Guild Wars 2

ciao!
here I am :-P
sorry but I saw this only now.
(I’ll use english as this is an international forum)
we are a www focused guild playing mainly in the evening 3times per week with a 15/20 man force, raiding in italian.

see more on www.leonibianchi.com

and anyway. I’ll contact you in game today.

Is great to be n1 in queue for one hour!

now if you can actually find some good programmer in your 350+ staff who is able to write few lines of code and create a linear incremental array I will not see again a guild mate logging 20’ after me, join the queue and be in www, in the same border I was queued while I was still n1 in queue.

I don’t believe it is so complicated.
At least not in my programming experience.
Do you think you have improved your customer experience with this feature?
no, you have improved your customer’s dissatisfaction.

any news if it is possibile to have a “guild” entry or if there is any overflow or if is 1vs1 server or 1vs1vs1?
didn’t found any specific communication from anet on the how to.
thanks for providing me the info

now the tricky part is to allow a guild to go in the same arena together and eventually the possibility to face a specific guild on the other side.
the first may be achieved with an enhancement of the commander tag, when (s)he queue for a border, all people in his/her squad are queued for the same border
the second is more tricky and requires an arena-like access.
But at least the first suggestion would be greatly appreciated by everyone I think.

DevonCarver.5370:

Chuck Zitto.2367:

We need more things to use them on or to atleast be able to sell them. Myself and tons and tons of other people have gotten to the point we just destroy them. They take up inventory space.

Without giving any specifics, I’d highly recommend you change that strategy. There are things coming soon that will give you lots to spend it on.

If they will become so important, can I suggest you to move them from collectibles to wallet?
when you have 4-5stacks either you destroy them or you have to purchase a new bank slot.
A new slot for apparently useless account bound dragonite?
choice so far was logical

Very long evening on our home border.
With some nice victories and some tough losses!
Bay was a JS fortress and for a long time we didn’t have the numbers to even get close to it and the French did a wonderful work stealing our T3 garrison with a 2 way attack, while we were wiping the French force outside the gate we noticed the control pad moving, bad scouting :-S
We took our revenge later when we took hills and at the vary same time we did a desperate rush to save a conquered again T1 garrison and we succeeded.
Thanks a lot to all the good player that after the loss of garrid volunteered to scout, they spent a lot of time in the towers and in few “strategic” points to check that no enemies were approaching.

Also thanks to the Germans for being in the open field, from time to time and we had some nice clashes

nice, you have to farm to enter and farm to get your entry fee back, do you think this is that’s what wvw players are looking for!

SUGGESTION FOR THIS MAP:
From what I’ve read groups may join the map but not guilds.
why don’t enhance for once the Commander role beyond the simple blu dot and two commands and allow all player in the commander squad to join the same server of the commander or, even better, commander may queue for all the squad in the same map?

I believe this improvement will be a wonderful user experience for all organized www players.

Asharona.9741:

Jayne.9251:

Did BuLL wind up staying for good on BB? Or did some of you guys move to SoR in NA?

We’ve decided to stay on BB for now.

good, so we may face you again :-P

Very nice match so far and a lot of respect from all the servers, we should have this more often.

interesing evening in EB border, Germans were just holding while BULL… well they are too many and too strong :-)

some nice fights but this time we were no match for you.
great gaming, really

Server Pride is mainly for wvw, except few PVE events ofc.
And with queues guilds have to decide if they prefer server pride while waiting in LA or transfer to a new server.

SpehssMehreen.5897:

have you thought about maybe moving servers? not to a lower tier, but to an NA server for example, a server where the Eu presence is still very strong on top of an organized and reliable community

so the solution for playing wvw without queues is “transfer” and pay some bucks to anet?
well played, yes.

when you have an environment that is already full, bringing in more is a mistake.
This is the real a.net failure, they knew the amount of people who play www on a regular basis and that most EU server were experiencing queues.
Still they come up with the bright idea of bringing more people in wvw.

This is not a enjoyable gamin experience at all.

if you want to have some degrees of success in any activity, be it a sport event, a work interview, a multi-million IT project there is an important phase that needs to be completed before starting.
Preparation.

you can hope to win a sport competition without training
you will never get that job is you are not prepared to answer some key questions and properly dressed (tip of the day, sometimes dress code is still a key factor)
you will never go live with your new IT global platform if you don’t analyze all the impacts in terms of training, hardware needs, support, resource availability and achievable deadlines.

