Guild Wars 2

Ya, but now they don’t have to worry about venturing into Orr and finding a server with the right temple open.

Aneu.1748:

Culling is -not- removed. There is a universal limit on all servers of 300 I believe

Seeing as the population cap for a given WvW map is lower than 300… what’s the problem?

Retroactive credit would be silly.

They didn’t do it for the daily laurels, they won’t do it for this either.

Manoa.5897:

ANet pulls the rug out from under Sorrow’s Furnace by giving free server transfers to our enemies (ET/FC) and the very server we’ve been ever so desperately trying to swap places with (HoD). Two bloody months of effort completely down the drain. Thanks ArenaNet for this lovely “reward” for our efforts!

So what I get from this is that you care more about SF leaving T8 than you do about making T8 more competitive.

If you manage to defend your keep for the length of the event, you deserve a tiny 3second window for reinforcements to show up

lots of good WvW changes in this patch…love the new outmanned bonus, it’s finally a bit more encouraging.

ps: the only NA servers this currently applies to are ET, FC and HoD …which we can all agree have the lowest active WvW populations.

TCMM transferred back to GoM???

I’ve gotten a few pieces.

I’d be happy with a new race(preferably tengu), extended personal storyline for current characters that ties into new race’s story, 3-6 new zones, a few new armor/weapon skins.

I’ve only gotten a bonus item maybe 12-15 times since release(99% daily completion) so they’re fairly uncommon.

Keiran.1896:

And then your annoying excuse is “it was still the right day for us”… yea but you’re making many customers unhappy, what’s your priority?

Their priority is rolling out the patch with minimal problems and downtime, that’s easier to accomplish towards the end of their day.

Unhappy customers should learn to moderate their expectations, in this case, you’re in europe so learn to expect the patch to be in when you wake up on the day following patch-day.

pro-tip: while you’re waiting for everyone one to assemble, delegate players that are ready to go scout the zones with the harder to find bounties. Once they locate the mark they can follow it till it gets close to a waypoint and then chat it up to keep it there.

Makes things a lot easier.

Valik Shin.9027:

If
This is as big of maps as they can make that is poor design

Technical limitations of their engine, has zero to do with design.

it’s Living Story related, the structure didn’t exist on the map till one of the LS updates.

EvilSardine.9635:

Will I be able to see 200 people standing on Ascension Bay’s outer south wall while I’m at briar near the spawn?

No, but mostly because you can’t actually get that many players from one server into one of the maps right now anyway.

range of vision will be the same it currently is though.

I play with a g600 and could never go back to any other mouse.

I have all 10 skills, f1-f4 and weapon swap all mapped on it with a button to spare

It’s Orr, you’re not supposed to be able to solo everything.

Xunleashed.5271:

the downed state, and how easy is to revive allies, makes outnumbered fights very very hard sometimes

outnumbered fights should be very very hard.

Jace.6973:

Our server doesn’t understand. IoJ is freefalling out of T6, this would of been our perfect time to pop right back in. However GoM will (probably) move up and we will be stuck in T7 against IoJ and SF. And for those of you that are unaware of SF. It will NOT be pretty when they move up..

Have you looked at the scores recently? IoJ is not dropping out of T6 and GoM is not moving up. In fact, most of the rating points we’re losing this week are going to HoD, not GoM.

int randInt return.7810:

6.) Engies are too OP and scare me.

So what you’re saying is that you don’t wvw very much?

Beorn Saxon.4762:

Right now, I can pop ‘dungeon master’ on my level 2.

And don’t you find that.. silly?

Beorn Saxon.4762:

It seems like more alt hate.

I understand the objections, but to me.. making things character-bound rather than account-bound seems to be better for alts… in that it gives each alt its own accomplishments/abilities and therefor its own personality.

what’s better for a healthy game where players want to have many alts: a system that makes alts unique individuals or a system that treats alts as generic templates a player just changes like a t-shirt?

maybe it comes down to perception.. with character-based progression I don’t feel like “now I have to do this with each character” but rather “now i get to do this with each character”.

sapphyredragon.6437:

I also needed condition removal which is (annoyingly) only a water thing.

Cleansing Fire isn’t a water thing. Neither are Phoenix or Magnetic Wave if you want to look outside of DD.

So while Water does give you more/better condition removal, you still have options outside of it.

sapphyredragon.6437:

GrandmaFunk: And my point is that if you were trying to show variety in builds, you fell short. You still focused on Water and Arcana which proves the lack of variety.

It’s not “focus” if i invest equal value in those trait lines as I do in others. ie: if you go 50/50, you’re not focused in anything.

Your stance seems to be that you can go all-or-nothing in one of two ways, mine is that a balance approach with points in 4 of the trait lines is also completely valid. Your approach seems to limit builds to two options(all-in on water/arcane or all-in on fire/earth), whereas I’m including at least one more, how is more options not a sign of variety?

titanlectro.5029:

It’s looking like GoM might be green tonight.

that would be great, i have a few alts waiting to grab blue keep in EB and we haven’t been able to crack that one so far when i’ve been on.

dunnberry.2964:

Wow wow wow did TCMM leave NSP?

Not afaik, they had a pretty big group and several commanders on last night in GoM BL.

sapphyredragon.6437:

That…. is hardly impressive. You still have 20 in water and 15 in arcane. If you made a build with 10 or less in each, then maybe that would prove the point that the trait lines aren’t bad.

I run 30/0/30/10/0 on my main and I’m not too bad. Honestly, a lot better now that I know weapon swap sigils work for eles. o_O

My post was not meant to impress anyone, it was meant to illustrate that build variety is possible and that maxing out trait lines is not required.

sapphyredragon.6437:

I would say that all of our trees tend to focus on one element too much

I think you might be missing the point here.

