Guild Wars 2

fishball.7204:

Aneu.1748:

Maybe you should get a discussion going on these very forums regarding the changes you are going to implement soon rather than bull-rush it out without anyone the wiser, especially on the change that seems to be coming to the ranking system, its quite drastic.

This.

Please consult with the people that actually play WvW about any changes before you implement them.

There are only so many pros and cons you can draw up inside a board room even if you guys are very smart and very capable.

There’s no way they can consult with us. We don’t agreee on anything.

For every suggestion, there’s someone who hates it. For every complaint, there’s someone who disagrees. For every change, there’s people who asked for it and people who threaten to quit over it.

I won’t repeat my entire post here. I’ll just say that bugs are a lot harder to fix than you think. There’s a reason why fixing one usually breaks something else.

There’s no such thing as nightcapping because your night is someone else’s day.

Engie and nothing else in the world.

I am not claiming that golem. I was able to put it to good use as a teaching tool however. “Now class, here is a perfect example of how not to use golems”

Well, it happened and it’s worse than we could ever have imagined. 50% dam nerf and blinding befuddlement gutted. Glam build is dead. Other builds are majorly weakened. No fix / buff for scepters, no bug fixes for checkerboard shatters, no bug fix for clones not holding off hand weapons. No new altered / traits to replace the now useless glam traits . Glam confusion Mesmer is basically a pink paperweight now.

What will you do next? I’m re-rolling as a condition Necro, but I have faith that the Mesmer community can survive anything, even the incomprehensible machinations of Anet’s dev team. I love my Mesmer and want to find a new build that works (despite the months of wasted time grinding for rabid and carrion gear which is now useless). What builds besides shatter cat, which I find ineffectual in WvW against zergs, are you guys going to now? I tried Chaos Maestro which I found interesting. Dismal damage but very Tanky and good at outlasting opponents. A bit dull tho, and I’m nervous about going with a boon stacking build now that (gag) boon hate has been introduced. Mantra builds seem odd but I’m willing to try. Suggestions?

Nikked.7365:

I want to sympathize but…

…I’m a Mesmer going for Bifrost. Rainbows and butterflies for everyone!

Mesmer is supposed to go for the Moot.

faint music in the background “staying alive … staying alive …”

Oh, I see.

Well, a lot of people experience lag these days. In PvE, it’s not much a problem: it’s annoying. But in WvW, yes it is a problem.

So if you lag, you must know that your download speed has nothing to do with it. So the biggest is not the best. If you lag, it’s actually because there is a high latency: it’s the time of response that is unusually high.

And regarding that, there is currently a huge fight between a spammer host and other companies with unprecedented levels of hacking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?hp&_r=0

I’ve had lag issues since past Wednesday. No doubt I’m impacted by this war. On the other hand, not everybody is impacted by that war, explaining that some of you still have a good latency and some others don’t.

So please, don’t blame ArenaNet yet. Wait for that fight to be over, then if you still lag, go ahead and resume. But as of today, the fact is that the Internet is slow (again, in latency, not in download speed) and ArenaNet is not responsible for it.

I think it’s dumb when the clone gets the boon instead of me or a friend. She doesn’t need it, she’s not even a real person …

There is a huge skill variation between players in WvW. The large majority of players don’t know how to play their own class, let alone someone elses.

Two things I do in a zerg,

If I’m with a Commander and we’re doing a push of some sort, right as the front line crashes I like to blink into the middle/near the back of the enemy, create 3 clones, and cry of frustration for 8 stacks of aoe confusion, then make 3 more clones followed by a mind wrack for another 4 stacks of aoe confusion, then use the prestigue for an aoe blind/confusion. By that stage the zerg has pushed through and everybody goes down, then it’s just a matter of cleaning up the loot off the downed.

If there’s some sort of stalemate or trench line fight going on, I just take a detour out to the flank. Cut in hard from the side, repeat the same or similar tactic above, but instead of using the blink at the start, use it at the end to retreat back into your allies.

All Glamours do is A: make people scatter, and B: tell everybody to check their condition bar for stacks of confusion. To which they’ll either condition cleanse, or turn and fall back for the duration to run out. Hell, They can also stay still, not cross the fields, keep their stacks really low, and keep on fighting through it. Don’t get me wrong, confusion glamour fields can be good, but they have their downsides. You’re giving up a lot of utility though, filling up your entire bar with them.

Illusions exist in your mind: they are your fears, your insecurities, your paranoia. You can try to hide your feelings, but you cannot escape them.

A simpler solution that’s more fair to everyone would be for points per tick to be worth progressively less for continuous control.

Ex: you take a tower, during the first hour each tick gives you 10 points. If you still hold it then the next hour each tick only gives you 8 points. 3rd hour ticks give 5, after 4 hours of uninterrupted control the tower no longer gives points.

This means you don’t keep earning points during empty periods yet no timezone is penalized.

Sounds like a bad idea, really need to see the detail though.

The only real “zerging” is usually on t1 – t3 servers, the rest of us just have big guild groups and that won’t change. We may be running 25 people, but if we can all now attack the gate and guards with superior siege we will have taken that tower/keep before someone else can say “hey, is that tower contested?”.

Of course we use scouts, but nobody wants to be the guy sitting at Hills or Bay for two hours just in case a 24 man group shows up. I repeat, NOBODY. If you say you do want to be that guy then you don’t actually enjoy WvWvW you just have some weird need to please people and should seek help.

The real issue with WvWvW is we want more fights. People who enjoy ninja-ing towers are also slightly strange in my eyes. I join WvWvW for the battles – not PvDoor – and this is not going to help. Now I’m only going to know where there is a massive cullingfest happening, why am I going to bother heading to those orange swords?

I’ve never logged off Vent saying “wow what a great night, we ninjad all those keeps and didn’t see a single enemy player!”. On the other hand, I’ve logged off many times where we scored zilch and took nothing but everyone loved the massive open running battles, the small skirmishes and actually doing some, you know, player versus player stuff.