Guild Wars 2

Yes the travelers runes will likely have to go…unless i go 5 and something else. I thought about replacing the discipline tree with something else, maybe the signet recharge decrease to 40….and then I could have my ultimate constantly on….I could switch to leadership runes (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Leadership). But I’m running melee and since my primary damage comes from my GS, fast hands, and movement skills breaking immobilize are likely too important to not have. If I switched to axe or something more dps instead of sword mbe I could make a new build that way. Regardless the travelers runes must go.

I like the general boon duration buffs in terms of what it does for movement speed and fury though, as opposed to just might duration buff.

I kept thinking frenzy had the old take 50% more damage while active thing, but that’s long gone so your right it makes sense to try it over dolyak and to get endure pain instead of armoured. And if I don’t like frenzy I can just choose signet of might…which will be very very useful against dragon hunters and revenants. I will try those things, thankyou.

Using rampage as your ult was interesting….especially with the cd decrease and dmg buff.

Cygnus.6903:

Tbh, your remark about swapping out Discipline for Berserker where ‘The only real loss would be ’fast hands’‘, made me giggle. This really shows a lack of experience playing warrior in either PvP or WvW, no offense (really, I get it). But Fast Hands is a warrior’s strongest trait out of PvE.

People run different things with berserker such as bow and gunflame. If they don’t need to break immobilize from movement skills, then “the only real loss” is fasthands.
It is definitely a real loss….thus I said it was…
I’m sure some ranged builds can get away with not having it, but it’s great for everything and for melee it’s pretty much required unless you get the other ‘weapon swap cooldown decrease’ thing into your build. This really shows a lack of experience in reading posts in either Gw2 forums or reddit, no offense (really, I get it). Hopefully we’re on the same page now.

I would hardly call any of the shrines and their effects unfair. Fire shrines? The only thing is the hound of balthazar transformation….those things are easier to kill than actual professions if you learn their ‘3 moves’. Earth Shrines? Those only apply in the valley…you don’t even have to go through the valley, and it’s just movement impeding….that’s it. The cloak is nice for ambushing people, but if that’s an issue just take one of the shrines….they are located at all of the entrances to the valley afterall. It’s a gimmick effect, I don’t bother capping them for anything other than the movement speed buff. The wind shrines? air turrets are a gimmick defense that is easily dodges. No death from falling? I think that’s the coolest feature of the shrines. I hardly think it gives you a combat advantage except for running away and defending the keep….which is ridiculously hard to defend in the first place. And again, you need all 3 shrines…..it’s easy for the enemy to cap 1 of them.

If you have a problem with the shrine effects hindering your pvp combat, cap them! Personally I think they are mostly useless so I never bother capping for anything other than the movement speed buff, which you agree’d is a nice addition.

Everything else, sure i’ll agree with you.

If we just had 1 map like eternal but larger, and a better less laggy server with 3x the capacity….

Link some pics from the old WvsW wintersday…..the snow…the falling snow weather effects…..the festive effects…the lord skins….the presents….

My second gw2 halloween since the release was this year. Pretty much the exact same content as before except the grueling omission of WvsW from the celebrations.

Surely Wintersday will have a bit more going on for it!

My second gw2 wintersday since the release was yesterday. Pretty much the exact same content as before? EXCEPT:
-the grueling omission of WvsW from the celebration (Eotm? WHO CARES!?!?!?)
-no wintersday in lions arch….nothing at all…no snow…nothing
-everything is in ONE TINY SECTOR of Divinity’s reach. the reason being the other races don’t like wintersday compared to humans??!!?!??!?! That’s got to be one of the laziest flimsiest excuses I’ve ever heard. Everyone knows the other races are player controlled….and they are into wintersday the same as humans which are probably the least played race. Nobody cares about the static npc….nobody who has played the game for over a month believes in the ‘living world’ concept anymore. NPC just stand there saying 1-2 things over and over again until a big event comes up and something else is introduced to stand somewhere and say 1-2 things all over again.
-NO SNOW. I WANT SNOW. GIVE ME SNOW. DESERT BORDERLANDS FOR CHRISTMAS? I WANT A DESERT FOR CHRISTMAS! I WANT TO BE IN A DESERT! NOT SURROUNDED BY SNOW! THAT’S OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE ALL WANTED FOR WINTERSDAY.

Where is my snow….where is the snow falling weather effects….where is my WvsW winter?….Am I the only returning player going “what happened?”. So happy I didn’t buy into HoT.

Happy Wintersday my fellow warriors!

I wrote a very long guide seeking feedback on my current WvsW build. I thought it was a bit too long, so I wrote an apology at the end and posted…..and it logged me out and I lost it. SO here’s a shorter version!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJEQNAR8ejMdQXIWFCOeAnIG6BKtNC/wwCgPICwaYxzBA-TVDEABQcQAy+IAY3+DPpEjJlDdpEkF1faSJhHaECRTQH6YO4CAAwDAAA-w

Travelers runes. Originally thought they were terrible. Tried them again but with more toughness on my trinkets….they have now replaced my previous build

Most of my work is pve. But plenty of pvp and dueling (1v1, 1v2) occurs along with group fights.

-At night I’ll switch in a Gs with sigil of night and accuracy. unless i have 25 stack of cruel
-When I have to outrun something (blobs) I’ll trade berserker stance for bulls rush while OoC.

