Guild Wars 2

Nausiation.1469:

Colly.4073:

Joonks.7501:

Qaelyn.7612:

For years I played a game made by a company in Europe. They’d drop their updates while I was asleep, or at work. I didn’t run onto their forums moaning about how they “hate north america” or whatever.

Quoting this because it’s true.

Are you kidding me?

This is 2014, This is a product….Don’t issue dates and times if you can’t deliver or face the WRATH of the consumer.

check a clock, buddy. the day is not over (where the devs are located). they haven’t missed the deadline yet.

I’m not your buddy.

Joonks.7501:

Qaelyn.7612:

For years I played a game made by a company in Europe. They’d drop their updates while I was asleep, or at work. I didn’t run onto their forums moaning about how they “hate north america” or whatever.

Quoting this because it’s true.

Are you kidding me?

This is 2014, This is a product….Don’t issue dates and times if you can’t deliver or face the WRATH of the consumer.

DippyDragon.3180:

+1 Klonex & Qaelyn – thank goodness for reasoned thought and adult behaviour.
-1 Colly – you sound like a spoilt brat.

Thanks.

+1 to you, You sound like an Anet shirt lifter.

Qaelyn.7612:

For years I played a game made by a company in Europe. They’d drop their updates while I was asleep, or at work. I didn’t run onto their forums moaning about how they “hate north america” or whatever.

Welcome to 2014. Anet are partly to blame here, They shouldn’t use social media sites to BIG UP their game telling people it will be released on such a date and it will be super-fantastic. They try to lauch themselves into 2014 but can’t deliver.

Klonex.4562:

quit complaining, delays happen so get over it. i rather have the update delayed with everything thing out, fixed, and ready to go instead of having everything messed up from being launched early.

And seriously? Are you so Naive to think that just because Anet has extended this patch that it will have little bugs. Think again.

kakumbien.8047:

19 february in turkey

Then Anet FAILED.

Ok I Did It.2854:

We already figured that most of EU will not see this patch today, but can they at least post the patch notes so we know what where logging into tomorrow.

They are busy laughing at our EU post’s and posting on Twitter/Facebook…….C’mon they don’t give a rats behind about us EU.

They are running out of idea’s, It’s going to be an Anti Climax.

They just want to make sure all us EU are tucked up in bed so America gets the first sight of the patch, It’s been like that in every American based mmo.

WvW has hit a brick wall and is going to take something special to bring it out of the hole it’s in.

Your wasting your time posting your TRACE ROUTES Anet will deny it is their problem until it goes away.

1. Engineer
2. Ranger
3. Mesmer

Yea i want race changers too, Delete my personal story i couldn’t give a rats behind about it.

It was said that this would happen but you was all like “EoTM is effing amazing, thank you Anet” “We love you Anet, Thumbs up for EoTm”

Welcome to “Lets Frantically add something to this game in a desperate attempt to stop it failing”

But it failed.

I’ll tell you what is overpowered, The many exploits and Hacks that plague this game and the lack of Anet doing anything about them. It will be the inevitable downfall of GW2.

Some serious button mashing going on there, Heartseeker spam ftw?

Good for you!…I personally can’t stand the place, The mix of PvE and WvW just doesn’t do it for me but each to their own.

Has Magic Find ever even worked?

Nothing surprises me about the DEVS in this game anymore, They are all probably fresh out of college.

Nohealz.7189:

total waste of resources that could’ve been used to improve the WvW. Now you get a pointless map where you spend most of your time running to where you wanna go.

Agreed, The place is awful and the time and resources spent on that could have been used to improve WvW.

After the initial interest wears off that map will end up just another dead zone.

Thalador.4218:

BobbyStein.2315:

gidorah.4960:

BobbyStein.2315:

You’ll have to wait and see how we integrated story into the release. I think it works pretty well but I’m biased. I am looking forward to the feedback we receive next week.

you also thought scarlet was a good villain.

I also know the entire plot a year in advance.

Bobby, just because an awesome story can be ruined with the ending (I’m looking at you, very first version of Mass Effect 3), doesn’t mean that an awful one can be saved by an awesome ending. Apropos “awesome ending;” judgment withheld until evidence is procured, but let’s just say I’m not… hopeful. At all.

BobbyStein.2315:

Naetell.3815:

Lessons learned here should be that writing for an MMO is completely different from how you’d approach a traditional novel.

This is definitely true. We also have to deal with the fact that simply writing something doesn’t guarantee that it will be implemented in a way that represents the original vision (if it’s even implemented). We learned a lot over the past year. I hope you all will see the difference in the next few releases. I look forward to hearing your comments late next week.

Might I direct you to Star Wars: The Old Republic, then? Quite a few lessons could be learned there about how to weave an intriguing, unique, and truly personal story that intertwines and intersects with those of the other classes (races, in GW2’s case), creating an overall story that is gripping in both scope and implementation.

SWTOR is dead, Just as this game will be if they carry on the road they are heading down.

