Guild Wars 2

As several folks said…. overreaction. The melee train is simple meta. Players (not Anet) figured out how to exploit the old skills mechanics to reduce incoming damage and CC.

And now some of the skill mechanics have changed. No biggie. Some smart, creative players will figure out how to make this work and we’ll have a new meta before you know it.

I’ve been out gathering since the patch, often out in the middle of nowhere, with NO ONE around. Then I hear a player shout as loud as if it were my own! Mostly ‘shout’ slot skills like “retreat!” but also other player phrases for buffs, downed, etc.

@lindelle didn’t watch my mouth but if my character is speaking in tongues that would explain why it’s so loud.

I compared my audio settings to a screenshot I made of them a couple weeks ago; they are unchanged (pretty much since launch).

Not broken, very easy to use successfully. I use this very often for the purposes already listed in this thread and it works at least 95% of the time for me. One caveat: I don’t use autotarget. I tab or click my targets (or target-assist). Maybe that’s the difference.

Two toons stuck trying to get to a guild mission

Lv 80 Sylvari Ranger
Lv 80 Norn Guardian

Both tried to come from Black Citadel

I have 2 level 80 characters that now seem to be perma-stuck on the plains of ashford loading screen. Eventually my login attempt times out with a 7:0:0:794:101 error.

Things I’ve tried that have not fixed the issue:

- restarting the game
- Loading a different character, then a stuck one
- Joining a party with a character in a different zone, then logging into the stuck one
- Deleting local.DAT
- Running the -repair option

Plains of Ashford…. We have about 50 people trying to get into a guild mission and 2/3rds can’t get into the map.

Furthermore, many of these characters are now locked into the loading screen and now unplayable. Still stuck after F4, loading a different character, and then trying to load the stuck character.

Same issue for me; started at midnight PST. My character was in Silverwastes, then in Dry Top. I see the problem both places.

Guess I’ll try other zones.

Lynx Rufus Californicus.2958:

As a career low-pop server player, the lack of swords made a HUGE difference in our play this last month. We could actually influence something before a horde of zerglings descended on and face-rolled our much smaller numbers.

It was pure guerrilla warfare at its finest, so naturally, the blob-fests hate it. Look, if you have a high population server, you darned well ought to be able to sacrifice a few of your personal points to guard a place. If my low pop server could manage to station guards at Hills, Bay, Garri, and even towers in the south, you high-pop zergfests darned well oughta be able to do the same.

THIS^. No white swords was very very fun in T8. Hours after the reversion to white swords the blob is back. Last month was the most fun WvW has been in a long time… tactics really made a difference and felt rewarding.

T8 NA

Personally LOVE the no white swords, and wish it could stay. In our tier, it really seems to reward coordination between multiple teams, aggressiveness and creative tactics. T8 used to be mostly blobs ktraining. They can still try to ktrain now, but they will lose PPT if they do.

This change is making T8 very, very fun to play in.

Speaking for myself (I’m on SoR), I’ve been away from GW2 quite a lot due to RL. I got nearly to bronze last time I was able to play. I’ve been WvW’ing a lot since I returned in November, so I’m well into bronze and aiming for silver now. (It’s not EotM, either — I can count on one hand the number of EotM zergs I’ve ever been in.)

So I guess I’m a “new” from the perspective of headcount but not really new. I started back in headstart before RL took me away from the game.

And yeah, T8 got a lot more fun with the white swords gone. I’m seeing fewer zergs and more small group action. So much less boring that ZvZ!

The folks who comment that the new system is very harsh on new players / alts in the low levels are quite correct. I’m trying to level a new alt by earning the traits and it’s a really bad experience. I feel weak vs. content due to a lack of trait points, and a majority of Adept traits are literally impossible for my character to earn via gameplay at the level I can start slotting them (36).

The impossible unlocks and lack of traits feels quite unfair in the low levels.

As others have said free transfers aren’t the only factor in messing up WvW balance, but it’s one of the most significant ones. The matchmaking system will never work properly until this gets fixed.

I support any change to server transfers that stops the meta games folks are playing with them in WvW. I personally don’t care if they become “paid”, or on a longer cooldown, or if the post-transfer limits on WvW are reintroduced.

But, as it stands now, the standings are quite literally meaningless. What is a “server” in WvW when so many folks are changing sides in the middle of every match?

Same, bugged.

Works:
- Achievement
- Title

Bugged:
- No star
- No in-game mail
- No Gifts of Exploration, no achievement chest at all