Guild Wars 2

Wooo Hooo, an Update, Thank you so much Matt in letting us know that issues are being worked on. I really appreciate it

Hey guys, this is an update of what is being worked on. Not a kitten and cry list because he didn’t type it out in a certain order that you approve of. He said its some of what they are looking at, not all of what they are working on. Please as a gamer community don’t over react like small children throwing a tantrum because it will just create a backlash and they will stop updating us with what is happening. It’s OK to act mature and make your opinion known. Its OK to take a break from GW2 and do something else and come back in a week or two.

Hello, not sure if its just me, but don’t think so. In a recent update it seems the Merchant in a fully upgraded Stonemist Castle the merchant was moved into the wall behind where he formally stood. I’m not sure if he was moved backwards permanently or if this a glitch but he is not accessable. Also some of the guard are now standing halfway into the wall as well. ty

I agree with the OP. I read in another thread that ArenaNet doesn’t like to make announcements about future game implementations because things being worked on can be changed, modified or deleted and started over with a different direction during the development process. A very understandable outlook in dealing with the game community. People can get in a uproar over the smallest details and those details might never make it into the game. Still with GW2 having many issues it has given me the feel that this is a very large beta test. In my previous MMO games we would be informed of the broad strokes being worked on. In my previous games I’ve seen how other companies deal with the public relations side of running a large MMO. I find Anet to be behind in providing informative response’s to developing community concerns over major game issues. That has led to my feeling that this feels like more of a Beta Test then the normal relationship between developers and players. In Beta Test there’s no need to inform the player base because everything is being worked on. In the finished version of the game the player base who has paid for the product has a reasonable expectation to be kept informed of developing solutions to community issues. I think a post of future fixes being worked on would be a great relief to an anxious community. Thank you for reading my opinion.

There is a wide variety of skills that allow spiking while immune or blocking dmg on just about every class.

Ele has more then just mist form, got mist, block bubble, magnetic bubble, earth line focus 3 second immunity, retaliation, prob more that i’m not thinking of.

Having fun WvW,, main reason i play. Still there are many fine posts on how to improve WvW. Looking foward to the fixes that are needed. Looking forward to many fine new changes in the future.

Agree with Eisenhart. I’m a AOE elementilist and i drop poorly placed seige np. So when i place my siege i consider that, and place it wisely. Also i keep the ranged from getting to close. The combination of those two things, with a superior arrow cart and i’ve had np keep the AOE’ers off the walls.

Eh just died to another Thief perma-stealth exploiter. Sad part was he took down 2 others before me, and i died cause i ran to help them. All well, this is the tip of what is gonna be a huge iceberg i think.

Sorry mates, not everyone in BG like to stomkittentten when their down.

Thank you for the nice explination. As i said earlier i have no problems with thief’s. Just this glitch/bug.

I agree, i play an Ele also, and have collected about 1600 badges. Support specs get robbed on the badge drop, low dps gets robbed on the badge drop. In my evolution of gear/spec’s i’ve gone from full rare karma pvp set (survival over dps) to a full Bezerker exotic set (dps*aka glass cannon), and the badge drops have gone up quite a bit.

Oh also, i’d recommend getting the rare WvW karma armor and weapons set, its pretty cheap, and karma is easy to get. Then upgrade with pieces either from PvE or Badges to exotics.

A lot people do not know its possible for a thief to fight and do damage to them while in stealth. I didn’t until i saw the video above posted in our server match forum. I watched it, and went “ah, so that’s what was happening to me”. This last time it happened, after watching the video, i knew what was happening to me. For you to say "

Rengaru.4730

“You can’t attack someone you don’t even see.”
Thats the fallacy right there.

your right, you can attack, but can you attack someone you don’t even know can stay invisible and attack you?

To be fair, we are seeing in this video from the Thief’s point of view. You see where he is, and what he’s doing. When i was on the other end of it with my rather soft elementalist, i saw nothing but the occasional ground swirl bluish colored until i died. He even capped me invisible, then broke stealth and ran for it to rinse and repeat. To my point of view, i saw nothing when with zerg because of the amount of other effects, and only saw his ground swirl when i had retreated to the back. With 13 years of various PVP mmo’s to my credit, i am no brain dead zerger either, but very aware of my surroundings, and as a DPS exotic spec’d ele, i’m pretty paranoid as my hotbar skills are what keep me alive.

