Guild Wars 2

First legitimate complaint about the raid that I’ve seen. I suffer from this as well. What I found helpful was that the design of the pillars is different. Green seems to spread out at the top, whereas red ends in a point. But to be honest, in the heat of battle with the camera moving around fast and split second decisions being made, I even confuse the blue. None of the colours are vibrant enough for people like myself that need to consciously appraise the pillar to determine what colour it is. Colours are not second nature to everyone.

The raid was designed for organized groups of highly experienced and geared players to have a challenge. Anyone who complains about the raid being inaccessible is missing the point.

The raid was designed for organized groups of highly experienced and geared players to have a challenge. Anyone who complains about the raid being inaccessible is missing the point.

I’ve been playing in HoT maps and SW and also felt this delay. Had some near-disconnects last night in DS, and my first actual disconnect today in SW. Everything is stable on my end, and it’s only GW2, and only since the last patch.

Seems to be affecting some other people, but not everyone.

+1

Still bugged for me. I have 100% map completion, completed VB (prior to the HP change), and got no reward.

Champ has changed now and only does a spin attack. Never leaves nectar. Can’t get the achievement

Sorry ANet, but with the conversion rates at the moment, I don’t feel like paying upwards of $65 CAD for the expansion. Will I be able to buy it in Canadian stores for $50 CAD?

I think things like this are great ideas. Something League of Legends decided to do a while back was to make things as transparent and straight forward as possible in terms of communicating information to players. You should know when something is attacking you, charging up, about to end/die/change, or is affecting you in any way.

A player’s WvW traits have an effect on the siege they use, and there are some tells such as name change for the skill buttons. But I agree that these kinds of things should also be communicated to other players as well.

Along the same lines, if siege were to flash red when it had 15 min or less on its decay timer, or something of that sort, it would go a long way in terms of communication and clarity.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Chris Cleary.8017:

Exploits@arena.net is the best place to report these things. Yes, it is used to report in-game exploits, but it can also handle reports like this. Moving forward, it’s probably best that reports go there instead of on the forums.

Also

I disagree and here’s why:

There is the overwhelming perception that hackers have free reign in WvW while Anet does little to nothing to deal with them.

Now when you come into a hacker thread and announce someone has been banned — it goes a LONG way towards changing this perception.

And that’s important, because thinking hackers are everywhere in a PvP-type game mode discourages players from logging in — who wants to PvP in an unfair environment? Furthermore, would-be hackers are seeing — for the first time — that hacking can lead to bans.

Of course, you don’t want the WvW forum to be permanently filled with hacker threads, but I think it might be ok for the time being — until people really start to believe the problem is being dealt with seriously. Perhaps a (temporary?) sub-forum might be opened just for ban requests.

TLDR: After three years of the perception that hackers roam free in WvW, people need to see that something is being done about them.

I think this guy hits the nail on the head. No matter what you guys are or are not doing on the back end, behind closed doors, it’s the perception that matters.

The last number I heard was 70. Someone told me it was changed recently, and a T1 server capped a map to test it.

Terrahero.9358:

I guess i imagined the part where the higher the server ranked during any of the 3 seasons so far the more tickets they got towards a very limited and unique selection of rewards.
Besides that you get to roflstomp through EotM. Easy karma, easy leveling.

You may not think its a terrible big reward, but it’s a reward nonetheless and actively encourages stacking, whether intented or not. And it’s more than the actions taken that reward destacking, of which the counter is still stuck on zero.

Sorry, I thought we were talking about current events… :P

BAITness.1083:

If you have evidence that someone is actually raising enough to supply the full transfer, and bribes on top of that, you really should bring it forward. That would in fact be very messed up, and another reason to add to the list for WvW’s slow demise.

I heard that FA paid 80k gold to transfer IoJ people. Just a thing I heard. Not claiming it’s evidence.

Sell your heavy loot bags

I’ve actually seen that treb placement used a few times, including on my own server. Never found out how to do it myself though. It is killable at range, easier so with an omega. Even though it’s in the “invuln zone”, the siege itself isn’t invuln.

