Jumping puzzles, love them or hate them, I hate them. Thread killer.
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Vytality- Guardian
Vyt Mindbender- Mesmer
Fort Aspenwood since BWE 3. Spirit of Faith (HOPE)
Vyt Mindbender- Mesmer
Fort Aspenwood since BWE 3. Spirit of Faith (HOPE)
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Remember when our developers talked about “strengthening the core game”?
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
How’d that work out for us so far?
Now let’s try some ideas that will really work.
Takkek Twicechosen, bone-collecting ranger of Plague[SICK]
Hi Mike, I also have to thank you for nice answering in this topic. I would like to, too, ask you few things and maybe bring up some points and hopefully constructive feedback.
In this topic there was already some discussion about not leaving WvW if one does not want to. I’m one of those. Here is few things why this does not apply in my opinion and I hope your team would take these things under consideration.
Loot
- Ascended gear is not available in WvW at the moment if I’m right. That thing I think is clear to everybody that it must change.
- WvW loot is nothing compared to PvE loot. You could say that you never get to loot anything worth wearing or worth money compared to PvE. I have never looted anything exotic and believe me there’s few hours I’ve spent on the WvW fields.
I’m not actually even sure if we can get exotic loot from WvW. I’ve looted rare loot about 10-20 in these past few months since prelaunch.
- Loot droprate is too low. We don’t usually get much loot and if we do it’s almost 100% sure crappy gear/weapons/crafting materials etc not worth much money.
- Loot quality is too low.
Money
This thing should too be clear to everybody.
- When we die we must pay repair bills. In WvW we die a lot more often than in PvE excluding instances. There is no “instances” in WvW as there is in PvE to get much money. It is always same steady, low, income.
- Upgrading. Upgrading costs a lot of money. In WvW you just can’t get that much money to pay the upgrading bills. When we use few gold to upgrade our stuff it can be overrun and all the upgrades and money spent are gone forever. We must start upgrading again which again costs too much.
- Again loot. When we get some money from loot it is not enough. It is enough to pay repair costs if you don’t die too often but it is not nearly enough for upgrades. Even when selling all the junk we get.
WvW money – Badges of Honor
- If you are not huge dps class you will not get enough lootbags. If you don’t get lootbags you don’t get badges. When you get bags there’s too rarely badges in it.
- Badge items are expensive. They cost a lot of badges which are very slow to get.
- When you finally have enough badges the badge items are monotonous. Always power/vitality/toughness and no other options. That type of gear is suitable for only minority of us.
I don’t know what the patch in february includes but I think culling is the biggest concern in WvW at the moment. These things are smaller but still very important to change in my opinion. Are these things above in your knowledge? Are you going to change them in the patch? At least some of those? Are you going to bring these things up in one of your meetings?
I’m sorry about the negativity of this post but I thought these thoughts would be good to be mentioned in the thread finally getting attention by mods.
satkis [TLA] – Guardian – Desolation
Only a WvW player
Only a WvW player
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Rorgash
Necromancer
[IRON] Gaming
Necromancer
[IRON] Gaming
wow this is the sort of communication people love
I think it was Colin who stated in an earlier interview (during development) that people should never have to leave WvW if they don’t want to. Do you feel that you’ve met this goal so far (or was it a misinterpretation on my part)?
You’re welcome! Things have been really busy around here since we shipped, and that’s a big reason why we haven’t had a chance to communicate nearly as much as we’d like to, so we’re trying to make an effort to change that. We want to talk to you just as much as you want us to tell you stuff
As far as being able to play just in WvW and never have to leave if they don’t want to, that most definitely is our goal, and I think we’ve done a fairly good job at that so far. We do need to make sure ascended gear is obtainable in WvW, but other than that I think we’ve mostly made it so you never have to leave WvW if you just want to play there forever. Feel free to point out why I’m wrong about that
Sure, I’ll spill dome details!
I’ll try to work my way through the thread and answer what I can while I’m throwing food in my mouth during lunch before I have to scurry away to more meetings, sorry if I don’t have a chance to answer everything (because I likely wont be able to).
