Guild Wars 2

Quite simply I will no longer be attacking either of the lower towers in home borderlands,
No offense to the weaker servers but the stronger ones have already begun to exploit this event to fully supply a huge zerg.
If anything remove the supply part of it and give them ready made siege and add on the supply camps as well in the off the map.
TBH they might as well make those two towers immune and perma in the hands of the respective server at Teir one.
I stated before when news of this came out that I would have to see it in action before I gave my viewpoint on it.
I have and my viewpoint is of the above.
the other point I’d like to make is that there is no real stop gap between this event and needs a timer of at least 3 hours.

REMOVE THE EVENT IT’S KILLED WvWvW and all we hold dear to it.
The time between events is way to short, and has just become another way to farm Karma.
This even makes a mockery of the whole aspect of WvWvW and forces players of lesser numbers to hand the larger zerg servers free karma, badges and kills.
The idea was nice but to me it has fully ruined any form of tactical play.
Sorry Anet but you’ve made this player very unhappy indeed

We have one earlier today when a server had the event started it yet zerged the camps before going back to take the tower.
A lock out should include Camps as well if a server is fully of the map that is including the camps then the event starts but once a camp or other point giving thing is taken then the event fails simples.
the other point I’d like to make is the timer between these events.
it is way to short and is open for abuse big time, not only for the Karma farm but also a large zerg could get all the troops fully supplied before heading out to reap havoc without even trying.
Please Anet make it at least 2 hours between events

With Bessie at our side we will prevail

Can we move on please and let Anet deal with it now just report them and have done with it.
Other than leaving the game there is nothing we can do about it unless Anet act upon it and trust me if they don’t act players will leave the game

Meh all I’ll say is if they attack me then I’ll attack back otherwise just go get it JP’s shouldn’t be in WvW anyways pulls far to many players away from the fun

Lets just hope that now Anet have somewhat got on top of the botters they will now be looking into the hackers and exploiters.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again players like these no matter what guild, server or nation are bring the whole game into disrepute.
All we can do as players is report it to them, the more we do it the more they are likely to heed the warning signs that things like this are more than likely going to drive players away from the game than entice them to it.
I will state this here and now if I spot anyone even from my own server or guild from now on I will screen shot and report it in game and also directly to Anet: exploits@arena.net.
Maybe it’s time Anet also went down the road with games masters where players can contact one whom can stealth view the action going on directly like the vast majority of other mmos have in place.
Till then I will keep fighting the good fight as well as getting my rear end handed to my on occasion.

I know the hole very well it’s one of the Fav hiding places of the Mez when an attack is going to fail at the main entrance one will often sneak up to it in the midst of battle, hide there and his allies after about 30 mins or more will gather at the base of the cliff to portal into the keep on mass and attack the north inner gate, without having to take out any of the outer defenses.
But a little tip for the author of this thread have someone lay down traps and bombs in stealth at the entrance to this hole, you’ll find that the this will deal with the problem very swiftly or if your lucky and the mortar at the north outer is still in place this will hit them with ease.

I’d rather they remove the Karma rewards from WvW but as for the break out event at first I thought WTF but then, when I sat down and really thought about it yes it’s a good idea even more so for the servers at the bottom of the table.
You have to note that they did state that the bust out would only trigger when the NPC has enough players around him and thus this promotes WvW for servers that TBH are not even bothered about WvW as well as giving players whom wouldn’t even consider WvW as part of their game play to just now and again experience it and the fun that can be had from doing WvW.

