Guild Wars 2

They needed a “new Currency” or everything HoT would have been trivialized. Imagine if we could spend the 10’s and 100’s of thousands of BoH’s veteran WvW players have? It would be Day one and done. That’s why they created a new currency.

Party limit was 5 before and not 15. And no, Squads are a very good thing.

BTW, there’s NO FRAK’N WAY those other 10 Worlds are equal to BG’s population. Zero, none, nada, and that makes this “population balance” and the mode itself utter bunk.

Devs are bad, just bad.

Dev’s, what the heck are you thinking locking the worlds again? Players are just starting to move and balance ourselves out and you lock it? You’re going to break Guilds that are in mid transfer, which are several that I know of alone.

OPEN THE WORLDS! We balance better than you can. At the very least give us a 48 hours warning before you go all Overlord (wrongly) and lock the worlds.

Great list, much appreciated

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

In the next release, a 6th pip is being added to the provision master ability line that allows you to buy HoT recipes, sigils, and runes from the heroics notary vendor.

How am I supposed to maintain my level of Saltiness when you say things like this???
;)

Ghost thief is bad but, Condi evade thief is seriously broken too. Realistically, you can’t hit them from all the evades. If you even try to hit them you heal them immensely. All the while they are pumping out conditions. In sPvP it’s not utterly broken. In WvW, with the additional stats available and especially food like the “Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew” it becomes utterly broken.

I voted for monthly. I simply see how rapidly we’ve lost players the past month and voting accordingly. The “Beta” brought them back in but, the matches are not sustaining them. OW put the hurt to GW2 pvp/wvw too.

editing to that I’d much rather have the stability of the Teirs and matches that we had. Now that WvW’s been broken, I’m not too optimistic for it. We’re at a need for “GW3” level of broken right now.

Again, nerf Confusion itself. I don’t care if a Condi Shatter hits me with 20 stacks if they tick reasonably. Problem is the stacks hurt, a lot. Then remove burning from a Mesmer completely. Also, remove confusion from a Warrior completely.

I’m thankful but, also feeling pessimistic. We’ll get 5 people transferred over to JQ and a Dev will scream and lock us again. So you folks better come quick before they notice…

Or, just nerf Confusion itself???

TorquedSoul.8097:

All things being equal …

But they are not, which nullifies any arguments you could have made. The fact that participation is still above the start of the “Beta” say’s a lot about how much better Alpine is. Also, of course the shiny of the Beta has already worn off. It was gone after the second week and participation has dropped since. OW has and will continue to draw players out of GW2 too.

No, it was certainly the map itself that created a lot of unhappiness. That’s why the dev’s removed it, it was lowering participation. Even if there were complaints on the forums, if Anet saw participation increasing they would have kept them. It’s only because participation was dropping like a rock did they bring back Alpine.

btw.. please stop spamming from multiple accounts. It doesn’t make your arguments “more right”. For those of you doing that…

Long story short, the Tier 1 of JQ, BG, and TC, has to be restored. That balance worked and population was stable for a long time. Once that balance is restored, I really do hope bad karma to those that try to undermine it again. Because all I see is participation dropping right now the way things are working.

Oh, and we still need Fridays off from WvW and some kind of kitten y fun added in.

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TallBarr.2184:

desert is superior to alpine, numbers show alpine was the cause of dead wvw before hot and with hot and desert we see a big increase in activity in wvw again. Then when they removed desert the numbers started to plummet again and wvw is now dead.

Lol what?

He’s attempting to rewrite history. As if no one was around to know the difference. Just like the OP is whining to win his precious PvD DBL map. Yet, he’s complaining of others whining to win and wanting to PvD. So, it’s fine when he does it but, it’s terribly bad when others do it too.

As if real life politics weren’t depressing enough….. smh

The problems with polling is that it’s far too basic. For example, what would happen if they added gliding to WvW? That would change how DBL is played greatly. Which would alter players opinions of it greatly.

