Guild Wars 2

Peetee.9406:

You get 5-10 points per person that touches the yak. I know it’s never really been exploited but you could win a match simply by yak slapping if you could discipline people into tapping once and backing off.

Well, I guess someone is eventually going to come around and correct you, might as well be me.

You don’t get 5-10 points per person that touches the yak.

Great post summarizing my feelings. That being said WvW has many other flaws that need to be adressed.

Lots of testing™ needs to be done before they can push out updates.

Atherakhia.4086:

lol, no.

Most servers out there play with a queue.

What?

By now I am thoroughly convinced that all devs play in T1 and think they are up there because of skill.

fett.9573:

amazing the amount of crying that goes on on the forums. Are we going to have another 10+ threads from the gvg crowd crying about the new buff now? (vocal minority and all, of course they will listen to you! /sarcasm off

If you are the majority you could call us the intelligent minority instead.

No. The whole point of this system is to reward bad casuals.

I don’t see the stats increasing siege damage, so there can’t be a power creep. WvW is about sieging and holding objectives.

Right?

red.2387:

While you’re looking at Rune sets can you fix this set’s 6 piece bonus? It hasn’t worked since launch. It does nothing.

Nope

Entropy.4732:

After considerable hours in WvW since the new matching system, I really miss the old system. And here’s why:

1) In the old days when you went up a server rank it felt like a huge victory. And when you went down it felt like a crushing loss.

Can’t agree here. 95% of the times you could tell who would win a match up after the weekend, and you still can. +/- 1 rank often meant a huge difference in population and coverage disparity.

Entropy.4732:

2) The matches are totally not even.

Again, they weren’t even back then either. For example, here is T5 up until the system changed:

Week 1: 140k win.
Week 2: 370k win.
Week 3: 520k win.
Week 4: 170k win.
Week 5: 180k win.
Week 6: 180k win.
Week 7: 110k win.
Week 8: 150k win.
Week 9: 240k win.
Week 10: 34k win.
Week 11: 100k win.
Week 12: 46k win.
Week 13: 50k win.
Week 14: 50k win.
Week 15: 30k win.
Week 16: 75k win.
Week 17: 100k win.
Week 18: 90k win.

Entropy.4732:

3) This may seem like a minor quip in comparison, but WvW ranks feel strange.

I agree, but I would prefer it if they did away with them completely, or exclusively rewarded them for time spent in WvW, not favoring one type of game play over another.

Chris.3290:

Weekend is over. EhmBay will fade but Maguuma usually gets going. Might still be some fun left in the week. Plus with ram mastery starting on Tuesday it should get a little crazy.

o.O

How far down the path of zergling do you have to walk to consider something like Ram Mastery “a little crazy”?

In a huge zerg the stat increase might not matter a lot, but it does when you are roaming.

Coincidentally, players who roam have a much harder time by far to obtain these two traits.

GuardianOMS.8067:

EFWinters.5421:

I have never seen a bad joke fly so far above someones head ever before.

You know the first statement was a joke too, right?

No it wasn’t.

GuardianOMS.8067:

EFWinters.5421:

Player Character.9467:

You don’t get dragonite from towers either o.O

GuardianOMS.8067:

And you don’t get dragonite ore from tower lords.

Please tell me you guys aren’t actually this dense?

Dragonite ore comes from keep lords. You get empyreal fragments from tower lords. I feel bad being able to out pvd/pve someone.

Exactly, so if you defend a keep you won’t have the chance to cap it back for Dragonite ore.

I have never seen a bad joke fly so far above someones head ever before.

Player Character.9467:

You don’t get dragonite from towers either o.O

GuardianOMS.8067:

And you don’t get dragonite ore from tower lords.

Please tell me you guys aren’t actually this dense?

GuardianOMS.8067:

Okay, EBay, this is the second reset in a row this had happened. You lane break to get a southern tower from Mag and you end up losing your keep because if it.

Why?

You don’t get Dragonite Ore from defending a keep.
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Hey everyone, this looks like it could be an interesting week.

EV is looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

See ya in-game, and GLHF everyone!

How I read this; buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs buffs.

I personally think most things need to be tuned down in this game, not experience a power creep. Are you just going to keep buffing everything ad infinitum?

