Guild Wars 2

JonPeters.5630:

• Symbol of Swiftness: This skill now applies 4 seconds of swiftness per pulse, rather than 8 seconds if you have no swiftness and 1 second if you have swiftness.

I am not sure the intent of this change? When you use Symbol of Swiftness for swiftness you are almost always passing through the circle, not lingering in it. This change seems to reduce my swiftness to 4s while on the move, instead of 8s. Is that the intent? Will the new pulses stack swiftness to reward standing in the circle for longer, or is capped at 4s?

Could we get a secondary ability on SoS that lets you detonate to remove the circle? This way we could remove the circle if it is going to put us in combat which in my opinion is one of the biggest draw backs of SoS.

Thanks.

PS – typo in your list: Valor V – Retributive Armor. Should be Valor VI.

Windler.4815:

Really? JQ is a server that likes good fights.

There is nothing about JQ and how they play that leads anyone else to believe this statement. Not to say there are not individuals on the server that like good fights, but as a collective the server is a poster child for coverage wars.

Frenk.5917:

I came back 2 weeks ago after a 2-3 months break and WvWvW seemed to me quite improved. The most important thing they did is the party priority regarding buffs and buffing. It completely put wvwvw in a whole new level. Organized guild raids have now a purpose. It’s not “mindless” anymore.
Of course blobbing is still present and will always be, but as a small (20+) guild group you have GREATER chances of winning in situations in which you are outnumbered.

I don’t think it put wvw at a whole new level so much as it forced it a baby step forward. Forcing people to group in an organized fashion is not a ‘whole new level’. Quality players were doing this already, it just means we do not have to avoid others as much.

As for the original question, it really depends on what scale you like to play (blobs, zergs, small man, solo), imo.

We still have blobs. The game still encourages and rewards blobbing or zerging in every aspect of the game. So nothing is different in that regard. The vast majority of the players still fall within this category.

The biggest change would be at the 20-30 man range. The GvG crowd has really pushed some improvements in this area creating more organized zergs rather then mindless blobs. So if you like the 20-30 man range I would say things have improved, but in my opinion it is still a pretty faceroll level of game play with a few notable exceptions.

Small man groups, 5-10, I would say is pretty much exactly the same as always with few equal size opportunities.

To me it feels like there are more people soloing, but it varies so much server to server and matchup to matchup, that it is hard to say that with any certainty.

Hope that helps.

Chris.3290:

Let’s see if we can work on this in two weeks. SoS and Mag have the highest RNG compatibility in all of WvW so we will see each other when the league is over and can get back to bashing each other then (unless it’s SBI, in which case we’ll both beat them up on principle).

Doesnt work unless most of the main commanders are tolerant towards transgressions. The WXP train folks are going to go where it is easy for them to go, they wont care or pay attention to a plan. If you cannot look beyond that, then it will simply not work.

It’s ok, ANET is adding a new over flow map just for T1.

amanda.6178:

hobbes.6178:

deathTouch.9706:

hobbes.6178:

I just poured a bowl of cereal and found out afterwards I have no milk. Anyone have any suggestions for an alternative?

How full is your bladder at this point in time?

Pretty empty. Most people are suggesting juice but I have no juice =(

Looks like the only breakfast appropriate beverage option you have left is coffee or blood.

Eat it dry + or melt marshmallow’s and butter and mix in the cereal.

RedOwl.7496:

Jaxs.5830:

RedOwl.7496:

But how do you get SOS to understand that whether they come in 5th or 6th, it doesn’t matter?

Why are you blaming SoS? The wxp train is what drives this stuff, on all servers, not just SoS. You cannot stop our train from blindly running around taking whatever they can, so why expect SoS to do it?

If SOS had focused on JQ on their side of the map, and Mag had done the same, then the whole match would have been more fun for everyone IMO.

Sure, but you missed the point. Why are you blaming SoS for the fact that this didn’t happen? Not like Mag was doing any different.

PS – I play on mag not SoS.

Pinko.2076:

Jaxs.5830:

Pinko.2076:

dreztina.4820:

I always lose interest in playing a few days into the match after it becomes clear there’s no one worth roaming around to find. I know it’s better overall to be in gold league, but I do miss EB.

Ebay lost more than a few to TC, including the core of GF.

