wtf is a midline? I thought zerglets were all just front or back line.
It’s that line between the front and back where all the useless classes say they play in order to make them feel cooler than the backline but not as much rallybotting as the frontline.
(they certainly won’t be as strong as stationary cannons…)
You got an inside Anet source on that? Because Anets history of sensible siege damage… well, it doesnt exist. And they still havent done any changes to ACs.
If you want to get into the magical fantasy land of delusional things that will never be, the only way I can see deployable cannons working is if they work as actual cannons. Solid projectile that can damage walls but wont do crap in terms of AoE damage. It would however be a real projectile so it could plow through and damage a zerg silly enough to stack in a line. Fire control would be an aimed line downrange, not AoE on point. 1/3 control direction (ie like a cata but with shallower arc and faster projectile with tiny ball size AoE on impact)
Will we see that?
No.
We will more than likely see kittening OP cannons with wide and stupid AoE explosions.
You have to be kidding. Did you ever play DaoC(or Everquest, LotRo, CoH, AoC, Aion, etc) in its original, exceptionally grindy form? And Mark Jacobs wants to make CU even more hardcore than that.
It took many months to get to the highest levels in those games, unless you could spend 8 hours+ a day in front of your monitor. GW2 to get to highest levels takes mere weeks, even for a casual player. And yea, it takes a lot longer to get legendaries, but they aren’t required to be successful in the game.
People who think that GW2 is grindy make me chuckle, as it is so easy compared to earlier mmorpgs. Have you ever played an mmorpg that had serious death penatlites, (where you lost gear, xp, etc.) only gave xp for very certain things, or required you to grind killing thousands of npcs for certain goals???
Think Korean mmorpgs. (they’re far worse than the original grindy mmorpgs were here in the states, but you get the jist….)
GW2 is a casual player’s paradise, imo. That is the main reason that attracted me and my wife to this game……we wanted to get away from the really nasty grinds….and this game has delivered that.
Maybe 10-15 years ago I would have accepted that kind of grindy mmorpg, as that is all there was, then. But, GW2 has proved that playing an mmorpg doesn’t have to feel like a job, as the earlier mmorpgs were. It can be just about fun, and playing the game on your own, casual schedule, and STILL making substantial progress in the game.
Indeed. The “hardcore” crowd seem to remember the past through rose tinted glasses. Just look at the new games. BDO has been bleeding players, unlike the first month where it was crowded every single day. When people still had hope they could compete. Now… the “hardcore” is all that’s left clinging to a dying game that literally no new players can get into. And BDO still had to change things to be more casual. They had to change the death penalties and they have boosted XP and ton and nerfed mobs so bosses are laughable now instead of insta-killing you.
People that want this kind of “hardcore”… Cripes, you can have it. I just want a fun and social game where I can fight a fantasy war every night if I want and still go “yeah that player is better than me, I could have killed him if I had more skill or maybe change a few skills and build” instead of thinking “yep I died now I lost 3 weeks of progress to a guy that I did 1% damage too because he had gear a tier higher than me that’s gonna take me 3 months to get”. Just… No.
3 cannon deployed, aimed at the same area and fired at the same time == insta-killed zerg without any warning since the shot will be nearly instant, unlike ramping up AC fire and clearly visible cata/ballista shots.
ESO had potential to be great, but they blew it by not taking aspects from GW2. Commanders alone would have made it 10x better from the start.
What? They had squads from the start with leaders. It was always easy to find a squad and join. It took anet what 3 years to introduce sqauds. The problem with ESO was the lack of balance and an endgame grind that exacerbated that, both of why I understand they are improving on.
I said commanders not squads. Yeah ESO had squads. But nothing was visible on the map. I wont argue that squads isnt an excellent addition but WvW didnt even need squads, we did fine before them. Gathering on a tag is social and simple – the basic ideas for enjoying any MMO game.
How would you feel when you login in every day on EB, looking at the map… no markers. No blue commanders. None on the borders either. Because they dont exist. There could be a 20 man raid squad anywhere. No one except those in the raid would know. No guilds working together with pugs because no one know where they are. No guilds working together with other guilds. Not even scouts marking locations.
Now imagine the above on a kittening map 20x the size of a GW2 map.
I’ve never played and don’t claim anything is better than wvw right now, but I’m seeing a lot of streamers talk about how ESO is starting to get their wvw style in order and improving. Not sure if anyone can confess to that but seems like it may be worth a try.
ESO had potential to be great, but they blew it by not taking aspects from GW2. Commanders alone would have made it 10x better from the start. But they decided to ignore it even worse than Anet, not even fixing seriously broken exploits (vampires for a month anyone?)
In my experience druids either build to be so glassy they fall easily when you focus them or they build to be so tanky and evasive that you only need to focus their pet to make them wimp out of the fight.