wvw League.
good, excellent idea with very poor planning.
If you know that you have an environment with limited resources available and limited storage space (lagskill due blobs and max number of players per border), before thinking of a new activity that will overload even more the environment, a good planning should advise you to see if there are solutions.
the space per map is fixed, before the league some servers (out of a total of 51 servers how many? I suppose between 9 and 12 (USA T1 and EU T1-3) experienced queues.
Last time that there was a major change in wvw with WxP the queues were in server down to T5 / T6 EU.
So, planning a League with new achievements with the goal to bring more people to wvw should have raised a very simple question. What about the Queues?
Unless you think that doing something else while waiting for a queue is the best gaming user experience, you should know that the top priority for a successful Leagues would have been addressing the queues first.
Most of the people play in a guild, and guilds tends to enjoy playing together with guildmates, how longer queues would affect guild’s gaming?
In short the question that should have been on A.net top list is: unless there is a method to increase map population, is it a good idea to launch a League System that will increase the number of wvw players while we don’t have the resources or space to manage them? Are we providing the best possible experience to our customer with this move?
In my humble professional opinion (it happens I’m a global IT service delivery manager for a multinational company), the answer is NO.
Longer queues do not improve user gaming experience
Lag skills will decrease the trust of players in Anet ability to manage wvw

Solution that should have been taken "let’s postpone the Leagues until we are sure that we have the proper environment to manage them.

With PVE events is easier, there is overflow: it worked very well at Launchtime, for Scarlet events and for Tequatl, but there is no overflow for wvw, not at least until sometimes in Q1 2014, a long period in the game life cycle.
What I’m noticing speaking with my and other wvw guild members is a trend to “let’s wait the newcomers to fulfill their achievements and if we can’t www, meanwhile let’s try some other PVP games (I won’t put any name ofc)”

In short, the main achievement of the League Planning so far has been to have thousands of frustrated players that instead of waiting in queue for hours are now looking for something else to play with.

I believe this was not Anet scope.
I hope corrections will be made soon to enable players and guilds to have the appropriate wvw experience that Anet is expecting to give us.

I know that you have released what you can and no more, thus I can only say “thank you A.net” for caring and keep us updated.

I expect it will take 3-4 months to be released, but I hope it will be worth of it.

very nice idea, Piken Square is medium server with 1+ hours of queues, imagine with free transfers.

Was so difficult for a.net (if they really wanted to address the problem) to give a free transfer to the last 4-6 servers of the ladder?

I hope this is something in between a bug a mistake and a joke…

Free transfer to Piken Square?
as if 1+hours of queues from 19.00 to 22.00 CEST is not already enough!!!

back to the question?
I’ll probably do both.

the main challenge for Teq is that GW2 used to have a lot of Legendary encounters where the main challenge was to tag the boss before it dies (ie Maw).
Now that there is a real challenge that requires effort and coordination plus know how to use all of the skills and when, not a simple spam of skill #1, some people are a bit lost.
But the event is great, maybe the rewards could have been a bit better, but I can’t wait to see more world bosses like this one, where you need Guild coordination and multi guild effort!

in EU I’m aftraid it will be more interesting League 2 than 1.
The winner of League 1 will be probably VS or maybe SFR, no chance for a Piken, Desolation, Riverside or Elona.
We face long queues on prime time and every time we have a match against SFR or VS the best we can hope for is an honorable 2nd place.

The “solution” would be SFR and VS in their own league and the other servers from 3rd to 9th in another :-)
So, in the end League 2 might be much more balanced and interesting with 4-5 possible winners
Bronze League may be again a mix of few potential winners, 1-2 underdogs and, unfortunately two servers with little to zero chances, still predicting a winner there won’t be easy.
Unfortunately there is no easy solution, and most of the solutions proposed in the various thread are from “my server” point of view.
Take it as it comes, a League with some prizes, no one will get a millionaire contract to play in a certain server, only thing that a.net should have avoided is the bandwagon to get some prizes.

AgentChaos.4932:

^most people work

I can understand it, I work too, still why “my” fun should be spoled by 10-20 people who are actually only looking GVG, they are not playing it; not taking part actively in the wvw, just sitting down and watching.
The maps are too small to allow people just to idle around like if they were on LA.
we had to split the event, Leoni Bianchi on ER and WIC in EB for this.

To have some respect, be sure you respect other players.
Whenever possible, try to do the GvG not in the 20-22 Paris Time range, from 22.00 onward there are limited no queues on the borderland, while on primetime you can get 1h in waiting on PS.

PS pages over pages on a GvG battle when in the last few days there have been some very funny fights around is sad.
Let’s talk about them.
SFR offered some very nice fights yesterday on ER border, a pity our number was too small to be effective while ER didn’t show up with the same force as the day before.
Let’s finish this match and have fun, then is reset time.
Hope next week we will have another nice round.

