Guild Wars 2

I think I’m done with the class altogether. A-net can’t be trusted to balance it properly. I have mained it in various specs since Beta. I’m just going to go full time Guardian i think – at least i’ll never have to worry about nerfs like this again.

Thanks for completely gutting chill reapers – the whole elite spec was based on chill and you’ve completely gutted it so well done. Glad i spent 1000 gold gearing out this character. You could have shaved the damage or duration, but why do that when you can completely ruin it.

Xynful.8140:

When a Reaper dies, that is. The Astral Force of Druids go back to zero when they die. I know they’re different and all, but still.

Was curious seeing how easy it is to generate life force.

Try playing the class to get an idea of how DS works.

Achiever: 67%
Explorer: 20%
Griefer: 73%
Socializer: 40%

If it’s anything like EOTM it won’t address any issues.

The exact same population & coverage issues are present in this map.

Just tried to level up some hero points tonight on an Engineer and spent the whole night getting wiped by zergs 3-4 times our size. Must have gone 2 hours without a successful tower cap – they were everywhere.

I have no interest in living story. I am considering the new legendaries, so it’s a shame that these have been cancelled.

Just please fix WvW;

- Old Maps
- Stability Changes Reverted
- Rewards

I would guess that I’m not the only one that has no interest in the living story, so the assertion that this is something everyone can enjoy is incorrect. Look at the WvW / PvP player base.

sephiroth.4217:

TheGrimm.5624:

sephiroth.4217:

Would be nice if they levelled Elite specs.

Closing in on 1500 right now after all the guild upgrades, but admit, prefer that they didn’t allow this since it would have speed through the expansion even faster.

I have 19 toons and only WvW and PvP, I was going to make another 15 toons roughly but not while the Elite grind is associated with it. Sure I guess it’s good for people who only have their original 5 toon slots and also enjoy PvE, but it doesnt work out so well for those of us with jobs and limited play time.

I’m a similar boat as you – i have 27 toons that i use for WvW and PvP only.

Grinding out the Hero Points in WvW is impossible with the Soul Bound Proofs of Heroics. My guild runs a hardcore dedicated WvW comp, so kitting out certain classes or specs is nigh impossible.

I get 2 hours of WvW each night because i work + travel 15 hours a day.

The only way i can level my non-core toons is via WvW or EoTM on the weekends.

Meanwhile i have 100+ Proof Chests sitting on my Necro main which i can’t use on any of my alts.

/end rant

Wait, was there actually a wizard kitten or is this just hearsay?

I miss the old BLs – so many cool fights at Hills and Bay.

Still recall a fight we had between all 3 servers at Hills – lasted about 20 mins. It was awesome.

I would just like my weapon/s to be shown on the character select screen – spent ages crafting legendaries and obtaining my favourite weapons, but i can’t see them on the character select screen – this would just be a cool thing to have.

Yes, i would use this absolutely.

When you do it, have the ring announcer go crazy and yell “Here comes the RKO”

Loosmaster.8263:

Proof of Heroics is Soulbound for a reason. Character progression. There was a bug when they were first introduced and has been since fixed. You’d be better off posting in the GW2 main subforum because you won’t get another answer here.

WXP is account bound, so that doesn’t make sense.

We won’t get an answer anywhere because A-net. We just like to pretend A-net are reading and discussing our posts. It’s delusional, but it helps.

1. Reward Tracks – similar to PvP

2. Auto-loot – don’t want to miss out on any spikes that drop

3. Alpine Borderlands

4. Split WvW skills from PvP, this means reverting things like the stability nerf

5. A way to display ranks like you have with PvP – eg, emerald division = bronze division, ruby division = platinum division or something like this, but for WvW instead of PvP. You could have a little square with bronze, silver, gold etc and the specific rank within each division.

Also, Proofs of Heroics to be account-bound. Like now.

:)

Please implement this – it would be greatly appreciated.

I would love to get elite specs on my thieves, engis, rangers but they are not wanted in large scale WvW.

Would be nice if they would recognise WvW Rank with a badge like they do with PvP rank, even if this was only active in WvW. I spent a hell of a lot more blood sweat and tears on my WvW rank than any PvP rank.

PvP style reward tracks need to happen.

I’m really nervous that condi Necros will be back to pre-HOT state due to all the complaining.

Also agree with Vlad – they need to split PvP, PvE & WvW balancing.

Just look at the effect the stability changes had in WvW.

My concern is that if they overnerf chill damage then condi Necros will be useless again. Pre-HOT they didn’t have enough condition damage output and where nowhere near the meta.

They also added a bunch of boon corrupts that nobody asked for…

I’m just waiting for condi Necro to become useless again due to all the complaining – it’s only a matter of when (not if).

Also, all these changes affect every game mode – they need to split the balancing between every game mode – it’s just not working when they balance purely for PvP.

These are my top 10 – having these implemented would make me so happy.

