Guild Wars 2

Arctarius.2649:

Not sure if anet realizes it, but allot (most) of us play the classes we find cool looking and aesthetically pleasing. Be honest, you start playing a video game by choosing what LOOKS amazing to you… Not by saying "hmm what class will pump out the least amount of cool looking attacks so I can look weak and terrible in order to see my enemy 2% better.

SW:ToR put a ton of money into voice acting…..

How can you NOT discuss financial ramifications? :s
Do you buy your own groceries? Money is important.

That’s not the revenue I mean.
Arenanet is a business, it exists is a capitalist system. Before anything else, the bills must be paid. The best way to ensure continued development for WvW is Anet’s bean-counters seeing money come from WvW.

How does an easy side-switching option address the loss of transfer money?

Maybe just remove options entirely.
Those type of games exist.

How do you resolve loss of revenue with this system Diku?

Jayne.9251:

No, you didn’t really.

You have options. Some of which cost you nothing but in-game time.

If you didn’t have options, or were forced to pay real money to find options, then perhaps you’d have a point.

Otherwise, it’s just grousing.

One person’s definition of a “good” server does not mean the same thing to others.

Agree completely, some people actually like those empty tiers. If Anet’s willing to leave them open, live and let live. OP made a newbie error, albiet a gallant one by going to the weakest server he could. If more people did that we wouldn’t have so many balance issues in RvR games. You can transfer to any server you like for less than 250 gold or 35 bucks.. Or, delete and reroll.
Nonissue

Diku.2546:

@Letoll

This question is being asked with the New Base Map Mechanic in place.

Players are in New Globe system.

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Taken from parent thread:

PROPOSED NEW MAP MECHANIC

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1) Core Map Mechanic

Old World Servers are transformed into New Globes. Each Globe owns all 4 maps.

Players are able to visit all Globes with Limitations.

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c) Players Enter All 4 Maps in their Home Globe as an Ally, and Enter All Maps in Other Enemy Globes as an Enemy-Guest

d) Enemy-Guest follows a “Guesting” limit of (1-3) Enemy Globes per week that a player can visit. ANet can adjust this number to reduce or prevent un-fair matches, or during tournaments

e) Top 3 Enemy Globes attacking a player’s Home Globe is displayed in a Random fashion every time it’s viewed by the Home Team

I’m not a fan of megaserver, no matter how camouflaged. My wife and I move our guild routinely to the different communities on offer, they are different as you move about. Some people say it’s not so, but we’re small enough that we always need to interact with the native population. And I can tell you first hand every tier has it’s own flavor, the differences may be small but they exist.. It helps keep things fresh.
Being forced into a single population would remove this option and homogenize the gw2 population, the only option to get a fresh breath of air would be moving to the EU or CN servers. Not to mention moving around gives Anet money, which is a good thing. Devs gotta eat too.

I’d like to see the amount of maps available reduced to two per match, maybe even one. Also, EoTM added to the rotation. Give the losing server the natural home, doesn’t have to be balanced.. Matches aren’t balanced, why not give a boost to the loser from last week? It works for professional sports, loser gets first pick in the draft.

Help out balance a bit, gives variety, less empty maps.

“Getting better” or Changed…..

remember golem week

I don’t care about progression or economy, I like customization. Tweaking a build is a lot of fun, figuring out a strong opponent’s build is rewarding. I was unhappy when they took away the ability to choose our own traitline values as it reduced the amount of options to customize you character. More choices is good, less is bad. Making the character into your own creation is a hallmark of MMORPGs.

So much for bronze and Silver league, eh Anet?

Punter.7648:

The new BL is all about having more people.

Every part of HoT is about having more people.

….You think it should be easier for the blob to find havoc squads?

Sarika.3756:

Ticket response was to post here

That way they don’t gotta read em

Most of the original content is now completely faceroll. The new, completely dependent on a large amount of participation.. Which it isn’t getting.
Best part: I need to spend tons of time in these empty areas for WvW, the red-headed step child.. I get it, you wanted us to help fill these new events out with bodies. But if your PvE population doesn’t like it, how do you think I feel about needing a billion flax and ley-line whatevers?

