I play a male warrior and I prefer the way the female character runs with the greatsword than the way the males do. It looks much cooler dragging the blade behind you than it is holding it like it’s a flag while running. However, when standing still the male pose is better. I do hope one day Arena will change the male running animation to something similar. I would like it to look like how the samurai runs with a sword, holding the greatsword in one dragging it behind us when we run and with two hands when we stop.
No matter how u look at the footprints, it’s always a bright blue color. If the footprints can get other color of sunrise at different angle, it would fit. But as of now, it’s always a bright blue sky. And even looking at sunrise from ground up, it’s a darker grayish blue, nothing close to the clear blue sky of the footprints.
The footprints of Sunrise looks like a clear blue sky in the afternoon, not like the sky at sunrise. I would love a change to the footprints to keep to the theme of sunrise.
I would love to take advantage of this and move to a low population server but looks like all servers in NA is label High or Very High. If this is not accurate, hope Arena fix it.
I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.
It’s ~48g to xfter to Devona’s Rest right now. That’s not too expensive, you’re making excuses.
48g is expensive. I’m going broke trying to lvl up my crafting and getting the gear I want. Normally my money hovers around 10g.
I would gradly transfer there if the transfer is free. Right now the tranfer fee is just too expensive. Arena should make transfers to struggling server free for a limited time.
30 is too low though ….. it should be enough to have a ‘small’ reasonable sized zerg – because that’s how wars were really fought – and enough extra men to cover your other maps … but they really should allow private wvw gvg fights to allow casual players to play with casual players and hard core players to play for rank in organized wvw – this way the top tier servers aren’t destroyed either ….they are after all like minded players – so they should be allowed to be competitive – but not at the casual players expense
The number isn’t fixed. Basically the server with the lowest number in the match up always sets the amount of players base. If the lowest server has 100 players, then the new limit is 100. So if more players shows up the limit will also increase. So the idea encourages players to spread out to other servers if they want to have a higher number of players playing. This is similar to how Spvp balance the number of players in each team.
Another way to spread out the population in all servers is let’s say if one server has 30 players in WvW, then the other two servers are limited to 30 players at a time and the rest will be on que. The more players are playing the bigger the amount of players will get into WvW. This will solve the whole outmanned problem since no server will out number the other. And if you belong in a big server, chances are you won’t get to play much. So players will eventually be driven to tranfer to lower population server if they want to play a lot of WvW. So this system encourages players to spread out to other servers so more can play at the same time as well as ensure balance play.
No need to transfer when guesting is just as good and free. Players whose home world is BG can’t get in themselves. So even if you tranfer you’ll still be stuck in overflow just as the guests are. I think you just need to change your perspective because you’re looking at it in the wrong way. PvE content is mainly for everyone. Guesting allows everyone in Guild Wars community to play with each other. So why attach any server pride to completing PvE content? Transfering to a server should be done because you want to represent that server in WvW or if you particularly like a certain server because of their community. But where you complete your content shouldn’t matter much as long as you can still play with your friends. I enjoy playing content with nice people from all other servers as well as my fellow Kainengs.
I agree with OP that the rewards need to warrant such a difficult challenge or else players will not attempt it again, much like other difficult content. I think a worthy reward for killing him is 3 gold, a guaranteed exotic item, several t6 mats, and 3 bonus chest, and 1% chance at Ascended gear and 5% chance at Teq skins drop.
Furthermore I just looked at the most loopsided battle on NA (t8) and atm one server has 2 buffs and 1 server has 1 buff, and both servers are losing to the winner of the tier by 200k points difference…
Of course this will occur because the winner has already been decided. So the winning server is just cruising to victory and don’t need to hold the buffs anymore. But when the match was fresh, the dominant server held all 3 buffs most of the time to get the big lead. You have to observe how the match plays out throughout the entire week, not at the end when it’s pretty much over and no one cares.
We went out in the actual Guild Wars world today. She was fighting mobs in Metrica Province all by herself. She wouldn’t let me help her. Granted she’s level 15, but hey! It’s a start! She’d read their level and say, “These bad guys do 4 damage.”
lol that’s cute. Record her fighting the mobs next time. Would enjoy seeing her reactions.
I am against any form of stat boost. Outmanned should solve the core of the problem by giving the outmanned server more npcs to help them defend and attack. A few champions and veterans would be great. Imagine attacking a keep with the Aetherblade pirates as your allies. Heck let’s Scarlett be our commander. lol
The problem is that what would happen is you’d have, say 59 players, and then say 5 more people join. If you don’t scale the time when more people come in then people would just leave until the event started, then flood in and easily beat it. If you did scale it immediately though, you’d have people getting mad at people for joining the fight, and that’s not fun for anybody.
Your suggestion might kinda work for scaling instanced content, but if it was instanced then your suggestion wouldn’t really be needed.
Cool to share your ideas though! Thanks!
Good feedback. A solution is when the event is announced, players has 3 minutes window to get in to the action. Once Teq shows up and the fight begins, the event is locked and the timer will be adjusted to number of players present. Other players trying to get in after the fight has already started will be thrown into an overflow with a new event that will start soon. This will be similar to how the Scarlett’s events worked.