Armoured attack vs defy pain in the defense tree: I have an addiction when it comes to choosing armoured attack which is about +125 power…..help me!

Death from above is a must-have trait imo currently. Although my damage output is lower in pve, it saves my skin countless times in pvp and increases my mobility. It’s also an easy way to win pvp fights you are ‘strategically retreating from’….yes many people think they can survive the falls that I survive, they die instantly.

I run vanilla warrior. if you have HoT you can easily swap out the discipline tree for berserker. The only real loss would be ‘fast hands’ (5 sec weapon swap).

Axe/shield has never worked for me.

My crit rate stats look low but I barely notice a difference between 50 and 60 base except when I’m using sword 3.

Build lacks endurance regen. Sigil of energy would interfere with my pve damage and take up a sigil spot.

Any critique is welcome. Please specify whether your feedback is based on personal hands on experience or whether its based on data analysis/meta material. i.e. Looking at the stats and saying your power is too low based on meta or whatever vs. having tried builds with that kind of power level and deciding they were too low.

Thanks!

edit: umm the wiki ‘indicates’ warriors sprint and rune of traveler +25% don’t stack…which is contrary to my own experience ingame. Can some1 confirm? I recognize a small speed difference when i toggle the runes from 5-6. Placebo effect might be taking its toll though.

Reddit is amazing. We should all embrace reddit. It is a place of scholarly discussion where we can discuss things openly and freely in a caring environment with other community members. One should never stand in the way of the reddit. One should never question the reddit. Love your reddit and you shall be loved in return.

If you speak out against the reddit you break the forums rules. And I will flag you like a good citizen of the reddit. I was once a sinner too, but I was flagged and embraced by the moderators who do the will of the reddit. The moderators have shown me the light, and I shall preach the reddit for all to see.

-Commanders get a tag
-Everyone following the commander in their squad gets a dot
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have some variation in those squad dots? I mean if someone wants to play roamer/scout/support/frontline/repair/siege golem/healer for the squad…couldn’t they get their own coloured dot or something on the map that makes them differentiated from one another upon closer inspection?

Or even just ranks in the squad menu (the thing on the top left side of the screen). Where you can join a subrank such as roamer or scout or aoe or tank or whatever.
i.e.
You would have a general pool that all players fall into like usual in the squad. Then if players wanted to specify their role they could be placed underneath that clump with a small title above saying what that role is.

i.e.
You got a squad with a total player count number displayed at the top and then…

Commander (1):
-ihaveatag
General (20):
-rabble1 rabble2 rabble3….rabble20
Scout (3):
-i chose scout after joining to tell my commander what i want to do
Aoe/glass (2):
-i chose this to tell my commander I will be a squishy caster/cannon
Tank (4):
-tank1 tank2 tank3 tank4

Then like I said earlier they could potentially have different coloured dots to make organization on the battlefield a bit more fluid and easier for players to perform independently. i.e. the castors can see where the tanks are so they know where to place themselves. i.e. the squad knows when they are in trouble when the purple dots (tanks) are all going into downed state i.e. the squad knows they have a roamer/scout and they are the ones talking and from where by their pink coloured dot.

Embark on an epicly thankless job from an epicly thankless gamemode. Become the altruistic hero! That hero nobody remembers or ever knew about to begin with. Embark on your journey today…

…then tomorrow you can do everything over and over again.

It would be nice if the community was a bit nicer. After spending a few hours running around solo’ing half the map for my bl (keep, towers, too many supply camps), talking in the chat fairly actively, and being in the squad but not with the group, I get one person immediately reply with “?” when I call it quits and say goodnight…and that’s it. I took half the map and you just hugged the commander the entire time accomplishing less as a giant group than I could solo…apparently dry hupping tags along with everyone else is the only way to gain people’s respect.
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Conner.4702:

In short Megaservers are not a solution to anything when looking at the big overal picture. Something most people need to start doing.

We all know this already. It’s simply a solution for one of many things that will need to be done. But the solution has to start somewhere. Creating a high population is the foundation from which you can start to fix any sort of game.

I like this. Adrenalin is easy to come by, so even if I have to use the full bar for each ability its fine by me.

lighter.2708:

tbh i prefer mobility

Either one imo. Either give more tools to get enemy in melee range or give more tools to duel someone for longer than 39 seconds….shorter cooldowns….better sustain…whatever.

After surviving all their traps and taking down all their blocks I really only get 1 chance to take down a competent dragon hunter with melee warrior. And to do that I need some serious burst and hands-on melee hits to crush their squishy insides. If they don’t get downed, they instant heal back to 100% and all their abilities are off cd and refreshed for a second go and I got nothing to throw at them. Same for engineers, elementals…mesmers…..everything really except other warriors.

It’s stupid to pick your class solely on the idea that you think you are gonna main pve. Everyone goes to one of the pvp modes at some point. Choose elemental. Seriously, don’t choose warrior. Warriors are probably one of the most straightforward classes to learn and play. They are also one of the most straightforward ones to kill in pvp modes because their moves are generally all generic melee (some exceptions). You should learn a more complicated class first. Elemental gives you the tools to do everything in the game….and the sheer number of moves and attacks you have with each weapon is quite a bit to take in. If you are playing for the first time, don’t play warrior. Play through once and go level by level to 80, learning a more complicated class slowly and meticulously. Then afterwards you can always go back and make an instant lvl 80 warrior, and easily learn how to play them as your second character. It only takes a couple of lines to describe what each weapon a warrior wields is best at….it will be easy to read a guide and instantly pick out what kind of weapon does what best on warriors. If your such a big fan of heavy armour choose guardian, it basically does everything a warrior does +more, but better and easier.

