Guild Wars 2

Karl and his team has been dragging our class through the mud since pre-Hot every patch we have gotten less fun and less engaging viable builds. Our class gets thrown all over the place. Every time we settle into a meta it’s decided for us that thats not the meta we are supposed to be in and get removed from it. There’s never a semblance of though every time its just remove/nerf/double nerf buff shaterstone and lets see what happens. And every time we have to sink into a less fun roll IE cleric ele.

He’s proven he has no idea how to play ele, hell their kittening footage trying to show off tempest for HOT is him getting wrecked trying to overload. It’s time he steps the kitten back from any class balance and moves to something else because I’m kittening sick of this kitten. I really hope he’s not involved on our next “elite” spec.

I am curious how did you farm the blood rubies so fast? I am only getting a few during the meta event. Are you just mining with your alts?

I think China has politics of not being open. Every game that have China servers are blocked of any outside interaction, so that’s clearly not possible.

Now about mixing NA/EU, the latency issue will continue with your proposed change. Let’s say Ruins of Surmia become guest for Jade Quarry. In your idea JQ is host, so they use NA servers for that, which means players from RoS will be experiencing the latency change. And if it happen the otherway around such as Eredon Terrace becoming guest for Desolation. Players from Eredon Terrace will experience the lag due Desolation server being in EU.

This is a technological innability and I’m not sure if there is any way around that. Mind you that I play from South America, so for me that make no difference (I have high latency on both EU and NA with EU being slightly worse).

anet should have a theme week where siege has a 75% reduced cap. It would be interesting to see how everyone would adapt.

DeWolfe.2174:

mulzi.8273:

Soridormy.8132:

BG should be open cuz sea is so weak

This is the problem that was not addressed. Sure, the score is closer this week. However, the score is only closer because of night capping. Take a look at scoring trend: BG holds sway over much of the NA day…Then at night, TC holds SMC at night, pads the score a bit until the following day when BG wakes up again.

I want real balance throughout the day, not having one server sitting in an empty EB at different times to make the score close.

Right now as Sea is beginning, Bg is ticking 130 and TC is only ticking 42. BG’s Sea is not weak by any stretch of the imagination. Also, you can’t have “real balance” throughout the day. Not when the player base is split in half and divided into NA and EU data centers. Beyond that, human civilization is simply not equally spread across the planet and time zones for “real balance” 24/7. They’ll always be high’s and low’s.

Simply looking at the current ppt score is not a reliable reflection of coverage. TC has just as many if not more ppl on right now including guild groups TORK and eN running right now and they have been running pretty large all night. BG for much if not all night has been running a pug zerg for the most part. We have just been moving around a lot more and capping stuff, that is why our ppt has been so high. TC has a tendency at night to not recap their stuff for a long time, even though they can do it quickly with their numbers and choose instead to stay on EB.

Some people like ABL, some DBL, some EBG, some EoTM, some all, some a mix. We need variety.

There was a warning some weeks ago (the April patch) when they introduced the wvw reward tracks.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-19-2016/first#post6102518

“WvW—REWARD TRACKS (Beta)
Reward tracks have been added to World vs. World. These are nearly identical to the reward tracks you find in PvP, except that some rewards have been adjusted to be geared toward WvW players. One of the tracks offers players a chance to earn the new WvW-exclusive Triumphant armor set! Also, once the reward tracks feature exits beta testing, the Gift of Battle legendary crafting component will no longer be available as a vendor purchase and will be earned via its own reward track.”

Hey yall,

Im fairly new to posting in the forums. While I was streaming yesterday on twitch I managed to capture on video about 4 placement hacking bots. I also called out by the botters calling me a hall monitor. any way heres a link to the video enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2hgb2aY2k

Or type on youtube ? Gift Bots

I have seen lots of hackers in the puzzle map teleporting around the map and report them as ‘botting’.

Are the GMs doing anything to prevent such occurrences? It is extremely unfair to players like me who are working on the puzzle tirelessly to get that 10 wintersday gifts per round.

An easy tip to spot hackers:

I have observed that these hackers usually ‘spawn’ (revive) multiple times without moving a single inch. I believe most of them died while teleporting when the snowflakes disintegrate.

Le me be clear: “Player Experience” is being ruined in the JP. The experience is great, very positive, when this issue doesn’t interfere with my progress.

Before some troll says “get good”, I have already done runs of 14… when I was on maps where no one was using a character that blocked out the sun.

It’s not QQ’ing to point out the simple fact that one cannot do a JP if they cannot see their own character. It’s basic common sense.

There are 2 solutions, one of which is definitely easy to implement:

1) Easy: Fix the existing toggle for standard character models so they work at all times, regardless of where you are in the game or what you happen go be doing. The toggle we have works in Divinity’s Reach but it’s not working in the JP for some reason.

2) Maybe? : Put all norn and char in their own instances so that no one else has to deal with having their view blocked.

We have been trying to get something done about this for three years. Enough is enough. Fix the standard model option so it works in the JP already.

Or I’ll just have to grab my own norn and ruin someone else’s experience just so that I’ll finally be able to see myself.

No, I don’t want to become part of the problem… but if Anet doesn’t fix the toggle so that standard models are used in the JP just the same way they work in DR then my only choices are to let my experience be ruined or ruin someone else’s.

