Guild Wars 2

IF Devon feels it was a success, then I’m losing a lot of hope for WvW’s future. Leagues killed a lot of interest in WvW. A lot of players do not appreciate or want a prolonged battle. If anything, players have been asking for shorter duration matches that don’t even last a week. Not a 7 week long season.

umm….. no, doesn’t bother me at all. In fact I love siege!

You lucky kitten! Congrats

In my opinion, WvW doesn’t need any more tension and stress. Many play WvW for hours on end and it really wouldn’t be healthy to have added tension. Announcements would disrupt voice comms and we’d end up turning off dialog volume or what ever channel they put it under. Also, it could become something troll’s end up abusing to annoy servers. If you thought tagging way points was annoying…. ugh!

Now, for the lower pop servers, I can see where an NPC could be beneficial. Again, it could be annoying though.

My condolences, so sad to hear.

At least the OP used “it” when referencing an Asura

GZ OP!!!

Any open world chest, like a JP’s chest, gives some Empyreal’s to lvl 80’s. It’s a farmable item for certain.

To go back to the OP’s topic, WvW players shouldn’t have an issue with this living story update because it shouldn’t affect the PPT. Now if this somehow spills over onto the BL’s, then… well… yeah, expect a heated topic or two about it

The upheaval from the WvW player base wasn’t Scarlet as much as having achievement hunters injected into Leagues. It was such a bad move on the developers end. The achievement should have been a 2 week LS event prior to Leagues beginning. Though it’s all water under the bridge since a lot of us don’t ever want to see Leagues implemented again.

Because we’ve all come to realize how powerful certain ones are and would like to shift our points. Especially those of us that play with moar characters.

Shouldn’t the title of this thread be Hardcores > All Others? Because most of you are not even discussing the content, just proclaiming you are entitled to content to show off how great you are. Btw… chest thumping is rather appalling behavior if no one ever taught you.

For a hard mode or higher level of difficulty, you do know you can easily and cheaply obtain White gear. Which is a far cry from the expense stemming from Anet’s implementation of newer “Challenging” content.

For the future, how much new content should be “hardcore” content? Because if a high percentage of players are beneath you Elites, then a large percentage of new content should be beneath you too, right?

Wow, thieves coming in to defend the class and say it’s all fine. Surely no one saw that coming….

Where’s the across the board 20% damage reduction or 30% increase in armor to make up for all the power creep after adding ascended gear and WvW rank bonuses????

There were threads about how great the PvP experience was in Snowball Mayhem. I’m hoping the Dev’s realize by streamlining, they can actually make a better experience. Build diversity is great up to a point. When it becomes to diverse then combat becomes a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Where built A can easily beat build B but, lose against build C. Which leads to a complete lack of skillful play and a frustrated player base.

Just wanted to point out, why not try out WvW a little and see how ridiculously powerful Ele’s are? If all you do is sPvP, then you have not seen how Ele’s scale with ascended gear and rank bonuses.

The burning speed evade is going to be a huge “WTF????” in WvW. Because it’s one of the main burst rotations used. Obviously the Dev team doesn’t WvW much…….

Ok…. at 2600 armor, I was just hit for 5.7k & 6.5k cluster bomb while defending a keep from the wall. Those numbers are ridiculous, absurd, and so have to get nerfed. The 10% crit reduction coming isn’t enough.

Power creep in WvW is a serious issue. Damage multipliers have to be addressed to keep things going. Retaliation alone is getting absurd.

zMajc.4659:

Wow the rest of the game must really suck

And, as I stated above, most of the zones do indeed. So the first impression would be the right impression…..

This thread and the people complaining are more toxic than anything I’ve seen from the Queensdale Train. Wishing to stop people from gathering together to do something social in an MMO screams of selfishness.

There are champs all over Tyria to farm. Ever think the reason people train in Queensdale is because it’s a lovely environment to be in? It’s the closest zone to what we might see in the real world. Most other zones, to me, are simply ugly and depressing environments.

TY for posting that video. It only reinforces what I said on the first page. Damage needs to be reduced dramatically! Instead, oh wait… I got it, let’s give Burning Speed an evade for the lulz!!

GG…. #facepalm

All Damage output needs to be scaled down 20%, Thieves require 30%.
Skill doesn’t exists in 3 second fights!!!!

Phantaram.4816:

1. Too much damage

I’ve been saying this since launch! Come to WvW and see how ridiculous Thieves scale with Ascended gear.

What backstab needs is a huge reduction in damage. The 10% crit dmg reduction incoming isn’t enough. Thieves need 25% damage reduction to get them in the realm of being realistically balanced. With mobility and stealth, Thieves should be hitting the lightest, not the hardest.

The class has been the golden child of the Devs since launch and it still shows.

Mystic.5934:

costs obi shards to refine them. most people don’t still have 7 million karma saved up from before karma nerf.
karma is literally more valuable than gold. extra bank space is far preferable than wasting 100k karma just to save space. I’d sooner destroy dragonite than refine it, and sooner buy another bank toon than destroy something that should be valuable.

