Guild Wars 2

I paid more than $60 for my version of GW2

and it has been worth more than every cent spent

amazing R.O.I. and i continue to enjoy playing it immersed in Tyria!

nobody knows yet to be honest with you but I doubt it’ll be strictly for lvl 80s..

that’s not ArenaNET’s style at all so don’t worry!

./Co-Sign

honestly speaking, ArenaNET’s lack of any response lately to all the problems plaguing wuvwuv is disheartening

they used to even make daily (it seemed) wiki blog updates on what they’re working on

now?

dead silence

i am honestly disheartened with the realization that this might be it, this is the best we’ll get because it is not a subscription game

a buy to play game simply cannot be supported in the way we want it to, there are things we simply have to live with

sigh.. where is arenanet?

brogarn.8723:

Very nicely done!

:) thank you, to be brutally honest.. not quite sure how we fought off that insanity

but we did

JANTHIR! PREPARE FOR GLORY

./salute everyone who was there, once you see the video, you’ll immediately know if you were or not

Kaine.3501:

On my current Radeon gaming card I get about 50 FPS in PvE and 12-16 FPS in WvW. I’m playing on a liquid cooled quad. I hope that the FirePro V9800 I just purchased (its being shipped) will increase my FPS. What graphics card are you running on and what is your FPS in PvE and PvP?

you just bought a $3000 video card?

i am totally jealous

i want you as my sugar daddy

:( and im a man!

Chris.7653:

CharliePrince.2071:

Chris.7653:

OP listen, I am trying not to sound horrible to you, but the topic has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

Of course the company that just spent millions of dollars, and years of their lives making CARES ABOUT AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THEIR GAME….

It’s been out a month not a “while” so just be patient…there is NO fee so you can leave if you want then come back when things are fixed….but as far as that question goes, that’s like us asking you “Do you think he asks stupid questions because banana?” It’s literally that mind boggling and makes about as much sense.

Raap.9065:

Regarding Arenanet’s patch speed for WvW, yes, everyone I know noticed it, and is annoyed and concerned about it in terms of what it means for the future of the game.

My personal concern is that their code and/or game patching process is a mess which is why it takes them so long to fix anything besides minor changes. Their live team might be really small aswell, and they are focussed on PvE right now.

this ^

My post was 100% in reply to your actual topic of “Do they care”…

yeah it was a post full of sound and thunder, signifying nothing

curious how you feel regarding the speed of their patches, even the times they mention wuvwuv in their path notes/wiki to do list (do they even?), participation in this section of the forums besides locking threads

i mean i get it, you think they care.. but what’re your thoughts on the issues?

faster? sit back and just wait? faster response? maybe even mention the issues plaguing GW2?

what’re your thoughts besides flaming me, share that

Chris.7653:

OP listen, I am trying not to sound horrible to you, but the topic has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

Of course the company that just spent millions of dollars, and years of their lives making CARES ABOUT AN IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THEIR GAME….

It’s been out a month not a “while” so just be patient…there is NO fee so you can leave if you want then come back when things are fixed….but as far as that question goes, that’s like us asking you “Do you think he asks stupid questions because banana?” It’s literally that mind boggling and makes about as much sense.

Raap.9065:

Regarding Arenanet’s patch speed for WvW, yes, everyone I know noticed it, and is annoyed and concerned about it in terms of what it means for the future of the game.

My personal concern is that their code and/or game patching process is a mess which is why it takes them so long to fix anything besides minor changes. Their live team might be really small aswell, and they are focussed on PvE right now.

this ^

Mr Magoo.9065:

Any player expecting mass scale pvp to be anything other than a complete failure in any game ever should recognize it’s his own fault for having unrealistic expectations. I have been waiting 15 years. I am absolutely sure now beyond any doubt – it will never happen.

MrMagoo I disagree, wuvwuv is not failure.. there are just things that need fixing or tweaking but wuvwuv is INSANELY FUN and AMAZING

if you think it’s a failure, that’s on you

even if you lose the match.. there are battles and moments you remember and that alone makes it worthwhile

just an honest question to everyone.. how do you feel or think about this?

judging by their responses and what’s going on..

I don’t want to hear “Well the game just came out”

no

no it hasn’t

it’s been out a while

there’s a world of problems right now and i don’t think anybody playing wuvwuv is happy at all specially with some of the more ridiculous aspects of it

ie: 3 orbs adding to the snowball effect, outmanned buff doing absolutely nothing, etc etc

i’m not even touching the rampant widespread hacks going on right now

but, i’m asking you

do you think ArenaNET cares at all about wuvwuv or is this the price we pay for this being a b2p game instead of a subscription game..

