Guild Wars 2

If axe loses the 900 range it’s useless. I have had plenty of luck with it in pve/wvw/pvp killing things. Scepter is 900 range and nobody really complains about that.

Axe could use a couple changes, but making it melee range is not one of them. Axe 2 being a whirl at 900 range and/or Axe 3 being a blast would help. Some AoE support may help too.

Dagger or greatsword are already really hard to use in wvw or pvp, making axe into a melee weapon would push the few power necros into other classes or condi builds.

It’s not reset for me either.

I don’t understand why people are griping about things being “wasted.” Having +100 power or +100 vitality on an aura is still a big deal.

My guild (which does most everything in game) was going to get the +5 on the aura this week, but now we can spend our resources elsewhere. It’s a little anticlimatic to get the +5 this way, but we would have gotten the other auras anyway, so it’s not a big deal.

What’s really going on here is anet is actively listening to popular opinion and complaints and responding to them with reasonable changes. Isn’t that what we all want?

Can we have a vote to remove alpine? I’m really sick of making jumps that look survivable only to wind up dead. Desert doesn’t have this issue, it’s really obvious if you’re going to die from a fall or not. Alpine? Not so much.

Failing that, mixed borderlands are much better than having to deal with alpine. I can choose to play on a fun borderland map.

I roam just fine on a necro.

Conner.4702:

In pretty much every other case they updated the chests themselves, yet here they decided to put in new chests instead.

I had 100+ of them saved up, which would have completed 1.25 rewards tracks. I imagine that played a role.

Instead I only have 30 hours of experience boost, which I guess is fine since I won’t be able to obtain them as easily in the future.

Could replace the tomes with proofs of heroics in the rewards tracks…

I have a couple thousand saved up and that’s after they used to be trophies that I had to spend on stuff I didn’t want just for the inventory space.

I was surprised how cheap sigils were and how expensive runes were in comparison.

The Silverwastes PvP reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.

How does this work for people who previously unlocked it? I had previously done it for both pvp and wvw. This is a non-repeatable reward track.

It would be nice if this were unlocked again for those who have completed it, or have the mystic clovers in the final box reduced and be repeatable in general.

I wouldn’t be upset about having to complete it again, it’s my favorite track (and I wish it was repeatable). I would be upset about being SOL.

I’ve completed dozens of wvw rewards tracks already, they don’t take too long if you are playing wvw anyway.

What I’m more interested is what this means:

The Silverwastes WvW reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.

Since the track is not repeatable.

The Silverwastes PvP reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.

How does this work for people who previously unlocked it?

I’ve been on teams that have come back from 100+ point deficits 3 times so far this season on like 15 games. Usually it’s because the team misplayed the opening phase of the match. One game we went from 100 points behind to 100 points ahead.

Some of the “blowouts” are purely psychological. But I’ve also won games 500-150 and man, those are boring.

If you allow the other team to cap your lord on foefire, you’ve got a pretty disorganized team.

The only servers that should be open are ones that have been in T3 or T4 for 3 or more straight matches. If people can’t get into T1/T2 but want new servers, this could push them into lower servers who fight their way up the ranking.

General Health.9678:

RandomWolf.3986:

It’s going to come to a point where only farmers will be able to purchase anything from the gem store

What about accountants and lawyers?

Oh wait.. you mean with in-game gold, I see.
You can still a) do without yet another glider skin
Or you can b) use rl cash and support the game

Or you can wait until they level out again, they may even reduce a bit.
In the meantime the free gold from doing the daily should be worth a couple of gems a week at least.

140 gold for 400 gems / 2 gold per day from dailies = 70 days to buy 400 gems.

2 gold per day from dailies * 400 gems / 140 gold = 5.7 gems per day

5.7 gems per day * 7 days in one week = 40 gems per week

So yeah, technically you’re right, dailies will give a couple gems per week.

Lowering the cast times on necro shroud would bring it up to a similar DPS level to reaper shroud.

Having Axe #2 as a whirl finisher would be acceptable as well, although I like the AoE idea.

While we’re at it, can Axe #3 be a blast finisher?

Healing power is overpowered on some classes and totally useless on others. Individual skill adjustments would probably be a better avenue for exploration.

Diovid.9506:

But once that paywall means there are 3 different ways of getting it free (logging in at the right time,

Was before my time and by this point a large population of the game. Two years is a very long time for a game.

playing it with someone else who has it unlocked

Doesn’t reward the mastery points. Mastery points are a feature of HoT, which I paid for with actual American currency.

or paying for it with in-game gold) then how much of a paywall is it?

Besides, Season 2 has been on sale in the past.

Is what I’m complaining about. Paying for something being behind a paywall? I think that’s the definition of a paywall.

The real way to get around resistance is to run a power build. If a group is power-heavy, then durability runes become average.

Diovid.9506:

Hesacon.8735:

I didn’t start playing until shortly before HoT came out. It seems silly to me to pay the equivalent of a new expansion for a couple quests that I only want for the mastery points.

