Guild Wars 2

Yes, but well upgrading is a part of game, even buying siege to help your server flip some tower.
So if player want to get some money by playing WvW, he must stop with this. If nobody have siege, well do not place any. Just pvd.
If there is keep full of supply, dont start upgrade. Even if that means enemy will need longer time to get throught defences.
Just dont do it.

Right now Ring of FIre is aiming to go to silver league.
We think we have improved our overall performance and its time to test it against stromger enemies.
Yes we wont win Silver, and we even not aim to, but we just hope fighting against stronger enemies will help us improve more. No offence against BT or WSR, but you guys was no challenge against us in term of PPT, and many times even with population.
We still remember our fights against Gandara and AG last year and just how much we improved during these weeks.

Well also looking to find new friends and enemies in silver league and hoping for good GvG.

Basically BE SELFISH

Styx no feature patch at end of May. Updates are going live at Tuesdays.
So either they wil wait after Tournament or they will just kitten wvw players more pushing huge balance updates during Tournament.

Dont forget on commander icons. Different colors were datamined 2 weeks ago.

Hamster you think it would take longer than 2 days to solve this? They have rewards chests that are account bound, so they have the code.
If this is the reason of course.

Malediktus but that is the problem.
They have their priorities straight but wvw players dont want to understand that.

morrolan.9608:

What happened to Josh communicating with the WvW community or Allie Murdoch?

Josh is active in Structured PvP.
His last post about wvw was in fact something about Edge of the Mists(the LS temp topic) and it was about a month ago.
Allie was a little active, but not much, something like 7 days ago if you dont count smiley in ranger pet topic.

But sPvP forum is quite active. While wvw forums is moderated.

Danikat you mean that there will be no account bound XP in feature update? No commander system uverhaul in feature update?
That would be the last slap in faces of all wvw players.(wait, last slap already was in 2013, so this will be slap +3)

“in a timely manner”
“let you all know ahead of time”
“This change is going to make WvW a friendlier place for alts "

Alts are screwed for almost a year now (26th March 2013 – 18th March 2014)
They they in November 2013 acnowledged what players keep telling them from March, that WXP should be account bound.

Thanks for all players with alts. Really thanks.

Guys forget May 31th as some pathc release date. Its Saturday. They dont do updates at Saturday.
And they said no update in June. So July is next.
“short break” between LS and feature patch is 3 months

So no server can rise to higher league?

Not until July, maybe later

SO this just means we need to wait at least to June for account bound WXP.
GJ Anet, really GJ. You just lost a lot of WvW players.

Nobody have heard anything yet Cap, its a secret.
But well, yes RoF will go a little stronger and we hope for good fights against new servers.
With these guilds we will probably be able to go to silver and be a decent opponent to silver league servers.

Pavel.8531:

Hey now, guys, don’t be so impatient – it’s been only 4 months… Remember 7(or was it 8 ) months ago when they mentioned they’ll fix the unrealistic WvW achievments before Christmas?

VCan You find the post? Because this is a huge failure too. I remember they said something about changing wvw achivements. But I cannot find it anywhere.

ESO – well most of you guys forget one thing. PvE population in GW2 will mostly move to ESO just because of greener pastures.
Like most players have lvl 80 and there is not much stuff going on in GW2. Yes LS is nice, but for example last 2 updates it was just zergs in LA and most players enjoyed it only for few days.

Second thing is “herd thinking” like if there will be million players in ESO and they will just pay news articles about it, well a lot of players will see empty world in GW2 and move to ESO where the action is. Even if the combat is a bit clunky in ESO

third – marketing, Anet right now seems like to have no marketing. I havent seen any articles about Scarlet last battle. Most of gaming sites are not releasing any info about GW2 because well there is not much new in GW2. We need some great feature and great marketing so people that already stopped playing will see “great new feature” and wil lgo back and try this game again

fourth – overall stylisation, this is big issue in GW2. If you look any GW2 WVW video and some ESO AvA video, there is a big difference. While in GW2 you almost do not see players thanks to all those effects, in ESO you have no problem to see players. Even with clunky combat, its just better looking because your eyes are not blinded by purple bubbles, big white sparks all over the screen. This may attract a lot of players too.

fifth – a lot of articles mention that first 2 locations in ESO are just bad, only i think DC has good starting location, but then after 3th location ESO is much better. I cant say because i only got to second map, but i can imagine this like chain events in Qeensdale and Harathi (protecting water pipes vs Centraur big chain)

So I would just not say that ESO is dead even before they realesed it. I would not say ESO is no threat to GW2.
I would say: lets wait and see it may turn both ways