I’m sure Arena didn’t intend for all servers to crowd into a few major server to complete this event. But the way it’s design, the players from mid-to-low servers don’t have a choice but to do so. Now we have all this overflow problems. The solution is to scale the event properly so that it’s not easier but possible to complete this event with 40 minimum players. And the simpliest way to do so is extend the time required base on number of players present. So 40-50 players, give them 30 minutes timer. 60-70 will have 25 minutes. 70-80 will get 20 minutes. 80+ 15 minutes as normal. These are just rough estimates, you can adjust them accordingly.
I was with a smaller zerg group this morning and we managed to get Teq to 50%, had the timer be adjusted to our population size, we would come close to defeating him, instead of seeing it as insurmountable task.
I used to main a thief. In fact, I have two lvl 80 thief with different builds. But like you, I was a bit tired of feeling squishy. So I tried out the warrior and now it’s my main. Warriors is fun and I have an easier time going 1vX with him than I do on my thief. While the thief has stealth for escaping bad situation, warriors can do so as well with his greatsword mobility skills. In the past, warriors were terrible and free kills if they roam. Today, warriors can hold their own in duels. In fact, I have an easier time beating thieves on my warrior than I do on my thief. Warriors are fun. You have to try them out yourself to know if it’s for you. I recommend go with the standard mace/shield and greatsword combo. It’s pretty good for roaming.
It would be great if all dungeons have one path that is soloable. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. But the challenge will be fun and offer those players who prefer solo content a means to get dungeon gears without having to find groups.
No thanks. Don’t like instances. One of the reason I hated raids and even dungeons is the time it requires to form a group. The open world system is perfect. You can get into the action right away. If you want to take down Teq, you just have to organize your own groups as how BG and Desolation did to achieve their goals. Guild Wars want to branch away from traditional mmorpg style instances and embrace open world raids. This is the best idea they have come up with. Why ruin it by locking other players out of it? So NO, making this event an instance is a bad idea. It will simply give Elitist players power over others. I don’t want Guild Wars to become another WoW.
She isn’t a fan of Asuras.. she thinks they’re ugly. lol. She likes the Norn a lot, though. I have a Norn Ranger named Aubree Swiftpaw, that’s her favorite.
Well, the male Asuras are pretty ugly I admit. But the female Asuras are darn cute. They are like little cute babies running around the game, just like Bree.
It’s funny that she love the Norns. They are much harder to do jumping puzzles with. Post a pic of this Aubree Swiftpaw.
Obviously this has nothing to do with the buff. Kaineng was doing this to you guys over the weekend as well. You have a rank 14 server going against a rank 19 and 21. It would be like Blackgate going against Dragonbrand and Maguuma. Kaineng also barely broke 100k last week while Dragonbrand almost hit 400k.
Actually the impact of the Bloodlust buffs is sigificant. I’m from Kaineng. Although we were winning, SF and GoM were holding their own. Now after the patch, our server lead has widen significantly. There is a psychology disadvantage when your opponent see’s their enemy has all 3 buffs, some players give up and the dominating servers continues to faceroll the remainder players. It’s simply unfair advantage with the buffs. And that’s why I refuse to play even if I was the beneficiary of the buffs. I get no pleasure from winning with an unfair advantage. The strong shouldn’t be made stronger, it’s no way to promote competition. The power orbs were removed because the previous dev had come to that realization. I can’t believe we are revisiting the same issue once again.
I love those jump pads from Teq Event. It was so fun just bouncing back and forth. I would love to have those inside the major cities like Divinity Reach. It would be amazing to see the city while propel up into the air.
After the roll out of the Bloodlust buff, I decided to voice my opposition to this idea by refusing to play WvW until it is removed. We all know World vs World isn’t meant to be balance and we’re not trying to seek perfect balance. But fairness is something we can all appreciate. When the strong has gotten stronger and the weak is weaker. The game isn’t no longer about competition but abuse. The buff might not affect the Tier 1 and Tier 2 servers which have almost equal amount of players competing. But the rest of the servers will just get thrashed, forcing WvW players to further consolidate on the top servers. World vs World is my favorite part of Guild Wars II and I hate to see the direction it’s moving toward. The joy of 1vX, 1v1, or GvG is now ruined. The type of gameplay which is as much a part of World vs World. Therefore, to try and reverse the course of this recent update, I refuse to play and hope others join me so our message will be heard loud and clear.
I encounter this problem many times when fighting the Champion Risen Abomination at the end of Plinx event in Orr or the one in Gendarran Fields. He’ll throw his club at you and runs after it, which sometimes causes him to get out of combat and resets his hp. This is annoying when you almost kill him then he resets. Please shorten the distance of his moves so he doesn’t run out of his combat zone.
