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If it helps any, T1 is in a sad state as well. We had 30 players in TS for all 4 maps at the start of NA Prime. That’s it… 30! Players just aren’t logging into WvW anymore. The mode got hit hard with the Golem rush event, the ridiculous transfer’s to YB, and now the server lock downs. I don’t know which of them was the straw or if it was the combination of all 3 but, a lot of players seem to be completely done with the game and WvW for now.

So GJ! to those involved in such things, you successfully imploded the mode.

With hope some of the new content being cooked up breaks the mold and requires more than Zerker. Also would hope some new content requires staging in a fight. To get to a level of risk that you have to disengage and reengage would be far more immersible and fun.

I have a twink that’s a Boon Tank Healer and it’s fun to play. Too bad it’s not viable at level 80

The biggest problem with these changes is that the Dev’s idea of a WvW population appears to be much smaller than the map queues. Seriously, how long would a player have to play per day to keep the maps full? Would we have to play for 5 hours a day, 10 hours a day, or even more? My guess is that it would be far more hours per day than any of us have to give.

All I know is playing is not as fun as it was. I tried to solo an enemy Bay this morning because there was no one else on map. I’d rather play a console game than PvD by myself. And yet, this is on a “Full” server. Sure sure, that population sounds about right……. /sarcasm. Making matters worse, after I got to inner I got wiped by a freak’n cancer build.

….. we need new dev’s….
editing to add that yes, I understand that it management’s fault really. What usually screws things up is an accountant, a lawyer, or suit/board member.

Tman.6349:

I believe they are convinced the best time to implement ‘Holliday PvP Reward Tracks’ are during their respective holiday events. I know it seems kinda counter-intuitive, but they’re convinced that it makes sense with a bit of thought/logic.

hue hue hue… ok then, is their logic to bore players into leaving? How many times am I expected to do the same reward track over and over and feel REWARDED????

How about bringing back the holiday reward tracks for one week? Give us something to work toward please? Do this this weekend with the upcoming Beta Weekend would be great.

zapv.8051:

Someone in dire and someone in soldiers do very very similar damage.

LOL… not even remotely the same. Completely depends on the professions access to condi’s.

If anything, we need A LOT more cleanses, not less. You have to nuts to want less in this meta.

DiscoJacen.1590:

For example one of our biggest problem is the population: too much on top tiers with giant queues

Oh kitten … NO there’s isn’t “giant queues” any longer. The only world with ridiculous Q’s is Yaks Bend during NA right now. They have almost 200 players total sitting and waiting during NA. The rest of us are lucky to Q 1 map! Even for reset on JQ, we just Q’d the 4 maps for an hour or so. That’s after shuffling and asking for players to come into WvW to begin with.

Sorry for barking at you but, this imagery that T1 has massive q’s filled with all the players it absorbed from the lower tiers just isn’t true. The games just bleeding that many players. There’s so much apathy toward the mode it’s becoming malaise. A lot of players just don’t care and it’s dragging down everyone.

Exciton.8942:

How do you enjoy the large blob fights?

I love large fights, always did. Though I rarely experience lag. When I do experience it, it’s server lag. THAT is Anet’s fault and they need to fix their stuff. This past week they raised the map caps and it possible the servers can’t handle large 3 way fights. If it’s just 60vs60, I don’t seem to have a problem.

I should add that there’s only one Guild in T1 able to do that. So unless it’s a keep fight, you aren’t seeing 60vs60.

Vicao.5068:

Lol!
My queue in JQ

And that’s after barking at folks to get into WvW! lol. The YB EB Q the other night in NA was 2.5 hrs long. It just shows how idiotic and selfish if was of those guilds to transfer there.

Does anyone else have the Hero panel icon always showing an Alert? I clicked on it and it shows the Training tab has an alert too. This is an old and maxed out character, why on earth would I care to see this? I hope to heck this isn’t set as some perma-alert every time I zone in or way point.

I’d much rather have one as an ARMOR SKIN than a bleeping tonic! Grrrrrrrr……

After reading all 10 pages again, I now have some understanding of why the Dev’s could make such poor decisions. You folks have really no clue what you want and it shows in what you ask for. It’s very simple, WvW should have Tiers with descending map population caps. Because the map Q’s have always been the end all, be all of balancing. There should be no server population caps at all. There should be no Transfer cost either. Even if there was, it should be a flat price. Boom… now each player can choose the experience that fits them best. The World communities can freely balance themselves out across the time zones too.

The one thing that is for certain is that the more the dev’s interfere with WvW, the more they muck it up. Even after the dev’s came into WvW during Seasons, they made videos about what they thought should change. Most of the WvW players I know watched the videos and said “wut?”. As in, how could you play WvW and come away from the experience with such notions???? The dev’s just don’t get us in WvW at all. If they did, it would show, because they’d be in WvW daily too!

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

We’ve been tracking WvW server perf and as a result we have increased the map capacities by 10 for each team. We’ll keep tracking and look at further increases over the next week.

