Guild Wars 2

Tyria and Maguuma Wastes are big open worlds if you like exploring, PvEing and admiring the scenery using your high graphics settings. Please let WvW be a game mode that we can enjoy for fights and bags. Alpine BLs offer the perfect landscape for this. Desert BLs were largely left empty and discouraged fights. We don’t need them back, ever!

Yes, thank you very much ARENANET and the WvW team!

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

DeWolfe.2174:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

This thread is pretty funny. Jade Quarry has been struggling for a very long time. They’ve ALWAYS had a NA problem and it DOES have to do with the servers leadership. JQ could never hold NA..they probably bought more NA guilds than any other server in this game but they never stay.

Ever consider they left the Tier because it’s just more fun playing where you and your shenanigans aren’t? Even your PvF isn’t even amusing any more.

IDK man there sure are a lot of Jade Quarry folk on my server right now.

Mal, please define “my server”? Server loyalty is a thing when you stay somewhere and do some good. You just keep hopping along creating a bandwagon hype for little school kids that follow you around.

Cephas.4293:

JQ has been artificially propped up by the T1 wall for quite some time. Now that the wall has been broken JQ is simply falling into its natural place.

I find it amusing when someone from OnS talks about artificial propping. IMO…seriously..lol.

Thanks ANET. Good work team. Sure, we can be a bit patient and wait for the “soon” to arrive.

Kylden Ar.3724:

Your anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, as is mine.

Sure is, but this trend is very common. The sentiment towards the garbage maps has not changed. Most still avoiding it. Other changes have surely been welcome changes but the community is still waiting for the promised return of Alpine Borderlands. We don’t need this garbage DBL crap.

Absolutely, hate it with a passion. I’m on BG and EBG has a 33 man queue right now and no queue on any other BLs. It says all, doesn’kitten

The overall feel of the DBLs is annoying and discouraging. They are not just different, they are simple BAD.

Fat Disgrace.4275:

The new maps are no where near as bad as people make them out to be. Ofc at first it was a bit a shock and I wasn’t that impressed with the size or the gimmicks in it but time does help you over come it. Quite enjoying roaming now (not solo, 2-5 people)

The so called roaming you refer to, is killing NPCs alone on deserted maps. Why not just go kill mobs in tyria or the new PvE maps? Why need WvW for that? The new maps are an incredibly poor piece of work that discourage fun. Artwork alone is not good enough for a game and this is a great example of such a failure. Sure, good work by design team but functionally these maps are utter garbage.

One step in the right direction. Now waiting for the Alpine Maps as I don’t want to get lost in the desert alone.

Thank you ANET Team!

Kastiel.1947:

I think potentially you can have much more fun fights than in Alpine.

By the time we get to a fight…..half the map is gone anyway. What fights you on about? The NPCs in middle?

Garbage must be chucked in the bin. DBLs are terrible. We don’t need them.

1. Remove garbage deserted borderlands
2. Stability fix
3. Improve rewards
4. Add some more defence mechanics to old maps – e.g. new upgrades etc
5. Go to Black Desert Online and advertise the game again in chat

DeWolfe.2174:

BadMed.3846:

Deserted

I see what you did there.

I fixed the typo in ANET’s naming!

Are we able to see any statistical comparison of population drop or rise since the new Deserted Borderlands were implemented? Very keen to know how bit a loss in population it has been overall. Weekly stats, monthly…anything?

All you need to do is disable chat, get some wine and enjoy the game.

pakuras.7652:

Lol, show me just one non-OP class in this game. Everything is problem right now – indestructible Warriors, Rangers, Elementalists, i-dont-know-where-the-hell-is-this-god-kitten -Mesmer… actually Necromancer is the only class i can manage against

Lol. That stuff you’re on is not good for you if you think necro/reaper is balanced. We all see several necros in each game for a reason. My dog can do pvp as reaper.

