Guild Wars 2

If I may ask, can you please list your 5 level 80’s class and which you prefer to play or the most you feel comfortable with?

Edit: Also please if you would, state your time zone you play in and if you’re willing to transfer servers for WvW.

WvW is dead. EotM is where it’s at. Running like a top, no lag, no glitches. All 3 sides have been for the most part equal. Try it, you might like it.

Iozeph.5617:

Informed with what? What blog posts?

Anet issued a pre-purchase campaign base on…. Right – little to nothing to go on but innuendo.

We had several beta weekends through which they willingly omitted salient facts about how certain aspects of coming contents were meant to be attained -waiting til nearly the eleventh hour to be open about any of it.

If we’re being honest, Anet went out of their way to make it nigh impossible to make anything even remotely resembling an informed purchase for Hot.

Building hype with little to no pertinent information with which to make an informed decision? That is sort of the point… when you’re trying to con someone.

They just gave you the highlights of what the Guild Hall was about, mostly the Arena. Nothing about what was behind those shiny gates. Also, a Dev did post prior to release recommending everyone to spend their Influence as it was going away. Not once did they state there would be an NPC in HoT to be able to convert Influence.

Tactical Killers [TK] is opening its doors for prospective small guilds that have not yet acquired a Guild Hall. This is not a RECRUITMENT message. The purpose of this is allow you to preview the upgrades that are locked behind the shiny new gates of your future home if you so choose to take that path.
Once you start your quest (100 Gold and 150 Favor) and you successfully put down Mordremoths Minions and claim your new home, the MASSIVE grind/pay wall will appear. I implore you to look at each and every one of the available upgrades and their respective costs.
WARNING- Once you accept the mission and start your quest, ALL time, gold and materials invested are NON RETURNABLE, even what’s put in to the Contribution. There is no BACK or REFUND button. It’s yours and you have to live with that decision.
So I encourage anyone that wants to view the Guild Hall requirements to shoot me an in-game mail and I’ll send you an invite. You may choose to stay or leave at your leisure.

Good Luck, that road has been traveled on for 3 years.

The PPT’ers in upper tiers will not allow themselves to fall from grace. I tried this a while back with EotM, lol.

Edit: I found my old post if your interested in reading the results: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Blackout-Challenge/first#post4237035

There is a sticky by ArchonWing, you should put recommended changes there.

A lot of people also don’t realize the server buffs that WvW provides. Those are going to start diminishing as that game mode is now spiraling down.

Straegen.2938:

GW2 should have a community manager that actively engages with forum users. It is figuratively criminal that a major MMO doesn’t have one or at least one that posts and engages on their own forums.

Figuratively speaking, we have ArchonWing as our forum specialist. I don’t know how well his communications with Anet stands but he does interact with us. About the only thing productive Anet did was sticky the thread he created.

Or they’re on vacation in some 3rd world country…

abclemons.7093:

While you all are all standing around I’ll hopefully be taking your stuff.

The new maps aren’t bad; learn them.

Did you guys move off DR?

hedix.1986:

Leeco.6705:

they will bring back the alpine bl during wintersday because its festive and snowy and the dollies are woolly…

PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE!!!

Fat fluffy dolly = real dolly!

Maybe Christmas 2016 but not in the near future.

I don’t even bother with the dailies anymore. I’m spending most of my time in EotM when I get bored of grinding 2.5Mil XP for the next mastery level in HoT zones. The “Outnumbered” buff is not even there, lol.

Or you can just go wreck that place you dread(EotM). Spread some of that cheer.

I would ask a question but I fear another infraction, lol.

I’m going to attempt to put in a support ticket requesting reimbursement for all the mats we invested and the gold to start the event. I’m not wasting my time nor mats anymore just to put more in for the next level. We’ve already pulled out of WvW over this and we’re going to go about our merry way.

Kirito.2195:

Hmm, Anet dev reads this “Sure, we give loads of kitten cats about WvW. What can we do though…? I know! Another golem event!”

Speaking of which, when I logged on last night, there was the PvP boon. When was the last time you saw the WvW one? The only time I can remember was during the Golem event…

Yep because most of the guards I see down in T8 are DH’s. I just see giving up too much individual survivability taking the Elite.

So the answer to balance for the loss of guardian stab stacks was to give them a LB w/traps to pew pew in the back with the rest(Pirateship Meta)?

Liston.9708:

I’d rather have multiple ebgs (if necessary). Fights are easy to find and travel distances sort of short….

And the issue with that is everyone is screaming there isn’t enough population to cover all 4 maps.

With the population as bad as everyone say, why not get rid of EB and the BL’s, put EotM map in as the only one? It has large enough open areas for large scale fights, no upgrades or yaks to worry about. Lots of room to roam. Your only issue would be falling or getting knocked off. Maybe take out some of the PvE stuff like the Atherblades in the middle which would be a good GvG area.

