Guild Wars 2

HoT – The new PvE lands are a combination of crazy and cool.. I don’t mind them. But has anybody noticed how DEAD the new WvW borderlands are? I know people on many servers and so far I get the same story… People go into Eternal BL for the main fights etc, and only go to their own BL’s if they need to take a few things back. For the most part, the new desert borderlands are… deserted. They look cool… but are too big and cumbersome to get around in. Seriously, gliding should have been enabled for the new BL’s which would have made people at least be more interested in exploring and trying to figure them out. I used to be a HUGE WvW player and now I might go into WvW once a week for the guild missions or if I get tired of the PvE grind… Sadly ANet, you missed the boat on the WvW “enhancements”… they’re not giving us players what we wanted or needed. I’m hoping that you can do some tweaking to make them more attractive and bring people back into the home BL’s.

Thanks Chris

Kuulpb.5412:

Blockman.9740:

ive been waiting for about 3 hours for this i get you guys are trying to fix the problem and i apreciate it but it is getting on my nerves it has ruined my night almost as my freind who is with me is able to log in and play fine but i have to sit out while he enjoys the content
p.s. the filthy frank show is all that is keeping me going -Rip dade 2014

Again, I am still locked out…. And yes Anet are doing all they can. Stay calm, and try not to moan at them, thnak you.

But I was having fun with my moan fest! lol… and yes you are right… I am chillin..

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

Barsity.9408:

Kuulpb.5412:

I know it seems like Arenanet doesn’t care, but at the current moment, they are trying to fix a UI that will affect a HUGE percentage of their PvE Playerbase,

Why does ONLY Pve matter? Seriously… once again my Mike O’Obrien post comes into play. kitten THAT!

Kuulpb.5412:

yes messages might have been Helpful, but that is the past, so They are working to make UI compatible with their PvE content, and I’m sure at some point in the future, After they schedule specific events and etc etc, they will do a WvW based feature Patch or somehting that will make it somehow better, Such as More Maps, Maybe the possibility of more servers fighting eachother at once? hmmmmmmmmmm?

They have been awful at announcing betas for WvW content…. And should have just released it to all to see real “server” beta’ing for realsies. The fact they only selecte certain accounts/guilds for WvW means they give no kittens about beta’ing it for real.

Squad UI is a huge feature for WvW… you get that right? What they’re trying to beta test right now is for your benefit too. Did it occur to you that the new map might not actually need all that much testing while the squad UI (obviously) does?

Yes, i do know what commander tags are used for, i’m not an idiot. All i’m saying is, They are adding 10 man content into GW2 with hoT, Which requires Raid Squads, which is a tag. HoT is PvE based, so complaining about WvW so much ins’t goign to help them progress their PvE/WvW sqaud system, it’ll just mean they keep putting it off, or do it during the week when eveyrone is mid-wvw

HoT is PvE based? Have you even seen all the changes happening in WvW when the expansion comes in? Man read up on stuff before you fly out the door with broken wings…

Again, excuse me for thinking Adding the revenant (rytlock) and other Living season stuff isn’t PvE based. and that Raids aren’t pvE base,d and the new maps in maguuma aren’t PvE based…

oh sigh.. let’s not get into a battle of sillyness here… The expansion will affect ALL areas of the game. Not JUST PvE.. big changes to both areas.. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I never said it’d ONLY affect PvE did I? No, i didn’t.

lol, you said, and I quote: “HoT is PvE based”

If that doesn’t exclude WvW I don’t know what does… meh it doesn’t matter… bottom line is that it’s still broke.. and hopefully will get fixed by the next time I try to log in.

We shall agree that we like our own gamemodes! insert music of… somethign

lol, agreed

Chris Cleary.8017:

We have not implemented a fix yet, players that are able to get back in have either waited 10 minutes and not logged back into the launcher/game (thus disbanding the squad they were in), or their squad has disbanded from players leaving the squad they were in.

