The community is united… just look through all the closed threads… they all have a common denominators… “coding abuses”
If you want to send Anet a message- don’t buy gems. Encourage others not the buy them. When profits start to fall- Anet will act.
I don’t see a problem with Orb or the mechanics. It’s all about strategy and teamwork.
The problem is that Anet is not addressing the ‘coding abuses’ fast enough and/or appear to be encouraging them with poor communication.
Sure- each of these tactics can be used by the opposing factions… even hacks; but the majority don’t want to stoop that low. So its unbalanced.
It’s almost reminiscent of SWTOR release… that Beta feel. Anet did 1000% better; but the gw2 community is doing a great job of finding new ways to work the code…
Thus we have perception that Orbs and such are overpowered.
Then quit, we don’t want people on the SBI server like this. Go away.
And I have no problem killing thieves 1v1. It is a longer battle, yes, but I do manage.
I think the point being made… and I’ll add my voice too is that GW2 is not going to unseat Wow as King.
It’s been a lot of fun; but it won’t stop me from jumping ship and never looking back for the next big release.
If you love it… more power to you. Folks loved Aion, Warhammer, Rift, and Perfect World… it’s nice being a big fish… in a tiny pond… isn’t it?
Let AOE jump beyond 5 only IF there are others close by. There are plenty of abilities that can jump to other targets… let the effects jump to peeps that are very close to each other…1-2m or less.
You get the idea. This would stop folks from stacking and force them to spread out a little; but it wouldn’t be overwhelming…
Blame Nexon… you’d think Anet could solve this by now; but if its a business partner who’s doing the damage…
Got booted earlier tonight… I was in Wv3 and then I got disconnected and when I tried to get back in I received the ‘firewall/router’ excuse. At that time I couldn’t reach the forums either…while I was able to reach everything else… including Lotro and Rift.
Keep it up Arena-net… one day I might not come back!
take a screenshot and send it to exploits@arenanet.com; saw the email from a Moderator… or you can just search forums for ‘Hacking’… plenty of response from Moderators there… right before the thread is closed.
send it to exploits@arenanet.com ; posting specifics here can get you banned.
The dps is the factor I’d say… I have about 640 kills and 100 badges on my Engineer. Mostly ranged attacks… my gear is all <75 @80. More than half my badges are from using Siege equipment… the ‘big’ hits. If your dps sucks… which mine does atm… and you aren’t the one planting the ‘flag’… you aren’t going to get badges. Siege is about the only exception to planting the flag.
Kinda sucks… as even when my dps goes up… more and more folks will have legendaries…and then my better dps will still be lower… which will continue to equate to lower badge counts.
Same old tune.
It’s past time that we, as crafters, maximized our potential under the current rules. I have two reason to make this post.
1. To drive home to Anet the BS revolving around free transfers
2. A legitemate desire to maximize my crafting.
A bigger Artisan bonus equates to less mats used in leveling crafting. I have stayed on a single server…StormBluff… thus far… and I can see a definite, measurable difference between winning by a lot…verses losing by a lot… Result: Losing means I have to buy or grind a signifinantly higher amount of mats to get the same skill results (and levels since skill level is tied to XP rewards). This was intended by Anet for accomplished servers.
I tell you all now- better to craft with a winner than a loser. Basic economics;…. we can all rationalize it howver we please… but that won’t stop me from jumping where I can save money…and maximize a profit that much faster.
SO- please post your Artisan bonus here… I’m confident we will all double check elsewhere… but this will be a good place to start to figure out where to greatest bonus lies…
AS it’s just now turnover… SBI vs IoJ vs JQ at 2% at 3am….
No reason to jump yet… but give it a few days…
Weekends are a given in NA- almost eveyone has an equal shake; it’s the M-F that matters though. Who has the most off-hours 8am- 5pm that makes or breaks the match.
It’s one reason I’ve advocated a different approach- matching players and IP world-wide vs realms and zone as it is done now. If you can field an organized bunch 3am- 1pm M-F you will dominate any NA server where the bulk of us have work, school, kids to mind instead. This is basic logic… there is no mystery or exploit involved.
Me- I’m big on crafting… so I will wait to see where the wind is blowing… most likely JQ again… and hop on to maximize my crafting potential with the world bonus… why wouldn’t I with the rules as they are???? Luck the poor suckers in NA not well endowed with Oceanic players.
Maybe Anet needs to start ranking individuals… add that number up to establish a new match. If enough high-end folks transfer… then an individual score would matter and effect the eventual match.
Keep track of the top 10000 players… and where-ever they are at turn-over be a factor…if not the determining factor.
I’m not against 24 play… but I wish match ups considered this factor world-wide. Currently you have of segrated… US vs European…
I’m in a US guild…we have quite a few oceanic folks… one has too to suceed in Wv3, etc… when the bulk of us are offline.
So why keep us separate?
Thinking you need to look at all the numbers for match up. If a server in the US appears to have lots of oceanic…then shouldn’t they complete with the Europeans vs their US counterparts (who don’t and can’t compete as the bulk of their population isn’t on at the same time)!?!?
Wondering how many Greeks play on Vizunah Square?
HoD today is tier 3 or 4… and has absolutely no biz in tier 1 combat… it’s just like poster said… a Wv2… anything HoD puts up now is condsidered a minor irratants…easily squashed.
TYVM Anet…for World Transfers…
Tomorrow it might be different.
Super simple solution- deny world transfers to anyone who have more than 50 Wv3 kills (Achievement).
Solved.