I’m with Aeolus though – there’s a million problems, but we can just stop worrying about anything that has to do with the Alpine BL specifically. Wait until Desert BL comes out, then you’ll have a slew of new things to complain about :P

Offair.2563:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-achievements-6/page/4#post5063938

I don’t want to read through 200+ posts, and not a single ANet response. I’m with the OP in thinking that maybe a fresh view/conversation is in need to grab some attention from the people that have the power to fix these things.

Seriously, game has been out for years, titles unobtainable, etc etc. We’ve heard it all, we all know it. Now let’s hear from ANet!

Michael Henninger.7451:

Do you have poutine?

Funny that you ask. I’m guessing you’re aware of our big Quebecois guild – xQCx.

Usually people ask if we have cookies, so we made a special cookie icon for teamspeak users. Unfortunately, gluttony as it is, people got very greedy always wanting more cookies, and would complain when the cookies were taken away. So, we had to remove the cookies. I am petitioning for them to return though. A poutine may also be in order!

I believe they had this kind of thing in mind when they started making “combat transformation” tonics like the watchwork knight one. But I don’t even think you can use that one in WvW. Seems silly.

I would definitely love to have a variety of infinite battle tonics with no restrictions on them.

Well, I’d assume that in posting in here as a GM, you are expecting your position to sway people’s desires to have you on their server. If you think saying “(not work)” is going to prevent people from saying “come here, we want a GM!”, I’d say your expectations might not be met.

That being said, I’ll give you the usual run-down I give potential transfers to NSP. We are a community-focused server and invite people to come here to be a part of our family. We encourage all NSP players to join up with some of our organized guilds, and be active on our Teamspeak. We pride ourselves in working together to overcome odds (see our current score, where we were rolled into a higher tier, but still holding our own).

The vast majority of NSP-native guilds have remained here, over the past 2 years. We are known as one of the most stable and friendly servers. I joke about us being the Canada of servers. We don’t try and mass recruit to soar up the rankings, but we love new people to play with, and we do the best we can when challenges arise.

What we do not want is people who want to be carried to victory, or come here just for the wins, and leave after things go sour for a week or 2. You will be surely disappointed when you realize that every member of the community is instrumental in our success, and we need you to pull your weight to get those wins. While I can’t prevent you from server hopping around, I do encourage those that transfer here to look at it as a long term home, rather than just a temporary change of scenery.

If this fits your gaming style, come on over to NSP!

Terrahero.9358:

A good first start for anet would be to stop rewarding stacking.

Then they can look into rewarding destacking.

Anet doesn’t reward stacking though. Even in terms of coming 1st in a matchup and getting crappy bonus chests, a win in t1 is the same as a win in t8. People stack because they want to win, but not because they want rewards for winning. They get a good feeling from both killing other people in the game, and from having higher score. They like the instant gratification (I’m better than you), and don’t even consider that they will rise up in the ranks and face stronger servers, and lose, and then subsequently bandwagon somewhere else and start the whole process over again.

And in this post, I’d like to draw the difference between different “mass transfers” and their impacts on the game. 5 guilds left ET because they simply didn’t enjoy the gaming environment. 18 guilds went from DB to HoD for the instant gratification stuff that I talked about earlier. Not all transfers are stacking, just to be clear!

From my experience, most EU players on NA servers are part of NA guilds. I know they exist, but I don’t see many full-EU guilds.

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

Welcome to WvW >.>

Sadly it’s how it is when guilds are paid to move, and servers want to be stacked and do everything they can to do so, even to move to another server and take it over and pay more guilds to move there.

ugh
Sadly there’s not really anything Anet can do, except that it’s likely new accounts will be added to ET over others, but idk if the system gives preference like that

I just want to point out that none of the ET guilds were paid to move to NSP. In fact, ET approached NSP about transferring there due to NSP’s strong community-oriented approach. NSP has no aspirations to become a super-server or a bandwagon. We picked up something like 5 or 6 guilds from a low-tier server with a diminishing community. It was the decision of the ET guilds themselves, as they decided it would better their playing experience. They are all welcome additions to our community, but I must stress that none of this was due to NSP “seeking out” or “buying” guilds, nor trying to bolster our population to compete with higher tiers. We are a community-focused server, which attracted some like-minded groups of people who wanted to join the community.

