Guild Wars 2

It what Anet has been doing with WvW over the last couple of months is top priority, I’d hate to see what low priority is! Oh wait we have!

WvW isnt their vision anymore, Mike made things so unbearable that the entire original WvW team has left!
All that’s left are PvE devs and sPvP devs, none of whom know what to do with WvW at all!

Complaining is all we can do, as we’ve already waited for them, only to find out everything they told us was a lie!
We’ve already posted dozens if not hundreds of threads over the years on how we things they can improve WvW, they still have not listened!
We talked to them in their own CDIs, which they ignored as well!

In fact I believe the next expansion which will be released next year will not have anything major for WvW at all!
I mean look what we got with HoT, a dead map and pay-2-win skills and traits. No balance at all!

Sorry but Anet do not deserve more money from me, or you!
The only ones who will are PvE players, and I have no idea why cos the PvE in this game is terrible!

We can make all the suggestions in the world to Anet.

There is however one problem, a problem which has been around for over 4 years now: They wont listen! And they refuse to spend resources on WvW.

Just look at the gem store: Buy all these little toys and glider skins! Oh but you cant use them in WvW cos balance.

Matchup thread, please delete.

Sarie.1630:

If they did that you wouldn’t have an incentive to buy the infinite ones, then where would we be?

How?

I currently just rebuy orichalcum ones when I run out. Just zone to WvW BL use a merchant and zone back. If thats the case they should make merchant less easily accessible.

No, the reason to buy the infinite gathering tools isnt the saving of space, but time.
The infinite one can gather a little faster than normal ones. At least that is what I hve notices with mine.

Almighty Dervisher.6720:

it’s probably because the developers don’t care enough to update the game to something better..

I think you answered your own question there.

They dont even care for their own forums, preferring to post on reddit!

Kindda annoyed that I have so many gathering tools, and still have over 150 Frostbitten Toolboxes to open!

And it’s not like you can choose which tool you get from those either, which means more cluttering of gathering tools.

So please anet, make them stackable!

Dont forget that server linking is still a beta.

Problem is that WvW itself is technically still in beta, and will never get the attention it needs.

So Deso will be outnumbered for a couple months and fall a couple ranks. Then it’ss get linked with a server and go back up, probably, unless the bandwagoners leave cos they want to be #1

Fighting near a tower or keep is a no no!

Had this the other week with the duelers keeping our T3 SM constantly contested because they were too close.

Even after asking them to move, they didnt, cos hopped onto a cannon and kept firing it. It doesnt stop SM from being contested, but it does reduce the amount of space they have to have a fair match.
Then our zerg steam rolled them for the fun of it, after that they moved.

So as they were contesting a T3 SM, they cant complain that they are just doing a 1v1, cos they are affecting the map.

You know another problem with this thread is that identical ones have been made over the last 3 years!

People keep posting the same old things, and you know what, Anet are going to continue to ignore them!

As for paying a sub, hell no, not now, and never to Anet!
I’m even taking this week off cos I am so bored of the game right now!

Very well, and here is your reward!

Two words: “Really bad!”

Yeah HoT was basically pay to win for WvW.

Afterall the only other thing HoT gave WvW was a map noone wanted!

So in order to make players buy HoT, they made it so HoT skills were OP to base. Cos you know, the expansion offered nothing else to WvW players.

ionix.9054:

It took them 3 years to give us a map. They gave us a map and every single one of you complained about it. So they removed it.

Wonder how much money was wasted on develop.ent time? They won’t consider another map. Sorry the truth hurts.

You want to know the real truth?

First of all it didnt take them 3 years to make the DBLs, prob 6 months max

After 3 years of ignoring us thanks to the China release, Living Story and developing HoT; the devs realised that no WvW would buy HoT if it didnt have a new map minimum!

