Guild Wars 2

Abbreviated server name, rank(colored) badge and guild tag. Done…

Edit: As for pets and minions, Abbreviated server and Beast.

Lol tell that to the guilds that put the effort into getting them. Also, the center of the DBL needs to be dealt with.

It will make the Airship, Cloaking Waters tactics useless but otherwise a good idea….

Oh you lost your badge now you want to go on a rampage?

Edit: The clutter they are trying to cut down on is the humongous Nameplate…

Blobs means players!!! Have fun with your Deserted BL.

CowOfGlory.5816:

This is what I run when commanding as Scrapper, adjusting the rings/Earrings with either Cav or Zerk depending on how much pressure I’m getting.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoCFpi1XBGYBEqilJjKc7Smwieuz7+W8ZKgAA-TVCBABYp0g/9H8SJWmq/AwFAQLlB6pjINlgM8AACAgA4oH9oH9oHtbezjezjmUAZO0C-w

I’ll leave this here as well incase you want to see it in action. (please note this is not my PoV, I am the commander) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjb1XzMlh4

And you do a good job of it Cow!!! You’re not a runner like some of the others, you dive right in.

I noticed the 2 hour Celebration booster has the WvW track but none of the Transcend chests have been updated.

Crise.9401:

Loosmaster.8263:

Then stop saying “You paid for it”.

I didn’t… which you would know if you bothered to read my post.

But, since you brought it up, as a matter of fact… anyone who paid for HoT likely paid, after the fact, for that map to have been created. Because without HoT that map would not exist. Unless you seriously think it was free for ArenaNet to produce said map.

It was advertised as a part of HoT, ergo it was content developed for or at the very least paid for by the expected revenue from HoT. Video games are made first and paid afterwards… before they start to turn profit.

Anyways, this exchange has ran its course, we can simply agree to disagree on the matter… however, that will not change realities of game development. Which you seem to want to be oblivious to because at the moment it happens to be convenient for your opinion.

Bowing out, as this is not even on the topic of this poll, bring it back up again when something related is being polled about next week if you feel the need to.

“That would have been great on the last poll. Then I might be getting content back I paid for.”

Whatever floats your boat….

Crise.9401:

Loosmaster.8263:

Again, there was nothing added in WvW that was taken away that you paid for in the X-Pac. The map was available whether you bought HoT or not!!!

While factually accurate, it is still relevant to consider the desert borderland map as part of Heart of Thorns… the new borderlands map was one of the major core features showcased during the expansion announcement. Whether people got it for free or not doesn’t change that.

Actually, it is is still advertised as a core addition to WvW on the HoT website. They allowed non-expansion players to access the map because it was the only reasonable option in terms of how WvW works, ie. they had no choice. Doesn’t change the fact that without HoT the map would not exist and the expansion pack was what allowed it to exist. This is a fact regardless of what anyone thinks of the map in the end.

The fact that “You got it for free anyways, so you wouldn’t have had to buy the expansion” makes up a convenient excuse, in the case of the maps potential removal, in order to dismiss concerns of people who like the map is just interpreting things in a way that is favorable for your opinion.

Then stop saying “You paid for it”.

I don’t know if it’s possible but I feel this poll should have been restricted to the linked servers voting on their fate, not the host worlds. Just a thought.

Kylden Ar.3724:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

This poll does not require a 75% supermajority vote. If a poll requires 75% approval, the poll question will explicitly state that.

That would have been great on the last poll. Then I might be getting content back I paid for.

Again, there was nothing added in WvW that was taken away that you paid for in the X-Pac. The map was available whether you bought HoT or not!!!

X T D.6458:

Loosmaster.8263:

X T D.6458:

TallBarr.2184:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The results turned out more mixed than we think will be good for the future health of the game. For that reason we are going to run a “Remove Desert Borderlands?” poll first and then run a variation of this poll again. The updated poll will be reworded for clarification due to large amounts of feedback that many of the ‘No’ votes were cast with a misunderstanding of what they meant.

