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Dsrt BL hate thread # 1 million

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The change to have a single DBL in a match was the right move. I hate it when its our home BL but its the price I’m willing to pay to keep the few people who like it happy.

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Points Per Tick.

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I believe there should be no PPT adjustment for structures moving from T1→T2→T3. The fact that they upgrade defensively should be reason enough to defend an upgraded structure, not that the PPT is higher.

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Why does anet keep buffing condis?

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TL;DR Anet doesn’t care about WvW balance.

I think they care. They just don’t do anything about it so wvw players get hosed for the sake of PVE and their failed pvp system.

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Only Siege Should Damage Walls/Doors

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This is a problem because THERE IS NO COUNTERPLAY.

There is no problem, because the counterplay is to stop hugging siege in your tower, go out and fight them, you know, what you are supposed to do in a PvP game mode…

Doesn’t work when it’s 5 people and 10 headless chickens defending vs a group of 30-40 fully supplied with those gawd aweful necros plaguing WvW atm.

I mean I’d happily fight them all 1 by 1 if they’d form a nice orderly queue….

That isn’t a problem as such, if I am 5 vs 40, then I am meant to lose in that situation, that isn’t an issue with players being able to damage doors, that is a problem caused by the fundamentally bad design of server vs server vs server when it comes to creating even vaguely balanced populations / situations and Anet’s failure to address that.

Your answer cannot be quoted enough. The issue is population balance, or, more appropriately, the lack of population balance across servers/time zones. These vast disparities cause the 5vs40 with not reserves to call upon.

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Condi Condi Condi

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About the only class right now that can/should go power is Guardian. Only because they have no condi spec to speak of.

Power warrior is still a thing.

Though, it sure seems that Anet wants everyone to play condi.

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Mounts [merged]

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I hope they don’t make mounts. Or, at least keep them out of all the zones we have now.

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WVW Transfer

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Yay, more population imbalance incoming!

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JQ dominate Na Again \0/ !!

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In before the delete.

But yes, a perfect example of what’s wrong with population balance in this game and the players who do nothing about it.

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Time to change server scoring?

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Glicko isn’t broken, its meaningless with relinks and population shifts. Bad matchups are bound to frequently happen – and they are. No amount of scoring change is going to help colossal mismatches in populations that result the BL getting steamrolled and spawn camping complaints. Neither side has much fun, but the population as a whole is unwilling to balance itself out. Blow the kitten worlds up and take a shot at something different to save the game mode.

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Mercy & Sportsmanship

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Its time Anet took a bold move and blew up the servers. The game has gone back to accelerated abandonment, they might as well make a hail mary pass vs just letting it die.

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Jumping Puzzles Suck in GW2

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I concur with the OP. JPs are not for me.

I did them and tried to like them. But, it was a futile battle. I hated them more when I was done than when I started.

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Most boring (time-gated) "quest" ever.

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The best thing about stupid quests like this is, don’t do them.

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Which server to join for massive WvW fights ?

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Just pile on BG. Everyone left playing will end up there. Then, they’ll all complain that they’re bored with their opponents not showing up.

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Whats going on in yall's mind?

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When has Anet been good at matchmaking?

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Bounty system in WvW

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I can see people putting alt accounts on the server they’re facing just to put a bounty on them and snipe them themselves.

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Open world PvP System (Immersion)

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Second worst idea, ever.

I like wvw and I like pvp even though balance, population and skill are terrible. Don’t put it in the pve world. If each city had a section where people could enter for the express purpose of dueling – that would be a good way to isolate them and avoid clogging the zones.

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Please teach me how to fight a Daredevil

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Berserker – shield bash, head butt, lb F1, collect bag.

Really, nearly all thieves are predictable. Once you get familiar with how they play, its pretty simple to take them out. The smarter ones realize what is happening and run away. The few exceptional thieves are going to be a problem no matter what class you’re playing against them.