Unfortunately nothing will change enough here by the time the successor to DAoC hits the market, and wvw is going to take a population hit.
This has been repeated every half year for the last 3 years now I think and we still havent seen anything even remotely close to a beta of CU meaning it’s at least another 1-2 year left… and I do think I said exactly that last year too. Or the year before that. Honestly, I cant remember anymore.
I do agree though that they dont advertise it nearly enough. The ingame ads for sPvP tournaments is a special thorn in our eyes. Why no call to arms when your server is loosing in WvW? Why not more 1 week of WvW event bonuses at least once a month to encourage a flow of new players to become interested? Anet totally dropped the ball on the simple things.
Every single hammer looks absolutely tiny on Asura, with the proud exception of the Fix-r-Upper. This happen with most weapons, really: they become so small almost every detail dissapear.
The real problem is not knowing exactly how it modifies the loot (other than adding a flat percent increase… to what, though?) roll because we just don’t know how loot is determined.
And the real question is why should you even care? Inventory become full every hour or so and you get a million billion essences from salvaging all the crap. Sure you wont go from 100 to 200% in a day, but you will get there sooner or later. Its inevitable.
Quickness and resistance were never supposed to have 100% uptime. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand. If you think they should have 100% uptime from a totally brainless build, then maybe ANet should just make Pain Absorption and FMW grant a minute worth of boons and get it over with.
But… Anet hasnt done jack kitten to fix it, so it must suppose to be like this?
Because the fix is simple. Protection is a shareable boon but does not stack. Resistance is not a shareable boon and does not stack. Quickness is not a shareable boon and does not stack. Bam done. This can be fixed in minutes because the game already has these states available in the boon rules.
Pfff, either sucks since its like fighting with a wet noodle as weapon. Cleric or apothecary/settlers ftw. In my experience the vitality is not really needed no matter your base HP (a cleric ele can pretty much frontline) or how you build. The only thing its good for is boasting impressive numbers on necros and warriors, lol. Toughness is always better.
According to my simple:
by the game itself has 132 sets of clothing as a whole.
More than 1000 kinds of back, waist props of the skin
Each weapon has hundreds of skin, there are 12 kinds of weapons.
Game mall is about 132 sets of clothing as a whole.
Mount mainly stores to sell. Pet mainly games.
By comparison,
Guild wars 2, the new content in 4 years,
Mall: 32 + weapons, 35 + suit, 23 sets of gliding
The game itself: 19 sets of weapons, the legendary weapon 4, legendary back 2 pieces, pink 2 shoulders.6 armor skin.
“Jian Wang3” prop update speed is almost 5 to 10 times the GW2?Especially on the comparison of armor skin, “Jian Wang3” has 132 sets of the game can get skin (some only color difference), only six sets of guild wars 2.
Not quite sure what you mean with the GW2 comparison. You seem to be comparing The chinese game as a whole (unless google translate is fail, lol) compared to some GW2 updates. GW2 has 1500+ individual armor pieces and close to 2500 weapon skins, 37 outfits and 343 pets. That’s not exactly a small amount of content.
failed because of MISSING swimsuits …. ^^
so, how long do we have to wait for this?
Swimsuits was probably a minor issue. I think it’s the races ingame that make it fail. Going by the standard asian MMO, this would have made GW2 far more successfull:
- First and foremost, make Charr into cats.
- Give Charr boobs and human faces.
- Give Humans Charr ears and tails
- Give Asurans Charr ears and tails.
- Make Norn 3ft tall and give them wings. Also give them Charr ears and tails.
As McKenna said in its current design yes but this is just a test.
Well in its current design Thieves can still perma-stealth, Elementalists can still mist form through portals, ACs are still OP as kitten, attacks still go through doors and perplexity runes still exist. Waiting for the test to be over. Any day now. Surely it will happen.
That’s not really an achievement. Every schmuck can die on siege. Instead, the should be a title for getting killed by a siege ram attack. Let’s call it… “Hold the door”.
You know all those kittenty Asian that launch under great fanfare by a new publisher in the west and are hailed as the next big MMO yet always suffer ~90% loss of players in the first 3 months because they are totally unsuited for the generally accepted way to play MMOs or are destroyed by the new publisher because of greed?
Aways run as admin as above mentioned and if you havent done it yet, repair the client either via command line switch or manual deletion of data files.
Explosive nails – trap that can be set on enemy siege. If a repair hammer is used on such siege, it explodes and send everyone flying (siege is destroyed).
This allows enemy servers to play the system and vacate a border to disallow the enemy capping stuff.
Encouraging people not to play in order to win is incredibly stupid. In fact, its just as bad as nightcapping itself.
The easiest idea remain population scaling. As global population rises, PPT/PPD goes up and PPK goes down. As global population go down, PPT/PPD goes down and PPK goes up. Score swings maybe -+50% of baseline.
