Guild Wars 2

Distaste.4801:

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Pavel.8531:

Let me start with this quote:

DevonCarver.5370:

When I’ve been working on WvW for 11 months, then we’ll talk.

So, 11 months have passed, let’s talk then?
1. What is currently being worked on for WvW?
2. Why are things, that have been in the top of the player requests for over an year not only not implemented, but even not talked about from your side?
3. We haven’t heard from you since you posted in the “new maps” thread several months ago… and that was after around 6 months of you not posting. Do you think if you communicated better you’d avoid some of the huge negativity and toxicity on the WvW forums? Any plans to do something besides hiring more mods and creating additional CoC rules?

Feel free to add more questions guys.

I am going to jump in here answer these as honestly as I am able.

1. We can’t talk about that right now. Once the in-development features reach a state where we, as a company, are comfortable talking about them, we will.
2. Some player requests are under development. What those are and when they will be completed, I can’t say at this time for reasons mentioned above.
3. Devon is very busy with his job duties and only has limited time to devote to reading the forums. If he spent the time demanded of him responding to threads on the forums, his work would suffer. My job duties have me reading and reporting on the forums regularly to ensure that Devon and the rest of the team are aware of active concerns within the WvW community. I do this for other parts of the forum as well. As has been mentioned a multitude of times previously, our developers read the forums as much as they are able, but time prevents them from responding to everything they read.

1. This is the exact mentality that has lead people to think ArenaNet doesn’t listen or care. You guys might want to rethink your information strategies as it’s having a large negative impact on the community. Sure talking about features you might not do or even scrap can be bad, but if you keep the community updated about them it won’t be nearly as toxic as your current strategy of letting the community wallow in despair and hate. Of course the only reason I can think of for continuing down this path is that the updates for WvW are so lackluster that informing the community that is all that’s in the works for them would kill what’s left of the community.

2. While I don’t doubt that you’re using some player requests, that was also true a year ago and we’ve yet to see or even hear anything. See point #1, you cannot just keep saying we can’t talk about it.

3. Then you need to report back to the WvW team that their silence and lack of a simple MONTHLY or even QUARTERLY information update on what’s happening is helping to kill wvw. We don’t need devon to make posts here, he is just a figurehead, what we need is an ArenaNet representative to keep us informed and hopeful. It doesn’t take buy 10mins to throw together some basic information on what’s being worked on, what got scrapped, and what they would love to do but aren’t working on yet. Yes, some people will be upset if something gets scrapped, but do you think the negativity then is anything like what it is currently?

Honestly you guys are doing way more harm than good. Let’s try a different tact and put it into business terms. You guys need to think of players like investors, if every 3 months at the investor meeting you say nothing the players aren’t going to invest. Not only that they are going to dump your company and invest somewhere else where they get the information they want.

Fantastic post, +1

Tyeme.6589:

Engineers don’t constantly blink in and out, downed players don’t keep moving or jumping around like popcorn. Players don’t run at a constant +50% speed. The skills that allow different abilities have limitations. Hackers remove the limits and/or assign abilities to classes that should not have them.

You do know engi’s can stealth right? Let me guess, the player that outran you was a war or thief? I think you might want to familiarize yourself with some of the other professions before saying all roamers are hackers.
We all know there are hackers in game but I rarely run into any while roaming. They are usually snagging keeps and towers or trolling zergs.

blah blah blah, clearly no one is reading this anyway.

All those patches for living story garbage and this wasn’t fixed. Get to work anet.

Aenaos.8160:

How do you know this isn’t working as intended?
When you go in the water you automatically unequip your land weapons and equip the underwater ones,and since you can’t get the effect of an unequipped weapon sigil,you lose your stacks.
Anyway.
Don’t change it now.I bought extra sigils.
Ty.

If that’s the case then all they have to do is say so. It’s bullkitten that they break something and remain silent about it when all anyone is looking for is some clarification on whether this change was intended or not.

And you’re kind of a kitten for not caring about anyone else that plays this game. Guess what, I have the stacking sigils for my underwater weapons too. Doesn’t mean I’m now okay with this.

How about giving us a trader that takes dragonite for guild siege and the other junk for superior siege? Make it as expensive as you want, let 1 piece of siege cost a stack of mats, at least we could have a use for it.

If you don’t like that then how about letting us use them as a currency for upgrades? Or for hiring extra workers to make upgrades go faster. Here skrit, I’ll give you some shiny empyreal fragments to build these cannons for me.

I’m sure it comes as a huge surprise but this is still broken

Tribio.8531:

So I just stand next to a cata and use/leave it for the entire day to farm that title?

If that’s how you want to spend your time….