Remove work on new legendaries (advertised in expansion)

Remove new borderland (advertised in the expasnion)

Anet are u kittening kidding me, what did I pay for? holy kitten you guys gotta be kidding me.

Nobody paid for empty maps either.

You got that map whether you bought HoT or not.

I know…that wasn’t my point..

That was for the other poster. It didn’t show up in the quote.

X T D.6458:

TallBarr.2184:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The results turned out more mixed than we think will be good for the future health of the game. For that reason we are going to run a “Remove Desert Borderlands?” poll first and then run a variation of this poll again. The updated poll will be reworded for clarification due to large amounts of feedback that many of the ‘No’ votes were cast with a misunderstanding of what they meant.

Remove work on new legendaries (advertised in expansion)

Remove new borderland (advertised in the expasnion)

Anet are u kittening kidding me, what did I pay for? holy kitten you guys gotta be kidding me.

Nobody paid for empty maps either.

You got that map whether you bought HoT or not.

Woot, I’ll have 3 months of PvE!!!

Did and does are 2 different things. #’s on your roster mean nothing if they are not active.

DR has a guild trying to recruit for WvW. Says 60 members, I’ve only seen maybe 2 in WvW and not at the same time. Could be same account, diff toon.

Get your facts straight and provide proof. Show up and que a map or shut up!!!

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

Of the three servers in this matchup, I think only DB has several large single-guild groups. I’ve seen several single guild blobs from them.

JQ relies on some smaller guild runs, a large militia pool, and some dedicated commanders. The JQ commanders push melee hard so this video is pretty funny to watch. Maybe Mag and DB havent gotten the memo that stability is back?

To be fair, I have hardly seen Mag at all in our matchup so I don’t know what kind of zergs you are running. Your KDR seems to indicate you can’t be doing too badly.

From being linked with Mag and observing their playstyle, the server I find is more PPK oriented than PPT. They will attack structures only to draw in the fights.

Very welcomed change from a PPT oriented server that would map hop whenever met with resistance.

dank.3680:

Looks like your *opinion isn’t the popular one so far…

51.4% Yes 1: Simultaneous Borderlands is a superior option

27.2% No: Rotating borderlands is a superior option

13.7% Yes 2: Simultaneous Borderlands is a superior option

7.7% Don’t count my vote, just show me the current results.

In case you can’t do math, that’s 65.1% in favor of having at least one DBL at all times.

Option 5 was left out, No DBL at all. How much would the numbers change if it was there?

Edit: Option 4 could have counted to that result, lol.

Fixed the grammar for you (Autocorrect). Sometimes people just have to be reminded.

Ariel.6291:

Actually, one of the worst things about this, is that all the folks who have been so angry about linking that they were not playing WvW during this time, where never given any notice or opportunity to vote.

So, the people who hated this the most were excluded from the polling. Talk about a fixed vote.

The communication was here. Sorry they don’t visit the forum. The old saying “Ignorance is no excuse”. If you are truly interested in this game mode, they should be monitoring this forum.

World versus World (also known as WvW) is a Player versus Player game mode where players from three different servers, or worlds, battle in the Mists. It features open-world combat on five large maps with up to several hundreds of players per map. In World versus World, players can besiege objectives such as Keeps and Towers with siege weapons, and battle over resources, to win rewards for their world and World Experience for themselves.

MMO-A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is an online game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players simultaneously in the same instance (or world).

2 things for you to chew on. Both of those is what WvWvW was designed and intended for. If a server chooses to run their map a certain way, so be it. If your server chooses to run a map a certain way, so be it.

Don’t try to change the game mode because other servers won’t play to your game style. GvG, Havoc, Roamers and Duelers all take their chances entering WvW encountering a blob.

It is what it is

Swagger.1459:

Loosmaster.8263:

A 4 week or longer tournament is bad. An incentive during a normal match week isn’t!!!

Just wondering, do you realize that wvw populations are still a complete mess?

That’s my point. A week long embedded event that will give access to the tickets without much work on Anets side to implement. The mess has been here for years. I’m not talking about a full blown out tournament like the past where the whole purpose was to win for those tickets.

