Guild Wars 2

Hahahahaha 15 chars

Love these changes. I’ve already seen 2 wars suicide trying to banner a lord. made my day.

DeeSystm.1256:

I’m pretty sure lvl’ing is what’s happening.

Anet, if you could remove that knock back effect, that would be awesome.

Was getting ready to stomp a guy on a tower wall and he leveled up midstomp knocking me off the wall and killing me. Probably made his night.

Aden Celeste.3650:

Please Anet devs, would you be so kind as to fix this, or at least acknowledge that this is true? It happens quite often, and unfortunately my amazing ranger looks like a bird is either pecking him in the head or resting in his head. Looks super weird…

My poor little asura looks like he is going to be carried off

Happens all the time, it’s even more funny when the shark animation from the under water skill gets stuck on you.

Any info on if this will be fixed with the patch on tuesday?

I think some of you are missing the simple beauty of this idea. Seasons suck, EOTM sucks, why not put them in the same place and keep that garbage out of WvW? Only thing that would make this better is if eotm was the only place this crappy new golem mastery would work.

Try this out. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRnMqQvg2vCusAXLGYPoWHAFwZ/KOcvFHRTnyKGxaqA-T1SBwA7U/JrSGzKBvqcKyDAozRAAlmAi7PgXHwiDBAgLAApAKXZE-w

Marsh drakes poison really helps out against regen bunkers, and if you pop rampage as one before using the f2 it will build might stacks incredibly fast. You can easily hit 25 stacks when flipping a camp.

Guard will give you and your pet about the same regen you were getting with your build but it also gives you perma swiftness and protection/stealth for your pet.

Plus this build will deal way more damage.

Charleston Chew.1209:

I hope and strongly believe they will never change this. PvP rewards should never be recycleable for PvE money.

Why exactly? Do you actually believe pvp is somehow easier and deserves less rewards?

I’d be fine with that, it would mean I could ignore the season completely.

Delta Blues.8507:

CreamRipper.2947:

Thanks OP for bringing up this topic. I’m a rather inactive player and tend to play for 2-3 weeks and be away for months just to come again for another few weeks. Actually this is my first post on the forums, but that’s another topic.

I too have noticed this kind of problem and it sometimes takes double or even tripple the amount of time for me to get ouf of combat. My partymembers, 99,9% of the time guildmates and good friends, just “run away” from me because I can’t get out of combat.

Just for some further informatio’:
I have my pet on defensive-mode in order to have more control and I’m using the F3 “get back to me”-command everytime my target is killed/whatever.
I have no conditions noticed on myself or the pet.
Nothing is attacking us (pet and me).
I don’t know how “bad or good” it was a few weeks/months ago, because I often can’t play for several weeks/months.

The weird thing is, it’s not always just sometimes and this can be really frustrating. If my “observations” aren’t completly off, this happens a lot more in smaller/cramped places compared to wider places/open fields. And this also happens while there are no enemies around, just after killing the last one.

Hope OP and I aren’t the only ones noticing this. On the other hand I tend to create/get the craziest bugs and “hidden features” in computer programms. Thanks to this I’ll probably keep my job forever.

Oh so it wasn’t just me
I’ve had that impression while playing spvp, cause usually with my thief it really takes just a few seconds after you get away to reset the fight while even if the pet is next to me sometimes it just stays in combat for really long times…

The problem is that I don’t want to swap pets to get out of combat, on the countrary i want to go out of combat so i can refresh health and eventually swap pet/weapon without starting the CD so i can quickly get in a new fight being fresh

It does seem that spamming F3 a bit while going away helps, but still sometimes it feels weird

I’ve been goofing off playing my thief lately and the difference is night and day. It really only takes a few seconds to get out of combat, where as on my ranger I have to run halfway across the map and then usually I have to stop moving before the reset will trigger.

I heard ghost yak’s can easily be slain after you get your yak slapper title.

So I hopped on an alt and noticed this is still broken. Hope to see it fixed with the update coming soon.

Marsh drake is awesome for flipping camps in WvW, tanky, poison spam. If you use rampage as one his f2 will give you your might stacks real fast.

Quick nerf rangers! They are clearly op with pets that can’t hit anything making up 30% of their damage…

Would be fantastic if we could loot a corpse for 1 piece of gear/weapon of our choice after they are dead for a couple minutes.. Would solve the dead mesmer in a keep problem real fast.

Zetsumei.4975:

lol google translate – first line reads “The latest burst of urine!”