DooJoon.8240:

CharliePrince.2071:

Colors actually represent the server’s performance in that matchup

Green = best performing server
Red = 2nd best
Blue = 3rd best

this is why you see so many Greens dominate their matchups because the colors are not randomly assigned but rather represents the rankings of the servers headed into the matchup

in simple terms, using the points formula
Green = 2500pts
Red = 2300 pts
Blue = 2100 pts

:)

youre wrong.

green=1st
blue=2nd
red=3rd.

i was typing too fast but yes you get the message

green then blue then red

entering the match, that tells you where servers are ranked

this is also the reason you see so many Greens win and is the butt of “Green must be hacked, they always win!” jokes

Kracin.6078:

^ thats what it feels like at some points. thres still enough people to put up a fight, but it doesnt feel like it did on our side (et) when the match first started, there was definately a lot more resistance, and we are still on weekend hours right now…

hoping ioj, CD, sos, etc all get the players they need (and et too) to make the top 2 brackets the best fighting, and not a lopsided fight when people decide not to queue anymore.

even on et side, i noticed a lot of guild tags that were absent for the whole last week, suddenly queueing up for the start of this match.. which is pretty sad… give up when theres no chance to win, then clog up the queues so the people who played all last week can’t get in for hours cause you didn’t want to play with us last week when we were losing.

i was gonna write a whole post correcting you to ET’s ways

then I read your last sentence which I bolded

:) now I just gotta go ./respect

ET is the biggest fair-weather server in GW’s entire playerbase.. when things go well and you outnumber people, EVERY PUG you have is queued up and every queue is full 24/7

but at the same time what makes you guys great when things go good makes you the worst when things go bad

nobody folds and quits quicker than ET

:) honestly speaking, if you guys win, all it means is you get farmed by Denravi for another week because those same people are gonna either transfer servers or just take another week off

Fubuki, ./salute

keep up the great blog and war journal

i most definitely support Kaening and have the utmost respect for everyone there playing in wuvwuv

it’s not really the score that matters

something deeper is bonding the citizens of Kaening together!

ArenaNET staying silent on this rampant botting and hacking: flying, teleportation, speed, etc is making it so much worse

seriously, what is going ArenaNET?

I refuse to believe that the hackers can so easily reverse engineer the GW2 client and there’s nothing you guys can do to stop the uncontrollable hacking going on in nearly every match

it’s a widespread problem, why the silence AN?!

./co-sign

what confuses me is it’s not hard to find out the hack programs out there

why hasn’t AN done anything about it?

people are just reverse engineering the client freely and AN cannot seem to stop it and hacks are getting worse and worse

…I’ll be honest, I have thought to get a 2nd account just to abuse the hacks myself

-.- hopefully AN controls this situation sooner, rather than later

I have played every bwe, stress test, been part of so many battles and 5+hour long sieges, and 3ways and have seen it all..

this is the first time I have ever seen anything like this Great job to everyone who participated in this battle..

The Battle for the Hills.. respect and <3 to EVERYONE who was there today, Saturday, Sep 29 11AM – 1PM EST

just some guild tags I saw: ET’s [Thai], CD’s [AGGR] and from IoJ TWLV, VoTF, AUS and of course, the Korean guild [ND] though they may never even see this video

http://youtu.be/0BF_U-iNjto?hd=1

heck, part of the fun is reading chat ! lol

and read the Video Description to get the background on it

Colors actually represent the server’s performance in that matchup

Green = best performing server
Red = 2nd best
Blue = 3rd best

this is why you see so many Greens dominate their matchups because the colors are not randomly assigned but rather represents the rankings of the servers headed into the matchup

in simple terms, using the points formula
Green = 2500pts
Red = 2300 pts
Blue = 2100 pts

:)

epic thread is epicz

if you agree that resets should not be friday at 8pmEST smack dab in the NA primetime

Co-Sign this thread I made

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/WvWvW-RESET-Wednesdays

a plea to arenanet

resets often dictate how entire matches go.. the reset is probably the most important time for wuvwuv players

make it a Wednesday, not a Friday

make it equal footing, on a weeknight so people these matches would get better

Reset’s would not have the match-crushing impact they’d have now and you’d have the buildup to “the weekend” instead of heading into the weekend with the match pretty much decided

please, arenanet

this one fix alone makes wuvwuv infinitely better

yes, BETTER

No RefunD.4630:

CharliePrince.2071:

I want to officially file a complaint for DAY CAPPERS and NA PRIMETIME PLAYERS

I play from Isle of Janthir.. we are an International Server. Our weakest link is an 11 hour dead zone from noon to 11PM EST

How bad is it? Until this week.. we have handed over a +85 Deficit EVERY RESET

yep. Every reset we’re staring down a +85 deficit. We keep winning, sure. We’re the best of the “Tier 2” servers. To move up to Denravi, you have to beat Isle of Janthir

but just a change in perspective.. to those of you complaining of night capping

try playing during NA primetime when your server is weakest, then come talk to me

Sorry your server has NA players but they just simply get outplayed by the top servers. I’ve been playing IoJ all week on FA and even in NA primetime IoJ controls most of the map. Never once saw a shortage of IoJ players and it’s deffinately not dead.

we got an influx this week, like I say in my posts

it isn’t until this week where we actuall had a lead after reset

:) hell, i was so happy I went to the Janthir Alliance forums and posted it so proudly to our foreign contingent

“look! look!!! something besides a deficit”

lol

I want to officially file a complaint for DAY CAPPERS and NA PRIMETIME PLAYERS

I play from Isle of Janthir.. we are an International Server. Our weakest link is an 11 hour dead zone from noon to 11PM EST

How bad is it? Until this week.. we have handed over a +85 Deficit EVERY RESET

yep. Every reset we’re staring down a +85 deficit. We keep winning, sure. We’re the best of the “Tier 2” servers. To move up to Denravi, you have to beat Isle of Janthir

but just a change in perspective.. to those of you complaining of night capping

try playing during NA primetime when your server is weakest, then come talk to me

if you play from noon to 8pm EST i can guarantee you IoJ has instant queue times

that’s part of our 11 hour dead zone

lol

we badly need EU and NA guilds although we been getting some NA help recently so i am thankful for that

DisplayName.7802:

DH should like..bring 20 golems again lol and take over a keep :P lol.
http://imgur.com/pDkOd

<3 the team chat

:) gate down.
facing 15 golems.
at the bridge.
entering the keep lord.

….and people are still like: DON’T LET THEM TAKE THIS!! WIPE THEM OUT

lol!! that’s the fighting spirit that ha absolutely hooked people into wuvwuv

I myself get that way at times.. I’m goin down with this ship, I’m not running away!

Sanctum of Rall vs Sorrow’s Furnace vs Darkhaven

this is the stuff LEGENDS are made of!

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE who has participated in that matchup

regardless of the score, you are all winners

no losers

beautiful

I just saw this and nearly teared up, this is what wuvwuv is all about..

Congratulations to EVERYONE who has taken part in this!

Sorrow’s Furnace vs Darkhaven vs Sanctum of Rall

there are no losers

EVERYONE wins this matchup regardless of the score

like someone once said, this is simply

Beautiful

Cloud.7613:

CharliePrince.2071:

To ArenaNET’s RamonDomke: thank you but really people just love to cry. There is NOTHING WRONG with night capping. People just need to DEAL WITH IT.

I come from Isle of Janthir. Do you realize (besides Sea of Sorrows) that we are in the opposite situation? do people realize that we have an 11 hour dead zone (noon to 11pm EST, right in the middle of NA primetime) that we are absolutely weakest at?!

how do you propose we fix this?! do you see us crying for all you evil NA players which we simply cannot fight?!

and I’m NA myself! imagine how hard it is for me to play during primetime severely outmanned

look, i’m giving you all a difference in perspective

you cry about night capping

but you never imagine what it’s like for us servers whose weakest link are NA primetime hours

This, I’m from Sea of Sorrows and it’s even worse for us then it is for them and it’s bad for them too. If you want to reduce rewards for hard work in off peak NA time, we want reduced rewards for NA peak time. Oh wait, we’re at the same situation, nevermind …

this ^

people are so narrow-minded that they only think of NA primetime

there are servers out there (like Janthir) WHO HAVE NEVER WON A RESET

do you all realize that?! until this past week

Isle of Janthir ALWAYS played with a +85 deficit after reset.. do we complain?!

no, we win

…..nothing wrong with night capping because I can easily flip that around and say “there’s a problem with NA players playing during primetime! stop it!!”

To ArenaNET’s RamonDomke: thank you but really people just love to cry. There is NOTHING WRONG with night capping. People just need to DEAL WITH IT.

