Guild Wars 2

For Anet, to do something nice for necro? Yeah, right… Not going to happen.

So, I read numerous reports and it seems the problem there from the very beginning.

— Jade Quarry.
Southern invasion is not starting, and there’s no NPC with a shield icon on the map – I checked.

One year and 100 gold won’t be a big deal, so we’re definitely coming to a stage, when there’s 30 commanders on the map.
For me… Maybe it’s temporary, but I lost any interest in WvW. Zerging is repetitive and whole WvW is unrewarded.

How to make people happy with less effort:
If there’s a problem, make it way worse, let people complain about it, and then change it back again.

Nope, sorry, I won’t buy it. The problem is still there.

SoPP.7034:

Halo.8976:

Let me guess… Thief?

lol, no I’m not ^^

…
Anyway, WvW is not single player game. Or even PvE. Just by having someone with a star in a party or near might hurt you too, even if you don’t have it.

Let me guess… Thief?

Good to know.

— Necro.

Noooope, that doesn’t working =__=
You can hide your title, but you can’t hide your star.

I think mesmers must rage about this especially loud – illusions can’t copy the star. So basically a 80 lvl mesmer with 100% map completion is more easy to kill than 50 mesmer without this star.

Have fun looking at other 80 Necro’s bugs.

What about your character select screen? Do you have 100% there?
I think you just missed one no-on-the-map POI – whispers order base, most likely.

Furiousbeard.7602
I think you may lack of leading charisma (no offense). As I’m. In my case I just talking directly to our reasonable commanders or coordinators if something unpleasant happened or must be done. It works. Several times this saved our keep with orb and SM.

And about our numbers. Well, I’m not going to lie – yes, we have more people than other servers are. But most of them joined WvW only after third day. First two days we was often outmanned (third place with about 10k point difference), there was no queue to Eternal either our Borderlands. At one point we even lost all our towers and the keep in Eternal.

On the fourth day I found our zerg more stupid than it usually is, just because of all those PvE people, who decided join only after when we got lading position by points. At this point the match became quite boring for me so I’m quit until next one.

There’s something, people tend to forget.
GoM actually pretty good at WvW. At least, this server was in middle of the rating not so long ago. It was hackers, who responsible for our fall. They started hacking orbs and we got double teamed. Two weeks in a row. Against Sea of Sorrows, Yak’s Bend, Sanctum of Rall and Tarnished Coast. We lost many WvW guilds because of this. But we never stop to fight. And this made us stronger.

After seeing, what Tarnished Coast capable of, a match against unorganised EB zerg is just… Easy. Seriously. During second day you had our keep almost open like 4 hours (thanks for bugged underwater gates) and couldn’t take it. You lost about 15 trebs and quaggan knows how much other stuff… We was outmanned during this siege – we pushed you first time only thanks to reinforcement from Orr.
Eventually, you took our keep. But you lost it in less than two hours. This was pretty much turning point.

Oh. And it seems your best PvP players prefer camping jumping puzzle over actual WvW. Every time I’m going there – there’s bunch of EB killing me. Well, I’m fine with that. Better them be there than helping you.

Keiel.7489:

Play a dagger/dagger Thief then get your “iwin” button on and tell me how it goes in WvW, there is trade off’s, but as far as I know because I can drop someone in 2 sec means that they can drop me in 2 sec. If you can’t do that then you made your role do something else in WvW/PvP.

I’m talking about skill requirements, not pants. Your “2 seconds” it’s two, maybe three skills. For us to pull out those “2 seconds” (which is not really 2, more like 10) we must use 5 to 7 skills. If we messed up – we’re dead for sure. But you can always run away pretty easily.

Ianervan.3415:

Seriously, I might as well delete my thief because it seems the profession attracts braindead people with superiority complex “look at me im super turbo cool awesome and skilled, I kill people in 2sec i rule”. It’s like that guy hacking orb who thinks he’s a Superman. Except he isn’t, it’s just the mechanics he uses that make him powerful.

The reason I stopped leveling up my thief long ago.
The class is unreasonable easy to play and ridiculously rewarding for that. It literally has “make me win and save my neck” skill, which I’m finding most disgraceful to all other classes.

Is there a server, where the chain for this event is not bugged and the event itself can be beaten? Full servers is out of question, since one can’t transfer there anyway.

— Gate of Madness.
Was working two days ago, but we had too few people to actually beat the main boss. After this the event got bugged on the eastern chain. There must be some sort of assault on Stygian Deeps but it’s just not starting.
Also, there’s some random event of finding NPC, but the event-maker is nowhere to find.

— Yak’s Bend
The chain seems working there (after “fixing” it on my own), but even less people than on GoM.

Btw, the fix was:
Help the Pact reach the Altar of Betrayal before their morale is depleted
If the event is bugged, you can lure the giant champion to those NPC so he will kill them and reset the event. If only I could murder them by myself…

Who are all those guys anyway?

Here’s a way, how to make Orr more endurable without Anet’s help.
Turn off all sounds. All of them. NPC, sound effects, environment. Even music.

