Guild Wars 2

Cloud.7613:

Dinks.2478:

Fairer would be to give Oceanic players their own servers and to stop matching them up against NA servers.

Then if a server night caps it is because they are just really dedicated players who deserve it.

I’m not hating on Oceanic people btw, you do deserve a fair chance to win, but so do we and as it stands servers with both Oceanic players and NA players are the ones with the high ranks. Not every server has that and it will never balance out the way Anet is hoping it will.

This won’t happen and it’s causing another problem. As the straw man said, there is not enough to go around, so how can we make a server? that loses every week? No Oceanics would join it, I wouldn’t.

I don’t claim to have the end all answer, I am just pointing my opinion of the only real solution. And as you have just put major holes into it. We’re back at square one.

Fairer would be to give Oceanic players their own servers and to stop matching them up against NA servers.

Then if a server night caps it is because they are just really dedicated players who deserve it.

I’m not hating on Oceanic people btw, you do deserve a fair chance to win, but so do we and as it stands servers with both Oceanic players and NA players are the ones with the high ranks. Not every server has that and it will never balance out the way Anet is hoping it will.

willwill.9318:

Sorry zerging is what arenanet has wanted, this game will die slowly. It’s free so the death will be slow. But, it will still die. The game promotes zerging, afaik there is no group mechanic of sharing loot or exp karma etc.. So they would need to recode some type of party splitting method. Sadly. I think this is not something they can do, unless it’s an expansion.I suspect an expansion might bring the stuff we want. But, it’s gonna be awhile.

This game hates guilds like us forthegz, they like the Zerg guilds and goonsquads and ruins where numbers = winning. There will never be a place for small man pvp in WvW, before someone else says it.. " go play spvp" because that’s the responses you’re gonna get, beyond the idiot like responses you’ve already received.

Me and my guild, we are a small guild on SF. [eels] We move in 5 man parties and take out camps, stop supply caravans, take smaller towers, and generally defend anything that needs defending using siege weapons.

There is definitely a need for small guilds in WvW. If you only have a giant zerg running around, the enemy knows exactly where you are at all times and can easily just retake everything you take from them.

WvW is like a PVE PVP hybrid zone. Obviously if you’re outmanned, you’re not going to attack the enemy head on. They want you to use your outmanned bonus as incentive to go take out supply caravans and to retake camps. This will spread out the enemy making it easy for another group to make a push on a tower or keep.

Kind of wish Anet would drop the ban hammer on these people. They already went ban happy on a lot less game breaking things like names and a few karma vendor things. But things that ruin the game for everybody else is just left to run free for weeks.

Arius.7031:

Niim.9260:

I do not think folks are demoralized, so much as taking a week off. It takes a lot of effort to fight SoR all prime time and try and keep your points ahead far enough that it wont be erased by DH farming our guards all night. Lot of folks put in a hard effort last week and now they are attending to other things or just having fun killing folks

Demoralized fits your description of the situation almost perfectly. To be completely honest, Sorrow’s Furnace isn’t even doing too well against Darkhaven during primetime, so I’m at a loss as to why you wouldn’t say “a lot of effort to fight SoR and Dh”. Sorrow’s Furnace will take the lead on occasion of course, you server is far more populated than both SoR and Dh, you have a queue even when you’re demoralized! Darkhaven rarely has a queue, when it does it’s only in one borderland generally.

It seems to me the problem isn’t really with people taking a break, because you’re actually still outnumbering us during the day. So the problem (I think) does not lie with less people in SF playing (because you still outnumber us regardless of less activity), but more with it being less important to fight because you know Dh will take it all back and gain another 5-10k points overnight.

@Ashanor
I’m not from Sorrow’s Furnace, so I can’t speak to specific details of the server. I can tell you, however, when they’re playing at their peak they’re virtually unstoppable (in our matchup). They’re (for the most part) great sports and they have a good population without it being ridiculous like HoD and JQ (this means less queues, but probably a small one). Overall, while I’d love it if you came to Darkhaven instead (can’t help but mention that XD), Sorrow’s Furnace would be a great server choice for you and your friends.

You’re either clueless or making things up. SF has no queue on any of our maps except EB. And our EB queue is at most 5 minutes right now. We are tired from having to work extra hard to take gigantic leads during the day just to survive through the night with our whole map being taken by a giant mindless zerg with no enemy to even resist them all last week. I think we earned a break, and anet made it perfect for us to relax since we already defeated the current match-up.

They say they want it to be fair to everybody, but its not fair to servers with no Night time presence. We spend all day working hard to take and hold things. Then some server comes over night and just rolls over the whole map with no resistance.

Then we wake up and are getting spawn camped. It is utter bullkitten.

Well since the current system didn’t even give a kitten about trying to match us up to new people. We at SF are playing DH and SoR again. This is kind of lame and boring. SF is currently getting stomped by DH in the night game as usual. And at this point it seems that all of SF is just bored and not even trying in the day. I can join all 4 maps with no queue and nobody talking in map chat or team chat.

I guess good luck to DH and SoR and I hope you guys have a good week.

Just another side note, this is the 3rd week in a row where we are facing SoR.

Gatto.5168:

Anybody else feeling this? I am doing my personal story, I find that my instance is a few seconds away from my previous one, but it requires me to be 2 or three levels higher. So I have to run around the map and complete hearts or go to a different map all together and grind out a few levels to continue.

I don’t enjoy typical quests in MMO’s and that’s what Heart events are. I thought I remembering hearing that you can just do your personal story or open world or both. But just doing the personal story is next to impossible. In GW1 the story was on a pace from point A to point B. In order to reach point B, you had to go through 1,2,3 different areas to get to your next story part. Why is this not implemented in GW2? It’s more of a suggestion than a complaint. But I would really like to be pulled through a map to go to the next point instead of trying to find something to grind to continue my story line. Either that or up the experience gained doing your PS more where I don’t have to grind a few levels. Again just a suggestion to improve the gameplay experience and not having any kind of down time. Down time in a game is normally bad.

Example : My PS put me in a new map at the level range from 45-55. I was lvl 43. In order to do the next PS I had to be 45. I did it at 44. The next PS wants me to do it at lvl 47. I grinded out the map and am now at 46. Did the PS, the next one wants me to be at 50. I am 46 and did most the map already? So I have to find some way to grind 4 more levels.

Any other suggestions to help Anet make GW2 the best game out there? I know I can explore, WvW or craft. But I did explore, I don’t like WvW and crafting. There is also the case that this game is only a few weeks old and will improve.

Other suggestions :
1. LFG function. Story or Ex mode for dungeons.
2. Guild Halls, better ones base on Inf points.
3. Romances or LI’s.

You’re not supposed to just be able to grind through your personal story. It doesn’t even make sense. The story is spaced out through the game up until lvl 80. You’re supposed to use the personal story to break up your leveling. Your idea that you should be able to just jump into each subsequent quest would imply you want to get to level 80 simply by doing your story.