Guild Wars 2

Diku.2546:

Swagger.1459:

We understand what you are asking for…

Wvw is 3 years old and dying and a year into secret coding and money and person power…

It’s irrational to think they will scrap whatever idea they are already have to make the “globe” system. Plus you are messing with base servers way too much when, probably now, 99% of players don’t even care at all. And those that still care who love rvr stuff will just bail this year anyway… Nobody is waiting another year to do your idea, it’s pretty foolish to ask for at this point, and the wrong direction…

Plus as pointed out to you, with your own words/admittance, your idea tears apart the communities and gives free transfers to do it… So much for your server pride chest bumping… At least my megaserver/alliance things keeps servers more stable and more as is lol…

SuperBowl Franchise Opportunity

Sadly…Whatever ANet did up till this point is…

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A Sunk Cost

Some bad decisions can’t be fixed by throwing more resources at it, or tweaking it.

imho

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Cornerstone needs to be set correctly or the whole skyscraper will not build as tall as you want it to.

A building could collapse or function poorly if the Base Design isn’t built on a solid fundamental design.

The core needs to be Team Based.

All lucrative Professional Sports are Team Based & have a Solid Identity.

Franchise…is that a marketing term? Well it applies here…for ANet to consider.

Ok…you can bring up Tennis…but that’s like sPvP.

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As an example:

NFL SuperBowl is darn successful on having multiple teams compete…and high school players dream of making it into the NFL.

One thing about high school, college, and professional football…is that they all share a team identity at its core.

ANet’s skyscraper for WvW will be limited if they choose the wrong cornerstone to build with.

Choose wrong…and you’ll get the best Shoot Em Up game ever that’s based on anonymous random teams, but ANet will never have the ability to be the next eSport SuperBowl & setting up a Franchise model if they really care about the bottom line.

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Hmmm…speaking for myself & not others. Professional sports is a good example to use.

I think many players are motivated to play for their Guild or Server for camaraderie.

It’s this shared Camaraderie/Pride that has the potential to nurture a strong sense of community.

It’s this kind of Pride that creates a Strong Sense of Community which is the backbone behind many Good & Hard Fought Rivalries imho.

A really exciting Football season between staunch or bitter Rivals leads to a successful NFL SuperBowl.

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The core message still goes back to Pride based on a unique identity…it starts out in High School, grows in College, and peaks in Professional Sports…this concept of Team Pride.

We need to build WvW around this unique pride…

World Server is a very large slew of people in one sweep…

Guild size can be small or large…

They all share one thing in common…a unique identity & pride.

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All Players emailed 1 Free Pass to change their Chosen Globe. Account Bound with an Expiration Date set by ANet.

It’s a 1 Time Free Transfer that’s to allow the Population to re-settle according to a Time Zone & Language Label that encourages WvW Communities.

This is a long term solution in correcting things. It’s like resetting a broken arm.

PvE players wouldn’t even notice the reason behind the email & the offer would expire after the date set by ANet.

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You have No vision & No fundamental concept…imho.

“All Players emailed 1 Free Pass to change their Chosen Globe. Account Bound with an Expiration Date set by ANet.

It’s a 1 Time Free Transfer that’s to allow the Population to re-settle according to a Time Zone & Language Label that encourages WvW Communities.

This is a long term solution in correcting things. It’s like resetting a broken arm.

PvE players wouldn’t even notice the reason behind the email & the offer would expire after the date set by ANet."

• Again copy&pasting the same thing over and over again. Still contradicts with your “server pride” arguments, having said this servers are not needed. And in fact it would’t be a long term solution in correction things, it would only shove off problems until a later point in time. Ohh and not to mention it is very frail to the very same problems we have today.

“You have No vision & No fundamental concept…imho.”

