Guild Wars 2

dragontamer.5492:

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

The only real cost they have is having to pay mods to scroll through all those posts infracting those which pointed out issues with WvW and the trolls.
And of course the bandwidth required to host the forum.

And if no one in your company wants to be a mod, because the forums in question are filled with hatred and mod complaints, what do you do then?

Its not that simple yo. When all the mods refuse to continue moderating a forum, the only solution is to shut it down. The WvW matchup forum was filled with complaints, and no one ever said a good thing about any of the WvW mods.

Are you really surprised that the mods got tired of that **** and stopped trying? Its not like money can buy moderators the motivation to do their job.

Anyway, if you think its that easy, you’re welcome to start up your own WvW matchup forum. Buy your own domain, buy your own server, and good luck. Gamers are notorious for utilizing hacks to bring down the communication of their opponents.

Mind you, that is a Federal Offense. When the FBI start investigating your servers for malicious hacking reports… and asking for user information so that they can track down hackers… lets see how long you decide to keep your servers up.

If I wasn’t laughing so hysterically I would think you are serious. I mean this is really funny.

Mochann.5298:

Elder Scolls Online is third person only. Which is why I am skipping it.

Seriously why must MMORPG makers always opt for third person? It’s kittened.

Um, where did you get such inaccurate information?

Brightness is fine, tune down your gamma / brightness if you need it darker.

lordkrall.7241:

Rouven.7409:

Pretty sure they are both F2P. For a little while now if I remember correctly.

You don’t remember correctly.
GW2 have never been F2P.

There really is no difference between F2P and B2P, either way you get looped into the RL cash treadmill these days.

Brutal Arts.6307:

Wow, Warframe dropped quite a bit.

Never even heard of it before now. I’m assuming it dropped because hardly anyone knows it exists haha.

Immensus.9732:

Is so strange that swtor is even in the list and I’m fact is so close to gw2! That’s worrying

I wouldn’t worry too much about it, the amount of people who actually use stuff like Raptr and Xfire are so miserably low, you can’t even really good a good enough sample size to see what most are playing.

I wouldn’t put any stock into the Steam platform either the way the company treats their customers and will backtrack on anything as long as it makes them a quick buck.

GW2 could use a couple of server merges, but by no means do I think it’s as bad off as TOR is.

Straegen.2938:

Much of the end game I believe was meant to be the vastness of the PvE environment. Doing all the quests in the game takes a player a couple hundred hours in most cases. The problem is there simply is few reasons to do all the open world PvE content. The fights are mostly boring since they are almost all solo affairs these days and the rewards aren’t even worth mentioning.

IMO they could solve this issue by giving out a token for each heart completed which could be used to unlock items in a similar fashion to dungeons. This would have a lot of players returning to the open world which would make the world feel a lot less empty as it does today.

This is a good idea, It would get me to finish my map completion if I could save up Heart Tokens to use for skins or gear.

Another idea I had last year was tiered heart rewards i.e Bronze completion, Silver Completion, Gold Completion etc. With Gold Tier awarding a unique skin or fun item to play with

Quiggle.4215:

The aim, as I said from the beginning, is NOT to kill any champion train, please read the full post I just want to give people who want to see the world, some incentive to do so.

I wasn’t responding to you, but everyone else that liked the idea with the attempt to quell the train.

Warrior since you already have a Thief and don’t want to play support.

Incoming fanboy rage/hate I’m sure, but I tend to agree with you OP for the most part.

Just because you make content frustrating doesn’t mean it’s harder or better. It just means it’s frustrating and a nuisance.

Personally, I haven’t bothered with LS since June, so my message is already sent It’s up to everyone else to use their time as they see fit, and if they enjoy the tedious open world over flow content, more power to them imo!

End Game is the fashion grind, which believe it or not is intended. WvW is my end game, yea you can do it before 80, but you really do not reach full effectiveness until you actually are 80.

Oh wow, this is hideous! Just another reason not to bother with bugged events and overflows

Grats TTS on the world first!

I do hope they figure out that you need instanced boss fights for challenging content and leave the open world bosses alone for pugs.

BondageBill.4021:

Simple question, though a complex discussion to be sure: Do you think the new mega-boss encounters would be better if they were instanced? Why or why not? Also, what rulesets would you like to see in place around these types of encounters?

Yes, it would be a blessing. As it stands now, any rando can run up and screw everybody who is actually participating correctly by playing poorly. Not that the Teq encounter was ever hard to begin with, and I probably won’t ever bother with the Wurm solely because of the open world only and overflow issues. It’s just not fun and tedious to carry random people who can’t be bothered to learn the game properly.

Rangers, rangers, please no reason to get upset. Rather than be mad at others for pointing out the classes shortcomings, send feedback to Anet! The bottom line is, whether you are an excellent player or not, Ranger is just not that useful in the current WvW meta.

