Guild Wars 2

Pure Heart.1456:

Wings and I’m outa here, back to PvE and WvW.

THIS!

lvis.3824:

People will stop playing your Game because of others destroying it for them.

I just parked myself in spawn for a few seconds after 5 minutes of getting rolled and no one responding or writing in map chat. Why should I have to endure getting murdered on the field if the majority of the “team” isn’t organized or responding? I think only two of us even knew English or they simply had chat turned off. When this happens, you are going to lose and better off getting it over with.

psizone.8437:

Remove EoTM. Seriously, there are more people that play on that map than there are active on some servers.

How about NO! People like EotM and Desert is the least desirable of the WvW maps to date. Also, I do not see this “It’s beautiful” conversation. It’s highly detailed but, it’s still an ugly and unpleasant place to be. Ever actually try to immerse yourself in what that environment would feel like? It’d be a horrible place to be.

THIS! I was just coming to the forums to post about this. It seems to occur on my Ele mostly. In fact, I don’t really recall it happening on anything other than my Staff Ele. A knockback can trigger it easily.

Colly.4073:

The devs are talking about restoring alpine bl’s but atm you will still have to suffer desert bl’s.

“Suffer” being the keyword

All of these solutions to try and save DBL are far too much work. How changing topography, traffic patterns, tower locations, tower structures, wall structures, etc etc. is not a massive overhaul I don’t know. Meanwhile, the asset’s needed to be added to Alpine already exist! They are live and in use on the EB map. Please stop over thinking this issue….

Chaba.5410:

rhapsody.3615:

Essentially, my guild (and most of our server) would still not have a proper “Friday Night Reset” if you go with 10PM eastern.

My guild is PST and we’ve NEVER had a proper “Friday Night Reset”. Please be willing to compromise. The majority of NA players are not EST, but in the hours between EST and PST.

The majority, almost half, of the entire U.S. population resides within the East Coast time zone. Over 30% live in the Central time zone. Mountain time zone contains a mere 5%. Another minority time zone is the Pacific Time Zone with only 15%. So with those numbers, I’d highly suggest Anet considers pushing ahead it’s timing.

lil devils x.6071:

That is why I think a forced server merger isn’t going to solve the issue and they need maps that scale to population instead determined by all 3 servers in the match. start with one map in play, then as every server in the match hits 15 in queue they pop a new map every time the population increases. AS the population decreases those extra maps disappear within the hour.

No… this would be far too easy to abuse. Also, you see as a builder, if this were to occur, you would bring out the Liam Neeson in me. Please don’t bring out the Liam Neeson in me? You wouldn’t like what would happen after I found you. And, you’re only a TS channel away from me finding you

migellito.7301:

I’m just saying there are a lot of voices that aren’t here, and that those players matter too.

And… one would have to assume that the percentage of people for and against would scale proportionately.

1. Revert all HoT changes impacting WvW.
(Bring back Alpine is far less work than it would take to make DBL a good map)
(Desert Map is as inhospitable as a real Desert! Aversion level is high)
(Desert Map is a place I wouldn’t even want to own, let alone fight over.)
(It’s better to break some Scribing and Guild buffs than lay waste to a game mode)
(This also includes resetting reset time to previous time)

2. Free Transfer’s for 1 month
(Let us balance the mode for ourselves. We can do it better and have no one to blame but ourselves.)

3. Auto Loot
(Allow Pact Mastery to work in WvW, not spend time building a new Auto loot)

4. Balance CC’s and Stability
(Adding Stab stacks or reverting is meaningless if you don’t tone down the volume’s of CC’s available)

5. Gliding
(It’s becoming second nature to Glide. Not having the capacity feels broken)
(If there’s any place where gliding is breaking the map, simply place an inverted updraft to act as a down draft. Make it grey and add some electricity to it even.)

Additional changes are:
6. fix whatever happened to the speed buff from Traveler and Speed Runes.
7. Add a Reward Track / Shiny’s
8. Dev Hunt Day! (Get your tushes on a map and play with us!!!)
9. 48 hour Tournaments
10. Mist War Buffs! (Turn it on!)
11. add a Green Commander Tag
12. Better visibility of skills. For exmaple, enemy Wall of Reflection should be entirely red. Aka Turkey Pens should be visible.

