Guild Wars 2

I enjoy the Kitten out of WvW still. I’d still like to see changes in regards to Ascended/Legendary rewards, but I have a feeling those will come one day.

Friends/guildies still play mainly. They are the only thing that keeps me playing this game at all.

Short answer, Yes. Only because it was annoying as hell though.

There wasn’t enough clutter on the screen to potentially block ground targeting skills. This change HAD to be made in order to nerf ground target skills.

It’s the community that has kept me playing. Good friends having a good time.

I cannot speak for PVE/Raids. But if your looking for a high DPS power/condi character you should probably look at other classes. However if you enjoy playing a group support character in modes such as WvW its pretty fun to play. Healing changes have been nice, and Rev’s can produce a lot of boons for front line support.

Zilvereen.2091:

I use Minstrel’s gear.

Currently a mix of Minstrels and Clerics. I didn’t find that Magi’s was a better choice. Lots of runes to play with too. Still play testing with builds.

Wow this took longer than I expected for the QQ to appear on the forums.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Aeolus.3615:

Understandable :\ been using mace shield in my DH, not using traps and not using bow as well.

Actually using mace shield combo for 4 years.

And @OP NSP used to have few devs as well.

I am NSP. Have been since the beginning. I bounce around a lot, but that’s “home.”

blackgamma.1809:

dual bow? dual bow, Dual.. bow? two bow?

the more i think about your super secret strat the more i wanna try it

I can’t say I highly recommend it, but I absolutely love it. It suits me enormously. And in my defense, I’m not a “Mash 1” player. I have a full range of skills and I know how to use them. Even if they may be a little weak from time to time.

Strange that I haven’t seen you in WvW on NSP. I haven’t seen an Anet Tag or claim on NSP in many, many months. Do any devs that may play on NSP attempt to be a part of the server “community”? TS and such?

Med balance coming soon™ , watch for changes in release notes.

Junkpile.7439:

Could that npc ask some questions before he sell commander mark? You can’t get driving license either if you drive like kitten whole time. Seriously commander siegerazer is like mensa member compared some of these commanders. Some noob probably come tell that it’s better have some commander than no commander. ACTUALLY, NO IT ISN’T!!!!.

Don’t like the commander, Do your world a favor. Tag up and lead it yourself. No offense, but a commander will not get better if they don’t make mistakes. And having people belittle them for making mistakes is just going to leave your world without a commander willing to lead you.

Good troll Anet, Good troll…

Blackarps.1974:

Bhima.9518:

I disagree completely. They were quite effective as an anti-zerg dumb blob defense. If the blob was dumb, they could get pushed back by much smaller numbers that also used canons. If they got smart and sieged out the canons, or sent in a few thieves to disrupt the canons and then push, the blob zerg would win. It was just another tool to help deal with heavily skewed fights.

It did help in some cases but they made defending way too easy. The range, damage, and knock-back made it nearly impossible for a blob to even take a structure held by 3 people on cannons. That’s just silly and horribly out of balance.

Your blob must have been terrible at this game if 3 cannons made it impossible for you to take a structure.

I think Cannons were a potentially good idea, However implementation was terrible. Siege cap on them should be very limited, maybe 1 in a 4000 radius per team. Decay should probably be 15-20 mins. Possibly with NO refresh.

Just my 2 cents

Any Speculation on what nerfs are incoming to drive the final nail in the Revenant coffin?

X T D.6458:

BlazeQ.1095:

Think I will give this a little time to adjust to before I shed tears over it. But then again I am not one to shed tears over every little change….

That might actually be what starts to irritate people, because as time goes by they have to keep typing out which map every time, or have someone constantly ask which map if nobody states it in the initial callout. Not to mention the extra clutter in chat, you might be seeing a bunch of stuff in chat that has nothing to do with what is going on in your map. While this might sound like a good change at first, it might end up having the opposite effect over time.

It very well could, but I’m not going headhunting for Dev’s just yet….

Think I will give this a little time to adjust to before I shed tears over it. But then again I am not one to shed tears over every little change….

They opened up some of the servers manually, and player count is down now that the “newness” has worn off.

On a side note I have a feeling a good number of people in the SOS matchup are just tired of the YB Arrow cart zergs. So many may be waiting for YB to move up to T2.

Just started running this build with staff in WvW and absolutely loving it. Might not do a great deal of DPS, but the group support and survive-ability are very high and with a well rounded group it is a very fun build to play.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemn3guNSuQ7JRboXlsP0qS4IaWJ4EdsklZlRNgDagNmb2xe6r/G-TVSJABA8AASQfQ6HCA1PCAHpEMHlfveCA2e/BMU/hMAsjB-w

Saw the video on Reddit this morning.

I am currently playing a very nice power build that centers around burst damage from marks, wells, and shroud skills. But I’m also trying to find a good “AOE” condi build. I’ve tried a couple but haven’t been very impressed in WvW. I do everything from roaming, small group, and large zerg combat.

