Guild Wars 2

there’s 3 non custom 8v8 lobbies left, lol. have to spam them if you want in

yeah, it’s harder to sort through things if your armor came from different sources, like if you have zerker gear from both cof and coe.

same on jade quarry

After today’s update on town clothes:

You could have done a dungeon for 2g in the time it took you to come here and whine.

hope this gets sorted out soon, not being able to talk to people in an mmo is kind of a big deal :/

Deli.1302:

The fact that you could make money without putting in any effort is the reason why the train needed nerfing.

My 10 millionth speed run of the same dungeon doesn’t require any effort, either. Why do those still give free gold? Why is spamming 1 in a zerg not worth gold but if I do it on my warrior in a dungeon I deserve gold? Lol.

Nerelith.7360:

Blix.8021:

The champ train wasn’t even that profitable. If you want to complain about inflation complain about dungeon paths that give 1-3 gold + champ boxes to 5 people and can be cleared in 10-30 minutes.

That is playing the game as Intended. The Champion Train is not.

I’m pretty sure it was intended, why else did they add champ boxes in the first place? I didn’t do frostgorge because it was the most boring thing ever, but why take it away from the people who liked it? “inflation” is not a good reason because champ boxes don’t even give gold anymore.

The champ train wasn’t even that profitable. If you want to complain about inflation complain about dungeon paths that give 1-3 gold + champ boxes to 5 people and can be cleared in 10-30 minutes.

same issue here

Agent of entropy does not last indefinitely, nor does hobby dungeon explorer. You keep getting the achievement notifications, but you stop getting actual achievement points after 250 and 200 AP respectively.

people need to learn to move out of the way hammer train and quit whining

Mazdan.2071:

Axe hardly ever used in pve? Axe/mace are the only accepted weapons for warrior in pve. Zerker Axe/mace or GTFO. I like using a sword, but I can only do that in WvW and PvP, otherwise I get death threats by elitists for real. Funny that on my thief, or necro, nobody cares about my gear or weapon set, only for warriors it seems, and Axe /mace are the only accepted weapons.

After the patch the only accepted pve build will be 30/30/0/0/10 Axe/mace using the dual wield traits and no swap. That’s it unless they change the dungeon content.

BTW I know axe was nerfed, or changed, but it’s still the best weapon for warriors pve. Sword and greatsword are serviceable (but will get you kicked from most groups), Mace and Hammer are a mess (pve), and longbow rules the ranged category.

what world do you live in where people kick warriors for using a gs?

OP is probably a perma stealth thief, mesmer or a mobility warrior who got mad that a zerg finally caught him off guard and killed him as he was trolling a group of players.

Queues? What queues? Queues have not been a major issue in tier 1 for months. When I am in tier 1 and I see we have empty maps with outmanned, I just imagine how terrible it must be in low tiers.

The vocal minority on forums think they are superior for being in a lower tier server, but the majority of players realize it’s more fun to play on servers with lots of people on them at most hours of the day, that’s why they are in tier 1-2.

Nerfing crit damage won’t hurt wvw or make it any more zergbally than anything else Anet has ever done. I’ve played ESO, it has huge problems. The AvA is great, but until the game goes f2p (which it probably will because of how poor a MMO it is) it won’t completely kill wvw.

ROFL @ Drakent. Not sure if masterful troll or didn’t pay attention in school.

Zach.3264:

I think too many people missed the part where they said there will be a new trait for every line.

What does that have to do with anything? This trait is still boring and bad. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence about the other traits if this is the one they specifically chose to preview.

Karolis.4261:

Straegen.2938:

They should implement a dueling feature like many other games before it. Basically two players can start a duel anywhere in the game world. Even B class MMOs like Champions Online had this feature on release.

And make LA new Stormwind gate, where ppl duel mindlessly all day long with no actual purpose ? No thx.

People having fun in a video game? Blasphemous.

Because warriors do more damage, have more cc, remove more conditions, have more stability/invulnerabilty/block, and have more innate tankiness? Why would anyone want a melee ranger in a group over a guardian or warrior? Why would anyone want a range using ranger over an ele, necro, or memser? They wouldn’t. Just because you can put on tanky gear, swing your sword, and tag enemies in a zerg doesn’t mean you’re helping out as much as other classes.

also lol @ spirits in wvw group play

Any class can run in a melee train, lol, that doesn’t mean they are equally useful.

Chris.3290:

Liquid.9672:

Chris.3290:

I know people who said they had to wait an hour just to log onto the server (not WvW, the server; during Leagues).

