Guild Wars 2

Each team now has a unique, new, borderland.

The maps now have more interesting terrain (things like mountain passes, maybe sneaky JP back routes, etc).

Bridges/dams/walls can be build in certain locations (the same way towers are upgraded now).

Ahhh yes… That would be good.

Grav.3568:

- Players gain one free WXP re-spec with every 10 WXP ranks they gain.

10 feels a bit low, I would say every 30, 50 or 100.

Caliburn.1845:

-Arrowcarts are now line of sight.
-Unique skins and items attainable only in WvW.
-More attainable WvW achievements and titles.
-WvW match-ups now offer substantially greater rewards to the winner server.
-Extensive statistics tracking added to WvW. Including man-hours played by server. WvW kills by server. WvW deaths by server. Number of siege equipment deployed by server. Average player lifespan on server.

With the big issue of establishing what the reward for a winning server is.

Urrid.4593:

- Several annoying invulnerable spots near team specific borders have been tweaked.

Fizwitz.8240:

- Killing a player can only revive up to 5 people

I would say 5 people per server, considering you can have 3 way fights…

And now, my turn:

General

• a new structure has been built by the krait in the middle of the lake in every borderland: capturing the krait keep unleashes the power of the storm on it. The storm slowly destroy the walls and gates of the keep, opening it to enemy attacks and requiring constant repairs to maintain sovereignity over it. The krait keep cannot be upgraded and once completely destroyed is unavailable for an hour, while the kraits reclaim it and rebuild the walls.
• a new “fight difficulty” multiplier has been introduced: WXP and magic find for player kills will be influenced by the numerical difference of the opposing forces: a 20 man group wiping a 60 man zerg would get bonus WXP and magic find, while the 60 man zerg wiping a 20 man group would be punished, getting less than normal WXP and lower quality loot.
• team chat (/team or /t) is now readable across all borderlands and the eternal battlegrounds, messages will be prefixed with the borderland of the player that wrote the message to avoid confusion
• all projectile siege start with a finite amount of projectiles, after that amount has been used, they are disabled and require a 10 supply recharge
• supply storage in keeps is now split between inner and outer depots, inner depot(s) can contain 1/3 of total supplies, outer depots contain the rest, once the external perimeter of the keep has been breached, depots become neutral and both defenders and invaders can take supplies from there
• you can now easily spot more expert invaders: from rank 150 upwards, a medal (bronze, silver, gold, and so on) will display beside their name.
• more achievements have been added and the existing achievement rewards have been updated to reflect the effort required to get each of them

Reaching the “legend” rank in each tier (rank 120, 570 and so on) will grant new rewards:

• a new unique stomp finisher animation
• the related title: “WuhWuh Legend”, “WuhWuh Bronze Legend”, and so on
• access to a new vendor where you can exchange badges of honor for unique armor and weapon skins

New and improved commander interface:

• commander messages have a different color in team and mapchat (wvw only). Commanders also have a different cooldown trigger for the spam filter (so they can write more than 3 times in a row, for example)
• commanders can choose to join another commander, so a proper chain of command can be established
• each commander can register up to 3 players as scouts: scouts will have a simple interface to report enemy sightings, keeps and towers under attack and so on
• new map interface for commanders, bigger than the minimap, with the the reports from the scouts and tools to order where to go and what to do
• commanders can now choose to show the tag on map for everyone or only for their guild

In an effort to spread out the population and achieve better coverage for all the servers and timezones:

• on the world selection window, each player will receive a server suggestion based on server wvw populations/coverage requirements and coverage statistics from player’s past 4 weeks in wvw: he can transfer to the suggested world for a minimal fee or can choose another server for the usual fee.
• based on similar coverage statistics, Guilds can apply for guild transfers: if applicable, they will receive a special discount for up to 50 members if they move to a suggested server. All guild upgrades, influence and merits are transfered aswell.

(ANet, I spent hours writing this, make me happy, make it happen!)

Queen Jennah assembles Rox, Braham, Logan, Anise, Trahearne, and your character into her throne room.

