Guild Wars 2

Xiya.2804:

Please tell me it’s not going to be easy to get, so that not every single person in the game will have one and ruin it.

Well, if you don’t wear them that’ll be one less. If you expect us to fall on our swords so you can be a special snow-angel… yeah no.

But you prove my point. You are complaining about possibilities of a not yet fully revealed meta that will hit GW2 some time in the future. That is my issue with some ppl in this thread. Theorize and speculate about certain effects and changes in the meta? Yes, I have no issue with that. But some here go beyond that and just QQ about things, they yet don’t understand. The complaints could be accurate, no question there, but they could be also completely unfounded, if the expansion reveals significant changes in certain skills/traits/ability and what not.

Will stacking stabi be difficult to balance? Yes it will be. Does that mean that it won’t be balances? No it doesn’t. At least, we can not reliably predict that for we know nothing about additional changes.

Svarty.8019:

This is probably a change made in response to player feedback and advice via CDI. People stated that organised small groups should be able to beat larger less-organised groups.

Vermillion.4061:

Congrats on destroying an entire game mode.

Think of it as re-education. That always goes down well.

a lot of these guilds aren’t capable of that. theyre good at two thing only, facerolling on their guards and warriors, and disbanding due to egos

this is crucial to understand about the gvg community.

am I the only one bored of current wvw meta? i mean, we played that kitten for 2 years and guard stacking was fun. but come on. veterans kept leaving due to boredom. new meta will attract new players.

in addition, disorganized blobs simply wont be coordinated enough to spread out their cc’s and strip the stability stacks. ever thought of that? they will blow their load, you will back up and re-engage. choke points will be an issue, so portal bombs will become more widely used, out of necessity.

new stab simply gives more counterplay. these forums are full of drama queens and bitter vets. for every bitter vet that leaves the game, 20 newbs will come to enjoy the “new meta” when xpac launches. and maybe even stay. but it sucks that wvw vets got ignored by devs, it really does.

Some people here need to stop posting and help me build this arrow cart already. Ranged combat is super exciting amirite?

This thread is a whole ton of “lols” and is kicking a dead horse. It’s a constant cycle of “bad player says something needs to be nerfed because they can’t deal with it. Other players explain why bad player is bad and offer numerous ways to counteract it. Bad player refuses logic, refuses to incorporate counters, continues to argue for nerfs.”

But here we go again anyhow:

• Dodge. Just dodge. The best way to stop damage dealing skills from dealing damage to you. Do not dodge autoattacks. Dodge Rapid Fire. Dodge Point Blank shot, don’t stand in a Barrage.

• Close the gap. Every class, even necros, have a gap closer (or closers). Many of them are 1200 range. Close the gap, and autos stop hurting. Dodge the Rapid Fire, and the LB stops hurting. At close range, since Rapid Fire is still a channel, you can actually just strafe through the rangers player model and 99% of peoples Rapid Fires will cancel channeling because they don’t react quick enough to let their camera autotrack you.

• Do not engage a ranger on their terms. If they are on a perch, either find a way to engage them on the perch while taking minimal damage traversing to that location, or just leave. Good rangers will just find something else to do, bad (or aggressive) rangers will leave their advantageous spot to damage you and you can then fight them on more even terms.

Frequent remarks and subsequent responses:

• Ranger LB is OP (with etc etc reasons basically singling out that the person making the complaint is bad). No. It isn’t even used in the top tier competitive area of the game, except for by one individual, who plays his absolute heart out to make it work. LB builds are thief food. They have bad matchups against most of the meta builds, especially without the Empathic Bond variant. They die to the breeze, and actually have poor reactive escape ability (versus preemptive escapes, which they are good at).

At lower tiers, people don’t know how to play, they don’t know how to dodge, and they don’t even know what skills to dodge. They don’t understand the game well enough other than do damage while trying to avoid damage, but they don’t know how to deal the damage they need to deal in every situation and as mentioned, what to avoid. So yes, just like with the old GS 100b warrior, the build wrecks bad players, but is wrecked in the competitive tiers of the game, which is the point of a well balanced game; to create skill hurdles to overcome to push players to be better without affecting the top tier balance of the game.

• Ranger LB is easy to play. Both too subjective to determine and, contradictory though it is, wrong where it matters. Yes, if you are a bad player, you think getting wrecked by 1 or 2 skills is imbalanced. While at the same time, those bad players don’t realize that all a person has to do is memorize a single skill rotation and you don’t even have to look at the screen anymore to make a build like DD ele top tier viable. It is subjective because to an experienced player, there isn’t a single class in the game that is even difficult to play mechanically, and it is wrong because to an advanced competitive player, the LB ranger is easily beaten or ignored in most scenarios and the player playing it has to have perfect positioning, field awareness, and cooldown usage in order to not completely be a feeder and rez fodder.

