WXP will be pooled just like currency: when you login to each character (after the update) that character’s WXP will be added to the account WXP pool. Your characters will then each have a world rank appropriate to the total WXP pool. So to give a simplified example, if you have two characters which are both Rank 5 (ie 5k WXP each), then after the merge they’ll both be Rank 6 (10k account WXP).
As for the server, the points you ‘get for defending’ are the points from not losing the location. So if you successfully defend Stonemist, your reward is that you have 25 points at the next tick.
I still have a number of bonus chests queued. Can I assume, firstly, that they will still be there after April 15? And will any chests get unlocked from combining WXP?
My guess is that you’ll still only get one set of chests per rank-up, and that it’ll be spawned for the character who got the rankup.
It will make for more exciting and tactical gameplay. Once you’re out there, you’re out there for good. It makes sense. All zergs do is teleport around. Please consider fixing.
There is a fix: contest the keep and they can’t use the waypoint. Waypoints are a justified reward for holding a keep long enough (and spending enough supply + gold) to get the waypoint upgrade, and for keeping enemies away from the keep so that the waypoint is uncontested.
I know we don’t really speak well of the CDIs at times, but they did make a post addressing how they understand the World Identity is too important based on player feedback, so I don’t know that they would change something in that direction. Of course all we can do for now is speculate.
To quell speculation early, that is not what we are doing. The announcement will have more info, but we are absolutely not getting rid of worlds and putting everyone into an EotM type system.
I think it’s cleare what the WvW comunity wants
Maybe they’ll amalgamate the very-low population worlds for WvW purposes. Like for example if Gandara and Piken Square were low pop worlds (they aren’t, but just as examples!) then one week in World vs World the green world might be ‘Gandara + Piken’. That addresses the population issue without losing the world identity.
1 – Only GvG, all the guilds runs untagged because they are too scared to gather some low level players (now called “rallybot”).
So if a person that do not wants to be in a WvW guild but wants to enjoy WvW after some PvE, he cannot play as it was at the starts, commanders can’t command at peak times because they would gather 5/10 ppl, even if the map has a queue, so ppl that plays only at peak times will ragequit immediatly.
It’s really not difficult to work out where the guild groups are: use the white/orange swords (and watch for locations flipping to your colour with no commander nearby). I do that sometimes if one of the better guild groups is online, or if I’m not a fan of the current commander.
The threshold for free transfers was quite silly too: for example Gandara (which finished second in the last Silver League) got free transfers – meaning that our queues have gone from 40/10/0/0 to 200/150/150/150 overnight. Thanks Anet!
I’m personally puzzled as to why these aren’t regulated by state gambling authorities. I know the legal reason (the real money → gems step lets Anet pretend that there is no economic value changing hands when keys are bought), but the actual justification for the current state of the law escapes me.
Or just kill the warriors doing the bannering, problem solved. This is like complaining about “all that unstoppable AoE damage” just because you can’t be bothered killing the arrow cart two feet in front of you.
If it bothers you that much, come back on April 15th when you at least won’t have to pay armour repairs. Trolls are going to troll, and if Anet wanted to stop them they’d have turned off combat in the JPs.
It’s very depressing that out the outset of Season 2, no matter how hard we fight or the effort an individual puts in, they simply have no hope of getting a Mistforged Weapon this season. Meanwhile, someone that transferred to a server will a sure shot at placing even 3rd or 4th and puts in the minimum work for the Meta gets a guaranteed 300+ tickets.
If it makes you feel any better, the free transfers to high-ranked servers have ruined the fun for people already on those servers too. Gandara’s queues have gone from 60/20/0/0 to 200/150/150/150. GG Anet.
What kind of issue are you specifically having that could be related to lag?
Skill lag. Movement is fine (no rubber-banding)
What server are you on?
Gandara
Has there ever been a time when you or a friend are experiencing lag, while others in your party are not?
No – it was affecting everyone (our commander actually had to disconnect because his screen would freeze every time we entered significant combat). Also, since I got my connection fixed 3-4 months ago I have never had skill lag (even in 100v100 zerg fights, much bigger than any today or yesterday), and in fact it was even fine yesterday before the reset. The lag only started when the tournament did.