(Queen): “I’m glad you are all here. Each of you represent a very crucial need we will have to conquer the Dragons and all of our enemies. For far too long our people, all of the races, have been under the influence of something dangerous.”
(Trahearne): “Yes the Elder Dragons—-”
(Queen): “No, but close the real threat is the Asura. More specifically, the Inquest have been pulling strings lately that are far too deep in all of our respective lands. For you see I plan on stopping them once and for all. We shall have true peace, then forge ahead against the Dragons.”
(Logan, looking worried): “Jennah, what about Scarlet? Also why isn’t Zojja here if the Inquest is such a problem?”
(Anise): “The Queen didn’t want to trouble Zojja’s council with paperwork. As for Scarlet, she’s working with us. She has been secretly with the Aetherblades in order to infiltrate certain parts of the Inquest. At this moment she’s placed Ethereal energy bombs in all the major cities, laced with Inquest tech, that are filled with Draconic energy.”
(Queen, nodding): “Divinity’s Reach has one in our latest project: The Crown Pavilion. When the celebrations draw to a close, agents will be sent to explode the bombs. Dragon Energy will contaminate sections the major race cities. The Inquest will be blamed, our hatred for the Dragons renewed, and after the Inquest fall finally we all will use their technology. The Dragons’ days are numbered. We will target Jormag first Braham, then Kralkatorrik Rox, all we ask is for your support and silence.”
(Trahearne, shocked): "This madness cannot happen! I won’t allow it, when do you plan on doing this?’
(Queen): “I’m not a stage play villain. Do you seriously think I’d explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

Logan goes along with the plan, Anise does as well, Rox and Braham stay silent and ashamed, Trahearne begs to die because he can’t live with this. You are given a choice to either keep quiet or the mesmers will rip out your memory.

I’m gonna guess she’s going to say words. Possibly in sentences.

SirDrygan.1823:

locoman.1974:

Queen Jenna: “You may address me now by my full name.. Queen Jenna Scarlet O’hare”..

Lol…. and the aetherblades then massacre everyone in attendance….. of course, we players get out alive…… after which, Divinity’s Reach turns into the largest dungeon in the whole MMO universe!!

Divinity’s Reach would be an awesome dungeon.

locoman.1974:

Queen Jenna: “You may address me now by my full name.. Queen Jenna Scarlet O’hare”..

Lol…. and the aetherblades then massacre everyone in attendance….. of course, we players get out alive…… after which, Divinity’s Reach turns into the largest dungeon in the whole MMO universe!!

“We are the Watchknights. Your biological, magical and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.”

inazuma.7021:

Kain Francois.4328:

Dear Scarlet,

Please assassinate Ellen Kiel.

Love, #TeamGnashblade

Dear Scartlet,

Please assassinate Evon Gnashblade.

Love, #TeamKiel

Dear Scarlet,

Please open the gates to Elona.

Love, #TeamJoko

Dear Scarlet,

Please assassinate Ellen Kiel.

Love, #TeamGnashblade

Dear Scarlet,

You’re not the only one with a clever rhyme.
Rarely is my subject matter relegated to time.
Don’t worry, a year from now you won’t be worth a dime.
Reason being is that you have openly thrown yourself in as the main culprit for the crime.

Do you enjoy the look of your own insides?
I for one enjoy a challenge from petty criminal without a hope or a guide.
But even more the flood of your tears soon to be falling from insignificant words.
Maybe I’ll separate you into little pieces, or just see if you can live with two-thirds.

My friend, I have defended Logan and Jennah in the past.
Back then I was no where near capable of my current level of wrath.
I’ve been waiting so long for a good villain.
Try to keep me entertained, I’ll be waiting at the pavilion.

Fog and Sand you say?

My favorite part is going to be the look permanently etched onto your face when your mind has been flayed.

/RP off

To Scarlet,

Logan’s hair is an excellent landing spot for an airship.
Make it happen. I will be there to point him out for you.

Sincerely,

The Mad Queen

To Scarlet,

I heard Sylvari taste nice.

Sincerely,
Vegetarian society of exotic foods.

To Scarlet,

Can I help?

Sincerely,
Someone Tired of Jennah

Dear Scarlet,
please kill Traherne and you can do whatever you want with Tyria.
ktnxbai!

