Guild Wars 2

answer depends entirely on your build and if/how you’re mix-matching your eq.

Daendur.2357:

Put the “no waypoint while group is in combat” method as it is in dungeons.

I’m not sure that encouraging players not to group would make WvW a better place.

Blackjack.2083:

Why is it such a bad idea to limit the number of people who can join wvw to the server with the fewest people on? If server A only has 50 people on then that is all server B and C can have…..If server A gets 20 more people to join then server B and C can have 20 more people join.

It’s a bad idea because:

-it’s incredibly easy to abuse: cap and upgrade as much as possible, then desert the map to drastically lower the number of players that the other servers can bring to take anything back.

-it creates a negative atmosphere where guilds and players will harass each other as to who “deserves” the rarer slots.

-it discourages new players from joining.

and, more importantly, unless you at least allow for a gap(ie: a server can have up to 10 more than the lowest).. it’s a limit that only moves down till no one is left on the map.

toro toro toro.8640:

if you see a bunch of golems.. leave them alone! if they are dormant and nobody claims them, leave them alone. The persons who built them might be on another map to deal with enemies, or maybe they are somewhere building more to put them all to use later. Follow the rule, if it isn’t yours and you didn’t build it, DONT TOUCH IT!

toro toro toro.8640:

I wish there was a way to lock golems or take them over from players who go afk and put a kink in a greater plan at work.

So you don’t want players to take empty golems because their builders might be on another map, but you want to be able to kick players out of occupied golems because they might be afk?

loot hasn’t changed, waypoints are better

GOSU.9574:

Gain new traits, skills, increased effectiveness, more potent equipment, etc.

that’s a list of rewards, not activities or types of game play.

ie: things you get, not things you do

LHound.8964:

Different builds are suited for different roles. One cannot expect to deal the same amount of damage wearing Cleric Stats or Wearing Berserker stats.

It doesn’t need to be the same amount of damage to count as a tag.

but if you’re only talking about it from the context of being in a blob… well, no one is playing any real role in a blob anyway, your support is as trivial as your offense in that situation.

support & offensive are not a binary, you don’t have choose one and exclude the other.

nothing locks you into a “support role”, except perhaps your own choice to ignore the offense that every build is capable of doing. ie: your problem is one of personal play style, not actual game play.

ps: those wells your “support” necro uses can tag just as well as any other pulsing field(ie: very well)

the only real difference between “pre 80” and “post 80” is how much you care about getting XP.

ShadowMaster.5708:

I don’t understand why its so hard to type in English so everyone understands

It’s as hard for others to type in English as it for you to understand what Weg 2 means.

Your lack of understanding of this basic concept stems from an attitude that is both selfish and lazy.

sminkiottone.6972:

The problem is not tagging 1 or 2 ppl, the problem is the number of loot and gold we get by supporting our team, the selfish play style is still the best option.

learn to do both, problem solved.

the only selfish playstyle is sticking to “i just want to play support! don’t force me to tag if i want loot”

cesmode.4257:

colesy.8490:

Dulfy has access to the test server IIRC.

I dont know if THATS true..but if it is, thats BS. A friggin dev gives a person who runs a fansite special access to content before it comes out?

Silly.

It’s extremely common in the business to let media outlets have a sneak peak at upcoming content.

curious: have you tested that against a necro with a high +condition duration value?

hum.. I guess I’m the only one that feels that the Necro is much stronger UW then the other class.

Playing my necro in both spvp and wvw, I always rejoice when I can pull others to fight me underwater, as I feel I have a very noticeable edge on anyone except maybe rangers.

digiowl.9620:

Meh, the issue is at ANet’s end. They have set up both the NA and EU server farm the same way, but the EU one is not a single language.

Neither is NA.

The NA datacenter is designated to serve a player base from countries which account for 4 official languages(English, French, Spanish and Portuguese)

There are no language limitations built in to the game nor are any needed. if you come across chat or msgs in languages which you do not understand: simply ignore them as they are not meant for you.

C) PTRs effectively leak probable updates to the game. Having this information be available to some players ahead of most others would have drastic repercussions on the trading post and economy in general.

D) because play on PTRs leads to zero character progression or loot, both the number of players that would be willing to devote their time to it, and their ability to correctly find and document bug, would be very low.

as a roamer: love the map changes, hate bloodlust.

Well after an afternoon, a prime time and a morning session of trying out the new ruleset… lopsided matches are simply not worth playing anymore, even having fights just for fun are no longer possible.

if the bloodlust was a “per map” bonus (ie: you only get one stack and only for the map you are on) that would possibly be worth trying.. otherwise, no real point to wasting time on WvW anymore.

is players “trying” new servers something we actually want though?

making it easier for ppl to server-hop will lead to less stability, not more.

I think many of the issues are tied to the shoutcasters’ relative inexperience at both calling the right play at the right time and camera control/selection….both of which will get better with time.

it’s a young game that moves extremely quick and in several places at once..calling that effectively is challenging and I think they’re doing a great job of it so far.

those bonuses are trivial and ignored by pretty much everyone.

