Guild Wars 2

Ranger has kind of sad story which goes kind of like:
I want to be useful but from 3 choices i only have 1 decent, that’s why i have very hard coded builds, simply because nothing else is worth to take.

Ranger basically has one trick pony with traits, they need to buff a lot of them.
Made post a while ago how to get ranger on better spot with only fixing traits.

I hope some one from devs throw an eye on that topic for at least few lines ^^

kiwituatara.6053:

aB EXT.1287:

Here’s the location of the Smokescale in the Tangled Depths map:

!http://i.imgur.com/jaXk0O7.jpg!
!http://imgur.com/V2o7DRv.jpg!
!http://imgur.com/3qSLY4w.jpg!

The spawn seems a little irregular, but give it a few mins and they’ll appear

Hi! Just received a PM from a dev. Apparently the smokescale will only spawn if the Nuoch area gets to tier 2-3.

Nice, electric wyvern and tiger left

aB EXT.1287:

Here’s the location of the Smokescale in the Tangled Depths map:

!http://i.imgur.com/jaXk0O7.jpg!
!http://imgur.com/V2o7DRv.jpg!
!http://imgur.com/3qSLY4w.jpg!

The spawn seems a little irregular, but give it a few mins and they’ll appear

Anet loves to troll us i guess:P it happened that i’ve found fire wyvern by watching the day night cycle because i though smokescale will be some where between dawn and night. ^^ It seems i’m kind of correct, waiting on that location for next 10 min if it doesn’t spawn i’ll check again in 1 hour :P

This is a mmo game, if you think game is to hard, you should find yourself a party, get some friends involved and run around. To be fair, it’s hard content, but it gives you thinking, i love it, no more brain dead walking across tyria, and just pressing buttons, i was so amazed when i’ve seen so many dead people. LOVE IT, wake up and play. Stop using auto bot:P

kimeekat.2548:

You guys are amazing! I’m trying to keep the wiki updated as the confirmations roll in; I’ve already got the Bristleback location info up to date. Trying to get the Fire Wyvern sorted next…

Can someone please confirm the name of the PoI on the “Canopy over Pact Encampment” area in this picture? http://prntscr.com/8uhhm7

I’m doing this on my breaks at work, or else I’d go explore and find it out myself Thank you so much for sharing!

This is the flat area where chopper will drop you down: [Matriarch’s Perch]
from there you just have to jump down from correct edge and you can glide there without any problems (have lvl 1 gliding)

Now that we have Balm nerfed, can we nerf TP flipping?
Because ToT was not as harming as TP flipping is.

dashrem.4368:

Try turning off Acceleration (Enhance Pointer Precision) and lowering your Report Rate. Both of those can cause lots of problems in games as games usually use their own methods. I haven’t been able to try the Action cam yet, but I find they cause mouse input lag.

EDIT: Also, your mouse DPI and the setting in your Windows Mouse Properties will stack together. So if you max out both, your mouse will basically teleport everywhere. :P

That’s sadly not the case, what i’m saying is that mouse outside the windows has speed lets say from A to be B 1 sec. same settings in game A to B 4 seconds. It’s a lot slower in game. It’s not about the mouse or settings it’s simply the game doesn’t allow us to bust that parameter enough.

LeSavage.1359:

“We” ? means who? u and your dog? Watch out when u say “we” if u dont know what other ppl think. For me its perfect, finally can get rid of that supid autotargetting. Your system mouse settings can adjust speed for you.

If it works for you that doesnt mean it works for every one. So i could say the same to you, speak for yourself. I’m just saying that i use good mouse, i did max all possible settings that when i swap back out of action camera, every thing just flies around. and just saying you have to watch your attitude as well because stressing your arrogance on others is not appropriate.

And last sentence proves that you wrote rage post before you even read what i had to say.

Vexx.3169:

I’ve got the suspicion that the Wyvern is locked behind the Itzl Language. There’s a scout at Wyvern Cliffs, right below one of the mesas full of Wyvern… Who I can’t understand due to language issues!

I’m assuming he’ll teach us some way to capture Hatchlings, or lure out the Juveniles, or something.

(Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong!)

If this would be true, this would not be justified, it’s holding back class mechanics because of time gated mechanics that will not allow ranger to get full pet kit. I hope you are wrong.

EDIT: no other class has this, same should be with ranger. Every pet till now was achieved by simple map first areas scouting. And some of us don’t like PvE at all.

Gnomechompski.8560:

Does your mouse have DPI settings? I have set mine on 1/4 of the slider (in gw2) and it’s really fast

It’s nothing with my dpi 2100 dpi here its maxed out, and it’s still slow.
In windows it’s so fast i cant control it, and in game it’s to slow to have smooth game play.

It’s just not balanced enough. We need at least 2x faster rations and accelerations.

We need at least 2x more speed to rotate to make this more responsive, every thing maxed out in windows and in game, rotation any thing. It’s just not fast enough.

Rotations in action camera are to slow.
Mouse acceleration to slow.
When going out of action camera mode, old mode is 4x fasterrr and it doesn’t transit well.

Keep in mind every thing is maxed out. in game, mouse dpi on 2100, windows mouse settings.

EDIT:
For further selfish “works for me” comments “speak for yourself”
It clearly doesn’t transit well from Game to Windows. Don’t take me wrong i would love to use action mode, but this transition is just not feeling smooth for having maxed every thing.