WTF? This only helps a server that HAS a Q’d map. I don’t know what kind of favoritism or bunk you folks are playing over there at Anet but, it’s ticking some of us off completely.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Snipped Wall of Dreams

I like how sunny and positive you are in posting all of this. Unfortunately, I don’t think the dev’s are up to the task of creating such a dream list. It’s a good list though!

The more I think about it, the more I wonder how effective this system is going to be. Is it going to filter out players that come into WvW just to use the banks or crafting stations? Is it going to filter out those who come in just to claim a node or camp for a daily? Is it even going to filter out those just passing thru the Citadel or spawns to get to LA? Most of them are not what I’d call a “WvW player”.

There was a lot of rage when they made the changes to some tonics. Made no sense then, makes no sense now.

The problem is leggings for light armor norms. There’s not many sleek and elegant designs. Especially in need of good pants and shorter skirts.

+1 my Cele Engi rocked healing bombs

This is rolling out a week after a huge Bandwagon takes place??? Can’t help but think of this as pretty suspicious. Maybe I’ll be surprised but, right now I have no confidence that this will benefit me or those I play the game with at all.

NikeEU.7690:

PSA: any healing you can achieve from a single dedicated healer you can surpass with 5 berserkers using coordination to blast water fields and trait/gear for perma-regeneration.

True and yet, how many builds have access to blast finishers? My Necro said, “WTF is a Blast finisher?” A simple trait swap can give decent sustained healing. For example and Ele’s “soothing mist”, a Guardians “Symbol Healing” and “Battle Presence”, and a Necro’s “Vampiric Presence”, all add additional passive healing beyond just the Regen boon. Individually they aren’t that strong but, together they work well. Then we have proc’ing dark fields for Life Stealing too. Little things that don’t require investing into healing power to get.

How about we stop with the excuses already will ya? Dodges and clears, wow…. I never even heard of such things. Do tell me more, huh? /gfg.

These numbers are too freaking high and lessen the fun of combat, period. Did we not learn anything from last weeks Golem buff issue? And yes Hardrider, I’m all for another round of damage reductions. I’d much rather have a balance pass on each individual skill coefficient instead though. Please do remember that beyond “on skill activation” confusion now has a baseline tick as well.

Also, NO ONE agrees that the Dev’s need to get on map and play more? That the only way to really balance combat is to experience it with us live????

bradadad.8915:

I feel like a fool for buying xpac if this is how it will be.

The Dev’s had nothing to do with your current situation, that was other players. If you are unhappy, you know you can always come up to JQ and restore the balance we had.

Crapgame.6519:

Alliances are a subset of guilds.

Non starter right there.

So when is a condi nerf coming? Seriously, was just hit with 2.5k confusion ticks from a one Mesmer skill. 4.6k Burns from one Engi skill. One skill did 18k worth of condition damage by the time it wore off. Give me flipping break dev’s, how is that supposed to be “fun” to play against? It’s been several weeks now and no balancing fixes for this.

Dev’s how about you come into WvW and play instead of ignoring the game modes balancing?

Jayne.9251:

keeping your guild (and you) engaged.

Worlds should hold greater importance than Guilds.

Worlds need WAY more put into them, not less. The Mega Server is the problem as it goes against the basic concept of Worlds as communities. In practice, there is no “World” in PvE and sPvP. There’s no secure line of communication for Worlds. There’s is no place, region, or territory for players of said World Community to reside. Unless you hit “b” and look at that panel, WvW is virtually hidden. Heck, even the new portals in LA are vague and tucked away. Outside of deleting the mode, the Dev’s couldn’t do worse by World vs World players. What makes the mode soldier on comes from the efforts and 3rd party solutions players themselves had to rig up. Any new “alliance” system would destroy that.

Before any changes are considered, I hope the Dev’s talk to us about it. There’s obviously a lack of understanding between us. Heck, I barely ever see a Dev playing the mode either! Last week I saw one for a minute. Before that was the start of Season 3. So please, keep the eager dev’s wanting to change everything and especially the marketing dept far away from WvW. They just have no clue what we like in there.

Jayne.9251:

If NA is smart, it’ll take this opportunity to emulate EU and spread out for the fights — not the blue ribbon (which is meaningless now).

Just because Anet made 24 NA worlds at launch doesn’t mean it’s the correct division of players for today’s game population. People like fights of varying volumes of players. For me, fights are the most fun with high volume and full maps. So going to a higher Tier is better. If you like smaller scale then you can go a bit lower tiered. Spreading out evenly will more than likely make a lack luster experience for most. This change of taking into account the actual game modes population will help players find the experience they prefer.

No, the sky isn’t falling, it’s just a video game. More than likely a lot of players are itching for reset so they can get back on a map.

ventusthunder.5067:

many of us from JQ and BG moving to YB

So if you want to come up to T1 and replace the dead wood, we have openings! Please have a sense of server pride and care about being a part of a larger community. TY

Yes, I know the bug is annoying. I spent most of the week whispering those using it to stop, no matter what side they were on. Though organizing a map wide “gentlemen’s agreement” has been my own fool’s errand. They’ll always be a few using it so it’s just easier to get everyone using it. Until reset, I’m simply choosing to look at it now as an extension of using food and oil. It’s a part of this weeks Meta and it would be much more fun if we all tried to adapt to it and move on.

btw, the only players whom lost there preferred play styles was a builder like myself. As there is no WP’ing a keep, no matter how hard I’ve tried. So I’m running around an open fielding instead. It’s one week, I can adapt and still have fun in ts with everyone.

