Guild Wars 2

Any suggestions?

Failed events in overflow are no better than crashes or lagfests of any sort, even if there is a partial reward for partial success. This is just poor game design, and it’s really not much fun anymore.

I really need to find a pure sandbox MMO where I can go play the game the way I want to play. Sadly, I actually believed that hype about this game back in the pre-release days.

Talonblaze.3175:

Nay, I think they learned from that. Upon entering LA, you will probably be moved to a story instance automatically just like in Kessex hills

I hope you’re right, but I’m not holding my breath here. Even if you’re right, we’re still probably facing 2 to 4 weeks of fighting in overflows of LA after the story instance.

Kessex tower climbs regularly ended in wipe outs, Minion invasions regularly failed, Marionette events fail regularly and the Wurm can only be done by a select few. Even the EoTM roll out failed immediately while the overflow server instances tried to form.

Overflow is not the way to handle this sort of mega event. It’s not working.

1. I look forward to seeing a new CC in 3 weeks, not because I think anyone is doing a bad job of it. I just like to maintain averages.

2. The new CC should ask us for a “concise list” of the things we players want, because it’s too hard to read the previous CDI.

3. I would also like a copy of Inception for my birthday next June, while we wait for this meta to repeat itself.

Another CDI, when the solid suggestions from the first one have not been implemented.

Why? Our suggestions aren’t going to change.

Junkpile.7439:

WWW players don’t use these skills.

Roamers use them.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Or are you saying overflows in general are a nightmare?

I haven’t been a fan of overflow since it was invented, as a response to the karka catastrophe. Shortly after that event we players had a chance to fill out a survey from Anet itself and the responses were overwhelming; that Anet doesn’t develop these super massive events very well.

Since then we’ve been given large scale boss invasions that have triggered overflows and in my opinion overflow technology is not a good bandaid for events that attract large numbers of players, never mind the massive numbers we had for the karka event, and what we will get again next week.

Many players can’t even get a map to load, never mind play with friends. Events start to fail and the resulting imbalance in rewards is really distasteful. Lions Arch might end, but it wont end well.

Jumping puzzles are discriminating against paled skinned male humanoids. I am one.

cranked.3812:

This is not needed. If they wanted to infuse more cloth into the market they could simply adjust the drop rates.

Anet likes to watch us run around the maze looking for the piece of cheese.

Way too many problems with the Personal Story line. I think it’s the first 20 quests are race related. Somehow changing all that with a race change ticket would be a ton of work.

I’m not apologizing for Anet here, just being realistic.

Didn’t look for the reset times but right now RoF has only 8 in the Q for the Blacktide map, but it’s our community drunken raid night.

Tired of the Q’s? Join a lower tier server. Simple really.

Credit where it’s due though. The system is working and looks great. The UI changes in WvW are welcome too, long overdue, but welcome.

Play mesmer. Make clones. Problem solved, except for the all caps.

The sleeves on my transmuted ascended jacket on my female mesmer quite nicely cover up the hideous ascended gloves. Keep the sleeves please, or I’ll have to go bare handed into battle.

Ring of Fire – BlackTide – Underworld has the same deal and our match scoring is pretty messed up now too.

NinjaChris.9340:

People flipped tables as soon as they heard that even a fraction of the story content would be in PvP territory!

Flipping tables is right, but it was happening on both sides of the argument. PvE players don’t want their story to take them to WvW, and WvW players detest the LS mobs in WvW too.

Bugged or not I will probably never get the Aetherblade achievement in EoTM.

I jumped into EoTM last night after the dailies I wanted were done and got lucky enough to land in the right overflow at the right time. A German language group was setting up for something, but they weren’t quite ready yet. So players had a Box’o Fun out, fireworks, and some were dancing. You know? All the usual crap that bored twitchy GW2 players do when they’re waiting for a guild event to start. So I decided to wait and see what happened.

Btw, it had to be either Kodash or Drakkar Lake because they’re the only German servers on the Red side this week. Thanks for the tour guys.

They started as a group without saying a word so obviously they had TS. The commander literally stopped at every point on the map, even if Red already owned the spot. The grawl trickster wound up with an army of sentries to protect him. We jumped into every bucket and people got ressed if they needed to try again. We turned into an army of polar bears at one time, and an army of devourers too.

The bell ringing thing didn’t quite work out, and summoning the Claw of Koda didn’t happen either. I don’t know why. We rode the wurm tunnel, which was visually pretty disappointing, but the air strike grenade was really cool. I hope that thing works in the rest of the game, or at least the regular WvW maps.

Along the way we almost never got attacked. Solo artists and small groups just melted out of the way but a couple of guys tried to demolish a bridge. We just rebuilt it.