I do agree that purchasing guilds and server stacking is unhealthy for the game. This, however, is not that.

I figured it might be intended. However as underwater combat is awaiting an overhaul, and honestly not considered to be real balanced combat, I don’t think it should in any way affect land combat.

I do the same thing with putting the mantra in the same slot, but I can’t work around all the possible combinations of skills interference with the variety of skills I use.

Theoretically this bug occurs with any class and utility skills, however I will be using my mesmer as an example here.

Step 1) Slot feedback in underwater slot 7.

Step 2) Slot blink in land slot 7.

Step 3) Blink (on land).

Step 4) Slot feedback in land slot 8.

Result: feedback will be on cooldown. Its cooldown timer will match that of blink’s. Additionally, the underwater feedback will swap positions with the skill in underwater slot 8.

Incredibly easy to reproduce, yet this bug has been around as long as I’ve been playing the game (2.5 years).

Personal plea: as a mesmer, I rely on swapping utilities a lot for different situations. Having to wait a long amount of time (see: portal cooldown) to use my situational utilities works against me. I’d love to see this fixed. Thank you!

Disclaimer: you can work around this bug by not using underwater skills (or using different ones). However, I don’t think that I should have to decrease my underwater combat effectiveness to work around a bug though. Feedback is very nice underwater!

Just a thought: you may not want to transfer to the server with the MOST OCX presence, as a game without competition can get quite boring. However if you get satisfaction from not having to put in much effort, pile on!

That being said, I can understand why you wouldn’t want to go to a completely empty server. A happy medium might be nice.

Aitadis.8269:

CD NA is rough some nights…we never lose WP’s during NA prime as we have strong guilds

Challenge accepted!

All 3 servers are relatively evenly matched, which will hopefully make a good tier 4. Being from NSP, I’ll talk mostly about that server.

OCX/SEA has historically been our weak spot, although we’ve got a small Australian guild and a plethora of roamers. If one of them decides to tag up, we can usually hold things. I don’t think our overnight coverage is as strong as CD/DH, however for all 3 servers I believe that leadership matters more than coverage.

NSP has a strong NA prime, as was stated earlier. Most of our off-hour coverage comes from NA players playing different shifts. With the current guild shuffling and bandwagoning, NSP has been a target for community-oriented guilds that want to transfer, rather than “fight” guilds (aka ‘all pile on one server and stack it so they can’t lose fights’ guilds). As you will hear from most NSP members, we pride ourselves on our server community and stability. We want people to transfer here for the community, not for the statistics, as an enjoyable game experience is not quantifiable.

If you’d like to know more about NSP, you can contact me (Curo.2483) or Arlien.9410. A full list of NSP admins is available to you when you log into our teamspeak at northernshiverpeaks.org. Keep in mind that users need to be verified in order to leave the lobby on our TS, but contacting an admin should be pretty easy.

I tried something similar and I believe that the +40% MF while under a boon may be broken, and doesn’t always work/show even while under a boon.

They’ll never notice

The most recent number I’ve heard was 18 guilds transferring from DB to HoD. Before the transfer, NSP was approached as a potential target for the DB community transfer, but HoD was ultimately chosen (and I’m glad of that). At that time, it was just 7 guilds. The next day it was 10, and then it just kept going up.

NSP prides itself on its long-lasting stable community. We don’t have competition between power-hungry guilds or server admins; everyone works together. I can’t imagine that we would have gone on without issue with such a large transfer, so my heart goes out to all the community-oriented players on HoD. Although this isn’t the first HoD bandwagon, so I don’t know how many of those types of people are left. Nonetheless, if bandwagoning isn’t your style, NSP is always offering a long-term home to any amount of people that want a solid community. We like people to come here for the people, not the numbers (ie ranking, coverage, # of guilds, etc).