So far a very nice match, during primetime there have been no big differences in numbers and we can all have fun.

vanzan.1250:

You said this update just missed out on the last patch, now that you have mentioned the new leagues starting on Oct 4th will the new patch be in by then?

OR did this announcement buy you 11 more weeks?

I assume that everyone should make his / her guess.
I’ll go for the second one because the announcement is so bad that make no sense to me how anet thinks that this is what we, wvw players were expecting and exited to hear.

Kaos.9162:

Devon said in another thread that your rewards are based on the server you’re on when the season starts, so that should help stop people from bandwagoning mid season, hopefully.

nice, but now we have some weeks to choose the right server for day1 then transfer back to our server and let the original member of the server win the rewards for me.

I already have the gems ready :-P
Good move a.net

So, in Europe, we still do have some weeks to transfer to Vizunah or Seafarer’s Rest.
Giving the current trend the second choice is probably a better one.

The overall impression I have is that this league is a way to postopone any much needed important wvw upgrade some more time for some fine tuning.

Nice, but the League is a worldwide invitation to bandwagon to few server.
With a final result of huge queues in few servers and emptiness in the losing ones.

My game is primary www, my guild is www and we are in waht is now called T2.
What option do we have?
1 Transfer tomorrow in the winner server
2 Accept that we won’t get the rewards
3 Looking for a game that support RvR properly

Let us now dear A.net what we have to do, because your announcement is against any possible www balance logic

one doubt that popped up in my guild this evening.
If I have a legendary weapon and I’ve transmuted it a long time ago because while I loved the skin and the effect, the stats and the sigil were not in line with my game needs, with the new patch my item is a Legendary so it will have all the upgrades and new features of a legendary or will it be an exotic item with a Legendary skin and name?

thanks for the reply, not the one I hope but fine, If I’m few mins late I’ll not got the event at all, and on day one it seems a lot of people wont’ have it.

maybe you should review the timing.

I’m wondering what is the impact of the changes on the glamour condition (blind / confusion) build for www.
already took a serious blow in the last patch.

a guild that quits www “because we are going to lose” can continue its nice CoF1 farm when we win (and we will win again as soon as we get a kind roll).

yesterday evening we gave a tough lesson to AM, a pity the around 1.00am the 40+blob reappeared to take our border in full PVD mode.

I agree MF Wxp and Exp is not exactly what I’m looking for to have a more balanced fight, some tough / vitality bonus will make it more interesting, else outmanned is useful only for exping an alt or skitt farming.

good job guys

at reset, after some hilarious incident (including killing people of our own server who become “FSP invaders” we were able to put up some decent fights until Gandara arrived in full force.
On Arborstone there were Dius, IC, XXX and few pugs.
As long as the numbers were even we defended ourselves, but afterwards Gandalf showed its muscles and we were dead meat :-)

/bow to Arb, they may have not the numbers but they put up some nice fights.

in the end is nice to be again in a blobless match up.

AG numbers are even bigger than GAN, a very nice huge zerg (don’t want to call it blob) puls TUP squadron in Attila’s mode.
for FSP was a bad start, we have queue on our home but with so many pugs that an organized defence was difficult and outmanned on the other two borders.
Yet we had some fun and some nice clashes as long as we met 20-25 man.
Seriusly AG against us a 80-man blob is overkill (and I’m wondering where the fun is, you looked like a karka train in SC).
Then night come and german weekend vampires awoke…
Will be an interesting week, and with the incoming randomization the future will be even more interesting, allowing for some changes.

A very interesting move.
Maybe +-1 is too much, a +-0.5 could have done, but I assume Mr. “Glicko” knows his job much better than all of us together.
As I’m in a middle server, I can’t wait the new system, possibility to learn from top servers (and losing hard probably, but I don’t mind too much) and some relaxing weeks against weaker server, hopefully won’t happen anymore to face for 5 weeks in a row the same two opponents.
Is a game, so variety should be in.
Good move!

Farewell Gandara,
two very nice weeks of nice fighting, new friends, new grudges, new badges for everyone :-)
hopwfully with the new scrambled system we will meet again soon.

Nemesys.7251:

so 20 tnn (organized guild)with around 10+pug 30+(soo many green dot on minimap:D) against 18 and u killed us,gj.
my pov incoming too.

but we never pretend to be pro-players now, we are still proudly n00bs.
yet it was not us who fall in the trap
nor it has been us who said that they can manage against 40+

And I heard that yesterday DW as well taught you some nice moves.

even when we are down to +120 points, we never give up

about 20 TNN with the help of 8/10 pugs sending a Gandara Guild back to WP.