So they assigned some interns to make a map.
However, since all the original WvW have left long ago, and Anet’s push for PvE meant noone knew what a WvW should look like.
So they created a huge map with more PvE in it than ever before for WvW. Even though for the last 3 years we complained about moving the little there is in the Alpine maps.
They invited people to test it, and even there players said there were issues with the map.
Anet, in their great wisdom as always, ignored what those people had to say and released the map as it.

All these complaints are completely justified on these forums. And I can bet you the most minimal amount of resources were spent on making the DBL. Cos if you hadnt read in past threads, some of the things WvW gets is from people like Hugh who spend some of their own spare time adding to WvW, i.e. Management didnt pay for or come up with it, but since some devs were kind enough to do it, and Anet thought “Hey this’ll make it seem like we’re actually doing stuff for WvW”, they approved it.

And dont forget that all important Devon reddit post after he left, he admitted that he hadnt worked on anything related to WvW since March 2015!!!

4 more years!

I wish I was joking but based on the release of the DBLs, 3-4 years.
But dont forget that 3 years ago Devon did say it only takes 6-8 months, IF they had a team working on it, not the intern they currently have working on WvW on their spare time!

ionix.9054:

cpchow.7416:

As the mixed Borderlands is adopted, i think Anet should work on the 3rd borderland map after the WvW score overhaul. I hope it can be finished before the next expansion.

LOL! Are you fricking kidding me? You think ANET will give us a new map after the crying from the last one?

We will never get a new wvwvw map. The wvwvw community has themselves to blame for that.

And no Anet is to blame, for lying to us for 4 years! For not working on WvW at all except when some devs had spare time!
They refused to listen to us, then created CDIs to claim to listen to us, then didnt even listen to us in them! And continued to not listen to us, and now we have these silly polls where the options are things they want, not what we want!

Anet is to blame for everything wrong with the game, they are after-all the developers of the game, it’s not like we coded the game or lied to ourselves!

Players are waiting for a new large scale game which is similar but better than WvW.

Unfortunately noone has made one yet.

Choppy.4183:

Honestly, with the amount people whine about wvw I’m surprised Anet hasn’t told us all to go kitten ourselves by now.

They have, many times. But only if you, like me, are one of the ones who keeps posting complaints.

Majority vote?

That’s a vote on a poll in which Anet gave the the outcomes they wanted.

You can bet your kitten that if the poll had the option “Make a new WvW BL” that would have been the majority vote.

But it wasnt included for obvious reasons.
As such, most players know some players like the DBL, and so the most logical vote to please everyone based on the poll options Anet gave was only 2 Alpine and 1 DBL. So not really much of a choice.

Take it you are in France, that second link is OK just automatically changes to your country.

https://account.arena.net

Log in and click the Game Content tab and then download Game client

Shadelang.3012:

Hmm. And have you thought about what you want them to change to fix the issue you percieve? At all?

Im serious. If you have an idea SPEAK about it.

We already spoke to Anet about it 3 years ago!

We gave them threads full of ideas on how to improve WvW

Anet refused to listen!

Rotteny.8743:

DeWolfe.2174:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Our immediate focus, besides scoring,

God if adding the DBl wasn’t bad enough, there’s still the scoring changes that will certainly flush the mode. <sigh>

People been asking for these scoring changes and now you are complaining about them? wtf?

That’s because WvW is dying, but all Anet are doing it putting on a band-aid.

Yes a lot of us hate the DBLs, but some like them.
Now due to the lack of resources being spent on WvW, and the waste of resources on a PvE WvW map, it’s either sticking to Alpine for who know how many more years before Anet decide to grace us with a new proper WvW map, or a mix of both.

We already tried DBLs on their own, and it killed WvW further! So a mix is the only thing Anet can do to keep everyone happy for another few months.

Anet have killed the role of small guilds in WvW.

MY god, how many “Is TC dead” threads have there been over the last few week?!

We know, Anet knows, that’s why every server zergs!

A lot of players dont want it this way and have asked Anet to do something about it.