Dayra.7405:

BlazeQ.1095:

Just a random question: Why the red map?

Maybe because the DBL objectivs are easier to defend (if there is no laser event anymore) and red is still considered to be the most often weakest side?

Strange, I always found that the DBL’s were easy to Karma Train, But then again they were always fairly empty so it may go either way now….

As long as I keep getting Ascended armor and weapon boxes out of those chest, I do not mind them at all!!! yes it would be nice if everything went to my inventory without me having to click on a icon on the screen first, but hell the rewards for playing wvw are so much better now!

Just a random question: Why the red map?

I would like the ability to make a specific commanders tag not show up at all. We have a troll “commander” that will tag up and confuse people.

It doesn’t matter what Anet does, Tears will be shed… Its a fact of life.

So who do you think will get paired up for the next couple of months?

I spent about $100 US buying gems to get all the nice things I wanted for my rev. I play mostily in WvW.

I no longer play my Revenant…. The nerf hammer came down hard on the DPS, but there were no ballances on the sustainability side, (condi clear, stability, stunbreak) and now the class feels useless without the high burst damage, if a fight drags on for any ammount of time your dead.

Please remember, this is a beta. Changes can and will likely happen. It’s also a reset with new/better rewards. There are a good number of people coming out of the woodwork that haven’t played in months. I know my guild who has been playing pretty dang consistently had more members on and playing than ever. Some things will balance naturally, I now have faith that anet will do their very best to balance out those the rest as best they can.

Thank you for the Fun tonight Anet!

So much fun in the borderlands. its been over a hear since I’ve enjoyed WvW this much! TY Anet!

Its out there now, people spend real $ on gems for the WvW guild upgrades. Hate that you don’t like them but there are still people that do. Seems like a “kitten ed if you do, kitten ed if you don’t” situation. Personally I don’t even want the old borderlands back but it looks like I am part of the minority.

Sich.7103:

- Scout can control how to upgrade the keep
– No sentry to give information about ennemy move > players need to roam on the map and to talk each other
– You have to make choice between upgrading or storing supply or building siege
– More supply limit in the keep
– No stupid guild upgrade who are for pve and not for pvp
– more compact
– more big area to fight and less choc point
– Keep are easier and not so big, and look like keep
– Tower can treb keep > tower have tactical value
– WP only at T3 and for everyone who is able to upgrade the keep.
– WP is hard to get, then people want to defend it, and ennemy want to destroy it.
– WP on the home BL help to defend the map
– Easy way to go from one keep to another, no maze
– no kittening central event

I would expect most of the HOT changes will be imported into the old maps, Otherwise why would it take so long to load them back up? Expect to see dragon banners, and other guild upgrades, sentry’s reporting to the map, and possibly even waypoint changes (bay/hills wp at T1 controlled by enemy’s only). Might as well expect these things to happen now, because the likelihood is very high.

Just my opinion.

We all got the news recently that the team that has been working on the new legendaries has been moved to the xpac2 team and all further work on the new legendaries has been scrapped. A lot of people are upset about this not necessarily because they really wanted these legendaries but, because promised content and game features were being canceled.

Well we were also told that WvW development and overhaul was going to be the main focus after HoT released. 5 months later and we are still holding out hope that the April update is going to have some solutions to the problems we have voiced time and time again. But now we are hearing about a supposed Xpac2, which brings me to ask. Has WvW development been scrapped as well in order to focus on another xpac?

If so just pull the band-aid off so we can all move on to other interests.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

I used to hate IOJ. I mean almost irrational hatred. Then they got stuck in the NSP-IOJ-whatever blob server we happened to roll. It was terrible. There was no way for NSP and IOJ to even compete with whoever was on the rotation down that week. But IOJ and NSP kept fighting. That’s when I finally felt some respect for my enemies on IOJ and I was saddened to hear when it started imploding about the time our match ups evened out a bit. My enemies on IOJ will always have a place in my cold dark heart.

What you have said here is true for me too. Saddens me to see their whole server come to an end. If it were the nsp guild leaders posting this though, I would just quit the game all together. The NSP community is what has kept me going this far. Without it I wouldn’t be even reading this post.

That being said, I think it could be fun to have a NSP/IOJ merged server because of the fun fights we had against each other. I can only imagine how interesting things would be fighting alongside each other.

Whatever IOJ does I wish them well.

FRIDAY RESETS??? CAN IT BE TRUE? Yes I vote for resets on Friday again, 8est would be nice.

After reading the AMA highlights, One thing I would suggest is to get players back into WvW before adjusting population. If population adjustments happen first then its very possible that an influx of old players coming back to the game could unbalance things all over again. Just my 2 cents.

My heart says yes, my mind says no….

What I don’t understand is why you cannot dodge roll out of it. You can dodge through a static field, or across a line of warding, but this thing doesn’t let you dodge out of it.

Char-Wings. Something that doesn’t look completely lame on my Char characters.