That’s the most accurate description of this update that I’ve heard so far.

Tom.8029:

For getting them out of AoE, you could move around a bit more and use the “Return to me” button.

The pet is way too slow to respond. Giving the pet a dodge would likely have the same problem.

Rimmy.9217:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Merging servers won’t bring about balance. If you want balanced matches you need to lower the population to 50 per side per map. People can either transfer to balance out the servers or sit in queue while the balanced fights are happening.

Jim’s got it right.

I should probably repeat that when the next” merge the servers” thread comes up a week from now. It seemed to finally shut everyone up.

Carnius Magius.8091:

As I said before, sigil stacks broke at the time anet changed to 5 stacks per player kill while in WvW. I don’t buy the argument that losing stacks by switching to underwater weapons is by game design. If it were by design I would lose stacks by switching from a bow to a sword. Support for this game is practically non existent in this forum.

I absolutely agree. I’m fairly certain it was an accident, which would explain why it was never in the patch notes and why they are remaining silent about it. They are likely just waiting to see if people will just accept the change or not before dedicating time and man power to fixing the problem.

Pvp must really be hurting for people huh?

Merging servers won’t bring about balance. If you want balanced matches you need to lower the population to 50 per side per map. People can either transfer to balance out the servers or sit in queue while the balanced fights are happening.

The weeks we don’t show up to fight is when we run into the same match up that we have played for a month straight.

Filovirus.6258:

You really don’t want to fight the servers even in the tier above, and even less from T7.

I have to disagree. AR has had people coming out of the woodworks for the chance to fight someone other than ET/EBay. The servers we are fighting right now had us with the outmanned buff on every map all night long and we still came out of reset night in 2nd place. Traditionally we are in dead last by a good amount on reset night.

veggies.2178:

This is Axyd from AR TWIN.
I might know some of you in here, and completely agree that lower tier servers are getting kittened right up the kitten by ANET, the least they could do is buy us dinner (ex.. give more wvw tournament stuff to lower tier servers that are no doubt going to get their kitten handed to them in new season).
The fact that a useless tool such as Josh has any say in the changes proves just how kittened up ANET is by listening to people who don’t know a kittening thing about how non-stacked servers are suffering right now.
Just a few hours ago i had a massive spat in my guild about trying to stay motivated for new season and get some practice on friday night resets at the least and couple times a week with smaller groups.
I tried to motivate myself to do server reset night to get some practice, first thing i noticed was Anvil Rock was outmanned from minute 0 of reset.
Twice Anvil Rock tried to take SM, twice we almost had it, twice we got wiped for being out manned and not standing a chance vs SF zergs, and not talking slightly outmanned either, talking like 3+ times our numbers.
This is just a miniscule example of how kittened the WvW system is.
I used to do wvw daily for at least 1 hour to help the server, but usually ended on multiple wipes while being outmanned, after couple months of this i stopped all together, having no motivation left to help the server, as they will just end up being bottom tier permanently and barely have any people to do anything.
Anvil Rock spiked to mid-tier and i was part of that in [CRIT], used to love the fights and feeling like i was helping the server.
Well after a lot of guilds went to “better” servers the crash soon took place.
Then season 2 we got couple of guilds in and were no longer last in rankings, season 2 ends and guilds left, yet again Anvil Rock got kitten on.
What burns me the most though is ANET thinking they are doing a good job at managing Guild Wars.
I got over 3K hours and haven’t had a single precursor drop, my guild leader with over 6k hours and no precursor has seen his inventory until i got spark from forging in the mystic piece of kitten forge, i gave it to him in the hopes he would keep motivated to continue to lead us, because once he leaves the guild is done.
I ask you what the kitten have you done to ACTUALLY improve the game?
Because all i see is horse kitten after horse kitten (ex…Silver salvage-o-matic) being put into the game and being called good.
I’m telling you from the bottom of my heart, you need to get your kitten back together and actually start giving 2 kittens about the player base that feeds you.
Stop the wvw tournament all together until you get the kittening wvw system ACTUALLY fixed.
Start merging low population servers so they actually have a chance vs stacked ones.
Fix the garbage RNG loot drop system.
Fire all the idiots making kitten decisions and sinking the game. (ex… a free precursor for china players, now you just kittening insulting me while spitting on my face and asking for my money to support a broken system)
And yes i did support the sales, bought 5 character slots and minor outfits
You can see i spent couple hundred $$ supporting the game, and what say do i have in the direction the game is heading?
None, this will surely be my 3rd strike on forums and highly doubt anyone from ANET/NCSOFT will listen to any feedback i give.
But as i care a lot more about the game than sucking it up and let broken be broken, i felt i just needed to call you on your bullkitten.
Get your kitten together, thats all i ask.

