Guild Wars 2

Maybe the SMC lord will join the raptor floating way up in the air? That would be epic.

Why do I get the feeling I’m staring into the eyes of a frozen Groot when I look at that? I’m creeped out now.

Yes, please change the squad dots to some kind of hyper green or something? Thanks for passing it on

Edit: I can’t UNsee this, lol. My night is doomed, lol.
Edit2: Maybe it would be easier to see if there was a BLACK dot in the middle of the squad dots instead of a WHITE one?
Edit3: That’s still creeping me out, but I can’t stop looking at it. gg Jon Olson gg …

WvW unique armor and weapon skins; different set unlocked at each tier of WvW rank.
Definitely a set of unique siege skins. The melon baller catas are interesting to me, for example.

Perhaps we’ll get…. SPORKS ! ! !
… just saying, that would be awesome.

1) Heart of Thorns
2) Elite specs
3) Desert Borderlands
4) Guild Hall grind
5) Ascended crafting time gating
6) NDA
7) Devs never showing themselves in WvW
8) Being lied to about WvW development being #1 priority after HoT release.
9) Adopt-a-Dev being one & done
10) Critical bugs and exploits in WvW being ignored week after week
11) Server populations dropping
12) Running out of kittens

Edit:
13) No Autoloot in WvW

Paragon would make an excellent Warrior specialization.
Heavy armor class, shouts, party support (offensively minded).
Only class wielding Spear on land.
Basically a medium to short ranged (900 to 400) warrior that could swap to melee. Maybe one single long ranged (1500) attack with a high cooldown?
Would be so much fun. I miss playing Paragon.

rabbit: IMO the DHunter spec made me sad; Guardian’s role got polluted by it.

Azure Prower.8701:

They used to drop reasonably well before the nerf. Figures now that the collection is important, that you can go for weeks playing EotM and it still doesn’t drop.

Which only contributes to my pack-rat-itis… because I never know if that “magic glue” and such that’s collecting dust in my storage will be needed one day…

cough heavy supply bag cough

Edit: If it’s needed for something you can bet your sweet kitten that they’ll obliterate the drop rate of it.

Rukia.9860:

Gaile for president

Even better than ‘Deez Nutz’

Gaile already has better job than the pres.

Almost forgot, this is me 90% of the time… “disappointed cat”

Aaaaahhhh, I love kittens! Kittens aren’t only for the forums!
(Gaile got the nice card, the rest were just salty kittens)

I’ll have to say that I’ve never been disappointed by the fights I’ve had against NSP or EBay. It’s not 24/7 for us around T4-5, but there’s almost always some late night to early morning (server time) action with smaller groups. Other than that you can catch (and kitten stomp) me at odd hours or early EU time. I need to make a sig…

Edit: hmm, did it work? Yes, it did. I finally made a sig.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/There-is-no-spoon/5919070

Edit: They’re still out there, just harder to get now for whatever reason… oh, wait, it’s WvW related, duh, no wonder it’s harder to get. Seriously, though, EotM is probably you’re best chance of getting one.

J.C. said they intended to do it again… what happened? Perhaps they’ll do it again during the new format beta?

Edit: What do you think they’ll call it? The Mists War?

…Bueller…

….Bueller…
…
…Bueller…

You’ve got, what, 9 days to have the nerf nuke ready for these Banners. Perhaps just remove this refuse altogether with the update on the 26th. Otherwise, the kitten storm will most likely grow over this issue. More folks will get fed up and leave.

Edit: Think I’m just being kitten about folks leaving? How’s that server population looking post HoT?

What the kitten… are you serious? The walls are actually fixed?! If this is for real, I may put my kittens back in the bag… for now. I might even giggle a min or two.

Edit: I’m almost tempted to put my cell phone down, get out of bed, and go log in to see for myself… almost.

Crapgame.6519:

Just didn’t deliver to what some expected is all. No harm, no foul.

!!! You’ve just given me inspiration for more greeting cards to send in to ArenaNet !!!

;D

Edit: Gaile, your card was the only genuinely nice one I sent. You are appreciated by so many As for the rest of the ones I sent in, I hope you can appreciate the sarcasm at least.

Just a brief suggestion here for what to do with these kittening Dragon, Turtle, Centaur Banners.

1) remove offense and defense skills from them
2) leave the break bar
3) put a spot inside Lord’s room of Keeps that will spawn a reward chest when your Banner carrier places the Banner into the spot while the Keep is being captured. Dragon Banner – loot A, Turtle Banner – loot B, Centaur banner – loot C

Sound reasonable? You get a bonus reward for keeping the Banner alive long enough to cap the keep. You’ve got 15 mins to get it done, right? Wouldn’t that be incentive to capture a structure? Wouldn’t that be more incentive to try to prevent your keep from being cap’d? Just to deny the opposing team a bonus reward chest?