Has there ever been a time where one party in a map is experiencing lag, while other parties in that same map are not?
No (see above)
Do you experience the lag at very specific times?
Any group more than about 10 (our zerg was maybe 30-40)
As a person who moved to Gandara during the transfer window. I can say that some of the Biggest guilds on FoW moved to Gandara. So I know they have had arou d 250 people from one guild alone. Not sure how many are in the other guilds. So I’m hoping for good things in Gandara. It’s been fun so far. As FoW was a diying server this is a nice change to be able to play WvW with out being steam rollered every few minuets.
So that makes most of FoW and all of UW moved to Gandara?
yeah fun times….
Anet should have seen this happening but they have proven time and time again that they know nothing about WvW and the people playing it.
Basically how it will work is: WvW will be boring (2 hr+ queues, maps 70+% green) for most/all of the tournament. Gandara will then go up to Gold, get annihilated for a few weeks (causing the bandwagon guilds to transfer out), then we’ll drop back down to Silver again and can go back to enjoying WvW. So basically: if you’re a non-bandwagon Gandaran, come back some time late July.
There, problem fixed, stop acting like this was some criminal action against everybody in the game when it wasn’t. If it takes you just a minute just to walk to an area that has the crafting stations, it’s a minor inconvenience equal to walking across the street to the other gas station for a soda you like just because the one you live next to doesn’t have it.
When has anyone said that it’s criminal? It’s just scummy behaviour. They removed a feature from the game we already paid for, and are trying to make us buy it back again.
What feature did they remove. All the features present in LA are still available for free in the game, just not in the same place. No feature was removed.
You now have to pay waypoint costs, whereas you didn’t before (openworld → WvW = free, Asura gate from WvW → LA = free).
This is why you should always play games with a sub if you can. They don’t charge you for convenience, they put it right in the game. They don’t charge you for new armor, they put it right in the game.
I’ve been playing Guild Wars 1 since release (I still play it on occasion, though less since GW2 came out obviously). Under the p2p model, Guild Wars 1 would have cost me $1620 (assuming $15/month sub like most MMOs).
There, problem fixed, stop acting like this was some criminal action against everybody in the game when it wasn’t. If it takes you just a minute just to walk to an area that has the crafting stations, it’s a minor inconvenience equal to walking across the street to the other gas station for a soda you like just because the one you live next to doesn’t have it.
When has anyone said that it’s criminal? It’s just scummy behaviour. They removed a feature from the game we already paid for, and are trying to make us buy it back again.
Having a portal that denies entry until it starts. It makes me so much happier not having to come 1 hour early to a map just to avoid getting in an overflow.
Except now you have to come 1 hour early to the map where the portal is instead, surely?
Rewarding mindless zerging more than those actually contributing to the event by going around rescuing citizens.
The rewards for mob farming are much lower than the rewards for completing the event milestones.
Being able to afk in the map and still be able to fully leech an entire reward.
Only if you come back from afk in the 1-3 minutes between completion and being killed to death by the miasma. I don’t think the chests are still claimable after you zone out, but I could be wrong.
Giving no direct reward whatsoever to the most important event factor (saving citizens) while “zerg” events will reward you with tons of loot and champion bags.
They won’t actually: unlike most events in GW2, these champions (and their guard mobs) actually scale up based on the number of people around them. So 3x as many people = 3x as long to kill.
Perhaps Anet should disable Commander tags in the event map for this reason?
That’s what they’re now saying (having said it would launch with EoTM). Still, I wouldn’t hold your breaths: we were promised Ascended drops in WvW for January 2013 and eventually got them in August.
It’s a perfectly legitimate tactic: you’re denying them the use of the waypoint (if they have one), and also denying them accurate information about your team’s location (because if the keep and three towers are tagged, they don’t know which you are actually attacking without scouting in person).
Face it. People complaining about this look silly for being upset over a perceived injustice that doesn’t really exist, as has been noted over and again multiple times.
I really hate using this word, because it’s reserved for those rare occasions where it actually means something, but this is that time. The people complaining that they HAVE to buy this have entitlement issues, there’s no other way to explain this. They feel entitled to have everything for free, they feel entitled to not have to go through loading screens, they feel entitled to have everything they want without much effort. There, it’s finally been said.
