Guild Wars 2

J envy.5270:

the UNCUSTOMIZABLE utility skills

My guess on this is that the fully released class is going to have more utility skills per legend. I just can’t see them adding a few more legends without more utility skills for current legends to customize builds and calling this done. It would be too predictable to enemy. Of course I could also be wrong.

The class felt extremely unfinished. There seemed to be very few defensive options. One was forced to always trait into Invocation to pick up the stun break on legend swap because the other skills were just too slow to cast very often. Like the dwarf elite supposedly is a stun break but the long, interruptible cast time made it terrible for that. I mean, stun breaks are supposed to help you do things like break out of a knockback or launch. You just can’t do that with the dwarf elite before you get launched into the void in a map like EOTM.

Revenants are the new stab bots.

Anet please give us kilts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ShadowCatz.8437:

How did you get Ascended armor/weapons or even ascended trinkets? Did you make or bought those weapons? Are those items not lost when BWE will be over? (WvW trinkets cost laurels, if I am not wrong.)

The personal bank is instanced so anything placed in it before the beta became available to the beta character. Wish I knew this earlier so I could have placed all my ascended trinkets and weapons into the bank before the beta. :/

Chobits.2430:

I ran Jalis/Ventari with Hammer and specced properly and played the class how it was supposed to be played, a ranged support role (CC & heals)
I almost never died.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed quickly that hammer seems to be the better weapon for WvW group play with a Jalis/Ventari build! I was telling all the Revenants following my tag last night to dump staff and switch to hammer. We ended up having rolling dwarf roads for our zerg pushes and tablets in areas where normally I’d ask for eles to keep waters going. And sticking a tablet right on an enemy stack and activating the projectile block was good for many lulz.

pizza.7853:

Please link the thread that you created to complain when server B acquired a massive Chinese guild that queued maps and golem rushed keeps in server A’s weakest timezone…

TBH you’re upset that said Chinese guild picked Server B and not Server A. That guild showing up was to everyone’s surprise and they clogged Server B’s NA queue too, which crowded out a lot of Server B’s NA regulars, something Server A didn’t have to deal with.

Then again, none of what you wrote is constructive and attempts to answer OP’s question. If you have experience of how to cope with playing in a server’s weak timezone, which it sounds like you do, then perhaps you have something to add here?

I think the previous posters summed it up well: either log on and play or go do something else with your life. If OP chooses to log on and play, the biggest thing you can do is organize that timezone. Start tagging up and start a guild, for example. Most often a timezone is weak not necessarily because of less players but also because of a lack of players willing to step up and lead, which then leads to the situation Server A has of relying on a single commander playing at extremely long and odd hours.

Crossaber.8934:

imsoenthused.1634:

If they start releasing really out of place junk like swim suits, I sure hope they give us an option to opt out of ever seeing it. Just a little check mark in settings that disables anything that isn’t lore and setting friendly, and I’d say sell anything that people will buy. But without such a setting, I would really rather they not.

agree and therefore we never get swimming suit for real.

I think the overall reveal armor no matter sexy level or quanity is just done about right. i dont prefer extreme exposed armor but a bit of chest hole, skirt embedd into armor design to make it look femaine and elegant is what i would love to se.

Men in skirts are hot. Doesn’t matter if it’s a kilt, sarong, or lungi. Boy, those ancient Egyptian men knew how to dress! Come on, guys. Show us your stuff! Put a smile on your faces.

Yes please!

It’s also a little difficult to distinguish which lines are selected and which aren’t.

Maybe someday they’ll learn to bind “AoE loot” to a different button.

Can Anet make some more skimpy heavy armor for the guys? Something along these lines please

I can see all the male norn warriors donning this…

Jski.6180:

The player base has on there own some what server merged but then you get ppl who talks about server stacking (witch is in effect the same thing) as a bad thing. It seems like a no win from the players point of view.

I don’t fully understand the OP. Says he’s against “server stacking” but that’s what a player-initiated server merge looks like. Maybe he’s thinking of how to keep a server’s “WvW community” intact is somehow different from guilds moving on their own, but friends follow friends and others split anyway in both instances.