“Bringing skills in line” with others can go both ways, you know.

Play how you want™
WvW is casual™
WvW was never supposed to be balanced™

Pick any one of these and you basically have a dev response in this thread. Good luck in S1!

sPvE*

1. No 2v2/3v3/5v5 death match.
2. No gear combinations.
3. Boring meta game

I can get a much better PvP experience by playing WvW.

Hey SWäG, if you laugh just a little bit more maybe you will be able to kill us Zv2 at least once tonight.

Zergling mentality akittens finest.

Knoptix.5712:

EFWinters.5421:

Amins.3710:

EFWinters.5421:

To the OBEY group in Kaineng BL; lets go. 2v3 behind Windmill (our third had to log).

This wouldn’t happen to be the same OBEY Warrior (/cough Guardian) we had the decency to ~run~ from us yesterday, would it?

Pretty sure it wasn’t. I guess it’s a guild thing.

I can’t wait for this match up to be over. Garbage roamers from both servers.

wait what? can’t hear you all the way down there on the leader boards

Oh, my bad. I’ll make sure to put on my best door costume next time I try to speak with anyone from SoS.

Trash…

Amins.3710:

EFWinters.5421:

To the OBEY group in Kaineng BL; lets go. 2v3 behind Windmill (our third had to log).

This wouldn’t happen to be the same OBEY Warrior (/cough Guardian) we had the decency to ~run~ from us yesterday, would it?

Pretty sure it wasn’t. I guess it’s a guild thing.

I can’t wait for this match up to be over. Garbage roamers from both servers.

To the OBEY group in Kaineng BL; lets go. 2v3 behind Windmill (our third had to log).

Hexxed.8023:

Fox.3562:

GvG Results: 1-0 GF. vH never came back for round 2.

This will be the only post regarding this issue. It was agreed upon last Monday with [GF] for a rated 20v20 GvG. This was even verified by myself an hour beforehand to one of the [GF] guild leaders. On the field 1 minute before the match is supposed to start. I was pm’ed from 3 different [GF]‘s on how they were unable to field 20 against us. So [GF] wanted an unrated 15v15 GvG. We accepted, when the 15v15 GvG started; [GF].[pk], and several other guilds hit us off their spectator hill. Around 34 people hit 15 vH’s during the GvG and claimed it was a victory.

If you need to call other guilds, and all your spectators off your hill to hit us to win an unrated GvG you wanted, so be it. We take it as a compliment you guys need to outnumber us more than 2:1 to win in GvG.

This entire event was recorded as well. With all other guilds and spectators helping them.

Have a good evening.

Post video with voip chatter please.

MartyPartys.9187:

Before we’d turn this place into our playground, I think I’m forced to reveal some stuff about the upcoming gw2gvg website..

The new website is going to focus more on becoming a tool, an archive and a social platform, rather than just the leaderboards it is now.

This means, that the leaderboards will not be the page anymore once you enter the website, but it will be an overview of what has been happening, or going to happen. What I mean by that is that the homepage is going to show the following sections:

- Upcoming matches,
- Latest matches
- Popular matches
- Latest GvG showdown episode (updates realtime)
- Latest videos placed on the website
- Latest comments placed on the website

And all sections will be supplied with the info if the match is official/friendly, has a video or not and if new comments have been placed.

So.. what are the comments I’m talking about? Well basicly what you guys just suggested here, every match will have it’s own comment section, where the match can be discussed. The match page is also going to show all the videos of the match that have been added by their members.

Now, to prevent any trolling from happening, you are going to need a Gw2 GvG account in order to be able to post a comment, this means that in the future you won’t log in as your guild anymore but as ‘you’. On the website you can apply to a guild which has to be approved by a member with the rank to do so.

That the website is going to focus more on being a tool/archive/social platform doesn’t mean the leaderboards are going away. Quite the opposite actually, the leaderboards will come with major improvements that will keep the incentive up for guilds to stay active in the GvG scene and also in different categories (10,15,20,25) without punishing the guilds that do not stay active.

If enough are interested, I could look into setting up a forum hosted on the gw2gvg website, this will however take the attention away from the devs as I don’t expect them to check the website reguraly, or at all.

