Guild Wars 2

Sometime you cap a keep and sometimes you get a thousand kills in a hour. Sorry that you cant have ALL the things.

The ori nodes always change every 1-3 days (on very, very rare occasions they have lasted longer). This has nothing to do with patches. Its always been like this. If you’re on a server where the nodes dont behave like this, well good for you. The only exception to the rule has been the one by the champ karka in SS (which was a rich ori node originally)

Also I forgot to mention that as an MMO its too complicated to patch and get the content out to all people at once, so testing a new map isnt really feasable.

Olterin Fire.5960:

I endorse this product and/or thread.

… On a somewhat more constructive note, where’s /joinsquad <playername>? Would allow private tags (as per suggestion) to be set to be visible to only squadmembers (and other commanders). Actually, with that around, there’d not really be a need for passcodes, I think (would be neat, yes, but not “needed”)

Passcodes is an unnecessary manual thing for something you could automate. Perhaps its the most flexible system, buts its also a bit complicated.

For example, you could change what I wrote about about private showing for “Guild and group members” to “Guild and group members and all the guild members of the group members”.

Suddenly multiple guild groups can private raid under a single commander. 25 people from 5 different guilds? Easy peasy, just have one member of each guild join the commander and have the commander untick “Public”. Visible for all 5 guilds, no one else.

Or of course we could have expanded commander groups to 30 peeps and only show the tag to them, but that’s so simple it cant possibly be done, since its not already in the game. Must be a technical issue that stop Anet.

Its an MMO ffs! Its not supposed to have stuff like beta servers, beta content tested by players and people interaction.

And now that you’ve reapeated what you said a few posts up, we can get back to giving the OP our opinions and letting him see what the choices are.

“Best” build is relative. For PvE, I run 0/30/20/20/0 I believe, using mantra healing. A ton of damage (berserker armor, ascended prec+tough+critdamage and a few soldiers trinkets) and it take alot to down me, while at the same time I am doing ~2.7K AoE healing every time I pop a mantra (healing, damage, keep 2 skills for what the current fight dictate). Using greatsword/staff for decent offensive/defensive capabilities (staff traited, greatsword obviously not).

When running with pure berserkers its quite funny to see everyones HP bar go up like 25% every 4 second or so.

It is excellent in long fights where bosses has a tendancy to do continous damage. For example the last volcanic fractal boss with all the burning and crap. I often see people with very low HP there, seemingly waiting for their heals to come off cd. Hell they even die on this easy boss! Unless you make some serious mistake like dodging into his blast you will maintain 100% HP throughout the fight.

Cant see the AoE circles with maxed graphics either, due to the kittened floor.

Pirates in the sky, pfff…

They should bring back the event where Shatterer flew over Plains Of Ashford and caused open world PvP with corrupted players

Well it makes sense if its Primordius.

The pavillion is an altar of sacrifice, so that he may rise in Divinity all covered in glorius blood. How many thousands have died there since the queen started this “celebratory event”? They even created machines to make sure that only people are sacrified, not weak NPCs.

Hey if everybody else bump it I can too, with the inclusion of my old rubbish GUI suggestion.

(devs will probably lock the thread or move it to “suggestions”, ie trash can, soon enough).

Features like
- Short squad name, visible on the minimap
- Color slider/dropdown menu (all primary/secondary colors)
- Public/private tickbox (Public shows to all, private shows to guild and group)
- Dropdown menu for icon choice

One can only dream…

BrunoBRS.5178:

i couldn’t solo the champions i found with my lv80s >.>

kind of a shame that they aren’t soloable from a story perspective, but i understand why a group event should be balanced for a group.

What class do you roleplay, a Thief with his hands and legs cut off? O.o

The balloon champions are easily soloable by 80’s even though some are quite annoying with all the knockbacks and crap. In terms of strenght they are little different than a veteran, its not a true champion (not even close).

For low levels, I think it depends on the class. Some low levels are just weak – some dont pick the “proper” skills or they havent unlocked them yet. I can understand if you need 5 level 10’s to beat a champion, compared to one 80 half-sleeping while waving his hand in the general direction of said champion.

I sort of had that situation yesterday in queensdale, where I saw maybe 3 going at it on a balloon champion in the distance, slowly getting his HP down. When I came in I probably killed it faster from 70-0% than they had done 80-70%.

His boyfriend was nerfed? I dont really know.

Hm…

“WvW
Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented loot from dropping off players in WvW.”

Latest patch. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-August-6th-2013/first#post2595315

It takes a few hours to complete, its a pain I know. You spend maybe 50-75s on waypoints (need to go to a zone to see the ballons), do the event, visit the tower, repeat.

