Guild Wars 2

omg… I’ve played this game almost since it came out. WvW for over 2 years… Ranger for most of the time. Fine tuned this pewpewpew to have some nasty damage and backline support. I go into EB and join a squad and am promptly kicked out for being a Ranger. Seems they wanted only people who could tank, heal, help survive.. and so on.. of course Ranger/Druid can’t do that can it… Frankly I’m not sure how Ranger is self serving but that’s what I was told…. ???

I am in BP, attempting to get into one of the Host servers squads. Shifting between annoyed and just sadly humoured… I mean it’s not like we get gold for winning the week. It’s a game, it’s a game, it’s a game… then again maybe it’s reality? :P

I’m not a member of the CD community, tried to get on the site but even trying to register gets me an error so that didn’t work.

Just curious if other people that have been “pugged” up into the “better” servers have encountered this sort of thing.

So totally out of trying to get with groups in WvW unless my guild group is in and running I guess.. I mean seriously.. holy freakin crp…

I have little problem killing a ranger in the water…. With MY Ranger that is. I do love it when people take to the water to escape me. I almost never hit my pet skills.. Just fire power and NO condi. I hate condi.

Then again I’m reading about avoiding rocks etc… meh, maybe… :P

Tom.6478:

Thanks to all that replied to this thread.

Obviously I thought these two things were the same thing. Maybe that’s my fault.

You have to admit it would be easy to think it was the same thing.

Now that I know this is 2 different things, I still don’t know if its worth purchasing ride the ley line.

Other than getting you somewhere faster, is there a real use for this?

I don’t have it yet, but I have been able to do most everything there is to do in Bloodstone Fen.

Convince me I should buy it….:)

lol, I’ve had ley-line mastered for ages and I won’t be wasting any goodies on buying this… If it gave me a mastery point for using it to die while running into a leyline then I would.. but since it doesn’t I’ll save the currency for something else

Omg. Seriously. Every time people can’t win a fight it’s time to complain. I have issues with almost all classes depending on what I am running. It’s a game with variables of all sorts. Evening out the firepower would just be boring.

heh, keep in mind also that when you use the item in Bloodstone Fen you better hope you don’t run into another leyline while you’re gliding along your personal one… you will die..

Teon.5168:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Teon.5168:

Edit: And while I may think that linking might not be the best solution, and is kind of goofy at times, it is sure one heck of a lot better than spending most of my time in wvw looking for any good battles in a lower tiered server. At least there is plenty of action out there now most of the time.

This is relative, though. For me, on FC:

BEFORE
+ Decent roaming 35%
+ Good, fun balanced battles 35%
- Over-matched (bad) battles 20%
- Nothing to do 10%

NOW
+ Decent roaming 5%
- Roflstomped by a mini herd while roaming 20%
+ Good, fun balanced battles 10%
- Roflstomped by the unstoppable herd battles 55%
- Running back to be roflstomped again 10%

Now, maybe the subtraction of 10% nothing-to-do was a good thing, but the overall percentage of good went down from ~70% of the time I spent in WvW to ~15%.

Disclaimer: numbers are guesstimates and ommv depending on sever, time of day, etc.

Faik, there’s nothing but balanced battles in higher tiers, but in the depths of T4 NA, two servers and their linkees seem destined to have the other server be someone who belongs in T3 as far as population balance goes. Also, faik, T4 doesn’t matter to the lion’s share of people who play WvW (who are on the higher pop servers).

Finally, to be fair, at least part of the roflstomping I see now seems to be due at least in part to boonshare bull-gravy. Numbers already provide an advantage, but as we know, ANet boons serve as force multipliers which give an even greater advantage to the larger group.

Just be patient. Once Dbl comes back into the mix, you’ll get lots of good roaming opportunities…..and I am saying that in a positive tone.

Plus, I would be curious as to how you arrived at your percentages. I am assuming that it was done with sound statistical analysis?

Those are what you call POOMA stats..

Mez Koo.9510:

Gaile Gray.6029:

As many have stated, the addition of new ways to get Mastery Points is a good thing! It’s sort of like adding new dishes to a buffet: you can make a choice from an expending menu of options.

I am not maxed on MPs for either HoT or CT. Hey, I’ve been busy! As a daily player, I warmly welcome more ways for me to get those points.

