Guild Wars 2

Some things are better but they introduced Scarlet… she’s worthless nemesis (think Jar Jar Binks playing the role of Darth Vader). Except for the people at ANet pushing the twig down our throats, nobody knows how much longer it’ll be around and we can ‘maybe’ move on to something interesting.

I used to like the leagues. In fact, up to 40 minutes ago I thought they were all right. But, now they’re the second worst things (behind Scarlet) that Anet has ever done.

Last years Halloween with the Mad King was one of greatest things since sliced break. This year was a colossal disappointment in comparison.

My opinion is to leave it just as it is.

I do play all my characters in WvW, some have 300+ points and others only have a few dozen.

Good stuff indeed.

Dragons? What dragons? We have this evil Twig that we’re going to push until we fold!

Screw the cools stuff from GW1 – its all about the twigs!

I’m hoping its a Newhart type ending – we wake up and find out she was just a bad dream.

The elitism is strong in the OP

There is a reason why I still play GW1.

More places to go and, now, no Scarlet stupidity.

I don’t know who said it first, but its worth repeating. Scarlet is the Jar Jar Binks of Guild Wars. She’s despised. Not because of her character, but because she just plain sucks.

It would have been marginally better if it was Rurik showing back up looking for his sword.

It screams elitism.

I miss FOW – except when I go back to GW1 to see it again :P

I have 10 characters. None of them are ‘alts’. They’re just characters and I decide which one I want to use at any given time. Soon there will be another (once I get enough gems to purchase it).

There are a lot of things I like in GW2 so I stick with those. Fractals, SAB and jumping puzzles are not fun IMO so I don’t do them. I refuse to grind away at any farming activity to get the materials need to craft a legendary, and I’m fine never owning one.

As long as Scarlet (the Jar Jar Binks of Guild Wars) doesn’t infest the areas of the game I like, all is good.

deathTouch.9706:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

deathTouch.9706

Eliminating WPs would make smaller, decentralized attack and defending groups much more effective in actually controlling objectives around the map. Spreading out distances between objectives would further accomplish this goal, and subsequently have a positive impact on eliminating huge skill/FPS lag that occurs mostly as a result of these huge blob fights.

That is pure speculation.

Zergs abound on all boarder lands regardless of way points. I’ve seen enemy zerg after zerg on our boarder land and they only have their entry way point.

Zerging and blobbing is not a byproduct of waypoints, or lack of rewards for defense.

It’s a deduced conclusion. Take for example an extreme situation where there are no waypoints and the 10 objectives on the map take a minimum of 20 minutes to run to between each other. Do you think an 80 man blob would be able to hold more or less points than 10 eight-man teams?

You’re making an assumption that the 80 man zerg would be willing to break itself up into those smaller squads. I’m postulating that it won’t.

Don’t get me wrong, I would like to see something like that happen. But I just don’t see it happening.

deathTouch.9706

Eliminating WPs would make smaller, decentralized attack and defending groups much more effective in actually controlling objectives around the map. Spreading out distances between objectives would further accomplish this goal, and subsequently have a positive impact on eliminating huge skill/FPS lag that occurs mostly as a result of these huge blob fights.

That is pure speculation.

Zergs abound on all boarder lands regardless of way points. I’ve seen enemy zerg after zerg on our boarder land and they only have their entry way point.

Zerging and blobbing is not a byproduct of waypoints, or lack of rewards for defense.

With all the lag issues and queue issues, why the heck would time and energy be spent tinkering with way points? I get that different teams can work on different things – so eliminate some from one and bolster the other.

The mad king is awesome. He was in GW1, he is in GW2. I hope ANet can make some more winning content like him.

lol, that sounds like an excellent idea

Kessex was a pretty zone and I’ll miss the view, but if the story ends up being fun (NO SCARLETT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD) than its a price well paid.

Scarlet again? Lame. The most tediously boring waste of pixels (except for Zhed from GW1) in an MMO.

At some point, ANet will introduce an interesting character again.

Find a group of people who agree with you and pick a spot to defend. Destroy the oncoming zerg. Sabotage the agreement.