Not sure that is accurate. GF seemed to have lost some of their better players in the transfer.

That’s what I said. He misses Ebay roamers, and most of the good ones were GF now TC. So Ebay might not be as fun for roaming now~

I think it is the opposite.

Pinko.2076:

dreztina.4820:

I always lose interest in playing a few days into the match after it becomes clear there’s no one worth roaming around to find. I know it’s better overall to be in gold league, but I do miss EB.

Ebay lost more than a few to TC, including the core of GF.

Not sure that is accurate. GF seemed to have lost some of their better players in the transfer.

RedOwl.7496:

But how do you get SOS to understand that whether they come in 5th or 6th, it doesn’t matter?

Why are you blaming SoS? The wxp train is what drives this stuff, on all servers, not just SoS. You cannot stop our train from blindly running around taking whatever they can, so why expect SoS to do it?

Chris.3290:

It was nice seeing Maguuma in “tryhard mode” for once, and knowing they at least have the capability to bring that level of play. Now we’re back to bribing them with cookies to get them out to play.

Perhaps they do not view ‘that level of play’ all that challenging or interesting.

ekleenex.1654:

5-6 pixels? Are you running an old etch-a-sketch?

That is a pretty close guess

shocking.3269:

Okay, so I’m currently downloading and will be finally ingame later today. I’m just debating which server to plum for.

I’m a bit of a closet RPer and heard that the WvW action on TC is quite good. However, not sure of the queue time for WvW on a Gold Leagure Server.

I’ve also been watching of late the vids put up by CharrCat and Drak regarding the Ehmry Bay Resets and Zerg of Zergs. Man, I like the way those guys WvW. Very good.

Anyway, anyone here able to give me any pointers on which server to choose for an Oceanic Newbie who plans on spending 80% of his levelling time and 95% of his Max-Level time in WvW?

Thanks

If you enjoy running around with the blob, then TC is likely best. If you enjoy smaller sized battles with some occasional blobbing mixed in, Ebay is likely best.

Tietus.8013:

Hockey.2417:

won this match did ya Mag? Is this how you did it?

Strategy working to a tee….deprive the wxp kittens of what they want the most….game over…..we win!

Another confused HzH blobber posting about ppt, also a win!

Robot Chocken.7012:

Snafu.7412:

Meanwhile on JQ, HzH nowhere in sight, guardians must still be in queue.

10 of us were in SoS BL watching you blob with two other guilds. Boy that takes skill!

Must have been watching from a tower, no other explanation why HzH would feel safe with as few as 10. Maybe watching from the spawn?

Hockey.2417:

Mag win 1 or 2 battles, check the lead JQ has, its about the war. SMH

./facepalm

kaisez.4968:

Omg i cannot win this maguma ultra-super power open field tactic .. sorry Jq we have to learn from them …
I understand why price of Sup Ac going up so fast….

Apparently someone lacks an understanding of ‘open field’.

Jedbacca.6297:

On a personal level I myself and the majority of SF have been in sPvP since Saturday morning when we are active. We dislike a constant Karma train and it’s garbage that all of these players are such glory hounds for their acheivements that it wrecks my favorite part of the game. I would prefer to have my open field fights, call proper tactics against anyone. I have members disgusted at how this matchup is turning out including myself.

If you want your kitten WvW XP kittenin’ earn it. Instead we have 3 servers with a bunch of players that don’t know what they are doing kitten ing in circles jerking each other off, figuring out how to run through portals of keeps and towers that are not their color.

Life is pretty rough in T1.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Oooo new armor in the store. To Dulfy I go to see if she has pics!

*Edit – grumble nope not yet

I cant even see it in the store or the new finishers. Is my store bugged?

sminkiottone.6972:

What if a new player starts next year ? most people will already be full ascendent with guard leech and applied fortitude, it’s not gonna be funny, or what if anet decide to implement another class ? just think

90% chance they will be a zergling and if so why does it matter? They will join the wxp train blob, have their abilities in no time, and continue to press #1 just a little bit better as a result.

Avster.1935:

ParaldaWind.4523:

Who was SG? All I saw was 60+ pugs in a blob together… we had 25.

SG+friends. But it’s ok. It was a fun fight regardless

So carried by the +friends.

DeWolfe.2174:

Come to the Skirmishing area for bags and fun if you’d like!