Take this as a kind reply to the person who wispered me if I was scared to be in a video with them: now you have a nice video of all of us together

Tyialo.6532:

Yeah we can handle this with 20

I recognize the pink norn mesmer in the center of the picture and no, you can’t handle it!
:-P

Amelia Knox.9362:

Aurora here, yep gandara is a nice server, let’s see if we make a deal, we send Miller sound UP so the germans play by them self and FSP, gandara, aurora glade play together, i think everybody will be happy

That would be fantastic :-)

yesterday was really a good and funny evening even if we had to do a last minute change of plan due lack of numbers on our dear FSP BL the day IC+CA, Yak, one MS small zerg and another GA guild decided to have a tour on FSP.
We hold as much as we could (basically Garri + 1 tower) and had a lot of fun with some really epic battles around supply camps.

I’m curious to see the IC video and our TNN video of the battle close to the north camp

A pity to lose Gandara as an opponent; most of the guilds are very nice and is good to have a clash with them.

lot of fun yesterday evening on FSP border even if we were outmanned in our own BL for the first 30-40 mins.
MS force (mainly Mya) appeared but they were sent back quickly, while Gandara was able to keep pressure on us on two sides creating a funny stalemate situation with a lot of open skirmishes from Bay to Godslore.

Bozzilla.6380:

A little video of yesterday fight on vale camp on Fs border….12 min of 40 min of continuos inc….very funny night!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DZluMxNaSyA

:) see u in border!

“Mario me lo tiri su”
“Guardate il commander”
“levatevi da liiiiii!!!”
“venite dove sto io might might might”

not so different from the shouts we have, only we are a bit more colorful due the strong presence of people from Tuscany.

At what time did you make the video?
we arrived with really few numbers (5-7 after 23.30) and I’m quite sure I made a guest appearance on minute 5.50
See you soon on the borderlands.

nice job, once again you are quite quick in fixing things that can bend too much the game in one direction.

so far su fun!
Yesterday we moved to MS border due usual queue on ours for the “Italians do it better” event (TNN, GoD, SIGH + others), our size was around 30-35 and we had some excelent fights with everyone, including a 3-way fight at north camp around 22.00 that was really fun (except for the number of bags I left on the ground when MS decided to play hard), every time we got wiped, we go back to wipe enemies harder. And were able to defend Bay until 23.00 when we become outmanned.
We had another 30’ of fun there then we moved to our home border where Gandara was defending Vale like hell and, after they went to bed, we retake the border.
A pity looking at overall points score, FSP don’t have the same night coverage as you, still after so many weeks tied in the same matchup, this week is bringing some fun!

so far so good, we are the underdog, we knew it, but even with a difficult start we are “surviving” and having a lot of fun.
Is just impressive the size of your teams, having 2 40+ man blobs inside your border do not make things easy.
We defend on one side and lose on the other as our numbers seems not as high as Gan or MS ones.
But a lot of fun and looking forward to some more fights!

nope in wayfarer nor in diessa on Far shiverpeaks server.

I hope so Zeudet.
As I’m not a native english speaker I was a bit unsure of the meaning.

The “under attack” notice at objectives now displays 30 seconds after it is first attacked. Does not affect waypoint usage.

does not affect waypoint…
where is the statement from A.net that they want to avoid blob and zerging?

Unless I’ mreading it totally wrong is something like “hills under attack, all to hills” defender die at hills and can respawn there en masse instead of having to go back from garri/citadel.
Nice, really nice.

KinkyWarrior.1879:

no I don’t expect you to field 30pugs Vs 30 man guild groups but when your zerg is mainly [Kale] and [TTN/TNN] (Guilds might I add) against our Pugs, I do expect them to split a little. I mean.. that zerg was ridiculous :P

Also we have 2 guilds which only field 30 if they’re very very lucky. Otherwise it’s all 10-15 with 20 normally being the max ;P

Can’t wait for the next PvE dungeon and all the Dungeoners go back to PvE! ;P

Uhmm, are you sure you saw TNN?
We are between 20 and 25max and usually we go alone, we may have some Italian allies from GoD or SIGH and the occasional pug with us, rarely our platoon is above 30.

We basically hate pug blobs.

We like to roam, take an objective and, for sure, stomp enemies zerg, I hate when they rotflstomp us.

I’m really impressed by MORT coordination and reactivness.
We made some very nice clashes tonight and I’m afraid I was not in the winning side in the majority of them.
Was nice to join with FSP border my TNN and GoD guys just in time to defend garrison, but in open field is very difficult to counter your force.

We did it in few occasions and is always sweet to wipe you so hard while most of the time I simply found myself died.

Thanks for the fun.
See you soon again: you may have killed me few times, but I’m far from giving up against you :-)