Guild Wars 2

The Scrubicons, as I call them, really should only be shown in the lobby. Player names should be visible without clutter and marketing junk beside them. Nor should we get stuck seeing the “PvP Leagues are Active” for a months on end in the upper corner of our screen.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Skinner.4376:

Thanks ANet! Didn’t expect the ban hammer to happen this fast. A nice belated Wintersday gift to the community.

I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey.

+1 for the movie quote!!! GJ

“Hot” was a success if it generated more profit than it cost. Whether we like it or not is irrelevant to it being a success. The issue arises with player retention if they attempt to sell us another expansion. I believe there would be far less pre-orders and hype for it.

For most of the points made in the video, I would agree with.

Or, they remove all forms of “binding” and make everything open and tradable. Would be a great QoL increase.

Can we kill that creepy “Festive Citizen” in Divinity’s Reach finally? You know, that human male with that horrible electronic voice that only say’s number? I have my suspicions that it’s (yes it’s) really a Watchknight in hiding. It must be ended!!!

All RP’ing aside, I find that voice so jarring that I turn off the dialogue volume completely while in the Wintersday area of DR. Please do not bring that dialogue back next year.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

That’s Glint, though. Would you feel better if Shiro didn’t sound like Shiro?

Well, sometimes the Dev’s should realize they can do better and make changes. That is a horrid sound Glint makes without question. Why they would even have that voice to begin with is poorly done. None of the Legends are “of the body” any longer so, it’s not a stretch of the imagination to change the voices.

They should change Glint’s voice and remove the disc. Thus removing the obnoxious humming the disc makes.

^LOL at the map chat as it’s the Amber player trash talking like a Pro.

The audacity of some of you to defend this system. Meanwhile, while sitting in 11+ minute Q’s, one can simply read map chat and see the “LFAmber” request. It happens and it’s happening frequently. We need a Solo Q and it’s needed severely. Hopefully it’ll cut down Q times as I’m lucky if 50% of my time is even in a match. I’m stuck in the lobby on a Q more than I’m playing now.

Lastly, any PvP outside of “Snowball Mayhem” is nothing more than “Build Wars”. The balance team should start a CDI so we can get this fixed before the next season.

SaulWolfden.6178:

It is objectively the worst looking effect in the game and isn’t consistent with any other effects in the game. Why can’t it be like the guardian’s elite signet aura? That actually looks like an effect that fits with the game. Better yet, why isn’t it crystals surrounding us… given Glint is a CRYSTAL dragon after all. I don’t think of a disco circle when I think of crystals. The sound effects that play with facets up would even fit with crystals making resonating sounds.

Dear God, don’t give them any ideas. It just doesn’t belong and is completely immersion breaking with the rest of the game.

We absolutely need to record a bunch of Herald’s lined up and /dance to this…

https://youtu.be/god7hAPv8f0

It kinda making things better…..

Editing to add that with every stomp of my Rainbow Unicorn on you all I’ll be hearing this in my head kittenes!

Hakuryuu.8634:

inb4 “I like it please leave it be”

That’s why I’m asking for an option

Can we please have some way of hiding, removing, and deleting the Heralds disco disc? I find it incredibly annoying, especially as it pulses. I have no clue how someone created this without realizing a blaring pulsating disc wouldn’t be annoying?

Anyone else hate this thing?

Caliburn.1845:

There were zergs running around when the streamers were doing their thing. After that it became a ghost town.

Which should have been the huge sign that the map wasn’t good. If it was, players would have stayed on it as much as they could. It’s a ghost town then as it is now.

cyberwolf.5830:

I think because you can play wvw without hot expansion

HoT has exclusives in sPvP. If they allow it in their E-sport, I highly doubt they’d mind it in WvW.

I still believe players would gravitate toward and want to spend more time on maps with a pleasurable theme. A desert map didn’t sound appealing from the get go. Heck, it came out with the expansion, so why wasn’t the new maps a jungle theme or Auric Basin like? I never understood why they chose a desert theme to begin with.

Still farming Flax, Elderwood, and Silky Sand til 2017.

