Guild Wars 2

For engi’s, why not have the option to to turn off the god awful back packs? For me, it really ruin’s the class. I like the theme and game play but, hate the appearance. Let’s give a lot more love to the Engi’s appearance Anet, please?

Completely agree, having the League was one thing. Adding the achievements at the same time was, at best, trolling the regular WvW player’s. PvP players and Guild’s don’t have the best reputation for getting along with PvE’ers as it is.

If they had the achievement two weeks prior to try and encourage League participation, that would have been better. Though any random influx of temporary player’s in WvW often wreaks havoc with it. I hope the Dev’s remember this well.

Chris.3290:

Comprissent.3856:

rip JQ garri with almost no resistance

JQ confirmed for PvE server

To be fair, do they really gain a thing by holding it? Ratings don’t matter right now, they get 5 points if they win by 1 point or 400,000, and they have 2 more weeks after this one of the same PvD crap. Maguuma gets JQ for 3 weeks in a row.

Right now they just want to spend the next 3 weeks doing karma trains to clear their queues before they actually have to work for a win.

In other words, they wanted you to take it.

TY for this! Glad someone get’s it Yet, it’s not just for us, it’s to benefit everyone. I was already working on this topic on day 1 of the Leagues.

Robot Chocken.7012:

We are in EB trying to pull JQ away from SM so another server can cap it. SoS and Mag zerg SM please!

Good Luck with that Wok. I’m done getting barked at this week for thinking outside the box.

May I just add something for everyone posting here? Just wanted to say that seeing so many concerned with creating fairness and balance in the virtual realm’s, shows great promise for our civilization in the real world. Good on ya’!

Too many Worlds, not enough people. That is the underlining issue to balance. We’re being spread out too thin to play a 24/7 game. If WvW balance was truly desired, the easiest way to create it would be to consolidate worlds and not divide us further.

Though, why should there even be a balanced population? As we can read on the forums many times over, people find joy and a sense of pride from different things. Some love the community aspects and working as large scale teams. Some place the most importance on their Guilds activity. Some don’t even play for the score and care only about killing. Meanwhile, others prefer solitude and individual accomplishments. You can’t satisfy all personality types by having them occupy the same balanced space. Thus, the population is required to be imbalanced to suit player preference.

Logistically, 24 hour balance isn’t really feasible. Real life population densities and socio-economic features around the globe clump players by time. They’ll always be a cycle of high’s and low’s each day in map population. The T1’s are the closest thing to balancing this since they’re constantly filling and optimizing their population by time.

I say this is not an issue for the developers to deal with, it’s one for the players to work around. The developer’s should NOT add incentives to bring in new part time players in bulk. This tactic should be avoided at all cost. Since it destroys the delicate balance the players have been work diligently to create.

deathTouch.9706:

Reposted to protect the name of the guilty:

This is how the JQ commanders react after you stab stomp them in Mag BL.

Come on Mag, we aren’t karma training hard enough for JQ’s liking! There are too many fights at garrison for them and they can’t get their precious WXP fast enough so they can max out AC/cannon/ballista/siege dmg mastery for all their zerglings! Let’s make sure not to ruin WvW gameplay by deviating from PvD!

Welcome to Mag match-up JQ. We don’t want your kittening WXP we want you face-down on the ground. Seriously, for me, fighting T1 has been the biggest WvW disappointment since release, and not solely from a roaming standpoint.

I’ve very pleased to see a fellow JQ’er extending such an offer. It’s up to you to decline or not but, we’re trying to be accommodating and give everyone a great week! It’s not always easy to find a Mag and SoS not already in a party to chat with and extend such offers.

Come to the Skirmishing area for bags and fun if you’d like!

WvW could have a lobby system like sPvP. Where we can putter about, socialize, and test builds. That would make WvW more friendly period. We kinda use Lions Arch for it but, it’s not the same. Also, it doesn’t have a place to test builds. No, those test dummies by the dungeon merchants don’t cut it

Either that or add a WvW/PvE spec browser and subsequent rooms to the sPvP portion of the Mist.

Ricky, I’m glad you find pride in what you do. Though you would be wrong in your estimation’s of T1’s being mindless. You’d also be wrong in your bravado of getting T1’s to rage quit. You speak as it we’ve never been outnumbered before, which you’d be absolutely wrong. I’m certain Obsidian coming from SoR can attest to how often T1’s go outnumbered. We all map hop often too!