Looks like Season 1 had a huge impact on you. But rev wasn’t ever a tank, not even then. Wake up please.

Our guild has always been a pvx guild. We want to enjoy our WvW nights, but despite us trying hard to get some fun, things just don’t work out . We go to new maps for some ppt but that’s boring as hell. Going to ebg has its own issues with zergs abusing dragon banner. This is more of troll wars now. WvW is not something I intend to waste my time on anymore. Might just do the odd reset here and there to run with friends. Boring and dead game mode with no motivation to play.

I really wish you lost 2 pips for abusing the matchmaking system. Anet, please take his pips.

online.1278:

If there wasn’t metabattle.com, many people wouldn’t have played current meta that much and abused it, thus anet would’nt get doomed like now, i guess. (or takes pretty longer time to be blamed which gives anet time to fix)

You sound like someone who enjoys playing his own sub-optimal build and hates getting wrecked by the meta. The meta starts with what top league PvP players use. Then it starts getting popular. Metabattle allows for knowledge sharing. Do you have any sense of community and sharing? Talk some sense please.

Charrrrrr……… gotta be a stronk scrapper

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

Everyone still thinks you are supposed to maintain complete reign over their homeborder and as such people are complaining how they want to be able to have waypoints in all the keeps regardless of who owns it.
It seems people can’t handle adapting to the superior play-style of fighting over a 3rd of each map and pushing objectives near your 3rd of the zone.
If for example you are on blue team and goto the Red Desert Borderland, you should capture and maintain the keep and tower nearest spawn then work toward the next closest towers either pushing into the bottom green corner or pushing into the top red section.

Do you expect to get a job as change manager somewhere? Accept it, the new maps are just terrible. Terrible…it is.

Playing thief in ranked pvp should be bannable offence.

New maps are garbage. No fun whatsoever. Old maps still great.

What’s WvW now? Oh that waste of time. New reset time, Ye yes. Everyone loving it.

+1 Supported. Anything is better than what the developers can come up with. Anything, coz everyone who plays the game knows more that Arenanet.

Remember, statistics mentioned by Arenanet for WvW reset day change? Nuff said…

Mate, I’m not keen to pay for a WvW expansion now! Enough said ????

The new borderlands are pretty. That’s about it. The gameplay around them is terrible. Surely there are good elements, but if I needed to take up a weight loss program I would go and run outside to get fit. I don’t need a game to give me large map to run around endlessly doing nothing.

These new borderlands are the last nail to the coffin of WvW. Arenanet thinks that EoTM was great idea and they should build on it; or possibly they just care about k-train hungry PVErs.

The fact is simply that Arenanet either has no clue about what WvW community likes or they are intentionally trying to kill that community.

If common sense prevails, these maps will be thrown into the bin. Artwork is great to admire as part of gaming experience, but artwork is not gaming experience on its own.

Hax.8701:

Druid: Astral Force is no longer gained when healing a target that is already at full health

Please this is so ridiculous and unneeded.

Nerf? Dude, this is more like a bug fix. Lol. Stop complaining.

Out of all the classes available you chose thief. I dont know what you play otherwise but you should have gone dragonhunter, chronomancer, revenant or anything…..but thief.

There is nothing good about the staff at this stage. Everything else better. Staff is underpowered.

BadMed.3846:

Zoso.8279:

Please try to balance the game ASAP! I really enjoyed playing your game but I can’t anymore because of the huge imbalance. Chronomancer can only die to condition if anything. Thief instant stomps and mobility which has no counter. Revenant can’t die to conditions. Druid can’t die period. These are some of the things that make the game really hard to enjoy! I find myself mad almost every time I play the game now which really really sucks because Guild Wars has always been my favorite online game! Please HELP!