I nominate Commander Mayo (Mayoken) from Calm-
I might be bias, but not without reason. He’s taken the time to learn his class and that of many others. He’s studied strategy since beta and is good at modifying his approach to any given situation. He has reached out to other guilds on our realm to expand our influence and is constantly working toward the common server goal of absolute victory. He knows more than just Zerg tactics, but also the value of defending supply and doyaks and isn’t shy about sharing out the drudgery to groups.
He’s not winning the congeniety award for Wv3… he knows he can’t be everyone’s best friend. He doesn’t like being a bear, but he knows you can’t please all. He knows sometimes to get things done- you have to be a Commander. You have to be an kitten hole… silence in voice coms… s t f u and get it done.
He’s still human though- prone to the occasional error. I probably like that about him the most.
He’s not too proud to admit his failures (to his guild)- rare as they are- which sets him apart from the rest.
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I have gotten more keys from story than anything else. Working on map completion I have over 100 locked chests… and locked they will remain. Maybe I’ll sell them on the Trading Post. Candidly… I’m not going to waste cash opening them- the buff are largely unwanted or better spent when I’m 80 and to maximize their worth… only in niche situations.
I agree they should be cheaper OR get rid of tonics. If I knew there was only a 2% chance of a tonic per chest… I’d be a lot more intersted.
We need a afk bump for Siege Equipment.
Got folks who are using siege equipment- then go afk for 5, 10, 30, 4 hours… and nobody can use the kitten thing or bump them off of it. IF folks are not actively using Siege… 30 seconds or less… we need something to kick them off so those of us who are aware of what is going on can use it.
Keeps only provide so much built in Siege… can you really allow it to be monopolized by folks who are afk?! perhaps purposely…
Any siege for that matter…
If you buy a pattern and place it- then when it’s built you can bump others off it.
Engineer’s Motar should be the same. Ninety percent of the time I use this elite skill, someone else jumps on it and then I can’t use it… nor can I bump them off. This is MY Elite skill, WTF?!
Please fix this.
I would give up in a heartbeat the 5 skills, for just 1-2 our motar was consistent with the Keep versions… even half the keep range would be an improvement. As it is… my motar is not even on par with a Ranger shortbow… and does less damage!
I’d like to see match-ups based on demographics on a server…vs plain geography.
Pretty obvious since Launch that HoD has a sizable Oceanic Population… I’d love to see them matched up against European servers occasionally; then maybe they’d have to work a little harder for their spot at the top.
It is frustrating to me that more and more often it’s not a three way battle… but two against one. It really sucks to be the ONE, but that’s just the way it works out.
I would appeal to Anet’s wallet though with this argument. The only reason I have purchased additional gems and then to gold to date is to fund the Wv3 effort on my server. I bought some vault space; but the vast majority of my wealth is spent in Wv3… upgrades, siege equipment… even repairs it all adds up.
Now, the more likely it seems that the only way to win is to have an active ‘intelligence’ group that constantly has to spy on other servers to be successful… an activity I don’t care for… the less interest I have in playing Wv3… which means I have almost NO REASON TO BUY GEMS…. and for a F2P game… that’s sucks for Anet.
That’s my two cents. It’ll never be completely gone; but they need to start stomping on those who are blatant and start banning folks- even disbanding Guilds for the practice… or they can do without my cash flow.
This isn’t a class issue; but a dead man still playing a role in the game. I could live with ‘fade to black’; it encourages folks to get back in the fight.
Seems to be a favorite tactic to suicide on a location and then stay dead feeding information to your team on defender movements, etc. IE- suicide on a supply camp and then let your server know when folks leave it undefended or under defended.
We need a mechanism to force ‘dead’ players to respawn and/or grey out the map once dead so no useful information can be had/shared while dead.
Pretty sure this has been addressed- if you are not seeing enough ‘help’ on your borderland- could be a large guild is doing the jumping puzzle or other instead of fighting or defending. It’s also possible that a bunch are hiding/afk somewhere.
Quite by mistake I left my toon online and afk for over an hour; and somehow I did not get booted. Could be a problem there.
Notice Guardians have similar abilities. There’s no way a 40 man zerg that’s killed all the supply npc can’t take an objective…and yet they can’t while there are a couple stealth-ed defenders in the ‘ring’.
I saw just the opposite last Saturday night. HoD and JQ pummeling SB on HoD borderland. Avoiding each other- not even bothering to contest for any tower/supply/keep that wasn’t SB. About the only time I saw them skirmish with each other was by accident when we were down to one supply camp.
It’s screwed up, but that’s how it goes sometimes. My guild just picked another borderland to work on. The alliances are there… but they aren’t ‘everywhere’… not yet.
It sucks because nobody wants to defend. Supply camps are the life blood of game. Without it you can’t upgrade, build siege, or Win. Fact is nobody wants to stand post and protect them. “Why should I waste my gaming time getting no badges while everyone else fights for glory on the front lines?”
Sure- if that’s how you feel and nobody bothers to defend the Supply camp; you have only yourself to blame for consistently losing.
Same goes for those you take supply from a tower/keep that is being upgraded- slowing down the process because they were too lazy to go by the supply depot or somewhere else that wasn’t being upgraded to get it.
It’s not just overwhelming odds; but overwhelming stupidity of a huge chunk of the players that is demoralizing.
Thanks for the tips~ I’ll give it a shot tonight. I’m sure there’s a faction area I haven’t hit yet somewhere.
I can’t progress on this achievement. I’ve been stuck at 27/50K almost since Launch (played Headstart).
If it’s just what it seems- playing without wiping; it seems the only way to achieve it is to avoid everything that makes GW2 fun. No dynamic events, no boss fights, no PVP (including Wv3), no Skill Points, etc… just pure grinding… maybe with a couple XP enhancers.
Is this really what Arenanet intended? Or is my account bugged?
Really frustrated. I get the daily’s easy, but monthly is just out of reach.