I agree, the fight i was in @ WC when i died to a thief using this bug, btw this not the video of my fight but my fight was very similar, but i had little to no chance to drop AOE’s, and i dont really have an issue with thief’s in general. My problem was he was on me for a about 1 min while used up all my cool downs to stay alive and with all the action going on with the zerg’s fighting, i had no clue he was on me. It wasn’t until i pulled back from our zerg, that i saw his ground effect swirl and, having seen the video above, figured out what was going on. I did half kill him, before he finish me off, as the above mentioned his dmg wasn’t much

LMKO – Laughing My Kitten Off! funny post

@ maniac

Your so right, but the common talk in /map at the moment is our current match up is going to leave us weak, uncoordinated and with out practice. So many of our regulars have taken a WvW break this week that there has been no que during some of our prime time fights. Add to that, a lot of the people i do see on are fair weather followers who will abandon ship @ the first sign of competition.

Personally i am praying to the Gods of War for some awesome fight’s ahead on the Sea’s of Combat.

As a Veteran of many past MMO’s, DAOC, Warhammer, Tera, Rift, Planetside and a ton of Xbox 360 games i agree with the OP. Seeing opposition players names would be great. I think the WvW game play is fun and fine, and will only get better with some improvements.

Here is an example of what just happened to my elementilist @ Wildcreek.

sceptus.9415:

Wow… A spawn camper complaining about bad sportsmanship. Dude, come join FA or TC against your endless zerg of terrible players with huge buffs. Get spawn camped for about 2 hours trying to play the same game the enemy player paid for and see just how it feels. Wear the shoe on the other foot for a while before you say stupid things like this. Not only would I have spammed emotes at you, I would make it a point to find and kill specifically you every time possible.

Finally, you wouldn’t be so bored if you weren’t on the latest bandwagon server. With at least 7 guilds and 2 alliances from other higher tiered servers its easy for a person like you to come in here complaining about being bored and spawn camping the less populated or lower-tiered server. One thing I can say for all of us on TC – we aren’t bored. I have personally killed so many of you who are used to running with a huge group and slapping poor loners around that I can almost see the comical look on your face as you try to grasp how you were killed with 9 of your buddies standing around. Come see Colbane the Guardian anytime in our borderlands – bring five of your friends you will need them.

Been on Blackgate for 2 months, through several winning and losing weeks, and the crazyness @ the start with the 1 day thing. I wouldn’t transfer to a winning server, and if i was sent to one, and you broke both my legs, i’d still crawl back to Blackgate. Ask any BG’er, Shaniquia Johnson is well known, even tho i’m a small guilder.
Thank you.

Would like some community opinions please on Perma-Stealthed Thief’s.
By that i’m referring to thief’s who can fight and kill you and never come out of stealth.
You are fighting an invisible foe who you cannot target during a 3 min fight as the Theif is invisible the whole time.

Also if any of you know of an ANET comment on this issue could u pls post it, or link it.

2 Seconds of my opinion:

1: Camping spawn points is boring…..period.

2: Emotes are funny……if think they are unsportsman you’ve never played hockey.

3: This current match up has more emoter’s because its boring.

4: Everyone on all 3 server’s in /map chat are probably saying the same thing as in BG
Map chat, “Please dear god let this end and please give us a better match next week”

5: I’d like to salute all my noble adversaries, in person, and thank you for the chuckles with the 15 man circle dance around my corpse, i ended up with Mt. Dew up my nose from laughing.

Thank you

Brave and Noble Adversaries, Fort Aspenwood and Tarnished Coast.

@ FA I would like to say Thank You, you guys have heart. A little constructive criticism here that might be difficult to hear, but i mean it with good intentions: You guys need to believe in yourself a bit more. Many times yesterday your zerg had clear superiority of numbers but you acted to cautious. @ Speldan supply post, we had 12, you had aprox 30plus, yet you failed to charge us in the open field. You could of easily won by pushing. Yet we won because no push was led, and u let us grind u down over a 20 min awesome fight. This example was only one of several similar fights yesterday with one of your prime time zergs vs smaller BG numbers. We were talking about it during the fight, and after the fight, and wondered why no push ever came. Same thing @ the fight @ Anz that went on for quite a while. Still you guys have heart, and are a good server. Its also ok to make peace with TC and focus on BG, a very necessary tactic used last week against us that helped make us 3rd.

@ TC I would also like to Thank You for some wonderful fights. You guys have some master defenders who love Quentin. You guys spanked us there for hours. You also never left Golanta alone, a nice piece of work that hurt us in the long run. Thank for many glorious hours of combat.