The only difference is that the achievement’s brought in PvE player’s that has jammed up WvW the past week. It’ll pass and it’ll be business as usual soon.

For the original topic, yes it’s designed to be this way. Though I disagree on the paper aspects of the game and turnover rate. I’d much rather have longer fights because the longer they are, the more skill is required to win.

OP, don’t worry, you are not alone. Just the other day while portaling our own BL’s JP, I stopped for a bit to help guide players of the other worlds. Decency and courtesy exists outside and inside the game. It’s just there’s a lot of special overcompensation types that make up this very vocal minority.

If they were as good as they boast, they’d go out on the map to fight those whom are ready and willing to fight back. Instead, they camp uplevel’s in the dark room. #smh

“I totally WvW for the character progression, the story line’s are great!”, said no one ever!

+1 for account bound WxP

Those hour plus Garri/SM lord’s room fight’s are some of favorite times in WvW. Yes, let’s make it easier to flip things so it’s like PvDoor.

I’m going to throw out the suggestion again. It’s up to each of you to fire it up or not. As I’m hoping Mag and SoS will come to JQ BL and start a Wxp Train with us. It’s so simple to start with Briar and work our way around the map clockwise. JQ—>Mag—>SoS, back to JQ, it’s easy. Please just don’t attack Garri. I like my guild bank and forge access

Please come and GvG at the usual spot down by the windmill.
Open field skirmishing, heck naked even, in the field north of Bay and by the SW Garri Sentry.
Fight Club/1v1 in the Battle’s Arena node. Everyone else can even spectate in the stands as it was designed.
Rock ‘em Sock ’em style Golem fight’s at the South Node.
Neutral territory JQ BL and EB, JP’s

Any other kind of fun kittenery you can think of, post it here, we’re open for suggestions. Like Costume brawls, RP/transform walks and parades, etc.

Time to start thinking out of the box and making our own fun!

Oh, and Cuddles score updates rock! It’s simply a part of our T1 meta

deathTouch.9706:

I’m so confused right now. Going to bed and hopefully these recent posts make sense in the morning.

I believe the inverse may be true. Stay up all night and by early morning the previous posts may make more sense. Ingesting copious amounts of certain chemical’s may help as well.

;)

Does it, absolutely not. Anet tries to balance around what is being used. Obviously, there must have been a decline in Warrior usage for them to make changes. I unapologetically run my Healing Signet Hammer Warrior since it’s my original character. One that’s been shelved for quite some time from WvW because of suboptimal performance. Finally, I get to run it again!

For sPvP, this isn’t the best time to judge it. A lot of us are bored waiting for the WvW Queue’s and simply going into sPvP to have something to do.

I’ve deleted all other characters but my Norns. I Just rolled another human female but, meh’ not very good for me. To me, the appearance and running cycle are very important. Thus, my best advice is to roll a Warrior of each race and take them for a test drive in sPvP right off the bat. Then simply pick your favorite and reroll to it. Also, it helps to take some screen caps during your character selection process so you can recreate them exactly afterwards.

For PvP, the smallest Asura certainly has advantages. I don’t care what Anet say’s about the hit box, they have a visual advantage of getting lost in the crowd.

For Norn’s being boring, that’s just one person’s personal opinion. I love Hoelbrak and the Shiverpeaks. Meanwhile, quite dislike most other areas, especially Ascalon.

If you take away my Hammer, then remove root on 100B in exchange.

If you are so concerned with balance, start with Thieves and Staff Necro’s.

Was wondering, shouldn’t it be easy to code in a 60 second countdown shown on the Portal icon of our Utility bar? Thus, giving us visual feedback of how long we have to use the portal.

Maybe it’s just me but, I’d really appreciate this.

Complete title failure OP Lol

Though I do agree, Yes… Yes… and Yes! Soul binding is a horrible thing. What’s worse is the more you play, the more annoying it gets.

OMFG…. YES remove them, PLEASE???? Or, somehow give me the option to turn the animation off. This has always annoyed me too.

The event “Help Mirayla break into the Inquest lab” in Blazeridge Steppes doesn’t appear to be functioning. Or, it’s on such a long interval that it’s virtually unavailable. I’ve sat my character beside her waiting all day.

