Guild Wars 2

Being in a large guild on a t1 server would probably help with the feeling that there is no one else on the entire map. It would also help with your guild not being able to get(pay for) even the most basic guild upgrades to interact with those systems in the first place.

So Join the 300 guild t1 server or gtfo?
Yea you leave your server and find the biggest guild you can find and die 50 times to fall damage til you learn the new map so you can have the same stuff you had before only with more PvE events, broken op rev’s, automated turret defense and funmode banners. or you leave
Yea m8 its us.

Yep, it’s my all my friends who are at fault for not playing checkers with me. Why can’t they see what a killer game it is? Morons. I told them that the Playstation is just a fad but they are too stupid to see it.

The only place thieves truly QQ is on the forums.

“Most nerfed ever, for all time.” ~Thieves
“Most underpowered class 2016.” ~Thieves
“Least build variety, only one role.” ~Thieves
“No sustain. Made of paper!” ~Thieves
“Lamest elite spec HoT 2016. Sold us an old trait line!” ~Thieves
“Out of the meta for three months. THREE MONTHS!” ~Thieves
“We’re the stealth class. Everybody has our mechanic! Engies better stealthies than us!” ~Thieves
“Stealth is NOT op!” ~Thieves

In game ragers transcend class. They’re angry before they log in.

WvW is dead and it ain’t coming back. The devs are just milking what few saps are left trying to get them to buy gold for their craptastic guild hall system.

ANET’s run as a good gaming company is over. The real talent left a long time ago.

Thanks for confirming it’s safe to uninstall, John.

The event needs to be removed altogether. It’s a PvE event in the middle of WvW.

It can be solo’d. So 1 person can log in, do the event, then log out. Three hours later they can repeat the process in the same bl. People rarely check the bl doors, especially on the northern towers since they are so out of the way. The lower the servers population, the less likely anyone checks the bl’s or have coverage.

So, after a few Oasis events, the doors on even fortified structures are wide open and the whole bl can be taken by 2 people with minimal effort. No siege needed, no fights against other players. Just complete PvE in a WvW area.

Solo defenders who might have responded to crossed swords on the structure have no time to respond since the doors are open. Plus it takes FOREVER to get from one part of the map to the other.

Thing is, it only works or really means anything when the BL is already hotly-disputed turf. Fortified structures take next to no damage from skysplitter, and rarely turf is flipped in the BL’s aside from when a small group takes the structures.

I’ve had it occur multiple instances where I’ll take half an enemy BL solo after several hours of work for the skysplitter event to begin. I move to try and take it, and usually make some progress. A few minutes in when I’m about halfway done, three havoc groups come in and do the event and prevent me from progressing. When I don’t bother doing it, progress by the enemy is a lot slower, because nobody cares so long as they’re not actively losing it. When they finish the event, all of my progress is undone, and I just move back to EBG.

Discussion of squad markers

Guild chat winter 2016 update preview livestream notes (Go to this site to read Dulfy’s livestream notes if you haven’t seen them elsewhere already).

Arena JonJon Olson

cardosy

Wait, 2000 units for squad markers? This severely limits their usefulness. We should be able to put them anywhere in the map

Placing them requires line of sight to the spot as it has to intersect with the terrain, which would be very difficult if done from the map.
The location markers are visible on the map from anywhere within the map.

Arena JonJon Olson

cardosy

Thanks for the explanation. Is there any intention to rework the map markers as well? At first I thought this new iteration would be an update to this system, but their functionality seem completely apart from each other.

Yes, they are completely separate systems.
I don’t know if we intend to update the original markers or not.

ANet laurenkGW2

ketnek

Many of you already know this but I haven’t seen it being mentioned yet.
The snow effect from Winter’s Presence is upside down around the Gorseval battle platform (it only happens there). It literally snows up.
I don’t know if this is working as intended, it might be related to that giant soul vortex above the platform or simply a bug.
Video proof.
Thoughts?

It’s not a bug, peeps seem to like it here too and suggest trying out the fractal backpack and the bees, basically anything with particle effects.
enjoy!

Chit chatting with the folks on reddit about invites and wearing the ANet tag.

To GMs on reddit, if we have you added are you ok with being invited to stuff?

GM Awesomeness

Speaking for myself, I certainly wouldn’t be offended, but I also probably wouldn’t respond. There are a few reasons for this:

• I tend to play on my breaks at work, which means I go AFK often to talk to coworkers.
• When I’m tagged up, I’m getting whispers constantly, so I can’t always keep up with them.
• Even when not tagged, I frequently get contacted by people I don’t know for a variety of reasons.
• If I’m playing at home, I usually have a specific goal in mind when I log on (lately it’s trying to finish the Triple Trouble achievements). So, if the thing you invite me to isn’t the thing I’m working on, I’ll probably politely decline.

I don’t say all this to discourage you from trying to play with GMs/Devs – far from it! I just want you to know that if you get ignored it probably has nothing to do with you and everything to do with us.