A 4 week or longer tournament is bad. An incentive during a normal match week isn’t!!!

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

I’ll quote Tyler for this thread:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The Tier 1 Weapons will be made available in an upcoming Reward Track, much like the armor already is.

We haven’t fully decided how to distribute the T2 Weapons and Armor yet. Though, we are currently leaning towards players purchasing them with a currency that they’d earn as a match reward. We may also set rank requirements for the various pieces, so you’d need to be a relatively high rank(1-2k) to purchase a full set.

My opinion stays as before “These should remain as a Tournament prize”. Burn out or not, the Tournament is all we have as a WvW special event. They should remain until something is created to replace it.

Where we are at with the current state of WvW, tossing in a random week long tournament will spice more things up in the game mode. It just has to be implemented correctly. I’ll repeat my suggestion again:

1: No prior notification of when the tournament is to happen but should start on Reset night and the “Notification” only appears then. This is to help any attempts at server stacking.

2: PPK will be the score for the winning server placement.

3: Lock out server transfer during the match or if transfers are allowed, then lock out access to WvW during the match and EotM is only available.

4: Placement, i.e. 1st, 2nd or 3rd and the amount of associated tickets will be up to Anet.

By going with PPK, it shouldn’t have to much affect on sever scoring and Glicko ratings.

michelada.2947:

Totally killed WvW for me , queues of 30-40 ppl , 2 maps completely abanadoned, alpine BL it’s boring, dessert BL just needed a few changes to be perfect , the last changes anet did to the map did wonders for it , i’ll take a break until further changes.

WvW is in a MEGA Beta mode. Give it some time and input. They are doing their kitten edest to give us what we want with what they can do.

Disappearing won’t help your position in any way!!!

You ever threw kitten at a fan then seen the results?

Let them fix WvW before asking them to do more. Geez, your reset cry didn’t work so now you’re off on another tangent.

Let’s deal with what’s at stake NOW!!!

Ayrilana.1396:

Loosmaster.8263:

And Toughness needs to negate a % of Condi Damage or give us more access to Vitality or reduce the CD on cleanses.

Which I’m pretty sure a lot of condi players would not be happy about.

Well, I gave other options, lol.

Edit: Then let Retaliation affect Conditions or damage from Conditions back on them.

I’ve never paid attention but doesn’t Conditions bypass Retaliation as it does Toughness?

And Toughness needs to negate a % of Condi Damage or give us more access to Vitality or reduce the CD on cleanses.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Boogiepop Void.6473:

Loosmaster.8263:

Boogiepop Void.6473:

I need Jute. Salvaging blues and greens gives you tons of Wool. There is no good way to get Jute.

Salvage them on an appropriate low level character.

I shouldn’t have to make and run around with a low level mule just so I can get the materials I need to actually do anything in a crafting discipline.

While you can make a low level, you don’t have to play it. Park it at a chest for a daily harvest and give it containers to open that you get from your other chars. You can also use a low level to do a weekly key run then delete and repeat, using tomes to get it to level 10.

Exactly, I have a level 50 I keep in LA near the Crafting Stations to open bags/salvage gear for Linen, Cotton and Wool.

Jayne.9251:

I thought it was against ToS to use automating macros in WvW?

Except your skill bar, afk’ing while doing it is in debate still.

Aileras.9460:

They could make it so a message in chat comes up “so and so has pulled the whatever it is” that way at least you’d know who the troll is.

Also seems to be some trolling with useless siege being thrown down everywhere and wasting supply. If it said who threw it down, that might curve the trolls a bit. Its the anonymous nature of this stuff that makes it so easy to do.

Anet has always been dead set against the “Name and Shame” mentality so that will never happen. Your siege comment has been brought up many many times.

lil devils x.6071:

CrimeMaker.8612:

Anet doing so many polls. Hey anet how about you guys do a reset time change poll and find out yourself what majority of the people want

Thought they already did that is why it is back to Fridays. You know, something people should consider as they are trying to dismiss " the West coast". That is where Anet is located and ALL of their personal friends, neighbors and family who play this game live there. You would be essentially asking them to ignore what everyone who is near them telling them to their faces. LOL

WEST COAST IS Anet’s Timezone.