A good example last night… We were harassing the enemy at their bay. Two decent sized groups that fought a little bit on the field but they mostly only came out when it looked like half of us were gone. Most of the time they were inside. They had 2 shields outside in the field to protect their siege they absolutely needed against us I suppose. Balli, 2 cannons, mortars… It took me about 10 minutes to sneak and destroy their shield gens and 4 deaths but got it done. If they had these hammers then those gens probably would never have come down. Frankly I already don’t like this hammer idea at all after dealing with the so called ‘siege humpers’… :P
While I dislike the idea of hammers, your argument in the scenario presented is flawed. Hammers would literally make zero difference. You said that it took 4 deaths and 10m of sneaking to kill them both, which means that they could simply build 2 new gens while you where dead. With 1:1 repair the cost would just differ for a hammer vs a shield gen.
The issue with siegehumping and repairing only occur during constant weaker pressure from the outmanned when its still critical to bring down siege as fast as you can.
You said there where only two channels… is 50% chance to hit the right one really that awfull?
Either way this is futile. Anet doesnt care about server TS. We told them when links was announced that it would be chaos (that repeats itself every link) due to the TS communities. But nope. They do not care about that. Nor should they really, its a player created thing and its player created issues.
Unfortunetly extra localizations means delay in patches for everyone. Which isnt very good. Thats why many games with full Russian translation are a separate region with another publisher.
Although some of your ideas I really like myself, I believe the biggest thing ArenaNet can do to help roleplayers would be to include a way to select which shard you’re in, similar to districts like we saw in GW1.
This was suggested and argued in length when megaserver was implemented and kittened up PvE communities (and thus, roleplayers). GW2 isnt the first nor last game to use instances and many other MMOs allow you too choose a specific one. A selectbox above the minimap with an expanded list of active instances and their average population would have been enough.
Eh what? If this passes I assure you its going into WvW as Anet has already designed it. There are no what ifs and there is no beta test with a vote to keep it. This is the vote. Yes or no, choose.
That is for the next vote to decide.
Not this one as it clearly says:
“After players have had a chance to test repair hammers we will hold a follow-up poll* to determine if repair hammers should become a permanent feature of the game.”
*75% have to vote no to hammers or they will stay forever.
You dont really want to encourage defense so much.
Some people may say lolwtfyouon but keeping up the momentum of WvW is what keeps it fun and entertaining with a steady stream of players. When this slows down too much – be it from fortified keeps, siege humping 10 ACs or having a huge map layed out like a kittening maze – WvW activities grind to a halt. It runs out of steam.
We need that that rapid pace to encourage aggressive attacks. Maintaining PPT for the server is all the reward we need for defending (and we still get lots of contribution for it, since defending often involves killing attackers).
Let’s start the argument that repair hammers would put water eles out of work, or at the very least cut down on their hours. Oh wait, without the need to drop water on rams, they could just stay attuned to fire all the time.
Lolwat? Elementalists heal rams now? If anything they will have to heal even more because people will be siege humping and be voulnerable to heavy AC rains while repairing (building siege mean you cant pop skills, presumably repairing will have the same basic rules).
For everyone voting yes…keep in mind that Golems are also classified as “Siege Weapons”. Have fun when the enemy zerg is at your garri with a dozen Omegas and the rest with repair hammers (until the wall/door is down).
What if repair doesn’t stack? What is siege its disabled for repair duration? What if golems can’t be repaired?
Why people don’t wait to see how Anet plan to implement this in BETA then vote to another poll if its good to keep it or not?
Eh what? If this passes I assure you its going into WvW as Anet has already designed it. There are no what ifs and there is no beta test with a vote to keep it. This is the vote. Yes or no, choose.
I vote yes, but there needs to be a stipulation like they cant no be used on siege that has inflicted or received damage in the last x minutes.
You have clearly defined reservations yet you vote yes anyway… Thats exactly how the border vote nearly ended in disaster for the community.
But I digress. Without knowing the actual implementation, this only empowers zergs siege humping. Sometimes bring down siege just in the nick of time is critical. I dont want to see 50 people standing there constantly repairing it despite it being hit with 20 ballista bolts. We dont even know if its gonna be 1:1 drain which would be bad. I would also consider say a 3:1 drain being acceptable (ie if a ram cost 50 to build, it cost 150 to repair 0-100) but kitten if I’m going to vote yes on wishfull thinking.
I’m not in T1, but I’ve never seen a rev roamer. It doesn’t seem like the class has a viable build for roaming – even condi rev is quite weak compared to other condi builds.
Revs are good for squads and zergs, but not in groups of <= 3.
Actually, someone on TC roams with a rev and destroys other roamers all the time.
There is a power herald on the server I currently meet (incidently EU #1) that also absolutely destroys roamers.