Pve is very much a grind. You run the same instances over and over. You only have to learn the content once….then the content becomes running the same content over and over. There is no need to overthink pve when you start the game, you can run anything for it and do well and efficient. If you wanna solo the hardest dungeons by yourself though….go on youtube and watch the warrior fail miserably. Then go on youtube and watch the elemental breeze through it.

The Eotm system would be very very bad for WvW. But Megaservers could be a good thing if they are done properly to retain a sense of community/pride.

Server Pride matters? Then why were u jumping around so much from server to server? Is everyone supposed to do what u did? Your server pride in yak’s bend, or whatever the current server your in, is a learned behaviour. There are plenty of systems that ‘could’ bolster alliance/megaserver pride….you are just being closed minded.

Dinks.2478:

Broken armor doesn’t even server a purpose anymore. It use to be a gold sink for repairing but since it is free to repair it is just a pointless system in general. Not even sure why it still exists other than to be annoying.

They should just bring back the old system. Armour repairs used to be a rite of initiation when facing dungeons and certain challenges for the first time. Now death has no meaning. It honestly makes partying more toxic, since all blame/grief is displaced from the system onto the playerbase. Die respawn die respawn die respawn….throw yourself at the enemy until you win. It makes the endgame content seem very stupid at times.

Ya you guys are probably right about the ele being best choice. I made a mesmer and didn’t find it as interesting as I thought it would be. And I always see elementalists dominating in wvw solo or in support roles when it comes to pvp combat. Plus I saw that video of the elementalist solo an arah path in 25 mins…..insane damage, speed, and damage mitigation.

I wanted to make an asura. Was thinking of ranger since it would be funny having a huge pet, and asura aren’t usually rangers. I made my mesmer a charr …I made it as small and short as possible and still find the model too large. asuran elementalist seems like its been done alrdy though specially since zojja is one….and i was a human warrior before like logan lol.

I see advantages and disadvantages to siege only being able to destroy siege. For one arrow carts would be impossible to destroy in alot of cases by attackers. Rams are usually the counter to arrow carts, unless ac’s are used en mass, so maybe it could work with some changes to how certain siege interact with others. I’d support invulnerable gates for fortified gates. I think its stupid that you can aoe down a gate when you have a zerg present. I mean basic wood gates….who cares, let them get chopped down. Fortified should give more advantages though.

I’d rather they just do something with the siege decay timers. You get to that point where your defenses are fully upgraded and have full supply and you can’t do anything really to keep them safe unless you have enough people since u can’t build things fast enough. Consider how short supply is on frontline structures, and the fact you have to spend 300+ supply to fully repair a single fortified wall…..and you have to repair cannons/oil/mortars…. it just makes sense to up the siege decay timers.

Or if that’s too much to ask, then situational increases would be good: When you get the ‘outnumbered’ icon, all your siege on the map is refreshed and the timers do not decrease until outnumbered is gone. I think that’s a pretty simple way to help things. There’s plenty of 1-4 hour periods where one borderland is severely outnumbered by 1 or more of the others. Planning ahead and building the defenses at your rear fortifications and defending the front ones for as long as possible makes defense much more viabl when u dont’ have to worry about porting back to refresh those siege weapons or leaving them there and having to getoff for the night. Somebody else can then take advantage of the defences. There’s just not enough options on what you can do to defend a fortified installation….it all boils down to playercount and that is stupid.

Existential.4831:

Hi Cerby. I wreck 90% of classes in duels in WvW using Professor Snarl’s condi build listed here
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/WvW-Beserk-Roamer-Build-Perplexing-Flames/first#post5811805

If you want to go Zerk use Cygnus’s build https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Video-Berserker-WvW-Roaming-Build/first#post5841686

Vanilla Warrior does not cut it at all now.

We have a major balance patch yet to come.

That’s cool….I was asking about rerolling though. i.e. other professions.

For the purposes of this discussion:
-I’ve only had 1 character (a human warrior)….the others were failures
-I don’t have HoT yet

I wanna try something new. Basically I’m tired of dps melee. I’m tired of not having high damage ranged and aoe attacks. I’m tired of not being able to do condition damage. I’m tired of not having a viable role in zerg battles or WvW sieges/defense. I’m tired of spending 4 minutes hitting a siege golem with my Gs thousand blades zerker build, when a necro or condition dealer can just place 1 ranged aoe and wreck it.

I was thinking necromancer or mesmer.

I usually run solo. I’d want suggestions on the race to pick to go with it as well.
i.e. Charr mesmer
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Stuff I’ve observed, but don’t know whether is true or not:::::

necro:
+aoe’s= easy loot, new gameplay dynamics, strategy, useful for WvW defense/offence.

Mesmer:
+I really like rts elements. planning attacks and screwing with your enemies seems fun
+very easy to get away from enemies or bad situations.
+portal mechanics are really up my alley. I like helping people. And I usually camp inside something that has been taken in WvW and recap myself. I usually solo build as well in wvw, portals would speed that up.