And listen something nice instead. Music you like, podcast or a book. Doesn’t matter. You can play in complete silence and Orr still will be ten thousand times better than with all this mess of sounds.

Personally, I don’t have problems with people mining ore or gathering stuff on their way.
But if a see somebody farming mobs – I’ll take my time to repot them as bots.

As for solo PvP, it’s up to you, but you can’t do much solo in WvW. You kill once, you kill twice, on third time a group of 5 will murder you and dance on your body.

But. If there’s a call “we need all for defending our keep/castle asap!” – make sure you get there and help. Otherwise you’re a horrible human being and everybody hate you and your whole family.

Thieves.

Nothing new here. Rendering issue and being able to stay invisible even after receiving a damage is OP. Mesmer is nowhere near to that.

If you target someone with star near his name, you can see where he is even through walls.
I don’t want this kind of attention in my WvW. Either I don’t want to be “target #1” during siege or defense.

Is there a way to hide the bloody thing?

I call it “losers buff”.
Losers buff here to mock you and tell your enemies go and take all your stuff. Not for helping, too much sane in that.

4 exotic? Consider yourself lucky. This man spent 1000+ rare greatswords in attempt to get his Dusk / Dawn. Spoiler: he failed.
…
Anet should send him his Dusk / Dawn manually after this >_>

Actually, it’s already more 200+g and 800+ attempts

Though, with all those karma trains it is looks like an amusement park indeed. It just kids interested only in free candies and completely ignoring other nice stuff.

Oh, and a correction about Yak’s Bend Balthazar. It’s just bugged. Sigh =_=

And so, my journey of finding uncontested Balthazar has begun.
Yak’s Bend. Contested.

Btw, about Orr’s problems. The whole Orr is the problem. Those zombies are just unbelievably annoying. They all have stun, pull, fear, daze, cripple. The respawn time is a joke. It less than 30 seconds. Sometime I like just wander around and explore places. No wandering around in Orr, only running from bloody zombies.

But nothing can be done about that. At least, there’s plenty of people in Cursed Shore, that can’t be said about other Orr zones.

Your server is full, so I can’t transfer here just to get this armor, sadly.

One time a champion killed me when I was looking for my POI.
Then as revenge I soloed first stage and people start gathering. We murdered this kitten.
No loot was gotten, but the joy of triumph.

Was it interesting? Yes. Was it rewarded? No.
Basically, there’s no good loot in GW2. I have better chances get 80 lvl rare from 10 undead chickens rather than 10 champions.

Straits of Devastation, first one of three Orr zones. 70-75 level map. There’s no orichalcum nodes either no dungeon. It has the most hardest God Event in my opinion – the chain is just too long. I never seen Balthazar temple uncontested, though it was bugged for two last weeks… But seems it’s working again (sorry for bunch of reports, Anet, but having karma and being unable buy stuff is frustrating).
Oh, and there’s no dragons to kill.

The only presence of living I’ve seen there so far is karma train (one), map explorers and those who have personal story quests.
Farmers are not interested in this zone, and the loot might be the problem – 80 level junk from Cursed Shore is still better than 70-75 level junk. Too much water for one map = less heavy ground under your feet. The only thing I hate more than zombies with stun is water zombies with stun. Lack of really epic events. Balthazar is not epic, just a pain to do.

It would be nice if Anet consider some ways of bringing heroes of Tyria to Straits of Devastation. 80 level junk and higher level mats from mobs will help. Some ori to make people visit this map. Bring a dragon and drain the sea.

I’m on Gate of Madness. Our Cursed Shore is full of people all the time and even Malchor’s Leap with its Lyssa is not a problem. But finding people for Balthazar is just… Impossible. He kills in two hits (80 full exotic necro >_>), reviving people is not an option (2 hits AoE) and 10 minutes timer is a joke. At least make Rally Waypoint free of charge during this event. Please?

So what… It’s a series of films? Like Star Trek?

So…. Is it such a good movie?

Had no idea what Millennium Falcon is
Googled it
. . .
Nerds…

Repair cost is not much coin sink as just punishment for bad play. WvW is all about team and team work. It’s not your typical PvP. Play by logic of war and repair cost won’t hurt you much.

1) My fix: start doing actual WvW. I’m making gold-two per day just by taking and defending keeps/towers/camps.

2) My fix: enable “auto-loot” and just press F whatever you see loot bags. The only ones who might have a problem with looting it is glass cannons thieves, but no one cares about glass cannons thieves anyway.

Jamaz.9837
GoM already got 20 threads about evil-evil us hacking things. We tried to speak with people, we returned orbs after hackers doing, we reported, we said our “sorry” even we’re not those who to blame.

Did it help? No. It seems, nice behavior only getting things worse. It seems, now we’re officially “server of hackers” and kids like Dane.3948 (have my report) slinging mud at us every time they can.

I’m tired of that. I want just to play the game and have fun. When your server hacked orbs? Who knows. Maybe, your opponents wasn’t such kittens about this to make thousand threads on the forum? Maybe, they just wrote a report instead of blaming your whole server for couple of scumbags?