Just for clarification, the Banner would have to be placed only while the ring is up and the bonus reward chest would only spawn if the Keep was successfully capped.

Thoughts?

Edit: spelling and grammar
Edit2: p.s. the current state of Banners makes me want to hurl kittens. ty.

morrolan.9608:

Fellfoot.8156:

At the least, Tyler shed some light on the darkness of what is considered “healthy” and on the darkness of what is considered “intentionlly exclude players”.

^Yes, at this point they’re definitely kitten’d if they do, kitten’d if they don’t.

He shed some light on how out of touch they are. So why should the overhaul be any different.

Yes indeed. I’m almost dreading what the overhaul will include. Having to wait and wait on what it will include is equally dreadful. I wish they’d hurry up and announce the beta testing for the new WvW format already. I’m sick and tired of waiting. At least then I’d know if I’m wasting my time with what ArenaNet has become.

Akkeros.1675:

It would probably help if they implemented big changes temporarily if blind metrics are all they are gonna go by. Then there is no shame in resetting things back to the way they were when they realize the metrics were slightly…….wayyy off.
When you own a business you never never never shaft your loyal, old patients (customers) for the sake of getting more more more. They are the ones that keep the lights on while the new put the food on the table.

That sounds like beta testing in the actual live game. I would totally support that. Shut down WvW and let all of us play test the overhaul content week by week. Would that be unprecedented?

Headlines : “ArenaNet to bring open beta testing of major game mode.”

Edit: It’d be a lot more productive than those new DBL streamer test PR stunts.
Edit2: I’ve been helping to keep their lights on for years.

Ehhh, O.o …drop and give us 20? Seriously though, it’s the Devs that are responsible for game content.

Here’s another specific spot in EBG with wall problems.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/EBG-Blue-Keep-siege-tip-AUTO-UPGRADE/first#post5863383

If anyone else has screenshot of specific walls could you please post them here, maybe it’ll help to track them all down?

briggah.7910:

How many new stat PvE gear got added? A Bunch
How many new PvP amulets got added? A Bunch
How many new stat WvW gear from badge vendors got added? Zero

Excluding a game mode is better? Forcing us out of wvw to get things..

Yes, yes! There should be a merchant at spawn that sells HoT items for badges, etc. for the players that purchased HoT.

Edit: never going to happen, but would be nice. Yeah yeah I know, if you want that stuff you have to go grind that area and hoard it. I didn’t even know dry top existed until a couple months ago O.o ; was trying to figure out where nomad gear comes from. gg.
Edit2: sorry for chasing a rabbit, couldn’t resist that one

At the least, Tyler shed some light on the darkness of what is considered “healthy” and on the darkness of what is considered “intentionlly exclude players”.

^Yes, at this point they’re definitely kitten’d if they do, kitten’d if they don’t.

briggah.7910:

Five red wvw posts on first page of dev tracker. Might be a new record for the wvw forums. You can’t say they are not trying to communicate more. How long this will keep up who knows.

::devs stay quiet::
players unhappy
::devs start to post here::
players unhappy

Just saying……

I’m happy! One of the red posts reminded me of a Seinfeld episode. I lol’d at work even.

GM Awesomeness.8619:

Thanks for copying over the patch note, briggah! Everyone, please let us know if you continue to see this issue in EBG.

OK, OK… you’ve got a nice tag too ;P …there ya happy?

I’ve never seen a Dev play WvW… ever… would be great to have a Dev tag along and see them get kittened by their own Banners and such.

I believe they’ve seen and read this thread. There are more red posts than I’ve seen in quite a while (in this forum). I hope they take this thread to the table when they have their next “dev team” meeting.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

We try and avoid adding features that can be used to intentionally exclude other players.

O.o I shall refrain from the tossing of kittens upon kittens upon kittens. I may need to go lie down a moment…

OK, now that’s better, I can be serious for a moment. The following is only my personal opinion; therefore, it shouldn’t be construed as fact. It is only opinion.

The quintessential question following the above quote is:

Was Heart of Thorns intentional?