Also, I will contact everyone that has signed up for the alpha testing tomorrow, so if you want in send me a PM by tomorrow

Are there any plans of introducing a leaderboard for GvG’s with 5 or less players per team? It doesn’t seem like a complicated thing to do and I know a lot of people would like it.

Draygo.9473:

EFWinters.5421:

Draygo.9473:

Man Ebay hates defending. They would rather chase 5 people around hills with 15 people than defend that hills.

Defending hills doesn’t give me the same satisfaction that offending you enough to make you post on the forums does.

Or maybe you are just upset we had you in a 2v5 the other day?

Not offended at all that you did thakittens pretty much what both SoS and Ebay seem to like to do, chase small parties with large groups and don’t give up till they port or get caught.

I’m just laughing about it.

And who are you? I don’t remember your guild being apart of the group chasing us.

It wouldn’t have mattered to me if you outnumbered us instead, I would chase you all the same.

Draygo.9473:

Man Ebay hates defending. They would rather chase 5 people around hills with 15 people than defend that hills.

Defending hills doesn’t give me the same satisfaction that offending you enough to make you post on the forums does.

Or maybe you are just upset we had you in a 2v5 the other day?

Hey everyone, I have been having a lot of fun this week.

EV is still looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

Canar.2064:

What about 1v1’s? And can it be cross-guild? Haha. I got a good combo for them threes.

Not interested in 1v1’s.

Hey everyone, this looks like it could be an interesting week.

EV is looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

See ya in-game, and GLHF everyone!

I doubt it, Devon’s message on the matter was pretty clear.

My biggest worry is that the range between the ruins will be too small, allowing a single larger group to perpetually control at least three of them with ease.

Queensdale. Had no problems since the patch except during invasions which is to be expected, but after this driver update my FPS literally dropped to 10 where it used to be ~50.

I installed the latest Nvidia driver today because I needed it for Saints Row IV. However, when I wanted to take a break from that and play some GW2 instead, I noticed my FPS had dropped from a steady 50-60FPS on medium settings to 10FPS!

I tried deleting my local.dat file, restarting my computer, reinstalling the drivers, but nothing seems to work. My computer is not overheating either so that’s not the problem. What gives? Is anyone else having these problems? Anyone know why they might be happening?

30min cool down? What the hell?

I was super excited when I saw the combat transformation text, figuring it would be exactly what it turned out to be. But if I can’t use it for a majority of the time I guess I just wasted ~10 hours of my life farming for this tonic.

I’m seriously disappointed.

Hello everyone, great week so far. EV has been having lots of fun despite only running with two players. Call me crazy but it seems that more and more people break away from the zerg (or maybe it’s just my timezone). Anyway, we are still very much looking for mainly 2v2’s but also 3v3’s.

Have fun and cya in-game.

Everglow.2185:

So where are all the EB roamers today? All I can find are runners or people who only fight 10v1

How exactly are you going about finding said roamers?

Hey everyone, this looks like it could be an interesting week.

EV is looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

See ya in-game, and GLHF everyone!

But precursors drop from rank chests!

Good post, but I don’t think it will all be implemented.

For me, removing player damage to gates and reducing treb range would work wonders.

Wotah.2975:

Let’s see you’re fighting 3 (Ranger, Warrior, Guardian), 4th (Mesmer) jumped in late. You died, and you’re crying foul? O_o

Could the Ranger have used Quickening Zephyr?

And the insta stomp thing wasn’t so instant, I would have to say that was a lag spike. Or maybe perhaps something they’ve done with the code on what effects you’re seeing.

Ahahahaha are you serious? Did you see the Guardian autoattacking with staff at the end?

Wouldn’t surprise me if you knew these guys, being from the same server and all. Your credibility is 0.

Lert.6287:

If I was being whiny, I’d say “ANet doesn’t care about roamers”.

Devon, could you mention to us something about roaming? Not everyone is fan of zerging play-style and ANet mentioned few times big changes on this matter, yet nothing happened so far.
It’s pretty understandable that 5man group shouldn’t be able to do, what 30man group does, or do way less and being over-rewarded for that. But still, “roamers could use some love”. I’d love to see increasing AoE cap to 7, which would help in outnumbered small scale fights.
And thanks for your previous answers. Can’t wait for water area to by dryed (tho it could stay on ~3k radius) to see new interesting place to fight on.