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Whispering people in wvw

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I don’t understand these forums anymore. Most OP’s are like this all the time now…they are either new players or they aren’t putting any effort into explaining what they are referring to.

You have always been able to whisper until they block you. You have always been able to negate whispers by going offline.

“Anet should just bring back the ability to whisper people in wvw.”??!!?! What does that even mean!??!?! By itself its an incorrect statement.

Put more efforts into your OP’s plz

Sure, anet is going to help you troll other players – what a silly request.

They have been for 4 years already though…..

His request seems very reasonable compared to urs. You’re the silly one.

The OP wants to easily whisper opposing players in wvw. There is nothing reasonable about that at all.

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(Spoilers) So long Living story credability

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The story telling in GW2 is the swiss cheese of plot holes and has more plot crutches than Carter had liver pills (you other old folks know that one).

As bad as this episode was, its the repetitive nature of smart-tucas Taimi constantly having some new technobauble that she just whips up that we have to deal with. Its gone way past annoying.

The lame excuses for Dragon Watch guild mates to be absent makes me wonder why they went to the trouble to force us in it.

About the only good thing, is that its not surprising to just how bad it can get.

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Whispering people in wvw

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Sure, anet is going to help you troll other players – what a silly request.

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Taimi is all we need... (potential spoilers)

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Rox is the only one worth keeping around. The rest should have been left behind long long ago.

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State of the Game

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Here is the state of the game:
WvW : dead. Anet completely ignored the gamemode for so long that most ppl, guilds left. Even t1 servers lack activity. Only 1 server is considered full and will soon be opened as well. No forecast of real changes or updates. Wvw community just messing around waiting for CU to launch.
Spvp: almost dead. Anet tried hard to force the esport idea on the game mode, bit that failed and the lack of balance most likely been killing the game mode.
Pve: still getting updates on the story mode very often, but the real developing effort is going to RAIDS. There is where anet is aiming their efforts. raid, raid, raid.
Ao if you wanna play this game for pvp or wvw, just forget it.. Look for something else cause aner has clearly given up those game modes.
Edit:
But hey, not everything is lost.
They gave us a new legendary weapon..
A kitteng lampshade looking torch. I bet that one took countless hours from several designers to came up with.
All the issues are solved. We can now hit monsters with a lampshade.
LOL

A lot of truth to that.

WvW has been falling apart and Anet hasn’t made any bold moves since world linking in an effort to save it. To my friends and I, it feels as though they don’t care what happens to the game mode.

PvP – like WvW is an unbalanced mess. Anet has hovered between mediocre and bad at balancing since day one. Its no surprise that its going the same way as WvW.

PVE is loaded with good stuff. More maps with the living story, RAIDS, legendary weapons and now legendary armor. They had current events and their periodic festivals that are fun for a lot of people.

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Server Population

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Anet is trying to encourage server transfers to boost profits. Its the only explanation, beyond incompetence, for letting mismatches like we’ve seen continue.

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Legendary Armor: Feedback [merged]

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I’ll make a set (heavy is the best of three poor options) but I can see myself reskinning it shortly. I won’t waste any materials making another.

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This doesn't make sense

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Don’t try to apply logic to the story line of GW2. It’ll fall apart again and again. As for your suggestion, I’m sure that Taimi will have some convoluted answer for that too.

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Change the server transfer system

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Save your money. Do some farming to make gold, convert to gems, transfer. Or, ask your friend to help by loaning you the gold you need for the gems to transfer immediately.

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Mounts [merged]

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I hope they don’t waste finite development resources on mounts.

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They spent 2 years

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All armors looks are by opinion.

In my opinion, these are very weaksauce looking armors. Poorly done. .

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Legendary Armor: Feedback [merged]

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Those three armor sets are hideous looking. They must have had technical issues making the armor because they sure didn’t spend time in the art department.

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Lazraus is

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I wouldn’t put it past the writers to make it be Scarlet….. their lack of imagination is palpable.