FA put the offer on the table to IoJ months ago to not move guilds but move their WvW community. It was refused but then about a month later a number of their guilds left IoJ after Wolf suddenly disbanded. Some moved to FA and some went to other servers while others still stayed on IoJ.

Consider too a large part of DB’s WvW community moved en-masse to HoD in what could be termed an attempt at a player-initiated server merge. Friends followed friends, but not all of those who left DB went to HoD. Not everyone left DB either.

notebene.3190:

Curae.1837:

HiTandMayhem.1378:

I’m just going to leave this here.

http://cleftlands.cwru.edu/gallery/weararmour.html

Hah, that’s brilliant. XD

On that note, I’m very thankful we don’t have chainmail bikinis. <3

Hypothetically, what if they did? And you still had the existing choices and options, and they added more choices and options for things you’d like to wear. What would be wrong with that? Something for everyone?

THAC0 20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ArchonWing.9480:

It would be fun if this was a sink and then they introduced a use afterwards.

You too. XD

Atoss.1056:

I wonder if this event is a bait, and real good thing to spend badges on will come in next weeks…

Now you’re getting what I’m guessing myself. XD

Take video. In your video show right-clicking on the player and reporting him for botting while filming his siege trolling. That helps quickly associating a game id. Also helps to have the time displayed in the mini-map or chat box. Send into exploits@arena.net and also post about it here (don’t have to post video since that risks you an infraction apparently but it does generate a lot of attention).

Nope. I had this error after it was supposedly resolved. Sent a ticket to CS because now I’ve been overcharged. Should change the instructions from “please try again” to something else. :/

Great… now I’ve double-purchased gems. Don’t tell me to try again later if the first transaction is going to go through anyway!!!!

Clearly the golem rush event is a way to get players to unload their relatively useless currency known as Badges of Honor.

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Buffy.9246:

Ty Chaba. It’s just like yaks bend doesn’t grasp that people can predict them so they use the excuse of spies for their faults and come on here to complain when nothing was even done.

To be fair I have seen “suspicious activity”, but I’ve also seen it by all sides. It’s extremely naive to say “you guys do this and my side doesn’t”. I’m just saying spies are not necessary if the commander develops their ability to predict enemy movement. There’s only so many objectives on a map and so many ways to attack/defend them.

displayname.8315:

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a yb zerg respond to something thats not scouted and called out in advance.

Predicting enemy movement is a good skill for commanders to develop. There’s no magic to it and IMHO commanders who feel the need to use spies are being lazy at learning the skill. See, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5AIbFFqMio

Learning rotations in sPvP also help with that. Not going to be right all the time, but it is very much like thinking several steps ahead like in chess.

displayname.8315:

Buffy.9246:

displayname.8315:

I don’t PvE and I’ve made 2 full sets of ascended armor, 3 ascended weopons, bought a bunch of ascended trinkets with tournament tickets, and did 4 transfers.. until I found Yak’s Bend that is.. now I’m home =)

I feel sorry for you.

Yeah having to fight against spies and cheaters can be annoying. But having a nice WvW centered community is worth it.

Every server has spies and cheats.

Sounds like eotm talk…

Kraljevo.2801:

Let’s see… I play wvw since december 2012 and killed 5792 yaks.

At this rate it will take me 345 years to get the achievement.

No biggie !

You got this! I’m rooting for you!

FA won’t be shooting up to T1 anytime soon. A T1 server would have to implode for that to happen. FA has a pretty good EU scene with a few organized guilds during that time.

Dawdler.8521:

Chaba.5410:

For example as applied to WvW, the tactic of influencing the distribution of your own forces in such a way as to trick the opponent into queuing up their own borderland map with certain types of guilds that do not play the PPT game over guilds and players that do becomes far easier to perform if exact numbers are known.

You seem to say that the numbers need to be hidden so that people can avoid fights and PPT in peace. Dont want people trying to fight that 50 man blob that just ported to an empty border!

I dont quite see what’s good about that.

If you think that’s what I said, you should re-read what I wrote. The tactic I described is a way to influence who goes where on an enemy server in order to reduce the ability of the defending server to get their own 50-man blob in to defend.