Whenever a high tier server is match against 2 low tier servers, the outcome is obvious and it isn’t pretty. The high tier server owning 90% of the all the maps. WvW isn’t fun when you have zero chance. Now with talk of Bloodlust buff, the bullies are even more powerful?! Yea let’s just punish the low tier servers even more so they don’t even want to show up in WvW. It’s no wonder so many guilds have jump ship into high tier servers. I understand Arena want a more variety matchups but you have to offer the low tier servers some support. I suggest giving the outnumbered servers npcs to help them fight the massive zergs. A few champions and veterans like the Aetherblade Pirates from Scarlet’s event could help them defend their Garrison. Or allow the two low tier servers to form an Alliance against the high tier server even though it will still be a mismatch at least the odds are better. I enjoy playing in low tier server and the challenge that comes with being outnumbered. But if I have to go 1v5 with those 5 players having 150+ stats boost, yea I might as well quit WvW.
I don’t do dailies everyday. I’m against the idea of forcing players to do a list of things they may not want to do. Playing Guild Wars should be about doing what you enjoy. Dailies makes it feel like you have chores to do before u get to go play. That’s not fun. Dailies and Monthlies should be eliminated. They should just drop the laurels currency idea. Instead make used of karma points to purchase Ascended Trinkets. But you can only purchase one item bi-weekly, which is about the rate at which they want you to acquire the gears.
Come to think of it, I think the worst idea that came out of Arena are Dailies. It really took the fun out of the game and made it into a chore. It pressure players to log on everyday. You should be able to take a break without feeling you are falling behind. Yes, we know dailies are not required or needed. But most who enjoys the game will want the best for their toons and keep up with the rest of their friends. Time gating should be done more cleverly so that it’s not a chore list just like how they are now doing it with Ascended weapons through time gated ingredients. Dailies and Monthlies should just be eliminated.
Legendaries should be account bound rather than soul bound. And they shouldn’t be able to be sold on Trading Post, same goes for Ascended Gears as well. Ascended gears should also come with adjustable stats.
I think they should slow down the animation of the flaming twirl that wraps around you when you wield the incinerator. That’s is the best part about the incinerator but you could barely see the effect before it vanishes. When the animation is slowed down dramatically, it really stand out. Watch this video to see what I mean:
I would also love for the flaming twirl to constantly appear around you when ur character is standing idle. That would be a great addition. I rather have that than bigger footprints.
Eeehhhhhh, tbh, I find the idea of running up to a dragon and whacking it with a sword/other melee weapon/regular skills silly. I mean, why does it even land to fight you?
The Dragons don’t choose to land. They are brought down by cannons, just like in Jormag event. That’s why it’s a coordinated effort by both npcs and players. Zhaitan will try to take to the sky again and again, but we need to force him back down with cannons. He’ll send waves of risens to try to destroy our cannons which we have to protect. Once Zhaitan is hurt, he’ll have to land temporarily but at different locations in Orr, where players need to be there to do damage. I do like your idea of using airships in this event. We can have some players take to the sky in airships and use their range weapons to shoot him. The fight will be both in the sky and on the ground. That would be epic. The whole point is the final battle with Zhaitan should be a world event which involves key nps (the crew from Destiny’s Edge) and players from all of tyria coming together to defeat him.
Not everyone wants to do Fractals. Ascended gears being best in slot should be available through many avenues not only one way. While we are on this subject, when will Valkyrie stats come out for Ascended Trinkets? Been waiting so long now.
A lot of people on this thread needs to think if they actually want to play the MMO genre in general, not just GW2. The same people who are acting like ANet is bringing out WoW gear grind where you need to get best in slot gear pre-raid, then raid multiple times per week, just to get DKP, with the chance that said item will drop, if you have the DKP to even get it, when in fact it may not drop period. MMO’s are grinds if you hadn’t found that out before GW2 you have now and there are way more bothersome issues GW2 has then this. I refuse to believe people who complain about grind in GW2 have played ANY other MMO.
Have you heard of GW1? It didn’t have those gear treadmill, grinding for stats. So you think it’s unreasonable for players that play the sequel to be disappointed that they are tricked into another grind-fest MMO? The biggest selling point of Guild Wars is that it’s not like other MMOS. The president of Arenanet even said so himself.
Bump. Considering the amount of time to acquire an Ascended gear, it should have a salvageable or refundable option for those who change their builds to reflect the current meta.
From the personal story, players are lead to believe Zhaitan is the greatest threat to Tyria. But the final battle was anticlimactic. His defeat ends not with a bang but a whimper. I didn’t even get to chop him. It felt like I was just a spectator watching the cannons kill him. It was such a disappointing end to my personal story.
I would have prefer the last mission “Victory or Death of Zhaitain” to be a world event where players all around Tyria has to assemble to take him down, just like the new Tequatl event that is coming. Make the battle epic. I would love to see an army of risens rushing at us. Zhaitan flying around to different locations in Orr so players have to spread out to defeat him or else his hp regenerates. Of course there is a time limit to succeed or fail the event. This event should be the hardest. He’s freaking Zhaitan afterall. Give him cool looking attacks and clever mechanics. Don’t make him like Shatterer who looks like he was asleep the entire time we were killing him.
I hope this is in the works.
PS: Make sure Trahearne shows up to this battle and Zhaitan eats him while he’s delivering his speech to rally the troops.
I have a few Ascended trinkets that I no longer need due to changing my build. I would like to salvage them to recoup some of my laurels or for ascended crafting materials.