THANKS TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WAS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS TOPIC, YOU ARE AWESOME GUYS, AND ANOTHER PROOF THAT RANGER COMMUNITY IS DEDICATED MORE THEN ANY OTHER CLASS. GOOD JOB AND ENJOY YOUR PETS!
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I’m far from being a fan of GW2 PvE, so i would love to get all pets as fast as possible, and get back to WvW.
My suggestion would be to share the locations of pets if any one found them, and lets collect them here:

Already getting a lot of good whisper feedback, post your speculations directly, and whisper me in game, i’ll update list every 15 min. (13:00 > 13:15 > 13:30… etc etc)

NOTE FOR TIGER AND ELECTRIC WYVERN: YOU CANNOT TAXI PEOPLE AFTER 3 BOSSES DIE, MAP CLOSES AND IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO USE TELEPORT TO FRIEND IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE SAME OVERFLOW AND YOU CANNOT TAXI PEOPLE IN.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TIGER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE: to get tiger you MUST defeat mout of mordremoth FIRST, after you kill him, new areas will open into the jungle where you cannot go if [MoMordremoth] is alive.
5 minutes AFTER mordremoths death tigers will spawn so don’t panic if they are not there instantly!
http://prntscr.com/8wm7wf
http://prntscr.com/8wicwv

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FIRE WYVERN:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CHOICE 1, REQUIRES NO GLIDING NO MUSH JUMPING:
Get to this way point [Pact Encampment Waypoint], path i took to find it:
http://prntscr.com/8uhcw6
From here Jump down, i used glider, when you land wait for chopper:
http://prntscr.com/8uhdgf
Choppers will spawn wher i’ve makrked, and choose that you want to go up.
http://prntscr.com/8uhgc5
After you get up you’ll spawn here [Matriarch’s Perch] as you’ll see on picture, then just glide to the area.
http://prntscr.com/8uhhm7
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CHOICE 2, REQUIRES GLIDING AND MUSH JUMPING BOTH LVL 1:
Get to this wp:[Shrouded Ruins Waypoint]
PATH: http://prntscr.com/8uquud
go up the stairs and use this mush:
http://prntscr.com/8uqvlk from here just simple hill climbing http://prntscr.com/8uqwa3
http://prntscr.com/8uqwqz
http://prntscr.com/8uqx3p

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BRISTLEBACK:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bristleback near this POI [Weeping Glade], First you have to 2ND MAP.
PATH from Map 1 to Map 2:
http://prntscr.com/8uhxs7
PATH to tame location:
http://prntscr.com/8uhzle
Area to tame bristleback:
http://prntscr.com/8uhu9z

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SMOKESCALE:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE: Hi! Just received a PM from a dev. Apparently the smokescale will only spawn if the Nuoch area gets to tier 2-3.* by – /u/kiwituatara.6053
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Smokescale is near this WP [Teku Nuhoch Waypoint]
PATH from Map 1 to Map 2:
http://prntscr.com/8uhxs7
PATH from map 2 to Map 3: ( that’s bristleback location, but same path, just continue u’ll find exit to map 3)
http://prntscr.com/8uhzle continue here http://prntscr.com/8uka7r
PATH Map 3 Smokescale location:
http://prntscr.com/8ukb9s
Tamed pet at 22:09 EU gmt+2
http://prntscr.com/8ukbwz

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ELECTRICT WYVERN:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE: To tame this pet you need to finish 2 hour chain event in Dragon’s Stand which will lead you to fight mouth of mordremoth in area called Dragon Domain. After you kill it, there will spawn large updraft wind that will get you to the chest, and from that location you can fly to hero point where Electrict wyvern spawns.In order to get there you only need Lv2 Glider mastery OR teleport to friend if your friend will be able to go to that area.
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Electrict wyvern can be found directly on POI [Serenity’s Cove].
By now people should be able to find path to the Dragon’s Stand map, i won’t post the direct path here.

How to approach getting the wyvern PATH:
http://prntscr.com/8volbx
once you are on top fly on other side:
http://prntscr.com/8vooy1
Try to land on this area and the hard work is done ^^:
http://prntscr.com/8vomyp
They are always there, no matter when you come:
http://prntscr.com/8vmo8x
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Some changes to existing pets in WVW (borders only no EB change or addon):
juveline Forest spider ~ south from [Blazeclaw Crag]
juveline Whiptail Devourer ~ north east [Patrick’s Encampment]
juveline Hyena ~ (left side of wvw map) Scourching Undercroft- strictly right right from vista on the edge of desart.
juveline Wolf ~ [Hughe’s Hideaway] very close north of it
juveline Warthog ~ [Gattchaki Scratch] south from here
juveline Red Moa ~ [Y’lan Academy] green keep right side
juveline Boar ~ [Tranquilvale Oasis] south and right from hero point near camp
juveline Cave Spider ~ [Barrett Farmstead] right from here in the cliff
juveline Lynx ~ [Lesh’s Lab] right from camp

I did try burn guard and Condi PU mesmer, it’s just bullkitten, so easy no effort to kill anything, it has to be done something about it, because it requres no effort to kill things as fast as this.. you can literally melt targets so fast that it’s just pathetic when you once try condi build.. you just smile to yourself when you go back on power builds.

Mirrodin.8729:

You mean like WoW uses engineering gadgets? Item equipped with an active?

Ill give you my opinion based on my WoW experience:

It was a love/hate relationship, certain gadgets were op, others meh and some straight useless so lets get to the point.