Elbegast.6970:

Snaff is stuck in 1885.
Lion’s Arch was demolished by a 50 foot tall holographic woman.
Queen Jennah is a killer android sent from the future, by Aethernet, to kill Logan Thackeray.
Evil Future Zojja is behind the Steam Mech invasion.
Livia (aka ‘Scarlet’) has come out of hiding and raised Orr to use Zhaitan as a tool to stop Zojja, Aethernet, Jennah and Holo-Kiel and to rescue Snaff from a certain death at the hands of ‘Mad Karka’ Kasmeer. But you ruined it, all of you. You just had to kill an undead Elder Dragon that wasn’t harming anyone. He was only trying to help.

Now Scarlet will turn all of you into undead. It’s the only way she can defeat Aethernet and Future Zojja. I hope you are happy.

Add some Logan/Rytlock bromance and I’d read that crackfanfic.

Time to polish that Berserker’s gear.

If you need help give me a call. I can also aid you in removing other obstacles such as Trahearne the Salad. I’ll bring a bear too.

Snaff is stuck in 1885.
Lion’s Arch was demolished by a 50 foot tall holographic woman.
Queen Jennah is a killer android sent from the future, by Aethernet, to kill Logan Thackeray.
Evil Future Zojja is behind the Steam Mech invasion.
Livia (aka ‘Scarlet’) has come out of hiding and raised Orr to use Zhaitan as a tool to stop Zojja, Aethernet, Jennah and Holo-Kiel and to rescue Snaff from a certain death at the hands of ‘Mad Karka’ Kasmeer. But you ruined it, all of you. You just had to kill an undead Elder Dragon that wasn’t harming anyone. He was only trying to help.

Now Scarlet will turn all of you into undead. It’s the only way she can defeat Aethernet and Future Zojja. I hope you are happy.

To the mysterious Scarlet,

You may be brave enough defacing Queen Jennah’s likeness on a webpage, but do you dare show your presence here in the nest of vipers that is an MMO community forum?

I dare you. Heck, I double dare you.

:)

But seriously, I have to say this is an entertaining way to build up the storyline for the 20th. The poems and gifts sent to gaming sites were a very nice touch as well. I hope the story turns out to be an engaging one. We’ve needed a good, memorable villain and I think there is some real potential here.

Dranul.2094:

Magnetron.5823:

I do not agree with the last person who comments on this, the game mode WvW, is made to fight like who have the most people, and who have the most coverage. Yes it sucks to have less people in you server but it is like USA fights SWEDEN.. USA will win because they have more people.

You will face another server next week, just try to have fun. WvW cannot be balanced.

We farmed them for 90+mins. Its not that we couldn’t live and kill.. But try stopping 100 guys of which over 50% of them, have access to a res (of which they all equipped) and having a keep lord rez over 60+ times is ok with you?

Your missing the point. Waypointing in 100 every 3mins becomes a joke, resetting the cap EACH rez is a joke (it never used too!).

Mechanics stopped us winning the keep, not the 100 players. Skill needs to be rewarded don’t you think?

Or are you a fan of “bring more numbers = win”? WvW is / has turned into Zergball, more and more servers avoid fights and play for WXP.

Not asking for balance, not complaining about blobs or coverage, we fight 20-30 vs whole zone, I don’t care about that. I’m saying the mechanics make it IMPOSSIBLE to take garrison from 100 people – the mechanics (flawed) when combined just make it worse.

Skill did win. They used their utilities efficiently and held you off.

You couldn’t stop them. They had superior numbers. You apparently couldn’t rally more to help. They did, and eventually threw you out.

You were a commendable smaller force to essentially farm them for a while there. Well done. But they beat you.

The end.

Really amusing to see what extraordinarily manipulative effect a couple letters and digits seem to have on people.

DevonCarver.5370:

We take allegations of cheating very seriously, but we also have a responsibility to our players to not take precipitous action. We are always working to improve our cheat-detection, but no system is perfect. Please continue to report any and all suspicious activity you see and we will do our utmost to chase down and verify what is happening.

You need to add an option for hacking to the report function.

Did you miss the “trololol” in the end? Because if you are serious I can only pity you.

florence.1674:

I think I can only conclude.

There is not a single GW2 player alive who can count.

Best thing i’ve read in this thread yet.