What would be better is if Anet added a “Possible Exploit” option on the report tabs, this would give a time and date report of the player/s in question for Anet to pinpoint and evaluate that player/s data at that time.
Not saying they should look into every single report as they would inundated with reports but they could have a non disclosed number that should a player/s reach that amount then they investigated.
But anyway enough sour messages
The Privateer is watching, the moon provides the only light
Roaring winds are blowing, a flag appears out of the night
Guns are spitting fire, the cannonball tears up the rail
The vessel’s changing course, the thunderstorm blows up the sail
A furious fight is raging, red-hot cannon’s shooting hard
Iron balls are flying, tearing all the planks apart

His all seeing spy-glass is aiming at the sea
No mariner has the slightest chance to flee
His crystal-ball’s revealing where he has to steer
He fights the covered evil without fear

Oh, the Privateer

The sea-dog’s reamed in legends, it said he had the second sight
His assignment must be holy, he fought the fight with power and pride
The key to ancient wisdom, the power to have seen the truth

He’ll return to holy ground, where his tortured soul had died in youth
His all seeing spy-glass is aiming at the sea
No mariner has the slightest chance to flee
His crystal-ball’s revealing where he has to steer
He fights the covered evil without fear

Oh, the Privateer

His all seeing spy-glass is aiming at the sea
No mariner has the slightest chance to flee
His crystal-ball’s revealing where he has to steer
He fights the covered evil without fear

Caid.4932:

Starfall.6425:

The [PRO] stuff seems legit.. I just wanted to say that not everyone who shouts “hack” is right. This thread lately looks like all hackers united against Gandara…
Beside all those right accusations (right written?) there are always those that aren’t.
And again.. noone I asked every saw [PRO] on AM.. maybe someone, of a previous match, is mad at you and now trolls you through our server.

I think most of Gandara recognise that 99% of your server fight fair and earn every point they get. Previous match ups against you were some of the most fun matches i’ve had. Its just a pity that the 1% is going a long way to ruining what otherwise has been a great match.

Sorry to burst your bubble but I saw with my own eyes and did report it as well a non disclosed servers guild took out a reinforced gate without any siege what so ever in minutes.
But I’ll live with the fact that the matter has been reported to Anet and it’s down to them to deal with it, in what ever manner they seem fit.
There we’re a few other issues that have also been reported also.
Call me a whistle blower if you want all ai want is a good clean fight where skill wins out and not exploits or hacks.
Any way that’s old news and is all down to Anet now.
As for today apart from mega rendering issues as well as other things.

[PUK] would like to take this time in thanking all of those who helped defend the Hills today you all fought your hearts out against greater numbers and prevailed every onslaught, everyone [PUK] and I salute you o7

Simple quick fix make AoE limitless to spread these almighty zergs wider and give the game engine a chance to keep up

AoE should be limitless in regards to the numbers of players it hits if they are in the range of the AoE simple as that.
Why on earth pander to players who CBA to dodge or even evade the ability to be AoE’d, let alone those classes that have damage reflect.
Not only will making AoE’s limitless disperse the almighty zergs but in doing so it might even fix the need for culling and rendering issues as players would be more spread out, which would allow the game engine to work wonders.
I can fully understand the limit of 5 in sPvP but really is there any need for it anywhere else in this game.
Don’t forget that even if defenders can AoE so can Attackers so really in making AoE limitless is not a benefit just for defense but also attack as well

You’ll be more than welcome to join Gandara and there are already many guilds on there that are fully unlocked, mine [PUK] included in that listing that have space for new members.
If you want more details message me, if not then good luck in your hunt.

CULLING IS KILLING WvWvW either get your game engine fixed or pull the plug on WvWvW and go back to GvG.
Nice idea but the rendering is just not on and I’m not going to be killed by something I can’t see.
I don’t mind dying if it’s from something I can see but invisible enemies is just not on.
It’s really sad as I did enjoy WvWvW and still do but when there is a massive zerg of 30 plus that are invisable meh sorry it’s not for me.

Simply put what ever happen to Anet’s hype about you’d be able to run with parties no matter what the level and there won’t be a need to spam chat or wait hours on end for a team.
I don’t want to use an outside source to find a team, I don’t want players leveling a team because so and so is not equal to their level be that game level or dungeon level.
I hate seeing spam on chat for players looking for teams.
is it that Anet have thrown in the towel and made the game just like every other MMO already out there.
We have bugs that are abundant, spam chat, botters, broken toons that get one shot killed even in nooby areas.
Kill the spam and Kill the waiting time

As for using an external method to finding a group other than in game what is the point of having the game in the first place when you have to resort to using something that is not part of the game to enable you to play it.