I can keep going on how Worlds need there own place to call home. How Worlds need better in game communication tools.

BadMed.3846:

Deserted

I see what you did there.

Serious.7083:

CC needs balancing, they can then make it more powerful specifically against breakbars for PvE.

So much this! HoT introduced another level of interrupt and CC’s. Though, I do not believe the Dev’s truly understand how utterly anti-fun CC’s are in PvP.

gennyt.3428:

Oh you mean turkey pens. And yes they’re annoying.

I vote for the “Turkey Pen” label! Baby gates …????… meh.

Also, HOW ABOUT MAKING THEM VISIBLE!!! I don’t mean the trap, the effect after proc’ing. kitten , they barely ever render and I’m stuck bouncing off of nothing.

GJ, hope this elevates the play on the mode. For me, I swap between my Reaper, Rev, Dragon Hunter, and Tempest. Sometimes it helps, other times it’s just not enough to carry.

Yasi.9065:

Basically, you can make it quite easily to diamond if your mmr isnt kittened. If you kittened up your mmr somehow (queueing with guildmates to help them before seasons, trying out different professions), you are kittened. Could be you cant even make it into ruby.

This…. there’s just no way to get ahead in Ruby once you screw up your MMR.

And we know you solo’d how?

I say this with salt because I firmly believe “Elo Hell” exists. The last few matches I’m lucky if one person even say’s a single thing all match long. My last match was against 3 thieves, a Necro, and a DH. That should have been an easy win and yet, it’s a loss. Why, because only one person spoke, eventually. Another AFK’d from the start until called out and then just left. Matches are such a bag of crud that I can’t possibly believe someone hit Legend Solo Q’ing. Unless, because you are good, your early wins in Amber gave you an increased MMR. Where you were stacked with good players the entire time.

I’d like Land, Sea, and Air combat in WvW. Thus, bring back Alpine with the Quaggans and include Gliding.

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

18:00GMT is fine for a Friday, clocks go forward later this month anyway.

You mean tonight

Wait… how’s this even a question?? YES WE WANT IT BACK TO FRIDAYS! An hour after the daily reset was great where it was. Remember there are people playing with jobs, kids, etc and can’t stay up all night even on a Friday. So they should be able to enjoy a couple of hours of reset action.

Tyler, I hope this may put your mind at ease over the “Hot Fix” worries. Since launch there’s only been 37 updates released on a Friday. I can’t say specifically but, would guess that only a small percentage of those were done after the daily reset/regular business hours. Thus, the amount of times an update interfered with WvW Reset can probably be counted on both hands. That’s out of the 187 Fridays we’ve had since launch. We’re talking single digit percentages here.

I’d ask and suggest that if there’s a patch that’s going to hit after WvW reset, have Susan post in map chat ahead of time so we can prepare. It must be from Susan though

Windwalker.7421:

Don’t blame anyone else but yourself. A <100pt loss means that in at least half of such games there are things you could have done better to win the game for your team. (aka. carry!)

And, what if he was carrying his team as far as he possibly could, to even pull that close?

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

There is something worse than losing streak.

Try being 2 pips away from next division and having;

Win-win-lose-lose-win-lose-lose-lose-win-lose-win-win-lose-win-lose-win-lose-lose-win-win-win-lose……

Yes, the win then lose cycle is harsh.

My streak ended after 15 games or so. The past three were perfectly normal feeling games and ended up being 2 wins 1 loss. When I say the games felt normal is that the players I was matched with were communicative and competent. The Queue times were close to the averages posted. Not the abnormal and widely variable Insta Q’s to the 11+ minute one from last night. It appeared both teams were formed with Solo Q’ers. I also wasn’t endlessly Moa’d as I was getting last night. #shakesfist

After my last match, where I was Moa’d 4 times, it can bleep right the heck off.

I’m in agreement that there’s something terribly fracked up with matchmaking. I lost all my pips in Ruby tonight. Same thing, a 10 game losing streak with maybe IDK 20 win rate total for the past 10 hours? It’s just horrible match making from the beginning of the night. Where I was stuck solo’ing against team after team, after team, after team, after team, and after another F’n TEAM!

