Guild Wars 2

While the field of view changes made it easier you still need to be at certain spots to get los over a tower/keep wall which zoomhackers don’t need so they can drop there Akittenerally anywhere they want, which gives them an advantage over other players.

edit: why the flock is the abreviation for arrow cart censored…

SpitfireIXA.1807:

tym.3791:

Its odd, I play WvW allot!!!

So take it easy, the new Maps will be going before long.

I play a lot too. Today, watched zoom hacking by the FA zerg three times in a two hour session, and the FA commander dropping the acs himself. Since defense is a fun aspect that is now irrelevant due to zoom hacking, a chunk of the enjoyment is gone and the intended rock paper scissors in WvW is gone.

I too can’t wait for the new maps. But if zoom hacking destroys the intended play of the new maps, it won’t matter much that they are new.

This commander wouldn’t happen to be someone named Bebo would it?

It’s bugged and does not work, you don’t lose condi’s like you use to when you pop a heal. Something I would consider pretty big for mesmers as our availability to condi cleanse is somewhat limited and several builds are crippled without this.

Anyone else confused about how/if this works? I didnt use to run much condi cleanse and still don’t but I would always grab that, if they removed or change how it works where it no longer removes condi’s when you heal that kinda sucks in terms of what I have for condi cleanse.

This player on hod has been using teleport hacks for a few months now and we finally got some good video proof of him. Me and someone else were both able to record him with pretty kitten ing evidence of cheating.

4:30 is when it really shows him porting in and out of inner

Things that I think should be changed:

• Entire claiming system needs to be revamped, troll claiming a keep with no buffs shouldn’t have existed this long into the game.
• WvW achievements either need to be deleted or revamped as well, most are seen as impossible
• Enemy waypoints on home BL/EBG keep can be a problem, especially when one server is dominating the others so the change where enemies can’t wp your keeps is a good change I suppose, but not being able to wp your own side keeps isn’t.
• Various bug fixes such as wrong upgrades being displayed in keeps/towers and being shown as 99% is an annoyance,

Too much too fast. These drastic changes to how WvW works could kill WvW entirely for many players and guilds. With the new WP changes you would be removing waypoints from side keeps, waypoints that provide insurance to players like myself who are on other maps playing while also constantly checking to see if home BL waypoints are contested in order to know if keeps are being attacked. By changing and removing waypoints from the side keeps you are forcing severs to have players to do the boring and tedious thing, sit in the keeps all night in order to know if it is being attacked or not (which provides no loot or anything to that player). If no one is in a side keep, which is common in the lower tiers, having to wait 30seconds for white swords to pop up for someone on the home BL to even see if a keep is being hit, instead of me or someone else who watches map waypoints knowing instantly that its being attacked can and will cost fully upgraded keeps to be lost before you can get a response team to the map/keep.

Now lets swap over to the new dolyak changes where keeps will not need supply anymore to upgrade. Keeps/towers not needing yaks anymore to upgrade is a big change that I believe will negatively affect WvW as well. Roamers play a vital role on most servers going to enemy BL’s and flipping camps/towers and killing yaks. They slow and even stop keeps from upgrading too much to ensure other servers dont get ahead to quickly in the close matches. By removing the need to kill yak’s to prevent/delay upgrades, you are limiting the role that roamers and solo players bring to WvW. Automatic upgrades are also a change that I believe is not needed and is infact just dumbing things down. It is not difficult for a single player to watch que upgrades on a map. If you are making upgrades cost no money, which I believe is the only good WvW change that I have read, then it should be up to a server to make sure that their objectives are being upgraded and if they aren’t then they shouldn’t be rewarded for it.

Another change that I have read about but as far as I know hasn’t been confirmed is capping keeps at 500 supply. This would be a very bad change as having to repair a fortified wall costs around 3-400 supply alone, 2 walls would completely drain the keep of supply making defending objectives to most guilds annoying and tedious, especially if they can’t waypoint supply over from other keeps because you removed side keep waypoints. Guilds who care about PPT/defending as well as fights like mine, would be forced to turtle down in keeps instead of going out to fight because if you wipe outside then there’s a strong chance you are losing your keep because you would have to either waypoint to spawn or garrison and by the time you get back the enemy be at your lord.

I didn’t go over all of them, but most of the WvW changes I have read in recent days would negatively affect most players view on WvW. Personally the only change that I see being a good change is removing the gold cost to upgrade objectives.

CD NA is rough some nights, I would say we have the least amount of numbers but are working on fixing it and we never lose WP’s during NA prime as we have strong guilds. OCX is our weakest timezone but it’s basically the same on most other servers, just not very many players. SEA has a good amount of players still even with after a few of our guilds left, lots of pugs but not too many guilds, think we have 2 or 3 guilds during that timezone. As for EU we have 1 large guild that can get around 30 people daily and if they are in a PPT mood they can flip most maps if they want. I would say CD has the stronger sea/EU coverage PPT wise, but NA we are slightly lacking and ocx is pretty weak as well.