• Imho you are very delusional & are desperately trying to keep a obviously not working system alive

@Diku:

Also, you can repeat yourself over and over and over and over and over again, copy&pasting everything as much as you want, it doesnt change the fact that keeping the server system will harm the game mode more than doing any good.
At best (and that best is very unlikely imho) WvW might become semi-active, maybe decently active again in some “Globes” for maybe some weeks, then at some point you will face the very problem we have now, emptyness on the borderlands.
Meanwhile a megaserver/sign up system will only create as much matchups as needed, more than likely with maps who at least won’t be as empty as in your proposal

Diku.2546:

@Dominick

All Players emailed 1 Free Pass to change their Chosen Globe. Account Bound with an Expiration Date set by ANet.

Let the players go where they want to go.

Let players stack on the Top 3 Globes.

Give players who want to stay on Empty Globes the ability to attack the Top 3 Globes.

Empty Globes as you put it will be the source that will allow for future growth.

Implementing this idea isn’t that difficult. It’s a simple solution & the mechanic is already being used.

Should, Would, or Does work…which is better?

How much coding does ANet need to do?

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Globe Limit is a simple mechanic.

Globe Limit Does Work & is already being used when you 1st Logon.

It’s called Guesting.

Next time you logon – Click [ World Selection ] Button – Pick a Different Home World – Click [ Guest ] Button.

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Borderland Maps – Mix, Swap, or Reduce

Less is more?

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Borderland Maps – Mix, Swap, or Reduce

Players first appear in corners of the Eternal Battle Map with this proposal

Mixing, swapping, or REDUCING the number of Borderland maps used is possible with this proposal, but I’m not sure if it’s feasible from a programming standpoint

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Anything doesn’t start out big. You weren’t born from your mother as an adult. Everything has their humble beginnings.

“All Players emailed 1 Free Pass to change their Chosen Globe. Account Bound with an Expiration Date set by ANet.”

• This already contradicts with your “server pride” statement.

“Let the players go where they want to go.
Let players stack on the Top 3 Globes.”

• Not gonna happen, people would be too lazy to change, maybe afraid to end up with servers they don’t like in that clusterkitten of empty maps. Might benefit 1 single time for guilds, cus they have a free server transfer opportunity.

“Give players who want to stay on Empty Globes the ability to attack the Top 3 Globes.”

• Also a very bad idea, there should be as less as possible “Empty Globes” (as you put it), do I want to fight against a Globe who has essentially nobody to fight against? Hell no!

Implementing this idea isn’t that difficult. It’s a simple solution & the mechanic is already being used.

Should, Would, or Does work…which is better?

How much coding does ANet need to do?

Globe Limit is a simple mechanic.

Globe Limit Does Work & is already being used when you 1st Logon.

It’s called Guesting.

Next time you logon – Click [ World Selection ] Button – Pick a Different Home World – Click [ Guest ] Button.

• Its not about the difficulty of how to implement it, just because it is easy to implement doesn’t make the idea better
  On another note, a very similar system as the Guesting System could be used to sign up your team/guild/alliance to a Matchup – There you go with easy achievable things!

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Borderland Maps – Mix, Swap, or Reduce

Less is more?

• There is a reason why there are 3 Bl in every Matchup. Every Real/Server/Alliance/Globe or however you want to call it needs 1 home map to keep it fair. I’m not sure about the mixing or swapping (you put this without an explanation what your understanding about these 2 are)

“Anything doesn’t start out big. You weren’t born from your mother as an adult. Everything has their humble beginnings.”

Don’t you see how delusional this is?

Diku.2546:

@Swagger

Still the outspoken & totally “clued in” expert I see.

Not imho.

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Fix imho

1) Put back Alpine Map.
2) Implement a Globe Based system.

On 1) Totally agree
On 2) Nonononononono, pls nooooo.
What you will get is a Globe of many many empty maps…at the moment there are many Servers with many empty maps, just not clustered together as a “Globe”. You just make a bigger worse out of a smaller one.