I just want to play, I can socialize anytime in the guild or party.
Spamming is just bleh and really brain numbing

What was the hype Anet stated about not needing to wait for a group.
Spent hours looking for groups to do this part of the game plus had countless fails through players bailing mid run or getting DC’d.
Even helped lower level runners get theirs done with the same happening with theirs.
When I log into a game I would of thought that the one thing you don’t want to do is sit around and just wait doing nothing but spamming chat for party members, which is one thing Anet’s own hype would be a thing of the past.
If it wasn’t for the gear and cash grind of the game I would go anywhere near fractals as I hate dungeons and see them as nothing more than repetitive mindless gaming that comes free with a lobotomy

Def has to be the Thief and Mez even more so when they are teamed up and over 60% of GW2 plays those classes now they are becoming the only 2 classes you get to see or not see lol in WvW these days

Cough, Splutter (Wipes coffee from screen)
AM the weaker server, are you having a laugh, both AR and Gandara can only dream of the numbers you have and some of those TEST guys are unstoppable .
I must say though was funny in AR-BL at their Garrison, us taking one side while AM sneaked in from the other.
Such a shame you got spotted lol
All in all apart from the first night so far it’s been a joy to fight both AR and AM with some really good battles on all sides

Nice to see that they are trying but sadly I am still getting the same old issues of being killed by a vast horde and not seeing them till after they have trampled my body into the ground to feed the worms.
Might be that the problem lies with foes been coloured the same making the game engine work to hard to do this, but then I’m not a computer geek.
All I know is that I’m looking to upgrade my system just to try and cope even though the one I have is a quad core 3.6 ghz, 16 gig ram with a 450 gtx 1ghx graphics card.
All I have to worry about is telling the wife now.

Yarrrrrrrrrr
Sleep we don’t need sleep, Get out of your bunks you scurvy dogs and into battle, there’s more than enough time to sleep when we’re dead, till then.
We Gandarians don’t know the meaning of sleep.
Fight them hard, fight them strong, fight them till the last one has gone.
For Gandara and for Bessie into battle with you all Yarrrrrrrrrr.

o7
Great battle FS shame we had to give you a little tickle at the end but we needed the points.
Gandara there we’re time this week we all rocked and times we became blinkered but we are gelling nicely and starting to really become a server to be reckoned with, lets keep it up.
FR I still hope you get your butts kicked this week, so give em hell Riverside
& Piken Square.
I have no doubt that we will all meet on the battlefield once more, till then Fight strong, fight hard fight fair.
“Yarrrrrrrr Privateers Wheres Me Grog”

My 2 pennies worth on this is simply this.
In all the MMO’s RPG’s Ect I’ve ever played the Ele has always been the glass canons that thrive on huge AoE and singular damage, sometimes even slower than most.
Yet here they might as well be the NPC class of the game as fewer and fewer people are playing the Ele and switching to the Thief, Warrior or Ranger in that order of preference.
Yes I expect to be killed with ease if caught unawares and is often the case when faced with a thief that 3/5 hits me but I’d also love to have the damage output that the above three can do, because at most Ele’s are lucky if they get anywhere near that with a crit.
Plus if you take a close look at the Ele skills they are predominantly AoE skills no matter what weapon combo you use but Anets AoE limit of just 5 makes the class virtually redundant and useless against a vast horde not only in WvW but also in PvE as well.
Now I personally don’t play sPvP and wouldn’t even know where to start but PvE and more to the point WvW which I might add is my favorite part of GW2 despite all the hacks, exploits and bugs.
Now every other class has the weapons switch and the Ele doesn’t another major flaw in the game design but I can live with that.
Do the dev’s hate Ele’s well in 5v5 PvP match ups they have it right but in PvE and WvW yes it does seem that the dev’s hate the Ele.
So come on Anet show us Ele players some love and unleash our AoE’s to limitless in PvE and WvW.