Taking your random suggestion as example, imagine how annoying would be lets say a guardian with 3 dodges, plus invul, plus heals, blocks, aegis, etc, i know you said a random active, but just imagine how annoying battles would be with 3 dodges per class, it will be like when sigil of fire/air plagued pvp, the idea is ok but it may give a lot of power to already powerfull classes, plus we would need a way to use it like an extra skill slot unless we give up 1 utility for said gadget

I have no idea what you mean about wow, i’ve never played it, i did grow up with GW1 Ummm don’t make endurance refill as optional example, i’m just saying we could have active instead of passive abilities on 6th rune

Matchup EB: Gandara vs SFR vs Vizunah 30v40v40

Just letting you know, that WvW is unplayable for entire server.
Rubber banding, skills don’t go off, we jump all over map…

I prefer more gore type of jokes, so i’ll mark it as spoiler :P

What’s a bad quaggan situation? ...8 quaggans in one box.
What’s even worst? ...1 quaggan in 8 boxes.

Hi, i would like to just share simple idea that I had long ago but never shared it.

6th rune would have active effect with cooldown. I’ll leave you with imagination on what those effects could be. Just keep in mind we would need extra key-bind for that to release that effect.

Random examples:

• On activation, gain one bar of endurance, cooldown X seconds.

We also need reverse system for Amulets.
And bring macro management of builds, i say keep both styles, but if you really want to have eSports, we need this tiny things, where swapping two items makes huge change.

Every thing is to generic at the moment.
Also a reason why many of us stopped playing sPvP.

No macro management = no eSports, no diversity.

EDIT: for those that don’t know what i’m talking about, in the past before “amulet update” we had option to choose every armor piece stats and runes for them, same as in PvE, and you could really make unique, stats that suit your build and play style.

Spurnshadow.3678:

No, you’re not the only person who wants this. I think there are seven other folks. PvP has no build diversity. The people who want this crap are just folks who kitten and complain about having to spend time and gold on different gear. I have my builds tweeked perfectly for my play style. I’m always swapping an item here and there depending on the enemy I’m fighting, the size of my group, or what our role is.

Take the brain dead PvP system and keep it in PvP. Don’t bring that crap to WvW

Exactly, we like macro management of tiny items that we change depends who you fight. PvP system is why i stopped playing sPvP, because gear there offers no management but dull enforced amulet system.

Also if anet wants to go eSports they need to change this back to as it was.

Mike.7850:

I can’t be the only person who dreams of this happening! It would be so much easier to change builds and try new things out! and switching between a zerg set up to a roaming set up!

It will probably never happen but personally I think this would be my favourite QoL update if this did ever happen.

That’s the most stupid thing that i’ve read lately.

You clearly don’t know WvW community. We are all about pride, custom builds, and putting effort into builds that are unique, yours and yours alone, and not just copy paste from amulets and you are done.

This is the reason why WvW community will never play PvP again. We used to be active players in sPvP, when you could choose your gear manually and not by amulets.
And i can test all the builds that i want, if you desire to test things, go pvp and test builds there, then build armor for wvw.

It would be your happy day, but night mare for all the people that work and play hard for servers, and you just want easy solution, no son, welcome to wvw where you’ll work for results.

Title, it’s clearly time to divide WvW and EOTM, because karma train happening in EOTM does count as WvW and it is ruining realistic statistics for us and effects WvW way to much.

People leveling characters in EOTM count as active WvW players, which is not fair from my point of view.

I don’t know @Kefro.
We didn’t communicate with arena net for so long about WvW, the only thing that they’ve communicated with us is because HoT changes, and those are just posts, not a real discussions / conversations because what ever we suggest, or say, or ask is not answered even though it’s nothing about spoiling anything what so ever.

We lost touch with them long ago, I miss quality of service from GW1, support and lead communication team there were amazing, I miss them.

No thank you, this idea makes no sense while every one knows how long it takes to make keep waypoint or even SM way point, what i would change are two things.

Lets assume reset is still in friday as all this 3 years.

• In friday, flipping objectives is worth nothing except SM and it gives 3x points. This would stop karma trains and huge night shifts in last day, and made it day to fight for SM.

• Same with borderlands, all objectives are still capable but only points that you would get are from garrison 3x same kitten fights.

I suggested this several times already. 100 gold, 5.000 badges and rank 1000+ to get commander tag at this price.

securegeek.7952:

Just glad I didn’t spend the money on hot.
Same old Anet, making changes that the player base doesn’t want.
Please hire at least one employee that actually plays WvW on a regular bases to be our voice within the company.

Yes, this.

I just hope one thing, that game won’t be effected by limiting the advanced mechanics in order to make action camera work for future development that’s all! Keep it hard or go home, we want classes to be harder to master in future:)

Gaile Gray.6029:

Diku.2546:

Offer solutions folks…or the solutions get drowned out in an ocean of argument.

Yes. This.

Also, please express your thoughts as concisely as possible so that the reading of them — and you know they are being read — is as productive as possible. By that I don’t mean to discount your passion or refute your passion. But if you write your thoughts as briefly as possible, that ensures that the team has the time — in what is an incredibly busy time for our company — to read all your thoughts in an efficient and meaningful way. Thanks for that.

I want to address something I’ve seen creep into this discussion from a few forum members. The original plan (call it Plan A, Saturday evening) was adjusted due to what seemed to be preponderant base of opinion from players. It was temporarily thought that going to a Saturday morning reset, Plan B, would be better, based on the first set of comments in this thread. But when it became clear that no, Plan B was actually not as good for players as a whole, the team then went back to Plan A. At absolutely no time did someone come up with a plot to manipulate you. At no time did someone say something in an insincere way , as in “let’s present Plan B to make Plan A appear better.” Both plans were an honest attempt to balance player desires with developer realities. The Saturday reset is needed, as John explained, and of the two options, based on your feedback, the evening reset is the best for the majority of players. That’s where we are right now, and you can be sure that there was no conspiracy involved in the outcome.

