Guild Wars 2

I can’t think of any game mode a ele would use that sigil. Simply because there are so many sigils out there that are better and give more benefits towards your dps.

There are not many situations in PvE were a “support ele” is needed. Raids and high level fractals can benefit from it, and i guess the dragon stand map and in the towers i overload water a lot to keep people alive whilst moving in the circle, but that is pretty much it. Every were else dps and cc should be your focus and why your sigil should be towards that instead.

Server have no matter in pve at all. It is all mega servers and mixed with eachother. Only region matters and also if you want to play wvw.

With that said Dragon Stand is a special map. It opens every second hour and closes when time run out. This means that people will use the lfg tool to gather in a map and complete the meta event on it. So if you want to get in to such map you open your lfg tool move to the Dragon Stand tab and then try and join one of the squads.

Mind though, when a map opens there will be a lot of players wanting to taxi in to this map if it is a active map, so you need to be fast or patience to get in, and until you learned the routine, it might feel complicated, but it isn’t, you just need to learn the way.

This video might help you understand the map better. Short but good info.

Roleplayers http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/

Crafting is a thing in GW2. You gather material in the open world and then you craft. Crafting is especially needed for end game. We have two types of endgame gear, exotic and ascended. Ascended is roughly 5% better, so most content works just fine with exotics. But if you want to make high lvl fractals and raids, ascended gear will be a thing, and this you can craft.
Whilst you level up make sure you gather everything around you because you will need materials from tier 2 and up in end game crafting.

First of all, don’t stress your leveling. Because GW2 do not have the gear and noteriety grind, it will simply not be hard to catch up on the gear. So enjoy your leveling.

Things to do in endgame
Map/world completions
Crafting
Dungeons
Fractals (in which the level increase and gets harder the more you play it)
Raids
Open world bosses/events in old Tyria. Veterans still comes to this events so there is always people around.
Meta event maps in old world which is Silver Waste and Dry Top.
Meta event maps in HoT 4 maps that have nonstop meta event going.

World verses world. 3 servers fight in instansed open world. Everything from small fights to huge zerg battles. Last for a week 24/7 with reset on fridays.
s-PvP. 5 verses 5 in smaller maps and short matches of 7-15 min. You can start doing this at lvl 2 already because there are no gear grind at all in pvp. So jump in.

GW2 also have something called Living Story. This is kind of open world content being added every so often with a story line which often includes story missions, some world events big or small and lots of other stuff. You have missed 2 ls seasons, but the third is on the way.

Ayrilana.1396:

Leaa.2943:

Or just use the wiki which breaks all of it down

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meteorlogicus

The wiki is incomplete.

Fun Fact: Vial of Powerful Blood almost 1G each.

How is the price of the blood making the wiki page about how to craft legendary incomplete.

And 1 gold is not really that much, especially since you can easy get it through the laurel vendor, or farm them or farm gold.

Or just use the wiki which breaks all of it down

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meteorlogicus

When you start a f2p account there is one icon that will flash until you open it and either accept or decline. If decline the icon will go away and it wont show up very often after that.

So the only point were your friend will be bothered is when he/she clicks on something that belongs to HoT (like trying to buy something in store that is locked to HoT, or trying to buy or sell something on the trading post that is restricted or if he/she is trying to use a map chat or the like, and if he/she stops doing that, there wont be a pop up
I guess you could argue that it should not be a reminder when clicking it, but to be fair it would be kind of strange if you perform a click and nothing happens and no explanation about it :P

Also if your friends feel this game is annoying about trying to get you to buy something, ask them to play any other f2p mmo out there and they will realize how mildly you get treated around this by GW2

If you added a bit more of a explanation to this, we might actaully be able to help you

Like what runes, what gear, what level and so on.

Well you should always have food buff on you that match the game mode you play. If you farm for gold and loot then wear karma/+gold/magicfind/xp food. Any other game mode depends on what you want more of so dps food, defensive food (mostly for wvw front liners) or any other food that suits the situation.

Many players do not use food for some strange reason and are missing out on resources or higher dps or defense. I mean whilst leveling you can add so much extra xp just by food, buffs and what not. And magic find can be booster up to huge numbers.

So if you have a chef make the food and it will mostly be very much cheaper. And if you have more materials then you need for own use, check the trading post too see what food give good profit and sell it

Because exotic items are mostly not accountbound because it is very easy to get them. Ascended items on the other hand can take a very long time to just make one set and will require some farming unless you did not do that along the way.

Also i don’t see the issue with the backpack, i mean it is from a karma vendor, get more karma, or even better level your crafting and make your own backpacks. They are even better then the karma vendors.