In general my understanding is necro is gonna be more direct damage. Mesmer is going to be more utility.

Any suggestions would be appreciated
That’s all.

Extra: To my secret admirer who checks all my posting history for ways to badmouth my credibility ‘on the other forums’…..I will say this one more time: You are a creep. You are supposed to tackle the argument, not the person. This isn’t reddit.

This is kinda the opposite of what everyone has been telling me lately. Vitality over toughness. Ferocity over power. Your crit rate is still a bit low to just go all in ferocity isn’kitten Can someone explain the logic behind ferocity with such a low precision to me? I’m not meaning to criticize, I just legitimately don’t understand based on what other people tell me.

I’d like eviscerate to get a bonus of some kind. It just seems so lackluster even in just base damage compared to the GS or Rifle Burst which also grant berserkers power boons (10% extra damage). I mean its only 1 enemy to begin with that gets hit, and its easily avoidable and hard to land. Why isn’t the damage value upped? Either that or give some other bonus for hitting the enemy with it.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

2 out 9 professions are below satisfied and disappointed with where there preferred profession is. 7 out of 9 are killing the other 2. For years rangers and necro’s were kicked from every PvE party, never used in tournaments and the one time ranger and necro saw the light of day was as home defenders with petting zoo’s.
It was a terrible time that one would have hoped wouldn’t be repeated. Turns out history does repeat itself. However, as long as 7 out of 9 are happy, anet will be considering this a success.

I alrdy put up with that though and that was the reason I CHOSE warrior for gw2! When I played Gw1 I played ranger and got booted constantly from every kind of party. The class was a joke compared to warriors, who were always useful in every party. That’s why I chose warrior for gw2. Now I’m suddenly screwed again? COOOL. How do you mess up such a basic class though….it’s just ridiculous. In any game warriors serve as the backbone of all the other professions.

Mentality for normal games: You have the melee class (warrior) and then you make other classes that do stuff the warrior can’t. You never make the warrior useless though since u then make melee weapons useless. It’s pretty basic at its core. Melee, ranged, support, crowd control…..those should be the 4 main groups. And right now Guardian (who used to be pseudo melee/support) is doing a better job at melee than warriors are and filling the roles of all 4 of those groups!

Straegen.2938:

There is some validity in this decision now that taking down a keep lord can take a while. When keeps flipped in seconds, it kinda made sense but now servers (at least on EBG) have a chance to respond.

I have advocated that a keep’s WP should remain uncontested until the lord is in combat. It should remain contested until the lord is out of combat one way or another. The entire tap a keep to lock a WP thing is fight unfriendly and should be removed.

I don’t know what keep lords you are talking about specifically. They all die terribly easily imo. The DL BL keep lords are fodder. The charr keep lords last a bit longer in eternal. The only thing that takes awhile is the legendary castle lord….but this makes sense and he doesn’t do any damage anyways (glass cannons don’t get to cry about it). Outside of DL BL, keeps still flip extremely fast.

I think the wp being open until the lord takes damage is a good idea though. But they gotta fix the bugs where you can move the lords outside of the inner gate first.

Ya man, they obviously really like you given we’ve been complaining about this for over a month now and they fix it right after ‘you’ make a post about it

Post whatever you want as long as its related, I don’t care.

-“Fixed keep and castle walls such that there are no longer a few odd ranged attacks that pass through them.”

I like the diction choice for this. It obviously wasn’t as big a deal as we thought it was.

-“Fixed a bug that allowed contestable keep waypoints to be available for a few seconds in between repel events.”

This was a bug? What? Rip Defenders. I thought it was there to give defenders ‘something’ to contend with attackers ability to resurrect any of their killed members. But apparently defense is a case of a tower defense game where you don’t get more resources or members after each wave. You get less and less and the only way to defend is to drive the enemy off with superior numbers or keep going until they get bored and giveup or they killed you all….cap something else and then come back after the defenders have dispersed for an easy knab.

Does anyone defend anymore? I stopped. Whenever something is under attack I take a group and start attacking something else. The payoff in terms of points for our BL and rewards for my party members is wayyyyy better that way. I suggest everyone start playing this way. We can all be happier if all fighting takes place out in the open, and towers/keeps/castles are just static objects that we take and give to eachother without resistance . The game plays better this way too. Just stop defending! Fighting should be reserved for open land combat. If your ontop of a wall or behind a wall, you are playing wrong. I mean why not even prevent people from defending completely? Make the structures closed so if you own it, you can’t enter it to defend. Make attacking structures a PVE type gamemode. We can even make them separate load screen barred instanced zones. SO if u take down a gate….you port to an instanced zone where its just a flat open enclosed space with a lord at the other end of it. Then attackers and defenders can enter this instanced zone and go at it. I mean this would make battles less laggy and fix server limitations with population and player limits. Literally u bring down a gate….walk through it…get a load screen….port into a separate zone! Why not? We can even make maps larger/smaller by doing this since the zone inside of SM for example isn’t even on the map…it’s just a flat rendered image.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

I hate to break it to you but there will never be an equal WvW experience/opportunity for all servers or alliances even if it was changed to the sort of system you want.

Why would there not be an equal experience/opportunity if everyone played on the same servers? Why? Explain that! Because of the current problems? That’s my point, they can be fixed/changed to accommodate higher populations. And by higher populations I mean the current population limits on every Wvw server. There’s no dire need to increase those although it would be of benefit.