ETA on Fix: Soon

Hey there… odd thing is.. although I was commanding a group.. none were grouped in a squad with me.. all were just following as people do without using the squad feature… so that’s a little odd… Just thought I’d put that out there

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

Barsity.9408:

Kuulpb.5412:

I know it seems like Arenanet doesn’t care, but at the current moment, they are trying to fix a UI that will affect a HUGE percentage of their PvE Playerbase,

Why does ONLY Pve matter? Seriously… once again my Mike O’Obrien post comes into play. kitten THAT!

Kuulpb.5412:

yes messages might have been Helpful, but that is the past, so They are working to make UI compatible with their PvE content, and I’m sure at some point in the future, After they schedule specific events and etc etc, they will do a WvW based feature Patch or somehting that will make it somehow better, Such as More Maps, Maybe the possibility of more servers fighting eachother at once? hmmmmmmmmmm?

They have been awful at announcing betas for WvW content…. And should have just released it to all to see real “server” beta’ing for realsies. The fact they only selecte certain accounts/guilds for WvW means they give no kittens about beta’ing it for real.

Squad UI is a huge feature for WvW… you get that right? What they’re trying to beta test right now is for your benefit too. Did it occur to you that the new map might not actually need all that much testing while the squad UI (obviously) does?

Yes, i do know what commander tags are used for, i’m not an idiot. All i’m saying is, They are adding 10 man content into GW2 with hoT, Which requires Raid Squads, which is a tag. HoT is PvE based, so complaining about WvW so much ins’t goign to help them progress their PvE/WvW sqaud system, it’ll just mean they keep putting it off, or do it during the week when eveyrone is mid-wvw

HoT is PvE based? Have you even seen all the changes happening in WvW when the expansion comes in? Man read up on stuff before you fly out the door with broken wings…

Again, excuse me for thinking Adding the revenant (rytlock) and other Living season stuff isn’t PvE based. and that Raids aren’t pvE base,d and the new maps in maguuma aren’t PvE based…

oh sigh.. let’s not get into a battle of sillyness here… The expansion will affect ALL areas of the game. Not JUST PvE.. big changes to both areas.. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I never said it’d ONLY affect PvE did I? No, i didn’t.

lol, you said, and I quote: “HoT is PvE based”

If that doesn’t exclude WvW I don’t know what does… meh it doesn’t matter… bottom line is that it’s still broke.. and hopefully will get fixed by the next time I try to log in.

Well I’m happy for you lucky souls that are able to get back into the game.. I am gonna head out of here and off the computer since it doesn’t look like I’m gonna get in soon… and I’ve tried probably 100 times in the last hour.

Kuulpb.5412:

Balthazzarr.1349:

Kuulpb.5412:

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

Barsity.9408:

Kuulpb.5412:

I know it seems like Arenanet doesn’t care, but at the current moment, they are trying to fix a UI that will affect a HUGE percentage of their PvE Playerbase,

Why does ONLY Pve matter? Seriously… once again my Mike O’Obrien post comes into play. kitten THAT!

Kuulpb.5412:

yes messages might have been Helpful, but that is the past, so They are working to make UI compatible with their PvE content, and I’m sure at some point in the future, After they schedule specific events and etc etc, they will do a WvW based feature Patch or somehting that will make it somehow better, Such as More Maps, Maybe the possibility of more servers fighting eachother at once? hmmmmmmmmmm?

They have been awful at announcing betas for WvW content…. And should have just released it to all to see real “server” beta’ing for realsies. The fact they only selecte certain accounts/guilds for WvW means they give no kittens about beta’ing it for real.

Squad UI is a huge feature for WvW… you get that right? What they’re trying to beta test right now is for your benefit too. Did it occur to you that the new map might not actually need all that much testing while the squad UI (obviously) does?

Yes, i do know what commander tags are used for, i’m not an idiot. All i’m saying is, They are adding 10 man content into GW2 with hoT, Which requires Raid Squads, which is a tag. HoT is PvE based, so complaining about WvW so much ins’t goign to help them progress their PvE/WvW sqaud system, it’ll just mean they keep putting it off, or do it during the week when eveyrone is mid-wvw

HoT is PvE based? Have you even seen all the changes happening in WvW when the expansion comes in? Man read up on stuff before you fly out the door with broken wings…

Again, excuse me for thinking Adding the revenant (rytlock) and other Living season stuff isn’t PvE based. and that Raids aren’t pvE base,d and the new maps in maguuma aren’t PvE based…

oh sigh.. let’s not get into a battle of sillyness here… The expansion will affect ALL areas of the game. Not JUST PvE.. big changes to both areas.. That’s all I’m trying to say.