Akkeros.1675:

no idea really but they usually don’t happen until after a pvp season ends

because everyone cares about those…right?

Well it is rather obvious that if they have a game mode were players compete it will not benefit those players what so ever to change everything in the middle of a season. It will most likely make players go bananas and for good reason since it would mess up the whole season, a season many many players put effort in.

Now pvp might not be your cup of tea but i am sure you can at least have sympathy for those that do care about this and accept that changes will happen in between seasons.
I know i would be angry as hell if they brought back seasons to wvw and made huge changes in between, because in a season you want to focus on being competitive and not stop in the middle of it having to research builds and relearn stuff.

Also to make sure you understand the way of GW2 you should not focus on learning to play druid, you should focus on learning to play ranger were druid is one part of the ranger. GW2 have no holy trinity so we do not have any real tanks/healers/dps in the way other mmo do.

The game for sure have situations were you can add support, and druid is good for this, and so are other classes, but this is such a small genre that you should focus on learning your whole profession and knowing how to dps, to support, to use your cc abilities, how to survive, how to combine skills, how to move, how to dodge, the different specs there are for rangers and so on. All this is important and how you play GW2 and also why most of us have lots of alts to be able to adjust to what ever we need or want.

So advice except from all the above which is good advice, but make sure you learn to play the ranger and everything you can do with it, including the druid.

They did not unlock ls 1 when 2 came and i see no reason for them to unlock 2 when 3 comes. So to put it short, i would not count on getting it unlocked.
How ever there are no need to have done 1 and 2, this is mostly lore and trinkets and some other rewards that are good to have access too, but nothing that will stop you from moving in to ls 3.

solidus omega.2056:

I have the same problem when asking for help claiming my guild hall (as my guild is only 11 people but only me and my wife are the only ones that are really active) ive been told to quit my guild and to join a bigger one but why should we have to do that and become a number when in a small guild you can get to know the people that you play with and my guild is like most small guilds consisting of friends and family . Anet does need to do something for the smaller guilds like Daddicus.6128 said a LFG feature so small guilds can band together to help each other out with missions, bountys ect would be perfect

If your issue is only about taking the guild hall, then i just want you to know that it is possible to do with 3 players. It was a bit of a rough work, but after 3 tries we made it. First we spread out that the voice is telling you but realized very fast that it is not possible so we just went all 3 to each location and manage it.

grevinnatosseri.2053:

I agree that ele CAN be decent damage and still keep up, but to do an insane amout of damage then I feel squishy. But my Guild Leader is an ele and is always the last one standing. I guess it is also a matter of what you consider to be high dps.

A staff elementalist have the highest dps in the game and their dps is around 35 k + and with spike damage around 45-47 k (with raid buffs ofc)
How ever a ele in a dungeon or in the open world are ofc not gonna put out those sorts of numbers, but they will still remain the top tier damage.

And for topic starter you might want to read this guide for engineers. It is the best class guide out there. http://www.sheriffsauer.com/

Toolbox.3547:

oh I didn’t realize you didn’t require them for the instanced PvP, that’s fantastic. I’d love to get involved with the WvW PvP, but it seems like it’d be hard without an established group, like guild groups or something.

It depends on what your goal would be with wvw. But to start with you can always roam on your own, or join the pug commander on the map which usually are a blue tag. If there are no com om the map you can always go to your home border map and defend camps/towers/keeps until one shows up. Be aware of that builds in s-pvp and builds in wvw do not always work that well so make sure you have gear and build for wvw when you go there.

Whilst you do wvw you get Proof of Heroics which you can “buy” hero points for inside of wvw and by that get your elite specialization done. You will also get badges of honor that you can buy exotic gear for, and the reward track will also get your exotic gear and weapons.

If you find out that wvw seem to be your thing and you want to do more and be more involved then looking for a wvw guild that raids is a good next step. Which guild you want to join you have all the time to consider whilst you play inside of wvw since you see them and their member on the map.

There is no better loot by failing Maw, never have been, so they must confuse it with the normal event that goes outside of the Maw cycle.

I actually never seen this subject coming up at all, ever, so must be something local

imbso.5408:

Can the person I blocked get into my party/squad by using LFG tool?
Does the block function reflect LFG tool at all?

Yes they can get in to your instance and to your squad/party if you are using lfg-tool. The only thing you are blocking is the communication between the two of you, everything else is the same.

Dungeons, your first story dungeon start at lvl 30. Story is the easier path in the dungeon that introduce you to it in a way that wont wreck you, but not too easy either. It give good loot and loads of xp.

Events and event chains. A lot of events start at one point but if you follow it, it will move to another event and to another and in the end you are suddenly at a huge world boss event. So keep on doing them. They give you karma and xp.