Do I regret prepurchase? I regret purchase at all.

3 different game modes all talking in the same space

Not burned out at all, we ardently refuse to do things we don’t enjoy in my guild. Even if that means we don’t win as often as we might by some people’s metric.

My main complaint about the new map is it’s abundance.. It’d seem much more fun with more people, but as a 3x borderland there’s too many empty slots.

Jim Hunter.6821:

I’ve seen a lot of posts saying how great the auto upgrades are. If we get this auto karma train going we will have action 24/7 and we won’t even need players.

You may have stumbled onto the plan
O.O

If I’d wanted to be a Ranger I’d have rolled one, Druid should be Guardian’s elite spec.

That said, I’m having fun on it. xD

Lack of mobility is a fatal flaw for necro.
When you’re the littlest fishy in the sea, you gotta be able to get away.

morrolan.9608:

players were only able to provide detailed feedback once it was too late.

Right there

Chaba.5410:

coglin.1867:

Dawdler.8521:

Or in other words, PvE weekends take priority over second rate WvW weekends

So?

PvE has a extremely larger core player base then WvW. It only stands to logic that it takes priority. As well, there are a large amount of solid WvW players who equally enjoy the PvE content. I do not see any rationale in being angry about the reasoning.

It sounds logical.

I’d just like to point out that sPvP had a low core player base that has since grown a lot due to the development attention that sPvP has been given since the April 2014 Feature Pack. I think the same can be accomplished for WvW and that it is possible for all modes to find a happy medium of “priority”. It would be good to grow all parts of the game.

Personally, I disagree with the last part.
I keep buying these games hoping for RvR to be a development focus, dozens now, only to find single-use PvE be the star of the show. While gw2 isn’t as dismissive of us as say Wildstar, I’d really hoped a game who’s name is synonymous with Team Fighting might focus quite a substantial share of it’s budget on specifically that.

After all, nobody would buy a game called Kill Computer-Generated Monsters Online expecting a PvP focus.

Chaba.5410:

LetoII.3782:

It has to complete it’s route, first stop isn’t enough.

That’s a good point. We have only done the missions on the desert BL. We figure that it is easier to do there since people are avoiding that map.

Knocked ours out tonight, Didn’t ding til they reached the keep and disappear.

It has to complete it’s route, first stop isn’t enough.

morrolan.9608:

keadlaw.6350:

I really feel that their design philosophy of not sharing anything with us until its so far along in the development doesn’t work for wvw. Those of you that think you were actually beta testing on those beta weekends are delusional. They were promotional weekends to build hype. Sure maybe some minor things were able to be tweaked from feedback, but it was way too late in the development process to make any meaningful changes for HoT.

Sure as a beta tester I agree it was only for bug testing and hype building. However they did ask for feedback and feedback was given similar to many of the criticisms detailed since it went live.

A lot of it the same feedback given by eotm beta testers… With the same level of response to concerns. I heard Colin mention “real beta testing” once on a livestream. After seeing two finished maps now for post-development testing I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m half convinced buzz words are being thrown about and nothing more.

EB+ a single Desert one week, 3 Alpine the next.

Keksmuffin.1450:

a range weapon doing more dps than melee weapons is kinda stupid.

Whole game issue imo.

Dragonhunter virtues are a straight-up +1 to Guardian virtues. The only downside being DH traits that make no sense with all our melee weapons… Which is a big thing on Guardian.

Even if it’s not the case, it sure feels like vanilla guard got back-burnered.

I’ll let you kill me for half the bounty.
Few hours outside spawn and we’re rich.

Bored of your match?
1000 gems. Problem solved.

