Guild Wars 2

There was an idea bounced around once about Alliances – instead of Servers. Have we heard anything else on that?

elkirin.8534:

or get radical.

Remove the binding between pve and wvw servers totally.

Make transfer to any other wvw server name free AND

Place realistic map caps that the Anet resources can supply.

Let Queue times sort out the wheat from the chaff.

I like that, too.

(I still think a full reset of the glicko is a good idea – could wait until the xpac comes out, too.)

coglin.1867:

I am under the impression a fir amount, if not most posters, believe the free transfers before a tournament created the larger stacking of servers to date. What evidence are you using to develop the notion that players will spread out? Seems to me those not stacked on the full servers will simply stack on the next highest, not full servers.

Having said all of that, I am not against the idea. At least it will let those who didn’t move and are on a very low population server, and what to move, the option to move for free.

I am not talking about a tournament, at all. I hope they dont do those again, at least not until well after the xpac. It was a terrible idea, and stacking of servers ruined wvw. It has become much more stagnant since then.

Lurock Turoth.9085:

I don’t see how resetting ratings would do anything, T1 and 2 servers with massive populations and coverage in time zones other than NA prime (or EU) would just spend a couple boring weeks rolling right over lower tier servers, only to end up in exactly the same matches.

Would it? I would think (or should I say hope) that our servers would try to balance themselves out with groups of people wanting to transfer off too crowded servers, maybe would could find some sort of balance.

As it is now, its just ridiculous. Can you guys think of any other way to achieve some balance?

I was at least trying to think up a constructive way to offer ideas, instead of just knocking ideas down.

Glicko rating has created nothing but stagnate and boring wvw matchups.

Allow us to try to balance our servers by clearing the glicko score and opening up the free transfers. This would allow people to move around the servers, creating a totally different set than we are currently stuck with. The only people in this game currently affected by locked into servers are WvW players. sPvP and PvE are no longer bound by servers, yet WvW still is. We are the only ones being punished by being stuck, or having to pay around $25 just to move our servers.

Please, allow a full glicko reset and open up our transfers. Lets see what happens.

dancingmonkey.4902:

Kitiara.2706:

And while we’re at it, reset the glicko, too! Lets have a full reset! That would be so much fun. A battle to the top (LOL, Just saw what you said Trajan :P <3 )

Explain what you mean there?

How would that place servers to initiate this? Would it potentially place T1 servers against lower tiers? Making all the matches horrible for everyone for weeks until the tiers settle out in the scoring system?

Resetting the glicko, then allowing free server transfers (since the server you are on ONLY matters in WvW these days) would allow the servers to shift. Maybe those on Tier 2 and 1 dont want to really be there, but the lower servers are dead. It would allow for a free re-balance to the server tiers.

It very well could help, or it would stay exactly the same. It would still be interesting to try it out and see if a better balance could happen.

Imagine a WvW where the servers are balanced in population, so you could fight more servers, more frequently, instead of this lame match up week after week.

Atherakhia.4086:

Immob is the root of the problem. That’s where the ‘fix’ needs to be aimed.

I agree with this. Its the stacking and pulsing immob that is the root of this problem, absolutely. Sharing venom with necro wells is, IMO, working fine. But the immob is crap and there is just not enough ways out of it. You can get out of one, but when you get stacks and stacks pulsing, you are screwed.

Just make it so immob has dimishing returns, problem fixed without fully nerfing.

And while we’re at it, reset the glicko, too! Lets have a full reset! That would be so much fun. A battle to the top (LOL, Just saw what you said Trajan :P <3 )

It seems like almost all dialog and player noises are missing from game right now. I am not hearing shouts while in combat from other players, I am no longer hearing the screams when falling, etc.

Ever since the April 1 patch, screaming from falling is missing from game. I have had several friends test it out, and they dont hear it either.

Was this taken out on purpose, or is it missing on accident?

Pssst, Michael, come back to Mag

Since the last update, my mouse cursor/pointer has been disappearing randomly, but only in game. I have tried everything I can think of to get it back, but its so random. Sometimes (but only sometimes) if I die and waypoint back I will get my pointer back. If I die and get ressed, I will not get my pointer back. However, there are times even dying and waypointing to respawn will not work and I will have to restart the game. This sucks terribly seeing as it keeps happening only in WvW.