I dont take it like the did not fulfilled promise, i take it like they added something not complete and did not bother to complete it.
In last year we have seen few thing with this schema:
-WXP , players did post about making it accound bound, because of alts.
-masteries – players were concerned that its just another vertical progression, or power spike, and it is, because ram mastery is too powerfull, even one superior AC cannot kill one ram on wooden gate, that is just bad
-traps, only 2 traps introduced, and well only one is really viable, some people use stealth trap, but its not so great for groups, but it should be easy to implement new traps
-commander, from beta players are asking to improve this, yet we have seen zero attempt to do it, exect CDI with no result
-grouping, after 14 months they finally fixed party UI(i still think it was just because LS – EOTM, and EOTM was nothing more that plea to PvE guys)
-bugs and exploits, there are known exploits and players were reporting them from beta, yet Longview is still without gate, Jeriffers is still buged, players still stuck at siege

@Substance E well you are wrong sir with what is easier
Glory – was in game from start, that means it has been built into core of game
WXP – added after 6 months, so its more like addon that part of core game.

And you mean like Glory for sPvP is more importants that WXP for WvW. So progrress system for one game mod is more important than progress system for second mod? That removing one progress system is easier that adjusting second progress system?

I hope no dev will confirm this, that would make people ragequit

I will even suggest that Burning Oil will not be able to be destroyef by players. Only by siege.

Next week is probably the last chance for a long time. As in season 1 they did not added any features to wvw,only living stories. I guess they will do the same woth Season 2.
And Season 2 will end in 11 weeks from now.

Because Season 2 will start in 2 weeks and we have only informations about transfers and tournament style, i dont think we will see Acocund bound WXP or different commander colours sooner than 10th June.

I think release was posponed by 9 weeks.
Like in WvW Season 1 they will probably not realease any feature update during season 2. And Season 2 was expanded to 9 weeks.
So my guess is June 10th.

And if accound bound XP or any commander changes wont be next week, that waiting will just upset a lot of people.

gpassucc you should try next beta. It will not be based on obsolete build but on almost actuall one.

Reslinal.2359:

1. culling fixed
2. WvW exp/ranks/skill lines being added
3. Whole bloodlust area changed to borderland
4. edge of the mists map
5. whole new queueing system revamp
6. season 1 and coming season 2
7. misc stuff like party system change etc

1. it was year ago and only because it was really bad system for wvw adn even pve
2. Masteries made power spike worse, most of them are offensice like +dmg on…
And dont forget that players asked for AC bound WXP while it was only announced
3. Most wvw players wanted map change but not adding tPvP elements, whole bloodlust is pointless
4. Players wanted to somehow deal with queue, even your #5 would solve it, but again, after 1 year or complaining and only because Season 1 attracted a lot of PvErs
5. This sould have been implemented from start, not 1,5 year after
6. Really think this is improvement? Something like this gives a reason to WvW. Should be implemented from day 1.
7. You mean those bug fixes that should not been in game from day 1.
8. traps – nice feature but only 2 traps? isnt it just a waste of idea?

So basicly yes they added a lot of stuff, some of it was just reparing of bugs, some of them was repairing of whole WvW (culling) and some were good ideas, but bad execution.
In the end if you play WvW from day 1 you feel like being forgoten.
While WvW had so few new things, PvE got a lot more.
Or you think one mastery line(copy&paste) is equal to one LS update?
And second thing is: PvE stuff vs WvW stuff.
When were Ascended amulet introduced? When was WvW amulet introduced? Ascended rings were introduced in November 2012 to gain throught Fotm. From WvW in May 2013.

Fights in bronze or silver awful? You should try it. Best fights ever.

Handin, i will just talk for my server now.
Last week we managed to be first in hard matchup. We had finally great matchup and in rating we managed to go up from 22 to 19.
Again this week we are fighting with low rating servers. 19 vs 23 vs 24. So we will loose rating because most people enjoy other aspects of game when we have this “easy” matchup. like you would be motivated to siege enemy spawn?
So we will loose rating probably even if we stomp them totally we would not be able to gain enought rating to keep in line with like Dzagonur. They will gain rating only because they will not be stomped completely.
So at 14th probably, Dzagonurs, our long time opponetns and good server to fight, will be rank 18 and we will be rank 19.
This way Dzagonur will have free transfers while we wont. So then it will be much easier for possible guilds to transfer to other free server than to Ring of FIre.

Ok its just tournament, but it will end in 9 weeks and no other tournament wil lstart soon.