Wait. What? You’re saying they were unable to load a character onto the server at all? If that’s what you’re saying, those “people you know” lied to you. I played every week during seasons, never had a spot where I couldn’t log into the server, and while yes there were queues I had no problem getting into WvW reliably and getting my achievements done and gaining plenty of WvW ranks without even trying.

Yes BG has more players actively participating in WvW than the other server right now. But that will change. It always has and always will until they turn the lights off on the game.

Just what I was told from someone who was there, I wasn’t so I can’t verify.

I will point out that during the ramp up to leagues that BG (along with JQ, not to point only one finger) were saying how they almost never have queues and they were short when they did… and the amount of QQ threads from those who stacked there was full to the brim.

I’m sure your queues aren’t too bad, but I’m sure you have them and there is a wait.

queues are short to nonexistent until they add pve achievements in

People move to tier 1 because there is always fighting, unlike lower tiers where 2-3 maps are always dead, and 3-4 maps are dead during off hours. They move to BG because there is no incentive to not bandwagon to the winning server. So they move to BG and now they get to play whenever they want and they get to win every week, the only price being having to wait in a 5-10 minute queue.

You’re telling someone from JQ how hard it is to deal with queues and map blobs? lol.

Going to summarize every one of these threads in the past year and half:

Everyone: Rangers aren’t as good as other classes in wvw. Pets are useless, rangers don’t do enough damage or provide enough group utility. What utility they do provide is easily given by other classes.

Rangers: Nuh-uh! Rangers are awesome!

My reasonable argument is l2p. Learn better arrow cart positioning, learn where to place defensive trebs, have people willing to scout and defend. If you and your opponents both have map queues, and you lose a tower to pvd, it’s your fault, especially on a reset night like you said.

Your opponents should have people scouting the enemy zerg’s movements and people ready sitting on defensive trebs/acs. All your posts just make it sound like you’re in a dead tier and whining about pvd when you are outnumberd or outnumber your opponent.

Wooden gates could use an HP buff, but you act like it’s impossible to defend things and in matchups with lots of players, that’s just not true.

Reverence.6915:

Tibstrike.2974:

Reverence.6915:

rhapsody.3615:

Some of the best fights I’ve been in were in smc, especially when all three servers are inside. Having it waypointed makes it easier to get to the enemy sides, as well as hide the zerg if you own it.

A waypointed SMC just shouts out “HEY GUYS, 2V1 ME”. No server can survive a sustained 2v1, in a single map. We actively avoid upgrading SMC here in Blackgate for that reason alone.

Except in lower tiers a WP SMC is exactly what he said, a strong strategic point that is held for quite some time. A stronger server holding a WP SMC is nigh impossible to take because they WILL call for reinforcements from the home BL to protect it if everything else is safe. It is entirely possible for a server like IoJ to WP and hold SMC for days at a time versus servers like FC and GoM.

Just because it doesn’t work on BG doesn’t mean it will not work in lower tiers.

Alright then, honest question here. Because you can treb SMC from Wildcreek, Durious, Anzalias and Hills Keep, how do you even use the waypoint?

Also, if the other servers are so focused on EBG, why not just give it up and have all your forces cap the two southern keeps/towers/camps on the 3 BLs to maximise PPT?

If you want some fights, taking their garrison will almost guarantee one.

If you don’t play for PPT, then why even bother upgrading SMC?

I fully understand the lack of people in the borderlands and focusing into one or two groups. That’s how BG operates during Oceanic – we get outnumbered buff in EBG (usually with no commander tag either) and have a team of 30-40 defend our BL and cap other BLs. We use EBG basically as a supply depot cause it gets supply so quickly. Even then, we mostly ignore it unless the enemy server is pounding on our keep, because it simply isn’t that important. No point taking a tower or two when it gets upgraded to T3 in an hour or two. The margin for error in EBG is just way too high. You’re not really punished for making mistakes as a commander there.

People do not sit there and man trebs for hours in low tiers like they do in tier 1. They don’t sit in keeps and scout for hours, either. low tier is a completely different game.

5 minutes is a long time. more than enough for a group to map hop and save a tower. If your server can’t do that, then it’s not an issue with pvd, sorry

Reinforced gates aren’t being pvd’d down unless your server just isn’t responding or they already took out 90% of the gate beforehand. Your complaint should be imbalanced matchups, not pvd.

smc actually gets upgraded in lower tiers, in tier 1 people just flip it for fun or for the supply in it. If you lose smc in a low tier server everyone freaks out, if you lose it in tier 1 nobody cares because the other team will probably have it in 20 minutes anyway.

Did they say it would become account bound? I haven’t played or read forums in awhile

ShiningMassXAcc.4735:

Not sure if this was possible before either, but I got an ascended ring in a rank up chest

was always possible, just very rare

Anet will never acknowledge that the matchups are not fair, because doing so would entail admitting that some servers are always going to win against other servers, which would undermine the very idea of the leagues in the first place.

roamzero.9486:

SlothBear.9846:

Kill Shot is a highly telegraphed channel. It’s fine.