Nikola.3841:

For MMO to fail, developers just have to listen to voices of lots of clueless silly people

For MMO to survive, developers just have to listen to the voices of lots of intelligent and helpful people.

Now please do continue to enjoy your glass of half empty.

As someone whom likes to break out of maps, I’ve found there’s a surprising number of invisible walls already in place. Gliding should be implemented game wide. It should have been given top priority to get it right and get it game wide before implementing it.

guildabd.6529:

Well of Corruption alone dominates WvW fights since it’s unblockable and cannot be dodged while it converts stability to fear.

My suggestion:

• Make it blockable.
• Reduce duration to 3 seconds.

Dominates? Hahahahaha…..

My thoughts on this was, we should have a drop down list of all servers on the WvW panel. Every week we select which server we’d like to play against. Then, before Anet pulls the lever on reset, this voting get’s factored in as a Glicko modifier. Something to help give a more favorable chance to role another matchup. Though stable enough to not allow blowouts which would be a good awful blow to an already fragile game mode.

My issue with Life Siphon is that you’ll take as much if not more dmg from Retal procs. Should be only one retal proc not 9.

:) GJ! That’s really impressive

Filthy android’s shouldn’t be allowed to play!

Boysenberry.1869:

New Instabilities coming soon* just for you!

Auric Basin – Fire Overhwelming. All elite frogs during Octovine are replaced with Balthazar champions.

Shouldn’t it be, Auric Blazin?

Yes, and I do so hope they continue to watch the videos. Though the Dev’s need to realize that Reyana cannot interview even a single percent of the WvW population in a year. Of those interviewed so far, it’s only been Commanders. Of course, finding people to interview must be a nightmare and Commanders are the easiest to spot, literally. Though that still leaves individuals that roam, scout, build, escort, or just plain run as militia voiceless. Anet, you need to help her out by directly communicating as only you can do so on a large scale.

My one real gripe is that a few of the Commanders are basically a hive mind. It painted a very narrow portrait of the needs and future of WvW. Ins is the first interviewee that has had a wider and more inclusive outlook. Which is certainly appreciated as is the interviews themselves.

Lord I hope so!
Living Story > expansion.

Oh, you also merged a thread about the JP in here by accident?

And, this is the perfect time to say, WE NEED AN EFFECTS CHANNEL!

Seriously, all these “visual effects” are great but, not when they are gear specific. Please give us 3 slots in the equipment tab for placing items with effects. This way they properly overlay effects on top of our armor or outfits. So that we can stack, stagger, and blend visual effects too.

TY

Buy Some Apples.6390:

Entenkommando.5208:

zhonnika.1784:

How does the yak/upgrade change work in regards to guilds having (seemingly) unlimited supply drops via guild upgrades?

A wild forum specialist appears >.<

LMFAO!! I was just about to type the same thing.

Where did this zhonnika.1784 come from?! Post history shows they are a WvW player who most likely left the forums due to non-communication from the devs, and only comes back every now and again. Or only started to repost cos they were made fsp.

Give her a break, she has to deal with me daily. That would make anyone’s head spin She may be on the quiet side and that is only because she’s extremely active in WvW. Still watches/reads everything.

In addition to traps, I seem to be having issues with Spear of Justice not rendering. I’m getting yanked around, unpleasantly so, without any visual cues. There should be a greater dwell before being able to activate the pull.

Forum bug!! Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuu……….

misterdevious.6482:

People keep reiterating their desire for “manual upgrades.” Ugh.

The “schmucks” who would go around popping all the manual upgrades people keep asking for are likely the same guys who are currently doing all the jobs on the map when no one else is around… flipping camps, sentries, shrines (usually by himself), sometimes flipping towers (also by himself if need be), killing roamers, doing the oasis event (solo if need be), and repairing all the gates that have been sitting there damaged for hours because no one else bothered.

Being one of the head “schmucks” (shakes fist @ you) I’d like manual upgrading and more building choices. Expressing a WP was far more risky and fun than this insta WP. Watching a timer click down or a Yak counter for auto upgrades is equally dull.

