Guild Wars 2

So what about the glory issue that happened, will there be a solution for this?

I like the idea of finally earning gold through pvp, but there is no mention of improving tourney chests. Will this be remain the same way due to gear being able to be used in pve?

I don’t really like the idea of having the ranks removed since it gave an idea how high up you were (and at least some progression). Depends on the rewards we receive for divisions/seasons.

DevonCarver.5370:

The commander system provides recognizable guidance in WvW and in PvE for players to follow on the map.

The main issue I have with this is that you spend 100 gold on a recognizable dot.
Most of the people that have a badge don’t even know about the special order waypoints you can use on the map.

The current system doesn’t really support WvW fights. Like commands to people that are in squad but not on VOIP.

Singer.8740:

My bunker bomber build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqel0pSX3zSiF87ISoC2noH6Hl5YfeIXPIEC-jkCB4iBkWAhkGkEBITqIasVhFRjVJjIqWpEzcjRr2uDIGAmA-w

Uses “potion of karka toughness” for nourishment. (+150 toughness)

Very tanky. After you get your stacks and get your might going (switching to med kit every 10 secs.) The damage output is also very good.

This build also requires an elite banner warrior.

Uhm guys why is the game I didn’t get to play counting as a loss?

Leaderboards yo!

first soloQ – skyhammer
Result? 11-500 win

Fun times.

This^

I thought you fixed it so we could stay in pvp up until the patch was live.

Like the cake that was a LIE

Edit: also please dont make my Q pop every 10 seconds when this happens and telling me to update

kthxbye.

Josh Davis.6015:

Playing with the tag on is completely optional, though. When I do use it I like to call it WvW: Tribulation Mode.

Be nice to the little green engineer.

Just gonna leave this here…

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2pvptv/c/3145599

I like the changes at the cannon itself, no more 4 panels but 2 instead.
The railings also help at certain points, so you have at least a chance to re-position or not get insta-feared off.

But the main issue is still stealth breaking the glass and pulling someone in. For this I would suggest that stealth simply doesn’t break the glass. Or change the lay-out of the side points somewhat to avoid this.

JonPeters.5630:

JonSnow.5610:

“Only Air and Water have good grandmaster traits right now”

While I don’t disagree, have you overlooked Evasive Arcana in Arcana tree?
Even with the moving of traits most people will still go 30 into this tree just for this trait, because its that good.

Let me clarify that I meant those are the two lines where when you put in 30 points you actually have a hard choice.

Oh that way, yes I completely agree with that statement.

As for renewing stamina and elemental attument. Yes elemental attunement is strong for an adept trait, so I agree it should be moved up. But don’t move both up.
CmC had an interesting suggestion of keeping renewing stamina in adept but double the internal cooldown on it.

You also posted earlier that Final shielding could be moved up instead of renewing stamina. I for one like this more, since it leaves more open for build diversity. If move up renewing stamina, you’re stuck with a useless adept trait on a D/x build.

I like the option of having cantrip recharge early up on the water tree, some squishy builds need it but on the other hand Armour of Earth and mist form have a very long CD. But it’s definitely an interesting option to look at.

“Only Air and Water have good grandmaster traits right now”

While I don’t disagree, have you overlooked Evasive Arcana in Arcana tree?
Even with the moving of traits most people will still go 30 into this tree just for this trait, because its that good.

The incendiary powder change only “really” affects HGH build which is weird since thats not a build that is currently being used a lot. The meta grenade/bomb build is still fine with this change.

Longer swiftness for engi is good but I assume vigor is only 5 seconds? Which is a shame but seeing as skullcrack gets a better animation and hammer damage is reduced seems like a fair change.

For the elementalist, I don’t really get the point of the changed cooldown, since every build starts with 30 in arcana for Evasive Arcana (It’s that good). Plus mixing up the traits actually screws a couple of base WvW builds.

Guess you guys really don’t want perma-vigor anymore.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

I thought this thread would be more interesting now that it’s League time.

Welcome to t1!

Queues are on the right, Lag is on the left. Please help yourself to some cookies while you wait.

Plays elevator music

Meanwhile at the hall of the super best friends!

No one is lagging

This probably boils down to the new WvW season starting, but seriously how can it affect a PvE event that badly?