Best solution, imo, is to have some kind of megerserver system.
I know there are some folks out there who always try to tell people that their so called “server pride” is what kept WvW running for so long (it is not btw), but the truth is that the diversity of many playstyles kept the game running for so long…be it Defending, Attacking, just simple open field fighting guilds, GvG guilds, Roamers, Havoc Squads, some even enjoy just staying in towers and keeps to scout.
This tied together with the best mechanical skill system (imho) made players stay or return.
On top of that you dont even know how the Alliance system will look like and fear your ohhh soo precious “Server pride”.

Let me ask you something: Would it be so bad to sign up with the very same community to an Alliance, instead of automatically being signed up to a matchup because “you are on the server” ?

It’s not about your server pride, it is about your community you play with: Be it guilds, your server community (which will just become your alliance community), or your friendlist.

Having said this my best solution for a WvW change is a combination of megaservers (or the WvW community as a whole only divided by regions EU & NA) and the TESO campaign system.
You basically take best of both worlds, let people signup as groups, guilds, full Alliances/Communities.
Having to signup alone, maybe ending up in a different campaign than your other guildmembers/friends was 1 flaw in the TESO campaign system…I liked the rest.

PS: Stop comparing WvW to the NFL, it’s atrocious to even think of that comparission.
But to make it more clear to you:

• First you have to have something fun (American football | Gw2 WvW) <- got that!
• Secondly you have to have some kind of ruleset <- WvW lacks that one completely in terms of ballancing, matchup systems, etc:
• Next thing you need is a steadily growing community(for the sport/game alone not teams) <- Wvw is steadily decreasing!!!
• After that you think of supporting single team communitys, care about advertising them (like the Seattle Seahawks participating 2 times in a row at the Superbowl).

Then and just then you can talk about server pride being important.

PPS: About your “next big eSports Open World game”…Sigh, stop kidding yourself, you are outright delusional.

My Revenant – Iliáz

http://imgur.com/a/MJlYp

Staff or Sword would be my favourites, but I will leave this completely to you, too.

Alright m8 xD I guess Locus has given up on you, I should do as he did and just leave you be, there is no point in trying to help bad players like you if they don’t even know combat basics as well as trying to defend their utterly bad build, while not knowing the class he is playing at all.

Glaphe confirmed pleb tier player!! Do not bother trying to help him guys.

As a thief i thought you would know how to easily get behind a enemy, apparently you lack that ability too.
Surprise! burn guardian has 0 access to swiftness. Do you know how easy it is to get behind a player who has no swiftness? Apparently not

Yup, you just revealed yourself of having no clue how to fight in melee range, as well as avoiding attacks in melee range.

glaphen.5230:

Dominik.5162:

Lucos gave you so many points on how to avoid getting burned. You only get burned by every 5th attack (unless you trait it, which will render you as a guardian with one less condi removal) for 1 stack with the duration of 3.25 seconds. This will damage your rougly around 2k. Best option to go against a burn guardian is range (as Lucos already said more than once) and to actually be behind or the sides, so attacks won’t hit you as much as standing infront and take Zealot’s Flame/Fire, because i am pretty sure you are doing that.
Another thing is, and has been pointed out by a few people already, your build: You run a Zerker amulet you kitten, but I am pretty sure i know the reason why you took it. That is: The old Zerker amulet is now called Marauder, while the Zerker amulet now actually is full Berserker stats.
Then again Lucos already told you on which classes burn guardian works or not (while disagreeing with the GS/Hammer warrior, they are pretty killable with a burn guardian).
You don’t even know the usage of you class in pvp and loose to burn guardians in unranked, which is even more horrible than if you had lost vs them in ranked, yet you complain.

@Lucos: depending on the comp and enemy spec’s burn guardian is very viable and you actually see skilled players play it in tournaments (f.e. Tage from oRNG), just not as often as other specs.

Your positioning post makes absolutely no sense past the range aspect, is this some keyboard turning kitten now? I am also using Cleric’s amulet, don’t know where you are getting zerker.