But there is no way to use the dozens of extra points that can be gained casually.

Are you talking about Hero points or Mastery points? Don’t know about you but I’ve been at this a while and I still have a bunch of MP’s that I need to finish maxing out my HoT line. After that it will be much like the WxP for WvW and so on… lots of extra stuff we can’t do anything with… But at least the HP’s can be used for all characters now.

Seriously the theme is whatever you want it to be. Whether you want just social fun, or PvP, or WvW fighting groups etc. Really it’s just a matter of being who you are, looking for people that you get along and have fun with then going from there There are NO rules for how to make your guild.. that’s all up to you

Yes, and once the shield is destroyed you can kill them.. takes a few minutes but not difficult…

Lol. All good

You will never get agreement from me on that… Lolol. But that’s cause I’m stubborn.

But I WILL agree that definitely different things/builds work for different people and areas in the game

For what it’s worth going full zerker is definitely NOT the best way to go with Ranger. Here’s a look at my current build that I use for WvW at least. Small tweak for PvE but not much difference really:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNBjODbkRFKZxGWwiF4axyegB/Wzr/1lmQA4sxMwCY9uSG2ZA-T1BBABbp8TSlgMcBCie/BAeICZq+zGHBgAAIAG6QH6QH6Qbo78o38m3sUA6pMC-w

This build gives a real good mix of power, toughness, critical chance, crit damage AND health.

I won’t say it’s the best in the world.. but… I’ve tweaked this Ranger for the last couple of years and on the field and 1v1 it’s a super nasty character to come up against for a Ranger. If I’m roaming I expect thiefs so I will switch up one of the skills for the “Sic Em” so I can keep them from stealthing long enough to take them down. Sometimes it works very well.. and of course, sometimes it don’t.

Many people swear by zerk or condi.. I’ve tried both and settled on the third option which is this build. Good survivability for a Ranger along with real good damage. Since it doesn’t focus on condi damage most people running with condi cleanse find they have a useless tool equipped. I can take down a camp fairly quickly.. and I really wonder why it takes people so long to take down a simple sentry. I usually have those little guys dead in 10 seconds or less.

Anyway, that’s my take on the Ranger, (which I main in WvW). Your and others mileage may vary.. it’s all good fun!

Rink.6108:

in SBI I am seeing the opposite. People are now organising wvw-raids because they actually are able to get players together to go to wvw instead of 3-4 people only, commanders are teaching new players how to play wvw again (something I haven’t seen for a long time, because there weren’t enougn people around), etc.

Of course it isn’t the same for all communities. But what do you think has to be done to make your BP communities better? How would a server-merge save that? Would having no link and thus a lot less wvw players really solve the problem? I think it has to do with the game being old and players leaving for other games and having more players in wvw again was exactly what I needed to have fun again and play more often. But everyone likes different stuff I guess.

But I understand that it is harder to maintain identity if you are just a “+” on the matchup and this would be an easy thing to solve by showing BP their own name on the matchup on their BL, etc.

I don’t think a server-merge would save anything as far as the community of any server goes that is being swallowed up. I do know that there are plenty of BP folks running in WvW and doing their thing so I’m not trying to say that BP is gone from WvW… What I am saying is that what I used to see as cohesive spirit of the community doesn’t seem to exist really anymore. Like I said, the site is all but dead with the last post on it being July 23rd.. we used to have many posts daily.

Yes, it’s much more active in WvW than it was before, and for me it’s fun running with people I know of course. But it’s just that now.. it’s a fun place to pop into and have a good time with some friends then leave. I don’t see people that I know scouting keeps, towers, etc like we used to. I do see roaming groups here and there since I like to do that, but it’s for fun or for missions then it’s ‘out of here’. I mean, I used to spend hours in our own BL just scouting, maintaining, countering roamers etc. That sort of thing doesn’t seem to exist much anymore with minor exceptions here and there (that I see).

After all is said and done I’m really glad that this has been a good change for many people. I have no ill feelings because other people are finding ways to ‘make it work’. But I know that when the next server re-linking happens it’s a good chance that we will yet again be moved to another host, and so on. No matter what good fun this is for some of you folks at SBI it’s still making a lot of us just feel like pugs on another server, here for the fights… and that’s about it.