Shiz.3274:

You silly goose. You don’t need to join Ebay or SBI to know SBI sucks. Zerging is the only think SBI knows. Even If EB was completely empty SBI would still zerg, you know in order to stay safe. i mean imagine if a commander would get scared of his shadow, gotta have that 50 followers protecting him. SBI talking thrash about no roamers is just hilarious ~

I suppose those walking bag factories you call players could be loosely classified as ‘roamers’

Like others, I’ve killed champs in QD from time to time and it upset some on the train. Its just a vocal few who feel the need to cry about it. I don’t even bother to report them. I just move on to the next champ or whatever else it is I want to do next.

Don’t get hung up on what random people in a video game are typing in chat.

Its there FOREVER.

Only TTS does him now, and they do it on overflow servers.

Incorrect. My home server does him every night after reset.

The problem with Teq is that there is no incentive to do it. There is no “driving factor” for people to do it.

Make Teq randomly drop a specific precursor or ascended – you’ll start seeing people form groups for it…

No precursors, but you do get ascended. I got one last night. I see people pinging the chest drop after Teq just about every time we complete it (as stated above, that’s every night).

Some servers may not rally to do Teq, but others are.

unknownchaos.1425:

The real problem with zerging as hard as Sbi does. Is when someone like me catches you 111 pushers out in the open. I just shake my head at how bad some of the guys I come across. Sbi by FAR has the worst players I have seen in any server match up I have been in.

So play the loldefence. Play the omgmantehcannons. The real reason your hiding in that tower/keep/camp is cuz ur bad.

You should swap servers to fight your fellow NSP members. That way you’ll find that one server that has by FAR the worst players. No zerg. No roam. No skill. Not much but the bags you leave behind.

You’re anecdotal evidence is inaccurate.

I like it just the way it is.

EB Cake guild did the hack just a few minutes ago on NSP bay.

My two cents.

I don’t have alts. I have different characters. I enjoyed leveling all ten of them to lvl 80 and I’ll enjoy leveling the next ones to (once I get a few more gems).

Its another “I want the reward for little to no effort” request.

Shoot, someone give me a few pre cursors for just showing up will ya?

She is the worst villain they’ve ever had in this game. If you add in GW1, she’s the worst villain they’ve had the last decade. Her character is lame, uninteresting and nothing more than a catch all for the living story tediousness.

I don’t even care if we kill her – should could just disappear and never be heard from again. That would be just fine with me.

Tibstrike.2974:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Chaba.5410:

Ah good ol’ FA, roflstomping yet another bandwagon server.

Didn’t CORE join you guys to join a top tier silver league server?

Bandwagon indeed.

We joined FA because we thought it was the best fit for us concerning their culture. We looked at multiple servers, none of which were the ones people were expecting to win their respective leagues. We then chose FA. We were not concerned about winning the league, but hey, if that happens and we can help then why the hell not?

We like it here on FA and think this is what we have been missing. The people are great and the atmosphere while playing WvW is one of fun, not work.

Plus, when we joined the wider consensus was that FA was failing. People were mistaken. FA is as strong as ever.

Good for you guys (really, its just a kitten video game at the end of the day).

My post was an attempt to point out that other servers also get transfers. If the came to be with a top tier or because they thought it was a good fit, than all the more power to them.

To the guy who said

You’re right, one medium sized guild joining a server makes it a bandwagon…
Whatever floats your boat, mate.

You got more than one, but aside from that, exactly how many transfers does it take to qualify as ‘bandwagon’?

Can’t stand Scarlett or Trehearn for that matter. Can we have something besides a twig and a pumpkin headed comedian added as a villain?

Guild Wars without guilds warring….
Elder dragons that are talked about but never seen…

At least we get the plant people being the bad guy, over and over and over and over and over again. [end sarcasm]

I’ll go see what the next living story is about when its released. Given that only one in five is actually worth my time, I’m not hopeful that it will be fun.

Chaba.5410:

Ah good ol’ FA, roflstomping yet another bandwagon server.

Didn’t CORE join you guys to join a top tier silver league server?

Bandwagon indeed.

We had quite a few people die using the launch pads as well.

Contiguous.1345:

Well, I’m a pug. I’m not in a guild.
And I wear full zerker gear.

And I don’t follow orders from anyone (unless it suits me).

I’m quite looking forward to it.

I’ve been doing WvWvW for a year now. I like it. And I do the same exact thing when it comes to commanders.

deathTouch.9706:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

deathTouch.9706:

Mag might talk a lot of kitten when it comes to this game….