But this is WvW, it’s been neglected since launch, the only new map people hated, and the new devs still do not know what WvW is!

Al we can do is try to keep the game fresh, and this usually means hardcore WvW guild moving servers regularly.

Anet refuse to spend the time, money and resources on WvW, and as such it will always be the last thing to get updated. And any updates to it will be small and insignificant things which do not address ANY of the real issues with WvW! e.g. Siege Repair Hammer

They cant fix it, their servers are cheap and at their limits.

The game coding is bad and not optimised.

The game is just hanging on, it’s pretty much dead really, and not many people will buy gems for a game they know isnt worth it, as HoT proved.

If you dont want your loot, give it to me, I get hardly a thing being a support water ele!

Full bags?! Never heard of it!
But here’s a water field to keep you alive so you can fill your bags!

Yeah, this should be posted on the officially endorsed GW2 forums, also known as Reddit!

First of all people do play on the Alpine BLs.

Compare that to the Deserted BLs which hardly anyone wanted to play on!
So the DBLs are actually worse.

And yes, most of the action is on EBG, so that is the map most people will want to be on.

But we predicted this anyway. People hated the DBLs, and having them for so long meant that when Alpine came back players were happy to play on them again.

BUT bringing back Alpine was still bringing back a 4 year old map which has been played on so much that players tired of them quickly.

WvW still needs a new WvW map!
DBL was so much more PvE based, which is why it failed.
But Anet have lost the original WvW team, they only have interns working on WvW like 2 hours a week or their free time.
These guys have no idea what WvW is about, they work on PvE, LS so much that PvE is all they know, which explains the DBL PvE stuffing.

Because nothing else changes, the only thing players can do to refresh things is to change servers, usually higher ranking servers where there is more players = more action = more fights. But this again only lasts so long.

My guess will be nothing at all.

They’ll claim these little polls they are doing are enough cos they dont want to rush anything and unbalance anything :P

I think Anet will have a harder time selling their next expansion, seeing as even PvE players said HoT is lacking content for the price we paid for it!

When adding yourself to a queue to join a map, if you have the WvW window open showing the list of maps, if your queue pops during you are viewing this window, it automatically resets your queue instead of popping that Map Ready Travel popup. So you are thrown to the back of the queue.

You dont get teh TRavel popup and the sound associated with that doesnt play either.
You are automatically entered at the back of the queue again.

Why did you spend all your badges? I still have 44,000

Excellent idea!

There is no need to use that tactivator if the keep is uncontested, so yeah there is no need to use it unless they are there to waste it.

But then this doesnt stop them from wasting other tactivators.

You know things are going in the wrong direction when the organiser of events decides to fix matches.

Imagine the outcry if this was a pro football league!

No one cares about server pride any more.

All WvW players and WvW guilds want now are fights.

You get more fights in the top tier servers.

So they are moving up to those servers.

Simply put it’s another nail in the coffin of WvW.

But do you need to have a level 80 character?

Got several accounts, the ones with level 80s tell me the episode is unlocked, but I need to purchase HoT
The ones without level 80s say nothing at all…..

But as last time, Anet really shouldnt wall off the story behind the gem store!
People like Valky will think LS is included with HoT even if they do not log in, but we all know that isnt true. And again people will be forced to pay for it twice.

Pretty sure if you buy HoT after LW S3 ends, you will not get these episodes unless you buy them from gem store!

So what happens if I miss an episode?

Will we have to buy it in the gem store like you do with S1 and 2?

Dont worry!

Living World Season 3 is out today!

If you want to play together in WvW, and if your server is linked to another, get them to join the linked server.

If for PvE, they can join any server thanks to megaserver.

But best option is to all of you to join the same, open server.

You have to enable it in the Options Menu as well.

Autoloot: Autopickup
Autoloot: Quick Interact

But no, you do not need the PvE autoloot mastery to auto loot in WvW, you just need the WvW autoloot mastery

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing!