Now, as a visual design, I still despise the desert theme, period. I don’t understand the dev’s fascination with the desert themes. They have to be the dreariest, glass half empty, and anti-life, developers on the planet. The expansion is “Heart of Thorns” and we’re adventuring into the jungle. How the frick they thought it would be thematically appropriate to give WvW a desert map and a desert Guild Hall is still mind boggling. How much desert are we going to be stuck with when we go to the Crystal Desert???
<sigh>

insanemaniac.2456:

just say no to this thread.

2-1 abl-dbl is the best possible outcome. anet will consider working on a 3rd map, we can have both maps to play on at all times instead of long periods of time with only a single map type, and the different maps have different advantages which can help shore up the smallest server against the larger servers’ population advantage.

How is having dissimilar maps a “good” thing for balance? All it’ll do is drive players to the Alpine maps and EB. Thus giving free PPT to the Red World.

Knob.6835:

I don’t understand how “you people” can’t compromise. Everything has to be your way. There are other people who play this game and do not share your opinion.

Because the “compromise” appears to be catering to an extremely small percentage of the population. There should have been voting to bring it back at all first. Then vote on the number of instances of maps. Not just sticking us with it, again.

I’ve read most of the Polls and subsequent threads. I do not understand why the Dev’s would even consider bringing back the Desert Borderland. That map and the stab changes wrecked our WvW population. More players left to BDO due to that map than anything else. Right now, after the Poll came out about bringing it back, a very high majority of the players in our TS have been very negative about it returning. Where are the Dev’s coming up with the notion that the map is desired or that it’s good for the game mode?

Before anyone mentioned the thread on here to have it returned, the number of unique players in that thread asking for it is pretty low.

What I’m wondering is, how is Anet going to measure the performance of the individual worlds within a pairing? How are future pairings going to fare if there isn’t accurate measurements of individual worlds performance? Or, is it simply going to go by population? If it’s population, are we going to have an unlinked week so we can work on our Worlds before the next pairing?

katniss.6735:

Please help us

I have to agree, I don’t know what the pins were thinking. GJ to the Engi for the sustain and good use of active defenses.

For helping, you could always come join JQ

Try being a Necro as Ghastly Claws procs retal on each of the 8 hits. Necro Dagger #2 “Life Siphon” procs retal with each of it’s 9 hit’s. That 8 hits or 9 hits still do not hit as hard as an Eviscerate or a Backstab yet, take 8 to 9 times more damage from retal. The “Risk vs Reward” is functioning in an exactly opposite manner. Retal is also extremely “anti skill” as it has nearly perma upkeep in WvW fights.

Before worrying about hitting two walls with splash damage, they need to fix the splash damage coming off of hitting rock faces and cliffs. EB is really bad with this.

OP, I sarcastically said on day one of the Beta, “BG wins the Beta! See you in 3 months….”. It may have been sarcastic but, I meant it too. On that first reset, BG had 335 players in queue, plus a queue of 2 in OS. That’s more than 400 players over the required amount to fill all four WvW maps. The number of BG and ET players are astronomical. How the Dev’s didn’t adjust this after the first week, it’s unfathomable. To think that we’re only on week 5 and have another 7 more weeks of this is just, Oy!

For the general population decline, yes I noticed two weeks ago that the interest in WvW on JQ/IoJ was declining rapidly. Players lost interest pretty darn fast. For me personally, it’s kind of emotionally difficult to play when we’re facing so many Ex JQ in the match. “Red is Dead” loses it’s meaning when you know who that Red player is.

Knob.6835:

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe most people prefer group fights between 10 – 25 players give or take some. But the 40+ endless blob fest is starting to get old. It usually starts out with multiple tags on the map then enemy brings the blob then we combine into a giant blob then the next team. It’s the same thing every day. Is there a solution to this? Should there be a solution to this or is this really what the majority enjoys?

Your assumption is absolutely incorrect. If there’s something “old” it’s this complaint. This type of complaint is what drove the dev’s to create that horrid Desert map. Which, without the slightest doubt, irreversibly damaged our WvW population. So no, there should be no make shift solution to this non-issue.

