Guild Wars 2

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Tala.7638:

Just tap ctrl and read. I mean I know it isnt a perfect method, but it is what I do when looking at seige while running up to defend a keep because if superiors are open, I want my badges.

It was pretty obvious that he meant in his inventory, not the blueprints on the map…

But I agree there should be some difference between the two.

There also seem to be a party-queue thing going on. If you’re in a party and they all queue for a map you often get in at the same time. So logically it would be best to queue solo, not in a party, but I don’t know if its true.

Keep requeueing then. If it doesnt work it means it got bugged again or whatever is causing this.

Sometimes I have to requeue 2 or 3 times, but then the total queuetime is still 30 min or so.

A queue of 50 minutes? Holy mother… I just requeue after 10-15 and within another 5 min I’m in… And yes in Lions Arch.

The queues shouldn’t take that long, just requeue after 15 minutes.

Diehard.1432:

I think this thread would flow much better if we talk about the opposition’s guild instead of our own/server’s guilds.

Yeah otherwise it’ll just end up in a list of guilds and some replies in between :P

If you can’t see the enemy yet, you can still target them by pressing TAB or clicking whever the bullets seem to come from. They can still be hit while stealthed so try to force them a location (immobilize, stun, etc) right before they stealth and aoe that location when they go invis. That helps against the “noobier” thieves out there.

There are more tips/tricks though. The NPC one posted above is a good example.

Just try to figure out why thieves get to kill you so easily and then try to come up with something to counter that.

Are you still having fun though? Doesn’t seem like fun steamrolling them so easily… Hope you get your challenge soon though in higher tiers… Would be a waste

haven’t noticed any change so far, I think you got very lucky

Ray.2640:

1 gap closer, just 1, would have been enough to kill these people.
As soon as only 1 person gets in melee range they either die from his damage or stop the AoE to take that person down, allowing the ranged group to decimate them in the process.
I always just dives trough the lines of enemies and try to get as many people to focus me as possible and then dashing out or using CC / survivibility skills so that the rest of my group can just take down the enemies while half of them are distracted. It never fails, the lines are broken and you can all fight toe to toe, no more ranged poking and putting down AoE spells as far away as possible.

I do the same. When I play with pugs I just dive in, hoping my allies will realize that this is their chance to push… Sometimes they just stay behind :P

K so I don’t have to worry, I don’t play primetime. ty

I don’t mind the guards, keeplords and such being NPCs, but imo none of the other random mobs you see in wvw should aggro you unless you attack them first. They are just annoying

Xsorus.2507:

Paid Server transfer won’t fix the problem, It’ll just make already strong servers remain strong.

The only way to truly fix it would be to allow people to transfer to Red/Blue servers for free and require Green to be paid.

That makes no sense.

So if Server A is red now and drops 1 place to be green in a lower tier, it doesn’t mean that server A will still be winning that match…. They might as well still end up 3rd in that match up and then you’re still forcing people to PAY to transfer to that server, while the servers that are doing better are free…

Imo they should’ve implemented free transfers within the first 2 months of release already. This is way too late. There would be 68% less drama on the wvw forums if they actually did so.

ajm.2931:

Isn’t it true the cost of transferring will be based on how populated the server is? So a heavily populated server costs more to transfer to than a lightly populated one.

If so that could help stabilize overall server balance over time.

That would’ve worked a lot better asap after release, rather than waiting 6 months to let the servers get kittened up and then trying to fix it.

As far as I know you do get credited for trebbing only.

If the wall you damaged actually goes down you should get rewarded for it. I have received rewards many times before, just for trebbing….

What if you breached a wall?

Nemo.6295:

Try a bigger overreaction, it’s original and interesting…

Tanks are in the game world, so are flying ships, robots and big kittening guns. Deal with it. WvsW is about siegefare also. Or should we just remove anything we don’t agree with? Then let’s remove WvW since well, we don’t like siege wapons, or big fights, or taking towers and keeps, and let’s all just…. finger wrestle!

…

Just because tanks, guns and spaceships are real and also exist in the real world (well… spaceships…) doesnt mean they would be suitable for this game…

Why not make a nuclear bomb made by the asura to just blow up an entire map, plant a flag and say “this land is mine!”

