Guild Wars 2

DeLys.5380:

Yes, and I said the reason they are leaving is due to population imbalance making WvW unplayable for some servers.

Well for this Exodus yes but not what has caused the ones before.

Yes it is but Proofs were specifically intended for the Elite skill of the class.

DeLys.5380:

Well, I disagree that population imbalance is a less priority than fixing the maps. Population imbalance is the #1 priority in WvW. It’s what’s killing it off right now. A lot of WvW players have left the game due to this main issue, in Tier 1 and 2. They really need to eliminate the WvW in lower tiers and only have Tiers 1-4, and then cap the WvW population evenly, unless they plan to begin the long awaited “alliance system.” If the “Alliance System” is further out than 30 days, they need to fix the population imbalance NOW, or there will be no WvW left to fix, really, at least on the main tiers.

Unless you fix the reasons why these players left, no matter how you manipulate the population, the mode will still Bleed. Some of just have a bigger blood pool than others, lol.

1: Appoint a Forum Specialist for WvW, an Anet employee that has direct communication with the Dev team. This person will relay information both ways.
2: Communication…
3: Formally establish what format Anet wants to use for said Communication so we are all on the same page.
4: Communication
5: Did I mention Communication?

Proof of Heroics is Soulbound for a reason. Character progression. There was a bug when they were first introduced and has been since fixed. You’d be better off posting in the GW2 main subforum because you won’t get another answer here.

Kalendraf.9521:

Be extremely careful when selecting clothing options for Outside. Despite its E for Everyone rating, there’s a hidden nude option available! After hearing about it, I decided to try it, and I was shocked to discover that my character’s base model isn’t censored at all.

Most maps seem to have rules to discourage using the nude option. However, those rules don’t seem to apply to your home instance, specifically in certain rooms like the bedroom or bathroom. I haven’t found them yet, but there are supposedly some special beach maps that allow using this option too. I’ve also heard rumors about players from the [DARE] guild that are bending the rules by secretly enabling this option in low-populated zones of other maps.

Apparently, the nude option is enabled by default for 0-level characters right at the beginning of the “Born Into the World” intro mission. However, I don’t recall much before my character’s Memory ability was first activated around level 3.

That’s a default in game outfit that comes with evevy character called “Birthday Suit” and it can be toggled off and on with "Town Clothing ".

lil devils x.6071:

Ricky.4706:

hrmm…i was just thinking ….what if there were no wvw score at all…
Just stats – and the players can pick out aspects of their stats for ranking ?

people play wvw to win……but to win at being best at what ?

the score right now is a win for which server is best at being populated. thats kind of anti-climatic lol

Most do not play wvw to win anymore. I think only YB is doing that now..
To play to win isn’t even by being populated, it is by avoiding fights and just trying to PPT instead. This equates to tons of PvD, siege humping, and seizing opportunities to take easy objectives. That is all it really means in the end. Fighting takes time away from PPT, so if you are PPT, you want to die as fast as possible if engaged in a fight so you can get back on target for fast PPT.
That is why no one cares about winning anymore. It is boring to do so. More players would rather have fun and lose than be bored and win.

Odd that you say that because you came from a guild that has the biggest Queenie of PPT of them all. But I call it something else that would turn into a kitten here, lol.

lil devils x.6071:

Loosmaster.8263:

This should be interesting and I think that is where they are going with this. The population for WvW is small compared to PvE. So to solve the population problem, you go after the resources.
To bring PvE’rs into WvW, you need to make it worth their while… REWARDS.
I really don’t think they are going to spend the time and resources to fix this game mode to appease the few that remain.
You may not like that vision but that is the bridge I see which lies ahead and we must either cross it or turn around.
Enjoy what time you have left here.

There is one big flaw in this idea of bringing PvE players into WvW. PvE players do not spend their money and buy gold every month injecting the game with a constant flow of $ to help them pay for upgrades to the game since they earn everything they need in the game instead. Changing the game to appease PvE players does not increase the money coming into tGemsame to keep the servers open, instead it removes the players who do spend the money currently to pay for their PvE content from the game and the game will in the end be worse off financially. Removing players from the game who spend $ and replacing them with players who do not is not a sound business decision.
From my understanding, this is already becoming an issue financially.