- How does siege despawning work?
Unbuilt siege sites that are placed by players will go away if someone does not bring supply to them within 10 minutes. Anyone that adds supply to a site should reset that timer.
Completed siege weapons will despawn if they haven’t been manned for 30 minutes.
Why do we have to do this? Each weapon takes up some small amount of resources on the server because we register a few pieces of data for each weapon in the field. One thing we absolutely cannot do is remove the timer entirely or else we have a situation where someone can put down a ton of weapons that could potentially be around forever (or until matches reset) and it would start to cause bad things to happen to the server. We also use some placement restrictions to help prevent there being too many siege weapons on the field, I’ll explain those more in the next question.
It’s admittedly not an ideal system but it is something we are required to do to keep the game running as smoothly as possible. We’d like to make it more obvious that the weapons have some sort of despawn timer since it is a completely hidden mechanic, but we don’t have a way to expose that timer to players yet.
- Do we have a siege limit? If so, what happens if we cross it?
There are two basic hard limits to siege placement.
There is a limit to how many siege weapons can be placed within a certain radius of each other. We tried to set it to be fairly lenient, right now you can set 5 weapons (sites or completed weapons) within any 1000 unit radius. If you try to place a new site somewhere within a radius that already has hit it’s limit, the placement will fail but you should still have the weapon bundle in your hands so you can try to place it somewhere else.
There is also a hard limit to how many weapons can be placed on the map. This map limit is a bit harder to explain as it is based on some internal concepts that don’t translate well to laymans terms, but basically anything that is not a ram counts towards one ‘limit’ for the purpose of this explanation and each team can have up to 100 of these types of weapons out at any time per map. Each team can also have up to 100 rams placed on a map.
- How many players can one map contain?
As many as we can fit without causing too much stress on the servers. We can’t be more specific than that, but I can assure everyone that the cap is definitely split equally between all three worlds.
We have heard multiple reports for months about people being queued for a map and entering it only to have the outmanned buff, but unfortunately we’ve never been able to verify ways that could be occurring. I’m not saying it isn’t happening, but we haven’t ever been able to reproduce the problem, and if we can’t reproduce the core problem, it makes it basically impossible for us to find and fix the bug
Irony…. xD
I took an arrow to the knee
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This is something that happens in all mmo’s. If you have played other mmo’s you will nottice you see gold adds less often in gw2 then ANY other. There’s a little icon in the mail interface to report it. Please do this so arena.net can get rid of them. Good job for keeping them at bay arena.net keep up the good work. For the rest of you please do YOUR part and report
This is an absolute lie…i have NEVER been hit with spam forum gold selling on any other MMO ive ever played….EVER.
Im gonna go out on a limb and say you are another dev alt trying to bad mouth other MMO’s to try and drag them down to the horrible depths Guildwars is at.
I have rarely seen so much gold spamming in game as i have in guildwars, and certainly never in a " big name MMO"and was one of the main reasons i refuse to support this fail company any further.
You have to be kidding. Every other game I have played has had way more gold spam. Like on the order of every hour at some points in WoW. I am guessing you never saw the the bodies of gold farmers lying on the ground, advertising gold sites? See attached.
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This is something that happens in all mmo’s. If you have played other mmo’s you will nottice you see gold adds less often in gw2 then ANY other. There’s a little icon in the mail interface to report it. Please do this so arena.net can get rid of them. Good job for keeping them at bay arena.net keep up the good work. For the rest of you please do YOUR part and report
This is an absolute lie…i have NEVER been hit with spam forum gold selling on any other MMO ive ever played….EVER.
Im gonna go out on a limb and say you are another dev alt trying to bad mouth other MMO’s to try and drag them down to the horrible depths Guildwars is at.
I have rarely seen so much gold spamming in game as i have in guildwars, and certainly never in a " big name MMO"and was one of the main reasons i refuse to support this fail company any further.
We’re not retreating… we’re advancing in a different direction !
Money can’t buy happiness, But it allows you to search in more places to find it !
Money can’t buy happiness, But it allows you to search in more places to find it !
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