Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey all,

I know that some of you were thinking that we’d be releasing updates to fractals today, but that was not the plan. There’s still a lot of stuff coming in December — this is, after all, only the 1st of the month -- so hold tight and you’ll see the fractal changes soon!

Do we have to wait for the fractal update to get the legendary collections fixed too? You only fixed 1 bug of nevermore IV collection, there’s 1 more to go

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

little.6509:

Did you really just push out a patch without fixing, or EVEN MENTIONING the bugs preventing you from crafting Nevermore. I really hope this is just not written in the notes. Ridiculous if this has been a week and a half now of not a single word on this subject.

Why would a patch mention the things it didn’t address? Why would you expect that every bug important to you is important to everyone and deserves greater priority? Why would you want them to hurry fixes, rather than properly troubleshooting the root cause to make sure they don’t recur elsewhere?

I am a harsh critic of ANet’s communication — in general, I think they could do much better. However, I reserve my rhetoric for those situations in which ANet is truly dropping the ball or missing an opportunity to do better. There are always going to be bugs and ANet is never going to be able to address (never mind resolve) them all. They will fix collections, but there’s no reason to expect that every patch will resolve the issues for any particular collection, no matter how prominent.

They actually fixed one of the two bugs in the collection. They didn’t mention anything about the fix, and it gave people hope that they actually fixed the rabbit event

This is just ridiculous, I don’t have any words left anymore. What a crappy company, teasing us by fixing pups and not putting it in patch notes, and then makes everyone to AFK in Queensdale for nothing. This is just unbelievable

It’s been two weeks from the patch with new leges, which we waited for one month before that. 2 out of 3 new leges are still unobtainable. It took two weeks to fix friend of the pups, but you couldn’t fix the friend of the rabbits at the same time? kitten like this just shows how crappy company is running this game, and it’s slowly driving me away from it. Do we have to wait for the fractal patch now just to see that tamed spirit is going to be bugged?

E: Just to add, people here have been waiting for the rabbits since the patch, in the hope that you actually fixed it since pups were fixed, but you couldn’t bother to write it in the patch notes

Chaba.5410:

Dawdler.8521:

I find it very strange that so many people claim alpine became “stagnant” due to being the same old map for 3 years, when an absolutely crushing majority of the players still choose EB over desert – the same EB we have had for 3 years.

That isn’t any stranger than people wanting back a map that was barely queued when compared to EB.

Typical old WvW night on Alpine:
- Oh green hasn’t been attacked. Let’s go there since EB is queued.
- Let’s flip this camp.
- Man, this is empty. Let’kitten this tower and see if anyone comes for some fights.
- Let’s grab all the camps then work on Bay.
- Oh look there’s a single defender. We’ve finally been scouted.
- Hey we got outer down. kitten , the scout threw a siege disabler on our rams.
- Oh hey look they brought their entire EB map queue to kick us out.

That doesn’t happen in the desert bls anymore though. It used to be a nice bait for enemy zergs to get off EB to fight in borderlands, but no one cares about defending anymore because the keeps will get automatically upgraded anyway

I’m mad because they’re timegating my collections by not fixing the bugs on them. Nevermore has been out for almost 2 weeks and they still haven’t bothered to fix the two collection pieces on IV. Makes sense to wait one month for content, and then wait two weeks more for them to fix the content they released without testing properly

Legionnaire.4059:

are you sure? a guy in my guild made the prec last week . Probably only occasionally it bugs how it is with an event for HOPE on iron marchers i think.

Yep, I made the precursor last week too. It’s just that you need a gift of raven spirit from the fourth collection, and in the fourth collection currently “friend of the pups” and “friend of the rabbits” are bugged. You are supposed to buy pups from a heart vendor, but he sells “friend of the hounds” instead and the event you are supposed to get the friend of the rabbits from doesn’t spawn

Myself I’m starting to feel ultra annoyed about these new legendaries. First we had to wait one month extra for the patch, and now it’s been over a week, and we’re still not able to make Nevermore because of two bugged collection pieces. I’m done with every other step of the legendary itself, and now it’s just waiting for them to fix their own mistakes. I heard the rabbit’s of shaemoor event hasn’t even been working for 6 months, yet they still chose a broken event for the collections before even checking if it’s working?