Worldboss/world event. All start areas except for the charrs have a world boss placed in them that spawns every third hour. You will get karma, xp and one time each day you get a reward chest as well. You can make the event as many times as you want and always getting xp and karma, but only one time a day you get the chest from each boss.
When you are levling up there will be more bosses out there so keep track on them. This timer is good to use for that. http://gw2timer.com/

Map and world completion. Each map can be completed by making the heart quests, finding all waypoints, vistas and points of interest. When you got it all in the region, you will get nice chunk of xp, good loot such as keys or transmutation charges and crafting material.

Gathering and crafting. When ever you move in the open world you will pass gathering nodes. Never pass them without gathering. Gathering give you xp, and it also give you crafting material. Crafting in this game give you xp. You can get 7 level out of each crafting profession.

PvP is something you can start doing at lvl 2. There are no gear grind or other requirements that you pick up along the way, so you as lvl 2 will have the same as me that played the game for years. What i will have that you don’t is more skills, because i learned my class and know what i need to do. This will be what you will need to focus on in pvp, learning how to defend your self whilst killing the other. Knowing when to get out and when to stay and so on. PvP is a great way to get to know your class. It also give you really nice loot through the reward tracks. You can level scrolls, you get exotic weapons and marks for gear and so on.

Jumping puzzles and mini dungeons. Well they can seem trivial, but the fact is at every jumping puzzle in the game there is a chest at the end that give you good loot.
The same goes for the mini dungeons, just small areas with a bit of a challange and a nice chest at the end. A list of them you find here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini-dungeon

And then we have the personal story. This give you loads of xp, it tells you the story of the core game and whats going on. It give you keys, dyes, boosters, gear and what not. You should try and make the full story on at least one character.

All this and exploring the game is what gets you to lvl 80

• Mixed Borderlands – Do you want a mix of Alpine/Desert Borderlands maps?

After playing the old Alpine Borders again and seeing how wvw homeborder coming back to life again and old players coming back due to it, i would strongly say no to mix them.
If a mix will be set in place anyway, then please do not make them drag out for weeks. Make them change every week.

• World Linking Schedule – How often should we relink worlds?

Well tbh i only see issues about this in NA and only in tier 1 were Black Gate should not even been linked in the first place because of them already being heavy populated and compared to any of the other 2 servers they face it simply is ridiculous that they have this advantage and tier 1 in NA suddenly feels very boring to play. A easy soloution to it would be to link 2 servers with the most underpopulated highest server (weird sentence but i think you get the picture)
In EU how ever i don’t see the same issues at all. So changing links there to match servers that gets bandwagoned is probably a lot more easy.

• Deployable Mortars – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Mortars?

Hell no, that would be totally op to a point were it would get stupid. How ever there are some mortars that are stupidly placed and not useful to defend the keep/tower with and those could be placed better. Also some that are very useful, gets instantly burned down when bigger groups approach them, so those could also be placed better.

• Deployable Cannons – Do you want to be able to buy and deploy Cannons?

Same answer, way to op to a point were it will get stupid.

• Repair Hammer – Do you want to be able to spend supply to repair siege?

This how ever is something that i been thinking of since i joined this game over 4 years ago. Like why are there no repair options on already damaged siege. This is something i would approve of and feel it is useful.

Special Mention

• WvW Priorities – What do you want the WvW team to prioritize next?

Night cap is a huge issue in EU. Several of the servers are in their tiers ONLY because of this. This is hopefully what you are working on now since that won the last pull, so after that i would say the most important thing would be to start separate wvw/pvp from PvE and fix the skills on classes that are stupidly op like Revenants hammer 2 or conditions that are overall are so op that it is ridiculous.

Another thing that have come back to haunt us again, are the constant stuck problems. It seem to be caused by a lot of things and happens several times a day now. Don’t know how many times i hear the com calling out he is stuck. At this point i can even feel it is being abused by small parties.

Add to this all the glitches that are being heavy abuses in wvw right now and nothing done about it. Like glitching in to SM, Hills, using waypoint in to Bay even though you are the enemie. Right now bay is constantly being taken by people using glitches and it is quite anoying .

Well linking is all fine and worked great with the server that got linked to us, how ever i don’t see why there should be a aim to link. Because that will just create artificial solotion to population problem. I mean the reason we have links now is due to the empty servers at the bottom that have no wvw to talk about, so why create more empty servers just to feed the top servers.

Imo linking should be used to support the lower tiers we have. And if there are not enough servers to link, well then link those that are low pop and need a boost.