I’d like the Hazmat Tonic

Chopp’s, you can debate me anytime. I learned a lot from you. My best Ranger trait is simply looking good lol

For Leagues, I broke out my original character, my Warrior. GG, I feel supercharged compared to my Ranger’s. Yes, I have two of them. To get them to be truly versatile takes gear. lot’s of it. I have 70’ish pieces of gear just for one of them alone. And yes, I swap and blend depending on the situation.

Once I recoup a lot of the gold I’ve recently spent, I’ll go back to the drawing board and try out my Ranger’s again.

Short Bow needs to bleed from any angle. That would be a huge difference right there.

I’ll agree to the sentiment that knock back abuse can be annoying. Even while Champ farming people are using knock backs. There’s absolutely no earthly reason for it. I put a remind in chat not to use them but, people still do. It’s certainly not a Ranger issue.

The most practical use I have for them it to prevent a Heal from Guards in WvW. I’d say saving someone from being stomped in WvW but, mostly they’ll be 3 others trying to stomp at the same time.

Sorry, it actually wasn’t a ploy. I was even helping people do the JP from gasp other servers. We’re all GW2 players in the end.

JQ BL JP, neutral territory for now. Come enjoy

Trying to schedule some fun for everyone on JQ BL this week. Please be patient.

Chris.3290:

Btw, the first few hours were awesome. We had a good laugh when JQ was ticking last at times. The match is already decided and unfortunately there is no consolation prizes for how close we get, but it’s already been more fun than I expected and will hopefully will continue o stay that way.

We can create some consolation prizes on our own. This week we can organize some WxP trains, GvG’s, Fight Club’s, and JP portals. Let’s not forget that we get to share Halloween together too. Costume brawling is a must! And, there’s other “game modes” we can create this week as well.

I don’t know how anyone could not see the flaw in this season schedule wasn’t with JQ but, with extra BG and SoR pairings. A pairing that gives them the capacity to manipulate the season unchallenged. I do hope Mag, TC, and SoS act accordingly to punish the noncompetitive tactics exhibited this week.

For those players that played to their capacity, congrats! Thanks for a week of fun.

celeron.3469:

SFShinigami.2015:

I would actually be 100% for that if we could pull it off.

This is what I had from earlier in the page before I got demoralized by the fact that I messed up SoS’s matches and didn’t want to do those again…

JQ    3 1 1 1 2 2 1 = 27
SoR  2 1 2 1 1 1 3 = 27
BG    1 2 1 3 1 1 2 = 27

It requires BG to throw the 4th week match, which is impossible naturally, but could be done because its Maguuma (they will definitely push as hard as they can). We 3 would all get first. I really want SoS and Mags to tie for 3rd as well, but it’s such a pain to plan without too many thrown matches (shooting for none), and I don’t think its possible to get one of them to tie with TC.

TY for out of the box thinking! I posted on another thread that it would be easy for BG and SoR to manipulate a tie. I’m completely for a 3 way tie. Heck, I’d go with a 6 way tie if it’s statistically possible. Just to show what we can do as a community when we work together.

What’s a skill??? I’ve been on JQ BL since reset during all these insane Garri 1v2 fights. Most of the time I, a hammer Warrior, stand in frustration at not even being able to auto attack. Let alone pop a War Banner to save a keep. It’s simply a matter of perspective. Because if you can get your skills off, you’ll push in. If you can’t you’ll back line it and try to not be seen by the enemy.

JQ BL, no queue?? Did everyone get booted for an update/DC’d… ? What have I been missing all day?

The solution to Queue’s, patience. Patience in the moment and for the future. Because last week there wasn’t much issues with Queue. Soon, there won’t be issues with Queue’s again.

GW2 players devour content rabidly. (<—- not a typo) Once done, they’ll shuffle off to the next thing.

Except, this whole thread is mute. When it’s already been factored that SoR and BG can easily manipulate the matches to end the season in a tie. In which, both worlds would get the rewards? This is an actual problem with the schedule.

1. I wanna be a Superhero! / Don’t you know who I am?
2. I don’t like challenge.
3. I like Shinies, lots of them!

I think this pretty much sum’s the feelings behind most of the request

My actual #1 is Account Bound and retraitable WxP. I have 10 characters with a collective rank of 146. That’s mostly from being a scout/escort/builder. Though the bulk of these points are on my Ranger. Whom is becoming less and less useful in WvW. Making these points relatively useless. It feels more like a punishment than a reward.

