Guild Wars 2

A moment of silence for our brother and his years of neglect to come.

I remember that too! Also a good memory of the good ole times.. Knock a keep nowadays and you wont get ANY fight out of it. Unless its EB but you have to run from a zerg then, not quite the same.

As wet as bay water i suppose. Guess new players reading posts like this might not believe it there were actually big battles going on all over the place. From roam/havoc up to zerg/blob fights. Aaahh the good ole times..

Seriously.

My guild raided escorted Dollies weird-cattle-on-steroids last night. There was a queue on EB sadly. #realdollieshavefur

Anyhow, finding a group to fight in the vastness of the Desert Borderland was quite difficult at first, so we spent our “raid” time doing PvE nonsense. Such is WvW life post-HoT.
Later on, we were fighting the enemy at Hills. Wait, “fight” is the wrong word. We stood on the bridge with a shield generator and they trebbed us from a distance and we awkwardly looked at each other like on a first date, and people cursed Revenant hammer on TS.
After a lot of staring, we eventually broke through. I logged off and went to sleep.

And I actually found myself dreaming of fights in True Hills on the Alpine Borderland. The old cata spot, the chokes on the bridge and in the Lord’s Room, visible surroundings [not obscured by overly elaborate (pretty but useless) cliffs and canyons], reasonable verticality, the snowy breeze caressing the cheeks of combatants…

Never forget the perpetually christmasy Citadel, structures that we cared for and upgraded ourselves, watersports while looking for a mesmer in Bay, flatlands where we could easily spot an enemy group and engage, jumping that was only restricted to the Jumping Puzzles and not forced on the players, good ol’ Henry the Worm (for some servers on EU), and last but not least, wandering heart and soul of Home BL – cute n’ fluffy yaks, the Real Dollies that you want to hug.
You get my point.

So Anet, if you ever find yourself with the desire to make someone’s dreams come true, you can bring back a real WvW borderland – Alpine.
Until then, I’ll be in EB.

msalakka.4653:

Xillllix.3485:

There is a “major overhaul” for WvW coming and they’ve been working on it for over a year so it’s probably gonna be huge. I think we just need to be a bit more patient.

First of all, the quote did not say it was “coming”, only that they’d been working on it for over a year. What have they been doing for WvW over the last year that we know of? Building new borderlands. Is that work completely finished? Likely not.

There is at this point zero evidence, indication, or reason to believe that the “overhaul” relates to anything other than the borderland change which has already occurred. You’re deluding yourself into another year of waiting around for table scraps.

This. The aforementioned overhaul is exactly what brought us the new BLs. That should actually put fear into you when thinking about what else they have coming soon™.

Disregarding the plethora of issues with Desert BL…

Tell that to the glitchy walls and random obstructed messages

Not to mention the 7000g just to get to +5 supply buff

Chaba.5410:

Yes. It is. The reason for a veteran commander tagging down is not necessarily the same as why no one new tags up. Many times the vet has already “been there done that.” Just going back pre-HoT, I’ve seen strong servers absolutely collapse in a match if their main veteran, celebrity commander decides to take a break. At worse is when I’ve seen players complain about WvW on certain servers because of a lack of tags, as if they are owed leadership. What will happen when all the leadership quits?

Funnily on my server a lot of “new commanders” are tagging up and it usually ends in a disaster. The vets are tagging down as well though – so somehow I think it’s partly the same reason no one tags up: Because fighting is no fun anymore. A new commander who burns a few times won’t tag up again. A vet commander who burned 1000 times more often “burns out” and won’t tag up anymore.
There are other reasons for people not tagging up though. On my last server we really didn’t need a tag – that was an exception though and it might have changed in the meantime.
Yes when all leadership quits, wvw will be dead – until something changes and fights are made fun again (I’m not talking about the new BL, btw).

ETA: I don’t lead because I hate TS and I’m not a “commander type” – wvw isn’t pve in which even the commander can afk most of the times. A good commander really does a lot -and it is frustrating to fight against bugs, OP mechanics and bigger blobs as smaller groups have been nerfed. I think that is the problem why wvw is so frustrating for a lot of people.

ETA²: Also of course the lack of skill of the pugs – when I started I ran into a very sweet commander who explained everything to us – but I admit that this is a lot of work and people come and go so the basics have to be repeated every day.

Valik Shin.9027:

What’s a “dev” ?

In relation to wvw, it’s that lonely intern, who inbetween fetching coffee, copiing documents, taking notes on important meetings (gem shop, sales, pve stuff) and more, tries to code some lines for wvw

Probably after they have dealt with the Butchered Personal Story thread and the roll back Traits changes thread in the Pve section.

The amount of times ive seen Dev’s asking for a consolidated thread on an issue driving the community mad – only to let that thread run for 50 plus pages and then say – oh its to much to take in can you do ANOTHER thread – only to then never deal with the issue even after saying they would…

well, lets say ive seen it a lot more than ive seen Exotics drop

Judging by your posting history I would prefer that you weren’t in charge of WvW.

There is a dark zone, it’s called moderation.

Everything is Awesome.
WvW is Perfect.
Devon Carver still is the WvW lead, do not listen to silly lies by Devon Carver on reddit.