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Nerfing Taimi

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Taimi is a plot device – a Wesley Crusher from The Next Generation. Always has the appropriate techno-bauble at the ready. I find her neither cute nor entertaining, but that’s a personal preference which others obviously don’t concur with.

Her purpose and annoyance is a product of poor story telling.

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A Quick Update on DBL

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Thanks for repeating it… it’s really a pity because once people decided they don’t like DBL, they kept at it, even though a lot got better.

If you don’t like liver, it doesn’t matter if a 5 star chef makes the best liver every done by human kind, you still don’t like liver.

The desert bl is that crappy. (though I do like liver)

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Suggestion: Duells

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I really hope we don’t see duels in the open world. In the pvp lobby, that would be fantastic. In designated areas of cities? Also fantastic. Standing at the foot of Tequatl and having to deal with duel request – not so fantastic.

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Suggestion: WvW Jobs

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Not a fan of this suggestion – I do not want a role, I just want the population more balanced throughout the day. I don’t see anything in the OP that would help overcome this huge obstacle.

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Jade Quarry Desert Borderlands

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This isnt just an NA issue – the red BL is totally dead everywhere in WvW. Whoever is red for the week has a massive advantage (if you care about PPT) because almost no one goes there so the structures upgrade to T3 andcan stay that way for days without a scratch.

Really Anet, you can see from all your stats that having 1 BL map different from the rest has not worked at all. The snowflakes that voted for it don’t even play WvW (those votes should of been restricted to players with a minimum WvW rank). The gamemode is really dying, making 3 equal BL maps again is atleast 1 thing you can do to try and fix things.

I despise the desert BL but voted to keep it around as there are people who do like to play there. For all the talk of it being deserted – it is not. It clearly is less populated, but, so what. If you don’t like it, don’t go there. You can go blob on blue, green or EB. You can also take that ‘snowflake’ comment and melt it where the sun doesn’t shine.

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Fun and a good drop

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Usually I roam around and fight 1v1 or 2 on the home bl, do some scouting, camp recapture etc. but once in awhile I’ll head to EB for some near mindless blob v blob. Last night in SM we had that with DB. Killed a bunch, died a few time, but at the end of the night, I had my first precursor (Storm) from one of those dead bodies. 4+ yrs in the game, 4K wvw levels and more hours in pve than I’d rather put down and I finally got one! Thanks to whomever that mithril assaulter DB driver was for continuing to smash their blob into ours!

So, I had fun and got a great drop. Overall, its been a pretty fun week (that precursor topped it off). Hope this reset works out as well.

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WvW is ready for a tournament.

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Make it the ultimate tournament – when stomped, you can’t play wvw anymore. Last man standing wins a cookie (and has to turn out the lights as the game mode will come to an end).

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LS5-Announcement speculations

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There’s a major holiday coming up around the 15th/16th of this month in large parts of the world, which might be a reason for ANet to not release a new update at that time. The 25th sounds like a much more likely release date for the next episode.

I am tired, the first thing I thought of when I read that was ‘Other countries have their taxes due on the 15th too? And, why in the world would they consider it a holiday?’

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Give SAB more love, expand it...

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If player opinions matter, I say don’t spend any more valuable developer recourses on SAB. There are new maps that need to be explored and WvW could use some serious love.

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Accused of a Botter/Movements/Harrased

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I use VMware to run additional windows 10 machines and log into additional accounts on those VMs. Each account is ran separately (mouse and keyboard only effect one at a time). Whatever method Anet uses to identify bots swept me up almost two years ago. While they never actually came out and said what I was doing wrong, I’m convinced they didn’t account for the a virtual machine setup. After a few days of back and forth, my accounts were reinstated and there hasn’t been an issue since.

I say all that to just reinforce that Anet may toss a ban your way, but customer support will help get to the bottom of what is going on. And, if you’re not using 3rd party software, or doing other violations of the TOS, you’ll be just fine.

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Do WvW devs listen?