Sincerely Axyd and a LOT more players that know the game is broken but dare not say it.

I know it’s hard to get a good sized TWIN group together in WvW, which sucks because that is a pretty decent sized guild. I’m going to send you an invite to TM, you don’t have to rep and we always have people in WvW that you can run around with.

Atherakhia.4086:

Hard to consider something a real exploit that has been reported a million times for 2 years straight and has never once been fixed or seen any changes to curb the behavior.

As we’ve seen mentioned in this thread… simply changing the res timer after death to 5 mins would have fixed this problem outright. Changing the gate to have a thicker door so you’re out of res range also would have fixed this. Requiring people to be on the surface of the water to res and make people slowly drift upwards on death would have fixed this.

In 2 years time not a single one of these solutions could be realized? And you want people to think it’s an exploit?

So you think because they haven’t fixed it in 2 years it’s not an exploit? What game are you playing that anet is quick to fix anything WvW related? By this logic glitching under the map to attack keeps is a legit strategy.

Happyangrycatfish.1725:

ET rarely gets big groups going when it does. Mostly 10-15 groups on reset night we always compete that seems pretty much it. We do good when we have groups though. We just need some more people on at off times.

Y’all always bring out a ton of people on reset night but it seems like you have a bunch of fairweather players, if you aren’t in first with a solid lead all of your fairweathers go back to pve.

We have the same problem on AR except our fairweather pve players play for the karma train leading up to reset and then leave.

None of that makes our servers dead though, if anything it makes off hours that much more fun because I’ve had some fantastic roaming fights against you guys. Most of the other servers run away, hide behind walls and siege, and will only fight (and usually die) when the have numbers on us.

xFireize.6318:

Have you tried sending a support ticket? I think you can get a direct response there.

You obviously do not listen to others, for the sole reason of “It’s just your opinion.” Then why bother posting in the forum, where no one knows the real answer and the majority of its readers are players? And now you asked us to read the patch for you? LOL.

It’s been three months. Obviously the people who moved on (including myself, and I was upset too) have forgotten this “bug” since months ago.

Maybe your opinion is wrong? Just saying my opinion. It’s all opinions here, right?

Congrats though, you got my attention.

Wish your attention was all I wanted. I submitted a bug report the day this changed and never got a response.

I’m really surprised so many people have a problem with me asking about this. Is it really so unreasonable for a customer to expect a response from a company when a product changes without word?

If your tv service was suddenly missing a bunch of channels wouldn’t you expect to be able to ask the company if those channels were dropped/went off air, or if you were just having a problem with your cable?

The best fix would be to implement forced re spawn on death. This would also go a long way to fixing zerg fights.

Haven’t had a chance to see if the patch last night fixed this bug or not. Any new info on this?

Filovirus.6258:

There hasn’t been any reason for having 24/27 servers around for a year or so, it should have been reduced by (at least) 6 to 9 on both sides months ago.
The last 3/4 servers opened in EU and NA shouldn’t even have opened EVER so 1 to 2 years later they are even more of a problem….

Having maps empty don’t change a thing about “blobbing” it’s just the “blobs” are abit smaller and only on one map or two and part time, but they are there too.

And the whole “roaming” and small scale fights haven’t really been the case in Bronze for months, mostly because it’s either :
“there is so little people around that putting everyone together it’s still 15/20 peeps”
“you are forced to stack up because you are in a ranking where higher servers vastly outnumber you so you stack to try to withstand the onslaught, and while THEY have numbers to do other things during that time you don’t”
“every time anything close to your numbers give you a hard time, start holding hands with 2+ other guilds of your servers and blob”

There is like a handful of small scale guilds on each Bronze servers that really enjoy fighting, engage bigger forces, don’t withdraw in towers/keeps at the first sign of resistance, and try to avoid forming 40+ man blobs unless forced to by the ennemy.

Most of the time the whole “we like it there, we love having 3 to 4 maps totally empty 19h out of 24h, being able to roam for over 1h without facing anyone, doing PvD or PvE flipping camps, we don’t want blobs” is denial and total bs, from people either not ready to pay for transferts, or people that in reality don’t like WvW, they like bragging about it and pretending to be “l33t” while doing PvD an hour or so a day.