We were defending the batteries and still had 30s to go, suddenly we get Event completed pop up. Everyone rushes to Teq who goes back up faster then normal. We don’t do enough dps to actually kill him.

But here’s the twist. While Tequatl was still up and fighting, we had fish heads already spawn all over the coast… So that was interesting. Oh and the event didn’t stop at 0 seconds it stayed there for a good 15 seconds.

This was in overflow server attempt with the TTS guild on NA servers.

1. Alts, why can I be a diamond legend on my ele but only an invader on my other characters? Doesnt that defeat the whole purpose.
2. Match ups imbalance (mostly referring to t1 servers roflstomping lower servers)
3. Achievements improvements and better communication about the changes to them.

If you have a look at Realm Defender and Master of Disaster, both were locked due to people using supply to level these (must have a lot of time to do that…). Nowhere in the patches is there mention of these being locked, I reported this as a bug for several weeks. Just this week we get a reply “Oh yeah we locked those, no bug”

For PvP
1. New Rewards, better feel of progression. Why bother with PvP if you can just farm gold in an hour pve. This ties in with the achievements as well. You get +10 AP for one tier in Marauder, comparing this timeframe for an achievement in PvE that gives you +10AP …
2. New game modes.
3. The current balance of the professions. The balance patch that didnt balance.

For PvE:
1. The Living story compared to an expansion worth of content
2. PvE locker for skins (Y so many backpack items)
3. The difficulty of achievements rewards in pve compared to pvp.

Watching warriors closely …

So are you watching closely how a warrior can immobilize someone for 20s
Or how a warrior can bunker a point by just standing on it and have infinite regen

This is definitely bugged since the TA patch (when they done goofed WvW)

An official response to this would be nice

The “Boss week” achievements will be unavailable after the new patch.

The Tequatl achievements are permanent, since the changes to him are permanent and the fight will remain this way you will be able to still get the achievements after the patch.

Quite recently I have noticed an issue with the commander icon.
When activated in the party interface and says “You are a commander” – It refuses to give a dot on the map or the commander icon on your own skill bar.

You cannot use any of the commander commands, nor do people notice you being a commander because it’s completely invisible. This is not specific to WvW maps only, it bugs out in normal PvE maps as well. It’s not just my badge that bugs, it’s also other people having issues with it.

Hopefully this can be resolved quickly. Because what good is a commander you can’t see …

It changed with the WvW ranks, the JP chest in EB is now account bound so only once per day. Not sure on the borderland JPs though

So we got different armour stats in WvW (knights/clerics/beserker/…) and i love this change. Makes gearing my alts as an fanatic WvWer much easier. And recently we got ascended trinkets available (at long last!) and I appreciate that.

But I wonder why there are no exotics trinkets available (only the invader trinkets), has there been an official answer on this? Or are we only going to have access to soldier trinkets for now? It would be awesome if we could just completely gear up in WvW with the badges.

I would love Devon his thoughts on this

This is still bugged, although I thought it was fixed after last nights patch.

Another issue is that the Southeast gate of Stonemist is severely bugged. This is possible related since we get events there to defend our caravans (which don’t exists)
People are porting through the gate suddenly and siege gets bugged randomly.

No one seems excited about me coming

I’m really good as a snowman…

added bonus: you get me in the deal!

(no refunds)

First after the update, when trying to a put a superior ram down it just duplicated it. So we had ten blueprints suddenly. Now I know this sounds silly, but only that area around the gate had this issue.. so that’s very weird

Second after the fixes, we get like 6 Destroy the caravans events and 2 Defend your caravan events in our right corner. Also people randomly porting through the gate (Ill post a screen later)

So a couple of serious bugs on the southeast gate of Stonemist Castle

The match up us AG vs AM vs FSP (european match up), did anyone else find this issue on eb?

Still bugged
Still after the Jumping Puzzle

Does it have something to do with the mobs on the right after the mid boss that nobody kills?

Thanks AM for golem rushing our keep last night so I could test this AoE loot on the siege. You guys sure drop a lot of loot

My favourite part in the video is where he shouts

Also most epic line: Thats how it goes wrong! people think they’re kittening heroes!!!!!