Plus all their internal reasons!!!

Taxidriver.2043:

rank limit will weed out alot of alt account.

Tactivators are a HoT feature. How many alt accounts for trolling have upgraded to HoT? This could also limit its use. Like “Shield Generators”, you can’t use them if you don’t own HoT.

Boogiepop Void.6473:

I need Jute. Salvaging blues and greens gives you tons of Wool. There is no good way to get Jute.

Salvage them on an appropriate low level character.

1: Tournament starts on reset night. No announcement as to when.
2: Duration of one week match. Recurring randomly.
3: Transfer lock out during the tournament or if you transfer during you are locked out of WvW for the duration and EotM is only available
4: Scoring will be done solely on PPK and the winner announced after next reset.

Ayrilana.1396:

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars

This, it’s the lore, has nothing to do with GvG or you being in a guild!!!

Fivedawgs.4267:

The Ventari Ele.5812:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

The current plan is to rotate the borderlands maps each quarterly update. That said, now that we are actively polling the community, perhaps we can start exploring other options.

Quarterly rotation is way way way too long!

If you were to bring back DBL for 3 months, that’ll be 3 months during which all those players who came back will go back to other games and us having 50+ queues, even more now with server mergers, for EB!!!

Again your response shows that not much balancing thoughts were put into the DBLs, as the original plan for WvW was to have several maps one rotation, and those maps should obviously be roughly equal to each other.
DBLs were a gimmick, like EOTM, which is where it would be better suited; and WvW getting a proper new balanced map.

If you are sticking to DBL for the meantime it’d be better to go weekly or fortnightly, cos you know most of us hate DBL, do you really think we would want it for 3 months straight?!
Server mergers wont change players’ minds on the DBL, rather you’ll be forcing players to either play on them, wait for an hour or more for EB queue to pop, or leave the game for 3 months!

Most of us?? Who is us? Like everyone is saying bring back both maps, I like the DBL because they are more tactical, ABL is just a zerg fest, can’t even 1 vs 1 or a2 vs 1 someone. …

As this game mode is designed for*Massive PvP*, sorry you can’t duel or roam anymore!!!

No Golems either.

Liston.9708:

Except there are no plans for easons, so this doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I doubt I would choose this track, but some might.

Which to me makes them more valuable to this game mode. If they get put on a reward track then something else will have to replace the tickets for the tournament.

Tournaments can be implemented even with all the current and upcoming changes to WvW if they do it correctly to where sever stacking can be prevented prior to the Announcement!!!

The tickets are Unique to Tournaments and should remain that way. They need to continue to fix WvW to the point where Tournaments can be brought back without the server stacking for easy wins.

Offair.2563:

LoL NooBs.5076:

Terrier.8732:

Yes.. move them to the guild halls!

Of course! Lock more kitten behind HoT. Maybe it will sell better.

You can access guild halls without HoT.

True if you’re in a guild that has a hall but most that use the stations are cheap PvE’ers that don’t want to pay to wp and leave a zone then go back..

Blade Of Gandara.6738:

me and other thousands of people havent played since this stupid merge happened and forced transfer 12 servers to help the other 12 servers on their own battles……

You have proof to substantiate that number?

lil devils x.6071:

Tiny Doom.4380:

lil devils x.6071:

It isn’t them fixing everything on the list that is concerning, it is HOW they are proposing to fix them that is the biggest problem here. Before this poll should have even been considered, they should have shown different ways to solve the problem and considered the numerous alternatives that are much better than their proposed solutions. If all of the solution’s being offered are bad and fail to address the core problem, a bad poll is just bad.
end game for the proposed solutions = PvD undefended objective, KIll NPC get Chest, Siege it to the teeth, Zerg avoid fight get i n tower siege hump and kill 5 ppl outside . This only matters during 6 hour period, everyone else outside of that time left game already.

