Guild Wars 2

Solstice.1097:

Konrad Curze.5130:

Solstice.1097:

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—> WvW-only transfers are not available to tier 1 servers

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Expected result:

—> Anet wins as their transfer revenue goes up

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does not compute

at least, for ANet it doesnt

Not sure if you read it correctly. This says you would still have to pay full price to transfer to tier 1.

ah right, my bad. didnt notice he kept the option of transfering both for PvE and WvW to tier 1 servers.
makes more sense now, thanks

Solstice.1097:

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(…)

—> WvW-only transfers are not available to tier 1 servers

(…)

Expected result:

—> Anet wins as their transfer revenue goes up

(…)

does not compute

at least, for ANet it doesnt

Blix.8021:

Everyone suggesting 3 leagues for NA needs to go back to elementary school.

who said all groups HAD TO BE equal sized?

12/12 is a trainwreck of epic proportions that noone, in either league, will be able to enjoy

6/12/6 would have 2 out of 3 leagues somewhat fair, somewhat balanced, and somewhat interesting
while at the same time preventing both extremes of the curve (top servers and bottom servers) from interfering in the middle one….which will still be greatly unbalanced yes, but not HILARIOUSLY unbalanced as 12/12 would be

6/12/6 is evidently a far superior alternative

they should just make this widespread
give a class one ability to stop:

- warriors from gaining adrenaline
- guardians from using virtues
- mesmers from creating illusions

and so on, so every class is a hard counter to another one, in a circle fashion…

this thread deserves to be in the general forum

Im amazed you had to ask, OP
it goes like this:

community request on a wvw mechanic change → dev refuses

always. invariably. no need to ask

“lolpver”, definetly

Asudementio.8526:

Because what we need is for players to yell at militia/pugs to get off the map to decrease point gains of enemy teams, good idea.

actually yes, thats what we need. the time of pugs stacking one server and that actually being benefitial has to come to an end. the only way for that to happen is if pugs are griefed and chased away by organized guilds

why do you think this is a bad idea? the coat tailer pugs were the ones creating the problem, they sure deserve to be publicly disparaged and heckled into leaving.

Cynz.9437:

if they removed it then you would see only warriors in wvw (if not already :x)

80% of the players in WvW are warriors, guardians or necros anyway

Phantom.8130:

insanemaniac.2456:

Zacchary.6183:

Theftwind.8976:

taek.9386:

espionage is all part of war

Only if you have a fair chance of capturing, torturing and then executing the spy. If you do not then it is nothing more then a glorified cheat!

All’s fair in love and war. Just saying.

killing a saboteur is fair.

we cannot do this.

no no no. you never kill a spy as a first option. you flip a spy, then send him back to his original side. you only kill him if you can’t convert him. granted, in gw2, neither of those are an option, but i have a thing about realistic accuracy.

in terms of realistic accuracy, killing the spy is the most sensible course of action
first, because such individual cannot be trusted under any basis, all in all he has defected twice
second, because the time, effort and money involved is far bigger than seeding your own, more reliable spies into enemy territory
third , because his freedom is limited, you cannot “send him back” with plausible reasons, most likely he must remain in your territory or risk blowing his cover. he is in an excellent position to spread disinformation, which is quite valuable on itself, but he cant get intel on the enemy. a regular spy can do both.

double agents are very rare

Rozbuska.5263:

This kitten leagues are sux. They made big mistake with announce that and dont block trasfers.

lol yeah, Im sure they didnt see this coming, poor ANet guys, so innocent, not blocking transfers beforehand was a pure coincidence and a mistake on their part

seriously, are there still gullible people like this in the world? a-mazing

stun warriors are twice as OP as thieves are, while at the same time being half as hard to play

dear devs, nerf them into oblivion please

this is a clear case of “pug not in ts”

funny video, but needs some tweaks

where it reads “SFR” put “Piken”
and where it reads “Vizunah” put “SFR and Vizunah”

SBi better dont push their hand and stay in the kid’s league.
otherwise they will see 90% of their fresh transfers bailing out in a hearbeat lol

Justdeifyme.9387:

Different Developement Teams.