You know exactly how to complete it and you can see steady progress.

You want kittenty achievements? How about the champion kill acheivement (balloon events)? It doesnt list what champions you need to kill and its completely random. I’ve done all balloons yet still have 4/5 and no bloody clue which champion is left (think its the hammer one but not sure). So I will have to run around for DAYS and repeat worthless events that I no longer get a chest for just for the random hope of getting the correct champion.

dunnberry.2964:

So if what they did is increase damage percentage than really what that’s doing is hurting the tanks, healers, and booners of any group who already had low drops to begin with…good job there/sarcasm

Which is completely unsurprising as it is in line with Anets “zerker only” policy for the Queens Gauntlet. You’re not meant to play support roles.

With GS/Staff if you want some AoE, just do:

Staff: 5, 3 (doesnt really matter what target), 2
swap
Greatsword: 2, shatter, 4, 3
With a sword/focus you’d just pop 3, shatter, 5, 2

This should be enough to wreck most groups. At level 11 it probably wont kill them but you get the idea (crit damage suck at anything below 80 and Mesmer isnt anywhere close to good until 40+).

A very cheap way to get AoE is to put sigil of flame (major) on one of your weapons.

AgentChaos.4932:

btw who between mya and gd won the scrim?

Didnt stay for long so I dont know the final outcome, but I did see GD beat Mya twice. Looked like they where a tad too scattered and didnt have the oomph to quickly kill downed players, but I leave the indepth analysis to them :p

hol.9043:

Can we please get an official statement for this? Like “We are investigating” or “It is intended”. Is it so hard??

Do you realize how long it took them to acknowledge the ecto salvage “bug” (ie stealth nerf)? That was PvE! PvE for gods sake!

I have also noticed a drastic reduction of lootbags, but have zero hope of Anet acknowledging or even investigating it.

Look, its not that bad. It could have been worse.

We where farming for maybe 2h earlier this evening, getting loot from every single champion (the “exotic” bag).

However, around 1.5 hour ago… Nothing. Champions (tamini in particular) do not give chests, they no longer gave any loot whatsoever. Called it a day, pointless to continue.

Either its DR, a fixed limit (like, you’re only allowed 100 champion loots/24h) or they nerfed it to the ground server side (no patch).

The only thing about creation I can say is DONT go for small/thin. It look ridiculus on Charr medium armor, you’re like a walking X. Story choices doesnt really matter.

Colly.4073:

I logged off 3 hours earlier tonight just out of sheer boredom, Piken has become a ghost town compared to how it used to be. I rarely see any of the commanders that where rampant only a few months ago and NEVER have i seen it where in prime time we have no queue’s on all 3 maps.

Maybe this is the shape of things to come

People always come and go. Less queues means more opportunities for new WvW players. Either way its always been quite a problematic place to be in – Piken doesnt have anywhere close to the coverage and manpower it need to really compete with other servers its tier/above yet if we face lower ranked servers our guilds are still good enough to beat the snot out of them.

Godmoney.2048:

There’s no room in spvp unless you just abandon a point. I love playing classes that kite well in mmo’s thats why I play my Mesmer 99% in WvW, because I have room to move. All the spvp maps are claustrophobic. Skyhammer puts you basically directly on top of enemies.

Imagine if an sPvP battleground was entire Divinitys Reach, with the city split into 5 zones of control (center, NE, NW, SE, SW) and it was 50v50 players.

So much things they could have done, but no. They decided intentionally to make sPvP suck.

DeWolfe.2174:

I’m not thrilled with “Dueling” in WvW personally. Here’s an example from last night.

We’re in the middle of taking Garri. I was downed in the LR, rezzed to spawn, and started running back. In the field north of Vale, between Briar and Bay, there was one friendly and two enemies appearing to be fighting. I instantly engaged and those kittens ran north into the water and toward the SW Garri Sentry. Which is directly in my path back into Garri. We downed them both and the friendly spiked them. Yet, I get a party request from one of the enemies afterwards. This person’s complaining I ruined the duel, etc. I was courteous and spent a minute to “apologize” to this person whom was upset. But seriously, how the Kitten is anyone supposed to know this??? Without question, this detracted from a large WvW battle.

Seriously, Dueler’s should have to dye their armor in bright orange or something. Maybe only do it in the GvG area by south camp? As long as you don’t harass the skill point down there…..

Why apologize? They knew the risks. There is a perfect zone for PvE dueling which doesnt involve points, is covered in “hidden” areas where 2 players can fight and usually has lower player counts than the borders/EB. Its called Obsidian Sanctum.