Now you’re seeing the path. All you need in this current version of WvW is seige, everything else is free, excluding the -&%@$- for guild buffs.
That’s why I’m still down in this crap hole. Not going to spend one dime. The more you continue to buy Gems, the longer things remain unchanged.

Ricky.4706:

pvers don’t need to be dragged in to pvp – that’s part of the problem, people being forced / incentivized to play game modes they don’t want to play

The idea is to bring our “REAL PVP” community back to us, we have our people, we just need wvw to accommodate their preferred way of gaming.

Bringing pvers into the fold is just putting salt on the wound. They don’t want to pvp, respect that. PvPrs dont want to pve, respect that too.

GW gamers aren’t chess pieces to be moved around by anet….that’s not how things work!! Chess pieces don’t walk off the board the way our pvp community did. ^.^

Case in point: What has Anet done for the GvG scene that sprung up from WvW? NADA!!! They’re not coming back. Fight Guilds? NADA (no more stab for you). Not coming back. Pirate Ship Meta……….
They’re going to work with what numbers they have. Otherwise it’s a total rework of the entire game mode to appease a few specialty groups.

Gunner Morton.8340:

Loosmaster.8263:

To bring PvE’rs into WvW, you need to make it worth their while… REWARDS..

Who says we need PvErs in WvW?

If you read what I said, You doesn’t matter. They want to address “Population and Rewards”. It’s not hard to figure it out.

This should be interesting and I think that is where they are going with this. The population for WvW is small compared to PvE. So to solve the population problem, you go after the resources.
To bring PvE’rs into WvW, you need to make it worth their while… REWARDS.
I really don’t think they are going to spend the time and resources to fix this game mode to appease the few that remain.
You may not like that vision but that is the bridge I see which lies ahead and we must either cross it or turn around.
Enjoy what time you have left here.

We should get the same 2 skills from gliding like the new Shatt fight. That should turn things around!!!

I’d put in a Support ticket requesting to have that death count refunded, lol.

Lord Kuru.3685:

briggah.7910:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Not sure what the OP is talking about. According to the announcements, they’re on exactly the same path they were on before this new hype train.

One example shows it all: Their intention is still to put in all the failed features of HoT into the Alpine BL.

Might want to give better feedback before calling everything a failure. This is the problem with many of the threads. Some of you complain yet never actually give a solution on what you are complaining about. I don’t care about the past feedback as its pretty clear to me now that they are trying to listen. As far as I can see you saw nothing good from HoT because to you everything is a failure. Here I’m going to show you how to do it.

What I’d like to see removed/changed about the new map are the barriers, pop up walls and whatever applies cripple to me when no players are not around. Things like these only make it harder to move around the maps. Too many high places to fall from which again make it harder to move around the maps. Maps are a little too big as there are places I’ve haven’t even been to because there are no reason to even go there. Middle event either needs to be removed or changed into something else as it favors the larger servers mostly. Can’t think of anything else off top..

wow that was hard giving feedback…

Absolutely nothing you just suggested hasn’t been suggested 1000 times before in here. It has been proven time and again that giving suggestions to Anet is a complete waste of time. You may be fooled again and again and again and again by their empty promises of “listening” not everyone is so easily deceived.

“cough” See sticky above about Constructive Feedback. “hack”

CYA Spell, I’m not too far behind. I’m just not sure where to go ATM.

I went check Outside. I was told to look into this Guild called Doctors [$$$)]. They said they would let me in if I spend ALOT of time playing Outside and their Guild had fees.
I’m at a loss…

Edit: I found out in this game you can use characters, Guild tag corrected. Did some more research and they have a sister guild called Farmasuitacles [Rx]. They craft some really good in game buffs but the Doctor guild only has access to them. Also both guilds are gold farmers so BEWARE!!!
Both have a rival guild called WeeSueYue with the same guild tag [$$$].

OK I did a search on GW2 day/night cycle. Happens in 4 stages, 2 hours each. Your complaints on this subject do not exist in the game. WvW runs 24/7, that frame has no day/night cycle.
The problem you are describing is yours and yours alone or created by you. YOU are the only one that can fix it.

