Guild Wars 2

One of my 3 mains is a thief and I actually really like the idea of light fields removing stealth, to be honest if I can’t win a fight on my thief I can run away very easily if I chose to and I feel there should be a counter to stealth. Some of the suggestions listed above as nerfs to stealth are kittened though.

World 1 I think this would be doable, W2 I am very doubtful this is even possible given how random the tribulation clouds can be. You would need skill and a bit of luck to pull this off.

I have to laugh at some of these mid tier servers complaining. I don’t see MANY of you complaining about the matches when you are the ones stomping around every map outnumbering your opponents.

I can only comment on what I see for night crews but when a higher ranked server does complain about no competition maybe it would help if you attacked both the weaker servers at the same time instead of taking each map one by one in a giant zerg. You would find the lower ranked servers can put up a better fight when you dont outnumber them so badly.

As frustrating as it is you can escape from the log at the end of W2Z2, just keep rolling at the end of the log which faces the checkpoint and eventually you will fly out. If you are doing something like trib mode or bauble achievement it takes less time then restarting.

Its a terrible solution but until there is a fix its all we got glad you escaped

Keep on dodge rolling, after like 20 minutes of struggling I escaped from that kittening log, just believe in yourself and ROLL.

World 1 you can run in an hour or even less. World 2 zones 1 and 2 aren’t too bad, maybe just over an hour to do both but zone 3 took me about 2 and a half hours alone so set aside a bit more time for that. If you look at youtube guides those times are for perfect runs and even then I think zones 2 and 3 for world 2 take ~30 mins.

This checkpoint and the cloud not working were extremely frustrating but with the infinite coin my rage subsided slightly. On the plus side I got really good at that part having to redo it every time I made a small mistake.

Seeing that this has happened a few times leads me to believe that some sort of fix to that log is also needed, not just a suicide button. I thought I just had terrible luck but this doesn’t seem to be a one time thing.

This is why they need 4 leagues, you wouldn’t see servers trying to drop down so they can dominate servers with 1/3 their population. Sure the winners will for the most part already be known at the start of the season but at least the match ups will be slightly competitive and not 7 weeks of molestation for almost half the servers

Although it is slightly off topic 300% magic find certainly makes a difference, running around in crown pavilion with the 200% buff and birthday booster was lodestone city. I play all parts of the game so I have no complaints about WvW getting less loot but if the blood lust boost gave something like 50% for each borderland the increased amounts of rares and even exotics being dropped would satisfy the kind of people who like to zerg around. The only people increased MF and karma doesn’t really benefit are the smaller groups and solos who don’t want the proposed stat buff anyways so I am sure they wouldn’t care if it was useless magic find and karma.

Actually this very same thing happened to me and right when I was about to rage on the forums I managed to dodge roll out the side, that was after 20 minutes of mashing buttons. That spot is one of the only ones where you cant dig up a bunny to kill you either, they don’t seem to aggro you if you are stuck in an object. The whole time I was thinking why can’t I just kill myself. I also got stuck in one of those frozen waterfalls you break with the torch, it refroze as I was walking through and my actions were locked so I couldn’t burn it again.

I like the mechanic, well at least the sound of it. The buff needs to be reworked or at the very least switched around with the outmanned buff. Bloodlust can keep the points on stomp and outmanned the no armour damage. Being as supporters of the bloodlust buff say +150 to all stats is nothing its the very least they should give you when the enemy has 3 times your numbers.

By clogs did you mean cogs? All they needs to do is add ascended drops for defending and people will do it, they would need to drop in small amounts though because the events tick fairly often.

Vena.8436:

ParaldaWind.4523:

No, I don’t want the buff when I go 25v60. Or, more specifically, I don’t want them to have the buff. Hell, I don’t want to have the buff when I go 25v25, or 25v15, or 25v30.

You’re entering an unfair fight, and complain about it being unfair-er (yes, I realize the grammatical faux pas but it was intentional)? Why aren’t you using your superior 25 organized guild mates to neutralize the buff? Is field play and management not something you guys like? Just want to collide X into Y? The buff is roughly 1% of an additional player (if they hold all three borderland buffs). Would you immediately resign yourselves if you faced off in 25vs61?

For example, we don’t GvG because it removes the whole aspect of geographical play where chokes, high ground, etc. This update, on purely map design, is like a chorus. The fact that capturing the buff almost necessitates the former geographical awareness, while pending on testing, seems like a positive to me.

This discussion does not really relate to the topic being discussed, people are asking to be able to remove the buff on themselves. If the enemy holds a point sure you can go attempt to remove the buff from them if you want fair fights. If your server holds the buff and you want to GvG or roam on an even playing field I don’t think it is possible to sabotage the points and lose the buff.

