Guild Wars 2

Stick with core game, and then when next expansion comes out, buy that instead. You’ll get HoT free with it.

Just read all the these threads, a lot of negative comments, even from PvE players!

So play the core game, and if you still want HoT before the next expansion comes out, there will most likely be a 50% off sale in like 6 months, get it then.

Maybe if anet allowed more of the toys to be used in WvW, we would spend more on gems.

I bought the water balloons, hoping for some water balloon fights in WvW, nope Anet have disabled toys in WvW.

You cant sell PvE only stuff to WvW players, and so WvW will not buy. Simple as.
We’ve also been telling anet this for years, add more WvW items to the gem store!

And how would people do the raid during off-peak times, when they cannot get to T4?

I think the best solution would be as suggested before, a substation, like that from SAB. Players go through the portal to a separate waiting room instance, and from there they can make parties and then go to the raid.

Installing Star Wars Battlefront right now, ready for the weekend!

Bee dee, bee dee. bee dee. Fun does not compute.
Bye Buck

I dont WTB, I’ve already paid for it, twice!

It’s true. Only a couple of the original devs remain.

Those who worked for anet and have left, have posted elsewhere that the working environment at anet isnt all too good. It’s the management’s way and nothing else. Devs who gave suggestions on improvements were ignored or shouted at.

Because of this quite a few devs left. Anet obviously had to get more in, but to reduce costs, they got in temps. These guys just do what management tell them to do, and when done, they move onto their next job.

Their work speaks for itself. The living story episode which were released every two weeks, which could be completed in a couple of hours. Only way to make it last longer was to do all the achievements related to each episode.

We were promised no grinding. Yet we had a lot. And HoT have increased the grind to a whole new level in this game!

No, you do not get a second code for the core game. You just get one code for HoT.

If dont have the core game and buy HoT, you get Hot and the core game.
If you do have the core game and buy HoT, you just get HoT when you add the code to your account, nothing more.

Come on already!

It’s bad enough we’ve had lag in WvW for 3 years and it’s still not fixed.

But now you’ve killed WvW, and forcing us to do PvE to get our specialisations, why is there so much lag in PvE?!

Half of my skills never get triggered and I have to reuse them 2 or three times before they are cast!

Please choose from the following, approved by Mike, answers:

1) We cannot talk about it
2) It’s working as intended
3) Patches will be coming Soon™
4) Move to Trashcan
5) Silence will fall

We could each write an 1st class thesis on how to improve WvW.

Point is Anet have never listened to us before, why will they now?

All these suggested attempts to “listen” are just a carrot on a stick.

You should check again, you need API verification :P

Junkpile.7439:

EotM have best community. Go there.

lmao, it’s true. They even more organised than WvW

Seriously?!

When KISS left for AG, all the main wvw guilds, who have very rarely worked together before and refused to work with KISS.
ALL of them were queued up in EB just to kill KISS. Not for a very long time did GH have a 50+ man queue for a map!

If that isnt drama I dont know what is

Stay away from Gunnars, there are a couple of guilds who leech off others whilst talking kitten behind their backs. Come to Aurora Glade instead.

LMFAO Dungeon runners complaining about not being able to make gold from abusing bad mechanics which have been fixed slightly now.

Come back to me when you are a WvW only player!

Gaile Gray.6029:

The stickying of this thread was only a convenience measure for forum members suggested by forum members. It’s really that simple.

But dont you see how even this post is making things worse?

By the community, for the community.
For 3 years the WvW community has suggested many things, many ways to improve WvW. We’ve even had devs reply saying how great some of the ideas are.
Yet we’ve still had nothing from them regarding these!

In GW1 you were very active taking to all, you could be found in game especially during events and you talk actively ingame as well.
In GW2, I’ve not seen you once, and as with all devs and mods, you try to stay away from the WvW forums, and anything you do say seems as if it isnt you who has written it, or you are being forced to follow very strict censorship orders.

The simple fact is that the WvW community is leaving the game again.
The simple fact is that those who are remaining are screaming for help in the WvW forums!
The simple fact is that the WvW community continue to give their advice and ideas
The simple fact is that the devs continue to ignore us
It is this that is really that simple!

I also see you have quietly removed the sticky for the new WvW Forum Specialist. Why is that? I mean talk about throwing yourself into the fire!