So you don’t think there’s a problem with taking away a feature people paid for (in their $60 game purchase) and trying to sell it back to them as a microtransaction?
Why not just skip the living story bits that don’t offer interesting gameplay? The actual storytelling is pretty poor (not up to Anet’s previous work).
The whole point of WvW ranks is to give a situational bonus to those who play the mode a lot. This is partly about giving a sense of reward (essential to any RPG) but is also (in the case of the two Applied bonuses) about ensuring that the more experienced players – who will be the backbone of the server’s combat groups – have a bit more survivability.
Seconded. We came second in the Silver league in Season 1, so we’re good but not uber. There’s some weeks we’re fighting a defensive battle, there’s some weeks we do pretty good, but WvW is rarely a walkover (either for or against) since Anet got rid of the dumb random matching. I prefer it like that, the OP’s opinion may vary of course.
I’m worried at that time if the airship will no longer be needed and thus my pass is completely worthless.
Your pass wouldn’t be worthless if that happens. It would give you instant access (with free return to where you were when you entered) to the amenities. Whereas those who don’t buy the ticket have to go to WvW then to Lion’s Arch (sitting through loading screens) and can only get back to where they were by paying waypoint costs.
GOOD!! Anet needs to make money somehow, and if they can do it based on a MINOR convenience that does not disrupt anyone’s access to content or their ability to compete in the game on a level playing field then more power to them!
Are people so naive as to think that all of this added content development and support would come at no cost? It’s almost laughable that people expect so much and expect that they should not have to somehow support it. And no, your original purchase of the game does not fund that support, it funded the original development of the content that existed when the game was released.
No, they just expect not to have existing features taken away and sold back to them as microtransactions. If this were an option for convenience sake (like the Crown Pavilion and other variations on the same theme) there would be no problem.
Go to Rata Sum, enter WvW from Rata Sum. When you’re done, press Esc and then press Character select. Then double click on your character and you’re back at Rata Sum. I think it’s pretty fast (as fast as the traditional way), so I’ll call it ’’direct’’.
That doesn’t fulfill the ‘without paying waypoint costs’ part of my post, does it?
Please explain how I get directly from WvW to Rata Sum (or any of these other supposed ‘1-STOP’ cities) without paying waypoint fees, I must have missed a gate somewhere.
Take the asura gate in WvW that leads back to Vigil Keep, then take the asura gate in Vigil Keep to any one of the cities you wish to go to. Please tell me you didn’t know there was an asura gate in each WvW map that leads out of it. Please do, so I may shake my head and at least know this was caused by a lack of knowledge, and not true foolhardiness.
Since you seem not to have read my post properly I’ll bold the important part to make it easy for you.
Please explain how I get directly from WvW to Rata Sum.
Honestly I feel people are being lazy if they feel that much of a blow from all this.
It isn’t that it’s significant in itself, it’s just that taking a feature out of the game and then selling it back as a microtransaction represents the very worst of the free-to-play mentality, and shouldn’t have any place in a buy-to-play game or in an Arenanet game. It’s EA behaviour.
Yet, you’re complaining that Anet wants to make us buy airship passes? You make no sense.
No, we’re complaining that Anet has removed a feature from the game and is trying to sell it back to us as a microtransaction. That’s just scummy behaviour.
Are you listening to yourself? You’re complaining about not having a 1-stop area, when EVERY CITY IN THE GAME IS A 1-STOP AREA! That post of yours is so bad that well…
Please explain how I get directly from WvW to Rata Sum (or any of these other supposed ‘1-STOP’ cities) without paying waypoint fees, I must have missed a gate somewhere.
When I try to connect to the new map I’m getting an error 19:9:17:5097:101 (the “can’t connect to login server, campus network etc. etc.” one). The weird thing is that every other part of the game works fine (even other WvW maps – I’m in Augury Rock borderlands right now) – is this just teething problems with the new release?
Side question:
When I was forwarding my ports, the guide on portforward said that I need static IP. My connection type is PPPoE and I was assigned no static IP at the beginning, so I assume I have dynamic IP.