I think this is a great suggestion. Rewards defenders and makes it more likely that when you drop several gold worth of siege somewhere it won’t disappear if you get busy for an hour.

Sorry I haven’t checked in, I’ve been out of town for the past week. I have to say I’m pretty disappointed that this wasn’t fixed yet. Any progress? Does anyone actually read any subforum besides living story?

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

almost had a hart attack seeing that red post on 1st page… then reason kicked in and i knew it must be necromancy…

soon, we are working on it.

That was almost word for word what I was going to say. It would be nice if they came up with something though, crafting is stupid and boring, I’m not going to waste my game time doing it.

Stock up on siege, you’ll want to throw your own so you can keep track of your groups supply. If you ask for someone else to throw you’ll end up with unneeded siege and no supply.

Train your group to use and blast combo fields and to move with the tag. If you wipe badly attacking an objective it is sometimes necessary to do some pvd karma training to keep up the pug moral. Don’t avoid fights though, that is the main reason most people are in WvW, just get a feel for what your group needs.

The best thing to do would be to tag up in your home bl until you get a feel for how things work.

All it takes is one pug not listening to screw up everything you are trying to accomplish. For example, 10 other guildies and myself were going to take hills, before we even threw down catas we told everyone not to build since we would be running supply for more. Sure enough some pugs start using them right away and give away our position before we were ready.

You want to get invited along then go show you can be useful. Flip camps, upgrade structures, scout the enemy position. I can’t log into WvW without being invited to a party anymore. I know others who keep there status as offline so that they can roam solo when they want.

Raap.9065:

Making regular WvW another set of EotM maps where no one cares about who they play with or anything other than EXP/hour gained, would be the final nail in the coffin for WvW and the communities that continue to play it.

No. The solution is far more simple; Merge the 12 lowest population servers into 3 or 6 newly named realms. This would give these realms a chance to maintain a community without messing up the game further for everyone else. Plus you get to maintain transfers.

Would make more sense to set transfer price according to server rank (bottom is free, moves up in price the higher up you go) and remove the top 3 bandwagon servers.

Sorry couldn’t really check if this was fixed yet since the game has been unplayable the past couple days. Any updates?

Terrible idea.
WvW would turn into the same garbage karma train as eotm. Why defend or spend money upgrading and sieging for a bunch of pugs?

The megazerker doesn’t even work right in pve (if you want to do stuff with your guild you have to spend half an hour to taxi them into the same instance) it would completely ruin WvW.

Another night of unplayable WvW. Don’t worry everyone I’m sure living story is working fine.

Looks like this new update didn’t fix this either. Keep trying fella’s you’ll get this eventually.

Happens often and there have been many other times when other people can see it on me but I can’t see it.

Once again, this is intended. Thieves have access to a ton of evades, interrupts, blinds, etc. don’t rely on cheese stealth to get you out of every situation.

Any updates? Feedback? Still alive?

Checking in to let you know this is still broken

Forgot they have that handy little blink skill too? http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQBSyemy0Ex2AMdXtUBA-TFxMgApK/aU/BY/BclgkCQPhRA-w

I wasn’t saying a mesmer is going to be as fast as a warrior, I was just saying it isn’t that hard to make them a little faster. It’s not like WvW maps are overly big anyway.

DesertRose.2031:

WvW:
No clue.

Open PvE:
Engineers and Thieves. Engineers have a permanent 33% speed boost, Thieves have a permanent 25% speed boost and a frequently useable shadow step with Shortbow #5.
In addition both can stealth themselves to get skill points guarded by very strong mobs.
All other profession expect Mesmers have at least a permanent 25% speed boost.
Mesmers are the worst because they don’t have a permanent speed boost (unless you use Rune of the Traveler).

You can make pretty much any class fast if you want to, Mesmer is no different. I felt like messing around with mesmer for WvW roaming and ran a PU phantasm build. To make him fast I just threw on some centaur runes with Mirror for a heal, instant perma swiftness.

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Jim Hunter.6821:

I have to disagree with this. Ranger makes an amazing escape artist. If you are focused in a zerg fight just stealth and reposition. No one is going to waste time trying to find you when there are plenty of other targets.

tell that to the 2 thieves and a warrior that chased me around a zerg fight for at least 30s-1m earlier today.

regardless of your escapability or tankiness or even class, if a group of 5+ immediately targets you, and you can’t run, you’re basically dead, which is a problem i’ve experienced as a ranger.

Why can’t you run? Why not draw them into your zerg or at least into a position where they are cut off from theirs and laugh when they die? I get focused all the time and I just dance around them or reset the fight if I need to.