I don’t fault anyone for playing them, because they are fun to play, but an excellent ranger player would most likely be better off playing an excellent class as well imo.

A cool idea, however if the aim is to kill the champion train you may as well go back to the drawing board. Nothing you could do at this point short of removing all rewards would kill the train, as it breathes an air of social life into the otherwise mundane and silent game. Not to mention the path of least resistance will always have people doing it.

I love the idea personally, but do not be deluded into thinking this would change anything at all with champ trains.

Lobsters.3869:

I just posted a thread about them trying not to delete or move or trash every freaking post that might lead to an intelligent discussion about problems needing fixing and it was removed withing 1 minute.

GL with this

Yea we had a great thread going earlier that got moved to the trash can for no reason whatsoever. No idea what is going on, but they are trashing perfectly valid and constructive topics left and right. It’s very frustrating.

To stay on topic: Yes remove the link that takes you to the 404 error not found please

Bombsaway.7198:

1. Do not make crafting necessary for best gear (allow glory, karma and/or badges to work).
2. Provide more group oriented objectives in WvW (e.g. more value on each rune taken) as alternative to zerging.
3. Make PvP results impact WvW.

Number one would make me so happy. I absolutely loathe crafting to begin with, and this game inspires a special kind of loathe to the crafting grind.

Fasalina.6571:

Works both ways, have you seen how many attacks against ANet does this thread alone contain?

None, just disgruntled customers expecting an actual answer rather than the labeling of “bug” on something that was obviously not a bug for the past year.

It’s part of customer service, I work in it everyday, and this is an example of how not to treat your customers.

This thread is getting entirely off topic though, we need to get back to the actual reason these were nerfed, because MM necros cause far more lag than these fun toys ever did.

All great ideas. I don’t know about king, but it would go a long way to making the game more player friendly and more fun.

I would say yes, but I don’t know for sure. IMO, they should let people replace it if they want since they did with celestial when it got butchered.

Sniper.3487:

Wasn’t the updates and revamping of Sigils/runes supposed to be this patch? I might be mistaken…

It was supposedly coming in this patch but looks like it may not be till the next one.

Ryuiz.7924:

I’ve been out of guild wars 2 for quite some time now. Although I’ve wanted to get back into it since the lag isn’t actually that bad despite the no Aussie servers.

I was wondering if Sea of Sorrows was still the best server to go with or if the oceanic community has jumped to another server. Keeping in mind my main focus is PVP, WVW, with PvE more on the side.

Maybe even which guilds would be good to join… But that’s for a different forum

Thanks.

Dragonbrand has a very large oceanic presence, one of the largest in fact. Our server would fit your play times really well, especially if you are WvW minded. If you do decide to come to DB, hit me up in game or through mail if I’m not online for a starter care package if you’d like!

Sea of Sorrows is another good one though for sure, I like the SoS peeps

Jaxs.5830:

15-25 is not a skill group and I wish you folks running what is effectively a zerg would stop calling it that.

I would consider anything under 30 to be a skill group imo, but I think that may be the difference in tiers. I would imagine T1 skill groups consist of 40+ people at least just due to the large difference in population.

Anything under 20-25 is havoc/skirmish imo.

I will probably mix and match a few pieces and experiment with it mixed with cleric’s for some roaming potential.

styx.7294:

morrolan.9608:

New servers? The game needs server merges if anything.

Don’t be ridiculous.

He has a point, WvW would be much healthier if they merged the bottom 2 tiers at least. It would go a long way to helping posts such as Kaineng is dead etc.

Not a day goes by without someone complaining in the lower tiers about a lack of action and players, honestly they made it this far without server merges is a miracle in itself, most games don’t make it 6 months without mergers.

NevirSayDie.6235:

Aeonblade.8709:

The metric is based off of accounts attached to each server, whether they play or not. It’s a marketing gimmick and a PR ploy to try to hide real concurrent user numbers.

A while back I read that the metric was based on concurrent users over a period of time. Do we have evidence that this isn’t true, besides “I logged on and it didn’t seem like there were that many people in PvE or WvW”?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Server-Populations/first

There ya go, Anet’s response saying it’s based off the number of accounts attached to a server.

Magnus Heartseeker.7958:

Bookmarking this page for when I get home and do Teq. easy 20g

Easiest 20g you’ll ever make Teq was never really graphics intensive, even before I bought a new comp a month or so ago I was getting 20+FPS on a 4 year old desktop.

Malchior.5042:

Don’t call it zerg content…that taints people’s responses.

Call it for what it is – Large, Open-World, Challenging Meta/Zone Events.

Although your description is accurate without the Challenging Meta part. Something by any other name is still something.

