Guild Wars 2

/Yes It is ArenaNet that needs to add to the equation.

Hey, just wondering since it’s been a little while… is there going to be a 2nd forum specialist? That thread disappeared not too long ago and there’s been no announcement. Just wondering. Thanks.

Edit: Archon’s been doing great. So, why not add the 2nd one?

Thrumdi.9216:

Yes, yes there is.

It was called the New Game Enhancement.

Yes. That was a good read. Thank you

An albino pink eyed big eared Asura, Pink Abu!

I saw a Charr in EotM not too long ago named Graspdeeznuts, might have been an engi?

Yes. That is kitten annoying. Don’t know if it’s intentional though?

Did you see all the matte black / grayedd out walls in EBG today?! They couldn’t be targeted!!! Did bug report in game… tada… wall could be targeted. Moved on to next objective, matte black wall, couldn’t be targeted, in game bug report… tada… wall could be targeted.

Rinse repeat ad naseum.

Trajan.4953:

Golems got nerfed to kitten.

A-Net wants you using trebs you can’t build without +5 supply that are all easy to counter because it makes for epic screenshots.

I thought they wanted us to use the new motorcycle things? I still haven’t seen one in action, though. Maybe in another month or two…

As far as the trebs go… I’ve put down trebs all over the north half of the new bl. Found myself some nice spots, too.

Edit: I kitten hate all the high cliffs I can’t get treb fire over, but oh well.

I say don’t spend anything on HoT until you’ve been in the “updated” WvW for yourself. Go spend some time in there and have a look around. I’m sure everyone that has responded to you in this thread would be interested in your thoughts/impressions of the new BL, new autoupgrade system, etc.

Sinbold.8723:

Well, that’s one reason we got a reset change- so this type of thing could be fixed- “This change will give our team an extra day of the week that they can use to respond to issues that may occur with WvW…”

So they’ll get right on that…

…and fixing the glitchy walls, and fixing the lords getting pulled outside the keeps and respawning outside the keeps, and fixing the guards that attack mobs, and fixing necro staff 1 piercing through paper gates into the lord’s room, and … do I even care to go on?

Edit: OK, that sounded really snarky. I was just trying to point out that whomever is actually working on the WvW bugs/fixes has WAAAAY more than they can handle. kitten! You say? Just look at how long it takes for bug fixes to get implemented… mhmm, they’re overwhelmed, there just aren’t enough people to go around to fix WvW bugs in a timely manner. /cheer to the brave soul hanging in there and working his/her kitten off…

Sooooo, the lag beast has been identified?

Justine.6351:

One night a million years ago HoD was bored so we built 5 sup Bali and broke paper smc wall to get in.

Yes! I was there for that. That was a fun goofy raid indeed. Good times, good times.

Edit: Was it really that long ago? Kinda seems like it. Pre-HoT seems like a foggy haze to me now…

When structures in WvW upgrade the walls don’t increase hp and/or lose hps. SMC / Keeps / Tower walls go from kitten t2 and lose health. When they go from t2 to t3 they’re almost completely damaged (5-10% left). It doesn’t happen to every wall. At SMC it’s usually the walls near the supply depots.

Don’t need balista… the walls now damage themselves when they upgrade.

Djamonja.6453:

Sounds made up

Nah, DB is back yet again. If Mag is looking for a good defense workout, they’ll definitely get it fighting off the 3 headed SEA dragon.

Dont forget the visibility is poor and except for the northwest tower area the environment is depressing.

Edit: well, ok, not all of it. A lot of it does look nice, but the necro tower and entire southeast corner are blech…

What the kitten? I just don’t understand why Anet has all but abandoned an entire community of their players. Why? Send them a winters day card folks. Lemme go grab the address… brb

Edit: here you go
ArenaNet, LLC.
3180 139th Ave SE
5th Floor
Bellevue, WA 98005

It still shows up in my list also.

This is a serious exploit. I hope someone is working on it.

That whole “environment” thing… YES. I had mentioned how bland and vague the ground looked (especially when trying to find places to drop down and not die) in another post. Here’s my take (aka – personal opinion) on the Desert Borderlands environment:

1) Northeast tower area – ? the whole area around that tower feels like wasted space… which was the point I assume since it’s a necro tower?
1a) Northeast camp – love that whole Utah canyon vibe.