The difference in the amount of buttons pressed by other classes to be equally or more effective is the difference between about 1-3 button presses. The game isn’t mechanically difficult to begin with, and with all “ease of use” skills in the game, LB follows suit; easy to use, easy to dodge.

• Why are you so mad? I’m not. I’m just tired of people treating the game like it takes some sort of rocket science to play, except for when they want something nerfed. The game is easy to play, and highly casual friendly, neither of which are a bad thing. Asking for nerfs because you don’t agree with somethings playstyle or can’t figure out that there are easy ways that don’t even require a hard counter to beat is not okay, it is the sign of a bad player or a troll.

So to all people who think the LB needs a nerf, you are either bad players or trolls. Both of which can be remedied unless you lack intelligence, in which case, please stop posting forum threads, because I’m tired of getting infracted explaining to you that the reason you can’t comprehend why something is balanced and why you are bad is because your brain doesn’t work.

Mir Ta-folun Goth Olog.

Sorry, talking with OP in his native language.

Black speech of Mordor.

Astral Projections.7320:

A disco? Yeah it did. This happened to me right before Teq. It was awful.

Ah, but during the fight were you…

sunglasses

Stayin’ Alive?

dietzero.3514:

So borderline pay to win.

yep, yesterday i met a player of the opposing team in wvwvw and stored him in my new bought bank space

i got kicked from an AC party listed as a normal AC party P1 because i wasn’t level 80(and they didn’t list 80’s only)

I also left another group because some guy kittened me out after i accidentally aggroed a mob after my gf needed to tell me something. I just reported him and blocked him.

People just suck.

I wouldn’t care what anyone says. Part of why i love this game… ALMOST everyone i have asked for help, has helped me.

I just started, and im new, and everyone is willing to be friendly and explain stuff. They take time out of their day to explain fights and mechanics.

I passed that on to others buy teaching other players who didn’t know AC the fights in return as well. Don’t let a few sourpusses ruin your fun

Welcome to WvW, orenwolf.1953. It’s great to see such enthusiasm when so many people seem to be becoming quite jaded with the state of things. Some thoughts on your comments:

1 – I see that you can’t join Teamspeak, but perhaps you can still join a guild? There are all manner of WvW guilds from total slackers to hardcore raiders. Making friends this way helps immensely. Lots of guilds have banks full of things that are there specifically to help people like you.

4 – This can’t work, sadly, as you point out yourself, because the larger force would have an even greater advantage. They can move from camp to camp much more quickly than a small group as they kill all the guards almost instantly. Add in any towers full of supply they capture on the way and you can fill up a Keep in no time.

5 – Kraljevo.2801 is correct. This is the holy grail of WvW/RvR. While I agree with him/her that time-gating the whole scoring system would be one solution, I think there are other, less dramatic (and, admitedly, less effective) ways to soften the problem, such as stretching resources more thinly the more one side captures – making it easier for enemies to re-capture and ninja objectives.

Orenwolf…players like you are the unsung heroes of wvw. I love roaming. Too bad you can’t use TS though, it makes it much easier to report info. And it’s easier to be “properly” descriptive. But, hey, not everyone plays under the perfect settings. TS just makes it feel more like a community. And you always have a better idea of what’s going on all over. I’m not busting balls though, contribute they way you can, at least you’re contributing, a VERY underrated contribution at that.

My suggestion to you(mostly what XTD mentioned above) would be to run a world boss train here and there, or find a good gold making method to supplement your wvw-ing. It’s pretty much what I do. My gold making trick isn’t as profitable as it was, but I can make an easy 30g an hr. under the right circumstances. YT gold making vids, you’ll find something. Sorry, I won’t tell my method to non-guildies. GL HF!

Again with the personal attacks on Marmatt? Let it go. And better yet, read what he wrote correctly before calling him out for k-training eotm. 2500 hours played. Rank 300.
But seriously, the guy volunteered to step in try to sort through all these problems. Just thank him for it.

coglin.1867:

sminkiottone.6972:

coglin.1867:

Tom Gore.4035:

Make the best personal rewards in WvW come from killing enemy players, not capturing objectives.

perhaps you are new to WvW, but killing enemy player is not, nor has every been, the actual object of the game mode.

WvW is PvP, if you like WvE you can go EoTM.

Capturing objective should be the least rewarded thing in WvW, defending and killing other players should be far more rewarding.

Remind us again, How do you win a match up?