Svarty.8019:

Despite being unable to talk about things in development for fear of stringing us along, I think some of us (I know I am guilty of this) expected a little more communication

And by trying to not string us along, they’ve strung us along for 3 whole years with a whole lot of “we cannot talk about it”, events which none of us asked for but they claim we did, and after 3 years of saying we dont want PvE in WvW, they finally give us a new WvW map which has so much PvE it’s like they listened to us and then did the opposite! And now look at the borderlands, they are all empty!

mfw I bought over 150 stacks of crystals to convert into charged crystals for 30 copper each

Donated most of the charged to guild hall upgrades, still have 342 charged, and 100 stacks of normal :P

idk, let’s just list some of the thread titles on the first page of the WvW Discussions forum:

HoT actively drives people away from WvW
New borderlands gotta go before WvW is dead
A plea to the devs- Get rid of auto upgrades
How many quit playing WvW since new maps?
WvW Bug List
Q:Daily Master of Ruin
How to fix wvw in 3 easy steps
Not a single sign of any devs..
Is WvW Really Dead? [Merged]
Anet hates the 2 things I love…

and that’s just from the first page, there have been dozens upon dozens of threads where WvW players have continued to raise their concerns for WvW, even more so now with the release of HoT and the barren Desert BLs (Barren i.e. there’s hardly anyone on them! Gotta laugh at the ironically named new maps )

Instead you sticky a 3 month old thread, which states you will prioritise WvW after the release of HoT, yet you have continued to ignore the forums and not issued any bug fixes for some of the issues we have pointed out.
Not forgetting that then you release this blog, https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-road-ahead-for-2015/, without a single mention of WvW!!!

WvW is at it’s worse ever! And if you do not communicate with us properly, well, as we’ve been saying for 3 years, it’s gonna die, more players will just leave again.

Even our one and only FSP is complaining (when are you gonna announce the 2nd one again?)

I dont think it is that you are misunderstanding our questions, it’s that we know that there is a certain higher up who thinks WvW is PvE and is preventing you from talking about anything.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I’m going to sticky this thread, with John’s consent, because we feel it contains valuable information that forum members may wish to read.

Eh?!

That dev post was a month ago!

No, it’s just some players found another way.

When in the down state, these soar losers press B and click the Leave the Mists icon in the bottom right corner of the window. They leave WvW whilst still in combat without consequence, and you lose your well deserved xp and loot.

We have reported this to anet months ago, several times, and they still have not fixed it. Which in anet’s history of fixing bugs with WvW is just what we expect from them.

I work evening shifts, For the last week I have done no WvW at all!

I get back from work, turn on my PC and find half my guild has logged off and the other half are doing training in guild arena.
But cos I get on so late, no space.

All BLs are empty, for obvious reasons. EB is empty as well, or enemy massively outnumber us if they stay on.

PvE is still terrible.

So what do I do? I log off and watch some TV instead. This is such a great expansion Anet! Before the expansion my guild used to raid for another 2-3 after I log in, now it stops before I even get back!

Shadow.3475:

Before you cod have a Guild yourself and have +5 supply and so but now you cant.

Step 1 you need 150 Favor and there is no way to get favor alone.

Step 2 if you somehow manage to get 150Favor borrow 4players to make a Guild hall then your Guild is to low lvl to make +5 supply with you cod Before expansion.

I know right! I think there’s something fishy going on there!

What makes you think some of us will give more of our money to anet after this HoT fiasco?

If PvE, sPvP and WvW were a set of triplets, and devs their parents:

Devs: Hey kids it’s your birthday, come get your presents!
PvE,sPvP: Yay!
Devs: OK PvE here’s your present, it;s the biggest present of all, cos I like you so much!
PvE: Yay!
Devs: OK sPvP, you still arent doing so well with getting esports up an running, so you get this smaller, not as good present.
sPvP: OK.
PvE, sPvP: Yay, lets go play with our new toys
WvW: Where’s my present?
[silence]

Next year, the same again

WvW: Where’s my present? I didnt get one last year either.
Devs: (sigh) Fine. [Steps outside and comes back in] Here, now shut up and leave me alone! [Hands WvW a rock]
WvW: What’s this?
Devs: That’s it, I am fed up with your complaining, you’re grounded! Why cant you be more like PvE.

Depends on what your playstyle is and what you like. Half the people think it’s worth the $50, others say it isnt even worth $15.

If you are a WvW player then it definitely isnt worth it.

As said by a couple people now, you cannot measure worth by the amount of time you have played this dlc.

Yes you may have spent 100 hours on it already, but what if 80 hours of that was grinding xp for your masteries. It’s not exactly fun, or real content, it’s a grind.

Guild Hall upgrades: more grinding for mats. HoT is nothing more than a big old grinding dlc.

Yes, It’s now even worth the £21 I paid for it!