You do, at least.

You’ll be better off when you get less concerned with what SBI is doing and worry about your own server inadequacies.

You mean like how we’re spanking you this week with regards to match-up performance? Good job somehow blowing the most favorable match-up you could have received. Oh right, you’re doing it on purpose for a finisher and bandwagon-protection. Gotta protect that investment you made!

After your humiliating loss last week, I suppose I would expect you to grasp at any straw you can.

deathTouch.9706:

Mag might talk a lot of kitten when it comes to this game….

You do, at least.

You’ll be better off when you get less concerned with what SBI is doing and worry about your own server inadequacies.

SBI here. My wife and I play WvW everyday for an hour or two. We found last week’s Mag and FA match-up was both fun and satisfying. This weeks SoR stompfest has been occasionally fun (a few good fights and a few 2vs2 encounters) but overall not satisfying.

Assuming that we make the gold league…..

While I want to win, I want to be competitive. There is fun to be had even in losing. However, our current matchup shows the tremendous gap between the top tier and the second tier servers. Plop us with two T1 servers and its going to be even worse. A week or two of that would be ok. Seven weeks of that? The two of us say “No thanks.”

To the players on our server who wanted the gold league, I hope you enjoy it. Some of us will not be joining you as much as we used to and we’ll find something else fun to do with our time in the game.

Shoot, I was thinking the maps were to small……

A few more days to go and a few more great fights to have.

JetLu.1874:

…..
I understand what you are saying. But, why does every server make comments about zergs, when they do the exact same thing with a zerg? That just doesn’t make sense. …..

Its just smack talk from internet warriors playing an imaginary character in a video game. Harmless.

Its hard to improve without better competition. This weeks FA and Maguuma round has been the most fun we’ve had in weeks. If that puts us in the gold league, then so be it.

They have said expansion style content is coming (who knows when) that may expand on the map.

Of all the annoying things to know but not do anything about are the vast areas we’re never able to go to. It bothered me in GW1 and even more so in GW2.

If you’ve ever seen the world map of Tyria (the entire globe), its even more of a bummer. We’re only able to access forty percent of what we see which is less than 10% of the entire globe.

linfurong.9032:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

We on SBI are awful. We are also completely perplexed on how we could have possible scored even one point in this match up with the all powerful Maguuma and Fort Aspenwood. Clearly the twenty-five thousand point lead we currently have is a fluke. Totally impossible with our poor play. Clearly a redress for the other servers is required.

Just imagine where we’ll be if we actually figure out what we’re doing.

Hold. The. Phone. 25,000 point lead!? Oh, how will we ever recover.

Please understand we’ve been getting rolled by 100,000-200,000 point leads against the T1 servers, and you’re running very similar coverage. You should be ashamed that you’re not farther ahead. That being said, FA could give a kitten about PPT. We haven’t played PPT in a very long time. The few guilds that care have made their exits and we’re literally going to get stronger because of it. It’s weeding out the fair weathers. The FA that are left are out for blood.

Will you guys make up your minds? Is it points don’t equal skill or the higher points makes the server better?

Will you recover? Maybe. But you don’t see any posts from me claiming how bad you guys are. I’ve been involved in good fights with both servers, I’ve seen both good an bad play styles. I’m just a bit tired of reading how terrible SBI is based on anecdotal encounters. I’ve been here since launch, I’ve seen us up and down. We keep fighting and working on doing it better.

Only they understand we just have to look at you menacingly for you to abandon post? I thought that was common knowledge.

We on SBI are awful. We are also completely perplexed on how we could have possible scored even one point in this match up with the all powerful Maguuma and Fort Aspenwood. Clearly the twenty-five thousand point lead we currently have is a fluke. Totally impossible with our poor play. Clearly a redress for the other servers is required.

Just imagine where we’ll be if we actually figure out what we’re doing.

Though I thought SAB sucked donkey doo, I know people liked it and wished it had stayed around for them.

I just don’t know of anyone (ok, I personally don’t know anyone) who wants the content to be temporary. Living story is great when it grows the content.

I like the idea of color coded commander tags. However, let the player choose the color of the commanders for themselves. i.e. let me tag different commanders with whatever color I want, so at a glance on the map, I know who (by my ranking) is out there and who I might want to follow.