Imo 2, The issues we have are the sky high gem costs for moving. If they were either lower, or if players got a free move option at least one time each yet or so, then i belive it would be more spread out. Now don’g missunderstand, i realize why they are high, because otherwise people would just bandwagon around which would destroy the wvw mode, but never the less, this can be solved in a good way by either have a free move on each year or maybe add low to no cost to move to servers that are unpopulated.

Swagger.1459:

Leaa.2943:

Swagger.1459:

Leaa.2943:

Wow, so complicated on something we already have. We have wvw were no pve should be up, and we have EotM were all the pve players which have lots of pve mixed with some open pvp and all those tomes of knowledge farmers do also have a spot here without messing up wvw as they do now.

Yeah, “so complicated” because what he had and have is a completely messy WvW if you haven’t noticed…

EotM is a pvp map with a mixed group of players just like WvW. There is no more “PvE” in EotM than WvW, and if you think so, then please run down the list of them instead of just commenting.

There are a plethora of ways PvP can be done in mmos, anets current design is by far not the holy grail in competitive gaming. Nor has PvP here received even 1/10th of the development that PvE has.

It’s obvious you didn’t bother to read the suggestion.

I really don’t care what you think you know about what i read and did not read. It is rather silly that you are trying to tell me something you have no knowledge about.

I gave a very valid answer to the topic and consider wvw is my first game mode were i play for hours every day and have for over 4 years i would say i have some knowledge about it and there for wrote down what i though about it.
It might be that you don’t like it what i wrote, and that is ok, i can live with that, but my answer is still very valid just as anyone elses is

You didn’t provide any valid answers to this topic at all. You are saying “what’s the problem? We have pvp in wvw and pve in EotM so it’s all good”…

If you are that experienced then you should know wvw has massive issues. WvW did ok for a year and a half. The other year and a half has been a mess. Your lack of looking at the game modes objectively shows too, and I’m hard pressed to see where you even read the suggestion at all judging by the shallowness of your response.

Again, all you are saying is “Wvw is good. Eotm is pve. The system is fine”… None of what you said was accurate at all. There is no more “PvE” in EotM than there is WvW so that’s incorrect as well.

You seem to be missing all the emergency dev interventions to salvage WvW. They have a huge mess on their hands that won’t be fixed long term.

Also, what are you going to do when huge chunks of the pvp population start bailing to other rvr games in the works? Are you going to say it’s all good when you have mostly dead servers across the board?

And you are writing yet another reply were you are telling me what i know and don’t know and not only that you also add things i have never even said and you even have the stomach to say it as if it is the truth. shakes my head

So let me make this perfectly clear for you.

1. I am very aware of what issues WvW have. I also am aware of the work going on around wvw and have for a few months now. Unlike you i move on and i don’t stay behind in past, complaining about it, even though both you and i know that the devs are now working towards solving issues that we have adressed.
It might be that you don’t like their ideas, that is fine, i don’t like all of them either, how ever, most of the imporvements done so far are going in the right direction. It is not perfect, and i expect them to keep on working on it the way they started a while back to get back to pair with what we, the wvw players, wants wvw to be.

Also you describe wvw as empty. I don’t have a empty wvw. The wvw in EU and the top 10 servers are very intense. We have many servers that are so full that they are not even linked and.
The linked servers have got a lot of happy players that want to move to our server when it opens up again because they enjoy the wvw we can provide, so everall the linking is a good thing, but i also understand that it is not for all people and that is ok. We can’t please all, and why a-net asks for 75% now, before they are making choices.

My wvw are also back to guild raiding on the alpine borderlands with que on all the borders just like before. I know this because i am one of the guilds that are back to raiding after a long time were we waited for WvW to change. We did hours of wvw still, but we did not raid. Now we do.

Does it mean it is perfect and all is great? No there are still issues that have been adressed and that will be worked on, and i also expect to keep a open comunication with devs.

Now with this said, i still disagree with the topic starter. I don’t like the idea and i don’t see that it will give any impact on our wvw that i want to have or want to be a part of. Especially since it is already there in EotM.
I prefer for the devs to work on night cap and other important things that i feel is what will make wvw more interesting.

Now with this i am ending my part of the discussion, and what ever your answer is i will refer you back to this message.

Have a really great evening

If you abuse a bug it is very possible you will have actions taken towards you because you are clearly breaking the rules that says you are not allowed to abuse bugs or glitches.

And it is not that hard to see when it will happen, since you can actaully spot when the waypoint is bugged out. If you are at the spot when it is bugged out and you know there are players abusing it, you should very easy be able to make a video, because i mean how hard can it be to stand up on the wall watching the wp and see them port in

Swagger.1459:

Leaa.2943:

Wow, so complicated on something we already have. We have wvw were no pve should be up, and we have EotM were all the pve players which have lots of pve mixed with some open pvp and all those tomes of knowledge farmers do also have a spot here without messing up wvw as they do now.