GM Awesomeness

The ANet tag is actually a guild tag, so all we have to do to remove it is to rep another guild.

Whether I use my tag depends on both my distraction level and on what I’m doing in game. If I’m doing something with my non-ANet guild, I’ll rep them. If I’m just killing time in LA, I’ll sometimes rep ANet because I know players like seeing us out and about (and I don’t have to worry about accidentally standing in fire if I pause to return someone’s whisper). If I want to attract attention, I’ll rep ANet (for example, during Wintersday I’d pop on my commander & ANet tags and stand by a snowball pile to help people get their daily achievement).

Generally if I’m going on voicechat I don’t rep ANet there.

GaileGray

I am not a GM, but I’m not sure that people know that all staff members at ArenaNet can represent the Anet guild, therefore more people with the Anet flag are not GMs than are.
As far as invitations, I have no problem with getting them. If I’m in the middle of dying to a boss, or fall off a jumping puzzle, responses may be delayed.

Anet only cares about Esports now it seems.

and they utterly fail even at that.

WvW is done. When T1 guilds are trying to scrounge up money so we can transfer guilds up just so we can have someone to fight you know it is the end. I don’t know how Anet could mess something up so badly. When your best and most enjoyable borderland map is Obsidian Sanctum… that is really saying something about how hard you failed in this endeavor. The new BLs are unplayable even without the ultra lag mid event going. And all you guys would have to do to start fixing this is remove these kitten maps, that were clearly designed around glider use yet we can’t glide, and put the old ones back in until the update. Even then it is pretty much too late. T1 prime time, can’t find fights. Dead, D-E-D dead.

What makes this all the more sad was that for 3 years WvW was this games most popular end game and Anet just let it rot. This was your kitten end game! How could a company mismanage something so badly? It is to the point that you have guilds leaving to play the extremely crappy Blade and Soul and Black Desert Online. Those games are not even enjoyable to play but people would rather grind Korean style than play the crap sandwich we have been given.

The worst part is that we all know Anet is ignoring this subforum and that everything we say falls on deaf ears.

Over the last 3 years I’ve had infractions on almost a weekly basis, due to the fact that I complained about WvW how how it was being neglected.

Now with everyone complaining, I’ve not had one in months! :’(

Shovel Face.4512:

Galandil.9641:

I’m sorry, I don’t want to sound harsh, but you must have met very bad DHs, Scrappers and Eles.

When I’m playing especially on scrapper, I just melt down ANY thief, the class can’t really face it.

Nah, they were actually really good, my guess is they didn’t expect someone who actaually knows how to play the class.

We got legendary tier thief here

Rezzet.3614:

meh confusion mesmer is already OP as hell

I heard there was a pretty good counter to confusion damage. It’s called “don’t spam skills mindlessly when you have high stacks of confusion on you”. I know, I know, that’s a high-level complicated strat, but I’m sure you can manage.

Rezzet.3614:

meh confusion mesmer is already OP as hell

Says the guy advocating for weapon swap on Engineer. . .

changes will just increase the epicness of my build ~ I am also sure these were just minor boosts mentioned.

Scepter 4 life!

WvW never made it out of Beta. Welcome to the Eternal Betagrounds.

I seriously doubt that they are going to change anything that they’ve been working on for the last year – certainly not anything that is going to require a substantial number of man-hours (i.e. something that will cost them money). They’ll finish what’s been on the boards for the last year.

Let’s face it. If they saw WvW as an important revenue stream, then we would have seen a “major overhaul” a long time ago. They’d have people working on it 24/7. Any notion on Anet’s part that they haven’t had enough “time” is laughable.

Instead, they’re probably waiting for the three summer interns to come back in June and finish what they worked on last summer…..

I’m curious if anyone has ever tested whether the attack speed increase on malicious sorcery would speed up the charging time of a mantra

I guess I don’t expect it to make the healing mantra charge time, but I’m thinking something like mantra of pain is an attack

Has anyone tested this?

Well, my old shatter build will work again (no more tank amulets). Assuming spvp. Assuming wvw, old kitten build will be god still. No change. Just land your explosion, stealth a few seconds, repeat… If you go chrono, its even easier. Just takes Domination Signet, Decoy, The Cripple Well, and the Spirit Bomb Well. Idgaf about heals, still gonna nuke. I barely touch Mesmer too, maybe thats why it works? I remember 6/23 very well, one shotting every player in wvw. MB→Blink→Pistol 5→Flurry→MI→Shatter. Phantasm staff will still work fine. Condi with the new aegis well might be incredibly potent, will test. Don’t be down. Just stop thinking inside the box and do what I do. Write down all the skills functionality (mentality or actually writing), theorize. People being attached usually overthink. Especially before full reveal.

That’s my help, I’ma skedaddle before people try to roast me for something or other.