My positioning post makes absolutely no sense to you, if you have no clue how melee combat works, which is apparently the case here with you. Basically what i mean is: If you position yourself at a range the burning from Zealot’s won’t affect you, as well as keep yourself behind/at the sides of the guardian, most of it’s autoattacks won’t hit you. Melee combat basics 101.

As for why i thought you were using Zerker Amulet:
1) because of the ~10k health 2) You just revealed your issue, you shouldn’t run Clerics in the first place. In this condition heavy meta, going smth like clerics on thief is absolutely useless, simply by the fact that conditions ignore toughness and the extra healing power won’t help you “outheal” them. Vitality helps alot vs conditons, simple as that.
I guess your clerics are also the reason you’re refering to “Bunker Thief”. Some classes are suited for a bunker role, thief definetely is not…accept that or not, your choice.

glaphen.5230:

Hey kitten, there are build usages in PvP, not class, or are you saying burn Guardian is the same role as bunker or that hammer Warrior is the same as a shout bunker.

I think that are your main issues at combat, the rest is basically a l2p issue at your role in pvp as many pointed out already, e.g. +1’ing enemies and go for fast decaps on undefended places.

Lucos gave you so many points on how to avoid getting burned. You only get burned by every 5th attack (unless you trait it, which will render you as a guardian with one less condi removal) for 1 stack with the duration of 3.25 seconds. This will damage your rougly around 2k. Best option to go against a burn guardian is range (as Lucos already said more than once) and to actually be behind or the sides, so attacks won’t hit you as much as standing infront and take Zealot’s Flame/Fire, because i am pretty sure you are doing that.
Another thing is, and has been pointed out by a few people already, your build: You run a Zerker amulet you kitten, but I am pretty sure i know the reason why you took it. That is: The old Zerker amulet is now called Marauder, while the Zerker amulet now actually is full Berserker stats.
Then again Lucos already told you on which classes burn guardian works or not (while disagreeing with the GS/Hammer warrior, they are pretty killable with a burn guardian).
You don’t even know the usage of you class in pvp and loose to burn guardians in unranked, which is even more horrible than if you had lost vs them in ranked, yet you complain.

@Lucos: depending on the comp and enemy spec’s burn guardian is very viable and you actually see skilled players play it in tournaments (f.e. Tage from oRNG), just not as often as other specs.

My2Cents:

Bow Skills:

Bow #1 projectiles are far too slow, dmg i ok’ish, enemys seem to be able to simply move around them at 900+ range

Bow #2 dmg is perfect, cd is perfect, not being able to move while casting makes the whole skill useless tho.
If you compare this skill to Rapid Fire from the Ranger Longbow and to Volley from the Warrior’s Rifle it makes no sense to make True Shot so static, i’d rather see a 1-2 seconds higher CD than to stand still while casting it.

Bow #5 it absolutely has to have the cage hit sooner or no enemy ever (in PvP/WvW) will be hit by it ever. It doesn’t have to be instant but a bit sooner.

Virtues:

Spear of Justice:
Seems a bit slow as well. When i read the skill description I expected something at the speed of the Necromancers Lifeblast, the overall dmg, burst together with the burning, seemed ok to me

Wings of Resolve:
Best Virtue of all basically (also compared to the old ones), the cast time on this doesn’t hurt because it is executed very fast ( I think exactly as fast as the GS #3 Leap of Faith), very strong together with the trait

Shield of Courage:
Cast time mainly hurts on this one because you can’t execute it while in Renewed Focus, the effect as such is very nice but sadly the cast time seem to restrict most of its potential.
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The Dragonhunter Elite-Specialization Traitline as such isn’t bad, it’s actually good with nice features, BUT the guardian already has 5 other strong traitlines so i don’t see anyone choosing DH over the usual specializations. I already see guardian as very balanced, and there are many viable options in trait choices and playstyle. I fear the DH will mainly have no impact on the guardian (in the current state of it) at HoT release while other classes get very usefull bonuses.