Golems can rez players, drop siege, build siege, pick up bundles, and gather too, it’s always been this way. Also, for the person screaming exploit, give it a rest. the term is getting to be so overused and abused in game, it’s becoming meaningless. If that’s an exploit, let’s ban every Ele and Engi that gives a golem super speed. Let’s ban every Mesmer giving Alacrity to siege.

BTW, for how badly they nerf’d Golems with HoT, they deserve to be able to use banners. Besides just the damage output nerf, the F’n targeting system on an Omega can’t hit anything but, a stationary wall.

Just a thought, for that repair hammer idea, what if it couldn’t be used while in combat?

bug… tis bugged

• Mixed Borderlands – Do you want a mix of Alpine/Desert Borderlands maps?
  No, please just no to that Desert map. WvW has been reinvigorated from having Alpine back. Don’t harm WvW again with that desert map.

• World Linking Schedule – How often should we relink worlds?
  How often depends on how well the balancing. Right now there’s too many flaws with the current linking and it needs to be adjusted much sooner. Maybe every 6-8 weeks would be better than 12.

• Deployable Mortars – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Mortars?
• Deployable Cannons – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Cannons?
• Repair Hammer – Do you want to be able to spend supply to repair siege?

That is something you could test for a “fun” weekend event. Not a whole week, just a two day thing.

lil devils x.6071:

ALL of our commanders get burned out like that, our guild coffers grew bare, and when pleas for help from those on the server fall on deaf ears.

I’m reading and I believe there is actually smoke coming out of my ears? Wait, was that the smoke alarm???

morrolan.9608:

If you have any sort of server pride you feel like you are letting the server down if you are not out there 6-7 days a week. This is a ludicrous situation, simply ludicrous.

It’s why I just suggested last week that we need a “Day Off” each week. Make matches 6 days and leave the 7th day off. Tyler, I hope you read this because it’s input you Dev’s are not going to find by staring at numbers on a screen.

Xenesis.6389:

IT’S BETA.

That excuse got old after the first week. A Beta for a day or a weekend is one thing but, an entire 3 months???? That’s not a “Beta” any longer.

Two inherent problems with linking is that one, Quarterly is far too long. The other, and this is a huge one in my opinion, is that the Dev’s are going to create “Flavor of the Quarter Worlds”. For example, I look at how they gave BG the higher population pairing. Meanwhile, their own World Population Algorithm labeled JQ at only “High” compared to BG’s “Very High”. So to me that say’s Anet is not up to the task of managing populations at all. It’s like 1+2=4 in Anet math.

Whatever “meaning” we had for our Worlds, this linking and soon to be re-linking has reduced it. If some of our communities can no longer be, then it’s time for Alliances or a MegaServer.

drcraig.9403:

DeWolfe.2174:

Umm… Warrior is OP AF and needs to be toned down like now and not in 3 months. As I’ve said before, I don’t care about sPvP as much as I care how nuts the build is in WvW. Dev’s a re utterly crazy to think this is good for the game. As if cancer Mesmer and Thief weren’t bad enough

Are you hoping a nerf to warrior will help you get back to T1?

Because every guild in WvW isn’t running more Warriors now? Duh….
Oh and, how many post’s are you going to make in one thread? You seem kinda desperate to keep your shiny.

I’m saying it needs to be toned down because I like balanced and even professions. Also, I dislike “Rock, Paper, Scissors” combat nor do I like “FotM” builds.

littlemunster.1059:

BG didn’t stack and is no different than what it previously was.

Not possible. I have no queue. It’s outmanned when I’m on and we’re still beating TC and YB like they don’t exist.

Ahahahahaha…. reality is not strong with this one.

Reverence.6915:

At least ANet are actively playing in World vs World now. ANet has claimed for, as far as I’ve observed, DB, TC, BG and YB. Having a more active role in WvW from the devs is a great thing.

I’ve always found it a bit odd that JQ never had an in house Dev. For Anet claiming, just the other night at 1:30am DB was PvD’ing. Right after they took our Garri it was Anet claimed. To show how out of the loop Anet is, DB was ddos’ing our ts that entire attack. <sigh> Stay classy Anet!