Except you can get gems by trading in-game gold for them.

In addition you can play the instances with someone else who has them unlocked, even if you don’t have them unlocked yourself (in this case, you won’t get the rewards though which seems to be what you’re after).

Yeah I’m really only after the mastery points. I tried to piggyback off someone else doing them off one point to award the mastery point and it didn’t seem to work.

And the direction gem prices and inflation are going are quickly going to put it out of reach of casual players. It would take 400-500 gold at current exchange rates to get all the episodes, and every indication is that the gold-to-gem rate is going to continue going up.

Even if the price were lowered to 400 gems, it would make it obtainable to casual players who already payed for the game by using the gems rewarded from one of the 5k achievement boxes.

But really, I don’t mind certain things like skins being behind a separate paywall, but actual content doesn’t sit well with me.

Silverwastes is a meta that isn’t on a schedule and it happens when a map is ready. I think that might be the only big one that isn’t on a timer.

I wish I could turn the mystic clovers from rewards tracks back into mystic coins…

I didn’t start playing until shortly before HoT came out. It seems silly to me to pay the equivalent of a new expansion for a couple quests that I only want for the mastery points.

The fix itself is pretty straightforward and would not consume much dev time.

How dare anet has people step out of their comfort zone for optional equipment that doesn’t provide any real advantage over other commonly available equipment.

Some of the features from the Guild Initiative Headquarters are available in the guild hall, but not all of them. Is there a chance of adding these to the regular guild hall, even if they are upgrades?

In particular, not having to go to lion’s arch and then a separate instance to talk to the Guild commendation trader would be nice.

dank.3680:

Looks like your *opinion isn’t the popular one so far…

51.4% Yes 1: Simultaneous Borderlands is a superior option

27.2% No: Rotating borderlands is a superior option

13.7% Yes 2: Simultaneous Borderlands is a superior option

7.7% Don’t count my vote, just show me the current results.

In case you can’t do math, that’s 65.1% in favor of having at least one DBL at all times.

When you adjust for those who didn’t care, it becomes 70.5% of those polled that believe at least one DBL map should be part of wvw all of the time.

Of the remaining 29.5%, some might’ve been more concerned about things like balance issues than actually disposing of DBL. So the hate for DBL is even lower than that.

The trick to a good suggestion is being as easy to implement as possible. Waypoints would be far easier than developing something completely new.

The population imbalances and coverage are already tricky with 3 servers. With two servers they’re just obnoxious.

Swagger.1459:

So while there is a natural fade in player interest, there has also not been any sort of major effort in the above 3 areas.

Clearly anet is neglecting wvw, they certainly haven’t

• Been having weekly polls to determine what the general public wants out of wvw
• Brought back alpine, which the vocal minority had been clamoring for
• Added reward tracks to help keep player interest in wvw and draw in some new people looking for loot
• Overhauled the objective upgrade system
• Overhauled the squad system to make it easier on commanders
• Add PPK to encourage fights rather than k-trains and PPT
• Had discussions on how to solve many of the gripes the vocal wvw players bring up, including night capping and server populations
• Actually solved gripes people had like auto looting

Nope, anet is completely ignoring wvw and letting it die a withered husk. I’ll be surprised if wvw still exists in July.

Hofer.7351:

Hesacon.8735:

Hofer.7351:

I voted….. nothing……
Seriously Anet !!!This is since HoT that we asked you to bring back Alpina because nobody want the dbl and now you will bring back those desert dbl………………
Do not count to me to play on those empty maps…
And thanks Anet to bring back a long long long queue on EBG map………………

If nobody wanted DBL, people wouldn’t be voting to have any DBL maps. Since a majority have opted for at least one DBL map, you’re confusing “nobody” with “most people.”

The people who are OCD in love with alpine are a very vocal minority.

EBG is queued every night in T3. The borderlands? Maybe one of them on reset night.

I see often the bordelands in Q, just right now (and their is no Q on EBG atm). But I never see any Q on dbl……..
No way, dbl was really empty and often without any commander.
Now we have Q on alpina bl and often 2-3 commanders (home, alpina and ebg….)
there is no comparison. This is all the more incomprehensible from Anet….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of desert haters are a very very vocal minority of the overall population. The majority of the overall population will play whatever they’re given.

Timelord.8190:

Hesacon.8735:

Hofer.7351:

I voted….. nothing……
Seriously Anet !!!This is since HoT that we asked you to bring back Alpina because nobody want the dbl and now you will bring back those desert dbl………………
Do not count to me to play on those empty maps…
And thanks Anet to bring back a long long long queue on EBG map………………

If nobody wanted DBL, people wouldn’t be voting to have any DBL maps. Since a majority have opted for at least one DBL map, you’re confusing “nobody” with “most people.”

The people who are OCD in love with alpine are a very vocal minority.

EBG is queued every night in T3. The borderlands? Maybe one of them on reset night.

That would make sense if there was an option for no DBL maps, but there isn’t.

There is. Have them alternate. Then you get six months of the year without desert.

