Guild Wars 2

Basically it is not open on any server

Knote.2904:

Nev.5316:

Knote.2904:

Another alternative would be to make them purchasable for karma as well, more uses for karma is always good.

That would be stupid, karma is extremely easy to gain, ive got over 200k in the past few weeks just from daily jugs. If that was ever introduced everyone would have t3.

How can you say that when you don’t even know how much karma Anet would make them cost? Really now? =p

Cultural Weapons already cost karma

I am an altaholic and have 3 × 80 and a 4th on the way. IF they force me down the crazy grind route for ascended on all 3 I may well quit.

Also If they increase level cap and consequently a legendary that takes a thousand hours to grind becomes useless I will quit.

IF they do not make WvW more interesting I will go play planetside2 or SC2 expansion with a risk I will not come back.

That said it is a great game and well worth the purchase price and 3 x £17 on gems I have bought.

Price is steep but i am ok with that if its great looking like the Silvari one is. However its very poor that it is not exotic

Any more than a 1000 an item and it would be a waste of time and probably more like 500 when ANEt reduce requirements for Ascended

No. Nothing other than what they advertised pre launch. This aspect of the game has had the least content or posts from Devs.

They are promising something soon just not what other than better rewards. Arguably they should be slightly better than pve for next 3 months as its been opposite since aug

I really like S/T combination for Guardian. Anyone else have differetn set ups to Vincyre?

Particularly looking what people use for Dungeon content.

My set up is similar to Vincyre with 30 in radiance but my guardian still solo leveling through Orr so slightly different as its not in a support role yet

It drops every night when I am in dreamland

I have noticed the tier2 armour glows. Does the Tier3 have a similar/any effect?

FA spend more time on forums that in WvW..just check out their threads and posts. Come to Yaks Bend my friend and join the TC/YB alliance against FA

Phantom.8130:

to be fair, i’m not surprised that there appears to be a possible double team going on. YB defends their areas, TC defends our areas, FA admitted to overlooking defending their areas.

“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.” – Sun Tzu

if you capture an area, you get the points once. if you hold an area, you get points every 15 minutes, as well as extending the front line. so you gain far more from defending than you ever could from a simple cap-n-dash. and if 1 side is going to vigorously defend their areas and the other side isn’t, the side that isn’t becomes the logical target to attack.

As a YB I can agree. By midweek we go to TC borderline and it will be defended with super reaction times. Goto Fa less so. That said FA are better than CD at defending

Karmagettie.7231:

Good luck Dethroat. We on TC are happy where we are at. Really good fights, and we dont get smashed by the upper tier.

We need some guilds just to be able to compete with other Tier3 servers

Nyspar.6103:

katanah.8431:

Ireniicus.2167:

Nyspar.6103:

Challenging anyone from TC and YB to a 1v1 or 2v2 in borderlands

Whisper me in-game

Considered it but it would need to be a 2v1 as myself being a YBer and our brothers in TC really enjoying fighting together again this week against FA. Is a 2v1 ok to you?

hey what about the sisters here!

2v1 is fine with me. I can take ya both

That is exactly what I would expect to hear from an FA player!

katanah.8431:

Ireniicus.2167:

Nyspar.6103:

Challenging anyone from TC and YB to a 1v1 or 2v2 in borderlands

Whisper me in-game

Considered it but it would need to be a 2v1 as myself being a YBer and our brothers in TC really enjoying fighting together again this week against FA. Is a 2v1 ok to you?

hey what about the sisters here!

Big love to my TC sisters!

Nyspar.6103:

Challenging anyone from TC and YB to a 1v1 or 2v2 in borderlands

Whisper me in-game

Considered it but it would need to be a 2v1 as myself being a YBer and our brothers in TC really enjoying fighting together again this week against FA. Is a 2v1 ok to you?

It has definitely got more elitist sadly and consequently people acting poorly. We completed a level yesterday but all died (bar one) and it took an age for him to heal us so we could get loot from the final chest. He just stood there like a numpty

Lots of insults and accusations too. Sticking to Guilds is best

Kirito.3591:

Really well written.
I see your point. Would you be objected to new gear having different combinations of stats? Or the addition of stat manipulation, ie discovering your own recipe for inscriptions that could be composed of any which stat (assuming the combination doesn’t already exist).

