Guild Wars 2

Everyone would lose their kittens and the forums would be nothing but posts about Devon manipulating the matches in favor of his chosen servers and/or guilds.

because your OP was ever so constructive. /eyeroll

“what purpose do Toxics in WvW serve?”

allowing WvW-focused players to get some of the achievements, drops and rewards from the LS, that’s the purpose it serves.

I wish it would go back to your tier being your matchup.

as much as some ppl complained about it being “stale”.. it had a much higher percentage of matches being actually balanced and worth fighting.

Arrow Carts are not in tPvP, So why is it in WvW?

Keeps are not in tPvP, So why is it in WvW?

Dolyaks are not in tPvP, So why is it in WvW?

back slot armor is not in tPvP, So why is it in WvW?

I could go on for hours, but hopefully you’ve already realized the point by now.

[Edited for pedantry]

but in both cases you might be really good at leading a team and properly deploying your resources.

To be fair, the word “Glamour” specifically refers to magical deception.

That being said, i don’t have any objection with adding a coloured indicator ring to the field.. but I doubt if it would make any difference. If you’re in a situation that’s hectic enough for you not to know which side dropped the field, you probably won’t be able to see the ring on the ground or tell which specific field it’s coming from.

there seems to be some confusion here.. escape and mobility are two different concepts.

escape is being able to remove yourself from a losing situation long enough to regain parity.

ex: Mistform, one of the best escape options, doesn’t affect mobility at all.

is typing the letter “E” really that hard?

Berelious.3290:

I’ve done Sanctum Sprint and other activities on a couple occasions and never got Glory or any PvP rankings… where are you getting this info from?

the game in its current state.

aspirine.6852:

GrandmaFunk.3052:

what’s sad about sieging up Gods?

Lol, cant tell if troll or serious.

100% serious.

what’s wrong with building up siege to defend a supply camp?

Small QoL update to the PvP UI that I would really love: have the number of players on each team displayed next to the score.

Would be really nice to have some way to tell at a glance that 4 more players just joined the match.

Ricky.4706:

on tp parts – it’s actually cheaper to buy computer parts to assemble than buy a prebuilt computer – because the pre-built has extra parts you don’t need.

LOL, pre-built systems are more expensive because of the labour cost associated with having someone else assemble it, not because of any “extra parts”. My post made specific mention of why you can’t apply that logic to crafting.

For it to be comparable, you’d have to be a in a situation where you also get free computer components from your job every once in a while.

care to explain how you quantify mobility and assign it that specific value?

as for escape options: necros have DS and plague form for extended survivability, spectral walk and necrotic traversal to teleport, several sources of fear to create breathing room, better condition removal, being able to drop condition AOEs behind you to slow down chasers.

what’s sad about sieging up Gods?

Juan Ignacio.8903:

all of them except necro for solo roaming, you can do it succesful but u have to pick your figths or yolo since u dont have easy escapes like all the other classes.

Arguably, “picking your fights” is what roaming is about for just about everyone.

Also, necros have better escape options than guardians and rangers

Silver.3284:

So presumably one could become a “Gladiator” by playing lots of fantasy rugby?

Well presumably one can currently become a Gladiator by standing on a colored circle.

or by taking turns jumping off cliffs.

Image.8630:

How low can you be to camp the JPs in WvW just to kill those that are trying to get the achievements.

They are trying to get their achievements too.

Ricky.4706:

…..and now crafting weapons is completely useless because items are being listed for 6 gold less than what they cost to make – why ?

because crafting isn’t about buying all the components off the TP and assembling them to save on the manufacturing costs, it’s about using the components you’ve accumulated over time from playing the game.

Except that the Living Story already does cross over into WvW and PvP, and that those communities react with overwhelming negativity towards it.

Gumby.1708:

“Mesmers are magical duelists who wield deception as a weapon.” I dont know how to explain how narrow minded that statement is …. this is still lore and not game mechanics

it’s not so much lore as the driving concept behind the profession, on which the game mechanics are built.

they probably won’t add a new playable race for at least another year.

we might see 1-3 new zones over the next year, which may be temporary(like the cliffs)

you can safely assume that they will never add another profession.

Mochann.5298:

Pro Tip to the Devs: if you want more build diversity, don’t make a game where skills are locked to weapons without the ability to change them up (and have a very limited weapon set at that). And give us more traits. Tons more.

Pro tip to you: what your suggestion would add to is build dilution, not build diversity.

ie: it would not generate a larger number of viable builds for a given meta, it would simply add more junk builds.

the devs consciously chose to go this route specifically because of their experience with gw1. having 200 skills to choose from doesn’t really matter if only 20 of them are worth taking and the rest are just functional equivalents with worse numbers.

how does this “unfair advantage” compare to the number of latin americans that play on the spanish server?

or that of any expat community playing for the server where their culture is mostly represented.

unless you have all those numbers to compare, any advantage(fair or not) is purely in your head.

location, location, location..

if it’s anywhere close to an objective, go ahead and jump in. if it’s somewhere remote, leave them be.

hooma.9642:

Justin ODell.9517:

…grouping people by rank or play style, etc…
…..

how do u identify play style?

using metrics like what percentage of a player’s points come from capping vs from kills vs from each map’s special mechanic. the percentage of playtime spent within x distance of capture point, things like that.

it could allow them to avoid teams made of 5 bunkers, or teams where everyone just wants to gank and no one tries to cap.

of those two, Ele makes the most out of celestial gear.

mostly because healing power is wasted on a mesmer.

