Guild Wars 2

I run 44600. I love the aoe of air when blobs collide. I use half celes half knights gear w/superior air runes. Its just my opinion but no way would I ever be without my 6 in earth because I HATE dying fast and after so many years of gaming I just can’t bring myself to be a weasel and stand on the outskirts of a battle cherry picking.

A month ago SoR was dead last. We have moved up and even placed second in tier 7 last week. The question is-are you a band wagon jumper or do you want to help a server climb the ranks. Do you want your team mates to recognize you or do you want to be another brick in the wall? Contrary to what is said here the battles are intense even on the lower servers. I chose to join SoR and haven’t regretted it in the least.

roaming I use the s/f earth build (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Diva-s-Condi-Signet-Build-Video-Added-1). I fought 4 guys last night and dropped 2 of them but was unable to stomp b4 they took me out. For the zerg I just switch to staff and play support.

joneirikb.7506:

Lots of different reasons for the bronze, most casual WvW’ers usually won’t get any higher than bronze. I myself only started WvW 7 months ago, so I simply haven’t had time to get past mid bronze yet. Also the largest groups you see form us are the “zergs” which is mostly have the newer players and some of the more casuals, lead by a couple of the veterans etc.

Most of our veterans tend to run in smaller groups, either with each-others or mixed in with us bronze’s. But don’t worry, most of the core still remain in Kaineng. But we’re sorta the “roaming server” for a reason, most of the old core tends to skip the zergs and head straight for small groups.

PS: I know you’ve been outnumbered by both of us, but honestly, unless BP and DR are even more depleted than rumors say, you’re not going to fare any better against any of the other servers atm. I agree that 3 weeks in a row on the same match-up gets a bit stale, even if SoR is really getting in gear this week. But it could have been MUCH worse for you guys.

o7 Kainang. Some great, and I mean great battles with you last night in Eternal. Most fun I have had in a long time. Wouldn’t break my heart if we faced you again.

Dinas Dragonbane.2978:

You could have shortened your thread by a lot by saying what server you chose.

I’m guessing Sorrows Furnace cause SoR and Kaineng been slugging it out all day and that leaves them as the other bottom tier server. Been a fun day with plenty of action.

yak yak yak, that’s all you do

Hey, theres only 1 guy in the world who can’t point at someone else and say “At least I aint that poor bas%*&$” and we aint that guy anymore. And from my short experience on SoR I can say in all honesty-the GSCH commanders are money.

Mesmer Eyes……..

DemonforLife.8546:

skip T3 ur gonna be constantly losing 24/7 cause T2 server in T3 match up go T4 if you want more fun i guess but to be completely honest just stay kitten every tier after that is pretty much dying

I joined the lowest ranked server a month ago and now we are the second lowest. Constant fighting and few uber blobs. I am actually having a really good time. SoR btw.

Cavendish.2168:

WvW ruined
life ruined
nothing left but despair
all hope lost
all is vain

#RONPAUL 2016

Or Ben Carson. Either will do.

you’ll have to shower first to get the stench of AA of you

Dost Thou Even Hoist

Jubilee Esther was taken-wtf?

Jeknar.6184:

Krustydog.3072:

Oh and exactly where are the official server forums these days?

Stick post on World Recruitment Forum

I need an access code to register at the server website?

1-what is this official ts you speak of? 2-How big of a following do you need to get the ball rolling? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYpTd-r6oe0. Your thinking too big to start. Lets get out of the bottom tier then reassess.

Oh and exactly where are the official server forums these days?

Had a good time doing wvwvw tonight. Ran with 2 guilds each fielding about 4 or 5 and had some good fights, captured and held a few keeps. Pretty successful. Hardly in a place to take on a tier 1-6 but with a little work we can move up. Good job to those I ran with tonight.

Me and my 2 friends picked this server BECAUSE its the worst. We are vet pvp’ers and it is our goal to make this server better. If we succeed its because WE did it not because we jumped on some huge zerg band wagon where what we do hardly makes a difference.