Sarika.3756:

Lol the Anet guild has claimed things on bg, tc, jq and yb that I can recall seeing in the last few weeks, at least…

That was Tyler about 6 weeks ago. He came on map once for a couple hours. Just like Grouch shows up once a year for a couple hours.

lil devils x.6071:

51 % should not be trying to always take away and rule over the other 49% , that is a terrible way to view implement content in a game or anywhere else.

51 to 49??? An outlier is considered single digit percentages. Also, shutting down the score 15% earlier is not “removing” content nor is it casual. WvW is still there to log into. Players will still be on for the likes of LeTroll to troll. It’s simply making matches 6 days and the 7th is fun day. Players can use fun day to scrim, to GvG, to roam, to test and tune, and to have community events, and as I suggested Live events from the Dev’s too! How about having PPT 24/7 since launch has taken away those opportunities for more from the platform?

LetoII.3782:

morrolan.9608:

Blackarps.1974:

I remember the old days when SoR/BG/JQ would spend our last day just karma training one of the maps in a perfect circle. It was always a nice way to end the week.

Yeah that was great and it happened when TC replaced SOR as well. Of course YB, as they are wont to do, spoiled that party. YC couldn’t have a mutual K train oh no, it was only OK for them to k train on their terms.

It’s a dangerous habit to get your player community into. Quitting playing in earnest because there’s no chance of winning leads to things like push weeks and kill trading. EoTM exists, keep WvW pure.

No, it’s not dangerous, it’s healthy. That “earnest” you’re asking for is an unsustainable form of consistent pressure to perform day in and day out. That fact that players are creating “push weeks” shows that WvW needs to have a rhythm and a cycle to it.

lil devils x.6071:

apharma.3741:

The reason so many people hated golem week was because it was for the whole week and affected scores. The OP is suggesting it be one out of the 7 days of a match up and not affect scores.

I think it would be nice if we had a day like that once a week, just a blow off steam week where it doesn’t affect the match up and people can have a bit of fun. Imagine if your weapon skills became snowballs and you had to build giant snowmen to bust open stuff…

If that is a players only chance to play since they work 6 days a week, you just took all of WvW away from them and all they get in return is a snowball day when they had been looking forward to playing some competitive WvW on their only day off as they have been for the last 3 years? :S

People have to look at the whole picture of how this affects the very many different players that play, not just the “Oh hey that might be cool” aspect.

I go by the largest populations always. You can’t design around outliers and exotic situations. If the 24 hours before reset is a players only time to play, then it’s likely that player has never played whatever is being define as “competitive WvW” to miss it. Besides, how about looking at this as half glass full? It may in fact be more fun than what “competitive WvW” is on Friday. Players participation may in fact increase on said day. There’s always EotM for the regular WvW environment. Or, keep the event to the borderlands only and leave EB as is.

I look at it as a day off is healthy. A day off filled with something different than the day to day grind is simulating. To me, that sounds like something WvW has desperately needed. Just look at most of the complaints and they are that WvW has been stale, boring, and players are burnt out. Another complaint is that of scoring and instead of trying to double down with “Last Stand”, I say remove it for a day. Tyler himself said in the “seasons thread” that there been a permanent population drop after each season. That’s burn out and it’s been irreversible to our WvW population.

For the topic of the “Golem Week” last year, that was fun for a short time. TS was very rowdy the first hour and a half especially. We were on “home bl” and defending Garri from 50 Omegas with 50 Omegas was hilarious. After a few hours though, the “newness” began to wear off. Then there was threads and post after post from players asking for it to be turned off already the next day. That’s why I’m thinking just one day a week may be the sweet spot for WvW events.