Dawdler.8521:

Chaba.5410:

Dawdler.8521:

Chaba.5410:

If they gave out an exact number, teams would use that information to game the system.

What, you mean like whispering to the other server that they have exactly 80 people on the border because there is a 50 man queue?

Yeah that will surely give the enemy server an advantage, knowing there are actually players on the border.

No, more related to how a lot of servers try to plan out which maps guilds go to and where they think enemy guilds will go.

How is that gaming the system? That’s called organisation. It also make WvW playable, since guilds can spread out instead of all stack on a border and no one can play when 6 guilds are trying to run 30 man raids on a single border.

Might as well call night cappers gaming the system.

Simple. Right now such planning is a guess.

Think of an RTS, or even the class comp of a fights guild. Each class has its own role within the guild just as each unit in an RTS has a different role and the numbers are limited. Now apply that principle to guilds themselves. Each guild has a role within WvW. An RTS player always has to plan the number of the different kinds of units and the way they are used with the resources given. If you know how many of X unit an opponent has and when they “run out” of a certain type of unit (how many elementalists and necros the opposing guild has and you count down how many they have left, etc.), you can adjust your strats.

For example as applied to WvW, the tactic of influencing the distribution of your own forces in such a way as to trick the opponent into queuing up their own borderland map with certain types of guilds that do not play the PPT game over guilds and players that do becomes far easier to perform if exact numbers are known. This is an extremely advanced tactic implemented through social engineering that even the guilds involved do not realize happens on purpose – I seen it last utilized months ago when T2 was a four-way fight between YB, FA, SoS, and DB. It means you can also ensure that you send only enough PPT-style attackers to a certain map as needed without pulling off too many players from another map.

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

Entering a portal in wvw while in combat should should down you, or if already down, should kill you. problem solved. you still get where you want to go but are penalized

I can’t really agree with that because what happens to reinforcements that are trying to run into a portal to defend against a siege because the waypoint is contested and there are a few enemy players around ensuring that others get put into combat?

Dawdler.8521:

Chaba.5410:

If they gave out an exact number, teams would use that information to game the system.

What, you mean like whispering to the other server that they have exactly 80 people on the border because there is a 50 man queue?

Yeah that will surely give the enemy server an advantage, knowing there are actually players on the border.

No, more related to how a lot of servers try to plan out which maps guilds go to and where they think enemy guilds will go.

Yep, exploits@arena.net. One issue though is that you were unable to get footage of using the block feature on the player in order to get his game id and then report as bot. So it may longer to to track down unless you can give some other information, like which map you were on and add on a timezone to the time displayed in your video.

If they gave out an exact number, teams would use that information to game the system.

lordkrall.7241:

Ah yes, I am sure people would love being invited to the beta but just spending the whole test waiting in queue.

It’s a test, not a party. Even if there were no queue and they just allowed a mass of players to get on the map enough to cause a crash within minutes that’s still data related to stressing the system out. They know how the current alpine borderland performs which they are probably using as a baseline but it is still a different map with different mechanics.

There’s just the perception that the “limited space” for this test is smaller than the pool of players they had for the EOTM map betas. /shrug

lordkrall.7241:

Chaba.5410:

I question how it is supposed to be a stress test when the space is limited. XD

Because having unlimited space basically means that the servers will crash completely within minutes and thus the whole test will be pointless due to them not being able to gather data?

You’re assuming that they would allow unlimited connections. There’s a thing called a queue. Still need enough players to get a queue that approximates what current servers are familiar with.

The EOTM map beta was also on a separate set of servers and it used a different client.

I question how it is supposed to be a stress test when the space is limited. XD

Offair.2563:

Michris.2513:

How hard would it be for Anet to create and implement a duelers tag that one could toggle off and on that could signify that they are in fact dueling. Then you could see the tags and pass on by and not interrupt the fun of others and not worry that you are letting an ally get ganked.

May all of your farts be dry.

What about you just whisper/party those you want to duel and say “hey lets meet south of south camp/OS” or wherever on a border where no one ever sets foot unless they want to duel. Duelers happy getting no interuptions and roamers happy not getting flamed at interupting one next to a keep or supply route.