As things stands WvW is more of who acts last tends to win a fight making wvw into more of a waiting game. This stab changes may make wvw into who acts first in the ideal a stun counters a stun.

This.
Players who choose Melee classes mainly choose them to play Melee, and not to wait 5 Minutes for an opportunity to get some people down. The fast gameplay mechanics in this game is the reason why many players still play WvW.
The stability changes will completely remove this from WvW, only to get a waiting game as a result. (Just for the sake of sPvP)
The game will punish players who want to play in a Team (aka only ~3 stacks stability on SyG and such) and reward a more egoistic playstyle.
Make this change a PvE/sPvP only change, because there it actually makes sense.
I still think somebody needs to think this over before implementing the biggest skill change this game has seen in over 2 years!

Nike.2631:

But if they used a brain it might become obvious that Stability doesn’t have to be able to counter infinite skills to still be useful. In fact it might be better if one button push didn’t cancel 10-20 button pushes from other players.

yes because you already need at least 2 guardians to get a decent stability uptime, which wont cover you fulltime. additionaly to this you also have the corrupts (at least dont let this remove all 25 stacks???).
Reading this thread a 50 men enemy zerg might only need to place a few guardian lines to remove every stability stack the melee has (25 men guild with normally 10-12 melee). And there is a huge amount of different CC that will strip stability also.
Worst change of a skill since release imo.

My 2 favourite armor combinations,
going to get The Juggernaut,
hopefully they will look even more awesome with it^^

ah yeah before i forget it:

sorry to every guild we fought and got rofflestomped by HT incing that fight, we did never asked for their help and told them not to do it

Thx TUP for the few fights,
finally we managed to wipe you some times, even tho it was becasue you didn’t had your full strength.
Fights would’ve been even greater without the stupid Lag.

EDIT: Thx FIRE as well

PS: ANet fix your game pls!

but then i don’t get any buffs/boons what ever

Yes i do understand very well thank you for telling me what i already know.
Nethertheless it’s still kittened up and bad.

i am part of a group and part of a guild as well,
before when the boons were going to random persons it was better, now you need like 3 statics to get 20 seconds swiftness on everybody,
it’s just bad, the worst mechanic ever

Please remove it Anet, it’s bad very bad,
you always lacking on buff you need from other Raidmembers.
Worst thing you ever did.
Even worse than the Bloodlustbuff.

Thanks [Meta] and [WdR] for the few fights on Kodash Borderland.

Ok i never expected this

CE video spam…again!

http://youtu.be/-0rMhx2zgjk

milton.1796:

Get the stupid GvG out of WvW and stop wasting slots.

stop wasting GvG slots

Thx HoB for the fights, even if we outnumbered you, you still fought.
You guys have kitten balls!

Alex.2108:

Nice Fights against Lion and FRS in DL BL. And the siege at garrison just…..lol.
One question to CE tho: are all of the guys from CE ex ECL members?
Greets

CE is a merge of Eclipse Gaming [ECL] and Apocaliptic Legends [Al] from SFR.
And I think some are from The Civil Rebels [RiOT], but not sure.

ahh ok thought they were a bigger group of 20-25 like us.

thx for the fights tonight, first on EB and then on the Borderlands.
shame we haven’t met yet iCoN
looking forward to the next days

Marty we’re just existing 3 days or something

Los Re.4607:

I smell a gvg incoming!

Naah I don’t think so^^

Epic first funraid today on EB.
Thanks for the fights!

Looking forward to my very first raid with the new guild on a new server.
Let’s have some great fights

Luiz, this is a really good idea in my opinion,
maybe it could save our kitten.

About the price: The potion of ascalonian mages is expensive too, but many are using it!