Freedom of speech. I find YOUR post offensive in that you would censor people so should I have a hissy fit and demand YOU be censored? Censorship is a slippery slope, one mans vulgarity is another mans art and no one person gets to decide for others. Read 1984 by George Orwell.

Dude (or Duddete) me and my friends just came back to this game from Archeage. You have no idea how good you have it here

whoopty friggin doo

Limited looting. Anything not a wep or armor is lootable.

And yet you keep playing. Why? You know they have something in place to keep track of active players. Only way your going to get their attention is just quit playing. Quit buying gems. Just….quit.

It’s growing? I logged in after a long break and there were 2, count them, 2! people in my realms borderlands.

Am I still going to play WvW? 1 word answer-why?

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Server Bandwagoning is over, now it will be guild bandwagoning. Now only guilds like Blackgate merc (superior big wvw guild), will exist. You dream of an Utopia, without thinking of the consequences. this is just one of them.

Not true. UO had the mega guilds that tried to control the champ spawns in fel but 10 good players could raise serious hell. They cant be everywhere at once. 10 v 20 (guild) sounds alot better than 50 v 2000 (realms) dont you think? The thing about guild bandwagoning is you end up with alot of scrubs that are worthless and really good pvp’ers dont like to bandwagon. We are here for OUR glory not some leetist hobo we dont even know. Why not offer both-a guild pvp world and WvW? Play the way you want right?

sminkiottone.6972:

It sounds more Lineage 2/Eve online than Guildwars 2 to me.
Anet is never going to do it for the following reasons :

1. You are suggesting another type of game.
2. Guildwars 2 has too few real pvpers, most of them have already leaved the game months ago.
3. Lots of people like zerging, it compensate the lack of personal skill.
4. Most people don’t actualy enjoy pvping, yesterday I was roaming alone in Vizunah bl ( my bad I know.. ), I had hard time find some brave player, most of them just flee, even 2 vs me, luckily for me there were few good SFR on the map to play with.

we would come back for something like this-guaranteed. And we would spend tons of money.

And just an observation. In UO it was all about guild warfare and diplomacy and it was way better. I mean, you approach a stranger-do you attack? Are they hostile? It just made it way more interesting. It also encouraged good behavior because if your guild was branded a bunch of douch’s it made life much harder. Put in full currency or badge looting and now your talking. Keep the current map and just add another map to the game-a free for all badlands.

Budchgon.2108:

So if I have a large guild but only 2-3 play WvW i’m screwed? Way to reward large zerg guilds and punish smaller groups… :-(

A big fat NO from me

ummmm…..multiple guilds?

zenleto.6179:

Chuo.4238:

All I can say at this point that we’ve been arguing amongst ourselves over months and multiple threads and issues, and ArenaNet have remained silent.

They’ve an agenda that we’ll not change. We waste our time and energy here; particular opinions are of no import.

Why the hell would anyone from Anet want to join in on any of the crap on these forums?

Though we don’t know who people are in an unofficial capacity…

Maybe because we are the customers that pay their bills?

SplendidDust of AncientSuns.8453:

MandJ.8965:

SplendidDust of AncientSuns.8453:

xephire.8324:

SplendidDust of AncientSuns.8453:

I tear up people in wvw who are undoubtedly geared with ascended trinkets and full exo when I’m in my under leveled char. Ascended trinkets aren’t going to break anything. Period. Skill determines the outcome, not the gear. I can’t believe the outrage people are in over this.

No matter how you rationalize it, all you whiners and wannabe developers will never get everything you want. Don’t like it? Go play something else. If you’re gonna stay than kitten up.

Post a video of you tearing up a fully geared and lvled guy on forum with normal white gear then i believe you.

He’s level 67 and no he’s not in white gear. My point being, Ascended gear with 10% better stats isn’t going to break the game or set the skill bar any higher. It’s based on player knowledge, skill and experience.

And no, I’m not making a video to prove it.

Hahaha. Do you want to make a battle? You with yellow gear and i am full exotic? Winner gets 500 gold.
When two guys fight against, one in full Ascended gear one in full exotic and both have the same skill, same class and so on, the full exotic will lose.