I coined the term “Henge of Dragonwagon” on NSP, and I’m glad to see others are using that term :P

You mentioned that switching specializations will be as “easy” as it currently is to swap traits. Some may argue that this in fact is not easy, and would like to see a build-saving system similar to the one in GW1. Can this be a possibility?

Hi guys, I came on here to post some bugs about me not being able to see guild chat no matter what I do (did the whole invis/change rep, etc etc). But then I noticed there are several threads already, so I don’t want to add any more clutter.

What I cannot seem to find is somewhere that ANet has at least said “we have noticed you guys”. In fact, I see lots of people complaining about a lack of response on the issue. So just to be clear, have they responded, and can you please link the thread?

I understand there are many systems at work and bugs are complicated. What I would like is just for an ANet rep to say they are aware of this bug, so I can stop stressing out about it, and let them do their work. If they actually have not noticed all the threads and complaints, I think there is something seriously wrong with their attention to the community at the moment.

Anyways, my chat has been bugged for weeks, and literally all I can do is complain about it at this point…

Thanks for the responses, guys! I’m going to wait it out a few more days, then start doing some investigation if the problem doesn’t fix itself.

So I’ve got no problem with my connectivity anywhere else. My net is working 100% fine. But when I start playing GW2, after 10-15 minutes, lag starts to build up (skill lag, delay on chat, delay on interacting) and eventually I disconnect. Then for a few minutes after that, everything else on my system (teamspeak, skype, chrome, etc) starts having trouble connecting. A few minutes after that, everything goes back to normal…until I try to play GW2 again.

I was thinking maybe my connection is just weak right now (it fluctuates), and perhaps GW2 was putting too much strain on my connection. However, I’ve been hearing similar stories from other people both in game and on the forums. It’s been happening all week. Is this just a bunch of coincidences and my ISP is at fault, or is GW2 doing something to overload everyone’s connections?

Aitadis.8269:

Reporting doesn’t work, Ive reported hackers by right click and send video proof by email to anet and they still never get banned, even after recording the same player hack multiple times.

Up until recently, a GM would need to catch a hacker in action to ban them. However I think they have been considering their official stance to allow video evidence. Several players have been banned from videos as of late.

First off, they are removing Alpine BL because it’s not designed well. Additionally, they will be bringing it back once it’s fixed.

Second, the fall tournament was much more the kind of tournament that caters towards actual tournament-type players. Having a long tourney burns out those kinds of players. I’m not sure what you have against a 4-week tournament. I personally don’t want a long tourney.

Third, it may be fine for bronze, but silver league is in a mess right now.

Fourth, we need to adapt to balance and camera changes before a tournament starts. Also I think ANet wants to work a bit more on the trolling aspect of WvW, to make the next tournament smoother.

I’m ok with putting names on siege. If you’ve built a good community, those players will help train the newbies for siege placement, rather than harassing them. If they harass instead of help, report them for the harassment.

Turning down an idea to stop trolling because “rude players are rude” is not a very good argument.

Also, a system like this discourages people from playing poorly. So many people play poorly because they can hide behind a veil of anonymity. Same reason people troll and harass – anonymity. If things are more transparent, you will have less trolling, less harassment, and less poor play. Do we really want to encourage the following line of thought: “I’m going to do this stupid thing because nobody will see me do it, and even though it’s going to hinder others’ enjoyment of the game, it won’t come back at me, so who cares?”. I sure hope we don’t.

I seem to be having a problem with guild chat that few others are experiencing. I have 4 chat tabs on my account, the 4th being solely for guild chat. My guild chat appears on whatever tab I have active, instead of the 4th tab. Also, if I click a tab itself, or otherwise do something in game that prevents me from viewing chat (ie viewing a vista/cinematic, viewing a loading screen), the guild chat will clear away, but then new guild messages are still shown in that tab afterward.

It’s gotten to the point where I need to stop representing my guild if I don’t want to hear stories about cute animals or someone’s trip to the dentist…

Since the last patch, whenever I open my inventory my computer starts humming like some mechanical part is going into overdrive or something. It’s not a speaker issue, the sound is coming directly from my computer. It only happens while playing GW2 and only while my inventory window is open, and only started with the recent bug-filled patch.