Kuulpb.5412:

Lauriewonnacott.9841:

Barsity.9408:

Kuulpb.5412:

I know it seems like Arenanet doesn’t care, but at the current moment, they are trying to fix a UI that will affect a HUGE percentage of their PvE Playerbase,

Why does ONLY Pve matter? Seriously… once again my Mike O’Obrien post comes into play. kitten THAT!

Kuulpb.5412:

yes messages might have been Helpful, but that is the past, so They are working to make UI compatible with their PvE content, and I’m sure at some point in the future, After they schedule specific events and etc etc, they will do a WvW based feature Patch or somehting that will make it somehow better, Such as More Maps, Maybe the possibility of more servers fighting eachother at once? hmmmmmmmmmm?

They have been awful at announcing betas for WvW content…. And should have just released it to all to see real “server” beta’ing for realsies. The fact they only selecte certain accounts/guilds for WvW means they give no kittens about beta’ing it for real.

Squad UI is a huge feature for WvW… you get that right? What they’re trying to beta test right now is for your benefit too. Did it occur to you that the new map might not actually need all that much testing while the squad UI (obviously) does?

Yes, i do know what commander tags are used for, i’m not an idiot. All i’m saying is, They are adding 10 man content into GW2 with hoT, Which requires Raid Squads, which is a tag. HoT is PvE based, so complaining about WvW so much ins’t goign to help them progress their PvE/WvW sqaud system, it’ll just mean they keep putting it off, or do it during the week when eveyrone is mid-wvw

HoT is PvE based? Have you even seen all the changes happening in WvW when the expansion comes in? Man read up on stuff before you fly out the door with broken wings…

Gaile Gray.6029:

I think I should point something out: The game is not down. We’re not having a game outage here. It’s true that some players are not able to join, but the game is still accessible — I’m in it now.

So I appreciate people pointing out we’ve had very little down time in our history, and that’s very true, but this isn’t down time, in the true definition of the word. Just had to say.

lol, yes that’s true the game is not down. I am watching the WvW progress on my iphone app. In the meantime I still can’t get in… on this, the only night that I have the total freedom to play all night. Yes I’m in the minority… but does that really mean I should shut up and not be annoyed? That doesn’t make sense to me… I’m not ranting and raving… just clearly not pleased that in the middle of commanding a squad I got kicked from the game and can’t get back in… not fun.

Trajan.4953:

Skady.5916:

Barsity,
you really should go try other games if 1-2 hours of downtime once in a blue moon is such a big deal for you. For instance, SWTOR used to bring all the servers down for 2-4 hours every 2-4 weeks just to roll the new build over not mentioning hot-fixes etc.

This is literally first long downtime in 3 years and it does not even affect all players. Just sit back and relax a bit while they are working on it, they brought people back to the office on Friday midnight and you still kittening about it is just ridiculous.

That would be fine, if useless, advice on any other night than WVW reset.

Also, they schedule their updates / maintenance. Just as WoW does on a specific day and they do NOT apply maintenance on the spur of the moment while players are heavily involved in their WvW, Dungeons, etc. ANet does most updates on Tuesday’s it seems but also at any time of the day or night regardless of who is doing what.

lol.. and of course they brought people back to the office. They broke it.. they need to fix it… sheesh

Just not a good way to build happiness in your users.

Yes, seriously… doing any sort of beta on reset night is an idea not well thought out. The beta should have started Saturday morning. This is my ONE night of the week that I can spend the night in here and that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen at this point.