Anyone have any ideas on a work around on this issue while in game that I could try?

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Kitiara.2706:

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

There was quite a lot of discussion around the proposal of removing white swords from objectives in WvW. We understand there are concerns about how this change might work in practice or how player behavior may change as a result of it. We felt like the best way to understand fully the impact, and give players a chance to see for themselves how it directly changes the WvW experience is to let people try it and see what they think.

We have decided to run a special multi-week event in WvW where we’ll be changing some of the “rules” of WvW for a limited time. This event will feature two major rule changes while it is running: we are planning to remove white swords from objectives, and add points per kill in WvW to the over-all score for the duration of this event. We are currently targeting December for this event but will keep you posted when we have dates nailed down for certain. If this type of event is successful, we may look to do more events like this in the future where for short periods of time the rules of WvW are changed to different rules, scoring and scenarios to help both keep the game fresh, as well as to change up the experience and try new fun things for WvW.

We look forward to your feedback once the event begins, both on the temporary event only changes, as well as the concept of these special events in WvW.

Thanks,
John

Any idea when this will happen? There are some of us really looking forward to trying this stuff out.

Thanks

The temporary rule changes will be implemented with the release on December 16 and will last until the first release of the new year.

Thank you so much for the answer! <3 Have Happy Holidays!

Tspatula.9086:

They are removing white swords because of the adopt-a-dev program where some devs spent a short period of time in WvW gold league (2014 fall tourney) running with real WvW guilds and got some ideas based on that limited experience. And now, regardless of what the majority of the community is saying, we are going to try time for a couple weeks at a time. Remember, even after 1 hour in WvW, a dev KNOWS more than you’ll ever know about WvW….
On the other hand, it was great to see ANY effort on the part of ANET to do something about WvW. For that I am glad, but again, it seems that when decisions about what is important to WvW are made, we, the actually people doing it, have nothing to contribute… Honestly, we have massive threads, and CDIs about WvW, then the devs spend a couple hours in the top tiers playing with guilds and instead our our suggestions, we simply get their 10 minute brainstorm ideas…

pokes spoon

John Corpening.9847:

Hello All,

There was quite a lot of discussion around the proposal of removing white swords from objectives in WvW. We understand there are concerns about how this change might work in practice or how player behavior may change as a result of it. We felt like the best way to understand fully the impact, and give players a chance to see for themselves how it directly changes the WvW experience is to let people try it and see what they think.

We have decided to run a special multi-week event in WvW where we’ll be changing some of the “rules” of WvW for a limited time. This event will feature two major rule changes while it is running: we are planning to remove white swords from objectives, and add points per kill in WvW to the over-all score for the duration of this event. We are currently targeting December for this event but will keep you posted when we have dates nailed down for certain. If this type of event is successful, we may look to do more events like this in the future where for short periods of time the rules of WvW are changed to different rules, scoring and scenarios to help both keep the game fresh, as well as to change up the experience and try new fun things for WvW.

We look forward to your feedback once the event begins, both on the temporary event only changes, as well as the concept of these special events in WvW.

Thanks,
John

Any idea when this will happen? There are some of us really looking forward to trying this stuff out.

Thanks

+1 Please give us our hats back!

SKATE.1394:

If you average 10 silver worth of light materials every day it’ll only take about 3.25 years to recoup the 120g.

This. I feel SO RIPPED OFF by Anet over this item. If I could do a return and get my gems back, I would!

Gaile Gray.6029:

This is an interesting idea. I’d love other feedback on this before taking questions to the dev team. (I’m sure they’ve thought of this, but there may be info to share on the subject.)

What do you guys think about auto-waypointing people (assuming after a certain period, of course) in the midst of specific types of combat encounters? And because I don’t think it’d work for every situation, can you specify which combat instances you believe would benefit from this functionality? Somehow I think dying to a rampaging bandit in Ashford wouldn’t count.

Crovax — I hope you don’t mind, but I changed “bad” to “downed” in the subject. It just seems better (and more relevant) that way. S’ok?

Give them the same timer we have in WvW. Seems like a good solution to me. (Make the time only 2 mins max, though. 5 min would be way too long!)

What better way to rally the troops, inspire people, help rebuild our town (during the bash, have people donate their empyreal fragments, and dragonite ore!) than to have a giant DRAGON BASH?!