Nice in theory, difficult in practice. Like Jayne mentions, sometimes a player is playing wvw, not just hanging around to duel, when that rare roamer comes along and both start an impromptu fight. Some sort of tag to let allies know not to add-on to such fights would allow for communication that can’t always be given while fighting.

Michris.2513:

How hard would it be for Anet to create and implement a duelers tag that one could toggle off and on that could signify that they are in fact dueling. Then you could see the tags and pass on by and not interrupt the fun of others and not worry that you are letting an ally get ganked.

May all of your farts be dry.

I like that idea. Wonder if the LFG tag would work.

The pants look right to me.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Monk_armor

Still bugged :/

Kamara.4187:

I do recall reading some of your other post, and yes for the most part it does appear you’ve done a great deal of damage control.

Detailing a process to others that personally worked for me to get a GM’s attention to handle hacks seen in WvW is not “damage control”. LOL.

Gorani.7205:

My POV:
you are a potential target, because I will help my fellow soldier.

And therein lies one of the issues. It is difficult for you to tell if your fellow soldier wants your help.

TyPin.9860:

• Engies
  have good burst. If you avoid it, they are kinda useless.

I’ve been having trouble pulling off a good burst on my engineer. It seems like the skill queuing is all wonky, making my burst slower than I’d like.

lil devils x.6071:

DevJD.5483:

People should stop raging….yes SM is a ridiculous spot for a 1v1…. Go do it somewhere that make’s scense. To ppl saying 1v1 shiuldint even be in wvw is basically telling 80% of roamers they are useless….just stop, its called quality over quantity.

Roaming =\= standing around waiting for a duel. Roaming = capping camps, towers, killing yaks, tapping keeps, killing gankers and making scouting calls.. That is what the vast majority of roamers do, and that is contributing. Sitting in a party with the enemy player standing around fighting occasionally or ignoring everything happening on the map is not even remotely the same thing. LOL

Because, if you haven’t noticed, there are two types of styles of roaming. One is related to the PPT/Conquest style game and the other is pure open-world PvP. Most players coming from older MMOs expect the open-world PvP style. Both styles are valid (and WvW is the only place where one can get the open-world style). In my experience the PPT-related one is more often found in the higher tiers while the other is found in the lower tiers. The release of HoT will most likely separate the two, maybe to the detriment of WvW.

Personally what’s given me the most problem is the weird skill queuing that is causing me to not pull off a burst well. I suspect it is some bad interaction with traits.

I’m absolutely convinced that the RNG is salted with the account ID because I have a few accounts and some seem to be more lucky than others. Just speculation, of course. My former guild leader would get precursors off killing yaks like it was nothing.

Kamara.4187:

BTW that company also sent out a fleet of yes boys to do damage control on their forum. In the end it also backfired.

Conspiracy everywhere. Way to backhandedly accuse me of being a plant because my opinion doesn’t agree with yours and you’re unable to provide a logical counter argument, not a direct accusation of course because that is too obvious and doesn’t provide plausible deniability. Thanks, but no thanks. I could care less if you don’t buy the expansion, not sure why you care whether others buy it. Don’t buy it, in fact. I wouldn’t give my money a company that I felt didn’t deserve it either.

P.S. I pre-purchased.

The Obsidian Sanctum map in the FA/YB/SOS match is reportedly giving a lot of players high ping spikes too.

coglin.1867:

“Blindsiding” changes?

They spent weeks explaining what these changes were, and that they were comming.

Not only that, but some of that got changed before release as a result of feedback given by the community.

How do you test a player-created meta?

I’m stating my opinion on the matter. I bought an account for an ever-changing and evolving MMO, not a standalone product that almost never changes. I’ve already played plenty of those games and they are collecting dust in my closet. I’m old enough to know what I bought.

I don’t look at this as a beta test for expansion. I look at it as a period of time before a new meta takes a firm hold on everyone. Back when this game launched there were no metas either. It is difficult to adjust from a time with a mature and stable meta to one where there is no defined meta.