Why would they do anything to improve the life of roamers? They make up 1% of WvW population, if even that.

I mean, you don’t think that introducing WXP ranks was to appeal to the hard core WvW players right? :S

Evalana.5480:

EFWinters.5421:

Please note that I always state the week is going to be “interesting” to start off courteously, but since this thread is already in the gutter let me just say that fighting BP is about as interesting as fighting a dead fish.

Oh I couldn’t agree more. We are just a bunch of wet noodles wiggling this way and that. So many bads. But the same can be said about just any of the 3 servers in this matchup, in my opinion. I do enjoy fighting Ebay though – both on and off the forums!

If 99% of BP was bad and 1% good I would be OK with that but there is literally not a single group that is even half-decent outside of their zerg.

I have played against EB and I can’t say the same about them.

Please note that I always state the week is going to be “interesting” to start off courteously, but since this thread is already in the gutter let me just say that fighting BP is about as interesting as fighting a dead fish.

So, since you are posting now. Does the dev team feel that Runes of Perplexity are in a good spot right now, or is it a case of being the weekend so you can’t get a hotfix out until Monday?

This set is used as the major source of damage by most people who use it, what other rune set is used like that?

Anything in this game short of dodging and walking is an interruptible action. There is absolutely no skill involved with this runeset. Just spam your interrupts and watch your enemy one shot themselves with 20-25 stacks of confusion before they even realise they have them.

Hey everyone, this looks like it could be an interesting week.

EV is looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

See ya in-game, and GLHF everyone!

Queen’s Jubilee

Queen’s Gauntlet: Adjusted the rewards given for defeating Subject 7, the veteran ooze.
Queen’s Gauntlet: Fixed issue where Subject 7’s Oozes would not despawn after a fight in certain circumstances.

WvW

Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented loot from dropping off players in WvW.

General

Fixed the “Daily Karma Spender” achievement.
Fixed a crash bug.

Performance

Fixed a bug that would cause some maps to take longer to load than was necessary.

Seigfried.5938:

lordkrall.7241:

^ What about the new graphic options and champion loot? I suppose those won’t count because they were added to PvE as well?

If you want to pvdoor all day, no problem. But I prefer hours long seiges.

Hour long sieges hardly exist anymore. Now it’s just lol 20 Omega rush. Fail? Move maps and try again.

Of course we should have all seen it coming with the ADD of most WvW players.

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

Do you realize that WvW will NEVER pay the bills? They have to go with SPvP, or PvE, but that’s it. PvE brings in cash, and SPvP might have a chance at an esport (I don’t think GW2 is anywhere close to remotely being close to ready, but that’s a different discussion). WvW brings almost nothing to the sustainability of the game.

Ask yourself this, how many people do you know in WvW that have spent 50$ or up on the game post release? If you’re wvw friends are like mine your answer will be 1/2. While I’ve spent over 200$ on the game, and most of my friends that PvE put in 30$ or so a month towards the game. Maybe it’s just my experience, but PvE players seem to put their money into the game, while WvW players don’t. I’m fairly certain Anet has noticed this too, and while they aren’t entirely ignoring WvW they are going with their money makers.

This should be a good thing though. In the end it means that eventually they will get around to doing better stuff for wvw. They won’t if they can’t keep the doors open though, and they need to do two things for that: 1) FIX SPVP/TPVP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and 2)keep PvE players happy. Then when they have a chance they can fix WvW.

Btw for anyone here that thinks "oh this guy never wvws, doesn’t pvp, etc please look at my history. I’ve put so much into wvw. I’m just being honest here, and I think if more of you were honest about how important WvW is overall you would say the same.

Why would I give them any money when they bring nothing at all of meaning to WvW? Why would I support a company in the hopes that they may give me some update in the next year? We all knew how well that went, you know, with having to fund the expansion for GW2 before it was even released. Lol.

If they gave WvW something meaningful then I would support them, but I’m not going to sit here and throw my money at them in return for nothing.

I hope they increase(d?) the damage to 33% of total HP for loot, and 50% for WXP.