This season’s population is going to implode in a week after most of us hit Ruby. No ones going to want to deal with this level of unhappiness and frustration in a video game. Nor is there any reason not to just AFK for the daily’s once we hit Ruby.

forum bug!!!!!!!!!

The Dev’s are going to out troll themselves with the amount of CC they keep adding.

dominik.9721:

Also Einstein wasn’t one of the most intelligent persons because there are people who know more than him about romance languages and literature.

If I didn’t think the OP was a bit “off” I do after he wrote that.

katniss.6735:

My goal was to fake out the opposite team

So trying to be a <insert derogatory term> bit you in the backside, GOOD! Gear up, get ready and talk to your teammates. Instead of trying to be a kitten.

There’s a second PvP mode that needs to be balanced around now too. Not everything can or should be balanced around Conquest. To that end, the top of my nerf wish list is still bunker Ele and Druid. Way too much healing and cleansing in a mode with NPC’s and pets/summons/etc. Ele air overload should be reduced as it hit’s far too hard. A DH’s “True Shot” needs to be scaled back too. Maybe “Kill Shot” needs to be reduced a bit. Those are the most observable balance issues. Rev’s haven’t been an overt issue for me since they were nerfed to warrant asking for another one.

Rayya.2591:

display a red ring

Now only if half the AoE skills displayed properly. Like “Hunter’s Ward” instead of the constant “WTF???” moments of why can’t I move. The new WvW lead needs to clamp down on Karl and get things better balanced and working in WvW.

Rocketmist.5436:

The most played class before HoT was warrior, and its at the point where I think weapons like hammer could be buffed 100% and still be not viable. So they took the most played class and made it more or less unviable in big fights.

Then there is what most people consider the most fun class, thief. Thief is also pretty close to unviable in wvw with all the random aoe skills that can legit 1-hit kill a thief. D/D ele which is another build that a lot of people think is super fun is also not very viable. So basically all the “fun” builds and the most played builds are super bad at fighting.

No, wrong, and wrong.

Now this is good news! TY

sparc.3649:

I LOVE the new maps. I rolled an ENTIRE BL with just THREE people, INCLUDING me and it stayed that way all night

Dude, you’re PvE’ing.

Leaa.2943:

lil devils x.6071:

Leaa.2943:

rchu.8945:

Leaa.2943:

It is a change we have asked for, it is out in the open and they given us information, and they shall have credit for this. Them talking to us giving info is a big step, that we have asked and begged for, for years.

How ever i will wait this out. I been disappointed before and until the talks turn in to actions i wont put much effort in to hopes and hypes. It is definitely a good start and something we wanted for so long and i appreciate it so far and that is as much as you get from me at this point.

no, why credit should be given when all they gave are talks? We need results, no kittening words that mean nothing.

You need to re-read what i wrote because your answer do not in any way or situation suit the context. In the grown up world when you been argue for a long while about things, there has to be a time were you break off and something changes, and the people involved need to give time for the changes to fall in to place, as in give time for them to prove their talk.
Throwing your self on the floor screaming i want to see changes NAOW is not going to make a difference, the changes will fall in to place and we will then see if they can deliver or if the talk was just cheap. In mean while you have to accept that it wont solve in 2 min.

Players venting here have been waiting years, not 2 minutes. This is just their " final stand" before they all give up and leave. The HoT maps were deserted during Beta testing, and they knew this and still released them. That was their bad call and they still have not corrected it, It isn’t like these problems started yesterday.

I been waiting for 3.5 years, so it is not that i don’t understand what you are asking for, if you read my old messages you will see that i am one of them that also have asked for it for long. But never the less, what we have asked for, have happened, it might be that it will fail in the end and talk is cheap, but we do need to give time and see if they follow through. Throwing garbage at them when they took the first step, is not going to work. It is like a relationship that gone bad, it need work and patience from both sides. and if you don’t have the patience, then maybe it is time you break up with the game or at least take a break.

I am not saying that i am blindly believing in this and that all is buried and forgotten, but time will tell if what they started is lasting and something that will be a norm in future. For that they need more then 2 min.

Maybe people are ruffled because of Anet’s lack of urgency? If Anet stated something along the lines of “Wow, you folks really hate the new map, huh? Well don’t worry, we heard you and are working hard to give you back the Alpine Borderlands back! You can expect it within a month.” See, that would have went over extremely well. Instead they spoke of population imbalance which should be at a far less priority than fixing the maps.