So what? WvW is doomed to the current state? And the lower the population the less the problems? That’s the argument you have presented as far as I can tell. I don’t like repeating myself, but like I said this thread is about fixing 1 issue from which you can form a sound foundation to build and form/mold the rest of WvW onto.

There are no cheap fixes for WvW at this point, you must realize that. There needs to be overhauls. THis is the easiest overhaul to solve the server differential/population problems. Unless you can think of a better one, by all means enlighten me, that’s what this discussion is all about.

It’s the fact they don’t even acknowledge it….and every patch there’s more fixes and buffs for other classes and NOTHING for warrior. I get it, but at least admit that you broke the class….cmon. They might as well nerf warriors each patch at this point! At least that way they show/admit that the class is becoming less and less powerful ‘each patch’/‘each day’ that passes.

Linken.6345:

If this happens alot then maybe you are the problem OP.
Are you setting up all zerker for the lfg and aint zerker yourself, just to get a easy ride.
I would kick you then to since you misslead the other group members into thinking your the same stat aswell and that run will go fast.

Well I wouldn’t make the post If I was the problem. I would fix the thing that made me the problem. Considering I can’t fix it myself, the only productive option is the complain about it.

And I would kick you too if you joined my zerker lfg and weren’t zerker yourself, we wouldnt carry you through it.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

I would love to hear how mega groups would solve the core problems in WvW. Stack onto 1 group to dominate the other two and pvd in the off hours. This would be almost the exact same situation we have now but we would be forced to fight with more randoms.

Well that’s the thing. There are so many core problems. The argument that full WvW servers only makes the issues ‘worse’ is representative of very fundamental flaws in the gamemode. Regardless though this thread is being kept on the issue of giving every server an equal WvW experience/opportunity and keep the population of all WvW servers high and healthy. The other problems can be fluently discussed in one of the other many threads.

Sinbold.8723:

A lot of WvW players don’t consider EotM “real” WvW because there is no server loyalty in EotM. Many WvW players play for server pride. Were that not the case, many people would have transferred to lower tiers to avoid the que experienced at higher tiers. It’s a lot easier to say, “I hate that server!” than it is to say, “I hate the green team!” when you might be green next week. If Anet goes to the “color faction” system in “real WvW”, it will drive another nail in the coffin of WvW.

Instead of saying what other people supposedly want. Why not just say what ‘you’ want? If your one of those players why not just say so? It’s hard to have a discussion when everyone is making claims on behalf of ‘other’ people. Whether it’s a reality or not is irrelevant. If they don’t care enough to talk about it on the forums, then they likely don’t care enough to quit if changes are made. The same can be said for any kind of game mechanic changes.

And now your response will be “I don’t need proof that’s just how it is…I’ve been playing for xxxxx….this is how it is….”. But what do you want? Speak up for yourself.

saturn.4810:

There should be an option to set a group leader.

Exactly. Then if the group leader misbehaves, the group members can report ‘1’ person for lfg abuse. It would allow GM’s to actually police the system. Members will forced to follow the rules set out in the LFG description. Joining members will also be able to easily spot situations where the leader and more than 1 member are in the same guild (fishy situations)…avoiding situations where they get kicked so a guildie can get the reward or kicked just for the trolls’ lulz.

The new system is basically just: let the community police itself. Not only is the community f2p now, it’s also (at large) currently stupid and self-centered beyond all reason. The system is a series of lazy excuses to not police the game. ANd players buy it because they are trolls and its good for them, they never participate as solo players an dont care, or they are too stupid to realize the entire system is setup so Anet doesn’t have to take responsibility or do anything about the abuses.

Anet really should be commended for setting up such a nefariously self-serving system, and getting it greenlit by the community.

They fed the bad apples of the community, and now THEY have become the dominant community voice. It’s really no wonder they ignore most of the community opinion at this point. They can get away with doing whatever they want by tossing an occasional bone to redditers comprised of those bad apples who won the popularity contest and are now the main voices of the reddit. They toss those bones to keep ‘them’ happy. EVERYTHING FITS! ANet has minimal policing to do, and can offer minimal community support by only addressing one or two of the supposedly ‘community’ issues these trolls are pushing through reddit.

Wryscher.1432:

Swift.1930:

1) don’t bag out the poor dragonhunters; rangers have powerful traps too.

You shouldn’t start with that, it calls into question anything that follows.

I smell a dragonhunter

But then revenants would actually have to hit more than 2 keys to win a fight….we would need to appease them with a buff to prevent rebellion. Let us not forget the status quo!

Thaddeus.4891:

Yes my main can do everything. I don’t need +70 stats from Infusion to do everything.

You derail a conversation with troll posts and then feel entitled to get mad when people snip back? Maybe add something of value to the thread next time, and you won’t leave angry and confused.

Getting kicked from my own party at the end of a fractal. Nothing I can do about it but report them for “LFG system abuse”. Happens repeatedly. No penalty seems to ever be exacted. Reason for being kicked: No reasons other than that they are trolling me. I make the party. I set the rules. I collect the members. I’m kicked right before I get the reward. It’s always a group of 2 people in a party who seem to be in on it together. And they convince a 3rd member to vote kick with blatant lies in chat.

Fix NOW! Or give me a way to FIX THEM!