Sungtaro.6493:

Being hostile doesn’t stop the bandwagon. HOD did that last time in the most explicit terms you can expect. People showed up anyway. Mind you, this is second hand from me and reading the forum posts from HOD telling people to GTFO.

That’s funny because I remember HOD guilds guesting on CD back before megaservers telling everyone to xfer to HOD and to “join the winning server” when xfers were free.

I agree it is OP and I believe an easy fix would be to just disable the FOV while on siege, I know that its within Anet capabilities to do such things. Even though I use this all the time now, it seems like anet took the lazy approach to zoomhackers and instead of banning them, they gave everyone the ability to AC over walls now. Screenshot below shows how easy it is to setup an AC and start killing all the siege now, you can even see in my chatbox saying i can wipe out all there stuff.

I sent a friend mats to make me 100 superior flame rams for last nights WvW raid but she was unable to accept them and I am assuming it has to do with this new change. This is a horrible change that mostly affects legitimate players. If your gonna punish everyone because of the actions of a few gold buyers then you need to implement an actual ingame trade function for people to be able to sell and trade items without having to post on the trading post and lose 15% of your gold. If you want to stop gold selling, you could also ban the people buying gold and stop giving them warnings. Man up Anet, no other MMO has restrictions like this, at least the MMO’s that are actually good. Punishing everyone because you don’t want to spend a few extra resources like every other MMO to stop gold sellers is atrocious.

Reporting doesn’t work, Ive reported hackers by right click and send video proof by email to anet and they still never get banned, even after recording the same player hack multiple times.

Don’t stack the top tiers and then complain about lag because there are too many people on a borderland.

So it seems wvw is getting some changes in the next patch, like removing wvw maps from world completion. Can we get a fix on these achievements in this patch or will we have to wait for after the expansion and the addition of another new wvw map with its on achieves?

With the changes going in next patch that wvw maps will no longer be required to complete World Completion, I suggest jremoving world completion as a whole to making a legendary. If its unfair to force players into pvp to build a legendary, then the same can be said of forcing people into pve. I am person who mostly does wvw and have completed World Completion on 2 different characters, and I can say that the wvw maps were completed much easier and faster compared to any pve maps. Being required to go through each pve zone and completing it to 100% is very boring, and I am sure most players would agree, which is why I am asking you to just remove world completion as a whole as a requirement to build legendaries.

Achieving rank 14 to purchase the gift of battle was too difficult so they removed the rank requirement, now they are removing wvw maps from world completion as it is also too difficult apparently. I thought the whole point of making a legendary was because it was suppose to be somewhat difficult. At least add Gift of Exploration to the Gift of Battle vendor for us players who hate doing pve zones for map completion. 1k badges for gift of exploration sounds fair. It’s not fair to force pvp players into pve, but not do the same for pve players into pvp.

It’s a joke, remember when they added a rank requirement of 14 to purchase the gift of battle but then removed it shortly after because it was too difficult to achieve? 14 wvw ranks are too difficult to achieve for pve folks and now they removed wvw maps from world completion. As a player who mostly does wvw and is r2100+, I found it 100 times more frustrating and boring doing the pve zones than I did doing the wvw ones. If they are staying this course, they should at least give us the option of purchasing the gift of exploration with 500 badges of honor like the gift of battle. Add being a rank of lvl 14 to it if you need to anet, since that is so difficult for pve players to get.

They can’t even change wvw achievements to make them easier and in some cases possible, I doubt they will do anything to fix this either.

So will this be addressed before HOT expansion? Or will another new map with new achieves be added before you fix the original ones.

Funny how last season both DB and YB tanked on purpose to stay in silver for easy matchups while CD tried pushing gold to take mags spot, but now they are both in T2 and their are 4 T2 servers.

Sublimatio.6981:

I’m rly mad about this change. What the hell. What if I need only 1000 gems for server transfer? Why do I need to pay for 1200 gems?

This is exactly what they want. Some players will spend those extra 200gems on small purchases like boosters or black lion keys instead of saving them the next time they plan to use gems. So the next time they exchange gems, instead of already having 200 from there last exchange they wont, and then have to exchange for more, making anet more money from purchases. Not everyone will do this but a small percent will, and anet will make money from that small percent that doesn’t know how to save gems. So Anet is screwing us all over by this exchange to make a bit more money from the minority.