1. Make Proofs of Heroics “ACCOUNT BOUND”

2. Autoloot – needs to be implemented.

3. Reward Tracks similar to PvP

4. Bring back the Alpine BLs

5. Revert stability changes

6. Nerf Air-strike in SMC

7. Allow guilds to work towards guild levels/upgrades in WvW

8. New HOT runes/sigils available for purchase with Proofs of Heroics

9. WvW rewards to work towards – skins, backpieces etc that are specific to WvW

10. Move reset night back to the original time!

Yeah, this was affecting a number of people from my Guild, mostly based in Australia – for some it was fine, others it was unplayable.

We are not on the same ISP, and the rest of my internet was working perfectly well.

It’s the worst game lag I’ve ever had in GW2. I was literally stuck and couldn’t move and then i was insta-dead halfway across the map.

Yeah same here – unplayable all night, hit 4600 ping….

Same lag issues up to 4.6K ping in WvW…. unplayable. GG.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Avigrus.2871:

Dusty Moon.4382:

displayname.8315:

Dusty Moon.4382:

. It is not isolation, it is the T1 servers overstacking and trying to buy as many guilds as they can.

It’s not overstacking, there is no way to get past FULL status anymore. Capacity servers is what makes WvW an active environment.

Now if SoS comes out of T3 and wins T2 the way DB did one would conclude that they earned their spot in the tier. Even second place would be a victory of sorts. And that should be what decides your placement.

The guild I am in was offered lots of gold to come back to T1 (I mean lots). This is what is going on.

SoS has roamers and that is all they really have (for the majority of time) – they do have guilds that do PPT but only backcap and only on FABL and FA held towers/keeps. They never go against TC and it shows in their scores. Also, 2-3 commanders on SoS are actually alt accounts for commanders on TC. It is known they will be in comms with TC while driving for SoS.

Lolwat? FA & TC pushed SoS out of T2 deliberately and then let DB win the round.

Talk to us again about collusion between SoS & TC?

No – SoS did it to themselves. By solely focusing on FA and back capping TC, they basically show their true colours. SoS does have Alts on from TC and 3 of them are guild commanders on both TC and SoS. So, yes, there is collusion there.

You were saying?

Archeia.8905
SoS’s time in T2 is numbered. TC and FA both want SoS out of T2.
All I can say is keep up the good work and you’ll have a more permanent spot in T2 before you know it.
I thoroughly enjoyed having DB in T2, there were some quality fights early in the week, something SoS hasn’t given us in many, many months – You guys deserved to win last week!
Can’t wait til you’re back here in T2, Focus on the Glicko, it may take a fair bit of work but we will most certainly be seeing you again!

Dusty Moon.4382:

displayname.8315:

Dusty Moon.4382:

. It is not isolation, it is the T1 servers overstacking and trying to buy as many guilds as they can.

It’s not overstacking, there is no way to get past FULL status anymore. Capacity servers is what makes WvW an active environment.

Now if SoS comes out of T3 and wins T2 the way DB did one would conclude that they earned their spot in the tier. Even second place would be a victory of sorts. And that should be what decides your placement.

The guild I am in was offered lots of gold to come back to T1 (I mean lots). This is what is going on.

SoS has roamers and that is all they really have (for the majority of time) – they do have guilds that do PPT but only backcap and only on FABL and FA held towers/keeps. They never go against TC and it shows in their scores. Also, 2-3 commanders on SoS are actually alt accounts for commanders on TC. It is known they will be in comms with TC while driving for SoS.

Lolwat? FA & TC pushed SoS out of T2 deliberately and then let DB win the round.

Talk to us again about collusion between SoS & TC?

Whaat? Why remove him?

He was our Guild Mascot & Chief Fire Warden.

That sucks..

I’ve gone from around 13,000 to 6,000, so yeh…

kdaddy.5431:

LordOtto.2650:

You can grind all you want, you need skill to get to diamond ( ele, mesmer, druid are not counted in my eyes, they will be counted in season 2 )

LOL i love how you leave off the most OP class currently in revanent

classic

IKR, Revenant player spotted.

So happy that you’re a clairvoyant.

Lets complain about something before it’s even in the game.

Lag has been bad for my guild, which is largely based in OCX (Aus, NZ, Indo etc) – skill delays, disconnects.. all sorts of problems.

Honestly, this is a non-issue.

I don’t think the change will be broken – you have to realise how many boons some of these classes can spew out every few seconds and how rarely someone will complete an auto-attack chain on Scepter given the strength of our other skills. However in saying that, i think Scepter is already in a good place and probably doesn’t need this buff.

Would prefer they focussed on other areas that actually need improvement, like improving Axe, reducing the cast time on Focus 5, Improving Staff 1. Improving Greatsword so it can be used on other players.

This is my Condi Reaper;

http://i67.tinypic.com/2vjr5lv.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/5phoib.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zz5afm.jpg

Edit: I can’t figure out how to put pictures in-line into the forum page

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn155/Avigrus/CopperFed_zpspnfbffke.jpg

So yeah, not really happy about this.