Go to a command prompt.
Go to this directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2

Enter command: gw2 -repair

lol… well it worked for someone… didn’t work for me… grrrrrr

-repair didn’t work for me…

right now you pretty much have to party or guild chat with people if you don’t want to use the prolific map chat.. :P

Popping the tag in WvW also caused the game to crash…

Removing my tag also caused the game to crash…

Definitely crashed the game for me just now… BAM! Crash report sent…

The update is in… and now people cannot receive whispers. You can “send” them… but the party never sees them. Please fix this asap…

X T D.6458:

usually people go in there with low level toons to get exp for leveling, and to farm karma and champ bags. One of the reasons I hate it, is because few people there want any challenge or anything different, they merely treat it as nothing more then an extension of a pve map to farm and level on. Its one reason why most wvwers despise eotm. I dont care personally what people want to do in terms of farming, leveling. Its their lazy, entitled attitudes that annoy people the most.

I like going there with a low level toon to level up… however I love the fight. Unfortunately most people in eotm, as people are saying, would rather karma train. The main reason I believe is that most people in eotm don’t have a clue how to fight in WvW. They are PVE folks with PVE builds… I’ve taken down level 80 people in there with my lower level ranger or mesmer. That always amazes me.. I can’t get away with that in real WvW. When I go in eotm with my WvW fighters well then it’s just grab bag time as long as our group decides it’s fighting time. There are always people kittening about fighting, about not fighting… they have a better way but won’t tag up… and so on.. I’ve seen big group rage quit when the other side continues to hunt us down and just bag farm… I never understand that really since when that happens… well… we’re not there capping things for them to recap like someone said here. The keep defenders make me laugh the most.. Defend a keep in eotm? why? repair the walls? why? Let them cap so we can get the points etc recapping… Fight if you want, but get a fight in the field where it can be fun… don’t hide behind walls etc with stupid siege… My kingdom for a good field battle!!!!

xihorus.2804:

In WvW I hate it when….

….I am on my warrior who only has melee weapons and a ranged class attacks me. All ranged weapons should be disabled when a ranged class initiates a fight with me.

….I am roaming on my thief and am attacked by three people at once. Two of them should be automatically disconnected at the start of the fight to make it more even.

….I am on my support guardian and the enemy stops focusing me and switches to my teammates instead because of my high defenses. The game should force enemies to be only able to attack me.

….I am on my elementalist and enemies don’t stand in my meteor shower after I cast. The game should force enemies to stand in the red circle and soak up the damage, like in PvE.

….I am on the WvW forums listening to people complain about stealth mechanics, because they haven’t spent enough time in WvW to learn how to deal with them.

lol… that’s too funny…. yes it would be awesome if people would stand still and stay in my shower of arrows and wait while I pummel them with arrow rapid fire!

In this case it’s not even a problem that you’re describing… You have a server with a 1304 rating in tier 5 against two servers with 1481 and 1498 ratings. Then you have 2 servers with higher ratings 1365 and 1392 back in tier 6 against a server with an 1167 rating. That simply doesn’t make sense. That is not a problem with servers that don’t match. That’s a problem with matching servers with similar successes/failures period.

Perhaps fixing the algorithm that matches up servers would be good. I’ve seen servers that have crushed their enemy stay on the same tier while one of the crushed servers gets moved up to the next tier where they have no business being. If you want to destroy the desire of people to play in WvW that is sure one way to do it. People in ANet know what server I’m on so it won’t take a rocket scientist to know what I’m talking about.

Get the matchups set so that servers that are fairly equal are battling each other.

I’m still trying to find these stupid things….

…and to add mine to the mix…

The siege disruptor time limit of 45 seconds has got to be one of the most ridiculous things ever done in an MMO. That’s enough time to bring a zerg most of the way across the map… and the fact that you can just keep applying another one once the first one times out makes sieging a tower almost impossible even if there’s only 1 person inside. Seriously, this is definitely a good way to get the lazy people to just sit inside and defend, which the rest of us that like the fight do our best but continue to get zerged out worse than ever before due to useless siege… I don’t complain idly and as a matter of fact this is the only complaint about how this game runs that I’ve submitted. It wasn’t a well thought out addition to the game and truly only benefits the people that already outnumber the rest and afford to have drones sitting inside towers and keeps with these traps.