Rink.6108:

I don’t agree at all. The server linking did allow for much more diverse gameplay, more population on small tier servers while maintaining the server-identity.
Forcing servers to merge would destroy the latter, destroy the small communities you are talking about and make a lot of people very angry.

You think the small communities haven’t been adversely affected? I don’t know what makes you think that the small servers retained any identity other than knowing that they used to belong to a server that fought other servers and had their server name showing in the wvw menu and rating scores.

What identity are you talking about? I’ve been BP since I started this game. I have friends that are still BP… but BP isn’t what it used to be. The community events don’t exist anymore. The ’FIGHT FOR BP" is gone. We simply pug for CD.

You want to talk about community? The Borlis Pass web site used to be popping with activity… it slowly wound down since linking started to being basically dead now. The things that the server used to do as SERVER activities don’t exist anymore. Sure BP folks are around and many still go into WvW. But these days I see a lot more other folks than I do the BP folks I used to run with a lot. .. and as I said, the site is dead.

Yes I can see when I go into wvw that it’s busy in there a lot of the time but at what cost? So many people including me simply don’t play like we used to. -sigh-

Jeknar.6184:

The problem with T4 is that the lopsided matchup with the quadserver took place for far too long. Anet delayed this change so much that everyone pretty much already moved out of the tier or is doing somenthing else and not bothering about WvW. Problably 2-3 weeks ago we would still have man power, but now there are only 5 dead servers.

As a member of the four server link I agree with that. I barely play wvw now.

The linking may be good in many ways but as a long time player in BP I now play A LOT LESS wvw than I ever did before. I simply have zero incentive to go fight for “my” server since it has no home anymore. I simply go in now and then to have some fun with friends. I used to be in wvw about 95% of the time. Now it’s about half on a good day.

Also due to the linking my time IN GW2 has gone from around four hrs a day to as low as one. And many days I don’t even play… And for me that says alot!

I actually don’t really care as much that the change to the amulet happened as much as I do the fact that I now have a bunch of infusions that I won’t be able to use anytime soon, if ever. Knowing that there will be absolutely zero compensation for this and the fact that they’re account bound so can’t be put on the tp sucks. THAT is the issue!

Daddicus.6128:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Let’s not degrade to personal shots… Nothing I posted was nonsense… Some was incorrect it seems because the slot assignments were changed.. but you still have to do fractals to get the extra infusion slots and that sucks.. As I noted above, I will simply have to stop worrying about it since I don’t do fractals… Hopefully ANet will give us something nice in place of the infusions we can’t use anymore.

Please forgive me. I let my emotions get the better of me. Considering I made exactly the same argument in reverse in the past, I should know better.

Yes, infusing them requires fractals. But, attuning rings doesn’t. I’m not sure if those two slots are valuable to you WvW and PvP people or not. ???

To make up for my insult, I offer to personally escort you through the first 10 fractals. Just ping me in-game and mention who you are. It will take a couple weeks, though. 10 fractals would be at least a start on your quest for enough mojo to infuse something.

lol.. nooooooooooo noooooooooooo.. oh please… run over me with a steamroller.. but don’t make me go in there for that… bahaaa… [lowering head and weeping]

Daddicus.6128:

Balthazzarr.1349:

HenryChinaski.4732:

just try it and you will see…….

There is only ONE slot for an infusion in the ascended rings, (all trinkets actually). If you think I’m going to waste time overwriting one just to see if more will appear… well.. not!

I seriously sense a troll…. especially since all you do is tell us… and won’t show..

and the agony ones take agony resistance infusions…

He’s not a troll: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Attuned_Adelbern's_Royal_Signet_Ring

Search for Attuned or Infused on the Wiki to find the rest.

However, you have a point that you now have to play PvE content (fractals) to get them. I’ve made the same argument in reverse (I’m a PvE-only player), so I sympathize. (Which is a lot better than I received from the WvW crowd.)

But, if you want ANet to change this, I suggest a heck of a lot better attitude.

I have the same attitude for PvE people forced into WvW to get things to enhance their preferred game play. Frankly I don’t find complaining about something that has cost me stuff in this game, and cost even a minimal amount of attributes a bad attitude.

I admit I didn’t read the release notes completely otherwise I would have known about the change in the infusion type. However, I would still not be happy with the change to the Amulet, or with the fact that I would have to do fractals in order to take advantage of the other slots that could be available. This is an attempt to get me to play a part of the game I don’t enjoy. Regardless of the game style, in my opinion it’s not right to make it so people have to go into areas they don’t like just to get things that help their game style.