I’m amazed they didn’t put the portal in LA with the rest of the instances.

Jayne.9251:

Nate.3927:

I lag and crash for a lot of reason, but never because/around the oasis event. Is this possibly an issue with the EU servers?

It could be me in NA playing EU, but aside from an issue two years ago, I haven’t really had lag issues. The map itself is fine when the event happens, but if I go fight and there’s more than 30 people, I lag, freeze, then crash. And it seems t only happen when the event launches, so I just avoid fights. But never had that problem prior, so I can only assume the two are connected.

It takes a lot of energy to power up that laser. EB has blackouts when it fires.

So from reading the text in the pic, does that mean the squad ui is disabled in EB, lol.

Well it has become common knowledge in the HoT section, anything below 10 members is not a guild.

[TK] Tactical Killers is sitting at about 5 players right now. We’re on Devonas Rest right now but not pushing WvW due to the guild hall fiasco. We do a bit of everything but need more to increase activity. Mostly CDT. If interested, post and I’ll shoot you an invite.

Edit: A PM will also suffice.

Everlost.8356:

its disabled in WvW loosmaster

Why am I not surprised.

You can use the new wonderful “Mentor” tag unless thats been disabled in WvW, lol.

ArchonWing.9480:

The +5 thing seems utterly ridiculous.

So you’d basically need HoT to get it as well? And it’s only one use with a huge expenditure?

The whole kitten route to get there is a huge expenditure, lol.

Overshoot… Enlighten me…the beginning of what?

Why do I have to do a level 25 fractal and watch npc’s die? Map completion was removed due to whinning on the WvW side. Why is there no WvW requirements on these new ones? I did the few pve ones and stopped dead when I saw the fractal ones. Anyway, moving on…

Edit: I think the requirement should be absurd too, like "Level your guild hall to maximum in the WvW line, capture and hold SMC to T3 and you with 50 guild members pull the “Tactivator” to launch the Airship!!!

Jim Hunter.6821:

Merging servers is pretty pointless unless they fix some of the underlying problems. WvW is bleeding players like never before, merging servers right now would be like jumping from a sinking ship into a sinking lifeboat.

But it’s a change and something we asked for, right? Lol.

Ven Zehn.6573:

Our BL maps didn’t have queues primarily due to the lag, not that people didn’t like them, seems the central event causes insane lag for some reason.

I, and many of my friends, love the new maps, but the combat is what kills it. Stability being stripped off the entire frontline the moment it goes up among other things. But then again, maybe we just need to fully shift to a different playstyle to counter it.

Don’t forget that when the Stab is gone, you’re spammed with CC’s, massive condi stacks and you melt like butter even tho you have 3400 toughness that is useless against it. I parked my Guard in the garage, my Condi Ranger has more survivability.

EvilSardine.9635:

Seriously. Just delete the bottom half of all the servers. It has ZERO effect on PvE and will help with the DEAD WvW maps.

Sadly, I’m pretty sure Anet will not do this because it will just be admitting that their game is “losing players.”

Why not just close all the severs? Start 3 new ones, rename them. When it hits their cap, close it. Open 3 more servers, same scenario. Rinse and repeat. Any mergers shouldn’t affect just the lower tiers. Flame on!!!

But…but what about all the PvE grinding you have to do to get that Airship and Stealth fountain. You think they’ll let all that hard work go to waste?

My worst one was when I was doing a dungeon instance with a guild mate for tokens for her Legendary. I inadvertently aggro’ed a wurm and the guy we were following blew up and said “Somebody with 10k Achievement Points should know what they are doing”. I had to politely remind him that AP’s are not obtained solely through dungeons and promptly left the instance.

runeblade.7514:

adormtil.1605:

Well its simple dodge then dodge some more then move then use 3 then move(from the yellow and red circles) and then dodge then move then use 3 then special, then dodge then move then 3 then dodge then move then 3 and special then again dodge then move if you use a greatsword.
If you use a rifle use just move and move and move and move and move and move while pressing 1.

Where can I buy a rune of infinite stamina?

It’s actually a Sigil and you can use a war horn for Vigor.

Kinthiri.9604:

I remained hopeful. I tried to be positive. Tried to keep the morale of my server up. But it wasn’t enough. We were a low pop server to begin with, and now the HoT changes it’s killed us.

Just after release of HoT, we lost a significant guild to a higher tier server. Saturday we lost our largest guild to a higher tier server. Sunday another guild plans to leave. Next weekend, the second largest guild is voting on leaving. Yet another guild has started deliberating on leaving and we expect them to do so.