Is the ability to play this game based on a popularity contest? Stupid. Beyond stupid. I did pay money for this ‘game’ did I not? Or is the development team also in on the trolling? Removing the old system to make the game more troll friendly….brilliant ideas!

Phantom.8130:

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Your belief that Anet is a money-grubbing developer who doesn’t give a kitten about ever changing WvW, is very convenient for your argument to resist change of any kind. I’m going to dream though. I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt for the sake of the future. I’m going to offer them ways to bring everyone the same level of experiences you seem to be enjoying in your server. By all means, advocate for people to simply server hop to servers like your own or the top tier servers. The bottleneck effect will kill many servers and whatever pride they currently have. It will fill the population limits of many servers and lfg or coordination of any kind will become even more frustrating, keeping each server isolated (“server is full” you can’t join).

Then the majority of players (should they want to try or play WvW) will all have to move eventually and ‘assimilate?’ into new server ‘cultures’. But as long as your server and its pride…and ‘culture’, for some reason exempt from changes from mass immigration, remain, I guess that’s a win.

Anyways let’s stop plugging the thread and wait for others to give their opinion. I think we understand eachothers positions fairly clearly.

Phantom.8130:

Because there’s a lot of people that DO care about their servers, and the communities that have been built there, and are only playing the game because of said community. And if said community was broken up, there would be a lot of people that would have no reason left to play the game at all.

Well I don’t think the lower tier servers will share your sentiments. You might get a little more sympathy from mid tier. But your basically advocating for the top tier. Which is fine, your opinion is still valid and noteworthy. Just it’s the needs of the few over the needs of the many.

We could always have each Bl keep their tags so they are differentiable from their allies and enemies alike. I mean it would possibly lead to alot of elitism though from the higher tier servers, picking on the lower tier server in their alliance. So I think that should be an optional thing that people can enable if they really want to show BL pride. That would make everyone happy. Anyone who doesn’t want their Bl known while they are running around, doesn’t have to have it visible.

The fact so many clans and people change servers just to get the better WvW experience is proof enough that ‘BL pride’ is a learned behaviour. Meaning with an alliance system, people would just as easily develop ‘alliance pride’ for lack of a better term.

I would even argue that for alot of BL, this kind of alliance system would help create ‘BL pride’. It would give good wvw guilds and players from the lower tier/population servers really good PR.

I mean picture a WvW where you are fighting alongside your ‘normal’ fellow members in a large scale keep siege. The enemy maguuma reinforcement zerg has been routed and is being fought in the valley by your allies from the shiverpeaks. Your guild from ‘crystal desert’ (for the sake of argument) is leading the assault on the enemy keep, which is protected by elite guild squads from ‘ehmry bay’. Out of nowhere a band of enemy ‘darkhaven’ decloak from the rear and start hammering against your flank. Your stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the fringe of falling apart and being wiped out, your allies from the Jade quarry show up and flank the darkhaven horde. They quickly setup ballistas from the hilltop and start laying heavey fire on the DH ranks, creating chaos in their ranks. Allowing you time and an opening to reorganize and charge through, destroying the Darkhaven center ranks, leaving the rest a confused and disoriented rabble. A bloodbath ensues and bodies starting piling all around you. Darkhaven is wiped. You and Jade quarry start cheering, and proceed to attack the enemy keep together. Just as you are about to bring down the keep wall, you learn that your allies from the shiverpeaks are in trouble in the valley, so you send yourself along with two squads of guildies to help. Help arrives in time and shiverpeaks are able to hold the line. The shiverpeaks thanks you for your help and you all cheer and glout together. But then suddenly flames and arrows rain down on your positions, the shiverpeaks commander standing next to you is set on fire and downed. You look up to see an elite and highly organized guild you never heard of from ‘eredon terrace’ standing on the cliff above your position. They come out of nowhere and start jumping down from the surrounding cliffs. The shiverpeaks general is immediately killed by the concussive force of a warrior that jumps down from the cliff followed by the rest of the enemy group. You immediately jump back and issue orders to your outnumbered and disoriented guildies to form up. You move to the shiverpeaks Teamspeak and take over command of both groups. But it’s too late! The enemy is already ontop of the disoriented shiverpeaks players. They start laying waste to the shiverpeaks and your guild parties. Stuck in a valley and surrounded by natural barriers, the battle is quickly decided. The last victim/survivor of your alliance (from shiverpeaks lets say), gets to his feet and he shouts “Who are you!?!?! How..HOW! WE are the elites of shiverpeakss! You are NOBODY! You will DI—-”. The leader of the eredon terrace guild plants his guild’s flag through the guy’s heart. After taking a brief moment to reflect on the battlefield and the bodies of the fallen, the eredon commander gets a call that the guild group from Ehmry Bay is on the edge of being wiped out at their keep by your Crystal Desert forces. Then we close the cinematic with a retracting camera shot from above, showing battles occuring all over the map with squads large and small fighting all over. That zooms out until the entire Borderlands map is visible with fire and explosive effects occurring at the fortification icons.. And that will be Gw2’s new PR trailer

Srsly though, if anet does it right, it won’t detract from BL pride. It will create situations like above where Bl’s have an even better chance of making a name for themselves. You will be 1 of 9 borderlands fighting. You will NOT be a group of random people fighting 2 other groups of random people This is a chance to make a name for your guild, and your borderland.