Cerby.1069:

DeWolfe.2174:

A bit off topic but, anyone else remember when the Coca-Cola company tried back in the 80’s to replace Coke with New Coke? Almost instantly the consumer base nation wide responded negatively to the new product. I really disliked the taste of it too. Though they rapidly responded the consumer backlash and in just over a couple of months switched back to the Original flavor.

No…I do remember when coca-cola plants put locks on the wells and sucked the water reserves of poor african villages high and dry and left them to die. I think my irl analogy is more appropriate than yours. I’m not really good at the whole redneck mentality, but I think this here will resonate a bit better with the more fluent members of the forums.

Umm…. no, that analogy is no where near equivalent or even appropriate. This is a video game in the end.

What the FRAK did you guys do to Omega’s??? They can’t hit the broad side of a barn now! Tried using one to hit a player and it’s just missed endlessly. The few missiles not flying off into the sky went into the dirt with obstructed, obstructed, obstructed, obstructed. It’s bad enough you nerf the damage output and nerfed the speed bonus from runes. Now they can’t even hit a player! So much fail…..

That’s a good point to make. That bringing back Alpine is not just about the terrain. It’s a huge part of it but, not the only part of it.

I’m assuming what’s holding up bring Alpine back online is Anet’s desire to rotate the maps more than it’s integrating all of the HoT changes. I really don’t see the difficulty though in adding the HoT changes to Alpine. The seemed to have added the HoT changes to EB cleanly enough. The asset packages are already in place, they just have to be integrated.

This is a response to Tyler B’s comment on Reddit here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FGuildwars2%2Fcomments%2F48zlyd%2Fim_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama%2Fd0nyizn

“We still intend to eventually bring back the Alpine Borderlands map, but it’s not as simple as just toggling it back on. We don’t have the tech for rotating between the two borderlands built yet, and the map itself required a significant amount of content updates to support all of the features that were added to WvW as part of the HoT update.”

I’ll have to agree that with toggling it back on, we would break and lose all the additions from HoT. BUT, it will make WvW so much better again! I believe it’s safe to say, outside of Synthesizers and maybe emergency way point, the rest of those “additions” are disliked. For me, I’d much rather play Pre Hot WvW again.

…… with Traveler and Speed runes working on Golems and transforms again!!!!!
<shakes fist for removing fun>

Seriously…. Dev’s…. trust me and just toggle Pre Hot WvW / Alpine back on for a test. If Pre HoT WvW runs then awesome. If it fails hard then revert it back within a day. We’d completely understand and appreciate the attempt. Don’t worry about rotating maps as we really don’t want to see that freaking Desert map for a long while.

Also, for the love of God, put back FRIDAY RESET!!!!!!! That can’t be too difficult a task.

A bit off topic but, anyone else remember when the Coca-Cola company tried back in the 80’s to replace Coke with New Coke? Almost instantly the consumer base nation wide responded negatively to the new product. I really disliked the taste of it too. Though they rapidly responded the consumer backlash and in just over a couple of months switched back to the Original flavor.

In WvW, we have the new Desert Borderland map and it reminds me an awful lot like the New Coke scenario. The only difference is, unlike the Coca Cola Company’s rapid response reversion, Anet has dug their heels in and won’t give the consumers the original product they liked. So I’m left wondering, it’s the Desert Borderland map going to go down in history as the “New Coke” of gaming? Has the slow response time now done irreparable damage to the community and consumer base?

The things I ponder while I sit here bored and have no Friday Reset to enjoy

briggah.7910:

complaints about siege, airship strikes and anything else that make it harder to take objectives

Ummm yeah, when Anet makes maps with every pathway being a confined choke point, yes siege becomes an issue.

psizone.8437:

Shield Generators shouldn’t be locked behind buying HoT, that was a stupid decision by Anet and one I hope they change.

Umm…. how are they “locked”? Can’t anyone buy them off the TP? Aren’t they available from the Siege Master for Badges or silver?