Yeah, “so complicated” because what he had and have is a completely messy WvW if you haven’t noticed…

EotM is a pvp map with a mixed group of players just like WvW. There is no more “PvE” in EotM than WvW, and if you think so, then please run down the list of them instead of just commenting.

There are a plethora of ways PvP can be done in mmos, anets current design is by far not the holy grail in competitive gaming. Nor has PvP here received even 1/10th of the development that PvE has.

It’s obvious you didn’t bother to read the suggestion.

I really don’t care what you think you know about what i read and did not read. It is rather silly that you are trying to tell me something you have no knowledge about.

I gave a very valid answer to the topic and consider wvw is my first game mode were i play for hours every day and have for over 4 years i would say i have some knowledge about it and there for wrote down what i though about it.
It might be that you don’t like it what i wrote, and that is ok, i can live with that, but my answer is still very valid just as anyone elses is

Phantom.8130:

What you’re looking at as basically useless cannon fodder, you should be looking at as potential students. The last thing you want is for people to have EotM be their basic training for WvW. Then all they’re good for is running karma trains. And when that isn’t viable, they’ll end up getting farmed, pushed back into your spawn, and then leaving WvW. You want them coming up in the trenches, facing challenges and overcoming them. Learning the intricacies and strategies of the maps. That’s what makes them valuable players. Not just being a warm body with a working finger to spam 1.

EotM is already that so i don’t create anythign that is not already there.

I do also agree on your point that this could be new wvw players, and that is not what my complaint is about. My complaint and wish for change is that players that just bought the game and right now are focusing on learning how to open up their back pack, how to walk and how their skills are working and are asking on the forum of the fastest way to level, get redirected from this forum and from reddit to wvw because that is the best way to level fast. This will create a lot of tension, because this players are nowere near the point of joining wvw.

This players are not interested in wvw they are interested in leveling fast, and if we get hordes of them, they screw up wvw because they do not carry their role in any sort of way. I mean how can you if you don’t even know the base of the game.

EotM already have playes leveling and they have trais and hordes of players leveling, so adding them there were they will have no effect on the score, the fights and so on, will avoid the toxic that comes out of having wvw full of players not willing to join fights, just hang around and get tomes of knowledge because wvw give it more then any other game mode.

So easy to change so that EotM get more tomes, WvW get a bit less ( i don’t even see why i should get like 15 of them for 2-3 hours of fighting, i mean that is ridiculous)
This way we will also avoid the toxic chat around this in wvw which if anything scares off new players that never dare to come back, and also burn out old players that are trying their best to win fights but can’t manage because right now they have to many lvl 10 players who are more concerned about leveling fast enough then to actaully learn how to wvw.

Dawdler.8521:

SailorSpira.9371:

I would avoid any link that asks for your account details unless it’s posted by an Anet employee. If you’ve already done so, maybe time to change your password.

Looks like it uses the same https certificate as this forum so I’m guessing it’s legit, but yeah you are correct.

Don’t state the obvious for the whining person ;D

I being to see a issue with this coming up in wvw and would like to adress it. Whilst leveling in wvw you get a lot of Tomes of knowledge, you actaully get so many that you pretty much can blow your nose in them at this point.

No complains really if it was not for the fact that new players, and players leveling alts but have no clue how wvw is working are now being pointed towards wvw to farm them. This is a issue. Because suddenly wvw is full of low level players which yes have fluffed up stats, but they are no were near useful, since they don’t have the traitlines, all the heropoints, no possiblity of making builds that are making them competative enough to actually be a source for your server. At points there ar so many of them in wvw that we actaully get outnumbered even though we are not, because this players have no clue how to fight, and even if they did, they are not ready for it.

I would like to suggest that A-Net slightly adjust the gain of tomes of knowledge inside of world and raises the gain of tome of knowledge in EotM. EotM have always been a place were players go and level in a fast pace so it would be better to have a somewhat higher drop rate of tomes of knowledge there, and a little bit lower dropping in wvw (maybe replace with a few more transmutation charges like in pvp but in the wvw instead.
This way wvw will not be swormed with players not really interested in wvw and are only there for the tomes of knowledge, because they will be in EotM which really suits the purpose better.
Note that i do not ask to remove them, but to lower the drop rate inside of wvw, and raise it at EotM.