I’m not even that annoyed about having to fail events in low-level zones, since they’re doable and it actually was a pretty funny experience. Of course it’s still terrible design, but what can we do about it. The thing what is just getting into me is all the waiting what they are throwing at this community. It took just two days to fix protector of all, why is this already taking a week? I bet I’m the 1000th guy ranting about these bugged collections, but I’m starting to feel so frustrated about this company that might aswell expand the list

/rant

Yday I beat him with my guild, which happens to be specialized on WvW. We had just four people on the squad who are a lot into PvE stuff, organizing the squad and trying to push us to be better. It took 3 – 4 hours of trying, but in the end we got him 4 seconds AFTER the timer was zero. You don’t need to be from DnT or ATT, you just have to learn the encounter and be wearing the right gear

The legendary itself already takes longer to make than the old legendaries, it’s just dumb they throw random timegated stuff everywhere to make the progress even longer than it should be. I’m not making Astralia myself but it just sounds like really stupid choice of design for me

I waited so eagerly for this update, and now I only managed to get to lvl64, since we all got bored after 111ing most of the bosses for around 10 minutes. . I don’t find there’s anything with skill involved anymore in there, now you can facetank so many attacks even with just a zerker staff ele.

And the rewards, oh the rewards..

WGuardian.1028:

I did that event without any problems. But I had problem with other event for this collection, one in Straits of Devastation with Scholar Nabbi (Nabbi just vanished in the middle of the event… may be turned into risen or something). Just try to change maps until you find one with working event. I know this is tedious but many events are like that and can get bugged for unknown reasons (at least unknown for players).

I actually had the same problem with Nabbi too yesterday, but today I found her selling the stuff even though the event was still rolling. Really frustrating bugs, the risen king one is the only one I’m missing :/

As some people know you need to complete the risen king event in cursed shore to get Loana to sell you an orrian artifact for the first collection of zap. I just did the event after trying to find one for around 2 hours, and after that Loana just stands there and doesn’t sell anything? I know some people have completed the first collection already, so did the bug just occur or is it ogre wars all over again?

The rewards are horrible, did levels 51 – 63 today, and I only got one 1g worth piece from like 30 – 50 chests I got. I also got a few recipes of ascended weapons, but who cares about the recipes anyway when they’re almost free compared to the cost of the weapon?

Also I’m not sure should we have had an condi engi or something on the team, but at 51+ or something the bosses just hit less than they used to, and meanwhile they have more toughness and vitality, which makes the engages just ultra boring. On some bosses like the anomaly and ooze it worked and it made them more fun since they didn’t melt instantly, but when you kite some ettin around for time what feels like 10 minutes in uncategorized and damage it without taking any damage it just numbs your brains. Also the first stage of the grawl shaman in the volcano fractal only made my team fell asleep

Xbon.9086:

I unlocked my Chronomancer in PVP lobby, I heard you’re supposed to get an achievement + chest with skins? I got neither.

Was just coming to report the same, I unlocked berserker and tempest in LA and got the chests, logged on my thief and mesmer which were in Hotm, unlocked DD and chronomancer and didn’t get anything. After that I went to LA on my guard and got the chest when I unlocked dragonhunter there. Must be a bug?

Teutos.8620:

Unranked also uses a match making system. If you find yourself loosing the first few games, rest assured, your MMR will take a hit and find more suitable opponents for you next time.

My magical moment happened after 13 matches today, I’m starting to believe that MMR doesn’t exist

I’m currently at 10 losses in a row. On three of them I was being a noobie and was no wonder we lost, but in seven of them I felt I was MMR’d with monkeys. Like in example I’m the only one caring about the buffs in temple, I get the stillness but get killed alone at tranquillity, after that the pugs can’t recover the points since they keep zerging mid. It’s basically been like that for the whole day

Amityel.5324:

Huttunen.8309:

I can still get randomly 1-hitted by stealthed mesmers on my thief so dunno about them getting nerfed. And no it’s not an l2p issue since you can’t always see the pink bouncing blade flying across the area

sorry to say that but it is…………..L2P issue.

On knee jerk reactions you remember nerfing mesmers torment after 10 hours from patch hitting live servers right? So this nerf wont be a new record sadly.

Not in all situations, do you even play this game? There can be some surprising situations in this game mode, and when it comes to random surprising 1-hits well played mesmer is only class which can pull it off in a second

Silly place anyway to have convo about this, I’ll drop it here

Petoox.6570:

oh wait there is, Shadow Refuge to res downed people.