Tanks, aka moving siege that can shoot stuff to blow stuff up wouldn’t be a bad idea. But we already have such a thing, Omega Siege Golem. Maybe fix and rework the things currently in the game, before adding more stuff that can potentially bring new bugs into the game.

And btw, my post was referring more to the crazy ideas posted in this topic. And I know most of them are jokes, so was mine. I don’t quite understand from your post if you “agree” with me or are actually trying to diss me… which seems like a weird thing to do after a sarcastic/funny remark

I like d/d s/d eles. they look more like ninjas than thieves do and are way more fun to fight against

The usual fights against thieves go like this:
- Thief randomly pops up and tries to kill me
- Fast response to block/dodge everything he throws at me
- Do some damage back.
- Thief stealths, sometimes being immobilized in the process (a lot of them stealth at a certain HP, so I try to stun/immobilize when that happens)
- Do more massive damage on location hoping the thief is downed
- No, but thief is almost dead seeing him run away in the distance
- I turn around to go back on route because imo the battle is over, he chickened out.
- 10 seconds later thief is back, pops out of stealth again
- I keep running, dodging everything hoping he will give up
- 10 seconds later: Now im like “fkin musquito gtfo” and I turn around to fight him
- Here I either die, kill him or run away succesfully (if he runs off again, which they often do)

So in my point of view, thieves are kinda like chicken classes (I use another word than chicken, but that word will be filtered out… I think you can guess what it is, it starts with a P). It’s basically: Do some dmg, “ohnooo i get hurt a bit”, run away, “ohohoho he cant see me, I run back”, do more dmg, “can’t win” run away again.

^ Not a rant in case someone decides to nerd rage on me. I won’t care.

Eles are just more fun to fight against (and with in my opinion)

Just my 2 cents.

WvW can be fun, if the conditions above are met, but that shouldn’t be the case. It should be fun most of the time (all of the time is a bit too much to expect).

I think it’s alright, needs some improvement and a better motivation to play. Those bonusses are worthless and I doubt people even pay attention to them. Last time I checked what the bonusses my server was giving me for WvW was in september. Give a reward that makes you want to get it, one that isn’t super exclusive to get like legendaries and don’t make them imbalance WvW. I can’t really think of anything right now, but hey it’s not my job to do so.

We will see what they do for the february patch, but I hope it’s good. Because a patch this big can make or break the game instantly… (for me it sounds more logical to do 1 small patch every month, rather than 1 giant one after 6 months). If people hate the patch, then ANET’s work of the last 6 months was just a waste of time and a lot of money.

So I hope they know what they’re doing. They keep doing things (or do nothing) that makes me doubt them more and more over time.

So… if I get this right…

SFR: “Let’s annihilate Vizunah”
Deso: “Let’s let SFR do all the work, we don’t care either way”
VS: Doing same thing as usual

Yeah lets add spaceships, tanks and all and then re-name the game to Battlefield 4

Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket

lmao imagine 100 vs 500

ultimate culling = unlimited nerd rage

annihilation is inevitable

resitance is futile

higher limit is not a good idea for now. maybe if there were more wvw players on all servers and on (almost) all servers you had queues 12+ hours a day, only then should they consider this.

Slamz.5376:

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You forgot that, unlike PS2, GW2 has something called PVE and that quite a lot of people still do that.

If the entire game of GW2 would be JUST World vs World, then I’m pretty sure the limit would’ve been higher in the first place.

Nugos is still on Blacktide. The guild chose to stay on BT for now

- edit

and GF and DZ as well I think

Eventually the server will get out of the lower tiers. thats when their plans will prove succesful or not. their idea was to go to the lowest pop server so that when people join most of them will want to WvW. in theory it should create the “best” wvw server with most players doing wvw, not pve.

Just give it a few weeks and we’ll see if it was a success or not.

If I recall this correctly, this is the reason why Battlefield 3 uses orange and blue colors to identify friendlies and enemies.

I think those 2 colors will help against most forms of colorblindness?

Maybe GW2 could use similar colors (and have an option for it in the settings)

Yeah that was such an obvios fail :P

Nugos will start raiding on the 7th

I hope other guilds are too….

Vukanigia.5496:

Centrix, leave the forum a bit and join WvW so you can get a clear picture… Just stop with forum hero blsh and start doing something useful for a change… I can’t get more ppl on the field as we raid each day with 4 commanders in 2nd and 3rd shift but as some1 that is more here then on battleground you couldn’t know that…

lol I play enough thank you. It’s called multitasking baby, checking forums on 2nd monitor while on autorun is nothing to be ashamed about.

