Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the report, folks. I let our designers know.

There’s a considerable amount of bugs being worked on for turrets currently. (Special thanks to Anymras for putting the list together.) I know these things don’t happen as quickly as we (and you) would like to see them, but it’s a comin’.

felivear.1536:

what does this line mean: “[Grouch] just won’t be as active on the forums or behind the scenes.”

Hmm, that did sound a bit ominous! Don’t worry – I’m still here, I’m just switching to a different team. It’s true that I won’t be as active on these forums, but I should still be active “behind the scenes” unless someone forgot to deliver the terrible news to me. -.-

Guild Wars 2 PvP is the main reason why I came to ArenaNet. I’ll always have my finger on the pulse, whether that’s from reading the forums in my spare time, or logging in to play after work.

Something something, touching moment, something something, this is not goodbye.

Hey all,

We’ve made some backend improvements that should help alleviate some of the latency issues in PvP.

If you continue to experience problems, please update this thread with the information I requested in my original post.

Thanks!

The team is investigating. Thanks for the reports!

The team is investigating. Thanks for the reports!

As Evan mentioned, make sure “Use Free Camera” is enabled. Then, if you use left click to pan the camera it will keep the same viewing angle. Using right click will cause it to snap back to its original follow position.

English patch notes have been updated.

Did you try opening any additional chests? I just opened a few different rank 50 chests and I was getting the normal amount of items.

I just finished spending a few hours catching up on these responses. There’s a lot of good feedback here…and some…not so much!

I’ve seen quite a few posts mention the lack of bug fix mentions and I wanted to let you guys know that for the most part they’ve simply been excluded from the balance preview. Our designers have been and will continue to work on profession bugs all the way until this build is locked up and ready to ship.

I’ll touch base with the guys on Monday when we get back into the office and see if we’re able to provide any updates.

Thanks again, everyone.

As we mentioned in Friday’s livestream, the chance for obtaining ascended armor and weapons from WvW rank up chests will be increased in next Tuesday’s update. We’ll also be increasing the chance for all ascended weapon drops from Tequatl. Guild Missions will drop ascended weapons, armor, and trinkets more frequently as well.

Hope you’re having a great weekend.

Hey all,

Thanks for tuning in. We had some tech difficulties on Friday and we weren’t able to show off quite as much as we would have liked. We got thrown off quite a bit, haha. We’ll be involving WvW more as the show evolves, so don’t fret.

For those who didn’t catch the stream, Dulfy has a recap here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1wokcp/edge_of_the_mists_developer_livestream_notes/

Also, this: http://i.imgur.com/u5le6Fm.gif

Thanks guys – it does seem like something is missing here. I’ll let the team know!

Thanks for the report, Vashoom. I’ll have someone take a look on Monday.

I don’t see any problem with the way stealth works on downed players. There’s a lot of room for interesting plays with smoke fields + blast finishers or skills like SR – and there’s also a level of coordination needed to make sure they go off successfully. If there’s a thief out there reading this, I know at some point they’ve stealthed an ally who then proceeded to auto-attack immediately and get revealed. Doh!

As for counterplaying a downed body in stealth, not everyone has has the greatest set of tools for it, that’s true. Best bet is to cleave like a mad-man, and use CC skills like blowouts to prevent the rez. As for the OP, if you’re out of cooldowns when it happens, there’s not much you can do.

I may just be a skeptic, but I feel that increasing points per kill, at least in the current meta, would just push players even further into defensive/attrition builds rather than offensive. It’s safer.

Anyways, we’ve talked about the prospect of increasing points per kill before, and it’s certainly an interesting idea. Adding the ability to change score settings in CAs seems like a good start to test it out. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done in general before we could get to something like that, though.

Hey all,

There will be a fix for this coming in the February 4th release next Tuesday. In the meantime, I would avoid using Signet of Vampirism in the manner outlined in this thread.

Thanks for the reports!

Citizens,

The fourth episode of Ready Up will be airing on Friday, January 31st, at 2PM PST. WvW Game Designer Tyler Bearce will be joining me to talk about Edge of the Mists and a few other WvW changes coming in with the next update.

The stream will be live at www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

If you have any burning questions about EotM that you’d like to ask, feel free to respond below.

Thanks!

Hey all,

I want to clear up some potential confusion that may have been caused with this thread as I’ve seen a few posters questioning the connection between this thread and the Collaborative Development Initiative. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the term, the CDI is a tool that our designers use to gather critical design-focused feedback on a given topic that we then take into consideration during the development process, making the development of Guild Wars 2 much more of a conversational two-way street.

