Guild Wars 2

Aggrostemma.1703:

Same here…

At the HoT release me and my mississ booked 4 days of holidays just to play the game (the hype was real). Now we have a long shutdown so my plan was to play ’till collapse.

Instead we logged in 4 times during December.

Thank you ANET we have a loads of free time now!

one word for that 4days of Holidays for the hype: DEDICATION

In the BLs, in the “Citadel” if you go further back, there is a Guild Registrar… suppose that can be used for Guild Bank if you really need it.

But yeah, idk …maybe Colin thought it would be nice to make WvW Guilds suffer more, after all, we are PVE Lovers. #FML

hmmm might as well squeeze the meat.. milk might come out too i guess…

that magnificent meat of his, juicy.

Aeolus.3615:

@Chiccotot.7296:, YES u need to play to get your stuff unlocked un your GH, say what u dont like with manners.

We’ve already unlocked them before. We have to unlock them again… this is whats effed up so much is cause ANET promised that guilds wont lose anything.

Simple point to consider:

PvP Upgrades need you to farm PVP Potions = well and good
PvE Upgrades need you to farm PvE Stuff = okay cool
WvW Upgrades need you to farm WvW Things? = guess no anet logic has been seen in this part of HoT release.

^ there is pvp game mode, if you missed that
its the cross swords icon on the top left of your screen

^like guilds will not lose the upgrades they have obtained in moving to HoT.
a humongous pile of crap to that.

Chris Cleary.8017:

This issue should now be resolved. Please restart your launcher.

Sorry the issue is FAR from resolved…
Why bother making your forums if you guys will post in reddit first and disregard people in here? Should we delete our forum accounts and just go do reddit then? Please tell us if there is a move on communications so we are not kept outside of the loop.

I am not a redditer…
i find the reply
….to a reply
……….of a reply
………………to the reply
………………………..of the reply lay out of it, quite annoying. to say the least.

/end of rant/

Dragonfeu.4356:

Do you guys enjoy Obsidian Sanctum? Not the actual JP, but when you’re defending it from a zerg or something. I find it amazing (the defence aspect), but that might just be me.

How do you defend in Obsidian Sanctum? I havent been in this map since HoT… is there any defensible structures in there now?

They’ve completely stopped replying to WvW posts and frustrates me to death!
Havent seen one red post that recognizes there needs to be change or atleast say “we are looking into it” since HoT was out.
Hope these ANET guys spend $100 and get crappy customer service, see how they will like it.

And yes- i live in an asian country so $100 is a big thing for me!!

The community can’t handle spending $100 each and get crap as return.

People can shoot thru walls – Not Fixed Since HOT
WvW Guild Upgrades are hidden behind PVE – Not Fixed since HoT
Walls skin glitching – Not Fixed since a month ago
—-list goes on, but these are top of mind at the moment—-

WvW Guild Claiming Auras – Only got fixed 2 weeks ago.
WvW Dailies – Only got fixed 3weeks ago.
—-i cant think of anything else they “fixed”, lol—-

ANET Logic : Make your own forums, but ignore it, and post in reddit instead. LOL
They are more active in Reddit than in their own forums #smh.

You do have a valid point there too, i suppose it should be good to have it Per Character because as you said, you can’t really park toons in there and have to run through the JP each time. So yeah.

same here. frustrated is an understatement of what i feel. i am angry for the lack of action and attention.
i want to punch someone in the face and beat a person senseless kind of angry – and im not a violent person, but this complete disregard for WvW is really making me want to rip out someone’s throat.
For all the $100s they got from WvWers, i’m sure we deserve more than this silent treatment.

stack invis and commune

Can you imagine if they put an item behind a failed Karka Queen? OMG haha the frustration! :p

Mild Climated.6293:

Hey all, I’ve been away from gw2 for little while now(about 4-5 months) I was wondering if heart of thorns was worth picking up and if the game has improved for the better. I had a lot of fun with gw2 back when I was playing, but I have heard some mixed things about the expansion, so I thought I would go right to the forums. If you have any info share it would be greatly appreciated!

no. not worth it.

nope. dont count on it. ive given up WvW (which means basically i’ve given up the game as this is the only game mode i play).
too many kittens have been hurt, thrown around, smashed, in this entire wvw thread, but ANET gives no darn crap whatsoever it is. RIP WvW. RIP GW2

andy.7813:

Anet is lucky that there is no mmo with similar RVR on the market yet.

