Guild Wars 2

Let’s have a week of portable, free, and reusable ACs.

Every player can get’s a Superior AC blueprint.
They can place it wherever they want, and it requires no supply. As soon as they throw it on the ground a Superior AC appears there.
Once the player stops using the AC it despawns after 10 seconds.
Players can use this print as many times as they want, limited to one AC spawn per player. If they try to place a second down, the first disappears and the second one is build in it’s place.

DO not worry, wvw is anet’s main priority after the release of HOT

Look if anet gave us the option “Remove DBL and replace with a new BL”, that option would have received 99% of the votes! But since that option was not available, players went with the lesser of two evils. The DBLs won nothing, they simple got through because the three legged race need a third leg!
If you got socks for xmas, you dont just throw them away; but you would exchange them for something better if you could! And that is what the DBLs are, we hate them, but it was better than nothing, and there was nothing better offered!

I am in the UK but have a second NS account. Dont play on it much, but connections isnt too bad, just the increased ping. Usually about 200ms.

Give it a week though, I’ve heard sometime when you transfer from NA to EU or visa versa, your first few days are full of lag.

Nikkinella.8254:

Strongest guilds, haha! You mean most stacked. Numbers doesn’t = strength.

THE biggest issue with wvw and the devs have not even touched it since the game launched!

Dont get your hopes up, I’ve heard it’s got as little content as Heart of Thorns. Again it will just be DLC sold as an expansion! but more sPvP orientated in updates.

Dawdler.8521:

We already had a vote. A majority of people wanted DBL, thus they must have liked it.

Correction, people voted based upon the options anet gave us. What wvw players really want is to remove the DBL and replace it with a real new wvw map. But this wasnt an option that was provided.
The options we were given were, keep wvw stale with the same alpine maps, or add the DBL as one of the BLs to keep those few who liked it. So tbh this poll was a poll where the community only really had one choice! No one wanted to keep wvw stale with the same old map on all 3 BLs, and anet were not going to provide us with a new map, and no one wanted the DBL to be a dominant map.
And so have the DBL as one map and the other 2 as alpine was the ONLY choice we had! There was no other real option for us to choose, the other options would have lead to a faster decline of the wvw population, which no one wants.

We’ve lost so many devs that the only people who know what wvw is all about are the players.

funghetto.1584:

Offair.2563:

Very needed changes, one of the best these years. Been requested so many times and they finally did it weeeee.

can we have more npc that flees when you loose a tower-keep?

Yes, wvw needs more dynamic events to make it more realistic.
Other things could be adding trees around camps, and make another npc which goes to chop the wood and bring it back to the camp before increasing sups. Of course if an enemy player kills it, it doesnt affect the sups, or maybe it should?
Something really needs to be added to the skritt and centaur areas, they are just dead zones in the alpine maps. Maybe make them like the hylek and dredge in eb, cap it and it spawns npcs which help attack the camp and perhaps even towers.

No, gliding can be added to WvW! All they have to do is add those invisible walls they added into PvE areas to prevent the same thing from happening. They said it cant be done, yet they do it for PvE maps, so it can be done for WvW as well. There is no real reason why they cannot add gliding and prevent players from gliding into bases!

Dawdler.8521:

You complain about pay to win now? When HoT has long matured, every major guild is 50+ and we now get 2g for free every single day?

I wish WvW was filled with chests every 10 feet like it is in the new PvE map.
You are literally tripping over loot in PvE! Whilst in WvW you get peanuts and it takes several of your guild to pay for guild upkeep!

Agreed, the festivities are too boring! There really isnt any point to doing them, not after the 4th year! In fact I was bored of them in the first year, they arent much fun and the rewards are mediocre.

Yes, we must remove all fun from wvw.

Working as intended, as per usual.

Swagger.1459:

jamesdolla.3954:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

I defend the map everyday. I believe you’re trying to hard too push your claims but no one is buying it man.

What claim? That the map sucks and most people hate it? That’s a fact.

It’s a fact that DBL was voted in by the majority… It’s also fact that DBL is not going anywhere, so your thread is futile.

Yes most people hate it. And yes the community voted to keep it in. BUT this is because the community knows some, a small minority of players like the desert border, and so voted to keep at least one map as the desert border to be fair to those players. If the community really had a choice, it would be to get rid of it and make a new true wvw border map which everyone would like.

Welcome to WvW OP.

11 months and still no DX11 or even 10!!