JDGumby.7685:

• Give convenient access to most services (storage & vendors, plus crafting and trading post for GW2), at least if it was implemented GW1-style and travel to and from the Hall (putting you back at where you were, or at the nearest known waypoint to where you were) was free.

let’s admit that this is the main element that players think of when discussing guild halls.

let’s also admit that the day after this is implemented, LA becomes a ghost town.

look back at the gw1 situation: if gw1 had a global trading post and players no longer needed to sit all day in kamadan or the other cities to trade things.. would there be a single player left in ANY of these cities?

guild halls = player ghettos and dead cities

the methodology used on that page isn’t worth anything, it doesn’t even count multiples and their math is completely wrong for evaluating drop rates.

3.3% isn’t the drop rate, it’s the distribution based on total objects received(as opposed to total boxes opened).

The only way that the drop rate could be derived from it is if every opened box gave one and ONLY one item, which it doesn’t.

better off looking through these: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/search?q=orrian+box&restrict_sr=on

same problem with every dynamic population scoring suggestion has: it encourages players to log out.

CD has more concurrent active players than DH and NSP have combined, so “double teaming” wouldn’t make any difference.

we’re just fighting for second place against each other while trying to avoid CD’s ridiculous zergs.

how about we give the new system a try and see how it goes first.

The ESL cup finals were great! it was my first time watching a live streamed competition and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was run.

2000 seemed like a pretty good number considering how niche it is.

EFWinters.5421:

No. The whole point of this system is to reward bad casuals.

because only “bad casuals” care about rewards.

ruins must be actively defended or they uncap by themselves
and bloodlust+stomp=points

look at that, a new scoring system that rewards active play.

guild halls are useless and gvg is a pvp mode more then a guild feature.

but I’d love a rework of the UI with a few new features (like the eternally missing “last logged on date”)

Lost Orrian Jewelry Boxes for sure, no idea where you got that 3% number but it’s not remotely true. after spending 2 million karma on boxes two weeks ago I ended up with 2 full stacks of obsidian, I would place their drop rate around 15-20%

also:

-10 seconds to tick, everyone log out and then back in!

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

dear dev
Why are there no dynamic events in the big cities like in Ebonhawke? I love that gem of a city.

There are several events in Ebonhawke.

During the invasions I came to notice that 12-15 was my sweet spot for those events.

Live by the transfer sword, die by the transfer sword.

Kaineng has had this coming for months.

Kuru is correct, it’s “at least once”, not “no more than once”.

Twitchz.6407:

the problem seemed to be that the griffins would hit either me before I landed on the platform i was jumping to or hit me mid jump.

Always clear all enemies in range of a jump before attempting it.

The reports of DR’s death are pretty silly given that they were already “dead” long ago and still managed to rise from the dead and climb up to r14.

They’re not allied, they’re just going after the weaker target.

how long do the matches go for?

will try to catch the end of it once the esl cup final is over.

LoneDeranger.5963:

This would promote build diversity.

penalizing specialization actually discourages build diversity and leads to homogenous middle-of-the-road builds.

Mel ryuzaki.1402:

I hope you get your money back

Why would he get money back? the ‘error’ supposedly occurred while buying the character slots, which means he already had enough gems prior to that. If anything, he would be refunded the gems themselves.

why won’t you ever use them? that brings you up to 7 slots, which isn’t even one of each class.

Skeub.6740:

do you know gw1 grandmafunk ?

Yup, played it for 6 years.

Skeub.6740:

cause for a while UW & FoW was qualified as the most hard area in gw1, there was a purpose and a story in those area , also when you finished FoW you could buy an armor which was expensive. see there was goal.

so… exactly like a dungeon then?

Ppl without the slightest clue as to how development works always throw out these annoying “come on it’s just 1 line of code”, “don’t be lazy it’s just 3 lines of code” statements.

would you tell a surgeon “come on, it’s just a few clogged aortas, fix that kitten heart”?

would you tell an airplane mechanic “come on, it’s only few bolts and some gears, why aren’t you done already??”

OP’s attitude is a slap in the face to all developers and I’m beyond sick of seeing that type of ignorance on here.

What a marvelous idea.

Now when a large wvw guild decides to migrate to a low ranked server to build their own little kingdom, not only can they ignore the pre-existing community, they can simply throw some gold to eject all the current commanders.

very well thought out.

You missed the part where this has already been happening for months.

Just look at the current matches: t5-7 all have a 5+ rank gaps between two of it’s opponents. 7 ranks in the case of t5 and t6.

Also, AR and DR’s already been through their phase of “moral goes down, everyone quits” (arguably for the second time in DR’s case)… that’s what lead them to the bottom. These things are cyclical and will keep happening whether the matches are staged within leagues or not.

I vote NO on prop ‘third weapon swap’

Well why don’t you define in what way you would want an elite area to be “hard” exactly?

Is that not what Fractals are?