And those of us out of the loop have know there hasnt been a WvW team in 3 years!

Can you imagine if Anet did tell us this, we’d all leave! They dont want us to leave and want us to buy their skins from the gem store. Whilst telling us they’ll fix WvW Soon™

I’ve been telling you guys this for 2 years now! And of course a lot of those comments have been removed.

But hey, for the optimists like coglin and krall, I am sure they’ll be working on something Soon™ and that they just cant talk about it.

The server prideless: Now it’s finally time to remove servers. All but T1 is dead anyway.

The PvE player: New borderlands would be successful, if they had proper PvE content like hearts and world bosses.

The forum complainer: WvW is boring anyway, but at least something new to complain about on the forums.

The Anet dev: Why are WvW people not enthusiastic about raids and esports?

I whished there was a dark zone in this forum wher you could enter and throw out all the kitten thought in your head so you can get relaxed again and take it ez.

Killing wvw was the one and only thing a-net has reached with HoT, and while there where players of betas and stress test talking about how good the new maps and bs where there was this big silent blob of players who also gave their feedback but got censored over and over and now look what happened to WvW.

Oh btw since there is no one working actively as Game Designer for WvW SINCE MARCH (WTF FOR REAL?), this is my aplication as new WvW head of the team main Game Design lead WvW.

Trust me i can do the job, i played over 4k hours, well i know others played even more but i also have a rl so i had to gate my playtime now and then.
I am a nature talent in communication (not while being a angry helpless customer like at the moment). I have studied something with programming in c#and i visited all the courses based on development processes and team management including a special class for managing feedback rounds aso.

So here i am, give me some food and enough money to pay my bills when im over there and ill be happy to fix the god kitten wvw for and with you as a team A-NET

Why do I have to PVE to get certain armor sets?

Why do I have to PVE to get certain sigils runes and ascended trinkets?

Why do WvW guilds have to PVE to upgrade their guild halls?

Why do I have to PVE to get Legendary armor?

Why can’t I buy these things with the millions of karma, Thousands of rank up points and thousands badges I have?

Big changes are needed and fast. We don’t wanna PVE anymore.

My theory about the new BL map being a cast off from an abandoned LS3 next to Dry Top where gliding and mushrooms would ahve come in is looking a lot more likely now. Insert shiny keeps, make them bigger to fit in the map and hey presto, new BL map. Does it work for wvw players? Who cares?

The WvW developer Devon Carver, no longer works at Arena Net. He hasn’t since October. Also, according to some information, he hadn’t worked on WvW since March 2015. Can we please get an official response on to why this was not announced to the WvW players…

We are part of Guild Wars 2 as well… We would like to be included in the loop and to know if a NEW Developer is working on what is referred to as WvW.

In mother Russia, WvW plays you!

Ohhh wait, that sounds similar to the new maps…

Good news, wvw has lost a lot of population over the years and especially in the last month, now it’s harder to find zergs!
All servers are now open and looking for players!
Enjoy!

Yeah, I’d like to know too. I’m in that matchup this week. Doesn’t really matter, though, because as soon as the 3 headed Dragonbrand SEA map que logs on, everything will flip.

No more travelers with golems? Sad but I’m not the least bit surprised. The fill in the blank (?) in charge want you to use the shiny new Charr motorcycle things… that is if anybody can AFFORD to unlock it and then AFFORD to have a scribe in the guild make them?

#kittenlogic
#kittenpriorities

You can’t force people to try new stuff; You can make them suffer for not wanting to, apparently.

@thug

Yes, I agree. If 1 defender shows up & knows how to use siege. We deserve to fail.

That’s how good mechanics work.

I’m just venting because for the past 6 months…this is what I was looking forward to using as a PUG Commander to rally the minimal troops on map.

I feel that ANet is making WvW only for the Minor & Major League baseball teams.

The Little League baseball teams…like the PUG based militia I command are kept outside the ball park.

We are shunned and everything we fairly earned in Guild Upgrades that strategically helped us…literally were stripped away & put behind a massive Guild Requirements.

So I hope you understand why I’m…pretty disgusted actually…that the Traveler’s Runes that once worked before HoT is now nerfed.

sigh

ANet is killing my spirit to be a PUG Commander…I’m sure this feeling is shared by others…not sure if it’s a lot…but it’s really crushing.

Ok…getting off my soap box.

Game on folks…as best as we can.

To be honest, I think the gold cost on siege should be much lower. It should be realistic compared to the amount of income a WvW player has.

Yea if one is not zerging on prime-time its just excruciating. There’s nothing to do for small groups especially in the earlier hours and even this nothing has become more excruciating thanks at least in part to super slow golems.

Dear Diku, enemy players are my smallest worry because they mostly do not exist. If one turns up to def we will most likely fail if he is capable of using siege and I’m fine with that.

Oh thank you for your compassion Sviel. Excruciating is the correct term. And I agree as someone who used to defend stuff etc, golems shouldn’t be too mobile. What ticks me off is simply that this change comes right now, right on this huge map, full of cliffs and curves, where there is nothing else to do than pvd, and not enough people around to even do that unless maybe on prime-time.