Did you really say thief… Dude please let us keep our mobility at least. At the moment all we can do is to get away quickly

Zoso.8279:

Please try to balance the game ASAP! I really enjoyed playing your game but I can’t anymore because of the huge imbalance. Chronomancer can only die to condition if anything. Thief instant stomps and mobility which has no counter. Revenant can’t die to conditions. Druid can’t die period. These are some of the things that make the game really hard to enjoy! I find myself mad almost every time I play the game now which really really sucks because Guild Wars has always been my favorite online game! Please HELP!

Did you really say thief… Dude please let us keep our mobility at least. At the moment all we can donin get away quickly

To some extent I agree with the OP. Clearly the number of bugs represent the Developer’s incapability to deliver a quality product. Customer time has been lost due to lack of basic testing. So many players got stuck in the Prologue instance.

I beleve we paid for an overpriced expansion and there is no excuse for lack of testing.

magikfox.9658:

In the Prisoner’s of the Dragon quest, my game keeps on crashing after I destroy the last cell.

Happy Birthday Song!

I started prologue, did the first part of the story, progressed to second part and did that too. Next I clicked the exit instance icon. The game client restarted as a new build was available. I was then thrown into the first instance, near Southeastern silverwastes, with no option to go anywhere.

GG Anet. Thanks for shipping uncooked game again. Please consider hiring some testers. It really helps.

Gaile Gray.6029:

At this time, we’re not currently asking for a vote. If we want a vote in the future, we’ll definitely let everyone know. Hey, it could happen, but it isn’t going on right now. (Just to be clear because some are not sure if we’re involved in one.)

I think I said it pretty clearly, but due to repeated questions, I’ll say it again: The reset change initially was set for Saturday evening. There were an initial spate of comments along the lines of “We don’t like Saturday evening, so make it Saturday morning,” and the devs tried to accommodate those requests. Then, as it became clear that the majority of those expressing an opinion in this thread made it clear — between the two currently available options — that Saturday evening was preferable, that’s what the devs went with.

This isn’t a “take your choice from a multitude of options” for reasons that were made abundantly clear in the dev posts in this thread. At the present time, in order to properly manage the game (the whole game, not any single element), in order to properly focus on launch of the expansion pack, and in order to take into account other reasonable considerations, WvW reset will take place on Saturdays. It will take place on Saturday evening to accommodate the requests of the majority of those expressing an opinion here in this thread.

You’re right, this is not a vote. And the Community has been informed about the change and not really been invited to give any input. Would have been better to just keep the thread locked. My take on the thread is simply:

1. This is a convenience change that WILL be implemented by the developers.
2. This is purely for the benefit of developers. There is NOTHING in here for the players.
3. An estimated timeframe for changing reset back to Friday can’t be provided as no-one really knows how broken HoT is. Probably, a LoT on day 1, and that’s why no timeframe can be provided.
4. Broadly speaking, the community is VERY upset with the change, but priorities have been set and while everyone cares; no-one cares!
5. Someone might hope that those who lose interest in WvW due to this change will move to more improved PvE experience. Ask them, how often they go near PvE.

I think it is time for me to say, Thank You Arenanet for INFORMING us; for the sake of it.

Thanks to everyone else who voiced their concerns and tried to provide workable alternatives; but those all might be way too hard for anyone to implement.

Also, next time when you put forward a change like this and support it with some STATISTICS, take a good look at the statistics and interpret them correctly first.

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Chaba.5410:

Constructive feedback: have more resets so more people can experience reset rush. Also have reset on Fridays, give Anet employees Fridays off and have that extra work day on Sunday. I think those suggestions adequately line up with Anet’s statements.

This is surely constructive. I’d let players from other tiers share their thoughts, but most NA T1 match-ups are well and truly over by late Wednesday or early Thursday OCX time. Surely, there are some close ones, but that is very limited. Shorter game duration with multiple resets will keep the format interesting.

Ellsy.6780:

“OMG WHY? YOU TOOK MY TOY SO NOW I WON’T PLAY” stuff is going to have a positive impact.