On the other hand, the main intent of this thread was to help me acclimate to the WvW community at large, getting a grasp on the things players both enjoy and dislike, and with that in mind I think the thread served its purpose well. World vs. World is a very complex machine in that it caters to many groups of diverse interests and play styles, and because of that there is no absolutely uniform list of high-concerns that players might have. The opinions and information I’ve gleaned from this thread have been extremely helpful in getting my finger on the many pulses of WvW. My job, ultimately, is to not only communicate things to you, but to also act as your representative to our developers.

On the topic of CDI, if you’d like to participate in the next one, Chris Whiteside will be starting a new thread that focuses on improving the CDI process itself sometime today or tomorrow in Guild Wars 2 General Forums.

Thanks again!

Thief has been added to the list. Sorry about the copy/pasta fail.

Thanks for the post, OP. This is a fairly polarizing topic, but it is interesting nonetheless. It came up quite a bit in the 3 likes / 3 dislikes thread as well. Changing the way downstate works would have such a large sweeping change on the way the game is played – it’s sort of fun to theorycraft the ramifications!

Keep in mind, I’m just spit-balling here – none of this is in the works. I would just like to see some more conversation on the topic.

So, what if you only rallied allies when you stomped someone, rather than cleaving the body? This would be much more difficult to pull off in large-scale fights, but you would have added risk/reward for attempting. Would even-numbered fights still snowball?

It would almost always affect players in small-scale fights as well. I’ve won plenty of 1v2’s in WvW and PvP from downstate, getting that clutch rally at the right moment – but that would go away too.

What if you couldn’t hard rez downed allies? What are the positives and negatives?

Anyways, just rambling. Feel free to discuss! If you have any good threads on the topic that come to mind, feel free to link them for me.

Just wanted to stop by and thank everyone once again for participating and staying civil.

This has been helpful for me personally, and it’s been very helpful for the team as well.

As promised, dislikes/areas of improvement! Same disclaimer as the previous post – word clouds remove context. I upped the max words in this image so the most oft repeated pop out a bit more.

Edit: Removed some frivolous words.

Hey all,

I took the positive (like) responses and made a word cloud. It’s not exactly perfect, and don’t worry, it won’t make its way into a powerpoint. I just thought it was kind of interesting.

I’ll make the dislike/negatives word cloud in a bit.

Hope you’re all having a good weekend!

You should check it out, Johje. We pick questions out of the thread and have our devs respond to them. Good opportunity to ask those burning questions!

If you’re interested, the last one on lore is posted here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dolyak-Express-Jan-10-2014/page/3#post3545340

Mirsa.1628:

I thought Grouch has been around for a while? I’ve even WvW’d with him in my party before when he was on SoR.

What? Stories of me in WvW?

/slips Haru a $20

Chaba.5410:

A NERF member spiked Grouch in WvW on his twitch stream once. /engi pride

Clearly a lie. I have never died in WvW or PvP.

Phlogus.2371:

Welcome to the WvW forums Grouch. Snicker doodles or chocolate no bakes?

No bakes!

Viking Jorun.5413:

#FormattingForJosh

^^

Really nice responses so far. Thanks for keeping the formatting simple and the points concise. I’ll compile this sometime next week, but I’ll continue to check in over the weekend.

Locking this thread before it gets too out of hand. Criticism is cool, but bashing my coworkers is not.

Merged similar threads!

Try not to argue against each other’s points – just respond with your own list!

Thanks.

Polls are great, but they can get muddled with order bias. How about this – create a thread that asks for players to list their three favorite things about WvW, along with their three least favorite things. “Hey ArenaNet, do more of this, less of that.”

Just my 2c!

Hey Khadras,

While the match-up forums have been closed down, a community initiative has sprung up at http://www.gw2wvw.net/forum. It seems pretty active as there’s already a few thousand posts on their forums – might be worth checking out.

melodey.4652:

Snip.

I understand where you’re coming from. Heck, the ‘shower of responses’ on the sPvP forums is probably from me.

WvW is an incredibly complex game-type that caters to individuals with a wide array of interests, whether that’s coordinated large-scale guild groups, havoc groups, small-man roaming, roaming alone, zerg surfing, and whatever else floats your respective boats. I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time reading through threads in this forum – the good, the bad, and the ultra ugly. Getting your finger on the pulse of WvW can be difficult when there’s multiple perspectives on every issue. This is on me to sort through, and I want to make sure I do right by you guys.

In the meantime, please continue to provide feedback. This is essential. In case you’re wondering what I want for Valentine’s Day: I like lists, break-downs, and bullet points.

I mentioned this elsewhere, but this is the same format as the Team Paradigm Invitational from last year. It’s really cool to see how the teams compare to each other after a few weeks of steady play.

Looking forward to it.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Has anyone else noticed strange queue/roster behavior the last few days? If so, please try to record the error code and any other relevant information and reply here with what you have.

If you notice lag on Forest, type /ip into the chat-box during the match and respond back with the number. Screenshot it if you need to!