You can call that a bad attitude if you want.. I call it asking to get what I have paid for in more than laurels and in game gold… :P

JustTrogdor.7892:

Balthazzarr.1349:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Balthazzarr.1349:

HenryChinaski.4732:

just try it and you will see…….

There is only ONE slot for an infusion in the ascended rings, (all trinkets actually). If you think I’m going to waste time overwriting one just to see if more will appear… well.. not!

I seriously sense a troll…. especially since all you do is tell us… and won’t show..

What Henry is talking about is attuned rings which I believe require either unlocking tier two of the fractal mastery or completing various levels of fractals to get the mats to do it.

Yes but they are for agony resistance… and NOT for the WvW infusions he’s trying to make us believe they will take.

Here is what the patch notes say.

Offensive, defensive, and agony infusions are now simply known as infusions, and any infusion can be slotted into any infusion slot.

I think maybe the wiki has not caught up yet. I don’t have any attuned rings to look in game because I rarely do fractals and have little interest in them.

Thank you! Yes I didn’t read all the patch notes… so as it stands it sounds like he is correct. But then again at the end of the day it will be no use to me since I don’t do fractals.. I still have a bunch of infusions that I can’t do anything with… sigh

…. and it’s looking like now I have to play other parts of the game once again just to get extra goodies for the one part I like the most… arg … ah well, I’ll just do without the extra slots… and cross fingers that ANet actually listens to some of the people in this thread.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Balthazzarr.1349:

HenryChinaski.4732:

just try it and you will see…….

There is only ONE slot for an infusion in the ascended rings, (all trinkets actually). If you think I’m going to waste time overwriting one just to see if more will appear… well.. not!

I seriously sense a troll…. especially since all you do is tell us… and won’t show..

What Henry is talking about is attuned rings which I believe require either unlocking tier two of the fractal mastery or completing various levels of fractals to get the mats to do it.

Yes but they are for agony resistance… and NOT for the WvW infusions he’s trying to make us believe they will take.

HenryChinaski.4732:

just try it and you will see…….

There is only ONE slot for an infusion in the ascended rings, (all trinkets actually). If you think I’m going to waste time overwriting one just to see if more will appear… well.. not!

I seriously sense a troll…. especially since all you do is tell us… and won’t show..

and the agony ones take agony resistance infusions…

name them pls..
better yet, post them somewhere to show that you have wvw infusions in the agony infusion slots…

agony has nothing to do with wvw …

What rings are you talking about.. the ascended rings I have only have a spot for ONE infusion…

Paulytnz.7619:

Just a tip everybody:

don’t destroy your infusions that were mailed to you. You can trade them into the new Golem in Fractals for relics. I think I got a total of 75 relics for my +5, better than nothing I guess…..

You can only trade the agony resistance infusions… the other infusions that can’t be used that I had on my amulets are now useless since I can’t even sell them on the TP.

double holy crap… so we have all these awesome infusions that we can’t use and don’t get refunded and it costs TEN to TWENTY laurels to buy the new infusions, depending on what you want…

ANet please… seriously you need to give us our laurels back…

well considering you can’t sell them there’s not much choice but to either save or destroy them… arg…

Definitely will NOT be wasting any gold, laurels etc on infusions for the new slots.. as if I need more gold, xp, mf etc… just need skill stats for my fighters…

oh it gets better… the infusions you can’t use now have become account bound so you can’t even sell them… holy.. this is getting scammy.. sorry ANet but seriously why are you making things such a pain?

magic, karma, gold, xp — I believe that’s all.. useless

ok I missed something… why on earth did you change the amulet so all you could put on it were useless infusions?

go to metabattle.com. Get what’s considered your main meta builds there and tweak them to suit your play style.

I was queued for EB… started at 22, went down to 15, then got the prompt to go in and selected it right away… then it said it was full and put me to #23. I had already waited 15 minutes… now for the last 10 minutes I’ve been sitting at #23… PLEASE fix this… I should have been in!

For a 2 person guild it will be a huge challenge since most guild missions seem to require at least three people.

You will have to farm silverwastes for days to get tge shovels you will need. It’s a lot more involved than just spending gold. Prepare to grind your butt off and also spend a lot of gold….