It’s not your end and your not alone either, Trade Portal is offline intermittently, there is extreme lag and other players on Piken Square also experiencing the same thing.

Josh Davis.6015:

/shines a bright light on himself interrogation style

We’ll be talking about upcoming WvW stuff starting next week. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what we’ll be talking about quite yet, but I figured at the very least I’d give you folks a timeline to go off of.

As an aside, we’re also expanding our bi-weeky livestream (Ready Up) to cover WvW in addition to PvP and balance. WvW will be the main topic on our next episode (1/31). I’ll officially announce the stream with a post next week sometime.

Anyways, I hope this helps!

-Josh

Where is Devon Carver? Your probably going to say that he’s behind closed doors working on more important things, but i get the feeling he’s no longer at the helm.

I and a few others encountered a Hacker/Exploit user a couple of weeks ago in Eternal Battlegrounds, He was a ranger with Longbow and pet warping all over the map while attacking then disappearing. I got his username and reported him then whispered him telling him the fact, I got a reply back saying i don’t care “F*** Y** B******” so i reported him for verbal abuse too.

Guess what? He still logs in to this day. Proof of the fact that Anet does absolutely nothing about it.

Lets see a video of Anet Completing these bosses, Oh wait they wouldn’t have had any upleveled players when they did their testing.

Devs are a bunch of nubs, Don’t expect anything more than the shower of kittene patches we get every month.

They have no clue about PVE and ABSOLUTLELY no clue about PvP.

HaHa! Great Job Anet, You never cease to amaze.

The lack of communication means they haven’t got the foggiest idea how to progress with WvWvW and Devon Carver’s Absence means he has lost the balls to face us.

Don’t hold out much hope for WvWvW.

With regards to Mesmer, Nothing has changed since launch. Mesmer has the same amount of stealth skills now as it did then so I am not sure why your saying it’s worse than ever.

oxo.7869:

Nope. Pointless, meaningless, useless waste of time for no reward.
For this game, for many, the only real draw is WvW and yet it’s the one element that’s been ignored for so so long, while we continue to get worthless pve fluff thrown at us.
Seasons just proved how badly WvW needs to be improved, without ruining it further with more pve elements and achievements.

Letting US and EU servers go at it would be a start.

This*

Just let devon carver GO and bring someone in more capable of breathing some life into WvWvW.

WvW is so fkd up it’s a joke, The whole pvp side of gw2 is run by muppets. Just play it out until there is something else to move onto because GW2 is in the quicksand.

Can’t wait for them to leave again.

This is a very good build Osicat but it’s just a shame it has no speed buff. I am also going to give it a try with the traveler runes.

Never gonna happen i’m afraid, Anet wants us to grind like lifeless robots or pump money into the gem store which is why they have made them so ridiculously hard to obtain.

WvW was BADLY designed from the offset, They would need to completely rework it from scratch and Anet is never going to do that.

They will continue to bottle feed us with half baked changes hoping it will keep us interested. It’s only a matter of time until it all comes crashing down around them.

Khayoss.2019:

Becka Williams.4978:

Where’d you get the bolts of damask? Thin air? I’ve been crafting mine every day since ascended armor came out, and I don’t even have one full set. So don’t tell me you aren’t buying bolts from the TP.

More than one account = more than one bolt per day. But that’s irrelevant… this thread, and your initial comment, was directed at the fact that the crafting materials (silk specifically) isn’t readily available in WvW, and that we were being forced to buy them from the TP in order to make ascended armor. I dispute this notion because everything I used to get my first 2 weapons and almost my entire first suit of armor came exclusively from WvW, and I had it all before they launched ascended armor because I knew it was coming. If anyone else wanted ascended armor that badly they could have done the same thing… I have so much silk and mithril I had to start a bank guild to hold onto it. It is very abundant in WvW if you just salvage your loot.

You knew it was coming? So you just by chance thought i will stack on mass silk,cotton,linen and what other else is needed. Just by chance?

Bullkitten.

Tested this tonight, Changed my own thief build to full dire gear with 1.9k toughness 20k vitality and took a 7.5k CnD and 12k Backstab from an Sfr thief.

Something is definitely NOT right.

Sanduskel.1850:

I think what enrages people about my class is our ability to stealth whenever we are in trouble and our ability to hit harder than any other class. Add to that the ability to move faster especially in stealth, and you get rage. Personally, I think it was a huge mistake to allow stealthing while in combat. It makes it so easy for me to kill enemies without any risk. However, I tired of being hated for my class mechanics. All I hear in chat is hatred for my class it gets old.

It’s not just that, Lately i have seen thieves who are hitting 7k cnd and 12-14k backstabs on toons that have 2k+ toughness and a lot of vitality which is understandable if these thieves are total glass canon but they are able to also take a lot of damage too.

Glitch or exploit i dunno but something isn’t right.

