I really only have one reservation about this change – T3 keeps and towers rely too heavily on walls, doors and siege over actual player presence when it comes to defense. A well prepped objective can be insanely hard to even try to fight over. Heaven forbid an equal size foe actually defend it too.
So sure one might say that this change “encourage” fighting over T3 objectives. But guess what – its kittening exhausting if you dont have a full zerg. Its not fun in any way to smash your head against T3 for 2-3 hours when its a smaller group. No fun fighting and no fun sieging. The pace of the game slows to a crawl and objectives become too static.
If there are more T3 across the board due to this (ppt is king so of course this will “force” servers to play defensivly) there wont be much middle ground, stick to roaming or large scale zerging.
As for mailing the gold, they said they’re trustworthy because I could report them for scamming, and they don’t want their accounts banned.
Yes, just like how gold sellers are trustworthy because they are ssl approved, lol.
Look, its real simple: they want you to come to their server? Either you transfer because you want to or they pay you to transfer. Its really as simple as that.
Even if you would pay them to artificially lower the server pop, they cant guarantee you a slot. When the server is open, its open for everyone.
The internal cooldown on stack removal is an acceptable enough solution for stability itself, so I disagree.
The problem remain the huge amount of CC, stuns and knockbacks that HoT introduced for every elite spec (and the only one that has seen it nerfed to oblivion is scrapper).
Where have you been? They have already said they scrapped it all (relatively speaking, we dont know if anything was even being worked on) and decided to drop lots of small changes instead. Which they technically have done.
You complain about pay to win now? When HoT has long matured, every major guild is 50+ and we now get 2g for free every single day?
Hahaha… If you had this argument a week after HoT release, I would probably have agreed with you. Today? Not so much.
Pay to win only get you so far. Yesterday we had to cap our bay from a million germans because it was 20/40 dollys to T2 when our garrison was still 9/20 toward T1. Of course they had the money to do speedy dollies. They just pumped them into bay. But guess what? We still took it. We had to sacrifice garrison to do so, but we took it after 3 or so battles we lost in there. We crushed their zerg and apparently we crushed their will as well because they left the border.
Solo content is under-appreciated still in mmos. And no, having other players who have very restricted traintrack playstyle is not fun.
Is there a solo option for the Victory or Death quest?
I have struggled with a lv 80 Tempest and couldn’t manage to destroy the mouth of Zhaitan. Even with that, I was repeatedly defeated in the each of the previous stages.
I’ve tried changing my weapons around, but no improvement.
I’d be really grateful for any pointers.
Victory or death is easily soloable (and soooooo boring) nowadays.
If the mouth is the boss I think it is, you need to toss one of them rocks when he open his mouth and start swirling air, then hard dps for a short while. The rest of the time is just kiting.
Players posting about other servers: they are mindless zergers.
Players posting about their own server: the most awesome one with the most skilled roamers and no zergers.
In reality: every server consist of 80% mindless zergers, 15% guilds that always complains about not getting fights when loosing and getting awesome fights when winning and 5% roamers that either dont give kitten or run with a build that cant roam for kitten.
Yes, we could use a power weapon but it would be better to make it a new elite skill because the engie is severly lacking there. PvP/WvW anything but sneak gyro is mediocre and for PvE/group content… well everything is mediocre.
6600K got some combo sale on Newegg, didnt look at the details though.
At this point I would hesitate to buy a new CPU however, unless cheap on sale. 7th gen Intel are expected to release around january, which probably mean price cuts for old CPUs as well.
Hahahaha completely outdated. Its either zerker nike stunlocker or zerker condi burner (much more rare) that people play. I literally havent seen a warrior with a hammer for over a year.
Ever noticed that crashes are for some reason suspicously frequent on tuesdays, just after Anet has released a patch?
Yeah, DDoSing has nothing to do with it. It’s usually either:
A) Legitimate server/game crashes. They happen. Anet mess up.
B) Patches messing with your game files because you havent cleaned your .dat for months/years/eons.