No really, I have a p/p condi scrapper that brush off thieves with ease and can go 1v2 against most. I can even duel warriors with their 1 million hp/s regen and still manage to win. Revs and heralds are normally just a minor speedbump that fall easily. But that herald… He slapped me around like a baby and killed me without any effort. I didnt even do any damage because I couldnt. Daredevil stompers break like twigs in comparison.
I wish I could play a kitten herald that good because it would probably replace my scrapper as a roamer. Unfortunetly I cant, lol. I’m not friends with meleeing.
I think that up to a party size (5) still acceptable as roaming. That’s my opinion tho.
IMO there are 3 distinct types of roaming:
- Solo roaming, you are usually alone and built to kill.
- Duo roaming, a tight 2 man group playing on their characters strength together.
- Party roaming, 3-5 man parties that play like a small commando unit. Dont confuse this with a zerg focus party though as that will often sacrifice sustain for just damage.
Anything organized above that and you pretty much enter small guild raid territory where individual 1v1 skill start to take a backseat to AoE outbombing the enemy (mostly those groups will encounter larger groups anyway).
Why can’t those 15 lions do anything against the 30 sheep? CAuse the 30 sheep are immortal by design. They each have 2 lives (up and downed state), that can be infinitely refreshed after a 5-10 second pause (reviving the dead). The lions have 2 lives that can not be infinitely refreshed after a 5-10 second pause. So hypothetically, or in layman’s terms, you got 30 vs 60 where the 60 have instant infinite respawn…..
Indeed…DAOC, mentioned in first post, made it so that when I returned back after 5 years, theres still a lot people that remember me by my cleric name…and I was far from been most important player around…GW2, noone knows me, despite spending 90% play time in wvw
Errr… why should we remember you? Any particular reason? I dont even know what region you play in!
Either way GW2 probably have somewhere around 50 times the active player counts DAoC had when it started to fade. You sort of vanish in the masses. Still, we remember prominent players, most notably commanders holding up the server. Or entire guilds. Personally I remember quite an awesome commander we had some years back in our guild, too bad he later went his own way to create a new guild, some kittenty guild called TA or something.
Walls are not defense. Players are defense. Walls are there to delay the enemy players so that friendly players can come and fight them.
Walls are most definitely a key part of defense.
Hahahaha… If it was a key part in defense then everything else would be secondary. Good luck having a wall defend itself.
GW2 walls is no more “defense” than barbed wire fence. Standing on a wall and firing on people below as opposed to standing on the ground and firing on people above is the exact same thing. The wall itself is only there to delay people. You want actual defense? Players and siege. Hopefully more players than siege, but that depends on the servers you meet.
I dont understand. This is already in play. In fact, it’s even more than that. Afaik lords still scale to all the players within the outer walls, but it was a while since I zerged. Players raise the difficulty simply by being there. You have been able to see when an enemy zerg has come to defend simply by looking at the lords average HP drop (when it feels like you’re suddenly not doing any damage… you can be sure a zerg just arrived).
I always love it when commanders go “you 5 people, go kill the lord, we hold the enemy off in the meantime” when it’s a 3 way in garrison with the lord scaled to 150 people.
Another issue is condition damage and expertise don’t mirror the power ferocity relationship that power builds have. Power based builds are reliant on getting their gains from ferocity from crit chance.
That’s not an issue.
It’s really just an arms race that has gone to extremes since HoT specs and gear stats came out. Yes, condis are trying to dominate roaming because power dominate zerging. Almost every elite spec is power heavy and where it is condi… they’ve often gone power instead anyway. Mesmer is pretty much the only exception. Daredevil, herald, scrapper, dragonhunter, berserker, druid, tempest, reaper they are mostly going insanely survivable power builds because of HoT. This pretty much lead to condis going all out to match it. Which the new condi gear happily encourage. That make them very noticable on the battlefield (oh look, I’m only ticking 4000 damage a second on confusion, how cute).
We aint ever gonna see balance in this. You can delete dire and trailblazer if you want. It wont change anything. The only way condi will be downgraded to “more or less supportive extra damage” that adds upon base power damage is if the entire gear, sigil, rune and trait system change. Good luck with that.
Guild Halls are far too big. You have an area almost as big as Auric Basin and there is almost nothing in it. Yes, we also need crafting stations, maybe a mystic forge, mini games and other stuff like that. But we just plain need a more sensibly sized space.
… sort of like the multi-story guild HQ in LA, lol.
The guild halls themselves are so utterly pointless. Everything could have been done in the HQ with much, much less design effort from Anet. It even looks like an actual guild hall. The “guild halls” now is like reject unfinished HoT PvE maps they just slapped some waypoints on and went “hey, look at this, its guild halls!”.
But I digress. If they can get some kitten crafting stations in there they are usable enough.