I love all Match-Up Threads with Sfr, better than Pay-Tv.
take Popcorn

John Dean.9035:

warriorjrd.8695:

LJMaster.6214:

I hate the word blob. I had a group of 45 and I was running without tag, 35 DVG, 10 friendlies, and it was absolutely epic on viz bl! What am I supposed to do? Turn some guildies away and tell our friends to stop following us? Why does it matter if GoD run with 40 people and you run with 20? Maybe if you acted in a different way you’d have more than 19 friends That ZBs guild I mentioned earlier were epic, they had about 45 also and because they were incredibly organised they could achieve anything, with a group of about 20 you can have some nice fights, but you can’t exactly dominate a battlefield.

It was fun fighting against ECL and the other SFR guild on viz bl tonight, apologies for not remembering the tag. We’re struggling a bit for coverage this week, or maybe we just need to organise our foces more. SFR are very impressive with their organisation, it is really impressive.

Whether or not you can help it, if you run with a large number of players, thats a blob. It doesn’t matter if it’s one guild or 80% one guild and 20% another. And I think what you meant is you hate the negative taste attached with the word blob. The reason blobs are looked down upon is because when you blob, you usually force the other servers to blob so that they can counter you, and when two blobs meet in combat the server simply cannot handle it. Also when smaller guild group are trying to work on squad play and get some nice smaller scale fights and then they get steam rolled by 60 people it’s pretty annoying. The fact remains is that every server blobs and there’s nothing you can really do to stop it.

Let us look deeper into this. Blobbing is used as a term to define a ‘zerg’ of 45+ players in most contexts. There should be no reason why they are frowned upon and no reason they force any special counter. Blobs can be stopped by a much smaller group of players if they know what they are doing – I know this as I have done it. Blobs are not something WvWers should hate on or use as an insult, but should embrace them as part of the system. Instead of complaining about the blobs we should start to respect them. There is no reason someone should feel offended to be part of a blob or stop it. The same goes with golem rushes, and ACs in open field fights. Yes, we should use them. Why? As it will let us win. You can’t deny yourself an advantage because it ’doesn’t feel right’. You should use every legitimate tactic to win – blobbing included.
td;dr – Blobbing is fine.

I would agree with all that, if the server could handle blobbing. I’m not sure if you’ve fought in a blobvblob trying to activate those skills when they never work. It also discourages smaller squad play when you are just completely over whelmed by a blob of 50 people.

warriorjrd.8695:

LJMaster.6214:

I hate the word blob. I had a group of 45 and I was running without tag, 35 DVG, 10 friendlies, and it was absolutely epic on viz bl! What am I supposed to do? Turn some guildies away and tell our friends to stop following us? Why does it matter if GoD run with 40 people and you run with 20? Maybe if you acted in a different way you’d have more than 19 friends That ZBs guild I mentioned earlier were epic, they had about 45 also and because they were incredibly organised they could achieve anything, with a group of about 20 you can have some nice fights, but you can’t exactly dominate a battlefield.

It was fun fighting against ECL and the other SFR guild on viz bl tonight, apologies for not remembering the tag. We’re struggling a bit for coverage this week, or maybe we just need to organise our foces more. SFR are very impressive with their organisation, it is really impressive.

Whether or not you can help it, if you run with a large number of players, thats a blob. It doesn’t matter if it’s one guild or 80% one guild and 20% another. And I think what you meant is you hate the negative taste attached with the word blob. The reason blobs are looked down upon is because when you blob, you usually force the other servers to blob so that they can counter you, and when two blobs meet in combat the server simply cannot handle it. Also when smaller guild group are trying to work on squad play and get some nice smaller scale fights and then they get steam rolled by 60 people it’s pretty annoying. The fact remains is that every server blobs and there’s nothing you can really do to stop it.

Let us look deeper into this. Blobbing is used as a term to define a ‘zerg’ of 45+ players in most contexts. There should be no reason why they are frowned upon and no reason they force any special counter. Blobs can be stopped by a much smaller group of players if they know what they are doing – I know this as I have done it. Blobs are not something WvWers should hate on or use as an insult, but should embrace them as part of the system. Instead of complaining about the blobs we should start to respect them. There is no reason someone should feel offended to be part of a blob or stop it. The same goes with golem rushes, and ACs in open field fights. Yes, we should use them. Why? As it will let us win. You can’t deny yourself an advantage because it ’doesn’t feel right’. You should use every legitimate tactic to win – blobbing included.
td;dr – Blobbing is fine.