Honestly, if you want to show off the size of your E-wiener, that’s cool, but I don’t care.

If I was a betting man I would bet he would be “The Wiener.”

ZBoss.5610:

Itemspiral and grinding. Two things we were promised were very different with GW2 compared to other MMOs. Not looking good on keeping those promises atm.

Those of us who were screaming when they introduced the first round of Itemspiral were told “Oh its just this one time.” Ya, right. Quit for 6 months and I’m so far behind gear wise I have zero interest in playing this game. I already did this crap in wow for 6-7 years. GW2 has become a gear score gotta have the right build/class min/max game. Same old, same old. Play the way you want rofl.

Skeletor.9360:

After months and months of being outmanned many guilds on the DR server are leaving for the zerg servers. This means that the problem of imbalanced WvW populations is getting even worse.

Sad thing is is the fix is 3 lines of C code.

if ((MySideInWvWCnt > (SideBCnt + SomeFudgeFactor)) ||
(MySideInWvWCnt > (SideCCnt + SomeFudgeFactor)))
return;
/* Otherwise allow entry into WvW. */

The above makes it such that no side can have a huge number more players than the other sides. THEN ranks mean something other than WvW population because right now the population and ranks reflect each other.

Fact is that the company spends more time changing people’s names and creating dorky events than on fixing a major flaw in their game.

Pretty much this game has gone down the tubes because of this. Why they don’t implement the simple rule is beyond me.

At the very least they should turn on free server transfers….

WvW is nothing more than glorified wow arena for rankings. Nothing you do has any lasting effect or really changes anything. I tried to play again after quitting for 6 months and NOTHING has changed. Same old same old. At least DaoC realm vs realm had some consequences and real benefits to it making it more than worthwhile for players to be engaged. Welp, back to World of Tanks where I win free gold (the currency you pay cash for) for capturing territories. Nothing to see here (yet).

The wolves have left and the sheep are having a good old time.

ummmm, though it’s a different genre World of Tanks has 60 million registered users and is the biggest online game there has ever been and it is still growing. And with the release of War Thunder (planes) Wargaming is the largest online gaming company in the world. The keys to their success? Clint is server side-I have never in 2 years seen a single hack nor heard of one reported on their forums and the end game is all about skill. You can’t farm some special laser gun by running endless dungeons or extra thick armor by doing dailies til you want to stab knitting needles in your eyes. Everyone gets the same tanks. If GW2 had stuck to the original manifesto, imo, it would be way more successful than it is now. You want to be a winner then pattern yourself after proven winners. WoW USED to be the king, WoT IS the king now. Argue all you want but I’ll bet WoT has more active users then every mmorpg combined. Make an mmorpg and pattern it after WoT=win.

I would pay a monthly fee for the game as described in the manifesto. But this game? Nope.

Fyrebrand.4859:

Krustydog.3072:

World of Tanks holds the honor of most players on at one time on a server by breaking their own record.

Yeah, most players on a single server. As long as there are enough people on any given server, who cares how many there are? Any time there’s a major group event in GW2, like Frozen Maw, one of the dragons, or Champion this or that, I look around and see tons of players swarming the area. Any more than is needed, and there’s no benefit to having them all crammed into one server. I’d rather just have more servers.

How many servers does World of Tanks even have? I don’t see how your point is relevant to this thread. A good MMORPG, especially one with cross-server competitive elements like WvW, makes efforts to spread out server population across all servers evenly. At the time of this writing, ArenaNet is offering free transfers to medium-pop servers. They don’t want everybody crowding the same server.

Krustydog.3072:

EVERY single player I came into this game with, myself included, no longer plays.

Personal anecdote, impossible to verify, and completely vague.

What does it even mean to “leave” GW2, when it’s free to play after you’ve purchased it? Anyone who told you they “no longer play” GW2 could literally start playing again any second now, and keep playing until they “no longer play” again.

Krustydog.3072:

WvWvW is nothing more than a lemming gibb fest where nothing you do really matters. Take a keep-move on-other side retakes keep. Next week the whole cycle resets. For pvp WoT smokes and I mean SMOKES GW2.

