People stop worrying about the arrow carts. Yes, they are buffed. Now start playing.
Try out the changes for 1 week and then come back with your feedback. This could be a good change for the game. Give it a try.
I think this change is acceptable if there is an additional 5 min every time supply is used on the siege site. I thought it already worked this way, no?
What was it like before, exactly?
Keeps are not going to be impossible to take. With the increased range on arrow carts. You should be able to build offensive arrow carts to counter the defensive ones. We’ll have to see how this works.
The guild siege comes from finishing Guild Missions. Great!
What else were you expecting.
No need to build arrow carts on walls anymore with the new range buff and the zoom mod you can hit and kill zergs easily from the ground floor.
where is the CoF path 1 nerf at?
Who wants to bet that a change to CoF p1 would be in the form of a “silent nerf”? That would be hilarious in one way, but very wrong.
you mean stealth nerf. apparently they already did that with an earlier patch by making flame acolytes respawn 5 seconds slower and the gate to the boulders open 5 seconds slower.
Basically, this update screams “buy more siege” (or buy more gems so you can buy more siege).
- Arrow carts are much more powerful (zoomhack anyone?)
- Trebuchets cant no longer be blocked by swirling winds
- But now you need to build siege fast or else the build site disappears in 2 min
- And refresh siege often or else all your siege equipment will disappear and you’ll need to buy and build more.
I can’t believe ArenaNet nerfed confusion and retaliation but buffed arrow carts. Maybe they are doing this so more people will buy arrow carts (buy more gems, etc.).
Arrow carts are going to be especially deadly now and the players using the zoom hack will have an even bigger advantage.
The 30 second notification change is interesting but is a rather long window of time. Defenders may get a little boost from having waypoints available but I think this helps fast offensive strikes more.
•Haki Wolfwatcher stops announcing that the gates of the Citadel of Flame are open when they are not.
Thanks ArenaNet for shutting her up!
With all this fuss about arrowcarts, how likely do you think ArenaNet will reduce the damage back to its prior state? Or somewhere in between?
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Elementalist is one of the stronger classes but it’s dps is rather low compared to warrior. I won’t mind the changes because I hardly ever use mist form anyway the recharge sucks.
Even in guild wars 1, you could tell when was the last time so and so logged on. Why isn’t this feature available in game.
Is ArenaNet scared to field complaints from players that have been kicked for inactivity when they suddenly reappear in game after a hiatus?
Thanks for the tip on the leaderboards, I will be using that from now on. But more in game listings would be even better.
Well female charr asura and sylvari are all ugly, so you should pick human or norn.
As for class your top choice would probably be warrior if you want to wear heavy armor. Guardian is also fine. If you want to wear light armor then I suggest Mesmer or elementalist.
Medium armor? Thief or engineer I guess.
Avoid necros and rangers. They bad!
This is taking quite a while to fix.
The text for “The Battle of Claw Island” is also still bugged. Bugs like these kind of dampen the experience.
They broke staff ele for good. It’s a shame I spent so much money in this game and now they hit with a nerf right at the core of my playing style (mistform-heal). Actually Mist-form and heal are part of the core mechanic of playing an elementist. By nerfing that Anet is telling everyone that they don’t know what they are doing.
Mist form is only 1 out 19 utility skills. It’s not a core mechanic. It’s only useful in certain situations.
Thanks for the tip.
For everyone calling RISEa bandwagon server here’s some history for you…
I was in RISE during the Crystal Desert chronicles. We were number 1 in WvW against FA and IOJ for a long time. It was good battles. Then FA decided to recruit all of IOJs guilds and this is when server transfer was free. Basically it was crystal desert vs FA and IOJ in one server. We lost miserably. BUT We as RISE said we will try our hardest to overcome and defeat the FA beast…. The first week of losing all of CDs guilds such as KH and others I forget the names, decided to transfer servers and we were mad… Nothing we could do anymore no help so RISE was the last to leave CD .. We had no choice and we joined a server that was tier 8 .. So all you haters just shut the kitten up
Nice re-writing of history. I certainly don’t remember it like that but no point in arguing about irrelevant ancient history. Who cares what HoD did 1 year ago anyway. They dropped all the way to Tier 8.
ArenaNet outsourced this work to gw2lfg.com just like they outsourced voice chat to teamspeak/mumble/etc.
Games with built-in lfg and voice chat are much better though as a “complete package”.
You’re wrong. T1 EU will change soon. This is nothing like T8 NA.