Ridiculous statement, the vast majority of Canadian players are on NA servers, with most French Canadian guilds on NSP.

also, isn’t there only one French server?

you also get those “level 79 stones” when you finish a zone and you’re level 2.

that’s just the reward you get for zone completion, it’s not level dependent.

Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind skill cooldowns not resetting in between matches.

the balance discussion never ends.

Silver/1

use to play WvW 1-3 hours a day, every day… .since the leagues started I’ve played a total of 2 hours.

gold sellers aren’t the only ones who spam. vary your messages and you’ll never be bothered by suppression again.

Blackmoon.6837:

Completely skipping over how I said there was nothing wrong with it. Judging by your seemingly stern approach at trying to draw out some black & white contrast, it’s no wonder that my belly aches at the thought that you just want adult game play to die off.

Oh grandma… how you just love putting soap in my mouth for only speaking the truth.

p.s.

I’m 27.

No this is more a case of you putting words in my mouth.

also, there’s no such thing as “adult game play”, only adult content.

Blackmoon.6837:

Teens are the minority? Since when? This game is way too Disney to be taken serious. Nothing wrong with it, but they aimed for the teen rating for a reason.

It’s funny… in my mind, only a teenager(or young college student) would say something like “This game is way too Disney to be taken serious”. They’re the ones that feel a need to prove how “serious” they are by rejecting anything that is too “kiddy”.

Players over 30 couldn’t care less about whether something is “disney” or not, they just want to play a good game. Also, for many older gamers the more kid-friendly the rating is, the better the odds of being able to play it with your kids.

it’s not a bad idea.. but something tells me it would quickly turn into the same situation as mesmers and portals, where that utility is so valuable that it locks ranger players into that support role. (ie: the group feels like it needs a frozen soil ranger, and since there’s not many rangers, that’s what they’re gonna have to be built around.)

XenusTEHG.1965:

I cant participate in WvW and do something good for my server because my free spot is occupied be useless, achievement farming kittens.

You don’t deserve the “spot” any more than anyone else does.

Have you tried the new ground targeting options? the “on-release” works great

then again, I’m not sure what you’re doing that would let you spam your left mouse button and trigger a skill and use the cursor to aim the ground skill.. ?

seeing as the “problem” is tied to your personal preference and that the actual behaviour you want does exist, just not in the very specific control scheme you desire… it’s never going to be “fixed” as it’s not something that’s actually broken.

Given that you’re going to abandon a game this early and based on such a tiny element… well, bye?

the more probable result of the sneak peak would be the top dozen TP magnates buying out the entire available stock of non-account-bound components, with prices going up 1000%+ overnight

Dee Jay.2460:

Yeah, back in my day we just called it “Flavor of the Month”.

The meta isn’t just the most popular build, it’s also the other builds and techniques that are developed in response to the fotm.

I don’t know, what would your response be when WvW activity goes up on all the servers and the matches are all properly balanced?

They should really just randomly reassign half the players in the gold league to bronze servers and permanently lock all transfers.

magically, all latency and queue issues disappear overnight!

Those same discounted transfers offered you a way to evade the queue problems, had you done your own “homework”, you could’ve availed yourself of this solution.

Players from the bronze and silver leagues will not have any pity for the state of your stacked servers, and no, we don’t care that you’ve been there since day 1.

They haven’t mentioned anything about future seasons, but I doubt they’d have the bad judgement to just keep the current leagues as they are, it would permanently destroy half a dozen server communities(assuming those communities survive the first season anyway)

it’s a “wait and see” situation.

so…something along the lines of.. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-edge-of-the-mists-a-new-map-is-coming-to-wvw/ ?

I’m a WvW player. I’m also a PvE player… and a sPvP player.

Being a WvW player, I’m also aware that an unfortunately large portion of WvW-focused players have declared quite frequently that they refuse to participate in ppt/scoring, that they consider GvG and/or ganking to be their only goals and that “only noob PVEers care about ppt”

so maybe don’t be so quick to segregate everyone, give the players newly joining WvW a chance to learn the ropes and some of them might just discover they have a taste for the gameplay.

My understanding was that you could only work towards the season achievements on that initial server, no?

if they transfer off, they just shot themselves in the foot

sonicsix.5713:

Multiplayer means multiple players, nowhere does it imply they must play TOGETHER.

That’s actually very specifically what “multiplayer” implies, and it has since the dawn of video games.

Do you never read any kinda of gaming article, news or reviews?

Zietlogik.6208:

It removes the requirement to travel, load screen, and return to change traits,

they already offer a way around it through the gem store

Zubon.3160:

To note: CD is in the lead. If you attack the 2nd place team, you are just letting them get further in the lead. The idea is for 2nd and 3rd to attack 1st, not to fight each other so 1st can build up an unbeatable lead.

Sounds good.

Is that why IoJ is holding camps in our BL while we’re busy going after CD?

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