Here’s a cute lil video of a scout that I thought of. This basically doesn’t exist in the current design. Escorting Yaks for linear upgrading paths wouldn’t bring joy to players like this. https://youtu.be/dlfUTwQ5sdg

WvW was not, is not, and shouldn’t be just about fighting. Worlds need a diversity of roles to make it inclusive and interesting.

Editing to end page and start at 10. Forum bug, grrrr…….

Have you even EotM’d lately? First, there is more than one EotM instance running. So just pointing a finger and saying “EotM” is a mistake. In EotM, you’ll find bag farmers which is the PvP you are looking for. Then there are well organized KTrain which is great for uplevels. Then they’ll be the mixed blend of back and forth fighting and ktraining. Most maps end up doing a little of everything because doing one or the other the entire time get’s boring. Trying to fight the entire time get’s boring too and burns out players.

There are too many servers but, there’s far too many of us that have server pride and like our communities to give them up. Also, we need far more integration with the PvE community, not excluding them. Worlds also need there own physical space in game as a secure city and secure communication channel.

Players contribute equally, without question. If the player wasn’t there, during any time, the opposition would have an advantage.

There is no such thing as night capping.
There are poorly organized Worlds.
There are too many Worlds.

There’s always been a balancing issue between smaller multi hit skill’s and utilities vs the high damage modifier single hits. The single hits have always been strongest when you factor in retal and confusion.

As it’s been mentioned several times already, the answer is a mouse. You can use wrist straps or ace bandages to support your wrist. The JP is certainly a mouse only type of content.

Obviously most of the snarky replies are from folks whom don’t do KQ often. It does die extremely fast. Even with having all the WP’s and an SSD, I’ve barely made it before it dies too. It’s called power creep and KQ hasn’t been adjusted to keep up.

OP, many of us said the same thing when HoT launched. In fact, some of us feel Gliding should be game wide. There are always curmudgeons who don’t want fun things and will find any excuse to say no to an idea. But, Gliding would be a great addition to the whole game.

The Dev’s should set up a public testing server that’s a clone of the entire game. I’d gladly spend a week Beta testing it for them.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Before we jump into the changes, we just want to make it very clear that the changes you’ll read about below are not a part of the big World vs World update that we’ve previously mentioned.

Is the “big World vs World update” being Beta tested before being implemented? Were there polling methods used to figure out what the “WvW community” would like or were they decided by these interviews? Reyana’s interviews, though good, are a very small sample size. I also noticed they are a bit slanted to paint a certain picture by asking specific questions to these specific players. As I said, they are good and I’ve watched all but two of them thus far. They just not very inclusive of the grander WvW community.

Xillllix.3485:

In regards to PPK, can you implement it so that its in favor of the losing server?

For example:
Winning Server: 1 PPK
Middle Server: 2 PPK
Losing server: 3 PPK

This would make the fights much more interesting and give a chance to the losing servers to catch up.

How would this work change effect player behavior? Wouldn’t it promote big zerg pushes and then hibernating inside structures?

Gaile Gray.6029:

Players will also no longer be able to revive defeated players while in combat.

Sounds good except, this change will increase pin sniping to an extreme. I wouldn’t make this change.

Daharahj.1325:

Getting blown over by wind and falling because of it is the worst feeling ever, especially because it’s so inconsistant.

It’s actually really consistent. As soon as you get past the exploding packages, dodge roll onto the candy cane bridge thingy. The technical term for it. Also, don’t run up higher than the middle of the Peppermint Candy when waiting for the snowball to roll by.

Joshua Valentine.6417:

When I tried the JP the first few times, I thought the exact same way. “Eff this, why should such an annoying piece of fecal matter be a gate, blocking progress towards a skin?”
But then I actually really tried to do it, and I’ll tell ya what worked for me.

Snowflake Section: Choose a path, repeat until muscle memory. Doesn’t take too long.

Explody Gift Section: Wait until the middle gift in the first line (NOT the blue gifts) spawns, then jump to it, and spam that space bar so that you jump straight up the middle line of gifts.

Boulder/Snowball/Whatever Section: Use the peppermints to get out of the way of the boulders. Watch for Skritt attacks, which will be indicated by a big red ground AoE circle!