Without knowing how they were killed it means nothing.
For all you know the Maguuma zerg could have been hiding in their towers filled with ACs whilst the enemy zergs kept on attacking and players dying to ACs until they finally took the tower.

Doesnt mean Maguuma are skilled players or anything else really.

I find most of WvW is about making the other servers rage quit.

A 20-30 man guild raid is able to hold off and even wipe a 50+ enemy zerg several times.
The enemy zerg deicides to bring in everyone they can and start running a 80+ zerg.
Guild raid has to call help from pugs, but still cannot match numbers and wipe several times.
Pugs rage quit.

See it all the time, when our guild is raiding privately, it’s just our guild and a few small pugs groups running around.
Enemy server zerg appears and we can barely hold them back, and pugs call it an early night leaving the game by 10pm
But if we decide to run open raid, and start wiping the server zerg, pugs stay on and we still have queues to join EB after 11pm!

Some pugs quit after a single wipe, so you can see the attraction for lower skilled server to run as a server zerg!

RodOfDeath.5247:

My question is why remove the siege disablers?

The scenario you give is the reason for siege disablers, but with all things like this, it can be abused.

Instead of the above, you see zerg outside ramming, whilst the enemy zerg, having suffered wipe and wipe, even though they outnumber the enemy zerg, hiding inside the keep spamming disabler after disabler after disabler. In the meantime they can use acs or aoe to slowly destroy the rams.

It’s the same issue with cannons. Why have them when the enemy zerg can lay down a dozen aoe fields on it to prevent anyone for taking more than 1 shot before it gets destroyed.

I think you still need to fix the issue where canons become useless when the enemy zerg casts 300 aoe skills on it!

Make walls higher so zergs cannot do this! Or at least something.

Even acs buils at the back of the wall can still be aoe’s by a zerg very easily.

Joshhh.2076:

In any case, they’re EU players, so Anet couldn’t really justify shifting them all to NA .

Pretty sure most of them will be Spanish speaking Americans and Latin Americans.
Who else is going to be up at 4am UK time!

Lahmia.2193:

Buy Some Apples.6390:

Too lazy to do that

Basically sums up why Anet shouldn’t pander to people like you.

PvE players: “Waa Waa Anet. We PvE players shouldnt have to do WvW for our World Map completion, Waa Waa, it’s too hard!”

Anet: “OK”

Yeah, not to players like me, but players like them.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

They lose numbers past 3-4am GMT

You mean like most NA servers do.

No EU servers play until 3 or 4am any more!

If you ask me it is clear Baruch Bay should not be linked together with EU servers.

Their server zerg comes online after midnight in the UK, which would put it better placed with NA servers than EU servers.

Too lazy to do that

Finally Anet have added Shard Inventory, though it’s pretty expensive and only a few slots.

Now please add Shared Foraging Tools.
I hate having different characters having different tools or number of tools and having to keep going back to a merchant to buy more for each character.

Add it as a gem item.

Seriously?

OK fine so noone wants to talk to you.
But you know what, you are in their TS, you said yourself you had a choice between 2 channels.

Now there’s this thing most people have, it’s called commonsense. Not all brains come with it so you may have to order it.
So what you do is you join a channel and LISTEN.
Listen to what the commander is saying in the channel.
If the commander says things like “let’s take Question/Veloka/Wildcreek” and you are on a borderland, then you are obviously in the wrong channel.

You think a commander will give one order in TS and do something completely different?!

Lightsbane.9012:

what span of the playerbase is receiving the poll?

Everyone with an account can vote.

It’s just that not everyone gets the mail to tell people there is a vote going on.
You have to be in WvW during the period they decide to send messages out.

You just have to keep checking https://feedback.guildwars2.com and login to vote.

But yes, I too think the message should be sent to everyone, not just those in WvW at a certain unknown time.