Why change what isn’t broken? The old system was 100x better as you weren’t locked into exchanging unnecessary extra gems, you could get the perfect amount of gems you needed. Now if you want to purchase something through the gemstore by using the exchange, it’s practically impossible to get the exact amount you need without going over. This is one of the worst changes I have seen you made to this game without even consulting us, your consumers. If your reasoning to changing this is because the old system was too difficult to understand then your wrong, a 5th grader could understand the old system. But I believe your true reasons are for more money, by not allowing people to exchange gold to gems to the perfect amount they need, it leaves them with unnecessary extra gems. Some players will spend their excess gems on small things such black lion keys or boosters, instead of saving them for when new stuff comes out, and by doing this you punish everyone, all for a quick few bucks.

no what they need to do is revert this change and go back to the original design, its horrible and people shouldnt be forced into buying more gems than they need.

I guess what I’m trying to say is I think it should take a bit more than 1 game to erase that much decay. In other games they have a cap on how far you can go up rating/ranking wise a game and I believe you guys should try to incorporate that into whatever formula you guys run to decide ranking.

52% —--> R13

Played 1 game in which I LOST and went from 52% to r13 in solo que lol. Basically what Uberkingkong says is true, unless I try very hard to drop by losing on purpose, I should never drop down to below rank 50 if I kept que’ing.

Edit: Imgur link if its too big for ya http://imgur.com/a/Fqtio

I haven’t done a solo tourny match in months so my current ranking is at 52%. But I use to be in the top 10, and if I que for 1 game, then I’ll jump all the way back into the top 10 with 1 win, if I lose I should still be in the top 20. So I will pass up thousands of players with just 1 game, win or lose doesn’t matter. That isn’t fair and doesn’t make sense. Infact I’ll que 1 game tonight to show it, my current win/lose is 80-50 in Solo Que, while sitting at the 52% rank percentile.

It would help if you could prove it’s CD by screenshoting the player or getting the name by right-click blocking them. You have provided no proof that it is a CD player and this is the first I have heard or seen anything like this, it could be DR. Bay is on DR side of your map this week, although since it does seem to be hacks it most likely doesnt matter. This didnt happen in any CD matchups during seasons so I doubt it is us. And as for Wraith’s accusations, provide SS’s or names, not that it really matters, anet doesnt ban WvW exploiters, they only delete topics about them. Also if it happens again add me to friends and ill go to the jumping puzzle and try to get the guys name from my mini-map if he is infact from CD, that’s the most we can do.

Also in b4 delete.

Ah darn okay, seems odd it would only be one time use, its not that OP.

I was able to receive the buff from the dolyak statue on our Home BL spawn on one of my toons, but I cannot receive it on any others. Anyone else have this problem? The toon I claimed it on I rarely play too so the buff is somewhat useless on the character that has it.

So CD or DB should’ve lost on purpose for easier matchups Spica? Miscalculating has nothing to do with it, NSP and DR are worst servers who are in T4 and one of them will win 2nd even though they both lost to DB and CD respectively. It’s a broken system and that proves it, T4 shouldn’t get better rewards if they cant beat the better servers. The 5-3-2 point system is a horrible idea and it seems Anet will never get seasons right with the way they keep changing it.

So it seems in silver if NSP wins this week they come second overall for silver yet never faced CD and losing to DB in week 3. Why does a T4 server beat 2 T3 servers in overall ranking? Same with DR, they are a worst server than both DB and CD but if they win there matchup this week, they get better end of season rewards… This is a fail season indeed.

I sure hope it’s not the same as week 1. DB sea has a h@rd on for CD and refuses to attack YB at all, even when they have no numbers. They were basically fighting for second in week 1 at the start of reset, not even trying to push for first.

arkealia.2713:

Aitadis.8269:

John Corpening.9847:

• Can we come up with a system that doesn’t involve constant policing from GMs?

Why can’t GM’s police something that affects hundreds of players on a server? You guys are apparently policing dungeon exploits now, where people go under maps to kill bosses to sell dungeon runs that barely affects anyone but won’t police WvW? It’s not like siege trolls are that rampant either, their are very few and if you actually start banning them they will disappear.

Anet polices dungeons but wont do kitten for wvw:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Beware-the-dungeon-police/first

Showing siege’s owner name would help with that, people could even report them.

Players already know who the siege trolls are though, they get reported and nothing happens about it, simply putting there name on the siege thats dropped won’t fix anything.

John Corpening.9847:

• Can we come up with a system that doesn’t involve constant policing from GMs?

Why can’t GM’s police something that affects hundreds of players on a server? You guys are apparently policing dungeon exploits now, where people go under maps to kill bosses to sell dungeon runs that barely affects anyone but won’t police WvW? It’s not like siege trolls are that rampant either, their are very few and if you actually start banning them they will disappear.