Wow, so complicated on something we already have. We have wvw were no pve should be up, and we have EotM were all the pve players which have lots of pve mixed with some open pvp and all those tomes of knowledge farmers do also have a spot here without messing up wvw as they do now.

https://feedback.guildwars2.com/en

So if you like or don’t like, let them know.

It is a bug and it is a exploit to use the bug which is violating the Rules of Conduct. If you see someone abusing it, make a video, make sure to show the enemies account name by blocking them and then check your block tab. Make a mail with link to video information what server, time stamps and anything else that might help the person looking in to it and send it to exploits@arena.net

Soon.5240:

They can be converted into Spirit Shards if you are already at level 80.

I have close to 5 k spiritshards. I have all masteries, and i have stacks of tome of knowledge on my bank so for this sucks, because i simply don’t earn anything useful anymore. And i get like 8-15 tomes in wvw every day. Soon i can blow my nose in them.

Imo there should be some sort of choice added, were you can get masetrypoints, rank points in wvw, maybe spirit shards or something else, well something anyway were you can pick what you need.

Reagardles how anyone feel about this topic, in the end there is no real issue. Because if you want to do your own thing and have your own stats, doing no dps and only cast empower through a whole dungeon, you can. But for that to happen you have to make your own group, were you tell them that this is what the group is all about. This way you can do it in any way you want and issue is solved.

The players asking for speedruns and zerker gear have as much right as you do to make their own groups and state what they want with it. If you join it you are expected to havve what it asks for or you will get kicked out. Just as you would kick someone out if they complaint about your no gear and only empower dungeon-run. It is all about respecting all players right to decide how they want to make their groups for what ever reason they fins is important to them.

As for your statement about smother dungeons, i don’t really agree. The dungeons are made for 5 people to manage without tank, healer or need of dying. Therfor there really are no need or support in the dungeon. And if there was, then most classes can share hp, regen, block or what not for that short period of time.

Ofc you have to go and get the hero points for each character you make, we all do

How ever you should really get them in HoT maps because each of those points give you 10 instead of 1 like you get in the core game. So it goes way faster to go through the HoT maps. Mostly there are players doing them because you can remake them one time a day and getting event marks for them in the map you are in. But if you feel it is to hard to make on your own and noone there, just ask for help in chat

I seen it happen two times today, one time in eu and one time in na. NE tower starts to flicker when you hit it and it is showing as if it was reinforced even though it is wood. This would not be so bad if it was not for the fact that when you ramming the gate down to zero and it should open, but instead it get untargetable and it is impossible to open the gate you and have to open a wall instead.

You do realize that there are a lot of people in this game that actually do not want to be in a guild right? And also people who do not want to zerg around the borders in some giant super guild.

DeanBB.4268:

“Right now im the only one of 5 that bought the game, and friends are all of different servers. Will this be problematic down the road?”

Your statement is a little confusing. First you say you’re the only one that bought the game, then you say you are all on different servers. Which is it?

If indeed your friends have not bought the game, then just let them know which server you picked and have them pick the same. If they have already picked a server, but really haven’t started playing yet, there is a way to do a server transfer. I have not done so, so look that up on the wiki if that is an option.

Well you know there are a f2p option, just saying

As for topic starter, you got answers for most of your questions, but i feel you need more info about pvp. So pvp in this game is skill based, this means that every player have to know their skills and be able to understand when to use them and how to use them. You also need to understand what the enemie is using by reading his moves, watching his buffs and keep in mind what he have used already and count his cooldowns. This is something that can be very hard when you are new, but it is not avoidable if you want to learn how to do pvp. Kind of learning by doing.

I would keep on doing pvp to learn your class, but focus a bit on your build, what stats you picked for your amulet, what runes and sigils you have and read up about the skills and whilst you play be very observant what is going on around you.

Aezyr.5304:

lil devils x.6071:

Aezyr.5304:

lil devils x.6071:

Aezyr.5304:

lil devils x.6071:

Aezyr.5304:

Why is it always the us ladder complaining btw?

IF players only have an hour or two to play the game and during that time every map in the match is Queued the entire time, when do they get to play WvW?

If a player buys the game just to play WvW and they make it so they cannot play WvW every time they log in, I would think they should be irritated and let the developers know. These Queues are making it so some players cannot play WvW at all anymore. They are not solving the queue issue by mergings servers, nor does that solve the coverage issues since some servers still have coverage outside of NA prime and others do now so that just makes it worse.

They can easily solve the queue issue and the “coverage wars” by putting more maps in play during busy hours and reducing that number during off hours so you only have enough maps available to accommodate the population of the servers in the match. that solves both issues at once and is a long term solution rather than just make monstrous queues and make the game unplayable for the people trying to play it.