All that’s needed is for T2 EU to become unbalanced in favor of 1 server and then one of the T1 EU servers can drop down.
What a mess for SFR btw, it seemed to have collapsed faster than HoD.
You know the same could’ve said about NA t7 and t8 right ?
IF there was 1 server losing badly then SF could’ve ranked up. But it didn’t happen.BUT this is an easier situation and desolation and Seafarers can help each other out and help 1 server drop first instead of both trying to drop down at the same time…
Nope it’s still not the same because T8 NA was stuck in same position for much longer time than your T1 EU.
And T5 NA is still stuck in same match longer than T1 EU even though Ebay is winning many times over. So you’re not the only tier having problems.
Warriors very rarely ever get nerfed. In GW1 they were constantly buffed. And in GW2 and it appears the trend will continue. ArenaNet is trying to appease their warrior playerbase after all.
You could donate 100 gold to a couple people and create a commander army.
You sound too passive and that’s why you’re probably getting killed in the jumping puzzle. Kill the other players next time and then you can finish your puzzle.
You’re wrong. T1 EU will change soon. This is nothing like T8 NA.
All that’s needed is for T2 EU to become unbalanced in favor of 1 server and then one of the T1 EU servers can drop down.
What a mess for SFR btw, it seemed to have collapsed faster than HoD.
i do believe that some servers are have plenty of chinese players, and sometimes they speak chinese in /say or even /map
and there is an argument in china is ‘should we not speak chinese in american servers so to show some polite.’ and it’s already become a very dirty discussion, so i really need your opinions
It is acceptable. I see Chinese used all the time on Jade Quarry.
You’ve heard of citadel of flame yes?
well you can call your friend up. or you can transfer to #1 server jade quarry.
Quaggans should be added with some nice quaggan racial skills.
Confusion is not the most powerful condition. Poison and even burning are worse to deal with. With poison, you get reduced healing power.
Maybe ArenaNet has some concrete data that confusion is killing a lot of players, but in my personal experience, poison causes more trouble for players in sPvP, WvW and PvE.
Well, since confusion and retaliation punishes others for taking action. You can expect to see more action or more willingness to take action. I think the change will be fine. I just hope mesmers and engineers have other skills buffed to compensate.
Jade Quarry has a few of these.
Power, Toughness, and Vitality are important stats in WvW because it makes golems stronger.
I’m hearing conflicting rumors… some say WM is coming to BG (I think), others say WM has fallen apart and are no more. Does anyone have any actual facts?
They got banned for botting with multiboxing.
Not everyone shares your view of being “loyal” to a server for the entirety of the game. Some people find that honorable and some simply don’t care where they end up as long as they are having fun in the server they’re in.
All the while harming perfectly fine servers and communities, making people choose between friends/guild and fubaring the matchups for quite a while as the system slowly works it out.
(not directed at you, Fegelein)
But by all means, have at the thoughtless and selfish actions of WvW server hopping while scoffing at “loyalty” under the guise of “fun”. (because jacked up matchups for three or more weeks are sooooo much fun)Question. Why do we have to care about harming a server and community? Why do we have to sacrifice our guild and fun to a community that is already dying? We are real people that spent real money on a game to have our kind of fun. kitten honor and loyalty to servers. We’re here for competitive WvW, GvG, ZergvZerg. T3 won’t have that for us. It wasn’t thoughtless or selfish. Selfish would be making my guild sit in a dying server while most of our guild members want to move out. Our responsibility as a guild is our guild not a server.
Oh gawd. Poor jarvin, being held to ransom by his own guildies. You are extremely misguided. Still, plenty of t1 bandwagoners to join in with. Go join Jq, you will never have to worry about losing again.
I have to agree Jarvan. This does sound a little like a Crystal Desert repeat. When RISE left Crystal Desert, the rumor was that your officers forced you to transfer to Kaineng.
I mean that’s fine I guess. Different guilds have different leadership structures.
And yes, come to Jade Quarry. It’s more fun here.
OK it appears that May 2 is some kind of closed beta test date for these new Chinese servers.
Will ArenaNet really restrict these servers to Chinese only? Or will they just be a Chinese language servers like the specialized Euro servers? Or will these Chinese servers be separate from the NA/Euro servers?