Anet polices dungeons but wont do kitten for wvw:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Beware-the-dungeon-police/first

For silver and bronze, will each server only face each once? I’ve heard different things but nothing that’s been confirmed, anyone know what the schedule is going to be like and what the matchups are going to be?

Don’t go to tier 1 and not expect ques, especially on first night of tournament. Would think a dedicated wvw player/commander would know that….

while were on the subject of wvw achievements and theres a red poster in the thread, when are you guys gonna fix the old wvw achievements? Why are you adding new achievements before fixing old ones that are either impossible or take decades to complete?

Well guess we have to wait another 6-8 months to see if they will fix the achieves in the next wvw patch… bummer.

I play wvw for fun, I just think it’s ridiculous that a guy can hit rank 10,000 and still not have most of the wvw achievements because of how long it takes. Whats so hard about changing a few numbers after all this time?

It’s not just that, none of the current t3 servers have the coverage for t2. With SoS being as stacked as it is your guaranteed to be spawn camped 90% of the time in gold tier. The gap in coverage between t2 and t3 is pretty extensive and any server in t3 that moves up to gold will be spawn camped 90% of the tournament. Whichever server moves up to mags spot risks losing players to xfers and might even be worst off than they were before once season 3 tournament is over.

T3 atm feels like that epsisode of south park where they are on the baseball team and trying to lose, no one really wants to move up and people are taking a break or going easy so that they don’t have to.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Rezzing-through-the-gate/first#post1763217
This is the only time Anet acknowledges it from what I can find and they say it’s an exploit. Not something you can really report though even with video/ss proof because anet never bans.

Any info from anet? It can’t be too hard to adjust a few achievements considering it has been done in the past.

So will the bug fixes include adjusting wvw achievements that are deemed impossible to complete? They have cool titles linked to them and you said this was going to be fixed ages ago yet we have heard anything since then.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-achievements-still-impossible

Don’t forget the new mastery and trap too! But seriously, there are some cool titles tied to those achievements that I want.

Every WvW achievement minus the ones you can get in 1 day require an obscene amount of time and some look like they are literally impossible. Ive been WvW’ing for over a year now and am rank 1600+ something but most of these achieves I’m only at the 1-3% overall marks of completing and that is ridiculous and needs to be changed. So will this be addressed this patch or will we have to wait another 6-8months in hopes that it will be fixed on the next wvw patch.

Repair Master: Spend 1,000,000 supply on repairs
It’s Quite Roomy In Here: Capture 100,000 Towers
Going Camping: Capture 100,000 Camps
All We See, We Own: Capture 100,000 Keeps
King of the Castle: Capture Stonemist 25,000 times
Take Everything in Sight: Capture 1,000,000 objectives
A Pack Dolyak’s Best Friend: Escort 500,000 Dolyaks
Yakslapper: Slay 1,000,000 Dolyaks
Stay Out!: Defend 1,000,000 Objectives
Nice View From Up Here: Defend 500,000 Keeps
Stopped Them Cold: Defend 500,000 Towers
Walls Get in the Way: Defend 500,000 Camps
Stonemist Stands Firm: Defend Stonemist 500,000 Times

Some info on when this will be changed would be nice anet, I remember a long time ago you said you were going to address it but nothing has happened yet. This game has been out for 2 years and these achievements were seen to be impossible since week 1.

I believe the golem limit is 50golems per map.

Don’t worry guys, in a few more years and several living story seasons later Anet will release precursor crafting for us and the price will drop a bit. Just give them time!

Anet has no way of detecting it, even if you record someone doing it which I have done, I’ve recorded a certain commander doing it multiple times and sent it to anet and they dont ban. It just comes down to either not caring on there side or they have no way to prove zoomhacking. also inb4lock/delete.

Swag Captain.5318:

I feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t really care about this bug fix. Started leveling my Mesmer last week, discovered the bug and was like “Huh. That’s weird.” and went about my day. Granted, it made the RP build I was going for easier (Disappearing Fencer. Uses stealths and teleports to enhance a gentleman duelist.) but the inevitable fixing of one ability didn’t break that. So I can’t pop in, immobilize, and Blink away to summon the PDuelist. Doesn’t mean I have to scrap the entire concept, just gotta work around that.

So far, all I’ve seen is overreacting over the smallest little change. I’m pretty sure within a week or two, everyone who’s yelling they’re quitting the game will find either a new meta for mesmer or a new class that’s “SUPAH UBER BESTEST”. If you truly love your class, you’d stick with it through the good and bad times and not cry fowl when there’s a change you don’t like.

Then clearly your a top player and know more than people who have been playing the class since start of the game.

People underestimate how useful this skill was as a defensive utility. If you mastered illusionary leap regardless of the pathing issue it really put you a step above other mesmers in fights, and they strip that almost completely with this nerf and completely dumbed the skill down.