That isn’t what it means by a static IP. It doesn’t matter whether the IP your ISP gives you (ie your ‘internet IP’) is static or dynamic. Port forwarding is done within your own network (by your router), and you set it so that traffic on port X goes to say 192.168.1.100 (ie your gaming computer’s internal IP in your own network). If the next time you turn on your gaming computer your router gives it the internal IP address of 192.168.1.101 then your port forwarding won’t work.
Essentially you have to set your computer to use a fixed IP address in your computer’s Network Settings (in the Control Panel if you’re on Windows) rather than asking the router to give it one.
Where one server is at a disadvantage (real or perceived) in numbers or in skilled guild groups, it often focuses on EBG rather than Borderlands. I think the perception is that your own keep is easier to hold in EBG than it is in your home BL, so if you don’t have the numbers to hold both it’s better to concentrate on EBG.
As for Stonemist, it’s quite fun to take and also makes getting to the other side’s segment of the map much easier if you can cut through the centre.
‘Stack on me’, or ‘zerg going to Hills wurm gate’ doesn’t exactly require 60wpm.
If that’s all your commanders say then they must be really really bad…
Good Commanders will be saying a lot more and especially in the middle of a fight, they’ll be calling for pulls, stability, time warps, water fields, statics, well bombs, directing the melee train when to push and what direction to maneuver. It’s a lot of things to say that can’t physically be typed.
Best way to get people on teamspeak is to make them feel bad that they aren’t on it.
Nope, even when I do use TS (usually when I’m running with the Yakslappers guild group) the commanders never go into that sort of detail. They must be doing something right, as we finished second in our league above some higher-population servers and behind only the Desolation gigazerg.
I think the problem isn’t one of utility – people get the idea – but of trust. On our world for example, the ‘official’ TS server (which was nothing of the kind of course, but I digress) turned out to be run by a scammer who was using it to harvest personal details.
In terms of getting people on board, other than the trust issue there are two main points:
Don’t spam the TS server address repeatedly, don’t abuse players for not using TS. That’ll just make people determined not to use it.
Emphasise that you don’t need to talk, and in fact you don’t even need to own a microphone. Many people are uncomfortable talking to strangers on the internet, but would be happy to listen only (it’s basically no different from internet radio or a Youtube commentary at that point).
There are always those that say they can’t stand the chatter (too dumb to use volume adjust or mute) or that you should be able to lead with just map chat (because fighting and typing 60 wpm is normal for commanders, right?)
‘Stack on me’, or ‘zerg going to Hills wurm gate’ doesn’t exactly require 60wpm.
Edit: Should probably explain that I’m from a middle-ranking server (Gandara, second in EU silver league) so my experiences relate to that environment. I also like Teamspeak and use it extensively in another game (M&BW: Napoleonic Wars), I just don’t always like the sort of aggressiveness with which people try to promote TS ingame sometimes.
I would love to see some Cannons with range of a Treb.
An EMP bomb to disable mechanized suits for a short period of time.
Charr tanks.
MORE TRAPS: Like the ones in the jungle fractal would be lovely.
Maybe some mine fields?
What would you guys want?
The tier 3 supply camp upgrades should give that camp’s supply dolyaks cannons on their backs, GW1 Siege Turtle style.
Both ele and engie are very similar, but different in their own ways. They are my favorite class, and I recommend them if you want to be able to do anything. They both do have very high skill-caps and a lot of button-pushing to get good though.
Engis are great in WvW. Flamethrower → Charge into zerg → Win (or not, as the case may be). Not necessarily the most min-maxed strategy in the game, but brilliant fun nonetheless.
Alas, WvW feels demotivating as never before (since the very launch of the game). Personal skills and coordination within group still have a miserable impact on the outcome of the battle. And still there is no means to punish the players who ruin teamplay (like kicking from server, for example, or banning for awhile, or any other). I consider myself a casual gamer and too often I feel like I’m wasting my time joining WvW. I find no fun in running around hoping that the zerg I encounter is smaller than mine because numbers are the only thing that actually matters in Guild Wars 2 WvW.
Agreed.
I really liked the idea of the meta-achievement (and really wanted the Mini Dolyak) but Arenanet’s pathetic (and long-standing) server problems meant I was locked out of WvW for more than a month. I don’t know if I even want to keep playing the game after that.