Great post! I made a more rudimentary list myself. Hoping people realize it’ll be faster and so much more fun if we started working together to get these done in WvW. These achievements are proving to be the one time where fighting each other isn’t going to be the best course of action

The thread title say’s it all. Please calm the kitten down! Thread after thread, post after post of complaints.

We all should have been painfully aware that GW2 players are a bit overzealous to put it nicely. We then should have surmised that WvW was going to be flooded with players, to the point of being overloaded, this first week. This first week is going to be a complete wash for the PPT. As it doesn’t reflect the full time WvW player’s and guilds at all. So relax…..

The first thing I did after playing my usual reset schedule, was to begin writing out a priority list on how we (as a server) can help our players get these achievements. Thus, don’t try and force PvE’ers out of WvW, embrace it. Be creative, work with it, and relax.

Considering the situation, I believe the smartest course of action is to simply Choo-Choo all week long

TY Jayne, this is how I read it too. Which is such a poor choice of mechanics to me. I caught wind of this act by reading this thread on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1ope6t/i_switched_servers_for_wvw_when_can_i_switch_back/

This is coming from an individual but, after seeing 2 guilds move already, it appears to be more wide spread. You should have to be in WvW for multiple weeks to get the reward. Something like requiring a person to be in WvW for week 1, 3, and 5, to be get the rewards.

After reading about this on Reddit, I’ve been on the lookout and have noticed people transferring off our server now that they’ve “Tagged” it. I don’t understand the logic in allowing people to be here for one day yet, share in the benefit’s.

Shouldn’t this be changed to having to be on the map each week?

DevonCarver.5370:

Queues will be fixed as part of the new map. They will continue to operate as they have since launch until then. The queue does not function as a typical queue and we are fixing it. It will just take some time. It has been a lower priority than the other things we have done and we’ve only now been able to devote the appropriate resources to it.

Thank you! The Queue’s from reset wasn’t too bad. I was in in under an hour. Though this morning, several hours went by while sitting on the Queue. I went into LA and it popped. Which made me wonder if location is affecting it.

We can RP swim around Bay

A game for small kids? I have no clue where that thought process came from

They need pin dye’s, that’s all. Then each group can make it’s own ranked color theme’s.

I prefer the large scale Zerg warfare that requires teamwork and tactics over solo play. That’s what WvW is about.

I completely disagree with any notion of disproportionately rewarding solo play over group play in an MMO. It’s built to be social, not anti-social. There’s a reason why we have phrases like the more the merrier and strength in numbers. Thus, I don’t agree that the developer’s should attempt to subvert nature.

Kinda disgusted with the drop rates on dyes. A friend whom plays maybe a little more than I has received 3 of them this year. Also a Celestial and Abyss drops too! My best dye drop to date, iirc, has been a white gold.

A/B has to factor in here somewhere…

Is it just me or should every weapon set have a choice of between being power or condition skills? I love the great sword and the long bow but, neither of them do condition damage well. In a heart beat I’d use them as a condition ranger over sword and short bow if they had viable skills.

Why can’t we get a choice for every weapon set? Anyone else have an idea’s on this?

great thread!!!

My poor Adora will be parked from WvW for a while. She needs to finish up map complete in PvE anyway. I may go in during the off hours around Lowlands camp to play with Sic’ Em but, that’s about it.

A Ranger can do many things, we are versatile. You can Zerg with a Ranger too! The question becomes how effective or optimal are you? The problem, is not the Ranger, it’s our pet’s.

Pet’s simply aren’t very effective in a zerg. No matter how much you try to back line the fighting, they will not be very effective. In large scale combat, where our targets are rapidly changing, our pets end up endlessly chasing. On those with attacks that require root, they become even less effective.

Of course, then there’s retaliation. Going zerker and pulling out Long Bow seems to be a great idea for Ranger. Until you end up downing yourself all night long due to retal

Though don’t be discouraged. I’ve run my Ranger all summer long for reset in WvW. If I could make a Jed safe Ranger for WvW, anyone can. Chose your role wisely and pick the correct WvW traits appropriately. For example, don’t go for ram mastery as that’s not a Ranger’s place

I made many Norn’s and kept them all from middle to full height. The camera’s Z-axis doesn’t change with the height of your character. Thus, I play with the character while level 1 and re-create it a few times to get everything ironed out.