There is a skirmishing area?? Do we need to get in a lineup?

Think it is best if we just all fight where we want to fight and if I was mag/sos leaders I would just let JQ cap everything except what we want to defend and siege the hell out of it and wait for the bag farm. Seems more fun than what JQ is proposing.

Wilco.1458:

I’m actually very disappointed with this forum. I expected much more of you #magswag

I am actually very disappointed with your guild.

kartek.6428:

Jaxs.5830:

Plaguedispenser.6071:

Golf claps to the Mag warrior exploit capping the ruins right now.

Did you try and invite him to group, sometimes they are really dumb and accept and then you can see their account name for the report.

you can report without knowing account name lol

Sure if you think reporting in game by selecting one of the categories that is not really applicable is a great way of reporting. Personally I like to email in a screenshot with the account info when possible.

Plaguedispenser.6071:

Golf claps to the Mag warrior exploit capping the ruins right now.

Did you try and invite him to group, sometimes they are really dumb and accept and then you can see their account name for the report.

Issues.5789:

I wish someone offered me thousands of gold. I’d move all of AoN over to JQ..

Who you running with these days? You should come to mag and run with us again

shagworth.5017:

katniss.6735:

What to expect during oceanic times:

JQ roamers in perplexity runes.
JQ roamers spamming laugh emotes.
JQ roamers sitting in every single camp, tower, keep waiting forever. LOL

My favorite is the 10-15 man “roaming group” perpetually patrolling the bloodlust area for hours on a fully green JQBL every morning when I log on. I guess it’s just one of those t1 strategies that my feeble brain doesn’t understand.

Lot of fun to be had with those folks, so appreciate them!

Robot Chocken.7012:

Jaxs.5830:

Robot Chocken.7012:

Robert.9086:

Robot Chocken.7012:

Logged of from boredom on Mag BL after both opposing servers ran from 30 or less of us mixed group for two hours…

you were probably outnumbered 3 to 1 as well…

Actually we have discovered you usually run from equal or less numbers. We enjoy taking on larger numbers.

Which is why you run 30+? Looking for the challenging fight… lol.

running right at 30 or a bit less is not that many when you go in to a situation where other servers put up orange swords and run the moment they see you…

Blob is a blob.

Robot Chocken.7012:

Robert.9086:

Robot Chocken.7012:

Logged of from boredom on Mag BL after both opposing servers ran from 30 or less of us mixed group for two hours…

you were probably outnumbered 3 to 1 as well…

Actually we have discovered you usually run from equal or less numbers. We enjoy taking on larger numbers.

Which is why you run 30+? Looking for the challenging fight… lol.

Robot Chocken.7012:

Logged of from boredom on Mag BL after both opposing servers ran from 30 or less of us mixed group for two hours…

Trash talking doesn’t have the same impact when it comes from a blobber.

Grandtomatoe.2045:

The answer is probably NEVER. And it hardly ever happens if it ever even does.

Happens all the time. Tonight a big zerg bypassed a fight in progress, to let the fight continue. There are specific folks/guilds that I will not mess with when we are roaming, adversely when I meet up with those folks when I am solo they wave as they go past.

Back in the day in DAoC this stuff was common practice. You built a rep up, didnt AJ on fights and you were treated in kind. Does not happen as much in GW2 because the community is ever changing and to be blunt the quality of play is stuck on blobbing, but it does happen a lot more often then you describe.

That is not to say that you should expect it of course.

SlothBear.9846:

Jaxs.5830:

The manifesto of a blobber.

It’s all lies. The blob hasn’t implemented even half of these features a year later.

They would be better off ignoring a couple of them.

More then likely it is just server lag where folks are appearing in a different position then they actually are.

Muaziz.7253:

Just a little reminder for those out there in WvWvW:

When you are standing on the outer edge of a wall when your Tower/Keep/Garri is being attacked….we can see you, we will pull you off

When engaging in open field battles, the autistic cat herd is not a legitimate strategy….stacking, buffing and rolling through goes a long way to staying alive

Getting troops inside a Tower/Keep/Garri to stop enemies from capping is GREAT!….sending them in 1 at a time through the zerg is not

Berserker gear is great for big numbers!……staying alive long enough to see them against PVT zergballs, not so much

The manifesto of a blobber.

hints.8036:

Jaxs.5830:

Never sure why folks post videos of themselves wiping other people while having a significant numbers advantage. Perhaps I should post a collage of our group slaughtering solos.