Hi Gray, it’s me again, first of all i would suggest you this solution.
So Gray, 3 weeks of temporary Saturday reset, then we would like to see that you promise us that WvW reset will be back as it was all this years.
If you want reasons and constructive arguments why, i don’t want to spam double so read this, it’s not short because it cannot be described in 2 words, sorry:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/page/15#post5618542

EDIT: Gary, sorry i forgot to correct you. NO majority did not vote for Satuday evening, neither morning, but FRIDAY, and by that i mean 1000+ players in my strawpoll + responses from guild leaders of EU. I don’t want to play political game here, so lets keep things straight. In this case you are asking us for NON-FRIDAY solution, and we are giving you optimal solution: We can land on agreement for temporary 3 Saturday evening weeks if that’s ok for you. But Gary, if we think about it, if you need any longer then that, this means something happened in Anet in between 2013-2015 which forced you to release this game in very bad shape.No matter what methodology you run in company, you should be able to make stable playable WvW game version in less then 3 weeks.

Thx to tyrian gods, you guys did departure from NCsoft, I hope things will be better now.

EDIT 2:
I dont want to be rude, statistics also show that FSP, Gandara, SFR, Kodash and Desolution all servers had 70% bigger queues on this friday then saturday. So political move, that did shift WvW reset because of more new people, was very unsportsmanlike move.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Hey all,

As we hurtle toward launch most of my time is locked into Druid and Scrapper changes.

After much tribulation I was able to make a change to WHAO to remove the static boon stack application on Might and Stability stacks being copied; this was actually a fairly difficult change to implement as we don’t really have support for copying boons with preset durations.

This’ll go in with the 23rd.

Irenio, I’m almost crying :‘) thanks for letting us have what every other class has!
Thank you! It’s more then just that, can’t express happiness! <333333

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

Launching a game is an enormous undertaking and our teams need time to address any issues that come up. Therefore after launch we must move WvW reset to Saturday. We will keep resets on Saturday to address issues and once we are in the clear we will evaluate the best time for WvW reset both for us as a company as well as for our players.

Since it is clear that we cannot pick a time that will work for everyone, we will be maintaining our original plan of shifting reset by 24 hours, to Saturday evening. That time was based on data for when prime time occurs in each region.

Thank you,
John

Also, you guys welcome Dungeon guild runners to have a saying on Raids, please invite WvW guilds to have a saying on WvW Reset, it would be very rewarding if you would approach one of dedicated guilds to WvW/GvG scene. Team Aggression(TA), aX Chemsorly he was on your beta after all and helped you, SFR guilds and many others. Approach them, they will have answers that you seek.

But in mean while, we can handle 2-3 weeks of shifted reset, we were always the last wheel, and we are though enough to handle this temporary change. We did get some thick skin with all this years

Gaile Gray.6029:

wolvz — I understand, and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Jerry — could you please read John’s most recent post (or read it through again)? (It’s probably on this very page.) I think it might give you some valuable info.

I would like to say, Hi Gray, and first of all i wish there was more “OUT-OF-CLOSET” guys like Joel yesterday, he came from no where, and delivered SO MANY GOOD THINGS!

Now straight to the contructive arguments:
Because Reset day does not effect development team and service group that much I would suggest 3 next things, just 3, no more:

• 1) Take a look at this chart that was made on reddit and here, http://strawpoll.me/5736600/r In future, things that don’t effect development, we would more then appreciate if some one from Devs would approach us with question form to fill in Hi, guys, this and this changes, we need your opinion if it’s majority, we implement it your way, if it’s some what TIE, 50-50, 40-60 we make it as we feel like.

• 2) I would love to say with all respect to devs, that our tradition in WvW around reset is more then just a “WVW reset day”, and we both me and YOU Gray, know one thing, that nothing was fixed in one extra day when it came to major or minor problems. And lets be human here, I rather see Devs work fridays then, half fridays and coming on work in Saturdays, every Dev is human too, and weekends OFF is nothing better for them to have own life too. Again i have high respect to devs, but do you guys really think, that WvW game mode was the thing that kept us playing for 3 years?

• With all the struggle of rubber bending and skill lags, yes we complained, every normal player do, and you guys should know, that as loyal community as we are in WvW is the best community that every developers should desire. Even if things were pain, buggy, unplayable, we stick with you, we believe in you and most importent, we did find over the years without seasons a way to make us buys. That’s why resets are so important to us, it’s not just a reset day, it’s not just beginning of the weekend. It was people, grouping on fridays and wednesdays, making GvGs, a specials runs, border management of guilds, spreading people around, private made lists of which guild goes where so we don’t interrupt GvGs, because OS is always not an option, organizing and creating own team speaks and webpages, forums, brackets and spreadsheets just to make reset days easier, more organized and as enjoyable as we made them.

• 3) *I honestly think that you guys know all of this, that you guys respect our choice, but what out-weights us, is that you want to bring more approaching way for new players to start with WvW, I get you, it’s all business you are just not aloud to speak about it just like that, we understand you guys.

• But that’s where problems will always be, LvL60 people will come to WvW, and they will be having bad experience, because they will die, and die, and die again, and then people will tell them what they did wrong, and send them back to EOTM and get themselves a WvW gear. That’s where we have to stop for a moment, and think about it, no person will go straight to WvW, every body goes EOTM first, they want to learn pug life, why? Because sooner or later they see, that WvW is not the place for people under lvl 80 and none exotic geared people, WvW is something we take seriously, and people who are not lvl 80, won’t get revived, It’s simple statistics, that reviving an upscaled will cause 90% of another dead player that is lvl 80, just because picking up the upscaled takes same time then lvl 80 person, and the value of both is astronomical difference. And sooner or later people will see rage of us that die for them trying to revive a person that has no clue what they are doing, they will die 20 times and leave WvW.