Rayya.2591:

Silverthorn.8576:

Next time do a screen of your map on prime time! I didn’t see a lot of blue yesterday.
You can almost play the third place this week! grats.

with average 1 player / map on Fr /gandara borderlands, and smal team on other 2 borderlands, i can say i am ok with 3’rd place. Wich makes you wonder, how can 1-2 players can hold average 15 points for 6 hours at peak.
But for your entertain i will post this
Wonder what achivements “the winners” got ^^

Ahh that’s where your going wrong awesome kill count lousy supply useage………………… Joke.
No where near your kill count myself but then there’s more to WvW than just killing.
Wonder if there’s a hack to steal all those badges of honor from ya lol.
Saying that if you ever need a new server and guild cough wink wink.

PUK had a fantastic day at Godsword we claimed it and held it for 12 hours against countless attacks from both sides, even had both FR and FS attacking at the same time once, boy that was fun.
But in the end it was lost to the same old night rouges of FR, even though we know their plans well ahead of time our numbers can not match that of these robotic players.
I mean their actions are so predictable one could even argue that they were even programmable based rather than human.
But meh at least it’s been a good day and glad to see the FS are picking up speed a little as it looks like we’ll be facing them again next week along with Augury Rock, that is if FS can keep ahead of Jade Sea in points.
It’s looking like it’s going to be a really good hard battle next week all round with some pretty even servers.
And FR I really hope that whom ever you face next week kick your butts so hard it will hurt for weeks lol.

Well till I saw it at first hand I did have a lot of respect for the players of Fort Ranik, all week we’ve been having a good straight up battle with you guys, but sadly because of the few bad apples that have resorted to the vanishing golem exploit/hack as well as other exploits and hacks (all of which have been reported) all that respect has now gone out of the window.
It’s really sad that players feel the need to win at any cost even to the detriment of the game itself as well as their fellow players.
They may think it’s clever and cool but really all they are doing is for their own enjoyment and mar it or the vast majority of others.

Obed.7629:

EnoLive.2367:

bare with it till February bud big things are a coming

Play nekked! I do.

hehe we know you do that’s why you’re easy to take down………………………joke

Ho brother way to play into Anets hands with this one, hell why not remove all the drops, materials, crafting stations, banks, trading post, and all the other ways of making what little money is to be made in WvW.
Take it all out and then come back a week later to see how many people are in WvW.
Looks into crystal ball, “I see tumble weeds and cobwebs”

bare with it till February bud big things are a coming

Speak for yourself I hate being insta killed lol

If the orbs come back I doubt that they were originally but will come as a switch between the outmaned buff and the original orb stats as in the outmaned will get the orbs stats and the orbs will be given the outmaned stats.

Strang.8170:

If they kill fast, they die fast.
Invisibility isn´t invulnerability either, before someone starts yammering about it.

chuckle
It is if your not CD build

From the rumblings we heard from Anet, I have a strong feeling that pay for transfer will come into effect in February when they have also hinted will be their largest update of the whole game.

Well I personally am of mixed feelings on this subject mainly because my style of play in WvW.
Till Anet unlimits the AoE, there is very little counter against the crowding around siege other than constant suicide runs, or portal bombs.
One could say use counter siege but 9 times out of 10 that’s destroyed before it’s even had chance to be built.
Till I saw how effective the portal bomb was at first hand I to was of the opinion that it should be like the AoE limited to 5 but not anymore.
WvW needs something like this to keep players on their toes as I’m sure quite a few will also agree that it also needs full AoE as well.
My message to Anet is yes tweak classes as and where needed to stop a class becoming the OP king/queen of WvW but WvW needs and is crying out for limitless action.
So keep the mes portal as is but bring in limitless AoE to both counter the portal as well as the bunching to negate the AoE’s effectiveness

Had a good laugh the other day, we treb the hell out of a tower and FR grab it before our guys even had chance to move, bet they thought it was Christmas.
But it was no biggie we managed to get it in the end with just 4 peeps.
Have to hand it to FR though they are sneaky little (Coughs) and have started to dig their heals in a bit, in a push to make sure that they are in next weeks match ups with another FR server against DE.
Glad to see that servers are now also playing the ranking points.
I will say this though about Far Shiverpeaks, they have some really good players and have given us a good run for our money at times as well, as for Fort Ranik boy their thieves and messmers are (Cough) good, as well as the vastness of their manpower.

