Guild Wars 2

100% agree with the OP on this. In spvp and WvW the regen and stealth is too much and needs to be tweaked.

I would be interested to see the impact that an increase in hp would have on the meta. Some classes and builds don’t do we’ll in drawn out battles. It would require better management of cool downs and abilities. And yes the mesmer shatter bug is OP.

All I am reading is “I am trying to defend my overpowered class from getting nerfed so everyone else should l2p. I am scared so i will lash out at everyone else and call them nubs”

Get over it. Thevies are one of the most overpowered classes i have ever seen in the many mmos i have played.

Fort Aspenwood is a t3 WvW server needing help. Check out fort-aspenwood.com for a list of guilds recruiting there.

Weren’t we supposed to see some ascended pvp gear from WvW this patch? Or am I missing something….

Shrouded.6450:

Beachead.4127:

So some guilds crashed an ingame funeral…. I think its funny honestly. My guildies and i have crashed plenty of weddings and funerals in previous mmos. If you take the RPing to that extreme then go LARP in the woods.

Oh I know, I think the majority in my server know what’s gonna happen, and the commanders over there seems to know what to do on how to get even….

No problem with that right?

Bring it on. Anything to make pvp crazy active and fun is ok in my book.

So some guilds crashed an ingame funeral…. I think its funny honestly. My guildies and i have crashed plenty of weddings and funerals in previous mmos. If you take the RPing to that extreme then go LARP in the woods.

-Spatial Surge beam has had its color changed to green

-Phantasmal Rogue now has perma stealth, heartseeker and back stab.

-Portal now randomly teleports people to jumping puzzles

Bonesaw [BSAW] is looking for a few new active players to join us. We are a small guild of 30 guys that have all been gaming together for 10 years now and are located on Fort Aspenwood (T3 wvw). We are all ex hardcore players who now have families and demanding jobs which obviously limits our time now. We have about 5 active players right now (The rest just play LoL) and are looking to either merge another small guild with us or have a few strong candidates join us.

We focus on PvP in its many forms and would like to build a strong tournament group for tPvP as well as a close knit skirmisher group for WvW. We have years of pvping in games like Daoc, WoW, Warhammer, AION, SWTOR and many other games. Some of our previous guild names have been Obvious Assassin, My Little Pwnies and others.

We are laid back and don’t really have a guild structure as we are all ex GMs and officers… everyone is mature and just works well together. No drama queens please… I get enough of that with my two year old.

We have a 50 man vent server.
Normally pvp between 7 pm and 12 am est. every night.
We run dungeons and fotm occasionally.
We just really want to have fun.
We want to stay on Fort Aspenwood since the wvw is a blast.
All lvl 80s in full epics.

PM me in game, reply here or send me a message and I will be happy to talk with you.

I think blink should be turned into a signit with passive giving us swiftness and the active being the blink. It would make the most sense.

Honestly I don’t want to go down to T4. We have destroyed those servers before and it was boring… nights where there was nothing to do in WvW cause everything was capped.

Despite being in 2nd -3d place here for the last 3 weeks, i have really enjoyed the pvp. Sure i would like to see a fresh new server to fight against but if it means us steam rolling them then I would welcome being back in the situation we are in today against Yaks and TC.

Usagi.4835:

We saw one member of FA openly ganking people in the arena and so we sentenced her to life imprisonment with the siamoths!

She stayed there for a while. Kara said it was fascinating so we observed her behaviour…

“Day 21 – The siamoths have begun to mate.”

Awesome

The delay kills our ability to cripple someone when they are running since the illusion sits for a second before attacking. By the time it can attack, the target is already out of range.

As said multiple times, the delay is also killing us in dungeons and WvW as it dies 50% of the time before it attacks. DPS has taken a nose dive with this using GS.

I understand wanting to have abilities in game that can be reacted too but every class has instant attacks that can’t be dodge etc.. Someone already brought up the theif who is the king of killing someone before they even know what happened.

Can I have my gold back so I can change all my armor and weapons to a condition build now? You killed GS.

I’ve played a ton of mmos. This is by far the buggiest of what I would consider top tier mmos. Maybe I need to lower my expectations.

