Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems to me that some people balk at the concept of having to do WvW, and then don’t even try. Worst case scenario, you wait until your server changes colors. Now that they changed how the matchups work, it’s pretty rare for one server to be red two months in a row like it used to be. As other people have said, as long as you don’t try to do it all at once like you might with a PvE map, it’s really not so bad.
That’s actually reasonable, for how duels should work. Which means the pro-duelist crowd won’t like it, since they can’t gank folks who don’t want to duel.
That’s not open world dueling, that’s an open pvp server. This thread is about the ability to challenge someone to a duel, not the ability to have a free for all.
winter break. The devs are humans too?
LOL I thought Anet hired some unpaid overworked Gnomes from 3rd world countries to do all their living stories development :P
And since Gnomes don’t get winter holiday I was expecting new contents :P
From what I’ve heard, you got the underpaid part right.
Back to the topic at hand though, I don’t mind the break, because the end of Scarlet is in sight, and maybe after that we’ll get some living story stuff that I actually like. (I miss you SAB )
Because they’re not encouraging. They’re coercing.
Now where you draw that encourage/coercing line is debatable. But we do have clear example of encouraging already (Mist warriors hawking the Mist war, achievements under dailies and monthlies, etc.) But I laid out the basics of achievement design, and by those design rules, PvP simply should not be mixed into what is clearly a PvE meta. Putting it in there is done only to get people who really want that Meta to do something other than that meta. And “coercion” I think is apt description of that level of force.
co·er·cion
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the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
Map completion gives you an optional reward to get a legendary. They’re encouraging you to try WvW by making it a requirement for an optional reward.
I think I’ve had one drop from a mob, then I think I got one from a gathering node one time. So 2, if I’m not just making that up by tying to remember, and 0 precursor drops.
Edit for a typo.
It always gets a laugh out of me when people do this after big groups kill me. Then I keep an eye out for the people who did it, and kill them if I can catch them 1v1. /shrug and let them bleed out of down state and go on my way.
I would guess in April again. I forget is it purple weapons this time or red?
Red this upcoming time, then purple the time after that.
I wouldn’t hold your breath on a response. Interestingly, this thread was posted on the most recent day Devon has posted a comment on the forums – 28 days ago.
Using the “proper channels” would be all fine if they actually worked. They don’t, so…
What’s more important, stopping legitimate players from talking about a growing exploiting/hacking problem, or actually solving the problem?
It might help if the report function in game actually had an option for cheating/exploiting. The fact that it doesn’t really gives me the impression that they just don’t care.
One press, one activation is the policy. Using the double click function on your mouse is technically against the ToS, though whether or not they’ll actually ban you for that is kind of a grey area.
If you really want to move and don’t mind the loss, I think you can delete all your characters (bank anything you want to keep) and then move for free. Though if you’ve played for any length of time it’s probably not worth it.
To me it seems like they care less about the fact that it’s toxic per se, and more that the fact that they have to do a lot of moderation work because it’s toxic. (This based on the fact that they suggest we take these discussions elsewhere.)
Ms. Lo Presti,
I believe you mean “Mr.”, but back to the topic at hand, great that there’s been a clear response on this.
Hey guys,
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Well, thanks for the prompt response, at least.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-12-13
Doesn’t seem worth interrupting reset night…
Don’t know what all they changed, but this patch fixed a ranger trait that gave fury on crit with the longbow, giving you perma fury with decent crit chance. As OP as rangers are currently, I’m glad they got right on it and gave us a patch right after the reset.
Or….we’re a little burned out from the season and don’t have as many people in WvW as we did before? Personally, the only WvW I did last week was dueling in OS. Also, we should be matched with BG or JQ? That’s pretty funny if you really believe that…
Bind it to whatever you want, but if you’re getting more than one activation out of one button press you’re breaking the terms of service. Whether or not they’d actually enforce that for looting, idk.
Because the first four ranks take less wxp to unlock, it’s to stop people from farming hundreds of them with alts, I imagine.
I got it guys…she’s going to travel through time and come back with a Luxon/Kurzick alliance to fight us. It fits the trend of escalating ridiculousness.
Pretty small sample size so far, but boy is that poll a close one.
I use it all the time, and haven’t really had problems with it. I use an axe build, so it makes a good gap closer and setup for eviscerate. Also quite handy when running from zergs, since I mostly solo roam.
Something in the style of these would be pretty cool.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Allegiance_skill
Of course the balance would have to be different, and maybe it would be WvW only, but I like this kind of skill rather than an elite style one with a huge cd.
At this point, if they’re using them to move around or other unintended uses, yeah, you should probably report them for that.
you deserve refund for buying town clothes? i found that silly. a net will never refund your town clothes. these are really meant as accessories. i bought all Halloween costumes but i don’t ask for a refund because i never plan to use it for abuse it the 1st place (you should get a good whack in the head for thinking such idea).