Different. Developement. Teams.

yep

living story development team – 100 programmers
bug fixing development team – 1 intern

Lord Kuru.3685:

The goal is to get you to buy inventory space from the gem store

/thread

living story > fixing bugs

well, to make it simple
living story > all

anyone who didnt pick warrior or guardian at release got the short straw

it has been like that since always, and ANet seems to be quite happy with it

D/D provides more burst but its heavily reliant on cds. you utterly wreck someone every 60 seconds or so, and inbetween your a pretty mediocre dpser.

D/P has less burst, requires preparation, provides better survivality and takes more skill in general to play. but it isnt reliant on cds so you can be a threat at any time.

other than that, your friend is a total imbecile and knows nothing of thief

they dont care, as long as they get the gem money from people transfering to the top servers
thats pretty much the whole idea behind leagues: a new way to milk their playerbase dry

yeah right, because C. Johanson hasnt already lied to the whole game population once, huh?

with ascended gear he has already showed he has no problems watsoever fitting a foot in his mouth, sooooooo…. lets take everything he says with a grain of salt, shall we?

I havent spent a dime in GW2 since 2 months after release

and until the day I see them focusing more in WvW and less in PvE, I wont be spending any either

in other words, i’ll never spend money in GW2 again

Zylonite.5913:

So I go and kill the Maw or Tequiti in the world events which take 60-120 seconds and get two rares, one from the daily chest and one from the boss chest.

I go and cap 5 keeps and take 10 supply camps (with a zerg) for an hour or two, and get a fine/masterwork and a siege weapon (worth less than a silver) from the rank chest.

I am not sure what else to say….

you expected to get the same rewards in WvW than in PvE? this is where you went wrong

lemme introduce you this nce PvE game, maybe you havent heard about it. its called GW2.

WvW is not the main focus. it isnt the secondary focus either. hell, at this point I even doubt they focus on it at all

ANet works on PvE. then on more PvE. then on MOAR PvE
and when they get tired of that, they relax by…working on more PvE

poepie.6570:

Barrigon.8965:

Before talking nonsense and bs as you do L2Respect.

This made me ROFL so hard comming from BB I even LMAO during that.

I would say you learn to respect but don’t think you ever will.
Good luck fighting us with 1 (UW/DL) : 4 (BB) I don’t call that respect, I call it pethetic.

this made me ROFL aswell. when we bring less numbers than you guys it end sup just the same. you all dead on the floor and not a single of us died

I love all the crap that DL/UWhas been spewing as of late
“those BB guys trample us with their blobs, but when we fight even numbers we beat them”

guess what? nuuuuu-uuuuu, you still die, with more, with less, even…it doesnt matter. I havent lost a single fight to a UW/DL group in a whole week. kittening amazing.

you guys are bad as bad can get. keep repeating to yourselves that its just numbers what keep you all down, f that help you look at yourselves in a mirror.

Nuka Cola.8520:

The raiding in gw2 is spamming auto attacks with 50+ other people on sponge bob bosses with virtually zero failure chances. That’s gw2 raiding.

/thread

DavyMcB.1603:

Konrad Curze.5130:

DavyMcB.1603:

In forum you’ll only hear thieves crying. In the real game play you will always see them gloating.

I have been a full time mesmer for almost 3k hours until I tried thief a few weeks back.

Two words.

EASY MODE

remember kids, 99/100 times when someone says “I was X but tried thief for a day and lemme tell you, EASY MODE”…no, he didnt. he doesnt have a thief, and if he does, he died like a moron constantly

Except that I didn’t die. And got at least 2 people whine after every match. Thief is my full time pvp now. Get your facts straight or kitten. Plz. For us all.

first, I still call bs, please make a video of you owning so hard that you get 2 QQs per match…I bet you’ll provide that video the day after the end of the world. all mouth no trousers

regardless, you are a total moron if your basing your opinion on a prof on hot join pvp

I dont know absolutly anyone that still plays hot join, everybody I have met in the game just laughs when mentioned.

I stopped playing hot join the day I realized I had forgot to put runes and sigils in my char and still was destroying everyone…such abyssmally low is the skill ceiling there.
btw, I was playing a mesmer, not a thief

maybe one of this days you’ll try it in high end pve, large scale wvw, or tPvP, and realize that its probably the worst prof in the game bar none in all those

in the meantime keep rocking hot join, your such a pro, show em kid!