2) Northwest tower area – /yes …this, this is a really nice looking tower and surrounding area.
2a) Northwest camp is alright. kitten in the rock next to the Fire keep. (love that mob stacking choke that makes flipping this camp easy.)

*rabbit: I still don’t get the whole isolated objectives that were supposed to hinder enemy players movement around the map but don’t because they’re isolated objectives that don’t have anything to do with hindering enemy movement around the map. I feel totally let down that there are soooooo many chokes in this map where a tower -should- be but there isn’t one. Instead the towers are sitting around gathering dust. (pun intended).

3) Fire keep – the underground part? are we in a volcano or a Crow Canyon pueblo fort? or both… yeah, oooook. Above ground part? /yes Wow! look at that, a real desert in a Desert Borderlands map. I like it, except for those two EotM tower things sticking up outta the ground… why?

4) Air keep – I kinda like the Aztec vibe. It definitely fits with the Tengu. That lord’s room… /yesssssssssss.

*rabbit: What the kitten is up with the 2 second (kiddingnotkidding) respawn rate of the vets at both of these keeps? Seriously, that is so annoying I -hate- going anywhere near these with a small group (3 to 5).

5) Oasis – you know it probably looks nice, but since I have almost nowhere to actually look at the place with an unobstructed view… smh, but again, I guess that was the point. smh2.0, why’d it have to be dinosaurs? smh3.0, go google desert oasis images, what do you get? mostly a large shallow pond surrounded by vegetation, palm trees, etc. smh4.0, guess what would be a great place to have something other than chokes and obstructed views? …how about a -large- shallow (too shallow to swim in) pond surrounded by vegetation and palm trees where fights -would- take place right in the middle of the map. THAT, would be fun. (sorry, I’m chasing rabbits again).

disclaimer: I haven’t spent much time in the southern half of the map… sorry, I just haven’t… the canyon in the souteast makes me nauseous, literally.

6) Southwest tower area – is this the one with the Ogres? or is it the Southeast tower? Anyways, I can’t really critique these well because I just haven’t spent enough time in these area.
6a) Southwest camp area – I like it, especially since it’s the ONLY place on this whole map that (at least) makes me feel like I’m not running 6,000 miles from a camp to a keep, and it looks like it fits right into the actual desert theme of the Fire keep. I like it.

7) Southeast tower area – I like the look of this tower too.
7) Southeast camp area – ok, I gotta stop a minute… what the kitten happened here? Running around and around and up and down and around and down and up and around and down and up and …. you get the point? I certainly do… let’s run around on wooden sidewalks stuck in the side of cliffs… nauseating and repulsive and bland visually. It’s not that I get vertigo looking at it; it’s just uninteresting to me. I can’t stand this area at all, mainly because it just annoys me to death. (don’t really have to worry about me trying to take this camp, I avoid it).

AriaSilverfyre.8702:

I went to go craft some more brown dyes to salvage into pigments for my Scribe to use only to find that the recipe was missing from the list. Searching for it came up with only the Master and Rare versions. I’ve used it many times in the past several weeks, so I know it did exist.

Anyone else notice this?

No, haven’t checked to see yet. I will check after work to confirm.

Necros can still pierce through gates also. Tried it again today. Still happens.

Dark Matter still salvages from exo’s. However, it is probably needed for something important; therefore, the odds of actually recovering it from a salvage have been reduced to the Black Lion Key drop rate??? #jk #notjk

Nate.3927:

Fellfoot.8156:

Wryscher.1432:

To be fair to the poor fella EotM use to be the karma train place. But people would rather go there now while waiting in a queue then to one of the borderlands. So i doubt it will get better soon. Atleast in EotM another player has to be there to throw me off a walk way.

+87 for you. I totally agree that throwing yourself off of uncertain height cliffs to die gets old really fast. I’ve been playing new bl almost daily since launch and I still manage to kill myself because there are no visual cues to tell me if the drop will be fatal.

the visual cue is that the ground looks really far away. I mean you could just as easily jump to your death in many many places near Hills and even a few spots near Bay. People don’t anymore because after playing on that map for 3 years they know roughly which spots are safe. I killed myself falling off cliffs constantly for the first month or so, but almost never these days since I’m getting used to the map.