You really will need to get more people in your guild if you want to do this anytime before Christmas.

Ok I play gw2 with a 17" ASUS ROG Gaming laptop and it is awesome. The only time I might have so called lag issues is when the servers themselves are having issues. I run full hi resolution on every setting and also run the 64 bit version of the game.

On an average day I get 50 to 90 fps. When in blob situations I can drop to around 30fps at times.

Omg there are counters for everything if you know how to play your class. Stop whining please and play the game. I mean, what do you want? Everything to be so balanced that you just spam 1 and see who dies first??

Lol I delete more of that stuff and empryal fragments and dragonite than I can count. 1500 of each in my bank and really annoyed that I can’t sell it in the TP

Liston.9708:

Chris Barrett.3280:

• Will Glicko ratings be adjusted before or after a match?
  Glicko ratings are temporarily adjusted at exactly the time of matchmaking. The adjustment will never be visible. We’re not actually modifying any world’s rating, just preventing matchmaking from letting worlds drift away from the others.

• Why not just change the links again?
  World links change on a schedule to maintain some stability. Among other reasons, those who maintain voice chat servers don’t have to redo permissions every week. We also wouldn’t want to start shifting world links around on a subjective whim. The frequency of the schedule was previously determined by a public poll.…..

not really. vote was every month not every 2 months with no indication some sort of averaging would take place… if that had held, people would be less likely to transfer every re-link and really bad links ala t4 would only last a month.

It would have made more sense to re-link frequently until you had the the re-link algorithms “perfected”. Then dial it back to 2 months re-links…

You need to go read the poll thread again. The vote is to change linkings every 2 months.

I honestly don’t believe I’ve seen a more bang on post than this anywhere. I reposted it on our guild site with credit to you!

Thanks!

That’s just a quack in the screen

lol… remember.. you have to NOT be using the siege before it can be repaired. That is.. get out of golem, get off ac etc…

I frankly don’t understand how the “ratings” can be valid in any way other than in the current matchup.. I mean how can it determine how a server moves up or down when that host server may or may NOT have the same servers linked to it in 2 months or less?

Seriously, what’s the point of ratings, points, win, lose, etc… WvW has really just become a place about fights these days. Nothing else really matters at all since the points really aren’t an indication of any one server, period!

I love this post! <3

totally agree Mogrey… it wasn’t the first time so it just got under my skin more than it really should have.. Most times it was a matter of me asking and asking which TS was even in use, (not to mention the channel), and getting no responses… but at any rate, I’m not new.. I’ll deal with it one way or the other without griefing people further in here

ok, I give Seriously this really did just start to be a venting of frustration in what I agree is the wrong spot. You’re totally right, it’s on me. Please continue to shoot, or not… but understand that I do agree that I shouldn’t have started this thread to begin with.. AND definitely should have just dealt with it. Forgive me… I get a little blood boilish when I shouldn’t.. :P

and.. I do believe that within a year I have a good chance of belonging to almost every server there is in GW2.

A good example last night… We were harassing the enemy at their bay. Two decent sized groups that fought a little bit on the field but they mostly only came out when it looked like half of us were gone. Most of the time they were inside. They had 2 shields outside in the field to protect their siege they absolutely needed against us I suppose. Balli, 2 cannons, mortars… It took me about 10 minutes to sneak and destroy their shield gens and 4 deaths but got it done. If they had these hammers then those gens probably would never have come down. Frankly I already don’t like this hammer idea at all after dealing with the so called ‘siege humpers’… :P

hahaha… hey this is more fun than I thought it would be.. .I especially like the one that tells me to join MY server forum… which one? BP? ET? CD? Kain? okok… so now we’re down to one of these… NOW I know which server the ts is on so that’s one step. and NOW I have to get to that forum wherever it is (if someone will tell me), then get access to that. Oh it’s all good.. I"ll turn troll mode off.. At the end of the day both sides are right really.

1. Yes, give the info then be quick about providing access.
2. Yes, ask for access and disengage from fighting and bug them until you get to where you, or they, want you to be in TS then return to the game.

Frankly it’s that simple.

Of course I didn’t want to disengage… so we could get circular here and have even more fun. and YES I aired my frustration in the wrong spot I guess. But really with all this server linking that’s going on it really is another one of the pains of the game so to speak..