Please post constructive feedback. Express your opinion, you like the change or not, your input is welcome. We don’t need someone to educate us on how to share our opinion, let moderators do their job!

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,
Launching a game is an enormous undertaking and our teams need time to address any issues that come up.

Hi John,

OK we understand you need this shift for HoT launch. Why not just consider a different arrangement for 1 or 2 weeks only? If this new reset time/day is left in place for “some time”, we’re confident that it will end up being like dungeons that never get a real fix.

Constructive feedback would be great for an innovative change. This change is simply a convenience shift, nothing innovative here to benefit the community. I’m sure the community would really appreciate it if you could change if for a week or two and then change it back to Fridays. Surely bugs would be ironed out by then, unless you are serving us a half baked BETA on release. But if that’s not enough then even 4 weeks…but put a time-frame / plan on it.

There is little left to imagination when you guys openly say in your interviews that players come to play PvE! There is a decent population that does enjoy WvW and doesn’t really care about the PvE stuff. Let them enjoy the game too!

Thank you!

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,
We realize that no time we pick is going to work for everyone but this change is going to benefit even more players overall while at the same time giving us a little more breathing room to improve the quality of the game during the week.

It is only your selfish desire to have the extra time. There is no appreciation in this thread. Not sure who those even more players are who are going to benefit; OH WAIT, it is the PvE dudes who will get more WvW players playing with them on weekends as nothing to do in WvW. Right, it is all about PvE.

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,
However, given the concerns posted here we will be moving the Saturday reset to earlier in the day to give most players the majority of the day to enjoy the start of the new match. Immediately after launch the new time will be 11am PDT / 2pm EDT (6 pm UTC) for NA and 11am BST / 12 pm CEST (10 am UTC) for EU. Keep in mind that the following week with the end of Daylight Savings Time / Summer Time the reset times will be pushed even earlier to 10am PST/ 1pm EST and 10am GMT / 11am CET.

This doesn’t offer anything. We can’t be bothered getting up at 5AM to play reset ever. This was one event we were able to enjoy with the wider NA community and you have simply wrecked it. The reasons provided are pretty lame anyway.

Someone rightly said…ANET has truly earned the title “EA 2.0”.

Peira.6210:

Please don’t, or at least give us some reasoning…

I’m sure there would be a reason. Still, the impact will be terrible and this change should not be made. There will be serious loss of OCX/SEA population due to reduced playtime over weekend.

Was this change recommended by the Daredevil team? Sounds as innovative!

What is the point of changing the reset time? I play OCX prime time and this means that Fridays and Saturdays will both be dead. Current reset time works well for all time zones. This will adversely affect WvW population, that is not really likely to benefit from HoT much anyway.

Arctarius.2649:

So you are telling me, Dare Devils 1 EXTRA DODGE BAR…is our class mechanic to the druids avatar form, (which has 5 skills left side like death shroud AND 5 flip skill utilities on the right) Like Are you kidding me

No kidding mate. Just deal with it. Thief development team is the worst when it comes to player community engagement. Hats off to engineer team though! Great follow up post by dev lead. I just hope that one day some senior manager will understand this and a performance management whip will be cracked. I will not expect the current direction to take us anywhere. Left, right and centre, embrace nerfs as these developers listen to other professions more than us.

Burns are totally broken. Most of those who say “burns are OK” are actively relying on burn builds.

I’ve seen this twice already today. Once a few minutes back in my last game. Enemy team had 4 DC. Pattern is same 4/5 DC. Last time it happened when I was left in there and all other 4 DC’d.

Thieves are harmless flies these days. Watch out for burn d/d eles.

Customer feedback is reaction to the what they get served. Best to face the reality. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Rage is extreme, complaining is perfectly OK. Each to their own I guess.

I don’t believe that being constructive around obvious imbalance is reasonable either. Nerf this, nerf that is for developers to consider and calling for it is expected in the forums.