Smokin Dice.9103:

wow I never thought of this, but I would actually had fun playing with spirit weapons if they also started their cd when summoned

It’d be great if they just kept up with you.
Like if the other end of the chain on the handle was connected to my belt, and it acted as another arm.. Most of the time it’s struggling behind like it’s had too much taco bell.

Tongku.5326:

This is a really big issue. For me personally, while not the deciding single factor on HOT purchase, this + a-nets population / nightcapping improvements are.

I crafted a jugg and did map completion 1 time. The thought of having to do even partial map completion again in order to unlock specs sickens me. It is literally nauseating. If it was just killing stuff at various degrees of challenge, I’d be fine with it, but I just can’t stand all the stupid puzzles and jumping puzzles that have to be redone in order to get to the hero points.

I wrack my brain doing and solving engineering puzzles all kitten day at work every single day. Doing more puzzles is not what I look forward to for entertainment and relaxation. I play this game because it has the best combat system within an MMORPG environment and I like to kill kitten with it, not do stupid puzzles, for any reason whatsoever, hero points included.

Does any hero point require a jumping puzzle?
I don’t believe so.

Random.4691:

LetoII.3782:

It’s only a problem for those wanting their next 3 years progression day one.

It’s not even about getting it day 1, for some its about being forced into PvE which many find boring to begin with and then having to do the hero points which is probably the most brain numbing part of PvE.

There should be a way to obtain them in all game modes, it’s not giving anyone an advantage it’s simply allowing player to play the game the way they enjoy and advancing that way. I’m sure most of the players that only play WvW spend at least twice as much time in game than any PvE player because the mode enjoy is an ongoing battle that only shuts down briefly once a week to reset.

You’re going to be doing PvE in this expansion.
No Pve, no guild hall. No guild hall, no arena.

If you try not to, you’d be paying 50 bucks for a trait line.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

displayname.8315:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Remember folks… Anet “data” has led them to the determination that their are not players who spend all of their time in WvW. That is straight from an interview with Colin and Mike…

Source-
https://youtu.be/ajDiZkUNpe0

Sooooo do you REALLY honestly think anything we do as WvWers will impact their decisions regarding this?

Honestly I could tell from the start it was HoT pve xpac related. That’s the priority. The sooner realized the less often you will be let down

I sure hope they keep the game as diverse and healthy as it is now.

You should be thanking them really. If they weren’t catering to the PVE cash cows you wouldn’t have WvW updates at all.

WoW proved you can put a sparkly star horse on the gem store and make hundreds of millions in a single day.

I’m sorry I’m totally confused… aside from what is coming in the xpac (which you will have to do TONS of pve just to have access to things wvwers already had ie +5 supply), what WvW updates are you referring to? Golem week? Lolololololol

Oh and btw I’m what you would call “a cash cow” and I would designate myself pvx so not all of us “cash cows” are pve… just sayin…

Why do people keep saying the gems are bought by pve’rs?
WvW is full of gemstore skins, every BWE the elite specs were everywhere..
It’s not like that at the world boss/silverwaste. At least not the ones I’ve been in.

And the Pve people are definately not spending 1800 gems to transfer server every few months.

It’s only a problem for those wanting their next 3 years progression day one.

Can just leave a little content for later too.
I mean, they don’t add classes every month

They are forcing destack by locking servers, through attrition.
It’s a great idea and should have been done long ago. I understand their reticence to do so though.

You get spirit shards from logging in and champ bags.
Same as experience scrolls.

Kaiser.9873:

LetoII.3782:

If you’ve done enough WvW to warrant an insta-built character, you should have thousands of skill points.

Give me a break. My oldest character with full world completion has 200 HP. There are only a little over 200 HP total achievable. Characters that I build purely to WvW with over the last 9 months have 10% or less total map completion, and have 30-50 banked HP each. Based on datamined numbers over on the HoT forum they are talking about 170 HP needed to get your elite spec up and running.

Simply not enough time in the day for me to unlock the 5 elite specs I want to play in WvW. Would take about 3 weeks game time to do so, and that means 3 weeks of PvE, not 3 weeks of WvW.