And where is the difference to EU again? You describing a general problem which can be fixed by using the overflow map like it was intended.

An overflow map is not the solution when that map is not even the same game they are trying to play, nor does it impact the score. IF the overflow map allowed them to actually play the game they logged in to play and contributed to the score you would have a point, but they didn’t do that so all that you are saying is they get to log in to play a different game they have no desire to play because the dev’s screwed up the system used to play the game they paid for.

Playing Eotm isn’t what many players bought the game for. When the players filled out the surveys they used to make this game and asked for large scale PvP and were promised WvW, they expected to get that. If all they do is play WvW and would rather play a different game than GW2 at all than go EotM, it is not working as intended is it? I would think the intention would be to increase players not send their business elsewhere due to not being competent enough to design the mode so players spend their time playing it rather than waiting to play eh?
There are solutions for these issues that keep players in the action, not waiting for it. IF it fails to do that it is considered unplayable to many and needs to be fixed. The primary objective of a large scale PvP game mode is to keep players in nonstop challenging, strategic, fun large scale PvP action the entire time they are logged in, where they can play with their family and friends and have players to play with and against every time they log in. IF the game fails to do that it has failed in their objectives and is far form working as intended. No, that means it is terribly broken instead.
EotM is not WvW, nor is it what players would consider a " consolation prize" for not being able to play the game the paid for.

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Yes.. Apparently thinking it is nuts to expect players to spend their game time in the action rather than waiting to get to it is wrong and they should just sit there and wait if they hate EotM rather than go do something fun elsewhere Mr. Blah blah. LOL

This flaw is making the game unplayable to many and should be corrected if they do not wish to further kill the game mode. You should always want more players to play the game mode for the game to grow, not punish them for doing so.

Empty maps aren’t realy promoting this game mode either.
For many players the reason to play WvW is to whack on other servers blobs, best non-stop.
EotM has a bad reputation because of it’s karma trains and some (or many) players don’t like it’s mechanics and layout. But in it’s core it’s not different to eb or borders.
You with your club…enemy with club….slap on.
If the difference for you is only “le tick”….well most don’t give a rats kitten for that.

Sincerely
Mr. Blah blah

Hell no, i would not set my foot in EotM even if it was the only wvw map purely because it is HORRIBLY designed for wvw. And overflow maps are beyond stupid in wvw. It works in EotM for the reason that you are not gaining anything nor are you working for your server on a map that have no relevans.
How are overflow maps helping? How do we upgrade, how do we add defense and why the hell would we want to add any upgrades of defense, it is just overflow anyway. It would lead to total brainless wvw that will die out in a few months as it have in any other game adopting this sort of game play.

A bit surprised they did not do it as it was in EU. None of the top servers got linked, since they are already overcrowded as hell compared to the lower top tier even. So the servers that got linked with low pop servers was not really suffereing much. The ques did not come from the linking, but from the fact that the patch brought people back and reset is always knows for a lot of personal gain in terms of lootbags and ranks, and now also reward tracks. In a few weeks this will have settled and we can see how it turns out for real. But yeah, i don’t really see the reason to link the top servers in NA, they do already have enough players.

DeWolfe.2174:

Leaa.2943:

having to listen to tha

umm… how about yes and you use some personal responsibility to lower the volume slider to mute it?

Why should i have to deal with something like that? I seen it in other games and it is totally horrible. So why should i have to stop, looking for a slider and mute my game so i don’t have to listen to trolls talking?

Every community have TS for their world verses world. There is no need to get anything else but that.

As cool as a black tag would be, it would have the same issue as the red and the purple. It is just floating in to the environment or the enemie ocean of red.

Just no, like so much no that i can’t even think of more ways of say no too. I do not wish to spend my time with kids trolling in a voice chat and having to listen to that bs before i get rid of it. There is voice tools, use them.

I run reset for 4 hours and had 14 of them in the end. So you can still level up in wvw without any issues. I think it goes even faster now.

Well we had que on all borders today. And lately there been people on the homeborders and guilds fighting them. The changes to the borders already done really made a huge impact, and i still belive the alpine borders are great, but at this point the desert borders are not as bad as they were when HoT came out. Walls have been removed, barricades are gone, all waypoints works as they should with upgrades and there are easy ways to move between east and west inner of garri. Big changes that should have been there from the start, but now they are and i would love to test it more.

They said the alpine will be here soon, and then rotating and that is fine. As long as they keep on working on the desert maps until they fit the purpose of our game mode.

Gaile Gray.6029:

What? You have purple. That’s all you need!

Ok, I really don’t know if there’s an option to add colors or a plan to do so. But just in case, what would be on the wish list? Keep in mind the tag should be visible on the mini and world/overhead map, so it might be best to suggest bold, non-metallic, non-transparent-ish colors.