For me, what I miss is some of the raiding (not necessarily for the gear, rather the massive instance with people, working together). I feel, outside of pvp, there isn’t much to do with your guild, on a large scale, at least for me.

My own 600+ active member feels the same. We are hamstrung already by having to be in multiple guilds as we easily hit the cap at launch. We now have 6 guilds and the leads have no tools that can help them discern who is still active so have had to embark on an enormously time consuming project to work it out for themselves before we can start merging at the risk of alienating some.

I for one think we need some G on G action as Guilds seem mostly superfluous presently.

Super post. Please make more!

Yaks Bend have consistently close matches as we are somewhere between Tier3 and Tier4 and neither win or lose by big margins.

We have many different guilds from WvW centric, to hybrid that focus on pve as well, like my own ToG guild which has over 600 active members.

Good luck

add Baltazar temple to this and probably a number of other extremely difficult content or vendors to access.

ANet are full of bright people and they know this needs changing. The question is which side of Xmas will they change it

Basically this is easy with an experienced group who have access to voice and challenging to very hard for inexperienced PUGs relying on party chat.

I guess this is an example where inbuilt voice comms would be helpful. Maybe ANet should make a deal with Mumble or another vendor to have it integrated.

Necros have some broken mechanics however they are still a strong class outside of pvp. In pvp their mobility is so bad it makes them a complete liability.

Supported. I think this is just a case of rushing it out there and crafting etc not bien g part of the critical path for testing/QA. It will come

After first couple of weeks we got bombarded with interesting statistics and since then nothing.

Would be interested to know his thoughts on how things have turned out.

Sadly bar getting some experience and it being necessary for Legendaries it is sadly pointless to craft. everything is cheaper via the TP. It is better to just sell your base materials and purchase what you want with that money made. Sad panda

Thanks Johnathan for taking time out of your very late evening/morning to contact us and clear a few things up.

I do agree with Moomanibe post explaining why it is so difficult for you guys being anything other than vague about upcoming change until it is ready to go. I have managed application development teams and know how tricky it can be to discuss with Clients (in this case the players) future roadmaps. Things get delayed or shelved and disappoint inevitably ensues.

That said I think it is fair to say a large contingent of WvW players myself included, have felt somewhat let down by all the noise for pve and to a lesser extent, s/t PvP whilst hearing at best a couple of lines for what we enjoy most.

I hope you can understand we may feel a little melancholy that the only tangible change to WvW since launch, has been to remove reward or complexity albeit broken mechanics, to the game.

Personally I play alot of PvE and WvW and the rewards are in no ways commensurate per hour played. Could we have a policy statement confirming that it is ANets wish that they should be and they are working towards that ,or not as the case may be and if the latter the rationale.

I hope to hear more about WvW soon but until then thx for the recent updates, they were solid and further confirm the incredible value for money of this product.

Sneaky and quite possibly true. However not sure how many would play wvw over pve

Obey? Is it a WvW guild or do they play lots of pve too?

I agree. I have saved up the Karma and it is just stupidly difficult to be able to spend it on the legendary components due to game mechanics and lack of people.

Krakah, it pains me to have to agree with you. There has definetly been WvW regression. Last month I have averaged at least 2-3 hours a day in WvW but I played some pve at the weekend and well..The rewards are just so much better it is sickening.

my main is a thief and this is broken

Completely and utterly agree with OP. They should require different ingredients…few people are going to sacrifice their stash of ectos they are saving for a legendary for an ascended

We absolutely need a better LFG in game tool. FoM is great but now 80% of dungeon runs for that only, making it increasingly hard to find a group on a server for the other dungeons and then there is the task of finding the dungeon open where applicable.

Also, please stop closing these threads ANet. It is important people have a place to discuss this and feel they are being heard as waiting 30-60 mins to get a group together is not fun and goes against everything your great company stands for.

Rather than nerfing I would like to see Necros, Rangers and Engineers all get decent buffs in utility as well as fighting ability commensurate to the other 5 classes.

Can someone confirm where AN have stated that lodestones/cores are dropping more regularly?

Also Where bar dungeons do they drop. I farmed CoF yesterday on two toons and nothing.

I agree. Because its name is confusing (is it dragons maw or Rodgort?) it just becomes a bit of a puzzle and when you are spending that kind of resource you cannot afford mistakes.

Good job FA, TC. YB will be moving back to tier 4. Think that is where we should be, though we put a good account for ourselves last two weeks in Tier3 and I think we can still decide who wins between you by our actions.