If you want some kind of formal apology – go ask them from Anet. It’s their game and their job, not my. I’m just a consumer who bought the game to play it. A consumer, you called a hacker. Like several thousands other people. So nice of you.

Those “GoM hacked our shiny, my pants are sandy” threads are getting old. Every single server has hackers and during every single match something shady happens with orbs.
Your server hacked those orbs as well, so please stop pose like some fairy at the ball.

It was sarcasm. Our server gets all credits for every slightly glitches and bugs that happens during our matches like it’s us who caused them. Not like I’m actually believing in this nonsense.

But thanks for advice, I’ll try it next time.

It seems, every single quaggan believes that we’re some server of hackers and most evil people in the world. But other servers hacking WvW too, and they’re much better at this than our hackers are.

Today somebody hacker underwater gates at our Lowlands keep. We just could not repair it, so Ehmry Bay guys had a free way in. Eventually, they got the keep because of those hacked gates. Oh, this horrible and scary world…

Anet, please do some justice to those hackers, whatever they are!

Being able to buy useful tools with karma was nice, but since it’s nerfed karma became useless to me. Now I’ll prefer get more coin or experience over some meaningless pinky numbers.

Legendary…. Yeah, there’s such thing. But I’m playing a Necro and there’s no good looking legendary for him. Summoning minions from hell with some rainbow rod is very silly indeed.

God Armor. There’s only 2 sets of god armor with unique stats that can’t be crafted, I believe, and I already have one of those.

I have 400 chief level, but buying food from TP is cheaper anyway.

Armor and weapons. Buying those from karma vendors is such a pain… It’s much more easier just buy best armor every 10 levels from TP, and it’s cheap too.

Poor, sad warriors… Like it’s not enough for them to be one of the best open field units, they have only 900 range…. How can such cruel thing exist?

ComeAndSee.1356:

which puts the defenders at a better advantage.

As it should.
Use cata to hit walls or build a treb somewhere. Stupid zerging already rewards too much and in many situations some siege weapons behind gates is the last thing that can push it away.

Malarky.9546:

Apparently, “WvW isn’t how I want it to be” = WvW is broken

Ah, so flying orbs, speed hacks, invincible players, skill that allow go through gates etc was intended from the very start? Wow. You’re making such good support for this game, I’m speechless.

WvW is broken, it’s a fact. There’s already 60 pages of topics in WvW forum. Most of them about same old things:

Hackers/Cheaters.
Exploits.
Rewards.
Free transfer.
Night capping.

So far we have an official statement only about the last one. Ok, many people wanted Anet’s answer about this and they got it. Peace.

But what about other bloody things?
We heard only “Blah-blah-blah, thank you for your concern, blah-blah-blah.” My, thank you for your time, dear Arena Net employe, but it’s not an answer.

It would be really nice to hear an actual, detailed statement from you, Anet. I want to know, if hackers was found and banned. I want to know, if there’s any point of waiting a better reward system. When free transfers will end already? Are you punishing players for using WvW exploits, and why the hell not?

The incident with karma items was resolved in couple of days, but we have the same broken WvW for a month already.

Your silence is not helping. It’s just showing us how much you care. Some people will make excuses for you, like “they need a time, the game is just came out, it’s not that simple to find exploits and block hacks” etc-etc. Ok, fine, you have a some decent fan base, I’ll give you that. But it’s not like we bought the game from those people. It’s your product and you responsibility.

Fellows from my server (GoM) apologizing for hackers and ruined matches that they caused. They have courage do so, even if it’s not their fault and they can’t do a thing about this. It’s just absurd. Why a consumer must apologize for actions of another consumers when the company keeping a silence? Have some dignity, Anet.

It’s just an open letter or some sort, not a place for discussion. Thank you.

Why so extremal?

Reward for escorting a donkey must be the same as the reward for killing one. It will balance current situation, where we have 10 people who want to kill donkeys and only 1 who escorting them.

Neutro.3079
He is AoE engi, I think he alredy hitting everything around him.

From my experience being a Necro, I’m getting badges mostly from kills where I did decent amount of damage.

1300 kills, about 300 badges (not counting those I got from puzzles). Necro.
Funny, but I hadn’t a chance to farm badges with ballista yet.

Ah, another solution…
Too bad Anet showing us zero care about our WvW concerns.

Gates of Madness. No queue since Saturday. I guess, our hacker hacked the game and optimised the server. Anet should learn.

I made slightly incorrect question, we’re talking about donkeys guarding here after all.
So, the correct question will sound like “why one should spend his time for unrewarding job in hopes get something after?”

I can get much more badges with jumping puzzles or zerging. For karma/exp/coin there’s camps taking. Buffs are irrelevant.

Guarding donkeys may be useful, but thankless job.

Oh, I just said word “job” twice. My bad, job usually means some sort of salary.

“Blah-blah-blah. Thank you for your concern. Blah-blah-blah something blah is soon blah-blah”
I’m close enough?

Why one should care about map domination? He gets nothing from this.

Btw, thanks for ruined week of WvW.
Now I guess it’s time to ruin yours.