And trust me, we on Ring of FIre dont want to fight WSR or BT again. We rather loose in silver than win in Bronze. At least we will be enjoying fights. But now we are enjoying PvD.

I am more worried about last 4 servers in EU leagues. These servers are really disadvantaged because they will not get enought tickets to get Mistforged Hero’s Weapon.
I know you will get some parts from achivements and you can craft them in forge, but it just means that these 4 servers will have only option to make one weapon, while higher servers will have option to get 2 weapons.

This will just encourage guilds and players to transfer.

It is bad luck trust me.
Guilie got exotic drop almost every day, while I get max rare every 2 days.
I had 4 exotic drops in last 6 months. Most of them in last 2 months just because my MF is getting higher, even that i dont believe in MF.

More than DPS check its test of brain.
When fighting Scarlet hologram, you should go throught all colors to have buff. Then oyu can do big damage. But people fail to understand this, people even fail to understand they need to dodge out of Aoe lines Scarlet is doing. I see many people everytime die on these Aoes.

Did not happened to me, but launcher has really some serious flaws.
Like i dont want to use launcher. But when I try to use commanders to skip launcher i am not able to use TP.
This bothers me because DXtory i use for recording is not working good with launcher.

Mastery vs Mastery?

I dont think monotony is a problem at all.

I suggest ANet to look first on Commander system, masteries, grouping and defending rewards.

Comamnder system – we talked about it in CDI, yet no informations about any result
Masteries – they made WvW more action, but some of them seems overpowered like ram mastery. Right now rams are really hard to kill unless you dont have like 4 sup acs and 4 defenders already set up on each gate and refreshed all the time. If you will just see keep contested, run there, see gate is 75%, you have no chance to defend it unless you dont gather bigger zerg that enemy and push them outside. In time needed to build 1 sup ac, gate will be 50%, then even if you start shooting on ram, thanks to Iron Hide, you wont be able to save it in time.
Another example: you scout normal gate, 4 guys will come and start building ram, you start building normal ac. So normal gate, normal ram, normal ac. You should be able to kill that guy on ram and take down ram. But you are not able to do that, thanks to Iron Hide, ram and ram operator are almost invincible against your ac, and gate will be breached. You even did not hold them for a while, because that guy on ram dont even need to stop raming.
Grouping: ok, just 5 guys in party, why not, but we need at least to have some targeting symbols. So you can target your raid leader by some icon, and still have the option to target enemy by regular crosshair.
Defending rewards – why to bother to defend? you will get some experience but its much lower than killing all NPCs around the gate. So attackers dont even have to succed.
Situation: 4 guys comming to gate, you see them, they start killing NPCs and get reward from them, you start hitting them with canon and they run. You will get some XP from sucesfull defending, but those guys will get more XP for killing guards.

And I dont talk about upgrades. You dont need to spend anything to flipp keep, just like 50silver for rams, but to upgrade a keep, that will take a lot of gold.

All this will change whole gameplay, making defending more rewarding will make people to scout and stay and try to upgrade.
It will even change open field combat and I think it will make combat more fun.

No need to change maps, just adjust current system.

message from RoF: NOOOOOOOOOO

Heezdedjim you forgot about Ress tents.
You can build ress tent anywhere and it is not afficted by contesting the keep. But tents are really easy to burn down. Do proper placement is needed.
On the other side if you are skilled thief, you can just stop enemies from respawning by burning their tents. So defenders has advantage. While their tent will be inside walls so invulnerable to damage until wall is breached. Attackers tent will be more vulnerable since thief can sneak along enemies and burn tent from back.

I remember similiar guild in one matchup.
It was easy to deal with them. I just called my guild and we killed them. We killed them 4 times and then they left.

Ring of Fire, server that is fighting for PPT all the time and that never stops fighting.
We are currently fighting great matchup and we hope we will stay in Silver league for a long time.

But still we lack some coverage.

We will welcome every NA and Aus guild or players that wants to help to improve our performance.

We will welcome everyone that will join us and be a part of our growing community.

Check our website and guilds involved

As Oslaf said, Ring of Fire is right now great server for new players.
Yes we dont have queues all day, we dont have many players to be effective against T5 or T6.
But while guilds and players are leaving and joining other servers, there is only few people that left or joined Ring of Fire.
Our server was never like RoS or Far Shiverpeaks. Our server had never rised up and then fall down because few guilds moved. We have steady population and we are getting better every day.

Ring of FIre is perfect for “casual-HC” gaming few hours several days. Because in our tier, we mostly fight at evenings against other servers.