Also 70% of the time in unranked/ranked when you start ressing someone while they’re in stealth they keep mindlessly pressing 1 in the downed state, thus making them revealed

But tbh about mesmers, I still find them quite hard to fight against. Their spikes hit so much harder and they have so much easier access to stealth than thieves. If you don’t manage to dodge their spike from stealth (even thought the pink flying blade is semi-easy to spot) you might aswell bail already

I can still get randomly 1-hitted by stealthed mesmers on my thief so dunno about them getting nerfed. And no it’s not an l2p issue since you can’t always see the pink bouncing blade flying across the area

While we’re at it also give immunity from kicks for necros, rangers and engis. The kickers will get kicked themselves just to taste their own medicine for not wanting that cleric healer engi with tornado in their party and for wanting to do dungeons the most efficient way. Those silly metazerkers!

“Good variety of builds”
Only things I see are D/D eles, cele and MM necros, burn and bunker guards, pewpew or trap rangers, PU condi/power mesmers, D/P thieves who’s mist form triggers in two seconds, rampage warriors and soldier engis. 75% of the builds I see are something bunkerish with usually lots of condis or abusing burn

Also in 80% of games I play there’s always someone leaving, either before the start or one minute after. The state of this game mode doesn’t seem really great to me

It is just terrible, today I decided I’ll stop solo queueing to ranked since out of six games in five I had a leaver in my team. They left right in the beginning or a minute after the start. And in the only game what was 5v5 MMR blessed my team with 4 guards and enemy team with 3 D/D eles. I got so kitten kittened.

Do you guys really expect that in a random match making system like this there will always be a pug who brings aoe condi cleanse? Myself I really loathe this current meta, and barely play this game mode anymore. I even tried the celestial necro build and found it extremely boring to play

Even thought there’s going to be lots of yakslappers running around now, I still take these as really great news since after 3 years they actually decided to make these achievements possible for humans

FSP has a fun and relaxed community. Been here for around two and half years and it has always been a blast, haven’t seen any drama here for a long time

Mea.8967:

As someone who has avoided fractals for a few years. I am now grinding them out specifically because I think you’ll need the asc back piece for the legendary one. I also want to run the new levels with all my friends!

It’s surprisingly fun so far.

It’s a lot of fun with friends actually, I’ve grinded 20 reward levels in less than a week now. I was avoiding fractals because random pugs can be useless but now when I got a guild group for it it has been a blast!

Did they just patch it?
I could kill it solo before he popped his healing skill on a burning guard if I didn’t kitten up the burst

I got my first at around 4k hours from WvW, and got my next two in around 600 hours after that. That includes about 1.5k g wasted in forge without getting anything from there

tadeo.6950:

What about running zergs? We look for points, not fights. Pure fights are for PVP

I thought WvW is PvP, oh well

Myself I’ve had the most boring match up ever against your server. Barely any fun fights, and most of your guilds start raiding after every other server’s primetimes are already ending

Like the engineer’s f1-f4 skills. You could use them in the mist form to trigger static discharge etc

Players like OP create servers like SFR in EU. The server was 1# for so long that all the bandwagoning players looking for an easy win joined there, now they have superior coverage when compared to the other t1 or t2 servers which are really balanced. Also one of the side effects is that the overall quality in the server is not that great in terms of fighting.

Jayne.9251:

We saw more than 60 on map last night from one server, so maybe it’s been reverted?

Nope, nowadays I’ve seen max 64 players on tag before the queue hits. Before the -10% cap we had even 86 people once. Also you could fill three guilds with 25 people in a border easily, now it’s so hard to fill three guilds with 15 – 20 people

SW chest farm and/or dungeons?

Would be awesome if they could raise the cap to the normal again, it’s awful to be in a queue for 1 hour in the primetime, just because of those missing 20 – 25 spaces in the map

The biggest problem is, that you are not in their TS. You don’t know their tactics, what the raid leader is going to do next, where to move etc. When they are going to have a hard fight against experienced enemy guilds it could just end up on you getting downed and rallying the enemy players, and that’s because the raid leader did something you weren’t expecting. That could really change the tide of the battle, and that’s why most of the HC fighting guilds don’t want anyone else on their tags but their guildmembers

I’ve already seen a few guys from totally random PvE guilds with the title AFKing in LA, you guys are horrible

I’ve only experienced the same old skill lags, which always occured when three blobs clashed. Other than that it feels normalized for me!

Would be great btw if you could put the caps to the normal sizes again, primetime queues are horrible

Malediktus.3740:

Huttunen.8309:

Malediktus.3740:

Too each his own I guess. I rather get this achievement done in the most efficient way possible.