Ty for listening to my opinion.

looks like he shooting up through the open side of the pavilion and through the giant open hole in the top to hit your ballista that is sitting in mid air over the giant hole, from the pic it looks like Longview Tower, and the ranger should have a ground to pavilion hole LOS just fine.

ANET already made a statement on a different thread that addressed this that they have kept free open server transfers so that players can adjust their server to play with friends. This is an important aspect of the game.

However the mobile WvW winning team population jumpers has become such an unbalancing aspect of WvW I believe that ANET needs to take another look at free server transfers. Because of the winning server buff’s, more then just the hardcore WvW players have become “Jumpers”. I am on Blackgate, and this week i’ve seen such a huge influx of people its startling how skewed a server can become due to “jumpers”. As I am sure they do, ANET’s graph of population trends should show this.

I would suggest a 1 week server transfer option for a nominal fee of BLTP gems to be allowed on Saturdays. This would allow friends to play together as ANET wants, but also reduce the winning server “jumpers” incentive to move to a dominating server to get the free winning WvW buffs. Saturday is early enough in the WvW new match up that there is rarely a clear dominating server yet. A Saturday 24 server transfer period also allows just about every player a chance to move to a new server.
Thank you for listening to my opinion.

Riven The Valarious, Choco Eclair for BG

and the other 20 commander tags, who the heck are u guys? and where did u come from? and can u please go back. ty that is all

ANET already made a statement on a different thread that addressed this that they have kept free open server transfers so that players can adjust their server to play with friends. This is an important aspect of the game.

However the mobile WvW winning team population jumpers has become such an unbalancing aspect of WvW I believe that ANET needs to take another look at free server transfers. Because of the winning server buff’s, more then just the hardcore WvW players have become “Jumpers”. I am on Blackgate, and this week i’ve seen such a huge influx of people its startling how skewed a server can become due to “jumpers”. As I am sure they do, ANET’s graph of population trends should show this.

I would suggest a 1 week server transfer option for a nominal fee of BLTP gems to be allowed on Saturdays. This would allow friends to play together as ANET wants, but also reduce the winning server “jumpers” incentive to move to a dominating server to get the free winning WvW buffs. Saturday is early enough in the WvW new match up that there is rarely a clear dominating server yet. A Saturday 24 server transfer period also allows just about every player a chance to move to a new server.
Thank you for listening to my opinion.

Further testing, WVW is back, not perfect but doable

fight @ keep lord, all enemies are invisible 30 attackers aprox 10 dead enemies on the floor @ end of fight, all were invisible until 30 sec after then end of a 4 min fight

In larger fights @ Dreambay, 30 attackers, invisible enemies on the walls, unknown number, invisible npc’s on walls also

npc’s also invisible, siege equip on the walls invisible

ok, bigger fights at Dreambay, invisible enemies on the walls, aprox 30 attackers, unknown defenders as they are invisible, very much invisible

Currently playing on other monitor, in a 20 v 20 fight @ cliffside. All player models seem to be renderd, clip plane on player models seems to be much further out. Not sure if this is due to a patch fix, or a fresh log in, if this prob is a memory leak as posted earlier, then a fresh log in would explain my findings, if this is due to patch fix it is working to reduce invisible players and the horrible short player model clip range.

Played a bit last night, same prob with invisible players and NPC’s, played this morning doesn’t seem as bad, clip plain for player models does seem to be a bit further out, currently in fight on my other monitor @ cliffside with 20 plus enemy’s 20 plus defenders and see everyone realtivly ok. Not sure if this is due to patch update or simply a fresh log in, if this is a memory leak, it will get worse over time and a fresh log in can explain this, if it is a fix, its working better

Warhammer was a fun game with bad support and a horrible corp buy out, Rift i really enjoyed but they lacked serious open world PVP, GW2 a huge world for PVE plagued by the death of a million bugs and the best open world combat system seen in a decade but killed by the current invisible player graphic crisis and the lack someone in ANET with the common sense to keep its player base informed about their response to it with the end result being we are all leaving to play other games, and some might be back, some wont be back.

played a bit tonight for the first time all week. WvW is still broken
Blackgate is not being represented in this match up as a good chunk of our regular WvW players have not been playing since WvW is BROKEN,

Nothing wrong with WvW server wars imo. Some win, some lose, if u dont like that, then sPvP is there for a more structured game play. WvW is suppose to chaotic, unpredictable and unfair. i love it.