Either way competition is good, but its not that serious. Honestly, one of the most memorable times in WvW this past year has been when the entire server crashed and reset every 5 minutes or so. We made it challenge to cap the same tower during that time before giving up, lol (I think we tried 10-15 times, TS was so full of laughs).
i played it on and off throughout the years and intend to check it out again after the update launch and patches. its free now so why not ? very different from GW2, slower combat where “evade” skills of all sorts are taken to whole new levels and there is always a possibility of FFA PVP both group and solo, makes things kinda exciting.
word of warning though, very steep learning curve despite the newbie tutorials etc. read up on it 1st, a lot.
AFAIK there is no comparison to WvW though, where you can just hop into a zone and do some 50v50+ random fighting on a fairly level playing field within minutes.
That said, I will definetly try free Eve. The subscription and obvious dedication the game require has always turned me off. The idea of lower level free cannonfodder fighter/small ship mode played just for fun is interesting, but I fear they managed to get something in there that “forces” you to pay at some point even to enjoy that.
I would really like to know what people mean by team play.Is it when the guardians/dragon hunters are so bunker-ed up with little to no damage tagging as many foes as they can while the back line does the real killing?Is that team play?Calling rangers out and calling us useless when we can plainly see the opponents going down one after another at the points of our arrows or under a barrage.That’s team play?
This is what I have to say about the so called “META” .It’s designed around selfish front liners that just want to tap while the rest of us do the real work.
ALL classes have a place in the battle field.Whether we’re running long bow or trapping we rangers are the ones at the far back watching over the back line ,bursting and disrupting the opponents front line and mid line.We flank to disrupt the opponents mid line and back line. So all you knuckle heads out there that think rangers don’t have a place in WvW need a reality check.It is ranger haters that need to stop being selfish and allow people to play the game .
^ Perfectly said…. the REAL team players are the ones kicking kitten .. everyone else is just on a loot stick guardian because they want to brag about how many bags their toon gets… i love this guy!! Honesty at its finest!
Only if you ignore the fact that other classes usually does it better…
The ironic part in particular being that the ranger longbow flanking role described above is just a mediocre version of a dragonhunter.
you see, these people share their ideas to make WvW better, then you tell them it is worse, you didn’t even explained why before judging it
Do I really have to?
Cripes, you said it yourself – Gold Wars 2. Then add the very thought of eliminating the gold tax™ to winners only.
Just imagine if I visited the sPvP forum and said “Here’s an idea! To start queuing to a match, you have to pay 20 gold. If you win, you get 40 gold back. If you loose, you have to pay 20 extra gold instead. Enjoy!”
Tar and feathers would probably be an apt description of what follows.
But apparently WvW is so desperate for anything it’ll take… uh… anything.
HoT solo which is supposed to be 100% group based “endgame” (relativly speaking) content.
Where do you get this idea?
Level 80 only zones, massive meta events on every new map designed for multiple groups, heavy bias to hard hitting dungeon level champions, raids that cant be soloed, guild halls for guilds, a new WvW map, updated Fractals, a new class designed to buff everyone around him to OP levels and other small tidbits…
What gave it away that it was mostly group based content?
So in short, your main issue with GW2 is that its an MMO?
nope. As i said my problem is that they are focused in train events map. We can’t explore nothing if not with a big group. Btw the devs as well have said the same….. so………………………………… meh
You can easily get world exploration solo and still do like 80% of HoT solo which is supposed to be 100% group based “endgame” (relativly speaking) content.
To me thats about as logical as saying that my main gripe with sPvP is that I cant play it solo, but each to their own I suppose.
We already had that. Its the reason Alpine border look like it does, you where meant to escort an orb (“flag”) into the protected bay and hills inner from the ramp at the back of the north camp.
It was bugged, Anet disabled and promised to fix it. About one year later and no progress on that they secretely scrubbed the last bits of evidence that the orbs had ever existed.
As compensation we got totally broken bloodlust that unbalanced the game completely (now nerfed to the ground).
now , may i say that is the worst suggestion of all time then
That would mean no suggestion (ie WvW as is) is worse than turning it into a pay to play mode exclusive to either rich people or gold farmers…
Yeah… You dont have to be God to see the glaring flaw.
