Guild Wars 2

They should find a way to prevent people from abusing the buff. This does not mean that they should reduce the current outnumbered buff amount. Why should I be punished as somebody who plays WvW normally everyday for what abusers are doing? You guys are going to get it reduced to garbage and end up turning the pip system into yet another worthless attempt by ArenaNet to breath life into a dying game mode.

I wonder how many people who are asking for the buff amount to be reduced are already at top rank in WvW… Why should you all care? You all get a decent amount of pips regardless. Be careful what you wish for…

Pip farmers are the only ones who see problems with pip acquisition. Those of us who have played the game, continue to play the game.

Saying “I for myself no longer really want to do WvW normally and i used to only play that mainly, all i do is log in and farm pips dont even care if the garrison is being lost as long i am like in outnumbered map for increase my pip acquisition” is something that a dedicated wvw player would never say, but a shiney hunter.

Larathia.5284:

Okay, well, if we want a ‘new’ festival…what about something honoring Trahearne or the Pale Tree in the summer? You know, the big growing season, plant people? It could be like the Japanese thing where they chart blooming cherry trees in the spring? Only maybe the Pale Tree blooms once a year in summer or something? Sylvari would find that something to celebrate.

Mad King, Wintersday and New Year are all in Kryta, SAB is in Metrica. We could do sylvari, or norn (maybe norn have a midsummer festival around ‘the time of year when the sun doesn’t set AT ALL’, they’re probably far enough north for that) Or charr have a fireworks contest that involves fireworks AND blowing things up…

I mean just as off-the-top-of-my-head ideas. I’d honestly love to see old festivals that were held in the summer return, but since I didn’t start playing until they passed on, that’s more curiosity than nostalgia. I could totally love new festivals just as much.

They could add meatober fest as a real festival aswell.

Linken.6345:

They could add meatober fest as a real festival aswell.

Love that idea. Bring it on!

warriors … fix warriors

Your fav part of wvw that don’t exist today?

.. players.

Actually most roaming these days is a hand-holding party of 5 who dance on your solo body. I have stashed away my condi mesmer some time ago.

I am hoping you’re correct, Sylvyn. But I could see the 1up, 1down also affecting the groupings in a way that Anet had not considered. I won’t mind if it takes Kaineng down a notch, but if they go, “well, that lowbie should be grouped with a higher T1”…..well, then, it will suck bigtime, imo.

Mainly, I am just hoping that we never, ever have to see BG again. This week has just sucked, as we just don’t have anywhere close to the numbers to compete with them. And that is all I want to be able to do…..compete. I don’t care if we lose, as long as we can be competitive. Battles aren’t fun when you’re consistently outnumbered 3-1 or worse.

And I am not even mentioning how sucky small havoc or roaming is when the enemy has the sort of coverage and defense that a T1 server has for all areas of the map at pretty much any given hour.

I can’t even see how BG is having much fun in this matchup, considering their complete dominance.

Guess we’ll see.

The difference in rewards and time it takes dor newbies vs vets to gain them is INTENDED. Its not a mistake. It was designed that way knowing how long it will take. Working as intended. Id a newbie wants the same rewards as vet they have to work alot harder. My reccomendation is to enjoy your celery stick.

We got the Revenant to balance out the weight classes, and now we just get elite specs.
And I love this method, because in other games like, say, WoW, whenever a new class is introduced, you make a new character, relevel, regear, re-evolve it.
But now, we get 9 new classes as they overlap with out existing characters. And better yet, it means it’s not an entirely seperate class, but an upgrade on my existing one. Meaning I can mix and match the skills and traits I like.

The ONE thing I truly dislike is the weapon restriction. I agree the skills, traits, and specific class mechanism (like triple dodges) should be fixed to the trait line, but I love the greatsword on the necromancer, and the torch on the warrior, so I’d have if I have to choose between the Greatsword and the Torch on the Sandshroud and Reaper

I don’t disagree with the idea of the festival happening again, but I kind of disagree with the reasoning why, fairness.
None of this is about being fair, it is more about what is.
If the argument for the festival to return was, “the Zephyrites, after suffering a heavy blow in Dry Top, have been able to rebuild and want to celebrate a new beginning by reactivating their traditional festival,” then I am on board for that.

Plus, haven’t people been moaning about weapon and other skins gated behind either tickets or chests? Isn’t Anet putting the skins directly in the gem store just what people have been asking for? So pony up some cash and quit complaining!

Remember… there is no monthly fee. You do not have to buy expansions. You don’t have to buy Gems. Gemstore is how the employees get paid…you get updates and so forth BUT you don’t really have to pay a dime if you don’t want to.

nottsgman.8206:

yay mspaint fill white! just what I’d been waiting for! /s

This made me lol. I don’t understand the obsession with these “texture killer” dyes. I’m a huge fan of the Enameled dyes, they make armor textures more detailed.

I’d like to thank the developers for being open-minded enough to give this a whirl. Thanks.