Yeah, it’ll take quite some time and innumerable faceplants.
Problem is, the ground -always- looks really far away. Everywhere the ground looks so bland and vague. I’m carto-graphically challenged anyways. Would be nice if there was a little altimeter off in the corner of the UI, like a dot or something that indicated where you were currently on the map, vertically speaking. We don’t really have a means of measuring fall distance, right?

Edit: No way to measure, other than your corpse?

Don’t know the details of this, but a guildie posted this from 12/02/15. Apparently there’s some way to use a tactivator bug to get 1000 supplies in SMC every 15 mins?

“Yeah if you claim a tower you can do an exploit with the the tactivators is what they told me.
Usually i dont really like these kind of exploits but the thing with the sg’s is pretty funny. Af least they didn’t build 50 golems.”

Christmas / Wintersday decorations courtesy of NSP

Wryscher.1432:

To be fair to the poor fella EotM use to be the karma train place. But people would rather go there now while waiting in a queue then to one of the borderlands. So i doubt it will get better soon. Atleast in EotM another player has to be there to throw me off a walk way.

+87 for you. I totally agree that throwing yourself off of uncertain height cliffs to die gets old really fast. I’ve been playing new bl almost daily since launch and I still manage to kill myself because there are no visual cues to tell me if the drop will be fatal.

Necro’s can still pierce through gates… THEY DIDN’T FIX IT!
I staff 1’d at some cata’s in a lord’s room today through a gate thinking that it wouldn’t happen since they fixed it. I hit the cata’s through the gate from about ?200-300? or so range. #failfailfailypants #tryagaindevspleaseandthankyou

Joshhh.2076:

Do we have confirmation yet whether the drop rate is better than for Black Lion keys?

I got 4 drops today in about 2.5 hours.

Edit: those came from keep lord/guards; the price of the Heavy Supply Bags nose-dived on the Trading Post today also

QQ no warrior/berserker updates
Cripple, immob, leap finishers still broken?

Edit: Wall and gate piercing -IS NOT FIXED- I played my necro during guild raid today. I could hit catas that were inside the lord’s room from through the back gate of keep.

Yes. Thank you, Anet.
Hey, look folks! Somebody in there cares! XD

@Dinas

…yeah, there are some people that are ok with the new map, there are even some that like the new map… there are a lot of people, myself included, that were excited to have a new map to play. My excitement wore off after about an hour in the new map. It’s been weeks now. I’ve learned my way around. I’ve learned how to jump over the barricades. I’ve learned the easy ways to flip the camps and flip some of the towers. I’ve thrown around catas and trebs all over the map to find good spots. I’ve played all hours of the day and night (central us time zone) all days and nights of the week. Basically, I’ve put in time on the map and I still don’t like it and I’m trying hard to like it. I’m -ok- with it, but it’s just not as fun; it’s been a real disappointment for me. Only two silver linings I’ve found: 1) coming across a few new WvW players and recruiting them into the guild I’m in. 2) feasting on foolishness of the new players on enemy servers that are wandering around lost in the new bl. I even yolo into 3v1’s and die and just lay there and watch them jump around a min because they’re happy they had someone to kill. This is enough for now to keep me playing the new bl a little when I log in.

@Josh XT. Here you go. From Arena Nets website:

ArenaNet, LLC.
3180 139th Ave SE
5th Floor
Bellevue, WA 98005

Write ’em a letter. Send ’em a postcard. You never know. You just might get a response.

lol, she’s been beat down so often now she won’t fight… gg

I’ve tried to solo him with a warrior as well. Getting rid of the break bar isn’t a problem, neither is getting him to half health, but at that point it becomes a stalemate.

I’ve tried with necro too but failed. Haven’t tried with any other classes.

void.6217:

I am mostly interested in WvW re GW2, I dont play PvE, Dungeons etc.

As I figured WvW is a server based matching game, where the number of people in each team heavily depends on which server you are.

I’m playing for a relatively low populated server and I’ve assigned to the red team for two months in a row now.

Every time I play, I’m severely outnumbered, I need to spend hours jumping across EBG or EOTM to even find a tag or play 1v5 or 1v10.

Apparently you can not change to a server that is full and in general you need to pay money to change the server.

I payed as much money as everyone else for this game and I’m not just at huge disadvantage, my game experience is simply crippled that playing WvW under these conditions doesn’t make any sense.