As a sidenote, my suggestion is usually to remove tiers, assign fixed colors over a month or two or three and then glicko rank servers per faction. After a season is done, give out loot, reset glicko and shuffle colors.
Yeah, I’m observing this right now and Mag’s behavior is pretty bad. Spawn camping is horrid for the game mode. Does nothing but lower participation across the board. Hoping folks from BG and JQ see this and give them the same treatment in the future.
Well if a server manage to have the skill, dedication and coordination to simultaniously blockade the spawn on enemy borders with 70+ people each and blockade homeborder beyond the map limit (you need ~200-250 people to control citadel and would probably still have gaps small groups can slip through) and have the 100+ people required to blockade the wide EBG spawns…
I applaud that server because it literally broke the game.
At the second point my initial impression was “well this the worst suggestion I have ever seen”.
After reading the rest I would like to update that to “well this is by far the worst suggestion I have ever seen that even make dikus rants seen sensible (not really)”.
i hope you can point out which is the best suggestion for you then…. by far
Well thats the thing – you can come back to GW2 after years without being much behind in anything other than shiny new looks. Yes perhaps some new gear stats but regular still work.
In most other MMO you leave for a few months and you are hopelessly behind. Thats why I havent been able to commit to anything. ESO, Archeage, BDO, 2 months in each was about how much I could handle of the threadmill. Archeage in particular just became sad to play. Even if I worked for 3 months to get gear I would still have been 3 months behind everyone else in the guild. So I gave it up and went back to GW2. I could spend 1 week in any of those games and still have less fun and less action than 2 hours of GW2.
the fact that you nearly can’t explore the HoT maps alone….. seriously if i have to kill an HP champ i need at least 1-2 others guys or (85% of the times) nothing. and any other events there. in core Tyria there were some events soloable. in HoT maps nearly 0. The veteran vinetooth in AB is soloable, the northern arrowhead champ when tarir is up so you can use an armor is soloable (with the armor), then…… the only one i can think is the Tangled depths HP near the Ogre’s camp west of it. the one where you fight a cave screamer or a spider i don’t remember (they are both up there don’t remember who is the HP boss :P)… the chain events like retake the camps or whatever don’t count because…. well are we calling them “events”? please for future maps allow us to fight some events when we met them and not run away.
So in short, your main issue with GW2 is that its an MMO?
At the second point my initial impression was “well this the worst suggestion I have ever seen”.
After reading the rest I would like to update that to “well this is by far the worst suggestion I have ever seen that even make dikus rants seen sensible (not really)”.
You can get 20-30g per hour on pve, 1k gold is like 50 hrs farming… If you have 50 people in an alliance, thats like 1hr farming for each player… If a server cant pay that small amount, then it’s a dead server…
If ANET increase gold comming from WvW, then there should be a way to drain it, or else the game economy would be bloated.
You seem to implying that seige and guild hall/scribing costs do not exist in WvW as a huge drain , which make me question whether you play WvW.
Also what your idea basicly says is rich people get to play and winners have no taxes. People that dont farm gold or – heaven forbid – loose a matchup are not allowed to play.
My pick is none of them because a max toughness ranged condi tank have infinitely better tanking due to being able to focus on kiting and movement while still outputting very high damage.
No changes needed. Small groups should not be able to take upgraded structures.
Solo players should be able to take upgraded structures on their own if the defending side is too busy not taking care about scouting/defending.
Watchtower hardly changes that though, with the time it takes a single person to take a T3 tower (or more ambitously, a keep), someone will always notice it. If no one comes during those 30 odd minutes you will spend working on it, the red dot wouldnt matter as there is no enemy in the border lol.
For havoc parties during prime it does make a huge difference however. I have never liked the watchtowers, automatic reveals and new sentries dumbing down the gameplay and communications. WvW IMO lost a part of soul with those changes.
At the second point my initial impression was “well this the worst suggestion I have ever seen”.