Congratz!

LoL I had the same on my ele!

Just kept kiting her until I got someone else up, finished it eventually

some need to learn to dodge though :/

Moerscho.4012:

And to those suggesting an alliance against us….GROW SOME KITTENING BALLS AND ACTUALLY FIGHT…you might find some fun outside of “the blob”.

whats this fight thing you’re talking about? Building an AC? Or try to Waypoint out when getting caught with your pants down…

Spongeblob Squarepants!
Blobbadons Mouth

Blobs – where the kills are free and skills not needed
RS & AM – where a group of 50 is considered a small scouting party

KrisHQ.4719:

That said; AG sometimes have the numbers, but holy christ we’re bad at using it.
I believe TUP are the only ones actually getting us any points, and occasionally the solo-roamers will get us a camp.

You seem to underappreciate a couple of your own guilds lol.

Balthazar uncontested on EU server – Aurora Glade

jim.4210:

AG’s camp capping team on GBL.

You know what RS and AM call that?

a scouting party

So nobody is running grenth on my server now, some are still doing Melandru, Dwayna and Lyssa.

I can’t be bothered anymore, they nerfed the drops from the mobs so I just come in at the last minute for the rare and bugger off.

Orr is going downhill.

Here’s something new!

Conspiracy theories coming in 3…. 2… 1…

(I don’t really care, I just found it funny )

I figured it out! Anet hates AG!

Every time we get somewhere they decide to shut down WvW
Two days ago at 3am when we were fighting in lords room SM.
Yesterday when they shut us down on the inner of our own hills.

But thank god we have the announcement of new build in one to two hours … 2 minutes before it shuts down

Fuzzion.2504:

A bunch of staff eles can create havoc for a zerg ball with e3 to e5 and a5.

Learn how to play.

Really not what I was looking for Being skilled won’t stop them from roflstomping you either. Definitely not on a staff ele. I know what ele’s can do to a zerg but even then when there are 50+ running towards you. It’s impossible to stop them. Although Static field always makes for good fun.

To be honest the numbers I am regurarly faced with are much bigger then what I call "a fair large group’. Maybe 30-40 is more accurate.

Yaro.3251:

The main problem with WvW is that at the moment there is no incentive to split off the zerg and work in smaller groups. Why is this “the main problem” again?
Oh, I see, you are saying that your playstyle doesn’t go well with that. That’s not “the main [game] problem”, that’s particular playstyle’s problem.

You’re somewhat missing the point. It’s not a personal playstyle, it’s a generalisation of whats going on across all matchups. The higher the tier the more large groups you will encounter. It’s also an issue of the match up being “wrong”; less populated servers being matched with bigger and more organized servers. I played on low end servers and now on higher tiers. The numbers always win.
You have a point that historically numbers win the fights. But I am aiming more for the speed where a large group can traverse across a map. Large armies (this applies to any real word army) gets slowed down by the more numbers they have to carry along. This is somewhat counterintuitive to what actually happens in the game. People travel faster with more numbers. They can cap everything on the map and still be in time to defend it (most of the times anyway).

This mechanic is somewhat created unintentionally by Anet and they stated themselves this is not the way they see WvW. Yes the outnumbered server should use strategic groups by on a map like EB this is near impossible as mentioned above. And the zerg cannot be avoided at times.

At this moment zerging is the way to go in WvW: karma/gold/WXP. While this is fun for the people who run in it, the people who face don’t stand a chance when outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1. There is zero encouragement to split off from the karma train at this point so everyone jumps on it. (Even though Anet has said they will try to get people to split off from zergs)

I am simply trying to think of a mechanic that helps this process along. Wether it’s a debuff or something that encourages people to split off. Because it’s unbalancing at the moment. It might not be game – breaking, just unfair considering the match ups (although thats a different discussion)

I see your points about about encouraging small groups and I agree with that. Tkittenence of splitting up groups boils down to that idea.

But how would you go about encouraging small groups? In EB it’s near impossible to run smaller groups in higher tiers without facing AC fire or a bigger group.