Warrior ability to shrug off all conditions and dash/charge away while passively regaining all their health and immune to CC is what needs nerfed.

Where is the telegraph when you only see a culled nameplate somewhere in the enemy zerg 1500 units away? KS needs to telegraph a targeting reticule at your feet, similar to that deadeye boss fight from a couple patches ago.

If you are in a zerg so large that you have to turn the culling on, then you need to stop being so squishy. Kill shot should never one shot you. At most you should take 6-8k damage which is fine considering that the warrior shooting you has to give up all aoe (except potentially piercing shots) and all his utility and all his adrenaline to shoot one person.

Meanwhile, useful warriors are hammer stunning up 5 people, which kills WAY more than a KS warrior ever does. KS warrior is just a fun troll build, if you die to it you deserve to.

This is a killshot whine thread, not a QQ warrior ran away from me thread.

If roaming gave x gold per hour then zerging would give 100x gold per hour. Anything a roamer can do a zerg can do just as quickly and receive the reward for each person in the zerg. Then people would just complain about more incentive to zerg.

1: Server population imbalances
2: Skill lag
3: Reward imbalance between pve/wvw

If mag still has zero night presence, then I would rather they not be in gold league. It will just be boring for everyone.

If you get hit for 18.7k with a kill shot, you are squishy.

Source: I have kill shot many people

ThunderPanda.1872:

Blix.8021:

“Does anyone have an open party I can join?”

Solved your problem.

that’s the thing, if you just randomly invite people into your party, and there isn’t enough classes to share around and balance things out. When the people around you wants to cross 1 line of warding, what’s the point if your party member a bit further back who’s ranging gets the stability?

I would be willing to bet that at least 1/4 of every zerg is a guardian and another 1/4 is a warrior. If you can’t get a warrior for swiftness and a guardian for stability into your party, then I really don’t think ANet is at fault here. Also shouts only have 600 range, so the situation you’re describing doesn’t really make any sense.

“Does anyone have an open party I can join?”

Solved your problem.

Hule.8794:

Unrealistic to kill 50 players of each profession. I see only few engies or rangers during the week

Way to miss the point

Vin.7514:

So lets assume Anet would add one achievement that require 10k player kills. What do you think would happen then, more or less blobs?

Or they could use some imagination

Down 50 players who are using flame rams
Down 10 players in golems
Stomp 50 players at a ruin
Kill 250 players who are attacking a tower
Kill 50 players of each profession
Kill 25 players with each different pieces of siege

The “don’t bother defending, we can just take it back later” mentality gets super boring after awhile, but these achievements encourage precisely that. If your realm has no chance of winning the league, then why not just karma train for 7 weeks?

Hule.8794:

Actually there are 2 achivements that require killing people. Mists Invasion Defender and Advanced Mists Invasion Defender.
Also towers and siege are part of WvW.

“Advanced Mist Invasion Defender” doesn’t show up in game, I’m guessing it was data mined? Maybe it unlocks after, but it would be strange for them to divide it into 2 achievements when all the others are one. Either way these achievements are pretty much just karma train stuff. Skip Mist Invasion Defender and Master of Ruins, and you never have to leave the karma pvdoor train except to do a few jumping puzzles.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_vs._World_Season_1

Of all the achievements, only 1 of them directly involves killing actual players, and you only have to kill 10. And since you only need 15 of the achievements, you could hypothetically complete the WvW season meta without ever fighting another player.

Just lol.

Or they won’t care about them just like people who don’t pvp don’t care about pvp achievements. People complained about the stuff in the puzzle because it was part of a pve meta achievement, not because they wanted every achievement in game.

I think the path of “need item a → go farm item a” is much more satisfying than “need item a → go do x and then buy item a” where x is whatever the highest gold per hour activity currently happens to be. Unfortunately in gw2 the latter path is vastly more time efficient.

it’s not hard for people to set up a macro to treb for them

or did you seriously think people sit there and hold the 2 key down all day?

scootshoot.6583:

Furiousbeard.7602:

JQ is STACKED!

Wow, not the same server from 1 month ago.

JQ has all 4 maps on queue during Asian time zones….crazy I know, haha.

BG commanders during that time slot should instruct their players to stack and defend your home lands solely so the JQ players on the other 3 maps gets bored out of their minds.

All 4 maps are not queued during asian times, usually EB has a queue and maybe one other map if people are stacking to try to break a waypoint. People just communicate which map is being hit and drag people from map to map.