Guhracie.3419:

joshc.3129:

Since it’s was tied to LS Season 1 storyline I wouldn’t hold my breath but who knows.

It wasn’t tied to the S1 story, it was a festival with historical roots. However, with Lion’s Arch destroyed…. wait, we had Halloween, so… seems like Dragon Bash would be the way to go to get everyone even more pumped up about punching Mordy in the face.

That was what I was thinking, initially. Then we had Halloween, so I want to know why Dragon Bash was avoided this year.

Korossive.7085:

Under wraps, being discussed, can’t give details, no timeframe, dev are listening, Exciting™.

LOL, so true.

lordkrall.7241:

Maybe.

I wouldn’t expect it until we defeat Mordremoth though ^^

I, as well, hope it comes back after we defeat Mordremoth. That would be nice!

Will these ever be fixed so we can do them?!

Seriously? Will we? I love Dragon Bash!! It is by far one of my favorite events from GW2, and we havent had it again.

Artaz.3819:

Hint: Transfer servers; complete stuff; transfer back

Spend $70 just for map completion?! That just doesnt seem right.

I am actually really looking forward to December to see how the play dynamic will change with this. This will require scouts to be on maps, in towers, in keeps. I am sure it will still have a timer and contested on the inside, just no white swords. I think it will be tons of fun, and a totally different play style, with just one change.

No reason to complain about something you havent tried, yet. You might actually enjoy it like this, once you experience it

I say BRAVO and PROPS to anet for letting us try things differently!

Why is there a limit of 1k gold on guild banks? Are guilds supposed to stay broke, or let one person just hold all the gold for the bank? What is the reason for this?

OH MY GOD, that worked!!!! Thank you, Inclupatus!!

Thank you. Trying that now Hopefully it will work

I have tried everything. I have moved my bags around. I have put other bags in that slot. I have rebooted game. I have rebooted my machine. I cant get my bag slot #7 to allow items into the bag. I can manually pull the things from bag slot 6 or 8 into it, or from my bank, then pick things back up off the ground (or from bank, etc) and they will go into any other bags. But bag #7 is completely broken. I have never had any other type of bags in that slot. It has always been a leather bag.

This started with the last update, and has continued. I am not sure if its a caching issue, or what. But I need my bag slot, please. Anyone have any idea?

Reverence.6915:

Every server did this.

I’d just say uncouple cities from megaservers so we can go to LA, DR etc to yell for help and recruit for WvW specific guilds from a wider pool of players

This. I would LOVE major cities to be uncoupled from megaserver so we can have some of our “community” back. Please.

Reverence.6915:

Argos Helios.4965:

Why? How was this even a problem lol….T1 zergs couldn’t render 60 people crossing the bridge at once?

You could take down all the siege in the tower from under the bridge area

No, You couldnt take all of it, just most of it. So now lets try to figure out how they will “fix” Mendons. (Since it has the same problem)

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

That isn’t a bug, but a design decision.

Then its a terrible design decision. I chose female, not a sometimes male sometimes female character. o.O Why can’t my cute little girl with the giant bow just always be female?

Rainment of the Lich and Noble outfits are both male versions on the female Asurans.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

• A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
• The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
• You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

Where are you finding all these new players that are so easily confused by things like skills, traits, utilities at lower levels, and now how gems/gold conversion works? The loony bin? An elementary school? If you are having to dumb down the game to this extent, maybe the rest of us would rather they dont come here. I know what dumbing down the game did for WoW, I would prefer this game didnt repeat that mistake.

Luvpie, what server are you on?

Bridges in EotM, stairs in WvW (and some bridges), and uneven terrain are where this skill can fail. I have found that in EotM and WvW, the best bet is: 1. If the bridge can be destroyed, 2. If they stairs are on a wall that can be destroyed or upgraded with walls, then the skill will fail. Terrain, your guess is as good as mine as to why it fails sometimes.

It does need polishing and fixing, IMO. Thieves do not encounter this (Or rather, I have not ever encountered it on my thief, but always encounter it on my ele)

Can we get an update on this bug? Are we getting these foods back?

Wow, this is still bugged. WTF Anet?

This is still broken. Creator Zee does not allow you to buy his wares, at all.