Why did you even post this? What I said wasn’t directed to your guild specifically, but the people on BT in general. I know how much Balkan Legion does, I see you guys every day.

So don’t tell me.

Junkpile.7439:

Holiday just means that you can play whole day.

Not if you’re going on vacation, like to another country or to visit family.

You you can never really know how many are really gone or who are gone temporarily.

Devitz.2136:

Wow, I just can’t believe who is complaining about BT going down…CIR and NUG, just add Green Fire and we will have all guilds which stopped playing. I love the fact that we’re in lower tier now, maybe some guilds who joined us just because we were top1 will finally leave us(RG). With high respect to your teamplay, we prefer communicable guilds not selfish, egoistic over-confident ………….. (add your own word)

I prefer being in T2 too.

Tzun.6073:

Well, that may be so ( BT going down ) but don’t jump servers again, do try and make it better. Don’t you think IRON has sometimes felt tired of having to work REAL HARD to keep desolation somewhat safe? ( Along with other guilds who’ve been there for the rough ) Please RG & NUG and any other server considering jumping off… just work a bit harder and try and get some other guilds from somewhere else to help you out, there’s got to be more eastern european people around!

Anywho, good match up, ^^

Wow who said Nug is planning to jump ship?

Please don’t put words into other people’s mouths. Thank you

It seems Dalzone is back…?

Tzun.6073:

Truebanana.5936:

What are you actually doing then ?

Stop trying to pick a fight mate, it isn’t going to fly.

Don’t taunt him then :P

Vukanigia.5496:

:-) Desolation, will you ever forget us for kicking your kitten in tier one last time we meet and continue playing normal? Arborstone is on 2nd place and holding SM on EB but you are all over us. Same happened on our home border while i see no1 attacking Arborstone. I don’t mind fighting you guys but it’s kinda silly…

Please stop…

Complaining about it won’t change anything. If anything, it’ll just give other servers the impression our entire server is a bunch of whiners, which will annoy them more and eventually cause them to attack us even more frequently.

Come on.

If you really want them to stop, get your guild and friends into WvW and make a force so big and strong they will think twice about attacking us.

Simonoly.4352:

@Pannonica – Don’t be like that. I know it’s frustrating when you’re outnumbered, but it’s unrealistic to expect everyone else to play the same way you do. In the heat of battle you can’t expect deso to just stop, count all the enemy players (that can be seen) and then have a commander tell everyone to not use anymore trebs all because of your expectation for ‘proper etiquette’. Deso have no idea what you have planned or if you have reinforcements incoming, so they’re obviously going to want to take your last keep as quickly as possible to secure a defensive foothold. People want to get as much out of WvW as they can, and as siege equipment is a big part of WvW, people are going to use it as much as possible.

Also, trebs are fun. I absolutely loved blowing the kitten out of everything this evening. I don’t care if there’s 1 or 50 of you, I want to make things explode! I want to participate in everything WvW has to offer :-D

Although it sucks for us, I agree with this post.

Let’s turn this around. If deso was outnumbered and we weren’t, do you think our commanders would tell half of our troops to stop playing to “make it a more fair fight”?

It is what it is….

Although if I know that we outnumber them heavily and they won’t have reinforcements coming I probably wouldn’t go for trebs… kind of waste of time and resources lol.

Happens once in a while. The map/server will reboot and it shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes before you can access it again.

I’ve often started GW2 to WvW, but then when I started loading L.A I just closed the game cause I already lost interest lol

Not sure if anyone posted this before, but I think it would be a pretty good idea to have an option to go to WvW directly from character selection.

Loading Lions Arch first, just to then load WvW again just seems like a waste of time to me… It’s also quite annoying (not that bad though, don’t get me wrong) that I usually get into the L.A. overflow first, not being able to see the WvW score until I actually go to WvW, and then having to change maps AGAIN.

So currently I need to load 2-3 maps, when I could’ve just loaded the correct WvW map immediatly.

Thoughts?