Aggrostemma.1703:

Of course you die quickly if the enemy team and their mother targets you first wasting all their hard CC on you just to bring the kitten ranger down.

I have to disagree with this. Ranger makes an amazing escape artist. If you are focused in a zerg fight just stealth and reposition. No one is going to waste time trying to find you when there are plenty of other targets.

I usually avoid zerg fights because I find roaming/small scale to be much more fun, but when I am in a zerg I basically play a sniper. Pick out their eles and other back line zerkers and take them out. Look for opportunities to grab a group of 3 or 4 and entangle them, barrage, and wail on them with the great sword. When you see them preparing to stack send your wolf to fear a few of them out and kill them. If the commander needs bodies to make a push use GS 4 to block ranged attacks while pushing with them.

If you are taking out 10+ people without dying you are being useful, just ignore the haters.

Let us save build templates. Now that you can retrait on the fly there is no reason this can’t be implemented.

-Dev time required: Since this would be a big QoL improvement for PvE as well, they would probably crank this out in a month.

Riaky.8965:

is this fixed yet?

nope…………………..

Quit trying to seek their approval. All a zerg needs is warm bodies that aren’t really bait. A well played ranger makes a kick kitten roamer, go try that.

Dsybok.1405:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Dsybok.1405:

Jeknar.6184:

Dsybok.1405:

If you are looking for a perfect opportunity to get into a server that is about to remake itself, was never very zergy in the first place and is now even less so, FC would be worth a look.

FC was called ZERGuson’s for a reason…

I think its kinda funny folks from AR and ET saying FC is zergy. I guess its all about perspective, back when we were all tier 8 bottom feeders both those servers used to be fun to fight but now they struggle to field 10 people on a map. AR is truly dead from what I can see.

So sure, anything north of 10 people is going to get them screaming zerg. Most of us FC on the other hand cannot stand SF and GOM mega zergs which will out blob our entire WvW population on just one BL map.

FC BL will have normally 8-10 people total roaming in small groups unless there is a crisis, ie an enemy has come to zerg or an all out golem rush, and we have to manage sometimes with far less late night NA.

I don’t have a feel for how things are going to go now that WZ and EDGE have left, but I think we are going to get better, with smaller more focused groups and less blobbing.

We call you zergy because of how you fight. Unless your zerg outnumbers us by at least 3 to 1 you all run, hide, fight from a tower with siege. Same goes for 90% of your roamers, I chased 2 of them back to bay and they didn’t come out to fight until they had 5 people. Heck, there was several times today that you all jumped off cliffs at hills to avoid fighting. Why not at least try to fight if you are just going to kill yourselves?

5 is not a zerg last time I checked.

Myself personally, I do not engage in small group fights, I don’t like that part of the game, I enjoy big open field battles or sieges on strategic targets. I only play a staff ele for sieging towers and doing large amounts of damage to large groups of players from the periphery of the battle. If you come across me roaming or running in a small group and that’s your play style, you are going to kill me, so I find it much more fun to tick you off and try and get away, for which I have many tools, than to attempt what will be a VERY short and unproductive fight for me.

I wasn’t calling 5 a zerg. I was saying that even though they had the chance for a 2v1 against a longbow power ranger they would rather hide in bay until they could make it a 5v1. I’m might start running with a bear to try and tempt you guys even more.

Didn’t want to leave you wondering what was going on with this because I can imagine how annoying it would be to not get feedback; this is still broken. Don’t worry, I will keep you posted.

Dsybok.1405:

Jeknar.6184:

Dsybok.1405:

If you are looking for a perfect opportunity to get into a server that is about to remake itself, was never very zergy in the first place and is now even less so, FC would be worth a look.

FC was called ZERGuson’s for a reason…

I think its kinda funny folks from AR and ET saying FC is zergy. I guess its all about perspective, back when we were all tier 8 bottom feeders both those servers used to be fun to fight but now they struggle to field 10 people on a map. AR is truly dead from what I can see.

So sure, anything north of 10 people is going to get them screaming zerg. Most of us FC on the other hand cannot stand SF and GOM mega zergs which will out blob our entire WvW population on just one BL map.

FC BL will have normally 8-10 people total roaming in small groups unless there is a crisis, ie an enemy has come to zerg or an all out golem rush, and we have to manage sometimes with far less late night NA.

I don’t have a feel for how things are going to go now that WZ and EDGE have left, but I think we are going to get better, with smaller more focused groups and less blobbing.

We call you zergy because of how you fight. Unless your zerg outnumbers us by at least 3 to 1 you all run, hide, fight from a tower with siege. Same goes for 90% of your roamers, I chased 2 of them back to bay and they didn’t come out to fight until they had 5 people. Heck, there was several times today that you all jumped off cliffs at hills to avoid fighting. Why not at least try to fight if you are just going to kill yourselves?

