Guild Wars 2

Are we allowed to post videos that we created and posted online back in the day when WvW was fun and actively updated, or does it have to be all-new material?

anet are you okay?

Let me start with this quote:

DevonCarver.5370:

When I’ve been working on WvW for 11 months, then we’ll talk.

So, 11 months have passed, let’s talk then?
1. What is currently being worked on for WvW?
2. Why are things, that have been in the top of the player requests for over an year not only not implemented, but even not talked about from your side?
3. We haven’t heard from you since you posted in the “new maps” thread several months ago… and that was after around 6 months of you not posting. Do you think if you communicated better you’d avoid some of the huge negativity and toxicity on the WvW forums? Any plans to do something besides hiring more mods and creating additional CoC rules?

Feel free to add more questions guys.

peanut.3916:

id say SoR its A FAMILY FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT AND WE ALWAYS HAVE FUN NO MATTER THE SITUATION COME JOIN US

If what you say is true I’m tempted because where I am right now, T2, we are plagued with elitists guilds that just won’t play a game they deem below them. Many are actually behaving like complete @$$holes. I just want a place where the community act like a community and where all roles are appreciated. Mag was always somehow elitist, but we have reached a very unhealthy level of this kitten that I can n longer stand. I really think this attitude will destroy the server.

Long story short, I’ll consider any server where the atmosphere is better.

Just use a soundboard of sacrx and you’re all set.

Sry its tournament and there must be winners and awards .

I really like that idea. some mystic forge way of geting ascended gear that is directly tied to the gift of battle that works on WvW gear. Maybe tie in 50 ectos like the ascended laurel trinkets.

I should image a mystic forge sollution for this. Gift of battle+original piece+vision chrystal+ xy ecto = original piece in ascended version.

I like the OP. His responses are prompt and reasonable, and he’s seized upon an important fault of the game while proposing a solution that would address it. The fault is that the game and the PPT match does not function properly when servers have gaps in their coverage, and the solution is to remove enough redundant servers so that those gaps no longer exist.

I do wonder which time slot the OP plays in, and if this is blinding him to the obvious problem with this proposed solution. If you look at T1 off-peak coverage, that’s where most people accuse the players of stacking onto servers. Before a lot of players moved to these servers, they would have encountered fairly sparsely populated maps. As such they were not creating a problem by moving to servers with better off-peak coverage but amending one, at least as far as their experience was concerned.

However, this problem of having a low population only exists at certain hours for nearly every server, and you would need to travel at least 3-5 tiers down the ladder to find servers that don’t generate queues at their peak coverage hours. What I found imperceptive was the OP’s response to my first reply, where he said that multi-hour queues were “acceptable”. This was conditioned on being “in the current server and queue system”, I’m not entirely clear on what’s implied there.

There’s a group of us that are trying to find a new home in WvW and DB is one of the places we are talking about. We do have some questions and if we can get some answers that be awesome.
How are your Que Times in the Morning, Afternoon, Night?
How active is WvW in the Mornings, Afternoon, Night?
Do you peeps have a SEA/OCEANIC/nightcrew?
A lot of us Roam, is there a lot of roamers going on in EB and BL’s?
We got one guy that likes to Claim and Siege a Tower, is there usually a Tower thats open in EB majority of the time?

Which is why the matchup forum (former and current) are much more interesting to read than this one

So laughable to read some of the lily complaints here, especially from known roamers.

I don’t think Anet intends to Gate people after all this time, or in other words stop people playing at times that they can play. wvw has never been a Fair and Balanced 24 hour war, if you don’t have the coverage or dedicated players as it is over here in the EU then you will have imbalanced match-ups with blowouts – even before the weekend is over.

There’s no point in worrying about about the Score/PPT, defending or upgrading structures unless you have the numbers to do that unfortunately.
Match-Ups are so skewed by Coverage and Population that it’s best to focus on when you can play up against Equal numbers. It really is best for your own sanity to do something better than watch as things get run over until the Train Stops.

You could look at wvw as Open World PvP Warfare with a touch of PVE, which has a rather ‘Casual’ Scoring system rather than a Competitive Scoring system which takes into account Coordination, Organization and Strategy rather than PvD.
I wouldn’t just blame EoTM by the way, it has it’s own issues and the novelty will wear off quickly!

Several people are asking for refunds for town cloths because Anet disabled town cloths in WvW. While I am not personally affected, guild mates of mine and friends of mine are so I do have an interest in this issue.

To the players:

This is the latest message from support on the issue, they are currently talking it over – and hopefully Gaile/(another anet rep) will be able to chime in on Monday.

“We understand you are upset about this situation of the refund you are requesting and also because your Clothes purchased are no longer working. We cannot guarantee that any refund will be applied to your account but we wanted to ask you for more time to solve this situation, we are actually discussing this incident with Arena Net to see if an exception can be made due of the high importance of the issue, so please bear with us while we investigate with them and once they deliberate, we will update this ticket for you with a resolution and with a response.

In advance, we appreciate your patience, constant loyalty and passion towards our game!"

- https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Refunds-for-town-clothes/page/2#post3296798

To Arenanet:

I also have an issue with the messaging support representatives have been giving people that have made the refund request to support.

Particularly this line:
“We encourage you to exercise care when conducting all your gem transactions.”

While it may be with good intent, this line seems to lay the blame on the player after support initially refused the refund. This wasn’t an issue with a mistaken purchase, this is an issue with plainly not being able to use something ~98% of the time these particular players play the game as they spend most of their time in WvW. A player cannot predict, or should not be responsible for radical changes made by the development team. Its one thing for skills on the toys to be changed as needed, its quite another to make an item unusable then tell the player to “exercise care when conducting all your gem transactions”.