Condi Greatsword to match with Malix.

No thank you, I like the new maps more.

Nausicca.6038:

TexZero.7910:

Nausicca.6038:

TexZero.7910:

What planet are we on again that punishes coordination ?

Tell me more about coordination a on 2 sec brainless spamming skill. Oh wait, 4 sec now. Lol coordination.

Love out of context quotes, they make your point infinitely less valid. I never once said the skills were perfectly balanced, quite the opposite. Continue reading next time and maybe you’ll understand.

In WvW. the global ICD prevents spammers for being rewarded for braindead gameplay. CoR is the absolute opposite of skillful play.
And the fact Anet will “fix” the global ICD and won’t tone down damage confort me in my opinion. They want to reward bad spamming gameplay. Not coordination.

Spamming Necro wells is also brain dead game play but it seems to be the Meta.

Whooohooooo now maybe my group won’t make me play heal druid.

chronometria.3708:

X T D.6458:

chronometria.3708:

X T D.6458:

chronometria.3708:

Gliding is about to be everywhere, it will become something everyone takes for granted. Whole combats will change – the priest of grenth throws us all in the air….we glide down again and don’t outright die.

Gliding is about to move from being an interesting option to being part of the core character’s movement about the world and even in combat. That’s a huge step and we need to have WvW as being a part of it.

Leave it in pve where it belongs then, it has no place in a competitive mode. If you cant understand why it would be bad to allow people to FLY in wvw…then I dont know what to tell you.

WvW is pve – or at least is supposed to share the same systems. We are not Spvp, we do not use Spvp armour and amulets. We are supposed to walk into the gates and our characters will behave exactly as they do on a pve map.

If you want to stop people gliding into keeps, then give the guards the ability to shoot down flying targets – mobs in maguuma already have that in some places and it wouldn’t be hard to implement.

Also, if we go with your reasoning, then Mesmer portals just wouldn’t work in WvW, but they do and yes, whole armies can go from outside stonemist to the inner area with portals. But that’s ok apparently.

A skill from one profession, is not the same as everyone having the same ability, by your reasoning it would be like giving every profession access to portals. Do you think thats healthy for wvw?

All you need is one Mesmer in a group and everyone may as well have that ability, because they are all going through that portal. Regardless, with the current state of WvW, yes, I`d actually be quite happy for there to be air-drops, with gliders all over the place. The combat would be interesting, there would be new tactics and things would be incredibly lively and fun.

I`d also have a heck of a lot of fun shooting down people coming in on gliders, or fighting to establish beachheads in enemy areas.

It would be glorious warfare of the highest order, but feel free to go P-V-door for another three years of no change if you want.

People were saying something similar 2 years ago about needing a new borderland. We got that and look what happened…. It will be more fun people said…. It would break zerging people said…

Your really expecting any kind of real change to WvW today? To my knowledge this is just a bug/class balance patch. I expect NOTHING in the way of WvW changes.

Wemil.7052:

BlazeQ.1095:

I play WvW not GvG.

New suggestion. Make 1 WvW map and Start a GvG game mode so those of us who play WvW can play, and those who play GvG can play in their own little house.

K thx

rekt much by other players :P?

Actually no, win or loose I enjoy open field, offensive, and defensive fights in WvW. However I think you can agree that GvG and WvW are 2 seperate things. I think a lot of the changes such as the tactivators, and the boarderlands are lots of fun. A dragon banner has no place in GvG however since it unbalances the fights. WvW isn’t supposed to be balanced. I also like the most recent upcoming changes (for the most part) that were recently discussed. If I were to make any major changes it would be to to reduce the size and a lot of the vertical aspects of the borderlands.

I’m not one to cry that some defender has too many arrow carts, or that some attacker has an advantage due to siege or a banner. If zergs want to zerg good for them, if roamers want to roam more power to them. But GvG is organized for balance and skilled combat, it is not WvW.

I play WvW not GvG.

New suggestion. Make 1 WvW map and Start a GvG game mode so those of us who play WvW can play, and those who play GvG can play in their own little house.

K thx

Please don’t remove the banners! I <3 all the tears.

Jana.6831:

Still not be in wvw as I want class balance and Rev Hammer 2 nerfed first.
We really should just kill each other with trebs, that’s sure how the fights nowadays feel. Pirate ship was melee against this.

Don’t forget condi and power builds for any class that can kill a thief as well. Anything that can kill my thief is OP and should be removed immediately (/sarcasm off)

I do like these changes, but I would also like to see the stability changes to be reversed, or see changes in keep/tower lords ability to spam CC. I run small group tactics. (Yes I play PPT for my server.) Unlike the fight guilds who have a large number of players that can face tank and melt the lords we have to play more stealth like and careful. However far too often unless a specific player/class is available the lords ability to spam CC’s is just too much to deal with. I miss the ability to Ninja a tower or keep with 2-3 people….

Just my 2 cents.