I hope it doesn’t come to that.

Tittle^

It will still be a broken system that relies on MMR and nothing else, but at least solo players will be able to actual process and not being stuck on saph/ruby.

Kaspar.3892:

I’ve been running an auramancer build and have found that my auras are simply just overwriting themselves when I cast one that’s already active. This kinda sucks.

For example, say we have magnetic aura, there’s a bunch of different ways that tempests can get this aura going, and sometimes I can’t keep track of when the last time my Trait method procced, so I’m stuck with wasting some uptime on my magnetic aura.

Another example, say we have an ice field down, and you’re going to go for a leap to get 5 seconds of frost aura, well someone decides that right after you land that they’re going to blast it and give everyone in the area 3 seconds of frost aura, now instead of 5 seconds, you’re down to 3 seconds.

IMO: Auras should stack in duration instead of replacing the existing one with the latest version that was cast. This would make it quite a bit less of a headache on keeping track of your lightly flickering auras that are barely even visible now.

It’s by design, they actually did this half-way through the beta weekend and thought it was a good idea.

Nay. Don’t waste your Sinister stats to get Viper if you only care about burning.

Runes of Balthazar (45)% + Sigil (20%) + Trait (20%) = 85%. Even in basic PvE, if you just consume a super veggie pizza (18%) you’ll cap out on burning. There’s no need to add Exerptise when you’re capped already (and the precision loss = less burning).

If you’re running a burn/bleed set, you’re lowering your own dps by swapping out of fire, so I wouldn’t advise it.

Yes you have to swap elements. You cannot swap from Air to another element and still keep the Overload going (only the aftercast keeps going). In order to use the Fresh Air trait with Air Overload you need to fully complete the Overload in Air, swap out of air and get a crit (I believe the Air aftercast AoE can count) and then you get the reset.

Hai Anet, we need to talk about the visual effect of Geyser, Water Staff 3 skill. Ever since the balance patch that changed stability, the radius of waterfield has visibilty shrunk to at least 180 radius. So attached is a picture,

Top Left: Firefield radius
Top Right: Geyser radius
Bottom Left: Geyser and Firefield radius beside one another
Bottom Right: Geyser and Firefield radius on top of one another

Geyser : 240 Radius
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Geyser

Lava Font : 180 Radius
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lava_Font

Please fix it!

One of the requirements for playing in Pro League was that you had to use their anti-cheat program called ESL Wire. They sent it out to players to download about five days before Pro League started, giving players plenty of time to test it before it had to be used. However, that’s where the problems started. We were told that there was an issue with the program and Windows 8, so we didn’t need to use it until it was fixed.

Fast forward to the second week of Pro League. We hadn’t heard any update from them in regards to ESL Wire. Just to be safe, I asked in advance if ESL Wire has been fixed and if it would be required. (Note: I had to ask. If I had not asked, we would have had zero warning.) They told us yes. This was about 6.5 hours before the tournament was due to start. Most of my team members were at school or work. We installed the program just before the tournament started and had no time to troubleshoot. We had issues with it, and they forced us to use a substitute.

Here is the direct quote from the ESL Admin:

“ESL Wire: we added it to the Pro League, but I understand there are some issues with using Windows 8. Since we haven’t used it before in the Go4’s, it won’t be required at the moment”

There was no more communication about ESL Wire until I had to specifically ask about it. When we had issues, their response was essentially to fix it or they would DQ us. There was no attempt to troubleshoot the issue, they just said to restart and try again.

“Seems like it’s a technical issue on the player’s end. Teams were given a lot of notice to prepare and have this program installed and running.”

We were not given proper notice that we had to use the program and did not have time to troubleshoot.

On an entirely different note, ESL Wire was causing crashes and lag for many players, completely disallowing Caden from re-entering his match with us after DCs.

TL;DR – ESL did not properly communicate with teams as to whether or not ESL Wire was required until there was not an adequate to troubleshoot buggy software. I leave you with my favorite quote from them:

“I downloaded it on my laptop tonight and it downloaded fine”

It works for me so it must work for you… Thanks for the troubleshooting…

How about tier 5 – being able to tell exactly what ore a particular node is?

Kaspar.3892:

insanemaniac.2456:

Serophous.9085:

tier 3 – better chance for rarer mats (ie gems)

lets just make sure those rare mats are oversupplied shall we

I think that’s why he specified “(ie gems)”.

missed my point.

as long as mats arent at vendor value +15% with >100k supply sitting on the tp, the system has achieved a balance. giving people more kittens with that balance. why mess with a thing that works? dont fix it if it aint broke.

now if you intend to balance an item at a certain order of magnitude of price but it consistently flaunts your predictions in unintended major ways, sure step in and fix it. but stuff like orbs, crystals, foxfires, and flax fibers arent doing that, because if they were then john smith would have stepped in like he did for flax.

therefore its not a good suggestion.

Samuel Loretan.8601:

But because World versus World is the only game mode to which worlds apply these days, we have developed a better model that exclusively uses WvW data to determine population levels and transfer costs.

Nice… speaking of which is the “Guest” button even doing anything these days, if so what…