Guild Wars 2

unique drops from open world bosses lead to a lot of griefing.

players camping the spawn, boss getting downed before most ppl can tag it, players arguing over who gets to have a turn at tagging it for credit.

It was a great system in the instanced world of GW1… in an open world mmo it always leads to really horrible social issues.

molepunch.5673:

Point taken. But why not just auto-reward those who are there? If you spot someone not helping and being a mooch it’s better for the officers to kick the leech than it is for this feeling of being left behind even though you contributed.

But in your example you weren’t there, you didn’t contribute.

Anxious to see what HoD&GoM’s pop/coverage are like.. see you on the battlefield!

imo “Bunker” goes beyond just being a defensively focused build…a true bunker build is a build that can sustain defenses to a point where they simply cannot be killed 1 vs 1.

55monk is a real bunker build…. just choosing Soldier’s gear over Berserker’s does not a bunker build make.

bunker mes? there is no such thing as a bunker build for mesmers… is “bunker” just your shorthand for any class you have trouble defeating?

FilthyRat.4652:

If you read what imalog.7689 said and the score for the week before, the purposely targeted NSP just to make them drop down. Now look at the history from GoM and HoD….the mostly likely outcome is that NSP is going to massacre T7.

Well we’re certainly going to try. I’m very curious as to how our population/coverage will compare to T7.

They are soulbound.

Goloith.6349:

since you cannot take a supply camp anymore with a small group

And yet strangely I’m still entirely capable of capping camps solo.

dead indeed

Mylon.4135:

I’m in a T6 server right now in the middle of prime time (8 pm EST) and we can’t even get 10 people together to run a siege breaker event in Eternal Battlegrounds.

To be fair, your experience was on a Thursday night of a match that’s been decided for days and in a matchup that’s been the same for almost 2 months.

Also, just because players don’t want to join you to start the Break Out doesn’t mean there aren’t enough players in the map, just that they don’t consider your objective to be their top priority.

Again, it’s Thursday, most ppl don’t care about sieging at this point, only doing skirmishes for practice and badges.

Ruprect.7260:

Like I said in my OP, it could just be TC but I know a lot of ppl are jumping servers to get multiple chests.

That’s not actually possible though, as others have pointed out the one chest per event/character/day limit doesn’t care which server you’re on. Guesting has no impact on how many chests you can get other than accomplishing some of those events are easier on more populated worlds.

The problem here is that OP is on Tarnished Coast, which some well-meaning but short sighted players decided to campaign for as “the unofficial Orr server”.. and then “the unofficial PVE server”…. adding to TC’s already larger population due to it also being the RP server AND a high tiered WvW server.

So the issue isn’t a fundamental flaw with guesting, it’s just too many players guesting on that specific server.

What’s BP trying to prove/accomplish by pushing so hard this morning?

I guess we’ll see in a week’s time by how many of the new matchups end up creating blowouts.

Eviator.9746:

The problem is that, despite green winning the vast majority of matchups, the following week’s matchups are largely unchanged.

Except that this isn’t the case at all, on the NA side 6 out of 8 tiers will see a new server joining next week.

Rayya.2591:

That is not an solution
you need few hours to upgrade an keep /tower to full
That way you could let it undefended and wait with 100 ppls behind tower to take it back after 5 minutes you lose it

Somehow I doubt the meta will evolve to having 100 players sitting idle waiting for a tower to get taken over just so they could flip it back. Wouldn’t the opposition see them and simply not take the tower?

also, even if you aren’t gaining points for holding that tower after X hours.. your investments of time/supply/upgrades into its defense aren’t pointless.. you’re still preventing the other teams from scoring with that tower.

Pinko.2076:

Wouldn’t this make the stale tiers even more stale with artificially closer score to go along with ultra deadlocking math??

One man’s “stale” is another man’s “competitive”.

Closer matches with results tied more directly to actual performance rather than coverage seems like a desired outcome.

A simpler solution that’s more fair to everyone would be for points per tick to be worth progressively less for continuous control.

Ex: you take a tower, during the first hour each tick gives you 10 points. If you still hold it then the next hour each tick only gives you 8 points. 3rd hour ticks give 5, after 4 hours of uninterrupted control the tower no longer gives points.