Also, NA/EU?

While Lich does a metric ton of damage, it’s also extremely telegraphed and on a rather long cooldown. If anything, Lich does an excellent job of area-denial – I’ll gladly vacate a point for 20 seconds or so to avoid it.

This is unrelated, but I remember a certain PvP team that ran 2 Lich necros and Time Warp mesmer (before the haste changes). It was brutal.

Anyways, as you were…

We’ve mentioned a few times prior that we’re looking at rebalancing the top-end of ranks to make them more attainable. We came to this decision after player feedback persuaded us to leave ranks into the game, rather than cut them.

The amount of rank points needed to hit 80 is too darn high.

Other teams aside from PvP create finishers, as you’re also able to use them in PvE and WvW.

The proposed changes to critical damage gear aren’t specifically PvE-focused, but focused rather on the stat weighting of critical damage itself. We’re not aiming to make crit damage unviable, just to bring it closer to other gear sets.

As for the first feature build, there will be other factors coming into play that could very well offset the changes, including reworked runes/sigils, the ability to use sigils in new combinations (including 2 on a two-handed weapon), and the profession balance changes. Just something to keep in mind.

To clear up the confusion, the balance updates will be in the next feature build – a build that adds features to the game. The next feature build will take place after the Living World season has finished. Today’s update added another chapter to the Living World story arc.

Here’s a quote from Colin’s blog post last year on the subject:

Due to the size and scope of the final four story releases in season one, the next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished. Once the story has completed, we’ll go into much greater detail on what’s to follow, but for now we want to focus on making sure our last four episodes shine.

The above is what we were referring to on the livestream with ‘feature build’. As I mentioned in my post on the PvP forums earlier today, previewing something on Friday and releasing it on the next Tuesday would give us an incredibly small amount of time to react to feedback – and that wouldn’t be fair to you.

jcbroe.4329:

Snip.

The sooner we talk about the changes the longer we have to react to feedback, as we’re always approaching deadlines. We mentioned that the changes wouldn’t be going in until the feature build, but I suppose that not everyone is familiar with that terminology quite yet. As I mentioned in a previous post, we’ll work on being more clear when discussing our plans.

Sorry for the delay, was typing.

The first ‘feature build’ as we’re calling it, won’t go live until the current Living World story arc wraps up. The next feature build will contain substantial PvP updates, the balance items we talked about on Friday, and hopefully even more things that we aren’t ready to talk about yet.

The scope of the balance changes going in is massive. Honestly, putting all of the changes we talked about on Friday straight into the game today would have been extremely kneejerk, and I’m sure many of you would agree that some of the changes needed additional eyes on them before they hit live. We want the time to go through the feedback and make adjustments, and we’re already doing that.

I’m sorry if we gave you the impression that there would be a balance update today – that was not our intent.

Oidmetala.8426:

Josh Davis.6015:

Pyriall.5027:

IB4 Grouchasaurus comes in to try and calm the masses with some vague reference to future updates that they’re unsure of and he used to hate hearing when he was a player….

This was eerie. Are you in the air ducts?

hi, how you have make that there is no more winter in the mists?!
it must be so hard to do, great job!
thats exactly why i love your game so much, fast and nice changes <3

I’ve been melting the snow with a hair-dryer since dawn. Meltin’ ain’t easy.

Pyriall.5027:

IB4 Grouchasaurus comes in to try and calm the masses with some vague reference to future updates that they’re unsure of and he used to hate hearing when he was a player….

This was eerie. Are you in the air ducts?

Thanks for the feedback, Countless. The whole reason we put the changes out ahead of time is so we can hear the arguments for and against the changes. If we didn’t care about feedback we’d just ninja the changes in on patch day.

Roy has another post over on the balance forums on the same topic. For those that haven’t ventured over, this type of post/feedback would be best suited over there.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Merged-PVP-Deceptive-evasion-change/page/2#post3523283

Would be awesome to see some new teams join up. What is there to lose?

Ferik.3127:

Josh Davis.6015:

When providing suggestions, keep in mind that we’d like to bring over existing stat combinations that exist in PvE/WvW already, but that doesn’t necessarily rule-out creating brand new stat combos. As we mentioned on Ready Up on Friday, the addition of ferocity could open up new combinations with critical damage as the heaviest stat.

Just something to keep in mind!

Got a question if you will, Josh. Lord Helseth mentioned on his TwitchTV (as well brought up by you guys at the first part of the Ready Up) Ferocity won’t actually make it into PvP. This means it will only stay in PvE/WvW and we PvPers are still left with Precision, thus thinking up new Amulets using Ferocity is a waste of time.

Is this true?

Ferocity will be in PvP – it will be weighted to keep the critical damage numbers relatively the same as they are now.