I suggest a review on what cut and paste responses are acceptable to certain requests. I do understand the support reps have to churn through probably hundreds and hundreds of requests per day – but being made aware of game changes that might trigger refund requests should be apart of their internal knowledge base.

If you find WvW so incredibly unacceptable in its current state that you’re willing to quit en masse, then maybe GW2 just isn’t the game for you? Play the game for what it is right now, not for what you fantasize about it being in the future.

i wanted to thank the devs for the new BL’s. theyre so much fun for a few reasons:

- underwater combat: it occurs spontaneously in the canals. a little bit of it is a lot of fun and a nice transition between land

- new terrain allows for a new variety of skirmishing builds; more build diversity. it is possible to use terrain to your advantage, reposition, evade, do all kinds of stuff. guardian/necro/staff ele gvg meta is basically useless, so there’s some variety for u.

- zergs are virtually non-existent and they actually kitten your server in the current BL’s. im in tier 1.

- non-stop action: there are always people out there skirmishing. lots of small gang action

hope everyone else is having a lot of fun!

So, how many of you guys have actually played with the new buffs?

1. How are the buffs applied? Instantly after 3/5 temples are controlled for 2 minutes? Or slowly trickles up to +150 stats over time?

2. How often does the stat get reset? (In game play, not in theory)

3. How much of a difference does this buff make for you server? i.e. were you losing horribly already? Winning? Close match-up?

4. Other than complaints, has your server worked on new fighting strategies? If so, have they worked?

5. The buff is applied server wide or map wide? I am under the impression that the buff is applied on whichever map/world you hold 3/5 temples for 2 minutes. This means that GvG can be held in Eternal Battlegrounds since it does not have any temples, no?

My thinking is that if it takes a minimum of 2 minutes of holding 3/5 temples and the enemy “zerg” is still able to take your BL or keeps, chances are, you would have lost those keeps or BL regardless of buff so I don’t see what all the QQ is about.

If you’re roaming and run into someone with +150 stats than you, chances are, you or your server didn’t care enough about buffs to begin with or you weren’t aware of the positioning of the map and did not respond to reset/contest buffs. No Zerg is going to stay in a BL that is completely theirs unless they are defending. That being said, if your small group isn’t cohesive enough to reset buffs, then buff or no buff, you would’ve lost the fight to a group that was cohesive enough to think about buffs before fighting you. Not saying that people complaining are bad, just saying that there are always ways to counter something. WvW is also a strategic game mode as well as massive PvP, this simply adds another level of strategy to your gameplay. Like someone else already said, “if you don’t like, then don’t play” other than that, good luck to everyone out there.

My review of the thing.

It is fun. Being a heavy roamer I like it a lot for small skrimishes. Map design in the area was great. Very fun.

When groups started bringing in huge groups it quickly became unfun. Being in there with 4 other people, groups would all be burst damage specs and just single out targets and spam everything. Typical stuff that people in this game do. Since I dislike the combat mechanics in the game it killed it for me when fights got above 3 people.

I kind of wish there was some personal reward. No world exp, event completion, etc.

I could care less about GvG. In this games current meta and combat mechanics it would be in the same position as sPvP.

The degarding point system was smart. It forces bigger servers to dedicate players to tag and defend the points for the buff. Makes it a bit harder for them to steam roll.

I expect to see a lot less roamers, it will be interesting.

Out of all I give it a solid 8/10.

I didn’t see a single person in map chat saying they didn’t like the map changes.

This thread is a perfect demonstration of how the forums only represents a small minority of the playerbase, who will complain about anything.

I’m 1-step ahead of you, my HDD suddenly had more free space today.

Impressive resume Mr. Scyth… and what kind of salary were you looking for?

I think at the end of the day, the thing ANET is not saying is that they always intended WvW to be 1/3 of the game…They did not actually anticipate people playing it 100%, and as such were not prepared to deal with the issues this presented and/or the staleness that has now set in.

I left the game because I personally think it is broken, but worse than that I am of the opinion that the only “fixes” we ever get are just band-aids. I keep in touch with it because I hope one day they fix many of the things that are stopping this game from becoming truly epic. And instead of adding some ridiculous new Siege Wars 2 mastery every month, they should have spent that 30 days working out some of the issues their player-base QQ’s about on a daily basis.

I get what the OP is saying, if enough people leave the game then the thought is that ANET will have to do something about the issue. The problem is that people quitting WvW will only make the devs life easier in the short-term, in the long-term it may get the desired result.

Also: if you do not agree or like what somebody posts; or worse you think it is a waste of time. Do not waste yours by replying to it to say that it is dumb/waste of time/pointless. People voicing their displeasure with something is pretty much the only kittening line of communication that this game allows as a conduit to the devs. Let people have their say, if you do not agree, just move on to another thread.

Salutations Anvil Rockers! we at darkhaven have noticed your plight and it breaks our hearts to see such a spvp/wvw focused server such as yourselves fall victim to transfers and the ever looming Drama Llama.

So having said that, Darkhaven opens its arms to you. Bring us your tired, your Hungry and your Rage quitters! and together we shall storm the tiers vindicating loses and kicking in teeth along the way!

Darkhaven has truly grown in regards to its wvw Action. we have always had the heart but now we have the hammer. its fairly drama free and we are all looking forward to brighter days!

for anyone looking to move to Darkhaven on a permanent basis for wvw purposes please feel free to guest over and pm me ( My ranger is Whoajaxx) and I would be happy to give you the grand tour!

Jaxx of GRIM
-Darkhaven-

dear AR,

please do not take this the wrong way, but i do believe you might just be ET’s soul mates.