Thieves should just be deleted from the game simple. they take very little skill to play and when the kitten hits the fan they run and stealth then return with a 12k backstab and think they are god. And if you do beat them the majority party invite you to tell you how lucky or nooby you are.

It’s just the direction this game is heading in now, Any mmo owned by Koreans is gonna make you pay and grind. Wait for the new games out in 2014 like most other people then leave this insult to gw1 in the sewer where it belongs.

easyface.8064:

Thanks for watching, the replies (helps a lot) and the positive reply of my gameplay ! =)

I’m sorry if I was talking too fast, gonna try to slow it down in the next vids!
I am still new to commentary but I think in time I will get better. Ye I hope as well that my videos will help some players in their outnumbered fights. =)

Wing

Maybe you can post your Build and gear?

Kodash = Noobs with Numbers!

Your Obviously very talented at playing the Mesmer class and i enjoyed watching your video however i found it difficult to understand a lot of your commentary due to your accent and you talking very fast.

You are very skilled and your video was fun to watch, Well done.

Jaxs.5830:

Kaiser.9873:

6. New MMO: From what I’ve seen and heard from people in the beta for one of them it won’t be a huge competitor for W3 people. There is always a shiny new MMO coming out. Doom and gloom runs high every time a new release hits, but honestly the two that are coming out soon don’t look as appealing to me or my guildies as they do to PvEers. Some population loss will occur, and then GW2 will get some of that loss back. It’s the nature of the genre.

I think the timing of EoTM as being a bit co-incidental for there to be no expected impact of the new games due out this spring. I do not think it is doom and gloom for the game, but impacting yes. Also PvE’ers make up a big part of this game’s population and let’s be honest the PvE in this game is… well kinda boring.

I have fun playing small group effort every night my guild is around to play. I have fun because my guild is made up of great people and we do a lot of fighting. That said the game is not challenging and it rewards horrible play. I think zergs are important, but this game designed WvW to cater to the extremely casual and now we have an extremely skill-less and uncompetitive population.

New games may not be all that different, but they cant be any worse and they offer a new game systems/classes to master if nothing else.

It’s going to take a lot more than EoTM to save Gw2.

Atherakhia.4086:

The Clague.4765:

Colly.4073:

Gw2 will be dead by the time devon gets back off his holiday, The state he has left WvW in he deserves be joning the dole queue.

I for one, and the large number of people I play with, love the format and will happily play it for a long time just as it is.

Solo / small group roaming = great fun
Taking towers / keeps = fun but can be too easy
Defending towers / keeps = fun but can be too hard
Zerg fights = great fun

If you don’t like any of those components then why are you playing it? I am pretty sure that when February comes that WvW will be just fine.

I doubt that.

At some point fun isn’t enough to keep a game going because something new and shiny will be more fun. GW2 has been riding the ‘nothing else out there worth playing’ niche for a long time now. WvW hasn’t changed since launch. Sure we have WXP now, but has that changed the game at all? Most players go for the same 2 bonuses as it is.

The whole game needs an update. Not just WvW. If a new player started the game today, they’d see the exact same thing you did when you started a year ago because even in PvE, all changes have been temporary.

Well i’m glad for you that your enjoying it but for many many others it’s becoming very stale and repetitive. We have been fighting the same Match up now for 5 weeks running. The ascended grind is a joke, There is a growing number of individuals using exploits and nothing gets done.

Tell me the same in another 6 months time.

Gw2 will be dead by the time devon gets back off his holiday, The state he has left WvW in he deserves be joning the dole queue.

Oh joy!

Another thieves are OP, Thieves are a pain in the kitten , Nerf the thief thread.

I wouldn’t like to fight lower tier servers and be bored senseless because our server dominates, I would however like a different matchup than Piken/Sfr/Vizunah because it’s like frikkin Groundhog Day and it’s getting boring.

I’m not sure how Anet is going to resolve this but they need to do something because WvWvW is getting stale and people will eventually move on to other things.

Sepreh.5924:

Colly.4073:

Anet left us Mesmer’s with very little options when it came to condition based builds because of whiners like you who come and rage on the forums because they can’t dominate every class.

I am not “raging” because I cannot dominate your build. I am saying that it is an example of a build that is not fun for the opponent to play against.

With regards to Anet leaving you few options, I agree that the heart of the problem is there. But in the meantime, you have to stop ignoring the fact that certain builds just arent fun to fight. Again, it is independent of the skill of the player. Over time, you can tell when someone plays one of those builds well and when someone plays one of those builds poorly. It doesnt have to do with the skill of the player. I am not saying that the player playing that build is “less skilled” or that the build is carrying the player. What I am saying is that those builds use mechanics that are inherently not fun to play against as the opponent.

Ok in a way I agree that certain classes builds are not fun to fight against but I don’t think refusing to fight them is your answer, I find a condition necromancer particularly un-fun to fight because a skilled condition mancer can whittle you down to zero health in a matter of seconds. I used to avoid them like the plague “pardon the pun” but now I try to stay and fight and figure out a way make myself better and counter what they do.