In the spirit of balancing WvW…

The main problem with WvW is that at the moment there is no incentive to split off the zerg and work in smaller groups. These karma trains are fully working in the evenings and on reset nights. There is nothing easier then tagging along an enormous group and just stomp everything in your path while getting tons of events, WXP and karma along the way.

Being faced with these groups that outnumber your group 3 or 4 to 1 is demoralizing and not fun to play. Now I am a big fan of being the underdog and beating the bigger zerg despite all odds being against us. But that doesn’t always work in this game. Numbers just prove to be a very big advantage and it’s causing problems for less wvw populated servers. [Example: Spartacus and his men are better skilled fighters but lose because of the sheer amounts of enemies they face]

Now I was wondering if there could be a way to slow these groups down, by “debuffing” them. Slowing them down because a real army that becomes bigger and bigger also has to slow down to move as one single pack and let the rearguard catch up. (e.g. moving siege)
Consider it the opposite of the outnumbered buff and call it “The weight of an army”. Let’s say 40-50 is rather big enough group, as soon as there are 51 people in a certain radius, the allies in this radius would get the debuff. I haven’t quite worked out what this would debuff exactly but it has to be something that is a big enough incentive to not run in 50+ groups but also not so big as to give the other servers an unfair advantage.

Is something like this possible to implement? Or is the developer team behind WvW already working on a solution to split up the groups into smaller ones?

Disclaimer: I don’t want to insult/assault/harass any servers, just pointing out a problem and possible(?) solution to this issue. Please do not post how this is a non-issues and you just want your loot$$. Feedback is welcomed by all means but please keep it civil.

MRA.4758:

Well, at these times we are usually operating deep inside your territory and are capping a tower or two, while the one or two guys that volunteered to stay behind keep an eye on enemy movements, or may manage the keep’s economy. But yes, telling jokes in TS is usually also part oft he fun.

~MRA

LOL Deep inside enemy territory? You’re kidding right? The only thing RS does is PvD at night, at 5 am when there is no one around. And run away from small fights. Good job. Are you sure you brought your arrow carts? You might wipe against us if you dont have them near you.

Jesus.2619:

JonSnow.5610:

I […] sit[…] in the keep waiting on people passing through […]our AC fire […]

Are you telling jokes in the meantime?

AG and defending? Right sure.

I have to ask

What do you germans do when you’re sitting in the keep waiting on people passing through your AC fire?

tell jokes?

I find this still ridiculous. Grenth is now the worst event ever (even worse then invisible rolling champion Karka)

The wraiths, even a veteran one, lays down AoE on Jonez. Jonez’s healths ticks down with roughly 20% every dot tick. Result? Jonez dies after 5 seconds.

And please get rid of the champion spider that one shots people with the stupid egg injection.

This is no longer a fun mechanic, it’s idiotic and not fun to play.

There is a very logical explanation for why they do it this way.
They do it this way because sometimes stuff isn’t finished on time and doesn’t make the patch or has to be pushed back due to issues or creating bugs (One of the reasons that guesting wasn’t on live until January)

Every MMORPG works this way, you cannot post changes days or hours before hand because you cannot foresee what the new changes will cause. (Yes I know testing servers, but there is still a difference with the live servers)

They are already putting the notes up earlier then the actual patch comes, which is a big improvement from the launch of the game.

Have you ever considered the fact that maybe, just maybe, AG doesn’t really care about the points anymore? Due to all the people leaving and we are too high up the tier?

Honestly both RS & AM seem to me like they don’t want to fight for some reason, even though they have the numbers to beat us. Unless you have 7 billion arrow carts to back you up.

Thank you Devon,

these changes definitely have me excited for WvW again. Especially the backlog of the chests

and I also like bacon!

My loot bags in the SM lord room from RS ankittenell a different story about no AG guild wiping other guilds….

and I have only KISS to thank for that

This is absolutely ridiculous.
Temple of Grenth is near impossible because Jones gets one-shotted by random invisible spiders. Nobody runs the event anymore on my server.
Temple of Melandru randomly bugs (yes, still)
Temple of Lyssa takes forever to complete, because Lyssa doesn’t stand on one spot ever. But worst of all has a health pool that takes 15 minutes to take down with 30 people there.

These scaling changes have made Orr very annoying now and less interesting for people wanting to farm for legendary.