The new maps and the changes to WvW as a result of the HoT expansion have killed us. The new auto-upgrade mechanics have decimated the borderlands. We were a low pop server to begin with, the new borderlands made that almost impossible to hold the borderlands objectives for any period of time now. We just don’t have the coverage.

With the departure of all our larger WvW guilds to higher tiers, looking for larger populations to help fill the maps, those remaining are completely demoralised. From tier 5 a few months ago, we’re about to hit T8.

Combined with the absolutely ludicrous changes the Guild Hall has forced upon us which are clearly disadvantaging smaller guilds, we’ve practically given up on WvW. The Guild Hall alone is so expensive that those of us in smaller guilds are never going to be able to gain anything that would help us in WvW as we did before. The ludicrous level 37 requirement for +5 supply? Are you seriously delusional?

Today one of the co-leaders of my guild informed me that he is not playing anymore. He’s not interested in PvD and hates that we’re being forced into PvE. He hates that the maps feel so completely empty. With the departure of the larger guilds, and the descent to lower tiers, that’s only going to get worse.

Being curious, I checked the guild roster. There are quite a few players that haven’t logged in to the game in between 2 and 3 weeks now. Our guild is dying. Our server is dying. Our community has given up and is either moving away, or quitting the game entirely.

So thank you, Anet. Thank you for destroying the game I enjoyed. I never played PvE or PvP. It was WvW I enjoyed. The chaos of unstructured skirmishes. Not blobs, but skirmishes. And now you’ve destroyed that for us. My server is a ghost land and WvW is merely where you go to get your dailies now.

Welcome to T8. Enjoy the PvD/YoYo effect.

The event is on a 3 hour rotation, meaning it will occur every hour on one BL before it comes back to say your home BL.

Ah, the old “Sea of Red” dilemma. I hated that especially when you target your commander with another “Red” circle that reduced the Blue tag to a pixel.

I also read, if I remember correctly, in Collins statement for the 2016 vision, they will be changing stats/specs quarterly to prevent Metas from occurring.

You can still access the guild bank from the NPC in front of the Guild Initiative building.

Qugi.2653:

Some player find other player that will help by join guild temporary to do this part. Also bad news. If you get guild hall with 2 player guild not much can do with it after. Upgrade cost very high and hard for 2 people to do. So just have big empty place for 2 player to stand in.

Lol, we took the Lost Precipice. I enjoy standing in there listening to the wind.

OP, the LFG system has helped a lot. Try advertising.

Kuzzi.2198:

PopeUrban.2578:

You’re saying you find it tedious to click a button, walk ten feet, visit a vendor, and then click the same button?

Slap 2 load screens on each of those times and the need to switch buffs ~15 times per day if you like to play a variety of content, and yes it does become VERY tedious.

I don’t like to be forced to play the game one way or another. I run a PvX guild and I myself like to experience everything in the game. Having to constantly switch buffs is an unnecessary inconvenience.

If that isn’t a 2 faced back crawling statement, I don’t know what is. At the same time you’re telling small guilds to grind for what they and can’t possibly get in the way they play or even game mode. How big is the hole in your foot?

And this is why myself and guild members quit WvW. We now have to grind for buffs we already had and stripped away. Have fun with the new system.

WvW is in fact an extension of PvE in the sense that any change to PvE has a direct impact on WvW. So in fact you are PvE’ing with the added ability of PK’ing, lol.

Here’s something to throw in the mix. We’ve only had one BWE for the raid instance. They will be released live on the 17th AFAIK. We don’t know what has been changed or the optimal group composition needed to effectively complete the instance. I would recommend holding off until we see what the Meta turns out to be or what your guild or group requires.

PrinceKhaled.5104:

Loosmaster.8263:

After 2 years of playing WvW, I gave up. I’m actually enjoying the game now. Have fun waiting.

You were able to achieve the transition from a WvW to PvE player. I hope I can do that as well…… but not seeing this happening any time in the near future.

I’ve played since release. 1st year was strictly pve. I didn’t get into wvw until I realized I couldn’t get map completion on my server. I transferred to JQ and got it in one week. Then the first season hit and enjoyed it. Stayed until S2 then transferred back down to my original now dead server. The transition was not a problem. The coming to terms of continued massive neglect was.

Edit- I go to EotM for my fix now, lol.

After 2 years of playing WvW, I gave up. I’m actually enjoying the game now. Have fun waiting.

I tried soloing it 4 times and couldn’t get past the magic 25% mark before I gave up. What I found interesting is each time I fought the Caithe add, then I had a guildie join me to give him a taste of the future. We didn’t fight Caithe this time but the Pale Tree, was neat seeing all the eyes everywhere, lol. But it still bugged out at 25%.