The one time a semi-organized group tried to cut our tail the commander and his main group turned on a dime and annihilated the Frostgorge players who had followed us out of their corner. It was zerg thuggery at its best and worst, but it made for some PvP fun in the middle of a PvD map tour.

I really want to sound positive about this tour because it was a reasonable lot of fun, where I haven’t been enjoying EoTM up until now, but this really reinforces that this map is designed for PvD zerglings on the karma train, or touring for achievement points like we were doing. I don’t see myself doing this daily.

Arenanet have said they want to discourage the zergs, but yet again they’ve given us material where zerging is the best answer.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

If we put any more social RL conflict into Destiny’s Edge 2.0, we have a TV soap…

You didn’t really want an MMO where you go and slay the dragon? Did you?

Oh, wait…

Fermi.2409:

They’d be ok if they didn’t shoot quite so much.

No, they wouldn’t.

Yorin.6934:

/sarcasm

I see what you did there! /moar

Malchior.5042:

Did you realize they were using the new Warrior heal skill, Defiant Stance?

MMO mobs using player skills now? Sounds Legit.

Back to my tower defense game.

Sad if true. I haven’t seen any yet either, but I haven’t exactly been sticking around for the end of a match, to go to the next one. Sounds like a gankfest to me.

Ayrilana.1396:

Only one PvE achievement has you go into the center of the map and you technically don’t need to fight any players.

I didn’t mention any of the pve achievements or specifically the LS stuff, which I actually didn’t mind and got them done in maybe 30 minutes. I’m talking about general game play, and there is now more PvE than ever in a WvW zone.

Two skelks are standing around near their favorite rich node and one says to the other, “I haven’t seen many mesmers lately”.

The other says, “I’ve haven’t seen their clones lately either”.

The first one asks, “What clones?”.

Honestly, veteran trolls that regen so the fight last longer?

Champions bonded to Elementals, making them invulnerable while the elemental is alive. Then the elemental respawns?

What is with this fog? On a map where you can fall everywhere?

Junk crafting material everywhere. Any why fer gawd’s sake these long runs?

That’s my 3rd session today. That’s enough. I’ve got a good little flash tower defense game that is more fun than this.

Kanebrake.6192:

If you’re not part of an organized guild then you at least want to be part of a zerg to keep from getting ganked. Far too easy to pick off lone players.

We’ve been told that in order to play as an organized group you pretty much have to enter all at the same time. I haven’t tried a taxi yet but players coming late to the party probably wont get into the same overflow right away.

I can’t imagine trying to get 2 teams to the same overflow for some GvG.

It’s a zergfest that speaks no common language and no one has a clue who the good commanders are.

There is no community, and it’s bloody difficult to even run with your guild or other friends, as we get spread among the overflow maps. I’m starting to see some people rezzing, but you don’t know who they are, and so far I’m only rarely seeing any fire fields or static fields. I have seen quite a bit of area healing though, so some people are getting that right.

Things should get quite a bit better as the achievement point hunters move on, but I don’t know. It takes way to long to get anywhere on this map. If there’s a fight on, it’ll be over before you get there.

Qaelyn.7612:

Malchior.5042:

All professions have stability access and a stunbreaker. This is just pure ignorance.

The actual “pure ignorance” is pretending there aren’t MASSIVE differences in the number, duration and ease of use of stability and stunbreakers across professions.

I have no reason at all to bring my mesmer to this map. The stability is from a mantra and you need to be traited for them to be terribly effective. On the other is my warrior. I can place 3 utilities and an elite that all give stability.

It’s Skyhammer for zerg artists. My first look? I’m not impressed.

The map itself looks to be about the same size as EB but someone took a jigsaw to it, forcing players into certain paths. The actual physical locations of the towers and such are strangely similar to EB too. I would love to see the two maps overlaid.

In Europe the dominant style of play is zergfests, particularly among the French and German servers. Those guys don’t leave home without at least 60 of their best friends. I already ran into a couple of those wonder blobs this morning. Popped some stability and suddenly lagged to death. I guess that’s supposed to be fun? Reloading the game and the Mists and run back to the fight… That’s going to get really old fast.

Lag settled down a bit and nobody has launched me yet but I brought my warrior for the stability. I jumped into a blob on a bridge and used the hammer 4 skill and my screen lit up with “IMMUNE”. Of course I got run over. There is no defense against a zerg with stability, except to run with a bigger zerg.

Languages were an issue, just as I predicted. The French refuse to speak anything other than French, but strangely it was the Germans complaining about it, in German.

And lastly, I went looking for one of those “unstable portals”. I found one, got close, and the game closed. It reminded me of last night.

Meehael.8240:

So, would you pay $10 a month for the game…

Nope. I don’t pay sub fees to play a game. Ever.

krall? he’s either a paid shill, or an answer bot.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Since a majority of European nations require American to be taught as a secondary language, I think everyone should be fine if they speak that in game.