Branden Gee.2150:

Huh, I can see how it would be frustrating for it to restart the spinning. Perhaps there is a happy middle ground where it starts out spinning then once you move the camera it stops.

That would be an amazing compromise. PLEASE!

I paid cash for these finishers. Sure would like to actually use them!

Actually, it reverts every single time I change a map. So annoying!

Zaxares, thanks for the heads up on this. I am missing his chatter, too.

Since the update, I am stuck with the Basic Finisher unless I select the finisher I want every single time I log in. This was not like this before the update, and its a bit annoying to have to always select the one I want.

I am rank 1056, never received an ascended as a drop (except for one really crappy ring). RNG sucks.

Sungtaro.6493:

Kitiara.2706:

Chaba.5410:

Kitiara.2706:

BUS’s goal was to paper everything, not just cap paper stuff. We worked on cutting off all supply lines, then slowly breaking down a fortified keep/garrison to end up taking it and papering it. It was all about taking their shiny and breaking waypoints… thats it. That was our fun.

And by “they” he means FA’s home bl waypoints, which pulled FA off of SoSBL and EBG time and time again, giving the night time SoS blob free reign.

Oh no, we also tried to take SoS’s stuff. There were just so many of them, all the time, in every tower and every keep that they just wiped us constantly. 10+ of us, versus SO MANY of them.

As someone on FA I have to say about BUS.

1) They knew what they were doing as far as ninjaing towers and keeps.
2) They are one of the few medium size guilds that were willing to try to take on waypointed keeps and one of the fewer still willing to wear it down instead of ninja it. I even named a wall in Bay after them.
3) Even though open fighting is not their strength, if it was close to even numbers, they stood and fought almost always to the last man.

I understand that things no longer worked out for you on Mag. This guardian from WS wishes you luck in your new home and hope that you continue to enjoy the game and play the game your way.

Thank you, so much! Hope you guys continue to have fun, too.

Chaba.5410:

Kitiara.2706:

BUS’s goal was to paper everything, not just cap paper stuff. We worked on cutting off all supply lines, then slowly breaking down a fortified keep/garrison to end up taking it and papering it. It was all about taking their shiny and breaking waypoints… thats it. That was our fun.

And by “they” he means FA’s home bl waypoints, which pulled FA off of SoSBL and EBG time and time again, giving the night time SoS blob free reign.

Oh no, we also tried to take SoS’s stuff. There were just so many of them, all the time, in every tower and every keep that they just wiped us constantly. 10+ of us, versus SO MANY of them.

Not an exploit. Cheap trick, but not an exploit.

King Amadaeus.8619:

Ghostly Demise.5786:

BP bought out Mag’s top guilds, some went to TC and some to Archeage. The server never really did co-operate and I think Mag is going to replicate SoR’s downfall.

LOL….GG if you think WARBUS was Mag’s “best guilds”…

They were inconsequential guilds that ran from fights and tried to cap paper objectives….If people worth following tag up on Mag, Mag queues the map.

The reason why War/Bus left is because they play ppt and no one else really does outside of necessity. Right now there is no need to stay in T2 anymore.

Also losing SiX was more of a major blow than War/Bus combined…CTH even more so probably.

You are right, BUS and WaR were not the “best guilds” (especially for fighting), they never claimed they were, and that was never their goal. BUS’s goal was to paper everything, not just cap paper stuff. We worked on cutting off all supply lines, then slowly breaking down a fortified keep/garrison to end up taking it and papering it. It was all about taking their shiny and breaking waypoints… thats it. That was our fun.

And you know, each person plays their game their way. SiX wanted to do their thing, and it didnt work on Mag either, so they went to TC. Great for them, they found their fun.

There is no “right” or “wrong” way to play WvW. You play it how you have your fun. That is what playing a game is all about, right?

It is no one person’s or guild’s fault that Mag died the way it did. It was fun while it lasted, and I know I have a ton of fantastic memories from it. It wasnt about the fights, the papering, or even the crying nerds…… It was about the fun.

zhonnika.1784:

Ark did not come to JQ. Not even sure where that rumor came from.

T2 guilds do seem to be moving to T1 for fights/gvg, but there are still not even as many people up here as you would expect.

Ahhh thanks. I will make sure those I know do not continue to spread that.