Here the Dev’s are thinking of this “Last Stand” mechanic. But, do we really need a mechanic added that encourages players to call in sick on Fridays? WvW has consistently lost players due to such burn out. What we really need is a Day Off! We probably should have had a “Day Off” added in two years ago. Turn matches into 6 days per week. Leaving the maps open and running the last day for carefree fun. Toss Golems in there, those exalted armors, the EotM transforms, make the entire day on huge “Snowball Mayhem” or “Dragon Bash” map, or whatever other craziness we can dream up. THAT would be far better than a “Last Stand” mechanic.

The main issue I have with “linking” is that the Dev’s are making our teams. What is the point of a competitive game mode when we, the players, are not in control of our own teams? It’s simply made trying to win futile as we can’t beat the dev’s. Locking Worlds, especially when there’s such a population disparity from BG and everyone else, makes the mode futile.

Only Anet would have the numbers but, I believe the mode has shed even more players from this “Beta”. It’s better to just rip off the band aid and make Alliances. Just a new organizational level that exists above Worlds for players to join into. This way we can shuffle about weekly, maybe even daily.

Furajir.3815:

This build is trash to roam with in solo wvw. You need mobility and disengage, which this offers none of.

Again, this thread is getting stupider by the minute.

“Need” mobility and disengage?? Because there’s nothing in WvW that requires us to fight in confined places??

Maybe it would help us take you seriously if your signature link didn’t show you playing Warrior and specifically Condi Warrior so much? Looks like you’re just whining to keep your shiny than honestly talking about balance.

Umm… Warrior is OP AF and needs to be toned down like now and not in 3 months. As I’ve said before, I don’t care about sPvP as much as I care how nuts the build is in WvW. Dev’s a re utterly crazy to think this is good for the game. As if cancer Mesmer and Thief weren’t bad enough

Virtute.8251:

45 minutes to go

45 minutes after and you’re still not logged in. So why should anyone care for your opinion when you’re not even playing at reset?

buh bye

Virtute.8251:

DeWolfe.2174:

Chris, Anet’s logic is flawed as Frick on this? For starters

I stopped caring when you punctuated an assertion as a question.

Wow, how utterly shallow of you then. What my brain fart was actually leaving out the “n’t”. Probably was editing and forgot to change it.

Good to see you didn’t attempt to falsely argue with the numbers though.

dragon.8071:

There’s a fix for this blobbing in question. Make an option where a commander can challenge the opposing commander in a duel. The losing side of the duel “accept or decline and auto defeat” which most likely is the blob server commander. They will have a morale impact of 50%, meaning all their attributes are decreased by 50% for the next 10 minutes while the winning side squad can go on a rampage with an additional 50% to wipe that blob. It’ll be fun. It’s like pac man just ate the “dragon ball” and decided to kill them blobbing ghosts. C’mon, you know them blobs gonna hate my suggestions… Oops. That’s the majority on this forum?

Hate, yes.
Ridiculous, yes.
Boring AF, yes.
Not worth the time to reply, yes.

Sure, let’s just tell several hundred players to sit on their hands because an idiot popped a tag and went /threaten at someone else. <sigh> smh

Spartacus.3192:

unchecked in my preferences for months now

So then, you have really no experience on it then?

OP, as someone who’s solo Q’d on Stronghold for probably 95% of the year, no I do not like your suggestions. Nor do I even see your point of view on what the issues are. And yes, I have “The Ascension” already which was earned in Stronghold. Think I may have played a dozen conquest matches the entire year. After 3 years I really can’t stomach any more conquest.

Because it’s based on an entire World. A World’s community is of the utmost importance of World vs World. Having Guilds becoming more important would erode Worlds.

How about the take the DBL and leave the topology and simply change it to a snowscape or a green jungle. Anything but a freak’n desert.

I consider the DBL failing like “BvS” failed. The general public doesn’t like dour, it doesn’t like goth, and sure as heck doesn’t like the desert.

the pettiness….

Dudes been pushing OW for a month now, with every post. The term shill comes to mind.

Why is anyone answering this? This thread is just his way of bragging.

GJ OP, now actually try solo Q’ing with an account with less than 50% win rate. Then you’d get much poorer matchmaking and you’d really have to earn it. This thread is the perfect example of the snowball effect glicko is having without being reset every season.