I think most people would have no problem with the leagues if there was only 4 of them, there is still quite the spread in coverage but at least the match ups aren’t complete blow outs. The biggest fail with the league set up is that there is two of them. You won’t get people paying gems to transfer from rank 24 to rank 19 (4 leagues) but you will see transfers from rank 12 to rank 1

I don’t see what would be so hard about being allowed to remove the buff from yourself, that being said if roamers want to win fair fights remove a few of your accessories or something, people doing GvG fights could do the same thing. Is this how it should be? Hell no but if Anet isn’t willing to do something find your own way around it

Is there a ball park figure for WxP vial drop rates? I got one in my very first rank up when they were added and thought I could actually play at least 2 characters in WvW (mind you people playing one character would still rank up a lot faster). Since that first vial I have ranked up over 100 times on 4 characters and not seen another drop. Am I that unlucky or are these as rare as a precursors?

I was a bit surprised when the chests popped up after killing the supervisor instead of a loot box (like the rank up chests) when the keep or tower is actually captured. With this current system you could also get the reward and fail to capture the objective because reinforcements arrive before you finish capping the circle. Its not only on siege but people who are killing actual players instead of hitting the npc that get screwed over. They need to change the rewards from a drop to a chest when the objective has been completed this way everyone gets their piece of the pie.

Nretep.2564:

When you enter the SAB a red popup appears saying like “attention, you’ll lose all your current buffs”.

Maybe they should implement another 10 warnings just to prevent those “I didn’t read, must ask ANet to fix this” complains.

First of all I don’t even want the booster back they already screwed up and sent me doubles on one character. However, it is a bit silly to have the current living story, which occurs about a year after release, destroy the boosters that we are given a year after release.

As much as I would like to get the boost back I mostly want the problem fixed so I can go back into SAB, the character I have all the items on still has about 20 hours on his booster

Oh that’s what it was I didn’t realise SAB did it I thought I lost it just from the update. I also had about 22 hours left :S

I popped one of my birthday boosters yesterday and it had around 22 hours left on it when I logged out last night. When I logged on after the new update I found my buff to be gone. I have another booster or two left but I am wondering if anyone else found their boost to be gone after the update and if it was intended for some reason.

Colt.9051:

Lol, not even 5 mins after I log off after FINALLY getting our BLs back to green and I’m about to rest my head on the pillow, I take one last look on the millennium live map and see that ET had our Garrison again and pretty much our side of EB. Either ET really has a thing for us or just really need to gather some courage to DENY NSP’s points instead of taking the easy mode way out… SMH.

Edit 1: 5 mins later Hills is gone

Edit 2: 2 mins later all keeps in the BLs are gone, logged back in to see an out manned buff, grats on PvDing our BLs yet again, I hope you’re proud

Guess you should have gone to bed after looking the first time, looks like you’ll have trouble sleeping now.

I like how the solution to alts and WxP being soulbound was the liquid WxP yet in over 50 ranks I have seen one vial. I might just have terrible luck but this still means 50 ranks on an alt would give my main half a rank… this hardly encourages me to play alts.

Really hoping for the ET/DR/AR match up.

Well was a fun night of fights in ET BL, when I saw the outmanned buff and the IoJ blob at bay south gates I decided it was time to call it a night. The duellers need to move out of the ruins and to the windmill btw, people who are just trying to WvW run through there all the time.

Is this skill lag a recent thing, I was fine in both EB and borderlands for the longest time in since the last update I have been getting 1 to 2 second skill everywhere in WvW.

I think a better way to do it would to increase the WxP each kill gives BUT divide up the WxP based on damage done or how many people get credit. This would help promote people running in small groups and you might get a few less people blobbing around the map. Of course there is still problems with that system but at least there would be some advantage to not mindlessly zerging all the time.

Yeah with this change I think the invasions will be ghost towns in a few days.

Deemo.6094:

This is extremely appalling and so true, see how much attention this tread got and yet no reply from anyone from Anet…. cause they know they fuked up on this one and in all fairness proberly knew this would happen b4 the events started… Sort it out for cristes sake.

Apparently you don’t read patch notes.

Outlaw.3421:

Well, they just stopped the champ farm – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-20-2013/first#post2683073

HAHAHA they just really don’t want people to make gold in this game do they, first Dead Eye now this. The only way to make gold where they can’t nerf you is the trading post.

Just finished running my daily gauntlet, I do every boss but Liadri. I went in with 24 tickets and came out with 17, every invasion I end up with 4 or 5 tickets as drops. What I am getting at is at this rate I will end up with several stacks of useless tickets because all gambits reward us with is more cogs, which due to the invasion are only worth vendoring. I really hope that the tickets will be able to be vendored in the near future because the gauntlet is dead.

Fuzzion.2504:

What I would like is for the PvE dragons to drop WvW Respec stones which can be sold and traded. If that occurs, we will create another revenue stream from WvWvW players to the PvE crowd.