Coverage and population.. it’s a joke that there are still ppt heroes around

tldr version:

• Doesn’t apply to become a WvW Forum specialist
• Makes a thread complaining about not being chosen to be a WvW Forum Specialist

@Pavel. You do not have the slightest idea why most folks did or didn’t do anything. Speak for yourself if you don’t mind. There is no “us” in your decisions. I for one e check the dev tracker every time I visit the forums. As well as the news and announcement section. They posted it in news and announcements so if you missed the announcement of that news, it is in you and not us.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Marmatt, your stats and post history are the problem!

A lot of players here will have 5000+ hours, rank 1700+, 14k+ AP, and over 125k+ kills! And over 12 pages of posts in their forums profile section, where almost all of their posts are in the WvW Discussions section!

Someone who really represents the WvW community will have at least 1 banned account, and a second which lots of infractions and temporary suspensions, and a third account ready for when their 2nd is also banned. Why? Because these people are willing to argue with the mods and devs and are not afraid to put their honest opinions forward, even if they are opinions anet does not like!

Don’t blame him for being selected. But, your parameters are whack. I meet nome of those except kills. I seldom post on the forums and NEVER in this section, but that doesnt mean I am not dedicated to WvW. As for banned accounts, that should not be a badge of honor, like you are saying it should be, but instead an embarassment. I am fully aware of issues in WvW but also am content with how it is. Changes are nice, sure, but in my experience as someone who, now mostly just roams and havocs for the same server since beta, I enjoy it.

Back on topic: he doesnt HAVE to know ANYTHING about WvW to be a forum specialist. I couldnt answer those questions and I’m over rank 1000. His job is to relay information between players and ArenaNet. You dont need knowledge on the subject to do that

Cut him some slack guys. In order to be a specialist you had to have no infractions and have a positive outlook on the area you represent.

One does not post in the WvW forum without being infracted.

One certainly doesn’t have a positive outlook on WvW after nearly 3 years of playing it.

Cut the OP some slack and lets see if anything positive can come of this.

OP: Why don’t you try and hit the ground running by going through the past few pages and find a topic you’d like to send to ANet first and we can get some discussion going.

Lack of rewards, dying servers, poor coverage, horrible balance, and stale gameply are always winners!

Svarty.8019:

• I note with a little disappointment that the other fireworks from this event can’t be used in WvW.

Yeah, I don’t know why they’d do such a thing!

FrouFrou.4958:

cafard.8953:

If you combine the two longbows into a single greatbow, you should be able to shoot bears.

Think about it:
- OMG RUN IT’S A BEARBOW!
- wut? lol dude, bearbows aren’tAAAAAIIIIIIEEEE!!!!

This could actually be a legit idea for a legendary! Who wants pansy ponies when you can have bears mauling peoples faces!

Better YET! When welding a longbow and a bear as a pet we should be able to shoot the bear with the bow!!!

So at least the bear could get to one enem and do some damage before became usseless again!!!!

So then when someone says something like “Meh a bearbow..” you can do a bear to their face!!

Also the sword#1 AA should take longer when the kick. M.Bay showed us tha we love slow motion when the kicks. So slow motion should be. And the sword #3 should do like 3 rotations around the target, just to be sure it get dizzy enough.

Of course GS#2 should be longer as well. So we can appreciate the bear animation. Like 3 seconds long should be enough for everyone to see.

Any more ideas? we should send Anet an email with this suggestions for the next patch!!

Honestly it’s more about team chemistry than anything. I’ve been small group roaming with the same players for around a year now, and I couldn’t ask for anyone better. We all been playing with each other for so long. We know our strengths and weaknesses, how each of us are going to react and we just mesh well together.

As long as you have the basic roles covered (support, dps, and etc), you do just fine. It just takes sometime to really build group synergy. When it comes to comps it depends. Ideally we like to run; two support guards, shatter mesmer, power necro, and a dd ele. However, this doesn’t always happen and we run many other comps too.

For example, last night we ran a comp that probably wasn’t really ideal, two support guards, dd ele, thief, and warrior. The damage was lacking, however we still got the job done.

Just keep at it! Not enough small groups imo.

Yes I agree, it is annoying. As a home BL defender I hate having to refresh siege.

But unfortunately without it people would troll/grief with impunity.

That’s why we can’t have nice things. That’s why we’ll never have a space elevator.

Dismissing rangers is usually a solid sign the player has not even the slightest idea what they’re talking about. A lot of people do it because they hear others doing it, and don’t actually have any real knowledge or experience to back it up.

Uses area of effect ability.
Can only hit 5 targets.
Stupid wolves get hit instead of enemy players.
I am [Signet of Rage].