AT least let us trade them in for something else?

Great video. Wish i had the PC to run video software, but my PC already struggles.

Condi Reaper is amazing – might given Path of Corruption a try.

I usually run, Well of Darkness, Spectral Wall and Suffer in my utilities.

Dawdler.8521:

I just assumed it was another Anet “feature”.

Thanks, i laughed out loud then.

Also, would be good if squad commander didn’t have to be tagged up. There is a way around this, by the tagged up commander leaving squad and then re-joining untagged, but would be nice to be able to create a squad untagged for when we’re running closed raids.

Shhh… I’m going hypo-thermic.

Agree with this.

WvW – aside from rare ascended drops once every few months, this game mode costs more than you actually make if you purchase high tier food, siege – not to mention costs involved with guild upgrades.

WvW is currently bottom of the reward chain and yet it’s the most expensive to participate in…

Also, please make scrolls of heroics account bound again. PLEASE!!!

Wryscher.1432:

Odokuro.5049:

Yeah it speaks volumes about people just wanting a simple map, with simple mechanics, that they can simply go around in a loop, flipping sentries/camps/towers/keeps for money/exp and karma.

You forgot the most important, simple to find people and fight them.

YB are more interested in siege camping than fighting

Yeah the signet is a nice heal when used in the correct situation.

EremiteAngel.9765:

Why nerf our rewards further!?!?

And where is the INCENTIVE for winning the WvW weekly PPT fights if you don’t give us any rewards for winning!?!?

Gemstore…..

WvW rewards are minimal most of the time. Yes, the occasional ascended ring is nice, but it only happens once in a blue moon. 95% of the time, the rewards are blue and green weapons/armour. Factor in cost of food, siege, gearing up characters etc and in terms of a reward for the $ input WvW is at the bottom of the barrel.

Something more consistent to work towards would be nice, like reward tracks for weapon and armour skins like in PvP.

All from a WvW Game Perspective (95% of my time in WvW)

RS > DS for all builds in WvW IMO. I’ve played Berserker for a while now and am enjoying that, however….

Currently spinning a condition reaper…. Wow!

Stack bleeds, poison, torment, chill, terror…. go into RS3 and Dhummfire your way to victory.

Pretty sure i was getting Ice Bolts when using RS5 → RS2.

Having massive amounts of fun with this, however given it’s all in melee range i’m noticing that survivability has taken a back-step. When crap hits the fan, I’m going down hard. This may be because of a combination of this and the loss to Blood Magic heals and sustain…

As mentioned, there are drawbacks. The lack of range hurts on power builds, No DS4 to hit the top of keep walls.

Some more thoughts to come.

This is a terrible change. Guilds require certain professions and if you have to play those professions then all the bloody things will go to waste on fully specced characters.

For the love of god, bump up the drop rate/quantity….

You don’t need ascended, however I agree that it is far too expensive. An ascended armour set should cost a couple of hundred gold maximum.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Vayne.8563:

Josh XT.6053:

Doesn’t have to be a “dev”, but a representative of the company at least. Customer service is a requirement of any company that has customers. If I buy something from Amazon and I’m mad about it, I tell them and they reply to me and try to rectify the situation.

What makes this company different? I pay for a product, I expect said product to be supported by some form of customer service and there is none to be found.

If you post to a forum, you won’t get a reply. If you send a letter to the company I’m sure you’d likely get a reply. Posting to forums for most companies doesn’t guarantee anyone a reply.

There’s a difference between contacting a representative of the company and posting on a forums. A very big difference.

We are talking about the company that tells people to take these kinds of issues to the official forums, right?

Yeah, i’ve contacted Customer Service before – they fob you off and tell you to post on the forums….

Bring back Alpine into the rotation, re-design Desert (cut it in half and re-work it) and have a forest borderland (re-designed EoTM?)… that would be cool, but a lot of work for A-net i imagine.

As above, run EOTM.

It’s K-train to the maximum.

You get like 20 badges per cap. It’s an easy place to level up elite specs which is what i’m doing when not in normal WvW.

ArchonWing.9480:

I’m all for actually playing WvW to get stuff for WvW.

Pretty much this.

Stability is almost stripped instantly in large-scale WvW post-HOT.

The amount of CC is incredible and the CC spam is not promoting skilled play.

I remember the days when you could outplay larger forces – this is still possible, but they need to do something about the CC.

Playing a Necro in post-WvW HOT is a massive headache with the lengthy cast times; stun, stun, stun… move to cast, stun, stun.

My opinion/experiences only.

Apparently the decision was intentional, not an oversight…

blakdoxa.7520:

Since the death of stability this was coming.

Now enjoy your clusterkitten of CC…

Still on stability? Pfft, I’ll rip that one stack of you real quick.

Stunbreak? Too bad you just fell into my CC Busrt setup. Get rekt,

Just watch pvp get obliterated…

Pretty much this x 1000…. stability gets stripped in seconds in its new iteration.