I do agree that maybe zerg has a negative connotation, but Zone Events doesn’t exactly evoke a good response either imo.

Yes, this is a great idea, Rift let you do this by saving your daily dungeon rewards up to 7 days at a time. That game really has it nailed down on the dailies being fun and rewarding rather than a chore.

I would love to see a week’s worth of dailies accumulated in GW2, especially since the entire end game is based around doing your daily for a laurel. I get that some people don’t see it that way, but some days I just do not have the time to log in and other days I can play 4+ hours at a time.

All the current daily system does is punish people who aren’t online all the time, when in the CDI they said the point of dailies was to lessen the gap between casuals and hardcores. Well, without daily accumulation for missed days, all it does is widen the gap, and cause an even further rift between the two different segments of the community.

tl;dr : Dailies without accumulation for missed days only hurts casual players, the people this game was designed for.

I’m give or take. I like zerg warfare in PvP because it feels more like a real battlefield rather than Little Tykes: My First Arena Match!.

In PvE, I prefer strong solo/duo/small group content over zerg content.

Tolmos.8395:

Can you guys imagine how huge this game would be if all this temporary content was permanent? All those zones, constantly available… it would be massive.

Shame about that.

There would be so much more to do. It’s a comforting thought that maybe sometime in the future they will release all the old temporary stuff permanently? That would be awesome!

It was a good QoL change, I agree, thanks Anet!

Reverence.6915:

Azreell.1568:

One word:

Better.

Debatable. I like the soft-trinity system Anet has set up. It would work better if dungeons were designed in such a way that you couldn’t skip so many sections and mobs, but works fantastically in the PvP environment.

There is no trinity system currently in play in PvE. It’s a singularity.

The WvW game mode was meant primarily for large scale battles. They will not punish people for playing the game mode the way it was intended to be played. EoTM should give you a reprieve if you like small group combat when it is released.

Also, please stop making new threads on the same subject, we have heard it all before, and Anet has already stated they will do nothing that goes against the large scale warfare of WvW.

Jatacid.3725:

I went on a lovely skiing holiday. Was great

Came back. And was disappointed to find out that all the patches I missed (including this whole Kesex hills poison tower business will be removed in a couple hours.

Let me get this straight. The last 3 months of developer time have gone into 3 new fractals with very little other permanent content?

Don’t get me wrong. ArenaNet are doing amazing with how regular they patch the game. You have to I guess give them credit for the regularity of their temporary content. But what does it show for the game?

If I log in another year from now, what am I going to see? A handful of new fractals and maybe a dungeon? Oh but there will be lots of STORIES of content I missed.

Surely there is a better way to do this. Tack it on to the back end of your personal story so you work through it chronologically. Put all of it inside an NPC who guides you to relive the experience. ANYTHING.

It feels such a waste. Such a waste of dev time and money that gets poured into this game by loving devoted fans. To make something that entertains for 2 weeks never to be seen again.

It’s a pretty big point of contention, the general view on the temporary stuff has led to a lot of people not bothering with the last few LS updates. There were a lot of complaints about people not having enough other people to finish the toxic invasions and such.

Take heart! There is supposedly more permanent content and possibly a real expansion on the horizon! They have hinted at an expansion reveal in the coming months, so there may be hope for the denizens of Tyria getting something good after all

Aitadis.8269:

So what your saying is that inactive accounts might be inflating the server population count? If thats the case they should rework their system to not include inactive accounts if true, but I dont think it is, anet would be smarter than that.

Not might be – They already are inflating the population count. There are only maybe 6 servers left that are actually “Very High” by volume. The rest would be medium or lower, all you have to do is guest to the lower tier servers and see all the dead zones for yourself.

For instance, servers in T8 are listed as Very High, but you are lucky to even get more than 20-30 people doing the same champion train or WvW etc.

The metric is based off of accounts attached to each server, whether they play or not. It’s a marketing gimmick and a PR ploy to try to hide real concurrent user numbers.

EDIT: Also, it keeps transfer costs super inflated, so you have to buy more gems to be able to transfer. At the end of the day, this game is run by the almighty dollar, as with 90% of the rest of our culture.

kokiman.2364:

Aeonblade.8709:

kokiman.2364:

Aeonblade.8709:

kokiman.2364:

bOgz.7263:

spot on

been doing this to level alts while watching a movie, large/multiple monitor helps

So why bother “playing” the game if you have no interesst in playing it?

Because leveling is boring the second time around, let alone the 3rd 4th and 5th. That being said, WvW is a lot more fun to level in and you get more money out of it. I gained 8 levels in 2 hours the other night on my warrior and made about 6g.

So tab -> auto attack isn’t boring?