Whooooaaaa!!! Dude, I’d better get on over to World of Tanks right now! Thanks for the advertisement!

Krustydog.3072:

To the guys saying they read the manifesto and think GW2 held to it-NOT! There is NOTHING that distinguishes this game from any other run of the mill AAA fail mmo.

Slow day on the WoT forums, or what?

http://worldoftanks.com/news/2162-wargaming-at-gdc/

my whole point is that WoT knows what pvp’ers want and much like how WoW stole the best parts of other games and made a better game GW2 could learn a pvp lesson from WoT. When pvp’ers get disgusted and leave a game en masse the game is done and its just a matter of time. GW2 is not a good pvp game at the moment.

World of Tanks holds the honor of most players on at one time on a server by breaking their own record. EVERY single player I came into this game with, myself included, no longer plays. WvWvW is nothing more than a lemming gibb fest where nothing you do really matters. Take a keep-move on-other side retakes keep. Next week the whole cycle resets. For pvp WoT smokes and I mean SMOKES GW2. To the guys saying they read the manifesto and think GW2 held to it-NOT! There is NOTHING that distinguishes this game from any other run of the mill AAA fail mmo.

How is having x agony resist to do x fractal any different than having x gear score to do x dungeon in wow? Its called gear grinding in wow and a rose by any other name (fractals) is still a rose. this game is becoming so generic that its sad actually. It has the smell of corporation execs all over it now.

Adry.7512:

as the loser that i am playing MMORPGs for a long time i am going to give a quick and cheap opinion on gw2.

yes i played WoW b4 it lost its charm (crusader days and lvl7 cap).

pve-wise = GW2 destroys WoW and any other mmorpg, BUT it needs a lot more considering the fact that they wana make it a living world with much to do. they need more endgame needed, more in-between content needed (lvls 1-80 content).

PVP-wise = i hurd they are going to making dueling in the PVE world….YESSS OMG YESSS *kitten. they need GvG battles and features and stuff…but the PVP style is beautiful and it actually takes time to read and fully understand a tree to make a good build…unlike every other mmorpg out there that have a geeric build fr every1. they need to focus on adding more pvp stuff though*

Expansions = well im sure they have many plans as ive read/seen from interviews, but they need to make end-game content…..a lot more compelling.

they just need to add more things.

atm i wont lie i think GW2 beats any mmorpg out there. for example my friend plays WoW so im updated on their new stuff and well…..its pathetic and senseless =/. i think that within a year from now GW2 will become the new mmorpg giant and will most likely stay that way for a while. the only competition i see is the new blade and soul game from korea, BUT its a very different game and well….i doubt it will rival gw2.

yes GW2 is a new game and yes i have a lot of problems with it cause i believe they should add/fix certain things, but so far its an epic game and a fun experience and from what i read/seen it has a lot more to come and gw2 developers are all well-aware of what the fans want. i just see a lot of potential for this game….my ONLY BIG concern is how will they get the necessary money to fund this? i mean for BIG expansions and new content….they need money, but its a b2p game and the cash shop….doesnt have much, so the main money would come from sales and players active in the game. i understand that they dont wana make the cashshop OP and im with that idea 100%, but is this company going to struggle money-wise in the future when it comes to new content and getting what the fans want?

see bolded. pvp in this game is kind of lame when compared to the classics (UO, DAoC, Shadowbane) or the my current fave-World of Tanks. Theres really not that much freedom of builds and the people who play pvp seriously all use cookie cutter comps and cookie cutter builds. UO had it right-no classes just skill points with a cap so you could be anything you wanted to be within the skill point cap. Just my opinion tho. I’ve been playing mmorpg’s since UO and this game is pretty cookie cutter itself…just a little flashier than most but still same old same old. They should have stuck to their manifesto then the game would actually be different than everything else out there.

thx much for the info.

we have 2 computers in my house and sometimes the kids are on mine doing homework so I play on theirs. is that going to present a problem logging in with 2 different ip’s?