MartyPartys.9187:

The new Gw2 GvG website is live!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/events/The-new-Gw2-GvG-website-is-live

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omg awesome :o -

I hope this is not the end, i just took part in 2 scrims with my old guild

The solution is so easy:

The Team of GW2 has to love this game as much as the Team of GW1 loved GW1, then they would accept and understand this community!

best regards

with “sfr” he means kodash and with “blobs” he means SM

like always it’s my opinion not ECL’s
seems like GD do very much PvD Rank 830 wow…

Seuche you know all are laughing about you?
ohh wait…it’s nothing new for you

Danielle.3152:

Unless other dramatic changes are coming to the WvW point system together with this, the best WvW servers will be those that PvDoor all objectives while others sleep and play Sim(Siege)Wars 2 upgrading all their objectives to t3 and siegeing them with dozens of arrowcarts and few trebs inside. This is how the wvw point system always worked. Only this time, the servers will get rewarded with epic lootz and achievements for their heroic PvP (not) effort. I guess they will deserve them for all those sleepless nights spent defeating doors and the boils on their bottoms from all the sitting on arrow carts and trebuchets.

I think I prefer the current system where the ‘reward’ for such activities on the EU ladder is a higher probability of facing Vizunah Square.

What he said!!

Muhahahahahahah MoS closed their website??
So let’s discuss about the reasons:
Mhm i think it’s pretty obvious, they disturbed a GvG twice and got wiped twice.
Then tried to take hills and got wiped twice again!

Poor Vizunah, never seen something like this ;D
And i still can’t stop laughing xD

Darkened.4076:

ShangriLa.3859:

ECL raid – elementalist POV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8O8RBkmx8Q

For future reference, if you want a ‘serious’ fight, then accept the GvG request, since this is the only format at the moment where this can properly occur.

Also I seem to remember wiping you, BOOM, OSC, ZB’s and some other guild at the same time on a BL repeatedly throughout the week in the previous reset (Which we also have footage of – this was mainly to combat the idiot comment of ‘your using AC’s’). However, while we would start one fight with one guild, others would repeatedly try to side plant/flank us at the same time in the middle of a fight. So please don’t pretend to be ‘above’ it with such a ridiculous statement mid video.

While we try to ask other guilds not to interfere (and we practice this ourselves) we are not in control of their forces (nor would I want to be), and they have a right to act as they please.

Didn’t you read the description of the video?
“Having fun with desolation guilds”…
We know you had wiped us before, but he complained in this video, because we were prepared for another nice fight with you and a second guild wanted to inc in this fight, and we never do or did something like this!

The most epic reset ever!!!
thx for the fights with Coin, DVG, Irae, GoD, and both zergs from Elona and Desolation.
Thanks for this, really heavy fights!

Benjamin.7893:

Junkpile.7439:

Benjamin.7893:

Gogogo Vizunah you can do it!

Do what?

Win the matchup ofcourse.

Its actually quite amusing but it just proves what everyone knows… you are not very skilled individually.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/soloarena

Gz for the rank.
But every Server has good players, like kodash they got Buka.

Thx Unit for the nice fights tonight.

iiMulch.2138:

Covis.6037:

Merc The Forgotten.5610:

It made me sad how much sfr runs now.

Its sad how GoD is Iron V.2 and cannot admit it (dont even try to qq back)
Blob win best win as always.

It’s funny because GoD existed before Iron and we had no Iron members join us at all since they disbanded. They formed other Deso guilds. You just mad because you are bad.

Well, GoD isn’t a bad guild, but I have to admit you guys run with like 40-45 ppl sometimes.
On the other hand GoD improved that they can also run with like 20-25 ppl.

But don’t blame other players for blobbing, remember you did it too

Thanks XT and DSun for the fights tonight!

Just making fun (have bad internet atm, so wvw is a clip show and i’m bord :P )

btw nice video of sparring fights with Second Law, they were amazing

Imacop.6409:

Dominik.5162:

yeah that’s true.
good situation for you GD guys :P

Now they can get all 23 in BG fast .

“23”^^

yeah that’s true.
good situation for you GD guys :P

Dayra’s trolling around just cause his/her server is failing <3