Orochimaru.4730:

For what reason was this player’s account terminated? They were playing the game as they wanted, there isnt anything in the terms saying you cannot build useless siege so…???

As trolly as this post seems, there are players I have encountered that do hold this stance, so I will answer it. If what you WANT to do comes at the detriment of other players’ enjoyment of the game, you will be punished.

Personally, I’m sick of 1 guy interfering with large groups’ enjoyment of the game simply because he “wants to tag up and go fight centaurs in WvW”. Nowhere in life is “I want to do it” a legitimate excuse for miscreant behaviour.

Also about finding loopholes in the terms of service that “allow” you to bother other people – you’re simply a terrible person for doing such. I’d use more flavourful words, but they would end up censored. The attitude where people behave miserably because it’s not illegal to is a disease on society. I suggest changing your attitude before somebody hurts you for it. There’s a reason people act respectfully towards each other: it makes life easier.

Where is the love for T3?

It’s only invuln for a few seconds. I think you may be exaggerating with the word “instantly” here.

RIP Smitry.

NSP will never forget you. It wasn’t so much his commanding style, but how he brought people together.

I don’t have comments on your ideas, but I will answer the question about forcing server pride on others.

Server pride is a way of welcoming people into the community. They see “NSP Pride” spammed in map chat, and want to know what’s going on. They gain the feeling of pride themselves, by being part of it. If it is even possible to “force” pride on someone, it’s something my server sure does not do. Our reputation speaks for itself, and that’s how server pride should be. The pride is a force in itself

Hexin.5603:

Said it before and say it again … just add the name of the person to the end of the siege name…. “superior flame ram by hexin.5603”

I LOVE this idea! I’m always trying to find out who placed siege, so I can give them tips on better placement (I run server initiatives on things like siege placement).

Michael Henninger.7451:

sharkmegabyte.2859:

This is a nice gesture, but we’re seeing that it’s still not enough. Yesterday, in Tarnished Coast’s garrison, a small guild full of trolls drained all the supply with useless trebs and flame rams. They were mass reported as they stood around TAUNTING THE MAP OPENLY IN CHAT and building their trash.

No GMs showed up….

Until HOURS LATER, when it was all gone and none of the trolls were still around.

Then a GM showed up, saw nothing, and from what my servermates are telling me, they are being accused of false reporting.

Unbelievable.

Pay attention to the chat logs and the screenshots, please. And it’s obvious there are not enough people prepared to respond to these reports.

Have a bowl of facts:

I was there for three hours, cleared that guild, found the real person who placed the siege, and yes; placed one suspension for abuse of the reporting system.

What are the guidelines for false reporting? You may not realize it, but a statement like that, when not followed with an explanation of “abuse of the reporting system”, will lead a lot of players to think it’s not safe to report. I’m assuming the issue was someone sending in 100 reports or just reporting everyone on the map, or something like that. Please clarify so some of our more cautious members are not dissuaded from sending reports in when they are needed.

coglin.1867:

Curo.2483:

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Sind Bowdragon.8374:

To all those responding. Awesome, thank you. Please remember this isn’t a bashing post, just a cry for help.

What exactly do you want Anet to do?

Force transfer all players on SoS to random servers. Give guilds a chance to transfer first so they can stay together. Cap the amount of transfers to a specific server so they don’t all just pile on to the same server.

You mean force others out of their community and change their experience for your personal convenience? Why don’t you just change servers yourself?

Well that’s a lot of assumptions and words put into my mouth. Thanks for your in-depth analysis and thoughtful response! /sarcasm

I will humour you though – I’m a community lead on my server and have worked hard to build NSP up over the last year and a half, so I won’t be leaving. And I’m not sure where my “personal convenience” ties into fixing a broken system that hinders game enjoyment for every player on at least 7 servers. Also, I mentioned allowing guilds/groups of people to stay together, which should be enough to keep communities together.

Sometimes I think people argue just for the sake of argument and don’t even try to see others’ points of view.

Thothkepara.2539:

/fist bump with OP

Unfortunately I know for a fact a lot of NSP have bandwagoned to SoS or maintain dual accounts with that particular server.