Since your guild does not have a strong presence in WvW yet I suggest that whenever you guys play with one of the 2-3 “commanders” you have, each guild-party following him should target (default CTRL+T) the commander of your choice, so that everyone in your guild knows who to follow, even if he is not wearing his title (you can also do this for sneak attacks btw)

The people outside your guild will not know that you have a commander running, but it would probably be a good idea to test this within the guild first. It’ll probably also make it easier for your guild to decide who should get the commander title first.

Not sure if I explained it well enough, but I hope these old screenshots below will clarify. (had to do some digging :P)

Pugs are probably as important as organized guilds. It’s a coop. One can’t function without the other. Pugs won’t want to play if they know the organized guilds don’t play and the other way around.

I like the idea, but similar to Caelib’s response, I think there are other issues to be handled first :P

Priorities, but yeah eventually that would be a nice addition to the game.

dreztina.4820:

Water combat is horrible and forces you into one weapon set. I’m a d/d ele, I want to be highly mobile and move in and out of combat. What do I do underwater? Sit back and spam spells like I’m using a staff.

I honestly just give up kills if they go in the water because it’s so kitten bad that I would prefer losing the kill than dealing with the water combat.

I’ve often enough just stopped moving to die and respawn, rather than spend time and energy to escape. And I see others do it as well…

I rather die and spend 2 minutes running back to the general area, than spend 5 minutes trying to survive or kill someone, end up somewhere I don’t want to be, just to spend another 2 minutes to run back.

Although underwater I usually avoid combat. You will never see me attack someone unless they attack me first

Some people are leaving BT because they think others have left as well, when they’re just in hybernationmode… Other servers suffering the same?

Oeps Rolls Necro.2594:

We hunted them down. There where more then some for a week.
But they left after that week.

They are history, lets talk about the future.
When will RG, NUG , GF, MOS, and OPT show up in full force?

That would be interesting for me

Hope you like the screenshot, we did making it happen.

See you on the battlefield

I ofcourse can’t speak for the other guilds, but I believe RG announced they will be back after Jan 4th or so?

I’m not Russian, so I don’t know everything that’s going on in Nugos to be completely honest :P but from what I understand most of our members (including our leader) are on holiday break and most of them should be back next week or so. The only Russian words and sentences I know are WvW/position-related (left, right, back, regroup, build, go to, etc etc)…

No clue about the other guilds.

My game often just randomly disconnects (goes back to character selection) or simply crashes. I know others have this issue as well.

And instead of fixing the bugs first where the client randomly disconnects or crashes, ArenaNet implements something that basically exploits their own bugs to be used as goldsinks with the excuse that it is to prevent people from ALT-F4’ing when downed.

No wonder people quit. They don’t have any in-game gold left to continue playing :P

Oeps Rolls Necro.2594:

Vukanigia.5496:

i must say i don’t find Desolation as a friendly place for a new guilds.

I think we are. Only RUIN was a serverwinner hopper. We got defeated by BT and RUIN hopped instantly to BT with a lot of randoms. Thats why people where getting mad.

KAZ joined us for the long term, they are more then welcome.
Because they didnt join for the win, they joinend for the fighting spirit.

I hope that we can keep this topic the same as on the battlefield.
Hard and fair with no trolling/insulting.

Lots of respect from my side for BT and Arbor.

See you on the battlefield

I really really like tier 2 atm. I dont think/hope we go to tier 1. When you and Arbor are at full strenght, we will have a hell of a fight.

I think you are a bit misinformed. RUIN wasn’t really on BT… Just a few members, 10 or so… Really not that much to have a great impact and they left the week after.

A lot of BT players also weren’t that happy with the few RUIN that joined. I remember a group of pugs gathering at the border waypoint when this 1 RUIN guy said “OK guys follow me” and they responded basically with “yeah right” and literally nobody followed him. I think I even have a screenshot of that somewhere. It was quite a funny moment.

You’re right that there were non-RUINers that hopped to BT, but that also was the case with Deso (and ofcourse other servers) when people saw Deso was rising fast back then. Do you think nobody from Far Shiverpeaks hopped to Deso the week after they faced you?

Goodmorning/afternoon everyone.

It’s the last day of 2012, let’s make it worth remembering!

lindstroem.3601:

fascinating how fast the “unbeatable server for a long time cause of its huge presents of numbers” aka Blacktide drop down the ladder. Seems that the bandwagon train already moved on.