Now, how is Karma hard to come by? Also, what the heck do you need 7 million for???

Ingots are 100:1 ratio. Why anyone would be hording Dragonite without making ingots I have no idea. For those that don’t do the temples and dragons every day, Dragonite is in very short supply.

I like the new voice too.

Duke Nukem.6783:

timidobserver.7925:

I think your mistake was thinking that Anet cared about you making gold. You invested and you lost. Tough.

this was not the topic of the thread and thats the first thing i said, i expected a troll like u to show up

This is not a troll reply at all. Honestly, the most important interaction isn’t between players, it’s the direct transactions between Arenanet and it’s customers. The TP will always comes a distant second to the Gem Store. The direct purchasing of gems with real world currency is what keeps the game going. For that, it requires items to be in the gem store.

Don’t ever expect anything to be one time only in the game. Because if Arenanet wants my money, then they have to have items in the gem shop. Because I’m not going to convert gems to gold to inflate the economy and make others rich. I’m buying Gems to support Arenanet directly.

Still an issue! The “Top Demanded” category should not be allowed to be used as font page advertising by a few whales whom wish to hock items they’ve been hording. It makes the category into a farce.

The category should be removed from the TP panel until a solution can be found. Either that or limit order volume to single digits! 250 is obviously way too generous and easy to abuse.

Completely agree with the loading issue!!!! Earlier today I experienced this issue as we must have had a staggered entry spanning 30 seconds. It was ridiculous and we all wiped one by one.

As a fairly skilled player, I was just downed on the platform for lane 3. I have no clue what happened, we had plenty of players in the lane. All I do know is I was stuck soloing it and wiped. It was very odd as players trickled unto the platform afterwards. Next time up Lane 3 won the event easily with 5×5 on the platforms.

Style, those are still Champions on the platforms and can just about one shot you down. Dodging the Marionette is trivial.

You realize the Living story meta achievement requires 11 completes. Completes which include just participating in the daily at either the Wurm or Marionette. Which means you never have to win an event, just participate once a day. Events last under 30 minutes. Thus, the total investment for the meta is under 5.5 hrs over 2 weeks.

tldr: Don’t spend all day grinding, just do it once a day for the daily.

btw… I’ve already been a part of flawless runs and wins on overflows too.

No, not snacks… STACKS!

As a concerned player whom would like to see us all do well, please don’t forget your Food and Stacks. The new event chains require us to be at our best. Consumables help us be that good. So remember, before the event chain begins to build you stacks up. No matter if it’s Bloodlust, Corruption, etc. Then once the event begins to grab your food and utility Nourishment.

btw… Can I get a Commander discount on Trays of Food Anet???

Completely agree that the Tag needs better functionality. Over the last two days I can’t count how many times I’ve had to explain what “stacking” means and why we need to do it to get an accurate head count. Yet, most stand well beyond 600 units apart. Then other pins on map are being a bit bossy/annoying when I say forget stacking and spread out a bit for a head count. THAT players seem to understand and do. Yet, I get complaints from pins then.

Supply info is woefully too small of a radius. Indeed it is under 200 units. Which, the radius should be more like 600 units at least.

JQ did it last night

Dependent is pretty laughable really. If a player was dependent on a consumable summons, then it’s surely better to have them available instead of the player leaving the game do to difficulty, right? If these items made the game more fun, easier, and faster there is nothing wrong with that. Why should ingenuity be punished?

Speaking of being punished, whom does this cooldown affect most? Someone said in map chat its shared between all consumable summons. That pretty much effectively removes them from those of us whom use them for fun. Yet, does nothing to prevent them being used that once a day someone would run Tequatl, right? So whom is this affecting most?

“Like what”, you asked? How about removing town clothes from WvW all for a single item being abused. We often used costume brawl and town clothes for RP fun in there. All gone now instead of fixing one single item.

Flamekiss light armor is another example of a knee jerk reaction. A minority cries loudly and they remove it before the majority even knows there’s an issue. At least waiting a day would have been nice to let others have an opinion.

Guardian Staff #3, nerf. Nerfed out of left field while swiftness stacking is still broken for over a year. Have any clue how incredible frustrating it is to escort a dolyak, build up a couple minutes of swiftness on it, only to have another profession run by and strip all of it? Nerf a source of a boon while the application of it is still broken, GG.

Yet, these are all off topic and shouldn’t be discussed further. This is still about this specific cooldown and how it lessens the game. Just seeing that 30 minute countdown icon is annoying to me actually.

I’d disagree that hard content automatically equals good content. Being one shotted isn’t fun, especially if there’s no way of seeing it coming while in a large raid. When the dev’s arbitrarily replace or remove abilities that have worked and should work, just for the sake of adding difficulty, it’s pretty annoying. So far in this patch, there are certainly annoyances.