Elementalists got a response to their game breaking bug but we still sit here waiting. WTF

Elemental transform abilities and mesmer illusions are badly borked.

Can we get a response on the illusion bug for mesmers?

Today I delayed the December patch planned for my application because we found performance and bug issues with it. It was found cause of proper testing and QA.

Today’s guild wars patch is another fine example of your poor regression and QA testing.

I have never experienced such a buggy mmo before. I would expect this from small start up companies… Not a company on its second major mmo. Do you actually test anything?

You introduced two class breaking bugs in both mesmers and elementalists. How do you not find these? Both classes I play are now fubared.

Time to go play halo 4

Can we get a response? You commented on a pve mob bug but can’t comment on a class breaking mechanic?

I have also confirmed this issue.

I forgot the mention that if you are chasing someone and use the iberserker which has a snare ability, that by the time it activates, the target is already out of range.

With today’s patch, a new bug has been introduced with iBerserker. When activating the ability, the illusion just sits there for a second and then does the berzerker attack. In WvW it dies over 50% of the time before it even gets an attack off. I also tried the iwarlock and it also has a delay before attacking. This maybe illusion wide.

Either way, having an ability be completely negated outside of a dodge is frustrating. Because of the delay and how quickly it dies before making an attack, my DPS has been impacted immensly by this. If it doesnt get fixed quickkly then i will probably have to respec out of GS which sucks since I have a nice epic GS. That or stop playing.

Can we get confirmation that this has been identified? This needs to get hotfixed quickly. I would rather have iberserker from earlier today then the current iteration with this patch.

Wow my dps just dropped big time with this bug. I would rather have the version of iberzerker from earlier then the one we see right now with this patch. It dies more then 50% of the time before it even gets off an attack.

I have also confirmed the delay in I berserker. This really hurts. Please fix!

If TC wants a challenge and claims we (FA) suck at defense then go hit Yaks since you seem to respect their defense so much and want a challenge. Our defense sucks right now cause we are fighting a two front war. While i know the two servers never made a pact to gang up on us, its still frustrating from an FA stand point to see both TC and Yaks borderlands in complete control and see both servers attacking FA in our own borderlands and in EB. I will say that morale seems low on the FA side because we don’t have the manpower to defend everything being thrown at us.

I will say that i greatly respect TC’s tactics. You make great use of seige and mesmers. If you want to be ready for T2 then go hit Yaks and get through their defense cause i imagine that is what you will face in T2.

Would love to get a response from Anet on this

Why does a thread on asura ears get a response but something game breaking to a class doesn’t?

I understand that all software has bugs. I myself am the system architect and product owner of a multi million dollar software application. I get the struggles of the development cycle.

With that being said, my applications used to have the same issues i see with guild wars here. That of undocumented changes, bugs and a lack of good regression testing. It cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to deal with the patches and QA process of getting those fixes out. My customers would get irrate with me and my team on changes that were not on the manifest. I at least acknowledged that we were aware of the issues to calm them and addressed them quickly.

All of that changed when we dropped our agile development cylce and went to a hybrid of water fall and agile. We also brought on a QA team devoted to regression and UAT testing. While this slowed down our development cycle, it increased the quality of our product. Granted we went from doing four major releases per year down to 1-2 but those releases went extremely smooth and are bug free for the most part. My clients are happy now. Our next step is increasing code coverage.

With that being said I am astonished at the lack of code coverage and regression testing i see in this game. For example, illusions were changed for the mesmer to adjust them for LOS. In doing this it seems to have introduced an issue causing some illusions to only do 33% of their original damage such as iberserker. Code coverage should hit 80% testing of issues related to this change. If the developer didn’t catch it, then that leads to the other 20% which should be covered by your QA team whose job it is to test all aspects of a change and maintain that features aren’t removed or broken. Yet something as simple as testing the damage on an ability that was changed was missed in code coverage, QA and UAT.

When my developers don’t do code coverage, it shows up on reviews and eventually a PIP. When my QA team fails at doing full regression testing, the same thing happens. UAT is the final bastion before a beta to find issues. If you don’t have time then you need to remove the change from your current build. It just ends up costing you more money in the long run.

What is Anet doing about this? You seem to have a reputation for introducing bugs that should have been easily found.