Last time I killed someone “dueling” outside west bay, they just yelled “OMG noobs we where duelling!”. My response was “lol”.

Even GvG groups has to accept the risks of other groups engaging and no, I wouldnt even apologize to them either. But that’s at least interesting to watch and a little more obvious to notice, part of server pride (well, maybe the guilds dont think so but the server appreciate a win). Solo duels are not.

suprNovae.5410:

We started on SFR bl and fought against ZDs/ZBs (~30-35) plus another ~15-20 pugs.
Well… let me correct myself. It wasn’t even a fight. That suggests both sides stand an equal chance of winning.
You guys were just melting us in a second. You bombed us more horrible than everything else.
When you have fun rolling with a superior number…. ok. Then let it be. It just sucks and im qqing.

After that we switched the map and oh gaaaaaaaawd. Another russian blob.
SPRT from Piken plus pugs. Same story.

Yeah, I was in the SFR border yesterday and ran to the southern island to join the SPRT blob (I think they swapped border a little later).

Only problem was that when I got there, the Elona blob was 3x larger and wiped the Piken blob

So as you say… Same story.

street.2176:

Saint Scarlet.2906:

The only servers that wouldn’t be able to nightcap Piken is Vabbi, WSR and FoW. Every other server we’ve faced has us outmanned at night.

So u got less than 15 players at night?

More than 15 players during the day is a bloody miracle.

Some days its been 17:00 and there’s like… 3, maybe 4 players on an enemy border zone. Piken probably got more guilds playing late at night than we do playing in the late mornings/early afternoons.

WvW ranks have been the same for over a year (since release, I dont know how many years it was since GW2 implemented the achievements during the dev cycle). Knocking off a zero would be a simple matter (you think), but it just hasnt happened. In fact, there’s been like 500 new achievements introduced since the game released, rather than change exisiting WvW achievements.

In other words, they are fully approved/backed by Anet and its not going to change.

I dare any Anet dev to tell us otherwise and explain why no other has bothered to look at them in all this time after all these patches/changes to WvW.

Whaaaaaaaaaat? There’s been plenty of new content and changes. Like the arrowcarts, everybody was dying to increase the damage of the arrowcarts and then we finally got it!

When lag happen… Anything is possible.

The other day I was running from Rouges, past Wildcreek and when I was at the sentry between WC and Stonemist… I was suddenly ported into Wildcreek as if I had walked through the door. Lolwut?!

selan.8354:

“girls like sexy light armor and love the skimpy look” my male friend mains a female mesmer that he puts into the skimpiest armor there is
“girls pick rangers to have cute pets” my male friend mains a female half naked ranger with all the cute pets and loves to turn into a quaggan and recently purchased the endless cattonic ;-)

so please guys could u stop stereotyping us? ty! im a pvp kinda person and was in clans for years and, no not hello kitty online… first person shooters!

So true, not all males prefer looking at halfnaked females. Many seem to prefer looking at halfnaked male Norns instead. Hm.

I’d advice to ignore it instead of tearing your hair off.

I got 100% exploration with 2 characters and still have 172/173 and similar counts for several of the zones. Even when trying to complete it I found like half a dozen new areas yet none counted towards completion for some reason, even those areas other people suggested as the missing ones, nope I get the “you have discovered this area!” notification but nothing changes.

Nikola.3841:

Dawdler.8521:

If Anet uncapped AoE blobs would turn into a bunch of lowres characters from 2001 lagging all over the place and animated like they got a broom showed up their kitten ?

No thanks, I think I prefer GW2 with AoE cap.

You think you’re smart, don’t you?

Smart enough to know thakittens pointless to talk about uncapping AoE since Anet has said again and again and again thakittens not going to happen.

I also have something simple to say:

There are no tiers. Anet remove them.

Just that. Sorry.

If Anet uncapped AoE blobs would turn into a bunch of lowres characters from 2001 lagging all over the place and animated like they got a broom showed up their kitten ?

No thanks, I think I prefer GW2 with AoE cap.

Veil/Feedback/Nullfield/Timewarp. May swap one of the skills for portal if needed. If there are enough veil Mesmers in the group I would recommend teleport instead. Build for medium/high stamina yet decent damage. No GvG player should ever be berserker. The gameplay is simple: Follow the guild commander smack into combat (need to be up front). Veil on command. Feedback on the commander, pump out all the AoE damage. Circle around the enemy backline and meet up with the commander if separated, popping nullfield. If timewarp hasnt been used, the second push is the time to do it.