This week is ending up as it is from lack of player participation. I’m actually really surprised how poorly a lot of WvW players responded to this week. Players already raged quit before reset even began. Other players rage quit after an hour or two after reset. The effects of having less and less players to fight just snow balled the rage quitting from there. The simply solution is to man up and get back on map! So what, we have a lot of Golems, that doesn’t prevent open field fighting. We have the Golem buff issue, which again, is a so what? Just everyone pop it and we’re all on an even playing field again.

Vicao.5068:

I heard that, T1 have trade wins, so sad…

It’s more of T1 having push weeks. Push weeks for one server increases WvW activity across all three servers in response. So the back and forth is more about burn out than anything else. You can’t push and play a lot of O.T. every week.

Just freaking FIGHT! All these complaints this week, meanwhile, how about just going into WvW and fight! Anet didn’t disable your mouse buttons nor, did they take away skills. It’s up to you to go into WvW and contribute.

tldr: stop whining and start fighting!

Marthkus.4615:

It would be a lot better if golems actually fought each other. But fights tend to be very one sided.

This is pretty much the issue. From reset, the event was an absolute blast! I don’t recall the last time I heard such laughter and fun being had in WvW. What was happening that caused such fun was that we were fighting with Golems! Then guilds or at least the commanders became salty and left. Then began the Ktrain on each map. What’s compounding the issue is that we still have balance issues.

Editing to add that for me, the event has been fun. Though I happen to have too much irl issues to properly kitten this event atm though.

Great, now maybe they can restore my up levels to there fully unlocked state prior to the patch? The patch where all of a sudden all the skill point scrolls I poured into them turned into unlocked “training” I may or may not have wanted. Then turning the excess skill points into Spirit Shards instead of more Hero points. Because thousands of spirit shards are so useful, right? #smh

It’s an improvement but, they should have not gated Hero points. Allowing us to convert all our skill point scrolls into Hero points and/or Spirit Shards.

Used to use it all the time. It was almost mandatory for me since I DESPISED that running down a decline to your doom, bug. Pretty much now I may swap to it during JP’s or WvW if I want to kitten about on my Warrior with Death from Above.

I’d like more choices in adding boon duration too. Right now boon duration is very limited.

Diamond Skin needs to gtfo out the game as it currently is. Hard counters should not exists at all.

I was standing in Sm watching the roamers and havoks, and zergs running about. There’s a WHOLE lot more Mesmer’s now. Especially in the small scale and roaming. It was literally a Mesmer fighting Mesmer, then fighting another Mesmer. I just shook my head at how OP they are. If they weren’t these folks would be running another profession.

Arantheal.7396:

snipped wall of awesome

I just drooled! lol

DiscoJacen.1590:

So you want a troll box to store all your troll siege?

That has to be the least thought out post I’ve read on here. Golems are a very useful and fun piece of WvW Equipment. A Golem Garage would help prevent actual grieving by preventing bad players from stealing, joy riding, and dumping them off cliffs, etc. Golems should be viewed and treated as personal pieces of property in game. Especially at 4g a piece!

editing to up the price.

That’s a pretty awesome group of Golems! Though, I give it a “meh” in Golem Artistry. You folks must be lacking in Golem Art Mastery.

I’ve had an idea for quiet some time, that we need an instanced Golem Garage in WvW. Basically, I see it as a home instance inside WvW where we can put our Golem’s safely tucked away. And yes, I even thought of how awesome it would be to be able to have siege upgrades and customization available in the garage. Something to add more fun and dimension to the game. Consider it another part of horizontal progression with a couple of percent of vertical progression too. Nothing wrong with wanting a Legendary Golem to run around with

Under water Combat was a lot of fun. I do so hope they bring it back.

Bunuka.3154:

I am a glass LB ranger. Even in team fights I don’t drop in 1 second (a really good blindsiding from a good mesmer is an exception). So I am guessing you’re a thief or this may be an issue of not understanding other classes mechanics.

No, it’s that there are THAT many more Mesmer’s running around trying to get a free lunch while they still can. Meanwhile, PvP and WvW are becoming less and less fun until the Dev’s real in the power creep.

Yes, been asking for this for a long time.

Mesmer’s GS coefficients need toning down too. Burning damage per stack is still too high.

All the thieves thinking we’re talking about them. Sorry, most of us are talking about Mesmer’s abusing stealth now.

https://youtu.be/_kXSp89tOXk

The other night a Mesmer tried to roll my Condi Warrior, kinda think this was his reaction after I sent him packing It was a very rare occasion though.

Extreme.8350:

snip, Mesmer loving his faceroll too much

That sums up that up pretty well.