“Kongzhong Corp is a Chinese company that provides value-added services etc. via the Internet and various mobile networks. These include mobile web content,1 such as mobile message boards, WAP websites, and electronic books;3 ringback tones;4 mobile games;1 and Internet games.3”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongzhong
Guild Wars 2 – China server to enter debut test phase soon
Nothing really new here, since the English server has been live for some months now.The China server will enter its debut test phase on 2nd May, with publisher being KongZhong, famous in the country for hosting Wargaming’s World of Tanks and its subsequent titles.
Guild Wars 2 China – Media conference photo
Game Director Colin Johanson was at the official reveal ceremony, and did reveal that ArenaNet is looking to add unique Asian designs to the game in order to make the players feel closer to home. These include gears, costumes and artwork.
http://www.mmoculture.com/2013/04/guild-wars-2-china-server-to-enter-debut-test-phase-soon/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Chinese-GW2-beta/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-Wars-2-Chinese-Closed-Beta-Announcement
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151558567044571.1073741825.42734604570&type=1
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Jade Quarry needs a NEW recruitment thread because it appears the OP has moved on to another server.
You have no proof this guy is doing it to grief the server.
In fact, since he is building arrow carts instead of flame rams, he might be thinking he’s helping the server while getting his ACHIEVEMENT POINTS for “Master of Disaster”.
You know, those crazy players that want to have the highest achievement points. We do have an achievement point leaderboard now and this guy could be looking to improve his ranking.
I heard that ArenaNet does ban people for this … on Tier 1.
They are not quite as bad as all those people that buy a Commander badge and never step into WvW. You see them at dragon events, you see them in Lions Arch, you see them all over the PvE maps but never do you see them in WvW.
Then if they do happen to enter WvW for the first time they think they can take over and start giving orders because they have a Commander’s badge! Some take time to learn the ropes first but they should badge down until they do. The system is so broken it is laughable.
There is nothing bad about being a PVE commander. ArenaNet intended such things because they put commander trainers in PVE areas. Commanders are not WvW exclusive. It’s meant to be used for both or either and sometimes even in sPvP
Well Dragonbrand does have some nice guilds. But I don’t know why you guys EMP are spending all this gold to get a challenge that doesn’t really exist.
Maguuma and Yak’s Bend are very weak servers compared to DB. I suppose you would be trying to push DB to T2 status then and then maybe T1 status.
While you were on JQ, I’ve seen you post recruitment messages for specific timeslots/timezones (and excluding others), so I guess you’ve grown bored of JQ dominance and now the challenge seems to be pushing another server to T1 (with your help). DB does seem like an ideal fit. They have some Taiwanese guilds (like JQ) but they don’t have as much NA which I suppose you would be adding. Anyway, there’s no need for you to share your “master plan” with everyone. People will speculate here and there. DB didn’t bribe you did they? LOL. Well, even if they did, no big deal. JQ could use some change.
Actually, yaks/mag are perfectly fine with DB. The NA hours, which are the hours that Mag/Yaks play in, DB is usually 2nd or 3rd the entire duration. However, there are good fight during NA all week long. t3 is a very balanced tier in the NA catagory.
To people that just read mos and like to play armchair commander, yes, DB dominates. They have insane coverage during Mag/yaks off hours and it leads to a very inflated score. This game is coverage, nothing more.
I hope DB enjoys t2. They have some fun guilds like [TG] that we’ll miss fighting against. Hopefully Kaineng will match up similarly in NA coverage so t3 doesn’t become another terrible slog. This transfer (and ones that will follow) really does make me sad to be losing a balanced match.
We already knew DB’s NA was their weakness. But they stomped YB and Maguuma by over 100k last week, so yes they did dominate. There was no balanced match there. JQ in Tier 1 only beat 2nd place by about 50k. SoR and BG wouldn’t say the match was balanced.
I really don’t know how long EMP is planning to stay on DB. Some of their members have already said they will stay loyal to JQ so it sounds like it’s a split decision. If they get bored and return to JQ, then you can have balanced match again.
Well Dragonbrand does have some nice guilds. But I don’t know why you guys EMP are spending all this gold to get a challenge that doesn’t really exist.
Maguuma and Yak’s Bend are very weak servers compared to DB. I suppose you would be trying to push DB to T2 status then and then maybe T1 status.
While you were on JQ, I’ve seen you post recruitment messages for specific timeslots/timezones (and excluding others), so I guess you’ve grown bored of JQ dominance and now the challenge seems to be pushing another server to T1 (with your help). DB does seem like an ideal fit. They have some Taiwanese guilds (like JQ) but they don’t have as much NA which I suppose you would be adding. Anyway, there’s no need for you to share your “master plan” with everyone. People will speculate here and there. DB didn’t bribe you did they? LOL. Well, even if they did, no big deal. JQ could use some change.