I come from Isle of Janthir. Do you realize (besides Sea of Sorrows) that we are in the opposite situation? do people realize that we have an 11 hour dead zone (noon to 11pm EST, right in the middle of NA primetime) that we are absolutely weakest at?!

how do you propose we fix this?! do you see us crying for all you evil NA players which we simply cannot fight?!

and I’m NA myself! imagine how hard it is for me to play during primetime severely outmanned

look, i’m giving you all a difference in perspective

you cry about night capping

but you never imagine what it’s like for us servers whose weakest link are NA primetime hours

Dragonbrand is the key

if DB attacks ET, it will be a semi decent match

if DB is non-existent and gets pushed off the map by ET, it’ll be 1on1 with IoJ and IoJ does not have the population to fight ET

the gap between 1900s 2-3-4 ranked server and the 1700s 5-6 servers is gigantic

but the secret is the 3rd server

if the 3rd server fights.. it’ll be semi-decent

if absent

gg

RoRo.8270:

Haven’t seen any myself i’ve got over 350hrs

we have around the same /age

and I’ve gotten 1.

1 exotic drop.. in wuvwuv

that is an awful score.. :X 120k+ to 13k+ to 10k+ ?!

ouch Dragonur

C Gunner.9406:

Im not sure about others but im losing coins from playing WvW due to upgrading and buying blueprints. The coin rewards for doing events don’t seem high enough, what motive would I have into upgrading a keep when all ill do it lose 37 silvers and not get enough back although i play it a good few hours a day.

it’s the price we pay..

repairs drains my coin but mostly because i’d kamikaze in there with no fear of dying if it means downing an enemy siege

imo.. gotta balance it, some pve, some wuvwuv

imo.. gotta balance it, some pve, some wuvwuvcan’t stay in wuvwuv all the time you’ll get drained.. repairs alone are..

imo.. gotta balance it, some pve, some wuvwuvcan’t stay in wuvwuv all the time you’ll get drained.. repairs alone are..but then again i saw someone today fighting naked LOL! yep, an asura in his boxers i was like “oh god!”

vandilian.9720:

Richard.8207:

exploits@arena.net – use it.

Thank you

most definitely report stuff!

I wish I was able to fraps the hacks used against Janthir this week

flying, teleportation, speed hacks

ugh

-.-

./co-sign

honestly speaking the only time mesmer portals get used is to
1. get to otherwise unjumpable spots to put sieges down
2. glitch the engine where you’re dead from invisible enemies

disable mesmer portals in wuvwuv until you fixed the invisible problem AN

wictred.3109:

I understand that WvW rank + abilities (%damage and whatsoever) are off the table and I think that’s a good decision.
The player skill based combat works quite ok. Good players are hard to beat, and some let’s say “not so good” players can come in groups of 2-3+ and you can still kill at least some of them, if not all. That’s how it should be.

However why not offer at least some kind of progress?
There are SPVP rank titles, would it hurt to have something similar in WvW?
And give us maybe different tiers of armor skins and weapon that require a certain WvW rank. It won’t give you any benefits at all, but I think people would still welcome it.

it’s in the pipeline.. tbh AN showed their hand with certain items that tell you what their plans are for wuvwuv

:) hint: Ladders, Rankings, Rewards, etc.. specifically: Ladders

woot!

there are rumors of a Ranger out there called Chuck Nornis

:) if true, that rules.. truly!

hahaha! NORNIS! brilliant

willwill.9318:

Simple question…

Absolutely

there, simple answer

You can stop playing

you cannot really quit since there’s no sub..

but in all honesty the way ArenaNET messed up wuvwuv a huge aspect of their “End Game” tells me they cannot handle GW2 post-launch

they simply cannot

they are in way over their heads and simple fixes specially when it comes to world-vs-world-vs-world which can keep their playerbase playing is simply beyond their capabilities

so no i am not surprised day by day people are stopping playing gw2

it’s … “End Game” is non-existent and wuvwuv shows the complete amateur capabilities of arenanet

Tukor.7514:

I really would love if Mike has the time to explain this to us, as i see that there are more people questioning this.

still waiting on Mike Ferguson to comment on this

maybe his team is over its head regarding WvWvW but this is horrible

the main problem arises in the Colored/Home Borderlands.. Eternal seems to be balanced properly with the population cap but the home borderlands is horribly messed up

as it stands ever since reset, ET’s had 3 people for every 1 of us

fix your caps, no excuses

FIX YOUR kitten

the problem exists in the colored borderlands, it seems to be working fine for Eternal

Mike Ferguson get your team working on this asap, WvWvW is BROKEN

FIX IT!

here let’s put this problem to critical mass and force arenanet somehow someway to adress the disaster that is wuvwuv

have you tried free transfers?

do you realize that it is
-free
-instant
-takes just a click of the mouse?

just curious how many people/guilds out there have tried free transfers? it’s ridiculously easy

go server hop to your heart’s content

i want to open the floodgates and so arenanet can adress the disaster that is world vs world vs world

yet another reason as each passing day my enthusiasm for wuvwuv diminishes significantly

i think it’s painfully obvious to everyone right now this facet of the game is beyond ArenaNET’s grasp

:(

MikeFerguson.8921:

If I understand the situation correctly, this should not be happening. Every world has the same population cap and outmanned only activates when your team has significantly less people on the map as another team, so you shouldn’t be getting the buff if your map is full.