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If the ‘vast majority’ of players do not like the Desert Borderlands, I wonder why it was voted to stay…

I mean, the playerbase did get to choose whether to keep it, or have it removed permanently.

At least, WvW gets polls for the playerbase to choose what to add/change/remove; and more than any other game mode, it seems.

Recall, it was a vote to see if people wanted to keep it around, not if they liked it or not.

I despise the desert BL – absolutely hate it! However, I voted to keep it. There are players out there who do like it and I did not want to see it removed so they could still enjoy it. Having 2 of the 3 be alpine BLs along with EB give the rest of us refuge from that horrendous excuse of a BL.

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Do WvW devs listen?

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They have said they’re working on phase 2 of scoring changes.

The bigger issue is that the development team for wvw is very small. The game mode itself appears to be near the bottom of Anets priority list. Unless the company as a whole decides to commit resources to the game mode, we’ll see changes very infrequently.

Its to bad the desert BL was such a crappy design. The vast majority of players do not like it (easy to verify just by looking at what maps are queued day after day). Had it been a hit, maybe Anet would have kept more of the wvw players around and then put more resources in to keep it going. Its sad to think that they only commit resources to things they see as working as opposed to committing resources to building something that will be successful (as it pertains to wvw).

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We NEED 30-40 Slot Bags

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Hoarders need more bag space, the rest of us have several dozen open slots. We sell or salvage everything. Shared slots for salvage, food and toys. An extra armor set a few extra weapons sets on each character and I have multiple 20 slot bags waiting to be filled with more salvage and sell items.

Oh, I am not against there being larger bags. I’m not against expanding the wallet or adding key rings. But, hoarders are always going to hit the limit. Its in their nature.

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No downed state in Desert Borderland

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No downed state would just be another reason to avoid that terribly designed BL.

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ESL Guild Wars 2 Officially Shutdown.

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Resources wasted on this failed venture.

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Something has to change

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Things are not going alright with WvW – we won’t ever see a new season and if you think PvP balance is in bad shape, head to wvw to see how to really f up balance (both skill balance and player balance).

Playing both pvp and wvw, I can see that a lot more development effort has gone to the pvp area than to wvw. Vastly more. Is it effective effort? I’m not sure it is, but its clearly there.

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Ghost thief got nerfed this patch, ya happy?

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Love how the only people complaining are the ones rhat cant fight a ghost theif. So when is anet taking away gyro that finishes people for engi? Or taking away that deadly gravedigger for necros? Or taking away stubs for days on warrior? Just curious. They nerf one class because people whined like little kids not being able to kill the ghost theifs. Y not nerf other classes as well and make it a fair line-up?

Seems to me the only ones complaining are the terribad players that were leaning on the ghost thief crutch.

+10 this…this guy gets it

To be fair, the ones who complain about thief one-hit dps, thief stealth and thief ghost trapping are usually the ones who get hit the hardest, but never tried to learn to fight or join the so called “winning team”.

I mean, as a ghost trapper, you’re expending ALL your initi trying to remain hidden. This caused somewhat of a tradeoff, especially given you could only attack three (four, if you count steal) times every 20 seconds. The only ones that had anything to fear were people who didn’t run condi cleanses… which should be pretty commonplace in wvw, given the condi meta.

Ghost thieves were never a threat – I couldn’t locate them to kill, but a couple cleanses and they’re not going to kill me. Having a character remain in stealth that you had to deploy a reveal trap – that they can watch you deploy is a terrible way to the game. I despise stealth and wish the mechanic didn’t exist at all.

I still say that if you strike the thief, it should be revealed. Its invisibility – not intangibility.

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Why are you keep playing WvW?

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To roam around to find those ganker thieves, and gank them.

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Ghost thief got nerfed this patch, ya happy?

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Yes – this is long overdue.

I also think that a character in stealth should be revealed if you hit them with your weapon.

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Feedback on GUI changes

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What a waste of pixels!

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