the aforementioned scenario the pug gets told he can go kitten himself when he tries to latch onto the raid.

People who would hide tag don’t suddenly want to include you in their raid simply because they have no option to hide it.

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Outnumbered Buff-a plea to make it useful

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The devs have a strange sense of humor, as evidenced in the tiers-apart matching system alone. This is just icing on the cake.

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What happened to the Forum Specialists?

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Thank you Archon for your efforts. I think that, especially under the circumstances, you did an excellent job.

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