It’s mostly people you NEVER see around as soon as things get hard/your server start losing, that you don’t see either when you win quite some because the karma training in large groups goes far faster and after there is nothing left to do, and you only see them chest beat all day about how “great” it is down there (hint : it isn’t, most people stay there because they have friends, people they like in multiple guilds and such).

The first moment a couple of decent sized guilds of a server will start moving servers, and talk about it before hand, others will leave too.

There is already pretty much no one on the server and even less on the ennemy’s side in T7/T8 most of the day, below it’s even worse.
To “love” that you must not love WvW, just the chestbeating coming with it (while not playing) and the fact you do PvD while being able to “berate” PvE’ers “scrubs” like most WvWers do, when they are in fact doing things even more brainless and easy most of their time in WvW nowadays, specially if they play outside the 3/4h a day of prime time.

To give you an idea, the “pride” of FoW’s (the server from the poster up there who bragged about loving WvW and pretends he would stop playing if servers were merged) is having a group of 3/4 mesmers golem rushing keeps at 5/6 am uk time when there is no one to defend !! Yeah, that’s “skill” and mighty fun… everyday for weeks because it’s the only thing they can do.

Bronze WAS more roaming/small scale oriented till S1 roughly, it has changed a LOT since then like the way of playing in Gold/Silver did.

If you want what Bronze was, go to mid/high silver right now (specially if you aren’t playing only during main prime time).

People forgot that the massive zerg fests in Gold and such are long gone, they went away with the queues disappearing (mostly even during season) and the fact that the lag/skill lag from massive fights got pretty reduced, making it that the whole “build a blob, hit 1, collect” way of playing went away, if you do that in zerg fights now, you lose to people half your numbers playing decently/properly because the skill lag and insane lag problems are mostly gone.

On top of that, overall, people’s comp got better at running the game too.

What a load of bullkitten

mcgriddles.2416:

I didn’t read the entire thread (yay laziness), but I’m almost 100% positive this was intended. There was a “workaround” where you could get 25 stacks above water, and so long as you had a stacking sigil on your underwater weapon, you could swap out your regular weapons while still keeping your stacks. The change was intended to stop this from happening.

If that is what they were trying to fix then they “fixed” it in the most broken way possible. Still since the change never made it into the patch notes I would like to see a reply from a dev or moderator on whether this change was intended or not.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Not a bug. Buy a matching sigil for one of your (equipped) underwater weapons, you are not entitled to use stacks from a weapon you gained said stacks on underwater if that weapon cannot be equipped underwater. The same goes for the reverse, the same goes for a rune on your helmet vs. the rune on your aquabreather.

Buy the sigil, climb off the cross, get over it.

Once again you are just stating an opinion. Since anet still hasn’t taken 5 seconds to confirm wether this change was intended or not I am going to assume it is a bug.

Offair.2563:

What about eotm ktrain zerglings, its not that hard to get 500ranks in there if i may believe people. I know some with 1k+ ranks and still havent got a clue whats the best way to upgrade stuff ( like popping fortify before WP / hiring merchants when a keep is under attack )

I absolutely agree that that is a problem, that is why I made this statement

I would like to say something less but I don’t want some eotm scrub coming in and wasting supply. If they would stop pretending that eotm is WvW and giving them our ranks and badges there would be a lot more solutions to several problems.

I just figure it they have hit 500 and have no real WvW experience they will probably just stick to eotm at that point and won’t be too big of a problem. I would still prefer that eotm was completely separated though.

Sad that more people aren’t getting behind this. Why are so many people willing to abandon their servers for crappy rewards? Honestly the rewards you get aren’t even worth the cost of the transfer.

Adding my support to this. Please reconsider Anet.

It’s a nice change seeing multiple red responses around here, please keep it up.

Not sure why that last one was deleted. I was just asking if we can expect this bug to be fixed in the big patch coming next month. It is a valid question about an extremely annoying bug on the bug forum.

lordkrall.7241:

Ragnar.4257:

Ragnar.4257:

Inb4 this was a calculated ‘leak’ so they can then ‘generously’ change the decision to show how ‘in touch’ they are with WvW players.

Say what

A great example of how no matter what they do people give them a hard time.

I’m sure this change would have come about if we all followed your lead.

I disagree, I don’t think these changes were close to being enough. I think they need to add tanks and jets that are only available through the gem store. If they happen to get destroyed you will get instantly teleported into the enemy keep with 5 minutes of stealth and invulnerability. That would be a fun and exciting change to WvW.