Or you know, if your happy just fighting the same 2 other borderlands each week. By all means, continue to advocate against change. Keep the majority of servers from experiencing the kind of pride and experiences you seem to be enjoying. Just don’t complain when everyone starts server hopping. Unless your server is one of the top 3, you too will become a victim of server hopping and your bl pride will…probably have a ‘name change’.

I think it’s dumb to have 3 of the same maps and then Eternal as the fourth. 1 map should be DL BL, 1 map should be alpine, 1 map should be eternal, 1 map should be EotM or something new. Or just remove the fourth map entirely, I don’t think anyone really cares if they don’t have a home borderland if it will drive the population and help fix the other problems. The gameplay was never meant to be balanced to begin with, I really don’t see the logic in keeping the maps mirrored (out of a sense of balance) for all 3 sides.

Are they trying to confused new players into making believe that WvW is balanced? Are we all just victims of a PR campaign? lol….

Simple thought that others have mentioned:

i.e.
If we have 3 tiers of servers. Why not make 3 alliances?

Allliance #1:
-Server in 1st tier that is usually first place
-Server in the 2nd tier that is usually second place
-Server in the third tier that is usually third place

Alliance #2:
-Server in the 1st tier that is usually second place
-Server in the 2nd tier that is usually in third place
-Server in the 3rd tier that is usually in 1st place

Alliance #3:
-Server in the 1ist tier that is usually in third place
-Server in the 2nd tier that is usually 1st place
-Server in the 3rd tier that is usaully 2nd place

Then every month (after 3-4 of the current weekly sessions) the alliances change. A final ‘worthwhile’ reward can be given at the end of each month depending on how your alliance places. As long as the reward for 1st place is good enough (maybe a 3 day-1 week boost in MF/crafting/generic stuff + boosters (or something you can only buy through gems) + a worthless title of some kind or status u can use for bragging rights.

Most people don’t have much of a connection to their servers anyways. People are always fraternizing with the enemy when I play WvW….selling out their home BL. Not enough people care about BL pride and there isn’t enough population most of the time. I don’t see any reason NOT to merge. Other than the fact that eternal is gonna be in que most of the time unless they find a way to increase player capacity….the other 3 bl will be full for once though as they were originally intended to be. I consider that a win even if they can’t increase eternal’s population limits. Besides if we have full servers most of the time it will allow for a system that makes sure we don’t have the entire maps flipping back and forth based on each server’s zerg times. Since it will be able to assign stricter limits on the number of players from each server allowed on each map.

More players for everyone’s WvW experience would allow the mode to overcome alot of it’s ‘problems’ and become something much greater than it currently is. It opens up a ton of potential for the gamemode. Especially for future features should anet decide to make any.

WHy won’t they revert it? The game runs terribad ever since that patch. It looks terribad ever since that patch. ANd it still is a resource hog! I’m just so angry that one patch could do this to my gaming experience. I’ve been here since gw2 was released…everything was originally on low with the rig I had and it looked and played great. I’m back after 3 years and everything looked and played great on medium. Now just out of the blue they shovel this patch to “address community problems with the game being a resource hog” and now my game runs and looks horrid compared to before. And they don’t even list it in the patch notes or admit to there being issues or annouce they are trying to fix them or do ‘something’ to address concerns. NOT COOL. Do I need to open a ticket? Is that gonna be helpful?

Lucas.2974:

Vephar.8475:

They have in the past, so they probably will this year too.

Thank you!

Dawdler.8521:

Login in a few hours and you’ll find out. It really isnt more complicated than that.

Thank you for the post. It was a question. It really isn’t more complicated than that.

But, but, but questions lead to Communism!

I like how I recently logged in and I had a special green chest (like a normal achievment chest) above my minimap. I go to open it and it’s an ad to buy HoT. “Blah Blah Blach is now open! Travel here now!…..click to buy HoT”. I mean the ad was specifically aimed to make it seem like you had earned something and you could now travel there to get your reward….your real reward is paying $50 for content that has been out for over a month.

Everyone has their ‘items’ of interest which they monitor. I’ve never really seen much opportunity for being stuff from the TP and then reselling it. Since you know: when you buy, u pay the TP 5% of the cost as a fee. So buying and reselling is somewhere between 15-20% of your final sale price going to the TP as a fee. When you sell you pay the TP 15% (10%+that 5%) total. I’m sure there are certain seasons of the year where demand rips through supply and this becomes a noteworthy long investment….ordinarily people won’t be able to discover these trends though lol.

If you want to start right away: I’ve had success buying components from the TP, crafting items myself, and then reselling the finished item on the TP. Note that many crafted items are priced cheaper on the TP than the selling cost of their individual components. The key is finding the right combination…where you can buy the components in bulk and sell for a price that gives a worthwhile profit (could be anywhere from 20 silver to 3G per item). With this method you need to keep an eye on The TP trends though. If you place an order too large, and it isn’t filled fast enough, others usually can shove your order to a state where it may never be filled or takes days.

And that’s the other thing. You won’t make money buying at the selling price. You gotta place ‘orders’ to save as much as you can. So if the asking price is 1s, and the selling price is 2s….you want to bid a fillable sized quantity around the 1s mark. Certain items will fill extremely fast, other orders you place may never be chosen even if they are the highest. It all depends on the supply and demand of the item in question. Find something where Demand is high enough. write down the current selling andbuying prices it gets. Monitor for fluctuations throughout the week and take note of how fast or often these buying and selling orders are filled, and what kind of price fluctuations take place. This will give you an idea of when its a good time to buy, and when you should sell. You can also take into account upcoming game events that might increase demand for something and drive up the selling prices.