Working as intended eh ANet?

Thanks for your support! Any NSP member that is actively involved in the community will know that SoS is the last server you’d want to transfer to. I’m not aware of any bandwagoning to any server at the moment. I do know several individuals have left NSP, which is natural, but the core of our server and our guilds stands strong. Please PM me any information you have that shows otherwise, as I’d love to be aware of such things.

And yes, I am aware of at least 5 prominent NSP players who maintain dual accounts for varying reasons.

Hi GM’s!

I’m a community lead on NSP. A group of us are compiling reports on an individual who has previously been banned for WvW griefing on our server, and has since come off his ban. He’s right back at it again. If you can contact me here or in game, we’d like to have it dealt with swiftly. We’ve got screenshots and video if you like, but he doesn’t try to disguise his activities, so I’m sure you could catch him in the act quite frequently.

Also SoS BL is a nice place to find teleport hackers. There’s a specific necro I’ve had my eye on for a few days now… :P
Unfortunate thing about teleport hackers is you can’t grab their name to report them once they’ve teleported away.

McViolin.8547:

What kittenes me off the most when commanding PUG’s is when I’m about to engage an enemy and most of my PUG’s get one pushed because they’re using PVE builds.

To add on this – the PvE mentality is: stand in one place spamming skills, dodging if you take some damage. This simply does NOT cut it for WvW. You need to be proactive rather than reactionary in WvW, in addition to catering your build to fit the team. The commander will move you around to avoid damage, and call out when damage spikes are needed to capitalize on an enemy’s weakness. In a WvW zerg, you are part of a larger body, rather than a PvE zerg where you are one person trying to get in tags while you wait for something to eventually die to minimal effort. Just look at the difference between how people fight teq and how they fight shatterer. If you play WvW like you are fighting something that basically doesn’t fight back, you are going to be sorely disappointed.

The same reason people fail in WvW is the reason they fail more dynamic fights like Vine Wrath. They are used to putting in minimal effort because they’ve been taught that they can be rewarded by it. GW2 trains its players to be lazy rather than active, despite the active combat system. PvE was originally made to be WAY too easy, and that has stuck into the bulk of players’ heads.

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

Sind Bowdragon.8374:

To all those responding. Awesome, thank you. Please remember this isn’t a bashing post, just a cry for help.

What exactly do you want Anet to do?

Force transfer all players on SoS to random servers. Give guilds a chance to transfer first so they can stay together. Cap the amount of transfers to a specific server so they don’t all just pile on to the same server.

If you were running in full exotic gear that was the same as your level, and provided a full 3-stat combination, you might be comparable to a lv 80. But chances are you are using greens that are 5-10 levels below you, and those don’t scale well. Or in your case, probably blues/whites, which would be even worse. Also you have no traits and can’t use lv 80 food.

Johje Holan.4607:

So its either quit the game or delete and transfer.

You do have another option – step up and try and build WvW on your server. That’s what I did. I just spent 30 minutes typing up a few posts explaining to someone why my server has grown so much. Trust me, it works

Warlord.9074:

Play better?

1. Play a useful class. Ex. Guard, Warrior, Ele, Necro.

2. Get on TS, Mumble, Vent Ex. Voice coms.

3. Call out your skills, Waters, CC, Etc.

4. Stay tight on commander tag.

5. Do not squirrel after roamers.

6. Listen to the commander, and pay attention.

7. Use your brain if commander throws down some siege it means it needs to be built. A commander shouldn’t have to tell people to build in Chat for anyone to build something.

8. Party up and make decent partys. Don’t bring uplevels.

Failure to do simple things like I listed will cause a commander to rage. These are simple things and doesn’t take a rocket scientist.

I just want to emphasize that these really are simple things. They are core to the WvW game mode, and yet seem to be ignored by a majority of players in WvW. It’s a common theme for people to expect a free ride in GW2 (see: world boss 1-spamming), and not actually trying to learn the game. GW2 is quite complex, and needs to be learned just like you would thrive to better yourself in league of legends or something.