Aneu should be doing more interviews with Clementine and GW2 Junkies.
Why is this issue even being given a priority. People were already acclimated to the previous reset time.
Change the reset time. Who cares, people are just going to get used to the new reset time. This doesn’t really add anything to the game. Don’t you guys have some real improvements to work on.
It seems it’s really much ado about nothing. Let’s see what’s been done recently.
1) Culling fixed. great.
2) T8 NA fixed. great (for T8, there were multiple threads about this)
3) Change the reset time (really? only a few people complained about it)
I can’t believe they’re choosing to focus on this very minor issue over other more important issues like tier stagnation, use of hacks, and overall improvement of the WvW experience. This change only benefits a few people (the ones that asked for it) on one day of the week.
Puts “tinfoil hat” on again.
Maybe it’s a conspiracy by ArenaNet to get guilds/players transfer (pay gems /$$$) to lower tier servers so they won’t have to deal with the queue on reset nights.
To me, the US complaints seem to be more about the queues than the reset time itself.
I don’t think they would complain as much if they could enter immediately upon returning home, or after eating dinner…
Very true.
I talked to our server guys and we just don’t have the ability to reset these at different times. As much as that is an unsatisfying answer for you in the EU, it is reality.
Might I suggest that you do not implement this change until that ability exists. Breaking one region to provide a marginal improvement elsewhere doesn’t seem to be a well thought out decision. I doubt the programming to split the server reset protocol is onerous. I expect the testing and QA to far out weight the time cost of the modification.
Sounds like the ratings reset to me all over again. But really 2 hours earlier is not a big deal to the “hardcore” WvWers that play many hours a day.
This change will mostly affect the casual players and the WvW guilds that play at certain times of the day. O well. Too bad for them. Change your schedule I guess or beg ArenaNet to stop this change.
On reset night where queues hit the 3-4 hour mark…it’s a big deal for those who can’t be there to join a map the moment the reset happens.
Yes but there will be other WvW players on the maps if you can’t get in. Take a break and do some PVE or sPvP where there are no queues. Friday is only one day of the week.
I think EU does mysteriously have a larger playerbase than the NA side. First of all there are 27 EU servers compared to 24 NA servers so there must be some reason for the 3 extra EU servers.
Whatever, just let them make the change then. The tiers are already too stagnant on the NA and EU sides already and perhaps this will shake it up a little.
I talked to our server guys and we just don’t have the ability to reset these at different times. As much as that is an unsatisfying answer for you in the EU, it is reality.
Might I suggest that you do not implement this change until that ability exists. Breaking one region to provide a marginal improvement elsewhere doesn’t seem to be a well thought out decision. I doubt the programming to split the server reset protocol is onerous. I expect the testing and QA to far out weight the time cost of the modification.
Sounds like the ratings reset to me all over again. But really 2 hours earlier is not a big deal to the “hardcore” WvWers that play many hours a day.
This change will mostly affect the casual players and the WvW guilds that play at certain times of the day. O well. Too bad for them. Change your schedule I guess or beg ArenaNet to stop this change.
After having read that thread in its entirety, I can say that’s a REALLY bad decision. It now makes it difficult for me to even get on at reset. 5PM on Fridays I’m usually either cooking or meeting up my parents somewhere to eat. And they really aren’t joking when they mention the horrendous queues for WvW on the NA servers. I’ve actually had to wait 4 hours for one before. That’s not fun at all, and it will adversely effect WvW’s starting night horribly. If I were them I’d have waited until they were able to split both times and then have done it…because right now if they backpedal they’re going to kitten off the EU playerbase, and if they don’t they’re going to kitten off the NA playerbase. Either way it’s a PR nightmare.
Well since the other thread got locked, no one’s going to know about the new reset time anyway except the comparatively few players that keep track of this thread and the forums.
I think it’s going to come as a surprise to many players unless the word keeps spreading.
EDIT: I see it’s a sticky topic at the top now. Well I dunno, maybe people will notice it.
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Sorry, I derped. Herpaderped, to be exact. Was thinking daily reset instead of the WvW reset. But again, I’m fairly certain everything will reset at the same time as normal in NA, as otherwise it would be a really boneheaded and stupid move.
That’s because you didn’t see the other thread that got locked by a moderator.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Changing-WvW-Match-Reset-Times/first
They don’t seem to like it when people start complaining.