Final Section: Once you get here, you SHOULD be in the clear. Unless you have awful lag/input delay (which I had a few times…I even failed the very last jump before completing it because my character wouldn’t move forward when I pressed W!) you should be in the clear.

Hope this will help SOMEONE out there…unless every single player in the game already knows how to do it, and it’s just a matter of reflexes/other things.

Very good tips. May I add to take it easy while playing. Seriously, the more lighthearted you make it, the easier it gets. Sing, whistle, hum, tap your feet, or whatever you have to do to relieve tension. A glass of wine or a little something to take the edge off might help too. I also like to have a little fun with the JP by imagining its being narrated by Bob Ross as “Bob Ross: The Joy of Jumping”.

For the basics, keep the zoom level a bit tighter on your character. It’s like a Race horse wearing those blinders. Just stay focused on each jump and nothing else. Remember you are steering with your mouse. So adjust the camera rotation speed in the games “options panel” to suit your play style and hardware. For me, it’s almost all the way to the left at its slowest.

So now we have you just holding down the mouses right click to steer and the “w” key to move forward. There’s only a couple of jumps that you have to release the “w” key to short jump. The timing of letting go of the “w” key is just something you’ll have to learn as you go along your preferred path. Dodge jumping, which is hitting the dodge and jump keys at the same time, helps you jump a little further. It’s very useful for reaching the exploding gift section without the blue gifts spawning.

Lastly, always keep a cool head about you when the character goes lame and doesn’t jump properly, it happens. Or, when you get run over by those invisible snowballs, ouchie. Or, the RNG of the exploding gifts, as our characters go “kitten kitten ” and bounce around before falling to their doom. Even when you are stuck behind that Chunky "expletive"ing Norn that can blot out the freak’n sun! In a freaking long coat too!

Certainly, in this meta, it’s completely a Pay to Win situation. There’s also the issue of having to pay almost 200 gold to unlock PvP gear. Some may argue to the contrary but, our older builds can’t keep up with the new ones.

This is pretty much me while trying to figure out what the heck happened.

https://youtu.be/8M5-7RbOV9s?t=21s

Thanathos.2063:

You will fail to complete the collection this year.

I’m 10.000% sure that the points won’t reset for next wintersday, as they didn’t in GW1. You absolutely don’t need to aquire 10k points this year. If you really want the shoulder skin, you can grind the presents or buy alcohol, but you don’t have to.

So the new design choices at Anet is to make thing we, as in the majority, can’t have or can’t have for an entire year? Sure, that’s going to go over really well. If the majority can’t have nice things in a prompt manner, then the majority is simply going to say, “Next game —>”. So whomever is making such decisions, especially the past 3-4 months, really should rethink what their point of view. The player base has never been more dissatisfied and vocal.

The best we can do, as a community, is farm the heck out of Wintersday.

If anyone cared to look, it appears they are adding additional choices in the option panel. We don’t know how many are being added under the hood and not yet visible. Those this really needs to be fixed or rolled back ASAP.

Has anyone see the “Frostbitten Toolbox” drop this Wintersday? I really like those gathering tools and wondering what happened to them and why would they be removed? And, if they gave us advanced warning I would have opened the gifts I had in stock before the Wintersday patch hit.

If I’m mistaken and they do drop, my bad. If they were removed, someone at Anet is trying to out due the Grinch this year.

Did anyone read the changes or just complaining? Here….

" Fixed an issue that was causing the chak gerents to scale too aggressively when players joined their lanes"

…. the problem with the original design was that players, especially some pins, started screaming at other players for “scaling it up”. It began making the event toxic. So the Dev’s fixed the scaling issue so the full map population can join in the fight now. As it should have been to begin with.

azizul.8469:

Axialbloom.8109:

Shoulders take 150. If only 1000 people made them, that is more than is currently on the TP.

you’re saying it as if it doesn’t replenish in supply. there are many people having multiple accounts, and are active. i know people who has 10 accounts that he bought during the 10$ offer. accounts like that rain mystic coins….

besides, everyday there are people making legendary weapon, is mystic coin in short supply, yet ?

But if they are anything like me, once I get something for one account, I have to get it for all the accounts