You are really trying to make this DAoC aren’t you :P

It made much more sense to lower the amount of gold than to remove it (minus the daily of course). With the new method of just dailies I am having more tickets drop then I could ever spend on the gauntlet because gambits are absolutely pointless, if they put just enough silver in those bags to cover the cost of buying a ticket from the emissaries people could make a bit of money off the tickets that drop, people who saved up bags wouldn’t complain (as much) and people who had left over tickets wouldn’t complain. Now everyone is going to be left with stacks of Queen’s Gauntlet tickets.

The gauntlet still works and the daily rewards actually give you a better return on your tickets than before, however gambits have been rendered absolutely useless other than achievement hunting. It also seems that if you fail your first attempt at a boss you receive no reward when you do beat them which may be a bug.

I found it pretty hilarious that they seem to have dumbed dead eye back down after nerfing the loot. After his first teleport he seems to rush back into the middle now lol.

Well now that you cant farm dead eye people are turning to the next most profitable farm which has always been champions. Its too bad that is happening but it was to be expected

Fuzzion.2504:

Icecreaman.5072:

DevonCarver.5370:

We will be adding more liquid WXP that will be purchasable, likely with badges and some other currency, soon. As in, less than a month. I’ve made it a personal goal to improve the experience for playing alts in WvW. And to cut it off now, we are not making WvW rank account bound.

More/faster ways of gaining Wxp and ability points is always good.

Unfortunately, it will all be going to my main WvW character while my alts sit on the sideline. You know what would improve my WvW experience and encourage me to play alts? Account bound Wxp and ability points.

Account bound WXP will never happen. Rank, playtime and the specific character are all interlinked. This is the same philosophy taken from DAoC. While Anet understands that players have multiple characters, the most reward must be given to your most prized character.

The difference being in DAoC classes had unique realm abilities whereas in GW no matter what class you share the same set of WvW or RvR abilities. This liquid WxP will not increase the use of alts for most people they will just level up their main faster.

Anyone know if lodestones still have a chance of dropping from the bags? Even doing all the bosses once daily I wont use up the whole stack of tickets I have left over plus this new event is dropping them like mad. Id still 4 gambit farm the rest of my stack at the off chance of getting a lodestone or two, its better than it sitting in the bank.

Happened on ET too. When I saw it pop I started laughing then just quit to desktop

I fully expected a nerf but the way they did it they pretty much killed the gauntlet, they could have reduced the rewards instead of removing them… minus doing them once per day that is. I am sitting on a bunch of tickets but I am glad I at least opened all my bags. A reduced reward would have at least helped those people who stockpiled bags salvage their rewards, now they are left with mounds of sprockets.

Same thing is happening to me unless I also am not understanding the achievment

I think its fairly obvious that no account bound wxp + gem store boosters = Anet trying to make some money off of WvW which I can’t blame them for being as they are a business. These boosters won’t even really help people with alts as they would need to buy tons of these to make a difference on all their characters. I see them helping casuals with no alts close the gap and dedicated WvW’ers push even farther into the ranks.

I think its fairly obvious that no account bound wxp + gem store boosters = Anet trying to make some money off of WvW which I can’t blame them for being as they are a business. These boosters won’t even really help people with alts as they would need to buy tons of these to make a difference on all their characters. I see them helping casuals with no alts close the gap and dedicated WvW’ers push even farther into the ranks.

You guys are hilarious. I am surprised there isn’t an option to choose the colours but its hardly blinding, maybe you guys just need to turn your monitor’s brightness down.

Yes
Massage my body length, must be at least 15

Jaytee.9513:

Wouldn’t the “gaining” 1 ability point for each character be exploitable? I mean levels 1-5 for wvw rank is so easy to achieve. Create new character…….level it to rank 5, delete character, repeat………..

Quick easy way to gain ability points for your main……..

Just saying if that is how its going to work how do you stop that from occurring?

If you are talking about wxp being shared your new character wouldn’t be rank 1 when you made them they would be whatever rank your main was. You wouldn’t be able to exploit account bound wxp that way.

Navzar.2938:

Yes, I am quite bothered that certain classes have such a drastic advantage over the rest.
Now that that’s sad, how does one do this with a ranger? I just got mine geared up with exotics (which I was doing anyway, but main happened to be that lvl 80 ele that couldn’t do it, and I had an influx of gold from champ loot).

That’s true I did forget about ranger, although I did see one 3 gambit farming him, not sure on the build I don’t really play ranger that much.

As someone who has played on ET since it was created I can remember a time when the only 5 or 10 points we had were from camps I had taken by myself and I don’t think you guys have fallen that far. Things will turn around although with the random matchups you are likely to be blown out of the water most of the time. I think now that things have been shaken up they should go back to the old system but randomize the colours.

Got this a few days ago but I will admit the achievement counted with only 7 orbs, or at least I thought I only got 7 orbs. I did this on eng and she killed herself with retaliation. I can post a screen if people don’t believe me I am just too lazy, I am mostly curious how many people have pulled this off.