And, the end result will still be complaints of night capping, day capping, work capping, I don’t feel like playing but still want to win capping. Because if you slice the day into 4, 6, or 8 ways, you have to win the majority of them to win the week. If you win only the one match in “your” time slot but, lose all the others, you do NOT deserve to win the week. Hence, the whining of capping will never end.

PPT isn’t, wasn’t, nor hasn’t, been broken. What’s broken is the lack of understanding of a War simulator.

Grrr….. forum bug!

I know I’ll get barked at by the TP hounds but, JS should have had mechanisms in place to curtail high volume trading from launch. Just having a storage capacity limit on the TP would have been enough. Forcing a player to take physical ownership of items purchased would have limited high volume trading.

No 80’s? Well, let’s fix that first. Start by using the wiki and look at how experience and especially boosting it works. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Experience make certain you use some laurels if you have to for the XP booster. The kill streak portion of it adds 100% alone!

You want to max out on Boosters/Foods/Utilities/Guild buffs and hit up either EotM (Edge of the Mist) or go on a Kill Streak. A Kill Streak is running around a zone killing yellow creatures and whatever red’s you come by. If you are above level 30, the area east “The Ogre Road” way point [&BE8BAAA=] in Fields of Ruin is pretty good XP farming. If you are above level 60, the area east of “Rustbowl” way point [&BB4CAAA=] in Fireheart Rise is good as well. Kill the Hyena’s as well in Rustbowl. You can kill everything you can find in one spot and alternate back and forth between the two areas. You want the creatures to age for about 15 minutes or so to get more XP from them. So alternating is better way to go.

Another source of experience is doing the personal story and the story portions of dungeons. I first mentioned the Kill streak method because you can do that solo. While waiting to build a party for dungeon stories, I’d go on a Kill Streak run.

For buying the expansion, none of the experience you earn will go toward Masteries until you reach level 80. So you want to get your character/s expedited to level 80.

What I’d love to see if just some plain and simple modern day fashions. Where’s the simple T-shirt and jeans? Maybe a tank top, sweat pants, pants, or leggings? There’s an elegance missing from the game in simplicity.

With this design team, I have no doubt if Jeans or Pants were green lit we’d end up with grungy torn up ones. No, I’m asking for nice clean new looking ones! Sure you can have another torn up set afterwards but, a nice one please???? F asking for “nice” and/or “clean” is like pulling teeth from the art dept.

Of course all the above is for ARMOR SKINS!

Plok.5873:

Not exactly a re-release, but: more of Marjory style weapon skins like the dagger and axe?
Also I support the request for the Candy Corn Gobbler.

I’d love for the Gobbler to return. The way the past Halloween was handled and the nerf’s to Maize, I have a feeling that we’ll never see it again. I think JS hates candy or something irl. Though I’d buy more Candy Corn Gobblers if they were available.

I look at this thread and see all the things I would buy, if only they kept them in the gem store! This cycling and shuffling of Gem store items is the pits.

Vegeta.2563:

New Black Lion Chest Rewards

• Permanent Teleport to Friend Contract
• Permanent Instant Repair Canister Contract
• Permanent Revive Orb Contract

Gem Store Items

• World 1 Super Boom Box
• World 2 Super Boom Box
• Mini Super Assasin
• Bunny Ears
• Celebration Hat
• Great Jungle Wurm 3 Pack

I just heard someone with the Super Boom Box and came to the forums to add it to this thread

Again, Beach clothing and Swim suits as Armor skins. Town clothing as Armor skins. Ball Caps with hair! If this is a year of little new content with just tweaks and fixes, fix that!

Leohart.4610:

I found it on the first few days of release, thought it was the end of a jumping puzzle.

It’s a pretty neat find.

Here’s a tidbit of help, use a Mesmer Also, use the Ground Targeting indication disc to survey the area before jumping. You can equip a regular Torch as it acts as a source of illumination too.

Wait what? Elite specializations are just options to build around and not intended to be used solely at level 80. As such there’s no “need” to dual wield on a Level 80 Warrior. Also, a Guardian is not intended to be a ranged profession at level 80 either. As a Profession, Great Sword is extremely good on Warrior. Try running GS / Rifle with Zerker gear on your Level 80 Warrior. There’s a useful build in PvE for Warrior that’s nicknamed “Phalanx Strength”. Google it to see how to build it.