Most of the people played the game mode for 2 years to achieve this. Now when eotm ruined the ranks this title was the only thing left which showed who had put lots of dedication on the game mode. Now you made it available for everyday tequatl farmer who can’t tell which server they are playing for? It’s so idiotic of anet devs to let this happen

I had 73k kills after approximately 3k hours of WvW. So I rather speed it up now. 131.6k kills and counting.

Eotm isn’t WvW, you don’t get kills there

Malediktus.3740:

Too each his own I guess. I rather get this achievement done in the most efficient way possible.

Most of the people played the game mode for 2 years to achieve this. Now when eotm ruined the ranks this title was the only thing left which showed who had put lots of dedication on the game mode. Now you made it available for everyday tequatl farmer who can’t tell which server they are playing for? It’s so idiotic of anet devs to let this happen

Malediktus.3740:

Huttunen.8309:

This is just pathetic, these people should get banned for this kitten

Not going to happen: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Obsidian-Sanctum-Issues/first#post4925571

You better join us and have some fun

I know right, it’s sad but true Stuff like this really ruins the prestige the title had, you fellas should be ashamed

This is just pathetic, these people should get banned for this kitten

Even though it’s awesome you guys in anet are working to fix the lag, but I wish the lower population cap doesn’t last for long. I bet most of the t1 – t2 servers in NA have big queues during their primetime, and so do we in EU t1 – t2 (atleast in FSP) since we could already queue up every border with just guild raids. That’s about 3 guilds/border (maybe fourth if it’s a small guild/or if they want to roll with smaller numbers and queue for half the evening) and with the new cap you could barely squeeze three guilds in the border.

Inb4 PvE people have more UD titles than most of the dedicated WvW people

I would be happy if they just nerfed the +condi dura food, it’s awful

Even buffing SYG or putting a target limit on lines would help a lot, latter being the best solution in my opinion. (Like when five zerglings touch the line, it disappears etc)
Not really enjoying the current situation

I really hope some anet dev is reading our concerns about this, I highly doubt it thought since feels like the WvW section is a forbidden area for devs to look at

gennyt.3428:

Huttunen.8309:

Kasteros.9847:

Sorel.4870:

Bad players will always complain when the meta shifts. Good players will define a new meta. You should expect organized guild groups to come up with interesting new strategies in no time.

What is the strategy against 3x more cc than ur stabil stacks? I don’t know any xD Except making partys of 4 guards to mainain 10 stacks of stabillity for clashes( 2 guards for clash to use 2 stabs). Our comms rage quited lot of times cos of this stab – when he clashed he got insta dead cos of lack of stacks. When we gave him 25 stacks he lost em in 0,2 sec – for real, documented with video, dunno when he upload it. And as u said guilds, what about pugs and small zergs of medium servers taht satnd against high servers? Nothing to do for em i think Ohhh and i just got idea of other strategy, MT will hold enemy MT form enagging while papers will fight and mt will try to kill eachother with their eyesight!

That TA vs LaG video which was posted earlier was a good example of a strategy to counter this; dance around and kite till other zerg/blob is brave enough to push and get melted on a necro bomb, which happens to be much harder to dodge now

Yeah and I was bored into oblivion about 3 mins into watching that fight. I don’t see this pirate ship kitten as good news.

Same here, was watching it live and left after the first round since it wasn’t as exciting as I thought it will be

Kasteros.9847:

Huttunen.8309:

Kasteros.9847:

Sorel.4870:

Bad players will always complain when the meta shifts. Good players will define a new meta. You should expect organized guild groups to come up with interesting new strategies in no time.

What is the strategy against 3x more cc than ur stabil stacks? I don’t know any xD Except making partys of 4 guards to mainain 10 stacks of stabillity for clashes( 2 guards for clash to use 2 stabs). Our comms rage quited lot of times cos of this stab – when he clashed he got insta dead cos of lack of stacks. When we gave him 25 stacks he lost em in 0,2 sec – for real, documented with video, dunno when he upload it. And as u said guilds, what about pugs and small zergs of medium servers taht satnd against high servers? Nothing to do for em i think Ohhh and i just got idea of other strategy, MT will hold enemy MT form enagging while papers will fight and mt will try to kill eachother with their eyesight!

That TA vs LaG video which was posted earlier was a good example of a strategy to counter this; dance around and kite till other zerg/blob is brave enough to push and get melted on a necro bomb, which happens to be much harder to dodge now

That is how we fought today, 1 fight for 20 or 30 min against 23 man guild with 19 man guild

I’m probably going to cry if this happens to us tomorrow in our next raid ;_;