I believe the answer to be yes. I also believe that Heart of Thorns has added numerous features that have excluded players (those that did not purchase Heart of Thorns) from enjoying a lot of content outside of Heart of Thorns. I don’t need to list specifics. If you want specifics take a good long look at the WvW forum, the sPvP forum, the posts about elite specs, etc. etc. etc. Take a good look at this post in particular:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Tactivators-War-Room-Banners-Broken/page/2#post5918343

Just one example of how a feature has been added (Banners) that has excluded others (players without Banners).

holleratchalater,

Fellfoot

Edit: Well, technically, they’re aren’t excluded from playing, They’re certainly excluded from winning a fight. They aren’t being excluded from getting rolfkittenstomped… so… yeah.
Edit2: I misspelled quintessential. lol at myself.
Edit3: Hey look! You see what I did there? I made a mistake. I made a simple mistake, I corrected the mistake, and now I’m acknowleding that I made and corrected a simple mistake… wow… not as hard as I thought it’d be.
Edit4: …and I’m totally not even going to say anything about that “healthy for WvW”
Edit5: There’s so much darkness in that entire statement (not just what I quoted). The darkness is what frustrates me more than anything.

Swagger.1459:

So sad. Not unexpected at all.

Bolded quotes…

“WvW’s Big Update

As our competitive game director John Corpening discussed, we’re currently working on a large-scale overhaul to WvW that helps deal with core issues like population balance, scoring, rewards, and the need for 24-hour coverage.

We’ve focused a heavy amount of developer resources on this overhaul for WvW, and the team has been working hard for over a year now to solve these complicated issues. We may not be ready to reveal more in early 2016, but you’ll have an opportunity to get all the details and give feedback when we go into the beta phase of this massive project later this year. And as a brief reminder: WvW tournaments are currently on hold, but they’ll return once we’ve released this new format for WvW."

RIP GG NJ GF GLHF

…don’t forget that “new format” bit in there

Heh, I hadn’t really paid much attention to it. You’re right, though. I haven’t heard anyone making spoon jokes during raids for a while now.

Just checked my inventory. I’ve only gotten a dozen or of them since HoT released… that IS way down. If they weren’t account bound then I would send you one Axarion. Be patient, it’ll drop eventually.

Edit: …and EotM is probably going to increase your odds of getting one.

Thanks, Jessica. …and nice tag btw
My name tag at work just says RN.

Edit: I forgot the comma.
Edit2: Jessica, please have a look at my post history. There are some specific places where this happens. Most tend to be around supply depots.

I am linking a thread in the WvW forum to this post because it is a discussion of exactly what motivated me to post this.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Tactivators-War-Room-Banners-Broken/first#post5913734

100% support OP. Here’s a link to a post I made about these banners the other day:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Banners/5904230

SirServed.5693:

You should have seen them when HoT had freshly launched. They were in the jungle getting it in with the rest of us. Most of the Anet players I’ve come across were actually good at playing/survival. It’s nice to see employees that not only develop but understand how to play their product well.

Awww, I’ve been looking for a Dev in game since the original preweekend. I’ve never seen one other than the afk ones. I did see an Anet flame ram(?) on wurm gate once upon a time.

Excellent observation Doggie

Edit: Not sure about the thief thing; I got a couple screen shots I’ll take a closer look at.

A guild mate and I were standing in LA right after the update today. There was an Anet tag standing there motionless near the Mystic Forge. My guild mate was asking it questions in say chat. I tried to explain to my guild mate that it was just a “placeholder”, you know, a Dev Bot there to record what people are map chatting about the latest update. As I was trying to explain this to my guild mate… it MOVED! and it SPOKE!

I have to admit that I was more than a little surprised. It interacted my guild mate a few moments, gave a sort of scripted response to a question that was asked, then I had to leave and go pick up my kids from school.

This leaves me with only two conclusions:
1) my belief that those Anet tags are only recording bots has been myth busted, they are actual people!
2) Anet has some really awesome interactive bots

…either way… my mind is blown, gg Anet gg….

What does this mean…?

“… once we’ve released this new format for WvW.”

Does this mean WvW will be so completely different that everything about the -old- WvW is done and over? No more 3 server 24/7 matches?

… and this…

“We may not be ready to reveal more in early 2016, but you’ll have an opportunity to get all the details and give feedback when we go into the beta phase of this massive project later this year.”

Beta testing? For everyone? Does this mean real beta testing, not just publicity stunt streamer testing? Does later mean February or December 2016?

Edit: You know what would be truly incredibly awesome? To have some of the members of this WvW overhaul team introduced during one of your Friday Guild Chat episodes. I never get to see them (Guild Chat) live, but I’d make an exception for that one ;D

“WvW tournaments are currently on hold, but they’ll return once we’ve released this new format for WvW.”

WvW as we’ve known it will be ending.
new format means a new game, right?

Edit: I don’t understand most of what anet does with their game, but there is one thing I do understand about anet and Guild Wars 2… they don’t like deadlines, and they certainly won’t make a public declaration of one concerning WvW.