I actually liked the ancient game “RF Online”, they have a race-vs-race-vs-race constant war going on… where every week, set of Race Officers get elected, and are called councils which is sort of Commander Tags that people follow into battle and such.
The only problem is that it never got updated. It would have been one of the best RvRvR games ever if it got proper attention.

^epic fail scale…

I agree, the bulk of it i guess is because ANet went to great lengths to prevent competitive play in the open world. No kill steals, no node steals, no PK maps, everyone shares loots and exp…
Only trolly and jerky people, but you don’t encounter them (that much) :p

^OMG Smokescales are stupid.
I blink away and guess what? It’s still attacking me with the mist/smoky attack thing that they do.

They Don’t GaF.
Pretty much clear it looks like no one has even looked at WvW since March LOL

As EoTM is a mix of all the same-colored-servers across all tiers, it is naturally fuller than any of the borders.
Plus, it has the reputation of easy levels, k-train and champ bags.

Noticed that a number of people who were disappointed with the current WvW have sought refuge in EB and/or EoTM (or anywhere else just to get out of the nightmarish map they thrust down our throats).

It may be time to revamp it a bit.

I recall reading a post about changing maps.
1 of each map instead of 3Desert + 1 EB, it was suggested that its going to be 1Alpine, 1Desert, 1EB and 1EoTM.

IDK if it will get traction, but it could be interesting.

Instead of having fun, GW2 has become a chore for me at least…

Sviel.7493:

Perhaps the best change of all is that no keep can be taken, outer and inner, with one set of catas. In addition, there are fewer, if any, uncounterable siege spots. If attackers want to ensure their siege is safe they have to build at a distance. This doesn’t hold true for towers, though, and is a bit skewed by people firing through walls…but it’s a start.

Does it include Trebuchets?
I managed to break Rampart (Old Garrison) with a pair of trebuchets from northcamp.
It hits both outer and inner walls

It’s not (always) about bad leadership.
The fact of the matter is for me as one of the guild leaders, I pretty much feel burnt out.
PVE-ing is not what I love doing. I’ve been brought out of my preferred gameplay cause some genius? dev decided to lock all WvW upgrades behind PVE.
I used to play more than 12 hours a day, but now just thinking about the PVE portion just exhausts me already that I dont even stay for 1 hour.

Should be simple its not.
PvP Arena needs PvP Potions for upgrades, good.
PvE Stuff needs you to do PvE for upgrades. awesome.
WvW for WvW Upgrades? Signs of ANet Logic? Zero.

For a new player, I think you will enjoy it.
You are put in a somewhat level-playing-field in terms of people trying to figure out how to do stuff. The only thing vets will have on you are probably the gears and massive amount of gold.

For a veteran, you’ll probably find out that GuildWars2 has turned into GrindWars2. This is what most of the people are complaining about.

All in all, it is good value of one-time payment, instead of a monthly subscription thing

Tangled Depths becomes a bit easier with unlocking the WPs.
It is extremely difficult to navigate. Chaks hurt like a mother on steroids.

The scaling is just so bad…
In one of the metas, if an almost dead maps can spawn so much (i.e. beetle larva defense in Nuhoch) i shudder to think what it would be like on a full map.
And dont get me started on the Chak Gerent…

I do Hero Points farm in the new maps for my guildies and friends.
If anyone wants to do it, add me and message me when I’m online
FREE OF CHARGE

I am pretty much bummed out about WvW cause ANet decided to crap on our guild upgrades, so, I mostly sit in LA, or any random map, thinking about the poor life decision I made in buying HoT.

I do try to make things “fun” but… optimism can only take you so far until that feeling of my preferred gameplay being dumped on starts creeping up on me again.