Players are complaining about this from day 30 when more of them started going to dungeons.

Guys one thing to remember: they did not announced WXP accound bound release date.
Just that its posponed.

All informations about releasing it at March 28th is just players speculation.

Unidentified object for comming to RoF. We need more NA players to make our night crew stronger.

RyuDraginer please make these statements after game is live. From what I have seens there are some improvements in this area. Its still beta.

To topic, yeah seems like there is some drop down in wvw population. And there will be bigger drop down when ESO will be released. But then some people will come back to GW2 as ESO will not have new shiny look in few months.

Shadow: it will be account bound world EXPERIENCE not account bound ranks.
Each character will have soulbound rank(because its tight to rank points distribution) based on accound wide experience points.

They already said how they will do it.
Do not count ranks but raw experience.
Example:
for rank 50 you need 50000ecperience
for rank 5 you need 5000 experience

thief with rank 50: summary of experience is 55000 so he wont gain any rank as next is on 60000
mesmer rank 5: will gain ranks accourding to his new total ammount of experience which is 55000.

So account bound WXP will just sum all your gained world experience, and every character will advance to rank according to this experience number.

And still i enjoy WvW and I will play WvW but i just wont trust developers from this company anymore. Like several months ago, account bound WXP was announced. Then month ago devs posted info about postponing acc bound WXP. So we had like 2 posts about this topic in 6 months and people are still asking for news.

Like it would hurt wvw devs(if there are any) to post like once a month nice blog post about what they are doing. But again, it does not seems like they are doing much. Yes Bloodlust was nice but seems like from other devs than wvw because that has nothing common with wvw its more like they quickly transfered spvp devs to make something with wvw maps.
Masteries seems like they are more from pve not from wvw, because they are against wvw players. Now players are divided to 2 groups. With mastery and without mastery.

Many people thinks that account bound wxp will be in that big feature update this year, we dont know date of that update!! just that it will be after LS season1, and if account bound wxp wont be included in that update, many people will leave this game. Its something like test of faith. Will they do something for players in wvw or will they just forget wvw players again? Will any our suggestion be implemented or will they implement again only spvp and pve things and put them to wvw to screw us again?

Test of faith, Anet dont disappoint us.

Nirvana is not the only one who thinks this way.

And its not because of Account bound WXP but because of the lack of support wvw.
They added EOTM which has almost nothing to do with WvW because it just dont count to server score. Yes you can go there and kill players, but then you are transformed from player from server to player for color.
Its not WvW its similiar game mode.

Party UI was fixed after a year and few months. Commander badge is still the same and no while CDI was sucesfull,at least they said so, we dont even know if something will happen.

Lack of communication is the second thing that makes people go away. Go check other topics, like sPvP or PvE and you will se a lot of responses.

Every few months there is a new guys responsible for WvW part of the game, or at least of communication. But after few days he just stops posting because players have the same questions for more than a year and still did not get any answer.

Tournament is just a joke. If you think that rank 15 can win against rank 5, you probably dont know WvW. Yes sometimes this happens but only because server with rank 5 was abandoned by wvw players or that server rank 15 got transfered a lot wvw players. but after few weeks ranks are set again and nothing than mass leaving or mass incomming wont change ranks.

Why anybody even expected acc bound wxp?
They never said when will they release it and almost everybody knows that it wont be up until March18th

Fasyx aoe is the only thing why wars and guards are so popular. If guard would not have aoe stability and aoe boons haring with aoe healing it would not be played.
If hammer stun will hit only one enemy it will be useless. If hammer 1 will hit only 1 enemy not aoe nobody would have warrior

Anet is not delaying Account bound wxp.
They planned to put it into great feature update because they dont have anything elso for WvW

From what i understand there will be no “tiers” so if guilds will leave server and this server will go down, he will just fight against similiar servers.
Probelm with UW from Season 1 just wont happen again.

Right now we are really small guild, but hopefully with involvement of all players we will grow fast and be able to fully participate in WvW. Until we get more numbers we will focus on havoc nad stealth flipping.

Here are plans for our guild
Focus mainly for WvW
Participate in PvE events like Tequatl
to have at least 20-25 active players

For now we dont care is you are new player or veteran. We just care if you are active player and you are willing to play in team.

Here are our requirements for those interested:
active player, at least 3 evenings a week
using of teamspeak
good manners
players need to be willing to switch profession or build, this depends on group setup

And finally what we offer:
very active leadership
participation of community events
possibility to build new organised wvw guild
different events during the week, almost every day

For more informations contact me ingame