Let me get this straight..
You thought you’d have instant access to every bit of the new content.. On launch day?

I don’t pve either

RapidSausage.4620:

Agemnon.4608:

Don’t you get it guy? The entire point of the PvE map is so you can obtain advantages when you WvW. Ascended gear = better WvW performance, need to craft or PvE for it.

I’m talking about Hero points here not ascended gear….

Jski.6180:

They posted already and its a weekend you realy do not see them post during that time.

Posted what and where??

LetoII.3782:

If you’ve done enough WvW to warrant an insta-built character, you should have thousands of skill points.

You’re not up to date with the skill point system, read up on Hero Points.

I have hundreds of hero points.
If you’ve spent yours, or haven’t earned them.. It’s on you

Things like this buff should be given to the losing server, not the one on a roll

If you’ve done enough WvW to warrant an insta-built character, you should have thousands of skill points.

Jski.6180:

LetoII.3782:

Jski.6180:

LetoII.3782:

Jski.6180:

That would be mega servers this is just the biggest “fear” of changes type of changes.
Most ppl who played Friday night can play Saturday its just going to require them to changes there habits some. Where the “fear” of something new comes into play.

I’m not afraid of half my gaming time (read:weekend) being lost/marginalized.
I’m going to be very angry about it. If I get too angry, I may spend my money elsewhere.

It’s a good thing that Arenanet panders to it’s consumers a bit.
Lots of old sayings about that being a smart way to do business.

When it comes to changes anger is a type of fear.

Hop on over to origin or steam or battle.net and lets talk about who’s fear and what changes.
That’s the gist of this thread.

Not comply sure what going on on thoughts threads web pages etc.. but the thing is here WvW is not going away. The way ppl seem to be talking about this changes as if wvw is going away for good when realy its just going to up the number of ppl who can play during reset. Yes you may lose the rush of reset but a lot wvw players do not get to play that due to not having Fridays nights off. If all you played was for the reset i think you missed the point of wvw comply and if you where a “gvg” player reset timing is not important to you more so after HoT.

I would think as a Coven member you would know exactly who I am.. Your guild leader assuredly does.

Anet’s problem is when I wake up saturday morning to end-of-match Ktrain time, I’m playing something else. Know what happens when I get into another game?

I don’t come back

Jski.6180:

LetoII.3782:

Jski.6180:

That would be mega servers this is just the biggest “fear” of changes type of changes.
Most ppl who played Friday night can play Saturday its just going to require them to changes there habits some. Where the “fear” of something new comes into play.

I’m not afraid of half my gaming time (read:weekend) being lost/marginalized.
I’m going to be very angry about it. If I get too angry, I may spend my money elsewhere.

It’s a good thing that Arenanet panders to it’s consumers a bit.
Lots of old sayings about that being a smart way to do business.

When it comes to changes anger is a type of fear.

Hop on over to origin or steam or battle.net and lets talk about who’s fear and what changes.
That’s the gist of this thread.

Jski.6180:

That would be mega servers this is just the biggest “fear” of changes type of changes.
Most ppl who played Friday night can play Saturday its just going to require them to changes there habits some. Where the “fear” of something new comes into play.

I’m not afraid of half my gaming time (read:weekend) being lost/marginalized.
I’m going to be very angry about it. If I get too angry, I may spend my money elsewhere.

It’s a good thing that Arenanet panders to it’s consumers a bit.
Lots of old sayings about that being a smart way to do business.

I set up my work schedule to be home specifically for reset last contract negotiation

Let’s just do away with builds and classes altogether

The points are from the buff

Fashion Mage.3712:

I’d be for this, perhaps through a trait that enhances aegis. Wouldn’t care if it made PvE easier either, since it’s already pathetically easy.

+1 pve would really benefit from mobs having 2x their attack rate currently.
If they buff healing most of the open world will need some sort of buff anyways.