Though I do like having something for a whole map pop to work on.

You expected fun and enjoyable???? Bwahahahaha…..
;)

Oh…. I used the Ogre Pet one on my Ranger for double pet fun! The fire ele comes in handy too.

I haven’t done Teq since idk when. Is the new meta the Fire Elemental’s? Obviously this is a nerf then and has nothing to do with “performance” issues. Like people are submitting tickets complaining of performance issues? Doubt it!

“To mitigate performance issues, items that summon pets now have a 30-minute cooldown.”

I noticed this in the Update notes and confirmed in game this is happening. I’ve never witnessed any performance issues while playing. I’m wondering if this is a disguised nerf to the items without removing them completely? Not very happy about this.

Raine.1394:

DeWolfe.2174:

Hmm, how to sum this up… To me, GW2 was developed to give the player an adrenaline response from stress and frenetic pacing. That’s what the gamer is supposed to feel from playing. Not deriving meaning from having a purpose and a role in the game. Thus, the trinity wasn’t required because one isn’t supposed to get immersed in a role.

At least, that’s what I’ve come away with after thousands of hours. If the increased healing scaling and made dodging less effective, I’d go more into healing. I already run a banner/regen Warrior. Green ticks all around me make me happy

Do you know what RPG stands for?

Yes… Yes I do. And, the recent advertising from Anet bills GW2 as an MMO. They dropped the RPG portion from the advertising even.

OMG… that is a great titled thread! Exactly my point as that thread. It’s terribly sad to see it’s been 10 months and nothing….

Just say no to the Hobo! #NoHobo2014

wait…wait…wait… where’s Grouch??? I thought he’s our official Engi Dev

I love the “Hobo Sack” description, too perfect. Let’s campaign and get this done by Spring 2014!!! #NoHobo2014

squeezebag.4618:

Warrior is the easiest most kitten y class in the game.

Sorry, that title has already been filled since launch, they’re called Thieves!

Hmm, how to sum this up… To me, GW2 was developed to give the player an adrenaline response from stress and frenetic pacing. That’s what the gamer is supposed to feel from playing. Not deriving meaning from having a purpose and a role in the game. Thus, the trinity wasn’t required because one isn’t supposed to get immersed in a role.

At least, that’s what I’ve come away with after thousands of hours. If the increased healing scaling and made dodging less effective, I’d go more into healing. I already run a banner/regen Warrior. Green ticks all around me make me happy

Completely agree that Celestial doesn’t scale very well as is and hits like a wet noodle because of it. They really do need to make Ferocity a major stat on celestial and have the others “all stats” as minor stats.

Am I the only one whom likes my characters appearance and wishes to have a toggle to turn off Device kit back packs? Take flame thrower for example. We can pick one up in PvE events without the huge back pack. I’d much rather have it like that, just the weapon.

Back slot items can very expensive appearance items. I’d like to maintain the appearance of them.

Look, this is when we have to act like big boys and girls and help clean up a mess. This trolling has happened many times since launch. No one appreciates or likes this behavior except for the perpetrator doing it.

A solution to trolling was a simple one. We had already agreed long ago to contact the opposite sides and let them come clear the siege. It’s takes 5 minutes to come open a gate, clear siege, and leave in peace. We really should be self sufficient and mature enough to handle it. Just party up with any player on the other side and ask for help. A lot of the Guild leads whom command in WvW know each other to contact.

If you think removing WP’s is the answer, you really must be playing another game. All that would do is INCREASE blobbing, Golem rushing, and rezzing. All things people complain about too. Thus, put it this way, people just like to complain when they are losing.

Contested WP’s to me is illogical. Especially in PvE when they have an event you are supposed to participate in yet, they close off access to it! It’s quite the opposite of what should happen.

Steelwolf, I’d agree though we’re supposed to be that other person. We’re not watching a movie or reading a book. Maybe that could be one of the issues, people are spectating instead of being a participant?

Well, the info they were giving out made them sound pretty strong. I haven’t checked volumes to see if they are being flipped or horded until the update.

Divinity and Generosity runes are probably going to drop. Traveler’s I’m more afraid of than any other rune because I use them! With the boost from runes being moved to the upper slots, they’ll probably going to take a hit in usefulness and/or they’ll make other set’s just too good not to use over them.

Vol.7601:

I think the real reason why OP didn’t want to post it in BLTC subforum was to escape the wrath of John Smith. Let’s hope he never checks General Discussion

Oh, I’d copy and paste this in the BLTC subform if it means getting John’s ear. A political and economics discussion irl would certainly be quite lively between us for certain.

Speaking of which, I’d like to hear his opinion on the Dev Live Stream manipulating the market as it did yesterday with Runes of Strength. Giving one group advanced information, even in public, is almost a form of insider trading. I’m guessing the response would be “too bad for those who didn’t watch.”. This game is certain based around a “hooray for me and kitten you” ideology.