• WvW is hard place for pugs and it’s not that we don’t like new players, but there is this thing, we live for the server, we play for the server, and we want our servers to do well, 1 uplscaled person while we have queue, means 1% of lost power to the commander. People very quickly get adviced to go EOTM, and we also help them to level, just look EU SFR, they have EOTM guild that levels pugs in EOTM to make them ready for WvW, but what we don’t welcome are those that are not willing to join us and live for the server! We play this game mode with more then just pride, many of us, that main WvW, after 3 years are nothing near legendary, and we are fine with it, because WvW community that we made, is more important to us then a shiny skin. It’s OK if you want to bring new people to WvW, because that’s what we already DO, we search for people that are willing to join servers, and we always have queues. And NO ONE BUT US made this pugs a woman and man that play nights and days for the servers. Yes it sounds like we think that WvW is something superior, but it truly, once you are part of community, people know you, people value you, and you have a reason to join to fight another day!*

What i’m about to say, take it as serious as it sounds. Rather then facing the reset time, we would more then love to see changes to HOW QUEUE works. Just think about it, we already have HUGE queues, 40-120 EB queue, and 10-25 borders, and we are barely out of summer.

If we are stuck for at least 60-90 minutes in queue, how about considering something more desirable that would bring quality to the game? Like character swap while staying in queue? Commanders lose a lots of players by DC or they have to leave, and staying and being grounded on same character for 1 hour plus is absurd just because you want to play WvW.

EDIT: ALSO, my suggestion to this madness and destruction of WvW community would be. We accept saturdays or any day of the week to be a reset day for 2 weeks, we can give you that, because we understand you, and then please put it back as it was all this years. Thank You, your WvW only players.

masterJP.5048:

Stronghold is suppose to be the new GvG mode , Arena’s is for brawls in your own guild. I might be wrong though but that is what I can gather

just dont, ok:)? Because you guys that truly believe that have no idea what is the purpose of gvg.

Don’t take me wrong, i love new arenas they look KITTEN SICK and amazing I fully support the idea, i just wish we could invest in DOUBLE resizing of arena. But since this is not the feature of current guild halls (you can only enlarge the empty gap area which is additional 250-300 range at most) we can say that this arenas are to small for GvGs.

Now that we’ve had first person and 3rd person camera, I can confirm our old topic of size prediction.Our guildie predicted it…

This arenas are size of 2500 + gaps which add max (2×300)range from one to other side in total 3100 range, to small for GvG of size 15v15 or bigger. Since enemy static can reach the other side easily without even blinking, this leaves us with very little area to move!

This could suit for 1v1s and maybe some “brawl” as Colin said, I’m definitely looking into 1v1/2v2/3v3/5v5s. But for 15v15+ this is way to small, and not viable for GvGs as ArenaNet promised. Sorry Colin Q_Q …

[Mod Edit: Edited post for profanity.]

Anet said they move reset day on saturday, because we are finally stable after 3 years of fixing the rubber banding and skill lags.

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,
There are a couple of reasons for the change to reset time. One is for the overall quality of the game. The last few years we have been careful to not disrupt the WvW reset time but this has at times made it difficult for our team to address issues during reset day. 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 or any other area of the game if it is necessary. In the early days we wanted reset to be during a weekday to ensure we had people available to monitor the game at reset time, but at this point we have seen the ongoing stability of World vs. World and resetting on a weekday is no longer necessary.

John

T3 server, currently entire server has 3-4 seconds skill lag. My personal ping is 58ms, stability and healing skills dont go off. (and we are not even on EB) . So much for fixes and excuse to move reset day on saturday.

Is this another “Trust us” move?
I think we have to get some facts straight?

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

There are a couple of reasons for the change to reset time. One is for the overall quality of the game. The last few years we have been careful to not disrupt the WvW reset time but this has at times made it difficult for our team to address issues during reset day. 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 or any other area of the game if it is necessary. In the early days we wanted reset to be during a weekday to ensure we had people available to monitor the game at reset time, but at this point we have seen the ongoing stability of World vs. World and resetting on a weekday is no longer necessary.

Another reason is the emergent gameplay that has come from reset. It has become one of the most exciting times for WvW and we would really love for more players to have the opportunity to experience it. We have many more players logging in on Saturday than on Friday which means with this change many more people will be available to experience the rush of claiming objectives for their world during reset.

However, given the concerns posted here we will be moving the Saturday reset to earlier in the day to give most players the majority of the day to enjoy the start of the new match. Immediately after launch the new time will be 11am PDT / 2pm EDT (6 pm UTC) for NA and 11am BST / 12 pm CEST (10 am UTC) for EU. Keep in mind that the following week with the end of Daylight Savings Time / Summer Time the reset times will be pushed even earlier to 10am PST/ 1pm EST and 10am GMT / 11am CET.

Thank you for your feedback. We realize that no time we pick is going to work for everyone but this change is going to benefit even more players overall while at the same time giving us a little more breathing room to improve the quality of the game during the week.

Thanks,
John

I’ll put it this way, your post is contradict with WvW experience and I’ll explain why:

• 1).STRAWPOLL FOR John’s homework John, for beginning, I’ve asked people on reddit and here on forum about it, it’s basically what YOU could have done the same. So i did it for you http://strawpoll.me/5736600/r here are the results.