Well I read it, Live beta testing starts in April, guess we’ll see how that goes and the involvement and communications go.

And more delay?

Anet has already stated they could care less about external petitions/surveys. Have fun.

Reverence.6915:

Lol

Bronze is so fun when I can log in during my prime time (OCX) AND THERE’D BE NO ONE ELSE ON THE MAP :P

And not have the outnumbered buff…

No, it doesn’t bother me, lol. I use that place for farming nodes now. The comment was not meant to be derogatory, even though it came off that way.

Bruticus Fatalfury.3486:

This is a way to turn this off. It is under the chat window. In the left corner click the main tab and you will get a drop down window. Go to the game messages tab and uncheck wvw and the capture messages should stop popping up

They’re asking about the kitten big pop up message on the screen.

One time on SMC, it kept getting contested. I searched and searched for the culprit. Finally after my 3rd lap I found it. An Archer apparently thought a Dredge Turret was too close…

Dungeons….just be glad they didn’t lock any of the requirements behind Raids, lol.

My biggest wish is for them to communicate with us on its development from the ground up. Nurture it along with the players involved. PUSH the reset button in the meantime.

X T D.6458:

Loosmaster.8263:

Hmmm, up at the top is a “Sticky” that tells you the basics of WvW. Your “vision” is entirely different than Anets intention.

You basically want mass PvP on a meh type map. Ain’t gonna happen!!!

Gotta love 3 year old outdated “guides”

True, unfortunately the intent remains. I’m not advocating it to remain as is but with the release of HoT and them going deeper into it just tells me not to expect any miraculous change from that unless they completely come out with a pure mass PvP game mode.

Hmmm, up at the top is a “Sticky” that tells you the basics of WvW. Your “vision” is entirely different than Anets intention.

You basically want mass PvP on a meh type map. Ain’t gonna happen!!!

Palador.2170:

Loosmaster.8263:

Palador.2170:

Loosmaster.8263:

I’d like to know why Conditions completely ignore Toughness.

That’s the advantage of Conditions, to counterbalance the fact that they do their damage more slowly.

Eh, that doesn’t fly in WvW Condi Bombs, lol. And don’t bring up Condi clearing either when it can immediately be reapplied.

Yeah, the counterbalancing can use some re-balancing. I won’t argue that. But, in theory, what I stated is the reason.

Well at least. I had to switch to Warrior from Guardian, one Utility has Resistance and that helps alot. I’m not a Meta follower and still play Melee.

Edit: Just don’t tell me to push when you’re pew pewing 12-1500 behind me, lol.

Palador.2170:

Loosmaster.8263:

I’d like to know why Conditions completely ignore Toughness.

That’s the advantage of Conditions, to counterbalance the fact that they do their damage more slowly.

Eh, that doesn’t fly in WvW Condi Bombs, lol. And don’t bring up Condi clearing either when it can immediately be reapplied.

Buy Superior Siege and sell/donate it.

I’d like to know why Conditions completely ignore Toughness.

DeWolfe.2174:

psizone.8437:

Shield Generators shouldn’t be locked behind buying HoT, that was a stupid decision by Anet and one I hope they change.

Umm…. how are they “locked”? Can’t anyone buy them off the TP? Aren’t they available from the Siege Master for Badges or silver?

If I’m not mistaken, it’s a trait line that’s hidden.

Don’t forget gank squads!!!

What’s even worse is it’s on the last mastery line before you find out. I wasted mine in that line and if I had known, I would have put them in the Legendary crafting one. And no refunds either.

Swagger.1459:

The Quad.8625:

What would be nice is for every 100 levels you reach you get an ascended item. Or a precursor at level 1000,

That’s not like way over grindy or anything… By level 100 a pve player could be decked out in full ascended.

He said 1 item per 100 levels. So that would be 600 levels just for gear not including trinks/weaps. Also make them random with selectable stats.

Lite Ning Strike.5203:

Aarean.5398:

Roughly 3.1 million players log in every month. Stated in a recent interview. This is probably the most played mmorpg atm

Wonder if that is accounts or Characters. I have 23 total atm and log in 12 different ones daily to flax farm for our Guild.