Anyway, yeah, hit me up if you want help in Hero Points. I pretty much mastered Verdant Brink and Auric Basin, having done it 12 times on all my toons

Spurnshadow.3678:

Lets keep this going. Reset night on BG: not a que on any map, even EB.

that’s a lot of mussel soups

if t1 is dead, can you imagine how it is in t5-t8?
this is a complete nightmare.

i appreciate the thought ANet did for WvW when it released new maps, but if anything, like everything they have done, it is all half-baked…
while i admire the dev who crafted the map for the very detailed aesthetics part of it, it lacks functionality. (i.e. towers are no longer taken to lay siege on a keep, they are now purely for PPT)

Yeah, this happened when they made a patch to move the WPs into the keeps instead of the southern towers.

I’ve made a similar post and it seems at the moment, only “Claimed Keeps” have Guild Auras.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/What-did-ANet-Break-Now/first#post5780941

Disclaimer: There were no kittens harmed at the making of this post.

you do have a good point. as you mentioned, kittens aside, defenders should have advantage over the attackers.
while it is possible for attacking footies to AOE above the wall without a clear LoS and without being damaged, it is near impossible for defenders to do the same without getting scathed.
this yet adds to the millions of things that need to be addressed in WvW.
but i am not holding my breath for it.

OMG you’re totally right! Dang..! My apologies!

Soon.5240:

Having fun in WvW is not ALLOWED!

Reported!

LMAOed much on this

Direct damage has “Protection” to lessen the blow, and Aegis to totally cancel it..

I know they introduced “Resistance” to counter condi, but let’s face it, how many classes have this? Not a lot.
And unless you’re a druid traited for “Lose Conditions Upon Entering Celestial Avatar” then you’re pretty much effed.

mining excavation 2 would require you to get
mining speed 2 and capacity 2
so… still yes

condi is too much, 3-5k for every 0.5sec ticks. you cant even DPS that fast with full zerk gears.. there needs to be a damage cap for it.

think about it:
to be able to somewhat match the dmg of condi, you need to go full zerk build.. but you have to sacrifice tough/vit to dish out that dps.

what do condi builds have to give up?

Chaba.5410:

Chiccotot.7296:

Chaba.5410:

Chiccotot.7296:

Right now, I am the sole farmer of Ley Line Sparks in our guild that i know of.
Need these so we can decrease the time-gate of getting Aetherium for the upgrades by upgrading Mining Speed.

You don’t really need to increase Mining Rate. If you haven’t noticed already, the time it takes to get the Ley Line Sparks and the Quartz Crystals for charging and making those Ley Line Tools is more than the time it takes for the Aetherium to be mined at the normal rate.

Mining Rate is definitely some sort of racket.

Yes, but then you need the Aetherium Capacity upgrade too, because most 2nd tier upgrades would require 5k Aetherium or more. >.<

Which do not require the double-whammy of Ley Line Sparks and Charged Quartz Crystals for making that pick. Your time is better spent getting and using Ley Line Sparks for the other upgrades.

It actually does, cause you also need to upgrade Mining Speed before you can expand Mining Capacity :p

Try WvW plenty of frustrations there :p

Anyone having issues with “claimed objectives” not getting the WvW buff upgrades you’ve unlocked?

OMG People… im not sure if you are sarcastic, trolling or just plain stupid.

There is no NIGHT CAPPING cause the world is round, and its day time elsewhere.

Until ANet releases a server saying “EST” or “PST” or “Central” timezone, you better stop crying about this so called “night capping” cause this game is global, and everyone can play whatever time they want.

//end of rant

^on the other hand, your signature initials spell EBG…
Providence? …perhaps.

Like what i read somewhere here: …in Desert BL maps, some key purposes of towers and keeps have been somewhat disregarded.

It used to be essential or key to take NE/NW Towers to start a siege and try to take Fortified Garrison from an enemy.
Or how people will try and take SW Tower in the hopes of trebbing Bay, drawing out responses, fights and dynamic combat.
Or how you so persistently try and flip back camps cause your keep is at 0 supply and the upgrade is like a hair thin away from upgrading.

All of these have been discarded, the thrill of defense and offense has been thrown out of the window in these new maps.

Too much aesthetics, not enough functionality.