What world and map are you on when this happens?

Mike Ferugon, so what you are saying is essentially what the OP asked which is “Is this working as intended?”

so that’s how wuvwuv works???! here’s a sample scenario
ie: you have a 300 man population cap for a borderland.. Queue IS FULL
Eredon Terace = 150 people got in
Isle of Janthir = 100 people got in
Sea of Sorrows = 50 people got in

and the solution to this is that the lesser population gets the “outmanned buff” ?! SO THAT IS HOW IT WORKS?! you guys didn’t set it so that it is equal cap on both sides?!
ie: 100 max per faction = 300 total population cap?!

please explain this because as the days go on I often wonder how the other teams have so many more players than us when the queue to our own borderlands is already full

this problem is most prevalent in borderlands and not in EB from what I have experienced

my goodness wuvwuv is all sorts of messed up

well in fairness it is a punk move by ET purposely blowing matches before the week long rotations begin to avoid HoD

it doesn’t amtter if you’re top 5 server or bottom 5 server, nobody likes to lose

and right now, HoD is King of wuvwuv

HoD is so good ET simply avoided facing them and being crushed for a week

I dunno about you guys but I feel ArenaNET, whoever is in charge of wuvwuv has simply dropped the ball

maybe they are overwhelmed fixing other bugs/patches and of course this hacker problem gold map chat spam we see every day that goes unchecked

but it’s obvious by now ArenaNET has simply dropped the ball and is clueless regarding wuvwuv specially with the mess of promoting to week long matches keeping transfers open

the situation is horrible, just a complete disaster

./co-sign

usually the servers who have the heaviest presence during primetime american hours get to exploit this 110% all the time

frankly i am sick of it

and not only because Janthir is notoriously empty during American hours

but really it’s across the board, everyone who can field a sizeable force goes for the “get the borderland orb” zerg rush

yet another thing arenaNET won’t fix regardless of how stupid it is

i don’t know why but this thread cracks me up bigtime

the top servers complaining of having to face each other?

come on man

Impossible Odds.4627:

I remember when Crystal Desert beat IoJ three days in a row… but I think since the matchmaking was bugged back then, it didn’t count it.

Seems like a lot of CD’s wins were before they started counting…

I may not endorse IoJ, but they are excellent rivals. Keep at it, and we’ll see you next time (yes I know IoJ stomped us last time they faced us, not sure why, but I’ve heard of other servers using the fly-hacking, but I didn’t hear about it for anyone other than GoM).

if there’s any real bad blood between any servers yet it’s between Crystal Desert and Isle of Janthir truth be told the matchups you were talking about counted.. but it was weird because it wasn’t Janthir that made it lopsided CD wins.. it was Sanctum of Rall being bugged and unable to log in

it was during the login issues AN had so basically CD won 4 straight rotations because we simply didn’t have the manpower in wv3 and Rall was empty so you guys simply capped all they had

that being said.. Janthir has crushed CD every single time something happened to that server.. I think you all lost a buncha people to be honest

I don’t ever look at CD and worry anymore.. it’s not a matchup at all Janthir’s international players simply dominate.. but yeah, if there’s any server out there that gets Janthir ready to fight it’s CD

lol real bad blood between our 2 servers imnho

Anndy.5632:

i can live with it IF they limited it based on server populations, you should really only be able to transfer to low population servers

agreed

the funny thing is.. the community is nearly unanimous in this

those who are on the stacked servers: Denravi, Eradon Terace, JAde Quarry, Stormbluff DO NOT WANT their queues getting worse

and those on instant queues server wishes there were more people playing in wuvwuv

Malpractice.7850:

So.. you have coverage for like 6 hours atm :p
i ask because we’re moving from HoD to dragonbrand

shoulda moved to Janthir

Dragonbrand can’t match us at all they were good but i think a buncha players transferred off there

and not sure what you mean by we have coverage for 6 hours..

our dead zone is 11 hours which is awful