This was old news 4 weeks ago =/ Why bring it up again after so long lol

If people said BT was unbeatable then they were wrong to say so, just like anyone else saying it about their own server. It’s foolish to think that because you win 2 or 3 weeks you are unbeatable, no matter which server you play on. I’ve seen some people say it about BT, but I’ve also seen people say it about Deso and other servers that are/were in the top tiers. In all cases they were proven wrong. So hopefully people learn not to think this way and just to play the game, have fun, do their best and see where they land.

Yes we lost a lot of players, but from my current experience on the field the people that are still fighting are fighting hard and do their best, just like any other player in any other server in this tier.

This T2 match was indeed predicted pretty early on last week, and a lot of the players on Blacktide knew about it. It was mentioned in the map and team chat numerous times.

I am now confused myself whether DkR is planning to move to Deso or stay on BT… Ofcourse I hope they stay, but if not, please be honest about it.

@Wrex

Then accuse those few, don’t start with “Pretty funny that Blacktide…”. This is a direct accusation to the entire server.

You can try to twist your words to give another meaning to them as much as you want. What would people think if I was a guild leader (or even just a member) and posted this:

(if one of your members were a real hacker)

Pretty funny that IRON is a bunch of idiotic hackers. My guild plays as fair as possible while IRON is resulting to cheap tactics like hacking and other methods of cheating. The entire guild is pathetic for harboring this cheater.

Anyways, good job [myguild], keep it up. It’s too bad that some of IRON has to be like this.

- I would be throwing your whole guild under the bus + the 1 member that cheats.
- You wouldn’t be pleased at me for spouting lies or otherwise incorrect facts, especially if it would be right after you posted that your guild does not represent and accept this kind behavior.
- Nobody would say “oh well he only accused some members”, because I didn’t (hypothetically)
- I would lose credibility and respect as a guild leader or even as a person.

And in all fairness I would be just talking about your guild not an entire server.

If I then later made a post with fake smilies saying that whoever I attacked should just go read it again, it would be an insult on top of an insult. And publicly saying you don’t care if you insult other people says more about you than you could possibly think.

And to top it off, you see how I am directing this post to you? That’s what you should’ve done. I didn’t post this accusing your whole guild for saying what you said, because THEY didn’t, YOU did.

Cheers.

(And in case nobody figured it out, the quote is not my real opinion about IRON guild.)

Guess you don’t care enough about your guild- and alliance members then huh

Blaming an entire server for the actions of 1 guy, even after other people on the same server post that they don’t agree with that guy’s actions is childish, irrational and I would even go as far as saying immoral

Intigo.1653:

FrouFrou.4958:

Pardon me, my reply wasn’t exactly ment to be taken super srsly and I don’t truly think he represents whole Blacktide as it is. I suppose there are no space for jokes in this particular forum :<

How dare you be facetious and attempt to use ‘humor’ in this forum?

If this were EVE I’d tell you that “internet spaceships are srs bsns”.

But internet spaceships really are srs bsns! How else do you think the data get’s transported through the interwebz?

Pannonica.5378:

Yeah, lets just file this under hasty reaction/being drunk/tired out and move on.

Still no reason for a guild leader to post such accusations in such a manner.

Toglos.3270:

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Respect for posting here and clarifying

Wrex.6798:

Pretty funny that Blacktide are trying to recruit from Deso, you guys keep us laughing!

To be honest guys, if someone wants to go from Deso – stable server with a great community and fun times in WvW, to Blacktide – falling/failing fast while using underhanded tactics to try to destabilse our great server, then they deserve to be recurited by this random Blacktide commander who’s trying to sabotage WvW.

Thumbs up Deso we’re doing great, lets keep it up during the week Fun matchup so far shame that a few bad apples have to lower T2’s run like this.

//Wrex

Wow Wrex, I did not expect this from you. You disappoint me, deeply.

Did you just miss all the posts made before yours or did you deliberately decide to ignore them? Because your post on it’s own is already disrespectful, but posting it now was really just a bad move. Really, really bad timing. Makes you look like an even more cruel person than you apparently already are.

Since when are you like this? I guess what Cyan did to you made you bitter, but you don’t have to be hateful, insulting, disrespectful and stuck up towards others.

What you posted was really uncalled for and I highly suggest you read all the other posts and consider changing or deleting what you posted.

shame that a few bad apples have to lower T2’s run like this.

The hypocricy. Seriously