After reading the rest I would like to update that to “well this is by far the worst suggestion I have ever seen that even make dikus rants seen sensible (not really)”.
So the enemy has held our keep for almost 2 Days now, Its so seiged up, not sure we will ever get it back.
I have played WvW for a long time, never seen someone take and defend a keep for such a long time. Normally, take it, defend it for maybe a Day, then let them have it back so there will be more fights. You dont wanna be so dominating that the other side simply stops playing. What fun is that??
So wont be playing this week, We are so out numbed, its no fun. So I guess they are just gonna have fun with no fights.
Thanks for killing the fun this week, enjoy your easy week my friend.
So what?
If the enemy keep defending something you want – especially something with long supply lines – walk around and hit something else. Once they become distracted and more spread out, a borderhop zerg can often swoop in and take the objective. This is simple tactics.
Whats definetly not gonna help is giving up. In large scale WvW a few people often wont make a noticable difference over the week, but we see this in micro scale in sPvP on a daily basis. Oh so 5 enemies met our 3 on central point and we lost? Thats it everyone but me sucks my team is kitten now I’m not gonna do anything else than kitten about how everyone sucks and people should go back to PvE.
Yes that will surely make people fight harder and improve the odds of making a comeback.
Oh, and I play a Scrapper Turret Engie for my point of reference. I always lose vs. almost everything, though that probably IS because I genuinely suck.)
No, you loose because turrets arent viable in any game mode. Its been years since turrets was good and the scrapper gyros pretty much removed the turrets from the class, with the exception of the heal turret.
This doesnt balance anything though. T1 servers often have no queues on borders – meaning a T3 player on a loosing server can just join a winning T1 server and further skew the balance. Even if you only allow trickle down, we just dont have the population anymore to overflow.
Priority
If the guild formed the majority of players capturing this objective then it may be claimed immediately. A popup prompt appears allowing 15 seconds to claim the objective. When the timer expires, the guild with the next highest number of players involved in the capture is prompted to claim and so on. Only those with Claim/Unclaim WvW Forts permission whose guild has unlocked the objective are prompted. Additional options may be selected using the WvW Objective Upgrade UI.
Lolwat? You are just qouting the wiki, not reality.
In reality there can be a 20 peeps on cap with at least 2-3 of the same guild members, yet the guy that dodges into the circle at 95% capped gets first dibs on the claim.
You’d have to tone down the effects of bulwark, sneak and medic gyro for PvP. They’re already used by meta-scrapper (aside from medic gyro but if it’s around permanently then that’s some serious team healing ).
Do you really though?
The point would be that they are still killable. Only the sneak gyro would be OP as is. Medic gyro doing “serious team healing”, lol… The secondary heal is pathetic compared to other classes passive AoE heals. And again, it’ll get destroyed and put on cooldown until you can bring it up.
Purge would be stronger, but no more than other classes passive cleanse really.
Shredder would just be a skill like any other skill on any other class (not like you can move it, you got to destroy it).
Blast… well that’s a no brainer.
Bulwark would act just like it does now because there isnt any point in blowing it up early without having any daze. Eventually it’ll die of natural causes – while protecting you exactly the same as todays implementation, no more no less (because that would literally be impossible with a set amount of health in any kind of normal battle where the enemy actually bonk you in the head)
I think the balance is ok if the right servers are in their correct tier.
Balance will never ever be ok if you start to put the “right” server in their “correct” tier. You are basicly assigning players to a class status. Be on that “correct” tier cause you suck, you’re not allowed to play with the real men. If you say well of course they can get better well and go up then the server is unbalanced and in the incorrect tier.
There are quite a few minipets that are way to tiny (especially compared to other minipets that do have a reasonable size)
would be nice if Anet could reconsider the size of every minipet in the game and increase the size on many of them to a better value
And there are triple that number of pets that are way too large.
But it would be agreeable if there was a setting to disable all minis from showing. Because I dont want to kittening see that kittening useless and pointless clutter on my screen. Have they added that yet? Maybe I missed it.