This means you don’t keep earning points during empty periods yet no timezone is penalized.

My main motivation to play is the enjoyment I get out of the game

my goals/foci are mostly leveling/outfitting alts, WvW, exploration, enjoying the mechanics for their own sake, immersion play.

wefal.8426:

Have you ever thought about removing CDs at HotM’s lobby so you can reach perfection with your rotation of skills?

How are you perfecting your skill rotations if you don’t take into account one of the most important factors in a skill rotation?

Guardian feels too “tank” and you don’t want to “outlast” enemies…. but the warrior is too squishy?

I think the reason you can’t find a class that’s a good match is that you’re looking for a god class, something that will let you build a character with zero downsides and all the best stats.

this isn’t the game for you.

alliances: yay!
capes: nay!

not sure either concept benefits from being tied to the other.

If you’re making a gold a day and you’re poor, the problem isn’t with under-earning, it’s probably with over-spending.

What are you spending all your money on?

Columba.9730:

I don’t believe them. If this were true they would have demonstrated that its possible on a small scale by now. They haven’t.

How do you do a small scale demonstration of a solution to a problem that only exists on a large scale?

Revelstoke.8924:

Bottom line, I think you give yourself far to much credit for ‘skill’ when the real reason PAXA continues to steam roll people has absolutely nothing to do with skill but rather communication and traiting for control, something any organized group could do with similar success.

While my personal opinion of paxa is pretty bad… this statement is just plain crazy

If good team communication and proper meta choices for builds are not considered “skill” in this game, what the heck is?

SquirtyMagoo.8321:

Let us have our recruitment thread and stop being so bitter, it only reflects poorly on yourselfs.

It’s in everybody else’s best interest to impede your recruiting efforts.

As someone above mentioned… recruitment threads can be viewed as an element of the pr/propaganda war… why would you expect others not to oppose your efforts, seeing as your efforts have a negative impact on said others?

Kaiyanwan.8521:

There is no epicness in this story, it is slow, tedious and at least uninspired.

“Epic” and it’s derivatives are some of the most overused terms of our generation.

People need to stop expecting every single new update/content/story to be the biggest thing that ever was and will ever be.. and that falling short of such ridiculous expectations is a sign of complete failure.

it’s a design document, why would they rewrite it?

Do you rewrite a draft once the novel’s already been published?

being able to get each dragon reward chest only once a day seems perfectly reasonable.

I wonder if that’s “per server” though.. perhaps it’s to help mitigate abuse of guesting to cycle between 3 versions of jormag all day.

Straegen.2938:

Classes/Builds in WvW have rolls other than skirmishing. How do we balance the utility of a portal against a thief backstab or the siege ability of an ele?

While I appreciate the nuances of comparing utility…. the list was posted in the context of ‘Power Ranking’ and ‘what classes are OP’, which seems to me pretty focused on pure ganking.

That being said, what utility do necros and rangers bring that is superior to what warriors offer?

Slamz.5376:

Proumbro.1376:

Now 10-20 man teams can successfully “ninja” without drawing swords

I think the term for this is “PvE”.

I’m not sure why anyone thinks this is an improvement. It will result in more ninja keep flips and fewer epic siege battles.

I’ve always seen ninja keep flips as part of the problem.

“ninja” flips are one of the only viable options for outmanned servers to have any kind of chance in this game… how are they a problem?

Boozie.6970:

No updates in the patch notes? Why?

What updates were you expecting? Why were you expecting them?

drkn.3429:

If you’re not getting the daily dodges by standard playing, and need to look for specific mobs to get your practiced dodges on, you’re doing something really wrong and might want to take a different approach at dodging, aka use it ALWAYS and EVERYWHERE.
Not aiming to be rude, but you really will have a hard time in both PvP and higher PvE if you can’t dodge properly, it’s the very basic mechanic of this game.

What if someone only has 30 minutes of game time on a given day and are trying to rush their daily achievement completion?

Gisei.5749:

Let’s say there are 25 players with retaliation attacking a mob. The mob casts an AoE that hits all 25 players once. Because of the retaliation on each player, the mob would take damage 25 times. Now, post patch, if the mob hits the 25 players, only 5 of the retaliations will hit him back. The other 20 buffs will not tick.