Kerithlan.1659:

Why not make a new item called siege scrap and make it so that destroying siege drops a few bits? Make it so that any siege weapon that has not landed an attack in 15 minutes or that is not within 5000 units of a fight can be dismantled by the team that owns it to salvage some siege.

Make it so that we can throw these siege scraps at a vendor to buy more siege. Example, dismantling an arrow cart gives you 1-7 scrap. To buy a new arrow cart, you need 25 scrap. This gives other servers incentive to destroy your siege (as they can turn it into more for themselves) while providing home servers the option to rebuild/fortify elsewhere.

That to could be exploited by saboteurs as they could simply run round and remove all defensive siege.
I know what I posted before may seem harsh but blame the bad apples for it.
They are the ones that have found this exploit and sadly the rest of us have to suffer and the only way to solve it is to do it the way I suggested.
They could even add it so guilds could build siege in a separate section of the guild panel that allows them 2 build slots per AoW level and time thus for standard siege and leaving the unlocked guild siege as it is at the moment as a bonus for unlocking them:
Rams & Arrow Carts = 1 hours @ 50 influence each
Batista’s = 2 hours @ 100 influence each
Catapults = 4 hours @ 200 influence each
Treb’s = 8 hours @ 400 influence each
Golems = 16 hours @ 800 influence each

Simple fix, Remove all XP, Karma and the Achievement for all Siege matters. Take out the Siege reward from JP’s, Make all Siege Guild built based with influence and tagged with the guild tag

Here we go yet another Nerf coming to the Ele’s any day now.
All hail the Ele’s the only NPC class of the game,

Plok.6145:

Hell no! Cause part of getting your loot bags is surviving the fight.

No Anet, don’t touch this. if you cant go back for your loot or survive to get it you don’t earn it. You lose loot, oh well.

You’re forgetting one big point there is a difference between PvE loot and WvW loot.
That being player intervention, be that in a full on charge/retreat or even on siege equipment where time is of the essence, or even in the bouts of death while in PvE you have a chance to fight for life, which is something not always available in WvW through being spiked (Player finishing move).
Are you really advocating that players in WvW should look out for themselves rather than the team by stopping at each loot bag while everyone else is fighting for success, it’s not like you can say hold up a sec I’ve got loot to pick up or Time out all while we pick up everything.
PvE yes you have the time to do it clear the area and go back to pick up, WvW on the other hand there isn’t that luxury 24/7

@ Point 9:
Commander Ranking could even use a similar structure to a game I used to play, I will place their Wiki page on this but is not an inducement for the game as I urge people not to play this cash hungry game but the ranking system would work very well with GW2.
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Military_rank
But remove the 5% attack bonus they have and you have a very good base for ranking.
Points wise this could be done with a combination of Kills = 1 point, Capture = 2 points and Defense = 3 points.
But the full ranking of the link need not be applied as in the intermediate ranking between rank levels

Think about it Anet your missing out on players not buying inventory and bank expansions by not having this feature

Been saying it from day one of beta that in WvW it needs to be fully auto loot.
Players just sometimes don’t have the time to look around for loot or even in many cases the loot appears after you have been killed, its even been known to appear in inaccessible places as well.
Please Anet hear the players and make this happen sooner rather than later.