WvW is broken need update.

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I seek wisdom please, enlighten me on the progress of this issue.

@sinning i agree with u bra, bad post trying to justify a serious game breaking problem using incorrect information about the game. Sinning’s counter points are spot on the money. Also if you only want small group combat we might as well be playing on the PvP servers instead of World vs World vs World and all the huge fights that imply’s.

I guess your right Pifil, I would rather have this fixed and them spend the time on fixing the problem. Still i don’t see how 30 seconds to type out “Hey we haven’t found the problem yet, but we know its server side setting” or " Hi guys our system servers have been compromised and we working on locating the problem and restoring normal function" is a big issue. A few moments of time keeping us customers informed shouldn’t take away that much time from fixing the issue. It also goes along way toward avoiding the Sony style PR nightmare that is developing here.

Got to agree with some of the other posters, nice setup, similar to what i run, but staff is by far better for WvW, and scepter/dagger is better for 1v1, or even scepter/focus for a defensive style 1v1, a dagger/dagger build is only good for pve farming

Nice video, that pretty much sum’s it up for most players experience in WvW, and why everyone is begging them for some REAL information on this problem. Any thing would be nice, a timeline for a fix? A post saying oops we messed up our culling program, a fix is in progress? How about “our customers will need to have a computer made in the last 4 years to play our game”. Or even a nice post, hey we need to shut down GW2 for a week to fix this, but here is a free 6 months of game play. :P

Thank you so much for responding to our requests for information. Perhaps some information on the the issue could be added to the response? I don not wish to be unseemly or confrontational but the first response from an ANET rep i could find on this issue stating it was being looked into was dated Sep. 21 and its now Oct 11. With aprox 20 days between the similar “were looking into” vague responses, perhaps out of respect to our game community might a small release of more information be authorized? Just so we can feel included as a consumer.

Your wrong Assassinin, its not a 2 second internet latency issue. Its a 20 second, 30 second, 1 min, or a whole 10 min fight with most of the people not loading. It has nothing to do with connection latency, or system settings, or bad client PC. Its a broken video game and as anyone who’s played MMO’s for years knows, its something like this that can sink a video game.

I’d like to agree with the OP. He has hit it spot on the money with each point. The OP did miss a different ANET rep post on a different thread about this issue that was a more comprehensive statement and said they were looking into this issue. I would like to add that this issue is of such a serious nature that it could very well cause the failure of one of the best MMO’s and PVP/WvW combat systems i’ve played in 14 years of playing PC based MMO’s. ANET would be doing its very large and active WvW community a huge service by releasing a updated statement on this seriously critical issue. A statement on the current progress would reassure its active player community. It might also do much to head off changing the internet game reviews from “an awesome game i highly recommend, one of the best of the year” to “its a bit like playing Armada on a Commadore 64 in 1984 but with more lag and worse graphics.” All humor aside would you ANET please tell us something about the progress on this issue. Thank you for your time and our patience.

Must be an elementilist, on my 80 ele i get the same issues i’d recommend some more practice at wall top AoE’ing there is a definite art to getting in to range, and getting the spell off, and then retreating and waiting for your timer to come back up. Over all the LoS issues haven’t been very bad in my experience pretty comparable to other mmo games.

Hi, this WvW invisible zerg’s and players is nothing new. It has been going on for a month, and this is the 20th forum post about it. Yes it is getting worse, and yes WvW is becoming almost unplayable and yes in several of the other posts Anet rep’s have made statments that they are looking into it. But I thought i would throw in my 2 cents worth anyway. The shear number of people complaining of this invisibility in WvW in game is staggering. And the statements that its not a client side issue seems spot on the money. My system is top of the line, I7 core, ATI 7970, 8 gigs Dual channel DDR3 Patriot matched gamer ram, and a hi end SSD. This system has played Rift and Tera both with out this “culling” issue during large fights. My system also has a 9 rating from Tom’s Hardware system test for playing GW2. I have attempted every setting adjustment in game graphic options, with my graphic card driver settings, and my over clocking utility to fix this “culling” issue with the amount of players loaded during fights, to no success. I know Anet is looking into this issue from the rep’s previous posts and I would like to thank them for doing that. I would like to ask if at all possible for there to be an update on the progress of this investigation so that we who are paying to play this game primarily for WvW can have some reassurance. Or maybe we the community can help with feedback. Thank you.