• 2). FACT OF WVW Yes you have more logs on Saturdays, but where? Not in WvW, but in all over Tyria(GW2 mega servers). We WvW guild leaders/co-leaders have our own years of statistics of WvW, and I can tell you we are facing 80% less WvW attendance then other days of the week. Just logging in for 5 min to get your WvW daily doesn’t count. Our statistics also shows that on saturdays we have 20-30 less experienced regular people on tag and we get more upscaled and rank under silver who cannot follow the tag and ever worse connect to TeamSpeak, this leaves us very quickly with 25-35 people on tag who fail to accomplish simple tasks, and those that are Regular WvW players don’t show up until afternoon-evening that’s also why for example Gandara or Desolution(before last month mass inflation) have this issue where commanders simply don’t tag up due to this issue.
• 3) ALREADY EXISTING QUEUES From gaming experience, I would love to ask HOW, would you want to give people chance to experience WvW Reset, while T1-3 servers ALWAYS have at least 40+ queue just on EB reset day and borders face queue between 10-20 man, and if you miss the split second or you get a disconnect, you’ll face sitting in queue for minimum 60-120 minutes, and with Saturday resets, in your theory we will face over 100+ queue on servers. But that’s false assumption described why in point 1).
• 4) DOES 1 DAY SHIFT COUNT?More time to fix things after Patch. I honestly don’t know who exactly are you trying to convince into that, because WvW experience says other ways, nothing was ever fixed on time, and +1 day won’t fix it either, why? I don’t blame you guys, I know it’s hard, but if WvW had issue, things were fixed in time frame between 1 week or 3 months. The only thing about WvW that I can shoutout is Quick fix of server drop out, sorry anet, that’s the only thing that was fixed from your side in matter of hours, and you can’t be ready on that, no one does, and we understand you. Extra day here won’t fix anything, and you guys that play WvW know that.
  Just remember the golem rush issue:
  - Event was over before you guys managed to fix golem buff abuse.
  - It took you 3 days to fix. “i see every one on them map, including enemy tags and players BUG”
  - After 3 years, we can still place catapults on UN-KILL-ABLE positions in klovan inside the wall.
  - It took you 1 week before you were able to remove bug where displaying Chinese-dragon-year event items in map chat would make you disconnect from the game if you preview/click on it.
  - It took you 3 years of rubber bending skills before minor changes were applied. And you guys took 3 months to measure data, and + 3 months to apply that results, which leaves us with 6 months of fixing an issue. After 6 months we don’t mind if you would take 1 extra day.

• 5) SERVER ISSUES Owh I’ve forgot to mention, fixes to rubber-bending were not fully fixed. EB is still facing huge rubber-bends in prime times and not just resets on (we are currently on T3 server and yet we experience the same issues). Things are slightly better when it comes to SM fights, but i wouldn’t dare to call that a fix myself, it’s more likely a stitch.

• 6) MUTUAL AGREEMENT: Hundreds of guilds are making weekly meetings with leaders to make sure every thing is covered, we organize more then in other game modes here in GW2, I’ll also say it, Friday gives fresh start to have amazing Saturday and Sunday. This shift will cut us for 16-24hours of enjoyment. RESET itself, became comparable with country anatheme, it’s more then jsut a song, it’s something that you are proud and kitteny about! Can you change country anatheme just like that? I bet you don’t, it would lose respect of your people, and sorry John, we feel offended, like it’s not enough that we suffered 3 years with unplayable game mode at peaks, now this? Well all i can say is, _I wish you would understand us at least once._

• 7) PLOT TWIST Also, lets be honest for a moment, it’s all about release day 23th friday for you guys.
  You want every one to be in Jungle on that day but the funny plot twist is, true WvW players like me, will play WvW on that day. Temporary reset day shift with exception this week would be fine and acceptable, no one would care that much, but permanently shifting it still make no sense to those that are dedicated WvW players, and we know how WvW fixes and updates are.

Nothing is done in 1 extra day, sorry we have history of WvW behind us.

Shout out for devs that try hard to fix things, we know you guys are working on it as much as you can, we are just sad that changes are there, where we don’t need them.

Wish i was your server

I think it’s fine that it becomes HARD, why ? Some of us couldn’t relax for 3 years, and we invested into the game a lot as well I think its our turn now ^^ and i’m excited!

Synosius.9876:

dancingmonkey.4902:

None the less, the WvW scoring week will have the same amount of days in it either way. it seems to me that way too many are over reacting, as well as putting to much artificial value on playing at reset.

you are right, it doesnt make any difference mechanically at all and it is indeed artificial value but friday reset has become our tradition. its more than just some arbitrary day just like a national anthem is more than just a song.

I sign under this. People that don’t play WvW a lot will never understand us.

Results of strawpoll and still growing:
http://strawpoll.me/5736600/r

Buy Some Apples.6390:

Jayne.9251:

Blah, no wonder the red names stay away.

Any single change results in mass protest.

Lack of change results in mass protest.

They can’t win.

And who’s fault is that?

They neglected WvW since launch, not us!
We’ve given them great ideas, but they implemented their own awful ideas instead.
Any red post will be met with much criticism now, even if it’s the best thing for WvW. We simply do not believe in Anet any more.

Let me put it this way, I don’t want to sound rude, not at all, I’m just how our communication between ArenaNet and GW2 community is going. I’ve played many of MMOs and Many of NON-MMO games, and i can say, many company’s offer better communication, they often release Question-Form to fill in some gaming experience, how do you feel, what do you feel that we can do better, where are we short.