Otaur.9268:

To bad we got a lot of NSP server transfers and spies… Cannot mention the guild, 16 1 24 1!!!

They’re not spies, they defected.

And luckily for NSP, now they are your problem.

What did GoM have for dinner last night.. you guys were EVERYWHERE.

It was hard living for lowly NSP roamers.

Even if they fix the numbers to something more reasonable, it won’t be something you can get in a few months …they do want them to take a year+, much like the gw1 hero and champion titles.

but they’d still be in that range by cutting most of the current numbers by 80%

Can someone please explain where this expression comes from? The icon(stylized diamond with chevron) looks nothing like a dorito chip(triangle).

NSP has a history filled with quite a few really close match, we’ve definitely been lucky for those =)

I still remember that early match with Yaks and SoR that ended with all 3 servers within 4k of each other… everyone was fighting right up to the last tick.

The numbers aren’t reasonable but there’s no point to fixing them as long as achievement points are meaningless.

azizul.8469:

it seems that those people accused of exploiting guesting system has a complete set of information of event time on every server…

if they are that resourceful, perhaps you should be the same…..

Seems like you’re late to the party, here you go: http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/

Players end up in overflow when they show up for events now because the combination of “dragon timer and guaranteed rares and guesting” has simply led to a huge increase in participation. It’s not because of one of those things, it’s all of them together.

sapphyredragon.6437:

Cleansing Wave goes from 1,302 to 2,527 (32 sec CD—Holy cow, that is terrible)

So doubling the value of the heal is “terrible” ?? 0_o

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I don’t have the math written down anymore but DD Ele is actually the build-type that benefits the most from healing power. Not only does it have more healing effects than almost all other builds..but most of them also have great healing power multipliers(as opposed to guardians which have mostly horrible ones).

My DD is the only char I have with healing power gear.

Not till a paid expansion.

titanlectro.5029:

@PAXA

You are playing a different game than we are. Your goal is kills. Our goal is points. It is as simple as that.

It’s not even just that since they have equal scorn for players who try to duel, players who set-up battles, fight clubs, etc..

all styles of play that are kill focused but that still don’t meet their requirements for being “valid” game play.

Shootsfoot.9276:

Number one, it’s not a storage shed, because not a single item in those bank tabs shows who owns it.

Here’s a better example of unlabeled community storage: the fridge at work. Do you take things from the fridge based on the concept that “It doesn’t say who this belongs to and it’s placed in storage that I have access to, therefor it’s here for me to take”?

Where a piece of content lies on the easy-to-challenging scale has zero impact on how much testing it needs.

Sadly not all infrastructure problems can be solved by throwing money at them.

Jscull.2514:

And arbitrary encounter size? Anet made the group size that big physically how is that arbitrary?

And why should party size dictate the size of WvW battles?

The 5man party was designed for PvE instances… WvW has squads for a reason.

Jscull.2514:

My point is that it is so inconceivable that of all the hundreds of people that pvp every night, NONE of you are willing to challenge yourselves and your character’s makeups. Because you know without “backup (being 10 or more)” you probably won’t be successful. Just impossible to wrap my brain around there not being anyone comfortable with the few people around them rather than a big group.

Most players don’t see any point to limiting their game play to the arbitrary encounter size you’ve selected as being the only one worth fighting.

Fishbait.6723:

Whilst I don`t any more (bought a G600) I did use to use almost identical to Taugrim binds, works great once used to it.

Have to say, When i tried Ele during BWEs and at launch, it didn’t really click.

Then I tried it again after I got my g600 with all 10 skills and all 4 attunements on it and wow did that ever make all the difference!

Ppl trend towards bunker builds because they only recognize two builds in this game: pure bunker and pure glass-cannon… everything else is apparently “horrible” because it’s not max/min-ed to death.

Players need to be more creative and vary the builds… stop blaming it on “bad trait lines” and start looking at more than just “if i don’t have X hp and Y toughness then my build must be bad”.

I rock a balanced condition/survival DD build that runs 15/0/20/20/15 in WvW and I do just fine.

you have to set the commands in-game to keys on your keyboard and then map your mouse buttons to those keys.

Baladir.2736:

I generallly don’t have a problem landing Churning Earth. 1) RTL to target. 2) Change to Earth Attunement for Earthen Blast and a 3 sec cripple. The Sigil of Hydromancy may proc for a Frozen Blast if off cooldown 3)Earthquake for the damage and Knockdown. 4) Churning Earth for another cripple that stacks duration.

Ya that’s pretty much my process too… best way to make contact with a group, especially if they weren’t paying attention.

Synda Raines.1836:

All’s fair in love and war

Yes this is a game, but it’s a fact that spying & counter-spying, spreading misinformation is perhaps the most important part of rl warfare. And it’s real people playing this game.

The main problem with the “spying is part of real wars too” attitude is that in real life, you can capture/execute spies, in-game you have absolutely zero recourse against spies once discovered.

As for sabotaging, It’s pretty straightforward griefing. Unfortunately its very hard to prove with screenshots alone.

Churning Earth also has those nice 8 stacks of bleeding though so it might come down to your build(crit-based vs cnd-based) as to which causes more damage.

Squibbles.8724:

1. Enemy Zerg spotted by our scouts, heading our way.
2. We flash build 2 ACs and put traited warriors on them.
3. Zerg charges, half or more get caught in the lock, or at least slowed down enough to effectively break their charge.
4. We can then easily stand back and AoE them or flank and wipe them. Probably both.

so to recap:
-you out-scouted them.
-you out-prepared them.
-you out-positioned them.
-you out-played them.

and as a result you saw a huge tactical advantage.

seems like the proper result to me.