Sure I got it less than the retail price of £35, but WvW sucks even more now as everyone wants to stay away from the new maps and get on EB. 50+ queues ftw.

You called us all neighsayers when we demanded more content details from HoT, well there you go, it was just as we expected, they didnt give us more details because there was nothing else to talk about!

They sold us DLC instead of an expansion!

Again, you can get more gold in 30 minutes playing in PvE than you can get 8 hours playing in WvW.

So yes Devon I can see how hard it can be to balance rewards for WvW.

There is no WvW, only PvE.

coglin.1867:

lmperdigao.2567:

Every 6 months they make a WvW blog post/announcement, and nothing comes.

You mean like new maps, new keep mechanics, new upgrade mechanics, new events, guild arenas, and new upgrade mechanics?

We got new maps, mechanics, upgrades, events arenas and upgrade mechanic every 6 months?!
Please coglin, please point out these twice yearly updates!
Oh wait, we had to wait 3 whole kittening years for them! And even though they invited some people to test the map, and most said it was too big, and need changes, they yet again ignored us. And now the new BLs are empty on most servers.
Oh and I am still waiting for you to link the 64 bit client news you claim anet posted on facebook, twitter, etc as I can only find a link on dulfy.

So is that it now? Are we supposed to just do WvW on EB?

50 queue to get into EB whilst the other BLs are empty, even our home border!

This is of course a serious issue, yet Anet seem to be ignoring it.

The problem with the 64 bit beta client, is that not that many people know about it cos they havent properly told us about it. There’s just a post in the accounts forum.

If you want the 64 bit client, you have to either accidentally visit that thread or be told by others who accidentally found that thread!

But how else will they stop us from playing WvW, so they can claim noone plays WvW so they can shelve the game mode and never hear of it again?

draugris.9872:

ArchonWing.9480:

My response, as per pretty much everything stated by Mr. Carver.

“Do you even WvW bro?”

Is this guy still in charge of WvW ?? Well no wonder then that things are like they are.

Would you prefer I was?

And no they arent. They are supposed to write reports for the WvW team, so Devon can have his coffee and post on reddit, instead reading through all these posts and talking to us.

Is WvW Really Dead?

idk look at the thread below from a year ago with almost the exact same title!

Hahahahah! A year later and someone created another thread with almost identical title!

Sorry just a bump in case some people havent heard of the new client

Also still waiting for you links coglin.

Woah woah woah, we cant have our forum specialist dissing the great and powerful Devon Carver who saved WvW from the brink of becoming a empty desolate place like our new desert borderland map!

Yet rewards in PvE come cascading down like a waterfall. What’s his point?

And why is he posting on reddit? Why not on these official WvW forums?

He’s not made a post on any of the officical forums for over a year now!

Perhaps it is usefulness that has outlived EotM???

coglin.1867:

gennyt.3428:

Cogbyrn.7283:

Thank you for posting, I’m going to try it out.

Do you have to take literally every opportunity, even when given something that might help an experience, to take a jab, though? It isn’t like they put this in the PvE forums and say “Check it PvEers, new client!”. It’s in the forum you would expect it.

There are stickies about this in both of the PvE forums so the jab was well deserved in this case lol.

It was on FB, twitter, dulfy, and the Anet blog all within minutes of one another as well.

Apart from dulfy links would be nice cos I cant find any for the rest!

Cogbyrn.7283:

It isn’t like they put this in the PvE forums and say “Check it PvEers, new client!”. It’s in the forum you would expect it.

Check the stickies on the General Discussions and HoT forums.

…..but I am sure no WvW player will be interested in it. I mean what would a player who plays the most resource-demanding part of the game want with more accessible ram?! So let’s just throw it in this forum which most of them wont check.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/64-bit-Client-Beta-FAQ/first

Well there you go guys, it’s in your account page under download client section.
Again this is beta, so expect bugs.

This may, again may, help a few people with client crashes, seeing as the client can use more ram, and some crashes are apparently down to limited ram.

Yup, they cant fix the WvW dailies, but they can nerf the nodes for PvE in WvW :P

As usual the dev forgot to note down changes to WvW.

I have already noticed the following:

Reduced gathering from Synthesizer Nodes by 50%

Enjoy your WvW update.

Farm and grind, yeah that aint fun for me.

Seriously Anet need to make events more fun.

Apart from the first year events, I dont see any reason to do them.
They arent fun, they arent engaging, the rewards are mediocre.

Nothings changed so what is the point? Events used to be more fun in GW1

Again if the Living Story is to be included in the price of the expansion, then it should never appear in the gem store as a separate purchase!

If I dont log in one week I aint going to be paying twice for it!