… Wait a minute, I dont even GvG. Nevermind

I had a rifle Warrior try to do killshot in PvP the other day. I dont think I lost any HP at all during that fight.

In WvW I wouldnt really care. Warrior hit me for 8K, I am down to 14K HP. Push heal, back to 22K. Laugh as the Warrior spent all that time in a stationary position getting buttkittened by illusions.

All of them viable, all of them entertaining?

I’d personally pick Engineer or Mesmer. Never liked the Elementalist gameplay, probably never will. If you want it specifically for WvW, Mesmer has the edge. Its just a usefull class in any small or large group situation. Engineers are good, but their usefulness is sometimes questionable. They are… replaceable. Only thing I can think of that the Engineer really does better is swiftness (easy perma swiftness/vigor). You can do it with centaur runes on the Mesmer as well (mantra = more than perma swiftness) but it kind of limits your gear.

Fun fact: We know the game already support this “mercenary feature”.

Anet accidentally bugged it a couple of months ago, which meant that players joined on random servers after a friday reset.

Next to the no-siege-allowed-only-golems-on-EB days its been the most fun event in WvW (and slightly chaotic).

These silent “competetive” fights are ridiculous. Its completely realistic to be able to speak to your opponent. So if they add a /shout which sends to all servers within 20m or something, then yes removal of the cross-server group “exploit” is perfectly acceptable. /say would of course still be limited to your own server as usual.

Kuju.2153:

They can’t do it due to technical/bandwidth limitations… you know this.

No they cant do it because there are no queues. At least not in the way we think of a queue. Its just random groupings of players that join when WvW population has fallen below a random threshold on a random cycling timer.

The combinations I find usefull:

GS/Sword/Focus – dps/reflect builds
GS/Staff – hybrid builds (you should trait both)
Staff/Sword/Focus – bunker/reflect builds

Scepter is meh either way you look at it. Pistol is… a problem. The focus is just too good to pass up in WvW unless you use the GS/Staff combo (in which case you obviously cant use a focus either way).

There are pros and cons with the combos of course. Sword/focus is a major pro for speed and can wreck zergs with high pressure on reflect, but at the same time the GS is a very good weapon against just about anything and the staff is invaluable in defense.

Currently I run with GS/Staff in WvW, no centaur runes. I’m too cool for swiftness.

I dont think everyone should be able to use all armor, but I do think they should give pants to light armor. kitten the average medium armor leggings is far lighter than the absolutely massive skirts some of the light armor has.

Sure WvW is about war. And world exploration is about exploration. That includes exploring the warzone, even if its dangerous. You do know thakittens only needed for legendaries, right? Otherwise you can safely ignore world exploration if you consider it too dangerous and dont like human interaction of the somewhat pointy manner.

Magnetron.5823:

that Dx9 cannot process

I cant even describe how wrong that is so I really wont bother replying in this thread anymore.

Urrid.4593:

I bet you 800 gems that the developer that coded the commander and squad system has left Anet and didn’t bother to properly comment their code so now Anet has no clue how to “fix” the commander system.

Just like the eve billboards…

The entire commander system probably consist of 3 lines of code. One to enable it, one to disable it and one that add the commanders compendium with the comment
//Lol I accidentally put two extra zeros after the 1 for the cost

Lol!

DirectX has little to do skill lag.

To oversimplify what is probably a very complex system, the server processors are choking due to the fact the the skill queues are full. When you push a button on the client, its queued and executed on the server. When the server is capable of handling all these requests, its fluid without lag. When there are too many incoming requests and it cannot process them fast enough, it will result in skill lag.

If you remove the AoE cap, the amount of incoming work for the server in terms of damage calculations would increase exponentially, increasing skill lag.

Arguing that DirectX10/11 would technomagically fix everything is like trying to argue that a new coat of paint on your car will make it go faster.

Isnt that a regular destructible wall? If so then all walls should be the same and exploitable.

Now watch as all blue keeps are mysteriously taken due to the thread, lol.

Straegen.2938:

That really wouldn’t fix anything. Zoom hacks allow the player to see more of the field and around visual barricades such as walls. So long as the player is there, they can lock onto them.

Incorrect. You will be obstructed when the player character doesnt have a clear LoS to the target. This is impossible to go around.

Sidenote to above: Then ACs shouldnt be siege equipment at all, but rather something you order from the keep. That way they could easily balance the amount (just like mortars and cannons).

They could just make it so that the arrowcart require a target and Player LoS to fire (same as all targetted skills).

Problem solved. You cant bypass it by zoomhack.

Arrowcart annoyance reduced by 98%. No more arrowcarts behind walls inside/outside keeps.