If you read the email it says when you log in there will be a Create Beta Character button. So hopefully those will no empty slots will not be affected.

lordkrall.7241:

Zoid.2568:

I’ve been signed up since launch of GW2.

I believe you might have to sign up again, in order to show interest/activity. Thats what I understood from the blog post at least.

Yup you have to sign up for the HOT newsletter, I think its different

https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en

These arent beta invites, they are stress test invites.

The straight forward answer is no.

You have 3 options really, you can either follow the karma train in EOTM and level your character there.
Apparently you can get a few tombs of knowledge from sPvP, so you can try that and level up that way.
Or if you want to follow the zerg in WvW, jut remember to stay back and tag enemies, even if you are a melee dont run into the middle of the battle. And be careful a backstab thief doesnt find you, you’ll be dead in seconds.

As you level up you can do your story missions as well, those give some nice xp as well.

But if you do play in WvW with an uplevel, be prepared to be hated and people telling you to go away, cos your easy death can rally the enemy and cause your zerg to lose the fight.

Skeletor.9360:

coglin.1867:

Moving is their choice with in the constraints of the system from the on set. Artificially forcing players out of the ability to play by creating artificial queues for your personal convenience is possibly the worst idea to address the situation. The ones who don’t move are not forced to do anything. That is not what forced means. They chose to play there. Artificial queues o. The other hand literally force an inability to play compared to the population cap now.

I vote -999999999 on this response.

This is like playing a pickup basketball game. The other team puts 10 players on the court and you only 2. When you ask for some of them to come to your side or just play 2 vs 2 this guy yells….WHAT A BUNCH OF SELFISH kittenS YOU GUYS ARE! YOU WANT US TO DO SOMETHING IN THE NAME OF FAIR PLAY! NO WAY MAN!

yup that is pretty much it.

Well David wasnt even saying that, to use your analogy.

You have 2 players, the other team of 10 are forced to only play with a maximum of 4 players. Until you get a third player, they can then play with a maximum of 6. In order for their entire team to play you need 5 players.
But this still leaves you outnumbered 2-1, though I guess that is better than 10-1

Those who dont like the queues can then transfer to a queueless server.
But again as I said, who would pay for that transfer? Players were willing to pay to transfer to a winning side, but who’ll willing pay for a transfer to one where the outcome is based on their skill and tactics or siege numbers and usage?

It’s like trying to get the corporations to pay all the taxes they owe :P

That’s why we call them inverted commas

Is it me or did colin just disagree with me by agreeing with me……

Move to a higher populated server which zerg more and caps things more often.

This have become the only “solution” to many of WvW’s problems.

Though i find it surprising you cant get 5 people to take a tower, especially in such a low server.

That or continue to wait a few months until you are the colour you need to be.

coglin.1867:

are you literally suggesting they never fixed a bug?

Yes there are still fireflies in water camp and mosquitoes near klovan, it is costing me a fortune in bug repellent!

I dont get why when it comes to such matchups, the two lower servers dont team up to fight the higher server together.

Why not teach them a lesson for bandwagoning?

Instead the higher server attacks one of the others, and the one mot current being attacked take advantage to add the other as well, so you end up doubleteaming with the higher server instead, they win, you both still lose.

Players created this problem along with anet, but it seems it’s up to us to fix it, either higher server player come down, or those on lower go up. But then who’s gonna pay for the gems???

If anet knew what WvW was about they would have :

Limited server populations
Not separated NA and EU servers
Not ignored the players
Not infracted players for posting problems
Not banned players for posting problems
Not sneakily create a sticky thread telling people to stop necroing old posts
Actually done what they said they were going to do in said necro posts
Told us the truth
Not lied to us
Not continuously say they cannot talk about anything
Communicated with us in ways other than infractions
Listened to all WvW players not just the ones they like
Fixed bugs glitches and hacks
Not appointed someone with only 2 pages of posts, none of which were in the WvW forums, for forum specialist
Not allowed the free transfers to go on for so long
Made WvW achievements which made sense before release, 20 more years!
Have a TEAM of DEDICATED devs working on WvW, not one or two every now and again when they feel like throwing a carrot in front of us
and so on.

And there’ll be at least double that list somewhere I just cant remember everything.
Not forgetting we were also supposed to have a WvW CDI again, which was postponed and we’ve never heard about it since.

And how do anet now fix this problem which was created 3 years ago?