…you are laughable. no, seriously. laughable

LunarNacht.8913:

He didn’t realized it right away and used Shadow Refuge and just stood there while being bashed.

he probably didnt realize it, because thats what happens 99 times out of 100 when you use it, anyway

if the OP played PvP (either sPvP or WvW), the starting post would be a lot different

its easy to be somewhat optimist of the game when you are a PvEr

I mean, you might not agree with everything they have done so far, but at least you know that the devs care about you, listen to you, and 99,999995% of the new content goes for you

ANet has showed they cba to fight zoomhack. if they were to ban people for using zoomhack, 80% of the GW2 population would be gone overnight

use it till your hearts content

DavyMcB.1603:

In forum you’ll only hear thieves crying. In the real game play you will always see them gloating.

I have been a full time mesmer for almost 3k hours until I tried thief a few weeks back.

Two words.

EASY MODE

remember kids, 99/100 times when someone says “I was X but tried thief for a day and lemme tell you, EASY MODE”…no, he didnt. he doesnt have a thief, and if he does, he died like a moron constantly

rallying should only happen after a successful stomp

DevonCarver.5370:

Doing so would invalidate the time people spend acquiring that gear. I think the heart of your post is in the right place, but what we would rather do is make possible for people to get the gear by playing WvW with a sprinkling of PvE, rather than the other way around.

close, but no. many people dont want to do that “sprinkling of PvE”, none at all, period. and you are alienating them by forcing them to do PvE to enjoy WvW.

how about this?

get most gear thru WvW easily
then some of it that can be gained in PvE easier/faster, and in WvW slower/harder… but not just from PvE

btw, the inverse should also be true. many parts easy to come by in PvE, but some parts easier/faster in WvW.
I dont see why WvW players are forced to do PvE, while the other way around doesnt happen

nerf stealth
then buff thieves damage and survivality to compensate

congratz, you now have 2 warrior profs in the game

Ostra.3927:

They wanted WoW…. they got Warhammer.

despite its innumerable flaws, Warhammer was a billion times better RvR game than this one

ThaOwner.7560:

DevonCarver.5370:

No. That is not a possibility at this time. The point of the buff is to affect the WvW game mode as a whole disabling it on your character would lessen the value of the buff to a server and completely invalidate the whole point.

why do you want to kill GvG? honest question

Cause thats the most BS answer i’ve ever heard

why do you want to keep GvG in its current state of near-death? honest question
practically noone does GvG, the amount of GvG guilds is minimum compared to the amount of guilds created . its a tiny scene, and being a very vocal one is not changing that.

tbh I rather they remove GvG from WvW entirely, and come up later with a real GvG system possibly more related to sPvP than to WvW, where they actually put resources to make it work instead of force-pegging it where it doesnt belong

always off. but SB’s 5 range takes quite a bit of practice to dominate . terrain can sometimes be a bit difficult to interpret

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

Konrad Curze.5130:

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

I would take 35 more power, 30 to all other stats, 2% less crit dmg, 15% more boon uptime (makes Hidden Assassin 18.75 seconds long each time I enter stealth), and 25% movement speed over what scholar offers anytime.

I see your point. Im a D/D secondary D/P thief tho, and I pick my targets carefully (WvW only, I dont do tPvP anymore). my fights usually dont last more than 5 seconds if I can avoid it , so the extra 10% damage for the opener is a godsent that I wouldnt trade for anything.

If you don’t drop your target in the first 5 seconds, do you have to run or can you continue the fight?

necro, warrior, guardian run.
the rest, keep on hammering till they r dead

considering that ever since release, every new patch that ANet released for WvW has strengthened the domination of the ever-growing mindless zerging over small, more organized grouping, its safe to assume that Vizunah are their posterboys

I mean, practically every change they made was almost custom-tailored for Vizunah, and detrimental to its competitors

well played eles are absolute beasts

omnitech.6190:

i hope Anet will let us earn laurel by just doing more WvW , not just from the dailies. It will encourage more PvErs to go WvW every now and then

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

I would take 35 more power, 30 to all other stats, 2% less crit dmg, 15% more boon uptime (makes Hidden Assassin 18.75 seconds long each time I enter stealth), and 25% movement speed over what scholar offers anytime.