With other words 20% community driven development, where community helps to build future, because only they/we know the best, how things work in reality as a Guild wars 2 WvW player.

It’s not a secret that we could use some talk with ArenaNet from time to time, and we all know, that we would have 99.9% less toxic, rent, complain and desperate topics about GW2WvW aspect. Just ask us how we are doing from time to time, after all we are human as well.

To bad that +5 wont carry on i’ll miss it ^^

Small off topic, will we see any changes to commander tag for those that play WvW a lot? Any consideration of making tags cheaper for those with high WvW rank that have some experience, and also those that have a lot of badges ?:)

morrolan.9608:

You need more options ie moving it to Thursdays or Mondays. Not voting as it stands.

Mid week resets are not welcome, wise we can see that from statistics just from our guild over the years.

Mondays 60% attendance of guild mates.
Tuesday 90% attendance of guild mates.
Wednesday 30-35% attendance of guild mates.
Thursday 90% attendance of guild mates.
Friday 90% attendance of guild mates.
Saturday 20% attendance of guild mates.
Sunday (guild meeting only) cca 20% attendance of guild mates.

So just numbers:
MON 60%
TUE 90%
WED 32.5%
THU 90%
FRI 90%
SAT 20%
SUN 20%

This is over 3 years with roster of size between 20 – 60 people variation.

Synosius.9876:

I didnt think Saturday would get any votes but ofc its bound to fit somebody’s personal schedule.

I wonder if this is more of a casusal vs hard core debate. Those who would rather go to the bar on Friday and want just play for a few hours in the evening vs those who go from bed right to the computer on saturday morning.

I did post it on /r/Guildwars2 reddit, a lot of pve people vote as well, i wanted it to be fair for all. not just those that are already in WvW, but those that intend to join.

Jayne.9251:

Blah, no wonder the red names stay away.

Any single change results in mass protest.

Lack of change results in mass protest.

They can’t win.

Jayne, sorry, I respect every change, but this is unnecessary change, which will only make people out of habit, people devote their days, people make schedule and apps for WvW, people changed their way of life just to play this game mode as they did for 3 years. They made themselves unnecessary programming changes, and more while they could take additional time to devote to WvW that needs more attention.

We love Friday resets, and we think that WvW reset hour and day, was the LAST thing that we wanted to see, why doesn’t any interact with us and ask us about such things, because this things are WvW player preferences and don’t really effect ArenaNet.

It’s making things even worst for developers, you want to know why?
Because resets have the biggest overheads, biggest dropout and peak of problems which is the worst case scenario for arena net servers, if something goes wrong, they will now have to show up in Saturday to fix the problems, while they could simply have peak on Friday, and fix things then, and be free for weekends with less stress and problems.

It’s their choice, but I feel such decision would be very nice, to have a chat with community, it would mean starts for us, to have this chance, to actually say few things here and there. “Hey community, we would like to know your WvW reset day, pick up your choice, because this brings no drastic changes to use, but since you guys play, it would probably mean world to you to pick favourite choice as one. Love ArenaNet.”

@ArenaNet, simply this? Why can’t those that play WvW vote for resets.

As far as i’ve seen no one wants reset on weekend!

Can we please vote? Thank you!
http://strawpoll.me/5736600

Why moving reset time for 24 hours, it makes no sense just breaking the habit of millions already existing WvW players????
No one requested it, it changes nothing but unpleasant changes, because on Fridays we gather and enjoy resets! No one play on Saturdays, we love to spend time with family and friends!

Please leave Friday as a reset! It was amazing! Ty!

Thx for the numbers and update, i wish we could test this out, it all looks ok on paper, but testing is the real measure where changes go ~ good/bad.

Wish we had 1 more beta.

How about existing core ranger traits, any changes on that? We have a few topics on that which could use a sneak peak for maybe some potential updates

NotOverlyCheesy.9427:

Firelysm.4967:

Wanze.8410:

The biggest problem i see with your suggestions of account bound items after tp purchase or raising its sales tax after being traded once:
It will have huge implementation costs. They would need to make a 2nd item ID for every item to note if its tradeable or not. That will also mean, that those items wont stack anymore, so people will complain about lack of storage space.
For many item groups, this chance will have little effect anyways. Anything that can be used in crafting, forging, be salvaged or can be altered in other ways (for example a lootbag that gets opened) can just be bought on the tp, altered and sold again.

I make a great deal of profit just by opening lootbags, salvaging, crafting and forging and i guess, i would still be able to make significantly more profit than in other areas of the game, even without flipping and speculating. So your proposed change isnt really a great solution to your perceived problem, it would create unconvenience to a majority of players that have to deal with lack of storage space now and therefore in my eyes wouldnt warrant the implementation costs.

Wrong, depends how creative are you, but from my programming experience this could be done fairly easy. You just have to add one attribute to data base which doesnt even effect existing items. Once you have sold items on TP they would be flag “Been on Trading Post”, you simply stack them as usual, but once you try to sell them you can choose which to sell first, implementation can be made with one simple CHECK box, “Sell spoiled items”. As a buyer it doesn’t even matter? Why? Because once you buy it you know that item will become spoiled and will be worthless to sell again.

And this implementation would take no time to implement.
Update TP:
http://prntscr.com/8qu859
Update inventory:
http://prntscr.com/8qud5l

You make great deal of profit just by opening lootbags, u can still do that because items contained wouldn’t be marked as spoiled (been on trading post). This is in no mean flipping it’s playing a game, and if you enjoy playing crafting game, i’m fine with it, it’s part of the game, but flipping is not.