Other people who bought this game earlier and playing on higher level servers are basically playing a different version of the game, they level a few times faster, they get a few times more money, items, karma you name it.

All of it at my expense, I payed for them to have fun to have none myself. I didn’t signed up to be a scape goat for my $$. This game must give equal chance to everyone who paid equally.

As a customer I would like Arena Net to have a fair warning regarding WvW before you buying the game about how server matching is structured, saying that basically there are good slots that are all taken and crappy slots for new players where they shove you after taking your money to eat shoot every day for months.

Right now it feels like I’ve been scammed out of my money and I want my money back.

#truthhurts I feel for you. I know what it’s like getting destroyed by greater numbers over and over and over again. Not sure I’ve got a solution for you, though. Not sure if ANET has one either.

saturn.4810:

Why don’t they add shiny catapult skins to the gemstore?

I kinda like the ice cream scoop/melon baller catas… kinda…

They’re still in Seattle I guess?

Edit: Well, we might find out in July 2016 that they stopped working on WvW 8 months ago…. so…

Any RED/Dev posts in this thread?
Didn’t think so.
Any WvW PR or WvW promoting being done in their Twitch channel?
Didn’t think so.
…/sigh

Notsoperky.2348:

My theory about the new BL map being a cast off from an abandoned LS3 next to Dry Top where gliding and mushrooms would ahve come in is looking a lot more likely now. Insert shiny keeps, make them bigger to fit in the map and hey presto, new BL map. Does it work for wvw players? Who cares?

/yes. You could definitely make a good case for that. We’ll never know for certain.

Wow, that’s amazing. Kitten, though, ’cause how can so much and so little go into a map at the same time?

Enormous secret quaggans kitten room??? Huh? Where?

Nevermind! I found it!

@ArchonWing

Hey, I just noticed that the Looking for another WvW Forum Specialist thread disappeared? Does this mean that they’ve selected another? Or does this mean that they’ve given up finding another?

Q: Is there a physical address where I can send a hand written (chicken scratch) letter to the WvW powers that be?

Edit: Seriously, I’ll take the time to send a postcard. I just don’t know where to send it. Somebody send it to me? Dev? Anybody? Don’t post the address here, just mail it to my profile? Please?

He’s right about the Tuesday thing. Never fails. Always get kicked out of WvW during guild raid on Tuesdays.

Edit: conspiracy theory? I’ve got plenty of ANET theories, but you can’t post that kind of thing…

Jayne.9251:

No one was playing the BL so they were laid off?

LMkittenO, that is outstanding! +87

Yeah, I’d like to know too. I’m in that matchup this week. Doesn’t really matter, though, because as soon as the 3 headed Dragonbrand SEA map que logs on, everything will flip.

No more travelers with golems? Sad but I’m not the least bit surprised. The fill in the blank (?) in charge want you to use the shiny new Charr motorcycle things… that is if anybody can AFFORD to unlock it and then AFFORD to have a scribe in the guild make them?

#kittenlogic
#kittenpriorities

You can’t force people to try new stuff; You can make them suffer for not wanting to, apparently.

swellercross.3974:

ANET should close EOTM and apply eotm style at WVW ,and the hero points to acquire make this easy mode,,,,,,,,,,poeple these days have no time to grind we all have some personal things to do in real life plus bottom empty servers must merge to medium population servers,just a suggestion this maybe will save GW2.

They already applied EotM style. It has failed to attract players. The balance of map interactions vs. Player vs player interactions went way to far to the map interaction side. F. A. I. L.

I’ve seen the glitch walls at keeps but not at towers.

Brocktanor.1794:

I hear ya, but it’s just not the case where I’m at. Late night Friday’s BL was a guaranteed great time before. I’m just so kitten disappointed now.

I have to disagree with you that it’s the guilds’ fault, though. The players didn’t change reset, the players didn’t implement this broken new map. (broken = too many people don’t want to play it, just saying)

I’ve spent enough time in the BL to learn my way around and how things work. I still kitten hate the rocks in my face. The barricades dont bother me anymore now that ive learned how to jump over them. I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the camps now; they’re designed to encourage ktraining which is fine I guess; sometimes I just run back and forth to camps to kill the guards and yak’s and don’t bother with the capping ‘cause I’m just there to kill mobs, right Devs? “Just means more wxp for us..” to quote a rare roamer, or was that an incognito Dev?