Since the AoE will only affect 5 of those players anyway, this seems like a completely logical change.

VOLKON.1290:

Thieves can no longer C&D on walls for near perma-stealth.

Back to using chickens!

Brome.7036:

Killimandros, thieves are not near the top of WvW OP list. If you can’t beat one thats fine. At least learn the class you are trying to get nerfed or you just sound bitter.

WvW power rankings! you heard it here first!
1. Ele
2. Mes
3. Guard
4. Thief
5. Necro/Eng
6. Ranger
7. War

Your honest opinion is that Warrior is the weakest class in WvW?

Do you actually participate in WvW?

After the first time, you whisper to the thief that you’re trying to get your daily dodges done, odds are he’d leave your targets alone

•Using stealth no longer resets NPC aggression tables.

I mostly took this as them finally fixing Skill Point mobs and Champs instantly resetting the second you go stealth.

Ascii.9726:

Do we know exactly when the next big patch is in March

A month from now.

iMelon.6518:

That last sentence is the purpose of this thread, the show that we are lacking in the EU Timezone. No matter how well-developed our current players are, we lose things in the EU time slot simply because we don’t have the people to do put up any sort of resistance.

I’m not sure how closely you’ve follow Kaineng’s matchup but we are usually able to fight evenly during the NA Timeslot and do even better during the Oceanic—we just want the ability to offer the same competition during the EU slot.

Are there many servers where this isn’t the case though? which servers can say “oh we’re all good for all the timezones, no more players please”?

No, almost every server wants more players in every timezone. And the only way they get them is by poaching them from another server… that’s what creates bad blood and an overall poor reception to recruiting threads… you’re not recruiting from your own pve-base or from random new players, the recruitment is specifically targeting WvW players on other servers.

Seeing a Kaineng recruitment thread feels a bit like bumping into the guy that stole your life savings only to have him ask you for spare change.

RayKoke.1638:

You are correct in many ways – awesome graphics, great combat BUT I find the solo storyline for those who like story play poor after level 30.

So to recap: awesome graphics + great combat + poor story past a certain point = dead game.

maybe tone down on the hyperbolic proclamations and ppl will be more open to discuss what you view as shortcomings.

let me just put this here: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars

RayKoke.1638:

However, since I casually play MMO’s solo-duo for a story – a role playing fantasy and the intrinsic rewards from that experience – I now pronounced the game dead.

As a casual immersion/intrinsically focused player that mostly plays solo, I pronounce the game: fun.

Aeros.2046:

Believe it or not, we sleep too :P

Based on what the maps look like when NA goes to bed and what they look like when we wake up… BP definitely sleeps less :P

That requires actual player participation though, which is what we’re really after: points come from player effort, not from a sustained absence of player effort.

Aeros.2046:

NSP being unable to hold that keep is simply amazing to me.

Nothing much amazing to it, BP just strolls in while we’re all asleep and then they sit on it all NA day since we don’t have the numbers to take it back.

We tried to stage a Break Out this morning to take back the towers(and eventually the keep)… unfortunately after it triggered 3 of our ppl left and we got obliterated by a dozen BP players.

here’s a solution: an objective stops giving PPT after X hours under team Y’s control.

no one else gets the points till they gain it, but at least it stops the situation where an unattended tower can generate hundreds of points overnight.

Silke.1695:

I have a question for the lower WvW participation servers. Do you regard all transfer people/guilds with such scorn? I simply do not understand the vitriol here?

The vitriol is two fold…

-Those servers already had population issue and ppl jumping ship made it a whole lot worse. ie: ppl don’t like being betrayed/abandoned.

-The Kaineng bandwagon ruined several matches for over a month. They made the quality of the game and the enjoyment of every other player a second priority to “doing what’s best for themselves”. ie: ppl don’t like selfish opportunists.

kazi.6438:

NSP is a fair-weather server, and as soon as things start to go bad, everyone logs off and goes to farm PvE.

I think this might be more due to simply having a less active weekday population. Players aren’t logging off because it’s 3 days in and we’re losing, they’re logging off because it’s Monday and real life is calling.

What does “DR” have to do with the Regeneration boon?