You have no authority to make that statement whatsoever. If it wasn’t intended Anet would’ve got rid of it by now. Who are you to tell what people should and should not enjoy in a game?

You are just mad, because people are starting to resist the biggest money flow of flippers? Are you mad because if something changes about this, you’ll have to start actually doing something in the game in order to get your favourite things, or maybe sometimes buy gems? It’s so easy to see who’s made about changing the unintentional content.

In some way if you support flipping you should be ashamed that you let dungeon nerf happen, and support flipping, why creating such beautiful world and instances, if you sit in LA flipping the coin:)?

You can buy material, craft things, and put them back, i support you at this, but i know what you do, stock yourself, you are self centric, selfish and you don’t care about the game health to help community to grow in marketing, to support trading in general “i need this you need that, 5 this for 2 of yours, wanna trade?”.

I did got 4 mails telling or threatening me how I intentionally ruin flipping, and how i shouldn’t tell people about it because it will only get worse. But what if i want that you guys finally break TP, to see how things go then:)? What will you flip when no1 wont even try to go out there and farm the material?

“you have no authority” but who did give you authority to exploit API?
ArenaNet gave you tools to see the market, so you can easily check things that you want or need in order to craft your desired item, but what you guys did?
You did turn API for trading post into bot, that calculates maximum profit out of TP and will put other people around you in even deeper mud, they will have to play even more in order to get desired goal, while you just abuse API. You come home from work take 10 minutes, bam 200gold in your pocket in next few days by just waiting.
and who gave YOU the authority to get your virtual wealth on small people that actually play the content?

Dinks.2478:

Forget flippers, they need to nerf ToT farming, SW farming, and every other type of boring farm that pumps way more money into the game than dungeons ever will. Mark my works, this is anet trying to kill dungeons without outright removing them because they know their new content sucks and are afraid that dungeons (even in their current kitten state) will still look good after people notice that.

By ToT farming and SW you play the game, by flipping you don’t.
Flipping is something as side effect of bad model making of trading post.
If people want to play economy simulator, they can clearly instead of playing the game, play the “REAL GAME” go work for lets say 1 week, and use that money for real stock breaking.

And man, i think i should agree on your argument, i trully the same, that anet is doing this just because they made “average” content and nothing to special to make us busy for “next 3 years”, that’s probably why they are breaking the existing dungeons.

But on the other hand, i wish that dungeons would become 100X HARDER and they would make them open world… like a real cave, Just like SW labyrinth, but more epic underground, or above the sky thingy.

Wanze.8410:

The biggest problem i see with your suggestions of account bound items after tp purchase or raising its sales tax after being traded once:
It will have huge implementation costs. They would need to make a 2nd item ID for every item to note if its tradeable or not. That will also mean, that those items wont stack anymore, so people will complain about lack of storage space.
For many item groups, this chance will have little effect anyways. Anything that can be used in crafting, forging, be salvaged or can be altered in other ways (for example a lootbag that gets opened) can just be bought on the tp, altered and sold again.

I make a great deal of profit just by opening lootbags, salvaging, crafting and forging and i guess, i would still be able to make significantly more profit than in other areas of the game, even without flipping and speculating. So your proposed change isnt really a great solution to your perceived problem, it would create unconvenience to a majority of players that have to deal with lack of storage space now and therefore in my eyes wouldnt warrant the implementation costs.

Wrong, depends how creative are you, but from my programming experience this could be done fairly easy. You just have to add one attribute to data base which doesnt even effect existing items. Once you have sold items on TP they would be flag “Been on Trading Post”, you simply stack them as usual, but once you try to sell them you can choose which to sell first, implementation can be made with one simple CHECK box, “Sell spoiled items”. As a buyer it doesn’t even matter? Why? Because once you buy it you know that item will become spoiled and will be worthless to sell again.

And this implementation would take no time to implement.
Update TP:
http://prntscr.com/8qu859
Update inventory:
http://prntscr.com/8qud5l

You make great deal of profit just by opening lootbags, u can still do that because items contained wouldn’t be marked as spoiled (been on trading post). This is in no mean flipping it’s playing a game, and if you enjoy playing crafting game, i’m fine with it, it’s part of the game, but flipping is not.

Logos.1306:

Firelysm.4967:

@Logos.1306

Logos you simply don’t understand that most of flippers don’t even lose money, the most money lost is by people who actually try to buy items that they need! And the money sink doesn’t even matter if small and big people pay taxes with same rate.

Simple as that.

wrong. the seller pay tax not the buyier. So when flippers sell something they pay tax everytime. So if they sell lets say thousands of materials for thousands of gold they pay both TP taxes thats 15% of that thousands gold being destroyed. They are loosing if for the sake of better economy (less inflation). Of course they are making lots on money anyway. But well, so what?
I see you are one of these people who would want to tax rich people in reall life ?
Everytime there is an voting, election or something, politicians promise that they will make bigger taxes for rich people so poor majority of socienty will vote on them. Because they are just jealous of their money.
You know what rich people then say when they hear that? They say “why you are punish us for our success?”
So you want to punish flippers because they are making money better then other players? why?

Again I am not flipper, and I am not rich, I have only 1 legendary, rich players have 3 or more, or all of them.

But what are you when you try to first sell item buyer or seller?
And what does flipper do when they try to resell things? Buy at low price right?
On the end we all pay THE TAX because you lose gold to flipper, and they lose YOUR money to the NPC, on the end YOU are the one losing not flippers.

I hope this is clear to you and that’s what the purpose of this topic is, they rather use other people, then play the game.