I would say your best is CD. They have an awesome offpeak zerg but lack the staying power in primetime which appears to be when you play.

Alternatively you could try TC or my own server of YB. All good choices

Coming from a YBer it is always a pleasure playing against TC. (ps same cannot be said for FA)

Are ANEt still working on WvW?

Phantom.8130:

in reality, they would use a counter ram inside the gate, to mitigate the effects a ram on the outside would have. i’m not sure if using rams like this is even really possible in the game, due to how targeting works. which leaves catapults as the only viable option, unless something is changed. they could rework the rams to work similarly to how trebs and catapults do, in that their direction needs to be turned manually, and they “fire” in whatever direction they’re facing. if there’s a gate in that direction, it and whatever is behind it, take damage. if used behind a friendly gate, it mitigates the damage, and damages whatever is behind it. they the gates (and walls) could be set to where AoE didn’t pass through them. which would eliminate the need for catapults set up behind them.

oil is completely worthless. not only because of its HP, but also the fact that anyone who tries to use it will be AoE’d to death the instant they get close enough to use it. cannons suffer from the same problem. they’re not defenses, they’re traps. once the attackers are at the gate, the prebuilt defenses are immediately abandoned in favor of player built siege. perhaps if any incoming damage was directed into the oil and cannons, and not the player using them, they’d actually be used more. i.e. make the player using either be immune to damage, but make the oil and cannons take double damage when there’s a player using them. then it’s just a matter of tinkering with the HP of the cannon and oil until the sweet spot is found.

Very well put re siege being more a trap than a defence.

Maybe there is a stealth change to fortnightly matches

cmon ANEt YB and TC are waiting to join forces against FA to consummate our marriage

joebane.5872:

Gaming companies think that we still want to play against the computer. There’s several hundred thousand of us who keep game hopping hoping for the next good place to get large scale PVP. So far this is ok to good, but it could be a lot better with some focus by Anet.

Would be a hell of a lot better if they reset the servers

Slushey.8236:

Perhaps they’re pushing WvW reset back to coordinate it with the Lost Shores event… Who knows? xD

If they are they should tell us

Come on Anet wake up. We have hundreds of people on each server waiting to get in. please hit the button for the reset or tell us there is going to be a delay.

We enjoyed the enormous content update for WvW and now we want to go play thank you kindly

WvW at its best is a lot of fun and as every server gets more organised we are seeing more and more interesting strategies develop.

However one thing that crops up over and over again is the utility the Mesmer offers, If you read my guilds internal strategy forums you would think no other class is needed at all. (ok i exaggerate…but only slightly!)

We all know about the impact a portal bomb can have if executed well.

However it is even more than that. If a Castle or Keep is under siege and needs more supply then send a group and our trusted all purpose mesmer jumps down to a secluded spot portalling everyone back inside.

How about hide a Mesmer inside a Keep after all they have invisibility too and then when the defenders move on port in a nice big army bypassing the majority of defences.

Need to get Gollums from A to B fastest…Yes you guessed it, its time to throw down the all powerful Portal.

Knock someone off a wall? Mesmers do that too. They also offer group speed, timewarp and are pretty good in 1v1 battles.

So I ask the community what can OTHER professions do that could make a real difference in WvW?

I will kick off with the Thief. It is an excellent spy with its speed and clock abilities.
It is also a beast in 1v1 and the Shortbow ain’t half bad either for discouraging Siegers or conversely players on a wall. It also seems to be able to stay in almost permanent cloak if traited for that purpose which causes no end of frustration when trying to cap a supply camp.

What else?

Yaks Bend has continued to rise in NA standing since Spetrix wrote his post and we are now smack back in the middle of tier3.

We still need Asian and Oceanic players. In my opinion we most importantly need European players to address our off peak slumps.

If you are playing on a European server and thinking of moving please consider Yaks Bend. We play at a competitive level without huge queue times and matches are typically a lot of fun (look at our last two weeks match thread and appreciation given out all round)

This upcoming week is going to be super challenging and I hope to see a few new faces join in the fun!

Yaks Bend also need this coverage as its tough in tier3 without it. Fort Aspen have had a highly successful marketing campaign to address their offpeak issues. Might be an idea checking out how they did it and copying them

This is a retrograde step for regular WvWers