Oh the whole game is boring for the leveling part after your first character, I was just agreeing the champ train is good for being able to watch TV or alt tab to another game. It’s not the quickest way, but it lets me get stuff done around the house rather than doing another mind numbing grind

Not sure how getting to know your new class is something boring. Also the story changes depening on your choices at least until we meet Kormir 2.0 + i’m pretty sure after your first lvl 80 character you still have some undiscovered areas left in the game.

True, but every zone I wanted to finish and explore I did with my main. The personal story is mostly used for quick leveling as the story was never really engaging to me, I felt like a passenger on a Greyhound bus. Getting to know your class takes all of a few days playing anyway, it’s not like you have multiple trait pages or more than a handful of abilities at a time. Basically, If I wanted to explore it, I would do it on my guardian for map completion. I do level mostly in WvW with my alts now, I rarely do the champ trains unless I have something else going on IRL that prevents me from giving the game my full attention.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

ugh, the train

don’t run it too long or often

it’s mindless chore grinding like that that’ll make you sick of the game

That’s actually the appeal of it for a lot of people.

kokiman.2364:

Aeonblade.8709:

kokiman.2364:

bOgz.7263:

spot on

been doing this to level alts while watching a movie, large/multiple monitor helps

So why bother “playing” the game if you have no interesst in playing it?

Because leveling is boring the second time around, let alone the 3rd 4th and 5th. That being said, WvW is a lot more fun to level in and you get more money out of it. I gained 8 levels in 2 hours the other night on my warrior and made about 6g.

So tab -> auto attack isn’t boring?

Oh the whole game is boring for the leveling part after your first character, I was just agreeing the champ train is good for being able to watch TV or alt tab to another game. It’s not the quickest way, but it lets me get stuff done around the house rather than doing another mind numbing grind

kokiman.2364:

bOgz.7263:

spot on

been doing this to level alts while watching a movie, large/multiple monitor helps

So why bother “playing” the game if you have no interesst in playing it?

Because leveling is boring the second time around, let alone the 3rd 4th and 5th. That being said, WvW is a lot more fun to level in and you get more money out of it. I gained 8 levels in 2 hours the other night on my warrior and made about 6g.

I really wish they would stop hurting zones to create mega bosses. These kind of fights need to be instanced for people that want raiding rather than causing a zone to be lag filled and overflowed every couple of hours. Just my opinion, but it looks like it might be a worthwhile update otherwise. I may actually do some of the LS for the first time since June since thankfully it’s almost over, and it has a giant robot

I threw in one set of GS’s into the forge one time, realized I had just wasted my money, and have never used the Mystic Toilet since. 1 time was all it took to realize you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than actually getting something useful.

Vol.7601:

Why exactly do you need it?

The majority of these consumables do not need to be spammed and through normal gameplay, would not require a hotbar to be available.

Because more customization is always a good thing, and I wouldn’t have to search through my bags every time I need to eat or find my salvage kit. While they are at it that can give a UI scale slider, additional chat window options, a resizeable/movable buff bar and at least percentages on everyone’s health bar, but even then I would prefer to the actual HP on health bars.

There is a whole lot that needs to be done to the UI that has been neglected really, which makes me think they want to keep it simple for a next gen console port in the future.

I’m still puzzled why they limited us to one massive screen hog of a hot bar anyway. It has to be for a future console release, because there is no other reason I can think of for crippling our ability to customize the UI.

I support a consumable hot bar

B2P and F2P games will never have a good community. With that being said, your guild gives any game a chance to having a good community, because PUG communities tend to be a bunch of barking dogs, F2P game or not.

A lot of this has to do with no new content in 1.5 years added as well, so a lot of people are expecting everyone to know what to do at this point. Communities generally get tighter knitted as time goes on, but I have noticed the opposite for this game, so I’m not sure what’s going to happen in the end

Jski.6180:

I would like to see a condition healing rune set mix. I would also like to see more of If Then rune set like if target is burning you do 5% more dmg but a bit more then just dmg say if the target is chilled you apply torment or something (i realty want torment on ele!).

I thought about that too before I made my post, I eventually went with vitality instead of healing power because I feel like most classes would get more use out of vit than healing.

I’d like to see a rune set like this:

Superior Rune of Whatnot
1. +28 Condition Damage
2. +15 Vitality
3. 20% Chance on Condition Damage Tick to add another stack of said condition.
4. +55 Condition damage
5. +35 Vitality
6. Upon hitting 25 stacks of a condition on your target, gain 5 stacks of might for 7 seconds. (ICD of 20 seconds)

This type of siege placement manipulation should be a bannable offense imo after the second reporting. First time, okay, don’t ban them, give them the benefit of the doubt. But a second time deserves a full ban.

I would not wish this on any of my enemies as it takes the spirit and fun out of WvW. I’d rather lose by 100k points than win because of trolls on the opposing servers.