Every game I’ve ever played people log these same complaints. Then the games last another 5-10 years. People get bored and move on. Keeping things the same aren’t going to change them, reverting back to an old version won’t bring them back. Player churn is factored into how companies like anet operate. They don’t have to make you happy if they can make 2 newer players who aren’t burned out happy.

Hofer.7351:

I voted….. nothing……
Seriously Anet !!!This is since HoT that we asked you to bring back Alpina because nobody want the dbl and now you will bring back those desert dbl………………
Do not count to me to play on those empty maps…
And thanks Anet to bring back a long long long queue on EBG map………………

If nobody wanted DBL, people wouldn’t be voting to have any DBL maps. Since a majority have opted for at least one DBL map, you’re confusing “nobody” with “most people.”

The people who are OCD in love with alpine are a very vocal minority.

EBG is queued every night in T3. The borderlands? Maybe one of them on reset night.

Towers are much easier to attack and denying enemy waypoints are totally worth the effort. It would encourage smaller groups since a group of 3-5 can flip a tower without much trouble. That’s a tall order for a keep.

This could work to counter the blob vs. blob. If a small group can destroy the blob’s ability to navigate, maybe servers have to rethink putting 50+ people on the tag and break it up.

It also puts more emphasis on controlling camps and caravans, a move anet has been working towards with the last couple of big updates. Roamers win, small groups win, blobs can still exist but are not the ultimate weapon anymore.

NPC guild tags – Claimed objectives already display guild banners. The NPCs are not your guild members.

Maybe not your guild, but we value those NPCs as part of our guild. They even help us on guild missions. Try talking to them, maybe you’ll like them.

With the mixed borderlands poll I figure now is as good a time as any to bring this up.

A major complaint about Desert is the lack of strategic value of the towers. I had never played Alpine before it was brought back, but I could really say that defensively, they’re useless as well. Sure offensively they can be used to treb keeps, but that’s not going to work unless a zerg is defending the tower at the same time. The same could really be done on open ground.

Towers would be a lot more useful strategically if they acquired waypoints at T2 or T3 (I believe T2 would put more urgency into attacking/defending or running/disrupting caravans).

With the change to keeps only getting waypoints at T3, the game is fundamentally changed. Traversing the borderlands from the citadel is an exercise in frustration, especially on alpine where you have to take falling damage several times to get out or go the long way around. Even if you were to recapture a lost garrison, it might be several hours until you have a waypoint again.

In the case of a tower, I don’t really care who claims it, the +5 isn’t a vital thing for towers. But Keeps for sure, if there’s an option for +5 supply it needs to be on there.

msalakka.4653:

This is disappointing, because if my server draws the short stick and ends up as the one with the deserted map for the week, I don’t need to log on that week. I am a home border scout, and the desert borderland is undefendable.

This is why the argument over borderlands is silly because I find alpine to be less defensible when the enemy zerg you just wiped can be back at the gate 30 seconds after you wiped it. It’s all how the individual commanders and servers handle to defense and the attack.

Variety is the spice of life, have both at once regardless of it’s 1 desert and 2 alpine or 2 desert and 1 alpine. It also opens the opportunity for a third map later.

Variety is the spice of life, have both at once regardless of it’s 1 desert and 2 alpine or 2 desert and 1 alpine. It also opens the opportunity for a third map later.

It’s by no means perfect, but it’s a lot less frustrating than unranked games where I swear my team was having their first ever match.

Any sign of a discount or removal of the purchasing these from the gem shop? Mastery point requirements for gems are pretty off-putting.

Getting some solid fights that swing back and fourth. Making steady progress. Getting my dailies done. Seeing every class get played to some degree.

No real issues with Season 3, anet did a fair job of setting up this season.

Just because it’s only useful for wvw doesn’t mean it’s not worth adding. It’s also pretty low hanging fruit to add.

Plus the non-wvw guilds might see they have a lot of server overlap and might be willing to give it a shot.

A server seldom owns just one hardened objective. When we want to flip SMC we will attack that server’s garrison to draw them out. If they’re so intent on manning SMC, we will take their garrison, which is a much more satisfying target anyway.

If they’re on their own BL and lost the other two keeps, can you be surprised that they hunker down in the garrison? Trebs also exist.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Hesacon.8735:

I wish I could spend my useless karma on them.

Buy cloth gloves from heart vendor. Mystic Forge them. Salvage then sell. Then you can buy them.

Sounds far too tedious.

I wish I could spend my useless karma on them.

Offair.2563:

Hesacon.8735:

As a roamer the ranks give me a good idea on whether or not I should get involved in a fight. If someone isn’t even bronze I will go after them every time, but if they’re gold and higher I might avoid them if my goal is to flip a camp or sentry and not seek out fights.

In my experience “lower” ranks like silver/bronze tend to die slower then say a platinum.

Hence why i call em Splat inums.

After a certain point (probably mid-bronze), there isn’t much of a skill difference between the different ranks, but I’ve found the higher ranks know when to run away so you don’t get a satisfying conclusion.