Chaba.5410:

Chiccotot.7296:

Right now, I am the sole farmer of Ley Line Sparks in our guild that i know of.
Need these so we can decrease the time-gate of getting Aetherium for the upgrades by upgrading Mining Speed.

You don’t really need to increase Mining Rate. If you haven’t noticed already, the time it takes to get the Ley Line Sparks and the Quartz Crystals for charging and making those Ley Line Tools is more than the time it takes for the Aetherium to be mined at the normal rate.

Mining Rate is definitely some sort of racket.

Yes, but then you need the Aetherium Capacity upgrade too, because most 2nd tier upgrades would require 5k Aetherium or more. >.<

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

Dude chill out. Edit your post to remove that last paragraph unless you want a ban.

Lol sorry – out of PVE burnout i just recently re-watched Game Of Thrones.
Ramsay Bolton kinda got to me. xD

We have around 130 members in our WvW guild, more than half of which are members of our PvE sister guild. They are helping us with the guild upgrades, but they also have to worry about their PvE Guild. So it still takes twice longer to do things for both our guilds.

Right now, I am the sole farmer of Ley Line Sparks in our guild that i know of.
Need these so we can decrease the time-gate of getting Aetherium for the upgrades by upgrading Mining Speed.

Before I can get Ley Line Sparks, I have to do hours upon hours of TD events, get Ley Line currency to buy Chak Acid, and then end up with a 1:2.5 ratio of getting Sparks out of Crystallized Cache. (If there is a more efficient way of getting these, please let me know!!)
Did i mention I absolutely abhor the TD Map? What with the 100million monsters around, and their 3-5k damage per hit on me, and the very confusing map with 4 levels, with no clear way to go up or down.. omg! It’s crazy!

I have no love for PvE but I love my guild, so I am doing this for them.

Whoever in ANET thought about this change – <enter explicit and most horrible torture you can imagine>
Hate you!

I think that’s what ANet wants. To treat the new Desert BL as like EB. What with the WPs moving into the Keeps, and center event instead of SMC.
Too bad us in lower tiers don’t even have enough to fill one map. /gg

Colin

Our goal was to ensure we didn’t really need to tweak any major game system again after this expansion and our focus could be entirely on adding new content, and building on top of – rather than expanding outward systemically. WvW is the one major feature I’d say we didn’t end up accomplishing this goal, the project is so large it didn’t end up fitting into the scope of the expansion and we still have work to do to address core fundamental issues like population balance, rewards, scoring, night capping, etc. As always we don’t discuss features in development until they are far enough along to share meaningful details, so for now we’ll just say WvW is the final big game system on our radar – and we’ve had a lot of great conversations with our players about what they’d love to see from epic large scale PvP combat.

As a game with global market, I am DISGUSTED by the fact that this came from an ANet guy. News Flash, USA is not the only country in the world.
It may be capping things at night for you, but for us in SEA/OCX we are doing things on our day/prime time.

I cannot express how outraged i am by this statement without getting the forum moderator whammy, but just to put it out there, think of the most horrible, atrocious and abhorrent insult you can think of, and that is pretty much how i feel..

Seriously.

Zioba.6182:

So you just need again a ton of materials that you can’t get in WvW… Anet, what have we done that you hate us WvW players that much??

The way Mike O’Brien’s logic works is:
“If you’re in to WvW, then you’re really in to PvE”

#smh #fml #omg

Ross Biddle.2367:

ArchonWing.9480:

The dailies were fixed, not the maps.

But that is fine too, atm. I really wished the veteran slayer would be more relevant to the actual map itself though. I mean, the monuments do make sense.

You want to talk relevance? These adjustments cater to the PvE’rs entering WvW looking to get their dailys.

It doesn’t get anymore relevant than PvE’rs for Anet.

If it gets new blood for WvW then I’m all for it. It starts with Veteran Slayer, and soon, Keep Capturer… they will soon add to the WvW Population

Okay – new patch, but no word on why EVERYTHING in WvW Upgrades is hidden behind millions of hours of PVE.
Anet, please, for real, please… fix it!!
This is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING! Small guilds are suffering because of this!