Even if you could report them do you think anything would actually happen? Exploits@ is just like the forums, it’s just a place for people to vent their frustrations. It’s not like anyone at anet really pays attention to it.

Logos.5603:

Mmm…good point. Don’t know about your “rank 500” suggestion, but good point nonetheless.

I would like to say something less but I don’t want some eotm scrub coming in and wasting supply. If they would stop pretending that eotm is WvW and giving them our ranks and badges there would be a lot more solutions to several problems.

Number 4 is a terrible idea. You would have a bunch of PvE players/bots sitting around in WvW to gather free money while contributing nothing.

A better idea would be to allow people to receive money every tick if they bought an upgrade for the structure, but this only starts after they hit rank 500. By that point most players have a decent understanding of WvW and should know when and what to upgrade so they aren’t wasting supply.

thiagoperne.7340:

Waffler.1257:

thiagoperne.7340:

Anet needs to add this: nobody can drop any siege within 1,200range from the tag but the commander, or something like that.

You didn’t think before posting that did you?

Why? Because everyone with a cmd tag can pop it and drop sieges? At least we can see the troller.

…..Okay let’s break this down Barney style for you. Imagine you are defending a keep and you want to lay down ac’s, bali’s, etc.

Some one decides that today is a good day to be a troll so they hop into WvW and tag up just to siege block people.

You’ve now lost your keep because someone thought it would be funny to sit on their kitten and watch everyone rage that they can’t build siege.

Do you see now why this is a terrible idea?

Waffler.1257:

thiagoperne.7340:

Anet needs to add this: nobody can drop any siege within 1,200range from the tag but the commander, or something like that.

You didn’t think before posting that did you?

I love this idea! I mean it’s not like any schmuck with 100g 300g can become a commander and troll people in WvW….

DeeSystm.1256:

urieldhynne.2743:

Jim Hunter.6821:

urieldhynne.2743:

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

worse parts of playing a mesmer…

2) SLOW – mesmers are so slow… you can get by this using a focus or traveler runes but that limits your build options. For a class that has light armor then they should move faster than they do – it is easier for other classes to run away from you when they are losing

Uk
Yeah, everyone told me that. But i used to play a roaming Necro… and is a lot worse about mobility.

But mesmer’s blink and stealth is enough for me. That is a lot, a LOT more than Necro mobility and a free card to get out of bad situations.

What about centaur runes for power mesmer? That works?

Centaur runes work great. With the runes you can actually move around the map pretty quickly as long as blink doesn’t fail.

Why blink would fail?

Because sometimes it randomly does. I think it has issues with terrain also sometimes, but i dont play one to know that.

Yeah pretty much weird terrain issues, like little bumps in the ground that the game reads as being a wall or something. you basically have to learn where it will work through trial and error. It will work on some stair cases or paths up a cliff but not others.

It is a very fun class to play but it is just riddled with bugs that anet doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to fix.

Oh and portal doesn’t give any indication if you move out of range, so if you drop the exit portal too far it will waste the skill and go on cooldown. I’ve found a fast count to ten while running is about the right range. Practice before you try helping with golem rushes.

Yeah email to exploits… or just write your complaint on a piece of paper and throw it in the trash, you will get the same results either way.

urieldhynne.2743:

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

worse parts of playing a mesmer…

2) SLOW – mesmers are so slow… you can get by this using a focus or traveler runes but that limits your build options. For a class that has light armor then they should move faster than they do – it is easier for other classes to run away from you when they are losing

Uk
Yeah, everyone told me that. But i used to play a roaming Necro… and is a lot worse about mobility.

But mesmer’s blink and stealth is enough for me. That is a lot, a LOT more than Necro mobility and a free card to get out of bad situations.

What about centaur runes for power mesmer? That works?

Centaur runes work great. With the runes you can actually move around the map pretty quickly as long as blink doesn’t fail.

Apex Predator.3475:

Water we gonna do about this?

I see what you did there

Remove hard ressing of dead players.

Remove the rally mechanic or change it so that you actually have to do a decent amount of damage against the player (not random coyote) that dies in order to rally.

Add a cooldown to retaliation damage so grenade/flamethrower engi’s, rangers using barrage, etc. aren’t doing more damage to themselves than they are to the other players.

Up the AoE limit. 5 man is just ridiculous in WvW.

Add the option to change commander tag colors on the fly. Just do it, no 300g per color, no strings attached.