It’s been ignored for 2 years by anet and the players came up with their own “solution”, transfer up.

Anet even increased population caps as T1 was complaining about not being able to get enough people on?! I mean come on, why the kitten did they do that, the top servers should have been left as FULL, but even now you can transfer to any T1 server.
I think anet have forgotten why they have several servers in the first place, it’s if one gets full people can join another one, but no they let more join the full ones!

Rimmy.9217:

You do know that in order to make a report he started a topic and people that had thoughts and wanted to contribute posted, which he can mine for his report?

It doesn’t require a two-way conversation after the start.

And in order to do that he needs to start a new thread for each topic. Yet 3 weeks later and no new topic has been created.
Or is he going to spend his time scrolling through 3 years worth of posts? :P

Race does affect your use of siege I think, Asura being shorter have a worse camera angle when using ACs, so you have a shorter line of sight I believe.

That is one thing they can do. But I agree, anet need to do more to help balance out the servers.

But the above will split guild groups up, players wont like it.
Some servers actually like the fact they are active 20 hour of the day, whilst others hate they are only active for like 4.

Anet have all the info and stats they need already, all they have to do is control the flow to the lower servers. Some say even merge the lowest tiers into one.

But those on T1 will probably want to stay on T1, they arent ehe bandwagon servers for nothing. Bigger zergs means better odds at winning fights, which means more loot. How many people do you think will willingly go to a lower server and get less loot in the process?

But so long as the biggest zerg give you the most loot, people will continue to migrate to T1. And since transferring to T1 costs the most gems, it’s in anet’s interest to keep it that way to gain income from these bandwagoning transfers.

DoctorWunderbar.5037:

Is there even a reason the WvW forums even exist right now, other than to be the proverbial trashbin/outlet for people wanting to give feedback? Anet, why u do dis to WubVeWub

From what I’ve been able to tell from past posters, these forum are a ground in which mods can infract delete and ban those who dont see anet’s vision, thereby making the forums a bias area where new players can never find out what is really going on in WvW.

I also think they are here because they have to have a section, cant have a game mode and then not have a forum section for it.

Also they’ve also been apparently been waiting for anet to give them a template on how to make future reports. If you ask me it’s kindda stupid setting up this program and assigning people, but then not even having bothered to plan how these people are supposed to work. Oh wait, that actually does sound like WvW..

Rimmy.9217:

TO the ArenaNet Forum Communications Team. TO them. Not us. To THEM.

To take what’s said, slap it together into a reportable form, and present it TO an ANet team on our behalf.

Not to report to us.

lol, you do know that in order to make a report he has to communicate with the WvW community first to find out what people’s thoughts are.
So in order to report to “them”, he’ll first have to talk to us!
Or will he do it the anet way and ignore everyone on the forums and decide what he likes best?

Still a bad start to this if these guys are still waiting on how anet want the reports written up, surely that should have been done before assigning the specialists.

Since launch people have complained about how their graphics card hasnt been utilised properly, that GW2 is more reliant on your CPU than your GPU.

At launch the devs said they would implement DX11 in the near future, but we still dont have it, and from the sounds of it HOT still uses DX9.

Will we ever get DX11, as I believe GW2 is being severely limited graphically due to this?

Yes I know they chose DX9 because DX9 was what most card supported when development first began. But it’s 2015 now, a DX11 card is cheap as chips now! Shouldnt DX11 support be something anet should looking into?

I’ve been worried for 3 years now. They still refuse to talk about the future of WvW whilst they can see players leaving everyday.

There used to be queues on all 4 maps once, now you are lucky to get more than 2 queued; and the only reason for that is because players are zerging, everyone trying to get onto one map, with a skeleton crew left on the others.

But because anet cant talk much about it, we cannot really say what we will get. You cannot explore an entire region in 30 mins, which is what the demo is limited to from what ive seen.

What as said above what players really want to know is how big is the expansion, how much will it cost and when is it out. Not a lot of players are going to spend £30+ on a feature pack with living story, but anet need the income.
Some of us hope spring/summer, but there’s still a chance of a autumn/winter release…..

Well for the fun of it I’ve been doing PvE now an again.

I’ve done the main story line once already with my old main, now doing it with my new main. Just doing the story The Source of Orr where you fight the Sovereign Eye.

Now is it me or have they made this fight a whole lot easier??? Maybe its cos I have better gear, but I just killed it with my healer ele, ie very low dps in like 5 mins.
My main old main was a necro and the first time I did it with that char it took me like 30+ minutes!!!

