Guild Wars 2

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ANET vs Forum Users

ANET would wipe….They need to play the game moar….

“ppl who post and complain on forums are vocal minority. most players enjoying game.”

however:

the silent players may hold similar opinions as the vocal minority.

Update: got our orb back, lost hills. Turns out the server with more people can simultaneously take objectives and harass the orb buff. Who knew?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Did I miss something, or am I right in thinking that the “decay prevention” team will get ZERO reward for sitting on their duff in the ruin of power? Just like scouts in towers/keeps get ZERO reward for doing an important job?

This is why pretty much nobody sits in towers/keeps these days.

Mechanics that only reward server score, without rewarding the individual player simply don’t work. This is why the GvG meta game developed all on it’s own.

Mod mod he said GvG, quick move this thread to the naughty step!

Did I miss something, or am I right in thinking that the “decay prevention” team will get ZERO reward for sitting on their duff in the ruin of power? Just like scouts in towers/keeps get ZERO reward for doing an important job?

This is why pretty much nobody sits in towers/keeps these days.

Mechanics that only reward server score, without rewarding the individual player simply don’t work. This is why the GvG meta game developed all on it’s own.

They removed the orbs for a very good reason, why.. why bring them back?

You just ruined duels, you just ruined guild vs guild meetings.. you just ruined the fun out of lone roamers like myself… and worst of all, you just made the strongest server even stronger

Dear god, whats happening to developers lately? Do they even play games and understand whats best for them?

Please hold while we collect data, we obviously could not have forseen this

fett.9573:

amazing the amount of crying that goes on on the forums. Are we going to have another 10+ threads from the gvg crowd crying about the new buff now? (vocal minority and all, of course they will listen to you! /sarcasm off

You think it’s only people crying who attend in GvG’s? the servers with most numbers/most coverage will win with this buff, it doesnt only affect gvg players it affects everyone, so gtfo

Changing the stacking stat buffs was already requested for removal, but you know Anet knows best.
+150 power/vitality/crit/healing power/etc cannot possibly be unbalancing if everybody on your server has it.
All you need is the most coverage, and you can faceroll the other servers.
Perhaps Anet might consider having a public test server.

I guess GTA 5 did came out for a reason.

Every stack of the buff applies +50 to all stats, healing power, and condition damage. In addition, using a finisher on an enemy player while under the effects of the buff will award one point to the player’s world.

(hurray)

+1 for realm balance initiated

agree. wvw is garbage now

i was playing this game only for WvW, you ruined WvW with this new patch

…game over.

GvG’s ruined.
Chances of fair fights ruined.
Chances of fighting vs higher ranked servers ruined.

making one server’s players stronger ruined wvw when you had orbs, why did you think its gonna be different now?

gg anet.

p.s. the map change isnt bad at all. the buff would be fine if it contributed to the tick or something score based instead of stats based. also after a year we still only really have 2 wvw maps. making each borderland different would help a lot to make wvw more interesting; certainly better than giving one side an advantage to the others.

Mightymealworm.8409:

It is doomed, but only if you read the forums. Everyone else is in que.

What queue?

Chopps.5047:

Lots of train v train players posting, I see. I just want to say, well, I don’t know how to put this without getting someone’s knickers in a bunch, but, a lot of us are glad to see this change in wvw. I just think it’s ironic that people who would post with esports tag on subreddit—who consider themselves hardcore pvp’ers—would push for such a casual gametype as their invention they call “GvG” (aka train v train).

You obiously have never did a GvG, it is more complex, exhausting and rewarding than anyother thing in this game. It might seem unorganized and chaotic to you. But some still know what is going on and how to react to it.

Tell me how is a stat increase going to benefit this game in ANY WAY! There are 0 pony advantages to it. Not for roaming, not for GvG, not for zerg busting and not for splitting up the zerg or giving the most populated server a disadvantage.

Tell my wise lord why you like this change? Give me 1 thing yes 1 thing only that will benefit from this patch. And please don’t say that the queues will be shorter…

The Problem is that Arenanet does not understand their own players. For them wvw should be a casual zergfest. They simply ignore everything that´s around organized combat. Their idea of wvw is a lot of people running brain afk after a guy with a blue sign above his head running from siege to siege. In case you did not see it already, i recommend this video from Sacrx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MN2j-CRdc . He pretty much sums up the mess wvw is in at the present state.

That ain’t true, I know many guilds that have quit because of the fail patches WvW keeps seeing.

I’ll tell you what happened. GW2 started out with a great combat mechanism, they knew that and wanted to do something with it. So tPvP came to life to make it an eSport. But they failed to implement basic things and the professional gamers left. Not wanting to waist their time on something that would never happen.

While this was happening in tPvP, people in WvW were quickly picking to how amazing the combat mechanism was in bigger group play and fights. There was experimentating with tons of builds and combinations and GvGs became a fact. People doing this were not ‘just’ players. They were the hardcore kind, playing 15+ hours a day.

But Anet was bittered about their failed tPvP, they saw high incomes dissapear that would have come from their sponsors. They now realize this game will never be an eSport. So they have thrown their tactics around with a 180°. They are focussing on the casuals now.

WvW on the other hand was quickly turning too hardcore, GvGs popping up everywhere, guild groups trained together causing havoc everywhere, rolling blobs. Nothing casuals would like. And face it, WvW is 1 of the only end content things they have. So they had to adjust it to fit their casuals more. How do you do this? By buffing the stronger server with stats, in other words making it easier for the zerg/casuals to win.

So this is what you are seeing now, the numbing down of WvW. Taking out skill and the strenght of smaller guild groups holding entire borderlands on their own. Buffing the zerg. This is called, favouring the newb. It is a something you see happening to many games and it is something that causes players like me who go for fair fights and play on skill a lot of pain.

Many will quit after this patch hits, but the voids left behind by these skilled players will get filled up by casuals. Just like how Anet wants it to be.

That’s because it’s not an esport.

Benjamin.6235:

Hey, I got an idea. How about we have eight leagues and then move servers up and down based on their results of their games? Okay, so we have three servers so you’d have all potential match-ups in one week. Yeah, this idea might work.

Yep, 8 Leagues just might work.

In fact, you could even call them “tiers”.

DevonCarver.5370:

Season 1 is going forward as we described, however nothing about future seasons is set in stone. We’ll take a look at the data we get from the first season and will absolutely make adjustments so that future seasons are even better than the first one.

My concern with four leagues is simply that there isn’t enough variety at that point. I could very well be wrong, but we are going to try season 1 this way and then we’ll take a look at how it played out.

This plus the bloodlust is going to make a lot of people quit… good luck having much of a community after this season…

Anet is just kitten there are more players on WvW instead of sPvP. So they decided to kitten WvW up so we’ll move to sPvP. Not gonna happen Anet.

A company that gives a flying …. about it

at least we have north camp

make the stronger teams even stronger with blood lust, looks like Anet really learns from its mistakes..