Just get a real GF in real life

Oh god no another eater that basically gives you garbage? I hope this is NOT something Anet shoots for in replace for ppl who have capped (which im nowhere near) but that sounds like an awful idea, those eaters give items seriously worth little to nothing, and in some cases items that cant even be sold. I do agree that it should be able to work towards other things like karma,xp,gold etc.

Too bad the real WvW update only included PvP balancing. Other than that, yay, I suppose.

Within 4 weeks people will be on here about the servers who are tanking to get lesser matchups etc.

Match Manipulation is on. Now it’s just player controlled.

Not that an alliance of guilds didn’t do this artificially before, though that took months. This could bring a top tier server to the lowest tier in three weeks,

Oh well. Red is dead.

ZhouX.8742:

Heibi.4251:

I think a nice idea to stop all of this bickering would be to have a chance for skirmish tickets to drop from players and lords of towers, keeps and Stonemist. 1-5 tickets, like badges of honor.

But to those complaining about reward tied to rank – simply capping camps will not rank you up very fast. You need to run with the commanders and learn what is really done in WvW. Learn about building siege, getting supplies, staying alive, builds for WvW, and how fun it can actually be to be in WvW. You’ll actually stop worrying about the pips while you play. And before you know it you’ll have played long enough to get the new shinies.

On a side note – many commanders want people in TS or Discord with them. They advertise it. You don’t need to talk(mute your microphone), just listen to the commander and you will know what is going on and won’t be left behind.(Don’t bring up not wanting to hear bad language and the like, that isn’t what I’m discussing. There’s a whole thread dedicated to that already). Join a guild that does WvW – they will gladly help you get outfitted and tell you the most effective builds.

Yes, running to 2 objectives and hitting the interact button.. So tough!!! WvW so hard guys! Stop trying to make this deeper than what it actually is , WvW is easy as hell.

Um, apparently you have never run into any player groups on the map that stop you from taking objectives. The only interact button is with siege – you apparently also have never really done much other than sit at spawn after getting some participation. I’m sure plenty of players would love to show you their finishers.

None of these complaining pvers ever mentioned all the world buffs we vet wvw players accumulated forthem over the past years. Now we vet wvw players get something in return ( quicker rewards, not more) its boohoo unfair. Get over it and grind for it if you want something.

tigirius.9014:

The purpose of this post is to let Arenanet know that the time limit on items is too short.

Except that’s merely your opinion. I convert gold to gems often enough that I always have gems when something interesting goes on sale. And if I’m not playing often enough to be around for every sale, well, I don’t mind missing out because… I’m not playing often enough.

Limited-time sales are a common method of generating interest. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean it needs to change.

Your finisher also plays when you /gg on raids and fractals.

Also, they could make that champions and other higher mobs need finishing (except for specific ones and world bosses… who will get to stomp tequatl?) while any left over adds try to ress them.
This would make up for strategies of using a downed mob as bait to cleave adds (as its fairly used in pvp/wvw)

Also, you get to stomp some instance bosses on LWS2 (or 3)

Ayrilana.1396:

Finishers were added in PvE during LS1 against the toxic alliance. It was just another way to make more money off the gem store. It didn’t really add anything but annoyance that you now have to stomp some enemies when you used to kill them outright when their HP reached zero.

I don’t think that finishers in PvE are annoying so much as those toxic alliance events are annoying to deal with, especially on level appropriate characters. I think that overall, more PvE mobs could require finishers and it would be great.

Specifically champions, all legendary foes, and some of the end fights in instances. Would add flavor without being overbearing, would also allow primarily PvE players to show off their finishers

Vesuvius.9874:

Pre-Searing Ascalon from GW1

This!

My favorites so far:

1. Silverwastes
Good meta gameplay. Good map layout with zerg zones and rather chill hidden places. Bandit chests are the best interactive reward design in GW2 so far.
2. Auric Basin
Great soundtrack leads to a great vibe. Vertical map done right. City/countryside done right, to sad that Divinity Reach and other cities are instanced. Shinies!
3. Bloodstone Fen
Great map layout. Vertical map done right. And this map is offering really special gameplay exp.
4. Bitterfrost Frontier
Great map layout. Underwater part done right. Cool part with forest, great part with freezing, should be more extreme during the storm.
5. Lake Doric and Draconis Mons
I like the Doric theme of drained lake. And Mons 3 layered biome is outstanding.

Honorable mentions:
Divinity Reach
Just a great ingame city, handy Bank, TP and crafting cluster. Great layout. Gliding transformed map from great to outstanding!
Legacy of Foefire / Revenge of Capricorn
Conquest done right
Most of vanila maps except Orr
GW2 is just awesome to explore

Core Ele is still good for duo play. Supporting with Staff via fire and water fields, condi cleanse and CC

It sounds like you guys are miles away from elite specs, so I’m thinking things like Dragon Hunters and Tempests are a long way off.

Has she tried a ranged Thief? Dual pistols and shortbow. If you’re up front drawing most of the agro, she could camp at range and only need to dodge when needed. I run it solo at times and find it a lot of fun.