….hmmm, “new format”… and wait for it……
…
…
…
… “we’re not ready” … oh well…

Well, I guess you could say they’re making some repairs to the damage that HoT caused. So technically they’re still working on HoT? I don’t expect anything for WvW until May 2016 (and then only if there’s no Living Story going on).

Edit: No, I didn’t believe them either and still don’t believe that WvW is any kind of priority.

Edit2: pssst, Anet folks, your cards are in the mail…

;D

I’m still trying to figure who they were trying to impress with all this kitten. …and just, …why?

There is one thing that would make me so happy I would probably shed a tear…

The ability to name, save, and load a build.
I miss that so much it hurts.

Edit: I almost forgot… the community Design-a-Weapon contests! please and thank you

I doubt anything will be done for any of the current bugs, glitches, etc. in WvW. No, not just not anytime soon; most likely that nothing will be done at all. Why spend time and resources (labor hours, productivity) on something that is nearing it’s end? The time and resources are being spent on what will replace WvW, if anything at all.

Allow me to use a forrest fire as an example. You don’t put out a forrest fire; you contain it to limit the damages, and then you let it burn itself out.

Daddar.5971:

NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN. As noted, WvW is not a driver of the bottom line income for GW2. WvW will be left to die on the back burner. Read between the lines in Colin’s message: GAME. OVER.

Do you think anet is scared to drop the We’re sorry but we can’t solve the core issues with WvW with the system that’s in place now aka Operation Clean Slate. I think they’re scared to do it.

What does it do to gates?

More specifically, if attacking does it hit gates, burn through gates? If defending, does it burn through gates?

Thanks,

Fellfoot

Edit: grammar
Edit2: Somebody? Anybody? Surely it’s been tried by now? Does *any*one have any input?

Mizu.4508:

, ask us about what we think about the idea instead of just randomly applying the idea.)

I’ll have to give anet some credit there; at least they did toss us a bone with that Holiday Sneak Peek thread.

DeWolfe.2174:

tldr for players : relax, vacation, fun
tldr for dev’s: Alpine, free transfer’s, Pop a tag and come join the fun

It would be so much fun if the Devs played WvW with us. Would be even more fun if they were the “4th server” so everyone could attack them.

I have a few specific comments I’d like to make concerning the introduction of the Banners with the Heart of Thorns release.

Earlier this week I finally got to see the Dragon Banner and Turtle Banner in use; I was on the receiving end of the banners.

The group we were up against was about the same size as our own. Approximately 20-25 players in each group. After a few quick wipes everyone in our squad was trying to figure out what was going on. The next time we found the same group someone in our squad spotted a player with a break bar and alerted everyone to it. It was a player carrying a Dragon Banner. I was amazed at the damage that one person was wielding. I was also not surprised to see that one person with the banner being (sorry but I have to put a little emotion into the post here) “nut-hugged” by a thief in order to stealth the banner carrier and help keep them alive. Excellent tactic. I’m not being sarcastic; that’s a really good duo.

We found the same group again and someone spotted a player with a break bar and a Turtle Banner. We focused that player, killed them, and the opposing group wouldn’t engage us again until another player brought another Turtle Banner.

After this first hand (receiving end) experience with a couple of the Banners introduced with the Heart of Thorns release I’m left “scratching my head” and wondering the following:

Why?

Yes, it’s ok to simply ask … why, isnt it?… why introduce/include something like this? I don’t understand… so I’m simply asking … why? Is it just something that is supposed to be fun to have for use? Are there specific reasons it was introduced? What was the process that brought these Banners to the game? Why is there a break bar for the wielder of the Banner? Will these Banners be subjected to “iterations” the way skills will be? Were these Banners part of some big “game changer” push/process to shake up how the game is played? I hate speculating. I love understanding.

I just need an explanation (hopefully from a Dev that actually worked through the process of bringing these Banners to the game) of how they envisioned these Banners being used in actual game play. I can assure you after trying to play against these Banners, it isn’t fun. It was such a distinct disadvantage not having any of the Banners that it was just awful. Not fun.

holleratchalater,

Fellfoot.8156

Edit: grammar
Edit2: more grammar, and go ahead and lock or delete this, please.

zerorogue.9410:

Us in T2 have been having to deal with airships for about a month now. Sure they have been a nuisance but there’s plenty of ways to counter them. Nowadays there nothing much to scoff at and smc still get’s flipped.

My guild’s still doing testing, but we’re pretty sure the strikes are static(always hit the same spot). We’ve already found a lot of spots where if you stand during the bombardment your not hit even once.

That sounds fantastic. Please share.