They have a cap on both of those….

Throw out superior siege but increase siege vs siege damage, and add siege might to the outnumbered buff.

Not sure what was happening tonight but I got an ascended weapon chest, ascended armor chest, an exotic and a bunch of rares. Not really any stats I would have picked myself but all in all I’m pretty happy.

ASP.8093:

Jim Hunter.6821:

The biggest problem is how often the opening strike is completely negated by passive traits or aegis. You have all these traits dedicated to something that barely works half the time.

Good point. How ’bout “your attack is unblockable?”

That would be a great change. Honestly it is pretty pointless right now. Even when it does connect 5 stacks of vulnerabilty isn’t anything amazing and that is when it isn’t automatically cleansed.

Not sure about the math because I’m a few drinks deep right now but I run shout master with runes of the pack and I get 16 seconds of swiftness on a 12 second cool down (not including the ridiculous cast time for a shout… is my ranger taking a deep breath first or something?)

Jeknar.6184:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Dear god that is almost reason enough for me to come to ET. Unfortunately Ajax just sits in our keep and runs his annoying mouth all day so you wouldn’t get much of a chance to kill him.

Oy, I kinda killed him a few times on our last matchup… I didn’t saw him on this one yet however…

Any tips on how you guys got him to leave your server?

Jeknar.6184:

Straegen.2938:

Roaming on lower tier servers (over a year old and still funny):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWcAek5_JE

OH RIGHT, THAT’S ANOTHER GOOD THING FOR COMMING TO ET!

Ajax Blue is on AR right now, so you get to face “The greatest player in the game”!

Dear god that is almost reason enough for me to come to ET. Unfortunately Ajax just sits in our keep and runs his annoying mouth all day so you wouldn’t get much of a chance to kill him.

Or at least acknowledged…

What do you mean was called

The biggest problem is how often the opening strike is completely negated by passive traits or aegis. You have all these traits dedicated to something that barely works half the time.

@Straegen The difference was in gw1 it really didn’t matter. You could build a new character and have him fully leveled with BiS gear in a day. Everything after that was just cosmetic.

Gw2 is all about time gating and grinding for incredibly ugly BiS gear that you have to pay money to transmute.

Ranger rapid fire isn’t a burst, it is a long channeled skill that does the same amount of damage as if you were auto attacking. It is best saved for fighting thieves and mesmers, or if you still have a longbow out and someone is in close range to you.

At long range there really isn’t any reason to use any skill on longbow other than the auto attack. Depending on the other players armor you can easily hit from 1-4k without even going full glass. Most fights are over before the enemy gets in spitting distance of you.

Well I’ve gotten a ring, piece of armor, and weapon but they all have been terrible stats like clerics.

Ranger has good sustained damage from a distance but no real burst. What you want to look at is a phantasm mes or a killshot war.

Lunacy Solacio.6514:

So now it does affect other mice as well? Then yes that is a different issue being described now.

What I had seen, it is an issue that I cannot reproduce, it is a very rare, random occurrence. Or perhaps I have already gotten used to working around it, I don’t know. Of course, I also do not play in full screen, so perhaps that also makes a difference? Anyways, what I said before was based on what was said here, and what I saw in that thread. This arguing is getting no where, and this thread is less relevant since it says the issue is only with Razer mice, when others are also saying it is not limited to one type.

It happens with several brands. The only thing they have in common is the problem occurs with a gaming mouse. Look through the almost 2 year old thread I linked earlier.

Hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. Now that you’re back at work I wanted to let you know this is still broken. Looking forward to hearing back from you.
-Jim

Not a mouse issue, the mouse can work fine for every other game except gw2. The problem will come and go with new updates. It’s a gw2 issue that had been going on since the game was released.

King Amadaeus.8619:

All my (insert aspect you like to play here) friends say T1 is best (insert aspect you like to play here)……..

-Generic quote from an anonymous T1 zergling

TBH I solo roamed every week in S2, and I saw nothing to brag about from them. The skill level in this game is so very low, that arguing who is “best” is kittened. oPP was fun to fight, but you are talking about one guild from 3 server’s worth of folks.

My advice to OP would be try a Bronze server, but I would go upper Bronze/Lower Silver. These people from ET/AR/Kain are just looking for warm bodies, they do not care that you will contribute next to nothing toward PPT, and the fights you find will be mostly on EBG and depending on your playtime could be few and far between.

Source (previous servers):

NSP>ET>SF>BG>JQ>RoS(EU)>Maguuma

Well you got one part of that right. Most of us couldn’t care less about PPT, we are just looking for good fights.