I posted plenty of JQ fails above ^^

As for #‘s, I don’t think we had more last night (and often times less). The full 6 hour uncut footage is on my twitch.tv/risenfall.

All the videos but one returned an error for me, in that one I got to see you zerg down a smaller force and go on about zerker gear in voice chat. All in all a couple mins of my life I will never get back.

Snafu.7412:

Guardians is obviously the answer.

More PVT too.

Never sure why folks post videos of themselves wiping other people while having a significant numbers advantage. Perhaps I should post a collage of our group slaughtering solos.

Any guilds outside of T1 selected?

DevonCarver.5370:

Zikory.6871:

DevonCarver.5370:

Not yet, but we have a plan and, barring a setback, it will be in before the end of the year. Keep in mind, the solution we are rolling out is just a general solution to make it feasible to make them without running fractals, not necessarily a WvW focused solution.

Can you offer any information on your ideas behind that? Will it be a item that will just replace the fractal item in the mystic forge? Also is it going to be a item that can be obtained through regular game play and not force people to run particular content?

It will be and it will fall in line with the other Ascended crafted gear. I don’t want to talk specifics until we are locked in, but the idea would be that you can relatively easily acquire the item that is replacing the fractal item. You will still be able to use the fractal items as well.

Will the solution include all the stat sets that are currently not found on back pieces?

Odinzu.9645:

Still plenty of guilds on TC worth mentioning.

For fights, RoT EXS CERN and GF when they raid.
For WvW, NOPE PiNk, FLUX, TTC are all solid guilds, plus the unaffiliated players that contribute to these guilds’ efforts. DIS deserves a mention here as well as the REx players and the hopeful revival of MU.

I think your definition of ‘fights’ is very different then my own.

Short answer is that the game is made to accommodate as many carebears as they can attract.

Boulderbolg.3460:

Thanks for your reply. Ok, I’ll bite. How do you predict your quality level of fights will go? Also, how many players are in your small groups, and what server are you on?

I think the same quality of fights will exist, when you find them, but far more of them will be interrupted by people streaming in, and you will spend much more time kiting off blobs. So overall it will be same quality, but fewer good fights and more effort finding them. Mag, 7-8 folks in our group on average.

How does there being a JP puzzle in the BLs impact folks to the point that they keep posting for their removal? Why not focus on something else arbitrary like please remove the skritt or centaurs?

If you do not want to do the JP, then do not do them, it is your choice. I have no interest in SM battles. They are laggy and just a blobfest. I suppose I could post asking for SM’s removal, but instead I just do not go fight there and ignore that achievement.

I like jump puzzles and I am happy they are in the game and in WvW. I am sorry you are a bad jumper.

Boulderbolg.3460:

As a GM for a small roaming guild on Blackgate, I am interested in hearing from Mag/SoS/TC players about what you think about facing BG/SoR/JQ or any combination of those three servers.

1. Are you concerned that your server’s WvW activity will decrease during these matchups? If so, which timezones are you most concerned about?

2. Are you worried about queues on your server, and/or lag in WvW?

3. Do you like the league changes?

4. Do you like the old Bloodlust buff (stats and stomp points) and mechanic, and do you like the new Bloodlust buff (stats and stomp points)?

5. Are you in a roaming guild, a point per tick guild, an open field guild, or a combination?

Keep in mind that I care less about winners and losers of the league or individual matchups. I simply want to know how you predict the quality of your gaming experience will be for the next few weeks.

Thanks,
BB

1. My servers decease will have no impact upon my enjoyment. The good players will keep coming, the fair weathers will bail. This is nothing new across all the tiers.

2. Not worried about ques, but it does bother me that the choices made by T1 players to stack onto just a few servers causes skill lag for me.

3. Leagues without server/population balancing is a waste of time. T1 players do not even consider it a 6 server league, just 3.

4. Doesnt matter to me, didnt think it was a big deal before, even less now.

5. No idea what the difference is between a roaming guild and an open field guild. I roam with a small group and fight larger numbers all over the map.

I think if you wish to discuss quality of gaming you should probably include questions about the quality of the fights since isnt that really what we are all here for?