Not even close to the truth. I should know. I live here. The dance club my wife and I go to? There are 4 English speakers including my wife and I. The local pub for happy hour, only one other guys speaks English.

My wife and I regularly vacation in France and Spain. In France they pretty much expect you to speak French, even in the tourism industry, and in Spain the hotel staff normally speak better German than English.

In a lot of European countries students are being taught German, because that’s where the jobs are these days.

And it’s “English”, not “American”. Seriously, you Americans have no clue.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/We-want-capes-merged

They do that for efficiency. They only have to ignore one thread.

Elmo Benchwarmer.3025:

Junkpile.7439:

Wonder why you can put dungeons weapons in forge or salvage them.

Because every part of the game is equally rewarding.

Yep, badges of honor are so rewarding.

aspirine.6852:

No, that sounds like a terrible idea. How can you not understand English….

Travel much? Seriously, my dentist doesn’t speak English.

I play on Ring of Fire. We have a fairly large community of Italians and one large Russian guild. They’re all big into WvW and we don’t coordinate with them now because they have their own TeamSpeak servers. The very few who can speak English will sometimes do so, but the rest don’t, because they can’t.

Should we talk about the French? They are as bad as the British when it comes to learning a second language, and there is a reason why the Spanish and German speakers mostly stick to their own servers too.

Now we can multiply this by? 27 servers? This is going work?

robertul.3679:

I feel your pain. Keg Brawl and Crab Toss are the greatest activities out there. They require actual skill to a certain point.

Why do I get the feeling that you’re not joking? Honestly, the only thing worse than the keg brawl is the crab toss, and no skill is required. The only thing that could make it better, if we could play with friends as a group. That’s it.

As they stand now these two (for the lack of better words) things to do daily, are only done for the daily.

krall? please quit being argumentative. thanks.

now then, back you go into my personal ignore list.

I’m sure this didn’t occur to anyone at Anet but the EU is going to need more map wide, but language based chat channels.

The Germans, French and Spanish in particular have become accustomed to speaking their own language in /m and /t. This wont end well in EoTM, so I suggest…

/f Francais
/d Deutsche
/s Spanish
/i Italian
/r Russian
/e English

What do you call a Sylvari putting his clothes on?

Salad, dressing.

They are “reconsidering” this change.

This could actually be worse than many of the PvE players know. Do we have a list of the achievements yet? Do we know if keep takeovers will be needed? To get the achievement points in the main keep of the other servers?

For the next 2 weeks there isn’t going to be much night capping or off-hours where you might be able to organize a golem rush to grab those achievement points. It’s not like you’re going to be able to “come back later” when they are bored from camping the EB jumping puzzle.

This could be one seriously long drawn out fight for achievement points, not that most WvW players care.

Hi new guy. It’s been that way since day 1. Have fun.

Zorby.8236:

A human, a Charr and a Norn are out drinking. All of a sudden the human smashes his glass and says:
“In Kryta we have so many glasses that we don’t need to drink from the same twice”
The Charr throws his glass in the air, draws his pistol, shoots it and proclaims:
“In Ascalon we have so much sand that we can make so many glasses that we don’t have to drink from the same twice”
The Norn passed out ordered another drink…

FTFY

Walls are good, but then you might have to walk the yaks in, and pay for a few upgrades.

So much fun to see this thread again!

No ascended gear here either, but I can haz a Cheezeburgerz!

Ok, here’s a question that has been asked many times, and still not answered.

Why are you bringing more Living Story to WvW, when players clearly don’t want it?

Top tier servers are there because of coverage, not because of skill. Please don’t forget that?

Otherwise, all blue servers will be teamed together against all red servers, against all green servers. Where you come from should have little impact on results. Players from the lower tiers may have some better roaming skills but from the looks of the EoTM map, that won’t mean much.

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

is wvw community thinking of EU/NA ts? will we actually know what overflow we are (1/2/3/4…) so we can have ts rooms to gather in?

EU wide TS isn’t going to happen, or at least “this wont end well”.

I play on RoF and between the large numbers of Italians and Russians we already have language issues. Don’t get me wrong, they are good players and have many good commanders but they have their own TS channels.

Following their zergs can be a bit hit or miss and if you’re lucky their better commanders will at least ping the next target while waiting to cap the current circle. They often waypoint out too, taking over half the zerg with them and you can only wonder where they went.

lordkrall.7241:

morrolan.9608:

Its a WvW overflow map created specifically to deal with queue issues no the regular WvW maps so it is a real WvW map.

It doesn’t, in any way or form, as far as I know effect the real match-ups though.

It will suck players away from the PPT match up, making coverage problems even worse for small servers. Too bad you can’t see that through your rose tinted glasses.

And now, back to my ignore list with you.