For expensive items that take alot of gold to craft (10G+). I never list more than one of the same kind on the TP at a time….if u list 2 or 3 chances are someone will outbid your price by a single copper and some of those items u listed might get stuck and never sell. I mean I got stuff at 25 G and 23G listed and the going prices are around 20G now….I have no idea when or if I’m going to get those sold. If they don’t sell, and I revoke the order, I take a pretty heavy loss in trading fees. Playing the TP is a case of making a little money off a each item. It can completely scr*w you over if you aren’t lucky and/or don’t play it safe enough.

I stick to selling higher cost items (5Gold+) just cause I can list them 1 at a time. If I have 250 of something to sell…your chances of getting outbid by 1 copper and never getting it sold are much much higher. The cost of production is always changing as well so every so often, update the ‘maths’ to find what kind of ‘new’ ‘lower’ selling prices have become viable.

It could just be someone dragged her to a glitchy location on purpose. Where she is easily reset by any form of kiting. In general though you need to keep her in the center promenade area. If that’s where she spawned, then just keep her within that ‘one’ circular dome. Depending on your class she is difficult to kite and solo. But it’s totally doable. I’ve done it twice with my warrior.

WvW isn’t fair for anyone right now given the exploits and glitches. Plus the mechanics of the mode were never setup to be fair to begin with. I play on a mid tier server and the mechanics and lack of support become so frustrating that its hardly worth participating in. I don’t know how it is on the high tier servers, maybe it’s a bit more inticing? I’m on ehmry bay, I’ve always been, joined it within the first month of gw2 release. It only has a moderate population. Every Bl basically has their prime times where the other two are screwed. And sometimes a Bl has such a higher population that their prime times last much longer and occur many times more than others. If you really wanna give it a shot, and you get the chance, make sure you transfer to one of the top 3 servers. But don’t expect much even then.

The necro tower lord in top right corner of the maps. Does anyone have a strategy for solo’ing this guy? He seems insanely powerful compared to all the other lords on the map (keep or tower). I tried to solo him with a basic golemn and could only take out 45% of his hp. I tried to duo him with a random person and we barely took him down to 3/4 hp. IS there a way to solo him? I main warrior.

And same question for the bottom left tower lord (the troll lord). I know mesmers can solo him with illusions spam. Is there a way with a warrior though? If there’s only a single enemy he just does too much damage.

No problems with any of the other lords. just those two. Any tips? For a warrior? (using golemns or food or seige or whatever is fair game)

They were a step in the right direction at release, and were good with some moderate flaws. Anet seems to want to mess that up though by trying to cater to the ‘supposed community voice’….and now nobody is really happy at all. They shouldn’t be scrapped. They just need some minor tweaks that make for major gameplay changers.

Regardless, I don’t know if I can still give them a thumbs up after the last patch changes. I’m pretty neutral at this point. I’m pretty sure I still prefer them over the old ones though.

Rhovanion.8234:

goldengut.9134:

I agree enough is enough getting killed thru walls is ridiculous try fixing all the bugs you have that are causing the gameplay to be really poor and how about switching the servers up alittle huh same 2 servers for a month or more straight

Fixing the exploits is one thing, fighting same servers is another different story.

Remember when Black Gate went to tier 2 for a while? Yea, they just dominated easily for the entire duration if I’m not mistaken, easily going up to tier 1 again.

I say the system is doing a good job, the servers just need to step it up, sadly it wont happen since most people don’t even bother WvW due to anet ignoring and nerfing it to the ground constantly.

I don’t care if I’m occasionally matched against a world that dominates the maps. It’s only for 1 week. Even if every other week it means I get to play against a diff bl, it’s fine. The gametype is stale as is, and winning doesn’t mean anything to begin with. Playing the same 2 worlds over and over regardless of how many times you are number 1, or 2, or 3, is boring. Each world I play against seems to have a distinguishable playstyle. Going against the same 2 week after week is too much repetition…..especially considering the amount of repetition already going on in the game mode. This is my opinion. Other’s won’t share it, that’s fine. Diversity is good ‘imo’.

Fay.2357:

doc.9162:

or the so called challenging group content.. “raids”

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you haven’t completed a raid yet. You’re complaining that they’re catering to casuals right after they released raids?

0/10 for content, 0/10 for effort.

That was extremely Rude of you. He has fair points that others share to differing extents. the post title was “Bitter”, of course its gonna be a rant. But to just blacklist everything he said as arrogant, is ‘fanboyish at best’. If you wish to make replies like this I highly suggest the gw2 reddit community, you will be well liked there.

Bearded.6485:

I’m not sure what your talking about. I just spent over an hour attacking NSPs ebg keep and they defended it pretty well. I don’t know, maybe your doing it wrong.

Or maybe you are attacking wrong…
One or the other really. Plenty of bad defenders and bad attackers currently, specially generals.

Currently all the advantages fall to the attacker though, ‘if’ you take advantage of all the exploits. Make a list of each position’s pro’s and con’s, check it twice, and you will discover for yourself.