I see your point. Im a D/D secondary D/P thief tho, and I pick my targets carefully (WvW only, I dont do tPvP anymore). my fights usually dont last more than 5 seconds if I can avoid it , so the extra 10% damage for the opener is a godsent that I wouldnt trade for anything.

they’r slacking in yak’s BL

personally I prefer scholar, I fail to see the gain of freeing up one skill slot with that setup

sr and bp is all the defence you will ever need in a d/p build

also imho AS is worse than scholar’s bonuses, since you have to choose between the extra damage or the extra power, scholar gives a mix of both plus some more crit damage. and D/P builds usually dont synergize with signets anyway.

Jamais vu.5284:

demetrodon.1457:

Wouldn’t say a great matchup, as there will be blobs of BB at UW home all day/night long. But nonetheless.. we will have great fights, when it is proper.

Yes. It is ridiculous that after getting wiped one or two times by us with roughly equal numbers they mobilize their entire Borderlands force for our ~20 men. I mean blobbing would be understandable if they were the attacking zerg, but it’s very clear that after a few defeats they pull together everything they have as a massive defense force blob.
All mass, no class (except for sIN and the others).

I dont understand what you mean. a group of 15 randoms in public ts downed 25 of your guys in a camp. and we took bay with quite a bit less your numbers, with you guys bunkered in the lord with ballistas and arrowcarts…if thats the type of quality you can bring to the field….

blobs happen because we occasionally have that many people online, and we cant tell pugs to stay home and play PvE, or stop following. wish we could.
but not because we need them. certainly not against Drakkar. UW otoh, I have seen real skill there…

anyway, Drakkar complaining about blobs? lol, in primetime you guys are double our numbers, you are the blob and still cant profit from it.

I think its part of their plan: demotivating people on lower tier servers , and give them more reasons to transfer to T1 before the league starts

“see guys, this is an advance of what is coming…dont you think you’ll be better off giving us your money now?”

Terrahero.9358:

Neeho.3859:

Honestly, if they just cut the amount of people allowed in a map before que kicks in by half, the problem would fix itself.

However, I think I like your idea better… rewards those willing to work for it and keeps the zerglings at bay. At bay, not at Bay.

How does that solve anything? Servers that are winning with night/morning capping will still do that. And everyone else just gets even more queue’s, even the lower pop servers.
Again, punishing players with excessively long queue’s, which are bad enough at times as it is.

if the queues become unbearable enough, organized guilds will flock from stacked servers and spread. coattailers will follow them but trying not to stack too much again, so they will be more spread aswell..
and that is true for night/morning cappers too in the top servers, they will spread thin

worst case scenario, the WvW will be the same as it is now, but instead of 2-3 allpowerful servers , you will have 5-8 more equivalent. thats an improvement.

the idea behind low pop queues is to force people to spread. and they would work kitten well at it.

also, since stacking servers is a player-created problem, I see nothing wrong with punishing them for it.

doubt ANet will take the time to implement a 2-sided map

that sounds an awful lot like working in WvW content
they dont do that
ever

also, the leagues have 9 servers in europe and 12 in US. if you make two 2-sided matchups, you are left with 5 and 8 servers respectively, how do you match them the last week?

Terrahero.9358:

As for konrad curvez, really? The current zerker is a reaction? How long have you even been playing this game? Glasscannon’s have been running around since beta. And Thieves in particular never dropped the subject. Whereas conditions are a fairly new cup of tea people are kittening about, which didnt even start untill Necro’s got overbuffed.

I’ve been playing since release, and no, glasscannons werent as prevalent as they are now in WvW.
they were prevalent in thief builds, and perhaps 100b warriors, but thats about it, most people preferred balanced builds. there were plenty of bunkers too.

but then ANet buffed conditions to ludicrous levels, and nowadays everyone and their dog that doesnt go conditions go fullzerker, and bunkers are relegated to organized GvG….and that, just to support their condition spammers.

Natronix.9827:

Some people here are simply jealous its funny.

som people here are simply so blind its funny

usually I go by this simple rule of thumb: if the absolute worst player on the game, given enough time, can achieve it…it means its nothing worth talking about to start with.

as I said, its purely a time based achievement

anyone can hop on a level 1 char, go to WvW, and if they dont avoid fights, have within 5 minutes their “kill 50 players in WvW” monthly done.
250k kills is simply throwing more minutes at it.