I believe I have finally resigned myself to accepting that whatever the “Overhaul” is, when it arrives it will not be something that saves the game mode for me personally. The long lag time in development, the Anet collect some info, hide in an closet for 2 years, then release content has been repeatedly essentially destroying the game mode I like and want to play in WvW. I think this post sort of inadvertently encapsulates why I feel that way.

We’ve avoided adding this feature because we don’t believe it would be healthy for WvW. While we can appreciate why some players would want a feature like this, lots of other players only engage in WvW when, upon entering a WvW map, immediately see a commander icon to follow. We try and avoid adding features that can be used to intentionally exclude other players.

On the surface, it’s very reasonable. But I think for anyone in a WvW oriented guild, who has spent time playing WvW over the last few years, the fundamental lack of understanding of how WvW is played is pretty clear. I don’t fault Tyler for this perspective, we already know from the “Adopt a dev” program that none of the “dev team” sees WvW as their primary game mode (Mike O’Brien’s comments not withstanding). The idea that a “guild or squad only” visible commander tags would actually be “unhealthy” for the game mode, when a huge percentage of guilds have essentially doing just that by going tagless seems to painfully highlight just how little Anet understands about the health of WvW or how a thriving competitive server (are there any these days?) operates.
GW2 is PvE first and foremost. Every “upgrade” we have gotten has been created from a PvE perspective. If you thought over the last year that the few threads started by John Corpening represented a shift in the way the devs see WvW, I would suggest that Tyler’s comment shows otherwise. The PvE perspective is stronlgy in place. Buckle your seatbelts I believe more turbulence is on the horizon….

Well yeah, most of the balance changes are done based on sPvP. CoR is about the only change they’re doing for WvW. So expect to see more power creep in the game, all for the sake of PvP game mode.

And hooray unblockable venomshare, hooray more zerker rifle pew pew. Both of which are cancer in WvW, but do the balance devs care? Nope, those classes needed a buff for PvP so they’re buffing them not caring about WvW at all.

I really wish they would separate 3 game modes and balance them accordingly. There’s just no way to balance PvE, large scale WvW, and 5-player PvP using the same dataset.

balance patch … you belive in this fairy tails :s
next you will tell me there will be a wvw patch removing the boring borderlands everyone hates.

There’s nothing really more to say – we’ve put it in posts for the last 2 years. 60% of all changes are complete garbage and accompanied with more and more issues.

Less is more people…. less is more.

Now the maps are completely barren. Couple this with no updates (ie – BETA) until the 3rd quarter of the year?

1) The “fixed” or "Balanced’ stability to a pre-hot level, only to add 10x more CC (soft and hard) in HoT.
2) You only need 3 classes to face-roll everyone in a group setting.
3) Roaming is dominated by 2 classes.
4) Blob’s are worse then ever.
5) Match System has been stagnant for 2 years.
6) The new maps are completely empty 85%, w/ the 2 hours of prime time being the exception.

The list goes on and on and on.

The whole 2 people on the WvW Team either need more help or just fire them and forego WvW entirely.

Mitch.4781:

Mechalibur.9618:

Hm, not that I can think of. There’s at least one for every other race, but I’m not recalling any charr. It’s probably because sexuality (straight, gay, or otherwise) doesn’t really come up much in game, so there’s really no reason to assume charr culture is anti-gay.

Of course, we’d have an example if Logan and Rytlock would just profess their love for each other :P

But that would be beastiality then, not homosexuality. or maybe homosexual beastiality?? Eeeek

Brings up an interesting point.

What is your moral objection to beastiality?
- The animal can’t give consent? (this one wouldn’t hold for Charr)
- The animal could get distressed? (this one also would weaken with Charr, Charr could still be kitten d but you’d have a clearer idea if/when you’d be distressing it)
- Its a different species? (this one still holds but the weakest, it doesn’t give much more of a reason than ‘just cause’ or ‘gross’ which isn’t really a valid moral reason imo)

Could have practical reasons.
- Possible disease transfer? (valid and holds for Charr)

Charr “culture” seems to put less focus on the breeding pair of children (kids being brought up in little packs away from parents) so that is something to consider for their relationships.

Charr “culture” though is heavily militaristic so it may be your duty to swell the warhost by breeding.

I would suggest Charr wouldn’t care who you enjoyed having sex with and having a relationship with but I would tend to expect they wanted you to at least breed to provide fresh troops (you could be gay but I think there may be some pressure to have sex with the opposite sex at least once to create the next generation of warriors).

Of course Charr should all be exterminated because they are a species who are interested only in war and so will turn on the civil races of Tyria when the dragons are done, best kill them now before they turn on us.

My male cat loves rubbing himself against my leg when I get home from work and I’m a guy. And Charrs are a cat race.

On second thought that is probably not what you were asking.

nevermind

Broken spoon for broken ….. in keeping with the WvW theme.

I can do it in one word. Boring.

Bring back the need for mechanical skill, where 1v1s actually matter.