Meh they’re just a cheapskate way of getting badges of honor in my opinion.
I mean where’s the honor of just jumping around, they should be badges of skill not honor

@ SoggyFrog.
Don’t get me fully wrong bud you and I both know that when Gandara is working as a unit it can rock the socks of any server and I’ll bet my house on that, plus if you note its not fully my own server I am relating to but some of the other servers we have faced.

Chiolas.1326:

Just have small groups around keeps – taking camps or killing dolyaks to avoid boredom – to inform your larger groups of the enemies position*, than just move your larger group and defend the keep – the gates/walls should give you enough time – while trying to kill as many enemies as possible so that they get tired.

Maybe that’s how they do it in Tier 6, but in higher tiers that type of gameplay just means that the zerg will constantly hit defended keeps. Meanwhile we just take their keeps, soon they can just flip supply camps, and even those can be defended by a couple of ballistas and arrowcarts.

*If your server can’t even relay that type of basic information… you’re gonna have a bad time.

Also, at least in my server we don’t have a lot of zergs. What we have is a couple of big groups of coordinated people (some randoms join that’s natural, but they know how to fight). Not every large group of people is a zerg. Sometimes they just group up because that’s a natural human action, frequently – but not always – more advantageous to being alone.

Hehe how do you think my fellow guildies and I managed to keep the keep we claimed for so long, but it’s heart breaking seeing those that are only in WvWvW for easy Karma and anything remotely related to defending or building things up when things seem a little quite mundane.
But you and I both know that if there’s something people can gain for the least effort they can put into it, they will jump on the bandwagon.
In a way it’s a shame that Anet didn’t make WvWvW like the sPvP part of the game and gave it its very own unique gear and currency

Till Anet remove both the Karma and XP from WvWvW the Karma Trains will be lord and master of the place.
The only tactic is at the moment is if a place is going to take more than 10 mins to take move on cap the next easy swift and fast then once done move to the next map in a constant loop.
Anet have simply forgot why they really created WvWvW and have allowed these trains to flourish and expand in such a way that it has made WvWvW an extension to PvE or more to the point every other PvP mass framing game.
Only this weekend my guild and I have camped at a keep fully and yes they have come and fought hard and fast but not for more that 10/15 mins at a time, when they failed they swiftly moved onto the easier targets on the map once all the easy ones were capped they moved on to return 2/3 hours later to recap the easy yet again.
At one point you could even set your alarm for it.
Don’t get me wrong even on my very own server some use the same tactics, and you see it all the time when new players enter the map “Where’s the Zerg”: eg Karma Train.
There are many of us getting really fed up with it. We spend hours and cash building places up and taking the really hard targets that they leave behind, as well as been left to fend for ourselves as they either zerg off in search of Karma or to mop up the mess after been hit by a Karma train because ours was on another map at the time.
But don’t get me fully wrong I know that there are times when a zerg is needed Eg: cap a map as fast as possible or take down a heavily fortified Keep/Castle but come on a mindless Karma train that is only on WvWvW for the Karma and forget about the players whom want a good straight up battle to put it politely.
So in conclusion the main way to stop these trains and because of the kindergarten AoE limit would be to remove the Karma and XP fully from WvWvW and replace it with a little extra cash loot as well as switching the skill point usage of the Siege upgrades to mystic coins instead

Well I’m half Greek does that count if it does your more than welcome to join us we’ll even set up a TS room for you to use in your native language.
As long as guild chat is kept to English I can’t see a problem

Why is everyone forgetting the reflect skill some classes have all they have to do is pop that on and the player doing the AoE will go down faster than Paris Hiltons Knickers.
Sorry but peeps saying that making AoE fully unlimited would kill of WvW hasn’t looked into what skills there are to counter the AoE.
But then all people are bothered about in WvW is the Karma farming not the skill of really playing WvW to it’s fullest and the way it was originally designed to be played.
added to this rant is the fact that Ele’s are tied to one weapon and don’t have the the option to switch mid battle unless the have their inventory open all the time as well as the Hero page to drag weapons into it.
In short the Ele is the weakest class to play in WvW as most of their skills are AoE based even the CD ones