Was kindda looking forward to nice long fight for it to be over in minutes!

Well WoW is pay to win :P But at least you also got regular updates; WvW has barely got a thing, it needs more than a new map and undisclosed changes. Bug fixes are updates, they are bug fixes; they fix the game not update it!

Knighthonor.4061:

People that don’t buy HoT can still play the new map, but certain features will be locked out of using.

So pay-to-win.

Sorry but anet does not deserve a penny more from me until they put in the effort to update WvW. This one map and changes to the current map are not enough for me to warrant spending anything on it!
As a WvW only player, I dont want my money spent on a Chinese release, Living Story and a expansion which is barely enough to be considered an expansion.
Prove to me that WvW will get a half, even a quarter of what PvE gets, and then I may consider investing more in this game!

But those are just my current feelings.

coglin.1867:

I was just looking through his post, and I do not see any mention of “weekly”. I do not see any specific time frames mentions. It appears he said “periodically”.

That’s because it’s not part of his post, it’s part of the forum specialist’s tasks:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Guild-Wars-2-Forum-Specialists-Program

In addition, all Guild Wars 2 Forum Specialists

• must sign the Guild Wars 2 Forum Specialist Terms and Conditions
• must live in the USA and be age 18 or older, for legal reasons
• can be removed from the program at any time, for any reason
• must abide by the Guild Wars 2 Forum Code of Conduct
• are requested to provide a weekly feedback report on behalf of the community to the ArenaNet Forum Communications Team

So I’m confused as how can someone report weekly when they havent communicated with the community on the forums about anything new???
Or have we just stuck with server matchups for the last 4 weeks?

There’s also the first part of the first post

Marmatt.8590:

Next Weeks Topic: Siege Trolling
Please feel free to give feedback on this report, and ideas for next weeks topic.

Again been 4 weeks and no thread has been started my Marmatt about Siege Trolling…..

I’m confused. I thought there were supposed to be weekly reports made by Marmatt?

It’s been a month and this is the only one posted for all of us to see.

I just upgraded my guild bank with treasure trove. But what really bugs me is that for some odd reason my treasure trove appears above my guild stash.

How do I move my guild stash above the treasure trove? I’ve tried clicking and dragging, I just cant see an option!

gatsu.2813:

Correction to my last statement: GW2 is not* losing players in WvW, they’re just doing other things before the expansion =P

You know there is an edit button you can use instead of double posting

I hate the fact that unlike our account banks where we have a collected more of a material we can just drag the stack from our inventory to the stack in the account bank and it automatically merged both stacks into one; but with guild banks we cannot merge them, we have to stick them into another bank slot and then get someone with withdrawal permission to remove both stacks merge them in their inventory then deposit them back into the guild bank.

This is a huge waste of time when you have a lot of items and mats in your guild bank. Just like making superior siege, it’s an awful lot of time wasted for so little.

Timelord.8190:

Q: Should Omega Golem Be Nerfed?
A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-P8KUgVrg

Now try doing that when you dont have an equally sized zerg to take them on.

lol apparently it can also accidentally get you banned :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Banned-for-gold-selling-what-the-hell

Heh, dont we all want to know why we have to spend gold in WvW.

The more points a server gains, the more buffs your server gets for PvE in gold from kills, gathering and crafting. Yet nothing from PvE goes to help WvW at all, it’s all one-sided.

I think one thing we can do is tax PvE. A small percentage of all gold earned by players to added to a server bank. Players on a server vote for certain guild leaders to be those who can withdraw from the bank. Or whenever someone starts an upgrade gold is used from the server bank first. This will also prevent direct theft from a server bank by guilds who are about to leave or trolls who manages to get themselves voted.

I think this discussion is as valid as a “Coverage Vs Numbers” discussion.

There are too many issues in WvW to consider just one or two things.

Marmatt.8590:

If they were to implement a reward track of some sort, what rewards specifically would you like to see? Siege? Loot Boxes?

WvW only players are probably the poorest players around, so yes increased gold and/or loot in any way is a good thing for us; how they do it doesnt matter, I just want my time spent in WvW to be as profitable as the same amount of time spent in PvE events.

Please will a mod make a sticky about WvW Map Completion, it’s worse than necro posts!

If you want Map Completion in WvW then do some WvW, it’s that simple!