As long as PvD undefended + zerg siege humping is the way to win END GAME is YB 2.0 for all servers eventually, + devalue players outside of prime time = kill the game faster because this is bad/ lame game play that treats players like crap.

WvW is PvPvE with a strong emphasis on siege mechanics. You can accept it or not but that’s self-evidently what it is and what it has always been. If that’s ever seriously in doubt then ANet is going to have to come down on one side of the fence, decisively, pick a direction for WvW, stick with it and change the rules to encourage that style of play and discourage others. If that’s done we will end up with a clearer WvW offer and those who find that offer appealing will stay and, if they are acting rationally, those who don’t will go and find other things to do that suit them better.

It has been apparent since launch that the official vision for WvW is, approximately, a ladder-style competition between Server-Level entities in which gameplay is based heavily on taking and holding structures. The trope is “medieval siege warfare” and siege machines are designed into the gameplay at the most basic level. It may well be that a more open-field, guild vs guild oriented offer would have been more popular but it wasn’t the offer that was on the table and in four years it has never been suggested that it ever would be.

If these changes do move WvW to a more unequivocal “take and hold territory” model then that’s all to the good. Lack of clarity has been a huge part of the problem with directional drift until now. Get WvW into shape, make some definitive statements about intended gameplay if necessary and then let that clear offer define what population the game mode can attract and keep.

PvP should not be an after thought in a large scale PvP game mode ( It was advertised as a large scale PvP game mode by Anet and promised to be such btw to all of those who filled out the surveys used to create this game). So if it is NOT a large scale PvP mode, that would mean they lied, and those who enjoy large scale PvP should take their business elsewhere?

Siege mechanics are fine as long as the focus of siege mechanics is on Siege vs siege Siege vs structure not siege vs player. Objective based PPK would make the objectives more valuable to the players since it would increase their loot and score due to fighting over the objectives without the use of siege on each other rather than the objective doing nothing and scoring by itself with no one there or rewarding lazy game play.

So pretty much if they got rid of A/C’s and Ballista’s you’d be happy? Those seem to be the biggest offenders.

penelopehannibal.8947:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Ah, yes. I can see what’s happening here. “I keep getting beaten by people running condition builds. Yes it must be the torment and confusion killing me.”

This is a L2P issue. I play warrior mostly, I have 4 of them. So if I can beat condition builds, and I’m not that good, anyone can, with some practice.

Agreed. Torment is a L2NotMove condition. Confusion is a L2NotHit condition. Or you can use condition removal skills/traits as well.

The DOT on Confusion was added not too long ago, and was a welcome change, especially for PvE players but probably for PvP/WvW players too (as long as they were the ones doing the inflicting, of course!)

I’d like to see you not move in WvW. You’re saying “Just stand there and eat my Confusion stacks because you will die from both if even think about dodging?” Cleansed, dodge, boom. WTH, I got stacks on me again.

Stiofan.6720:

How does someone get punished twice from confusion?

1: For using a skill.
2: It has a DoT whether you use a skill or not.

Have you guys ever noticed that 99.9% of the gear drops primary stat is Condition Damage?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It’s all Scarlet Briars fault!!! When she was introduced with her Toxic army, new conditions were introduced and they ran amuck.

We killed that kitten and conditions should have died with her!!!

Edit: I guess it’s her legacy, lol.

Wolfey.3407:

I personally, prefer this new system over the old system. The only other option I could think of them doing, which is something everyone would rage against… it to delete the lower pop servers and force those players on the lesser populated servers.

I wouldn’t object to this if it’s across the board. Delete 12 servers, rename the remaining 12 and force everyone to reselect a Home World.

CowOfGlory.5816:

If you didn’t want to play on Maguuma, you could always transfer off. No-one is forcing you to stay.

Only problem with that is the current Linking system. If he goes up it won’t be an issue and he doesn’t want that. If he goes down, there is the possibility of getting paired with Maguuma again in the future.

I’ve just learned to deal with you guys and adjusted my play style. It’s not that hard to do. I just love the diversity of the Fights Maguuma provides!!!

Edit: He’s on DR if you didn’t know Cow.