People who abused them aren’t the only people who might want a refund. Lots of people out there who play only (or mostly) WvW who’ve bought town clothes and been screwed over by this.
I like the idea. But they should also find a way to keep people from abusing it (running immortal through the JP and stuff). What they should do is that they should add a duel option and then make people invulnerable as long as they keep within a certain range from where the duel was started.
I really hope they’ll do something like this soon, have been missing duels since launch :/
If they did that, you could just have a spy on the other server start a duel with you inside a keep, or to keep you alive when a zerg came by. If they ever do implement a real duel system, it’s most likely not going to give you any sort of protection.
Spontaneous combustion. It doesn’t even have to be on screen, a poorly written ending for a poorly written villain.
I like it quite a bit too, lots of dueling going on in there in my matchup today, and relatively little trolling.
Right after…I think it was the Sandwichmancer?
I’ve seen one person with an anet tag in WvW ever, they were on AR, and of course I ran them down and spiked them.
Also, I’m fairly certain that most of them at least don’t have any special powers, I think they play on retail accounts. The Anet tag by their name is a guild that they’re all in.
What server are you on?
If you are facing Piken, be glad to take you out and try a few rounds and give feedback.
This. If you’re on a server I’m fighting, or will be fighting during the rest of the league, I’d be glad to meet up with you in game and help you practice a bit.
So all you learn to play types…
you’re telling us that 450 stat points simply don’t matter?
Ok cool, put your money where your mouth is. Take off your exotic gear and put on a set of rare gear (to roughly a 450 stat loss) and go out and do some solo roaming. Let me know how it goes for you.
A poor comparison, as you’re doing less damage with weapons, taking more from enemy damage from the reduced damage and armor on your gear, on top of the stat boosts. The real comparison is going out with no stacks and fighting someone that has both AF and GL, which is certainly possible. I’ve fought people with both stacks who were using legendary weapons while I had none of those and won. Difference in builds and skill trumps the stat bonus from the buffs.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
(sorry, I had to)
Anet is aware of this and they’re being looked at, I think. But yeah, it would be nice to have titles we can get without playing 18 hours a day for 10 years.
Being an asura can also help you, skills that are telegraphed (like killshot) are a lot harder to notice on an asura, especially if it’s in a zerg or if you’re fighting one as a bigger character.
If it’s really a bot, just jump on an ac or something to kill it…
I think part of the problem with people dying to people with both stacks is that not very many people can make it to that high of a rank and still suck at fighting. Sure, there are people out there with high ranks that do nothing but zerg, but it the lower tiers where I play, people that are high enough rank to have both tend to be much better than the average at roaming.
I want to say that I read somewhere that some people at anet were working on capes in their spare time, but I’m not entirely sure, and also too lazy to look it up.
A town clothes shirt that says “I got X place in the WvW league and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
Wait, what happened to no updates during the season?
They already kind of threw that out the window by adding the toxic stuff to WvW anyways. Unless I missed it, still no word on that from anet?
Shout out to all those people within the last hour or two that were /laugh spamming, then either ran or died when you got caught 1v1. Special notice to those of you who were /sitting on that uplevel, must feel good to have finally killed someone.
From a practical standpoint Asura make decent warriors, things like killshot are a lot harder to notice on an Asura than on a Norn or Charr.
I should imagine they’ll decide to make an alternative way to gain these titles – maybe something involving a jumping puzzle?
I’m about 80% sure this is a troll post. If not, what do you mean “alternative way to gain these titles”? If i understand correctly you want to get the title for flipping SMC by doing jumping puzzles….?
Yeah, it’s kind of a bitter joke about how there are easy jp achievements in WvW, jp’s basically being PvE content.
Anyways, I agree about there being points in PvE for basically nothing. I’ve gotten several achievements for just showing up and talking to npcs.
It would be cool to be able to go there to do duels and stuff with people from servers you’re not matched up against. Maybe have it so you can go to one version specific to your matchup, and one version that works like a normal overflow, where everyone can join?
I think the word was “violating”.
They should do that for April Fool’s, for one day only you can get actual loot off your enemies.
idk but I been getting hit by a bug in wvw and spvp that will lock me in place or make my weapon skills stop working. It’s got nothing to do with a cc/disabling ability either, somekinda mechanical glitch~ Sometimes I have to relog to fix it.
I’ve found that opening the equipment screen and hitting the swap button there will fix the skill bar one not working. I’ve also gotten the one where you just can’t move for no apparent reason, I always just used lightning reflexes on my ranger to break it, not sure if other move skills fix it or not.
Let the pet rez him, kill him again, repeat as necessary…not that difficult. Sitting there and trying to out dps the pet’s healing is just stupid.