My issues is that red and purple tag instantly falls off and drown in the red sea of players in high tiers servers. Even blue tags does it sometimes but red and purple are the worst.

I really would want more colors to choose from. Maybe also a option to make the tags more visible, maybe bigger or i don’t know, but more visible in wvw.
Good colors would probably be something maybe white or really any color that do not float together with the environment and the sea of red players.

Right so EU reset have been done and my server was linked with a lower tier server.
I can ofc not speak for the lower tier server and how they felt about this, but from my pov i feel there was not really that much of a difference and the experience is only positive. The impact the server linked with us had was nothing that stood out. We had a much bigger que to eb then we ever had before but imo that was not because of the link but because of the beta tests and all the new stuff and the new rewards you get which mostly will pile up during reset so more players was expected to join.
Reason i believe so is that we several times asked how many of the players that was linked with us was actually on EB and we got response from roughly 5 of them. I think they are more then 5 but this is what we heard from a few on EB today.

The impact the linking made was not so huge for us but might have felt more if you came from the low pop server. What we heard was their surprise about how bad the lag was in 3 way fights in sm and i guess it is hard to come from a low pop server, getting tossed in to huge 3 way fights were only autoattack works and you are still expected to survive.
We also felt it was a bit hard to get them on to our TeamSpeak. Even though we had set it up to be easy for them. Hopefully this change later in the week and they feel welcome and will join us.

So from my pov the linking was totally ok and a good addition. I am not sure how the low pop servers feel about it, but i hope they will express it so we get some insight in the goods and the bads.

I don’t understand your reasoning. This is a problem that been up and down during the years we played and it have to be solved. A-net is ready to make a beta and want to TRY it live, and for that they need us to be there and participate as if this was like any other day in wvw. There is nothing to wait for. The problem is still there, it just have it ups and downs.

1. How do you feel overall about reward tracks?
   I am very happy about them and wish they had been added years back. No reason to why wvw players should be poor when we were putting down so much gold in to sige, upgrades, food, gear, runes and what not back then when wvw was different.
   I always enjoyed them in s-PvP and will enjoy them here as well.

1. What are your thoughts on the rate at which you gain participation?
   For me that are on a active server it feels like enough participation gain, because we simply have fights more or less over the day. For players on servers were this is not the case i can imagine they feel it is not as good. My bet is they change their mind when linking starting

1. How do you feel about the rate you earn reward track points?
   Feels like it is not as fast as in is in s-PvP. I would rather have it matching.

1. Overall, what are your impressions about the types of reward tracks we have?
   I am used to them from s-pvp so for me they are fine. How ever there could be added more wvw oriented tracks as well i guess, but i am ok with what this is as well.

1. Are there any other reward tracks you would really like to see?
   Well would be nice with a special back pack for wvw, there been for every other game mode, so something that looks nice and flashy. And well s-pvp have tracks with keys and finishers, i would like to have them as well. Finishers is a thing in wvw too.

There is something else i would like to bring up though. The level tomes, they are really nice and i am not complaining, but here is the thing, i get like a lot of them in just a few hours and i understand they are there to make up for those that leveling in wvw and don’t get xp anymore, but i would not mind if you did like in s-pvp and add more transmutation charges so this is equal, like in s-PvP.
Wvw players are also interested in changing wardrobe, and well we kind of never got any of those for free, whilst every other game mode do.

Unless your character is very low level i would not delete it. Each character in this game get birthday gifts for each year in game and those are very good to get.

You can not change race, but you should have more character slots and can make a new character with the race you want. In gw2 alts are a big thing and it is always good to have more then one class. If you don’t have a slot left, then you can buy a slot from the gem store.

Riku.4821:

In terms of birthday presents, I have 20 characters, And he is going on to his fourth birthday, of 4 other characters also on their fourth.
I have two charr warriors and then him a cash sink norn haha. Here is a screenshot of him.
Edit: I just don’t like the big muscle mass of a body builder that they are, I suppose.

Well the thing with the birthday gifts at that point is the dyes, were you can select dye that you have to buy for several hundreds of gold on TC. And there is many to pick from and why i would never delete a character.

Players comes and goes, it is the cycle of the game. I saw a new GW2 youtuber the other day, are you making a post about that too?

As i said on reddit and will say here as well.
Those com tags was not made for pve raids to start with, they were made for wvw and we had to pay for them during all this years, and tbh i don’t see why you PvE guys should have it any different. We have also had issues not having tags since a tag in wvw always means something, so we all had to grind for them. Welcome to our world