If it’s tracked like the old guild influence for logging in, it was per account no matter how many times you logged into different characters.

Edit: Like I said, without knowing exactly how they get that 3.1 million. For instance, say I log on every day for 30 days just to get my daily login reward then leave, more if I have alt accounts. Take that 30 and divide. There are just to many variables for that number, you need a graph breakdown to see what specific data you are looking for.

SkyShroud.2865:

no1 knows
likely to be 50-100k online?
but if it is 50k online, the number of wvwer is really kitten low. lol

so i think around 30k online?

This…
Is what I would call “actually play” definition. Then start to throw in time slices and what you would call being “online”. That’s what I meant by having a lot of “variables” to the answer.

arakkune.1429:

shinjin.3924:

Can we know how many players actually play gw2? and by server too how many people there are in this game?

GW2 uses a megaserver system so we have maps that fill up to a certain number and then overflow. As to how many ppl play gw2 i think gw2 has sold around 6 million copies before it went free to play. So by that you can make an assumption how many play. Another one is based on the HOT sold copies which sold around 300-400k (idk if preorders were in the financial report for Q4) this as a whole makes out for a pretty good number.

Account sales and people that actually “play” are two different things. OP needs to specify which he is looking for. HoT copies could be more upgrades than actual entire new accounts. There are a lot of variables here.

It’s because they don’t want you to just spam #1. They want you to spam “F” too. Help you with multi-tasking…

briggah.7910:

Loosmaster.8263:

briggah.7910:

Loosmaster.8263:

I’m on DR. Of the 3 servers I have to say AR has the best “quality” players. Props to [KAOS] and [ALS], very well organised groups.

ET from what I’ve seen doesn’t run for long but they will flip the entire maps when they do.

DR is just a bunch of PvD’ers that can WXP harder, tower hug w/seige if there is any resistance or move to another map. Indicative of guild they brought in [EotM], really.

If Anet would give free transfers, I would have left last year but I’m not going to convert my gold or buy Gems to support Anet.

I mostly go there for a good laugh. EotM has more quality players than DR.

I see you read the pvf handbook but not quite there yet.. May want to read it again.

Apparently you didn’t. How many have you seen pvf their own server instead of others?

Nice catch on my bluff Actually I see a lot of people pvf their old servers after they leave and you spend more time in EoTM so its the same thing :P

You need to F2P an account down here to enjoy the ambiance but it’s not worth leveling to 60 just to delete it later, lol.

briggah.7910:

Loosmaster.8263:

I’m on DR. Of the 3 servers I have to say AR has the best “quality” players. Props to [KAOS] and [ALS], very well organised groups.

ET from what I’ve seen doesn’t run for long but they will flip the entire maps when they do.

DR is just a bunch of PvD’ers that can WXP harder, tower hug w/seige if there is any resistance or move to another map. Indicative of guild they brought in [EotM], really.

If Anet would give free transfers, I would have left last year but I’m not going to convert my gold or buy Gems to support Anet.

I mostly go there for a good laugh. EotM has more quality players than DR.

I see you read the pvf handbook but not quite there yet.. May want to read it again.

Apparently you didn’t. How many have you seen pvf their own server instead of others?

Edit: Need more to get this thread locked…

I’m on DR. Of the 3 servers I have to say AR has the best “quality” players. Props to [KAOS] and [ALS], very well organised groups.

ET from what I’ve seen doesn’t run for long but they will flip the entire maps when they do.

DR is just a bunch of PvD’ers that can WXP harder, tower hug w/seige if there is any resistance or move to another map. Indicative of guild they brought in [EotM], really.

If Anet would give free transfers, I would have left last year but I’m not going to convert my gold or buy Gems to support Anet.

I mostly go there for a good laugh. EotM has more quality players than DR.

Fight on unlevel ground. CoR won’t hit. Hammer Bolt is still pretty good.

Straegen.2938:

I would be surprised to see the overhaul slip into 2017 but I also expect it to be a profound disappointment. I very much hope that I am wrong though.

As we all know, history tends to repeat itself. Don’t get your hopes up.

Depends on the level of and how many he has. I haven’t seen SoR in WvW for months. Glob makes the occasional appearance, the rest are wannabes but are in reality WXP farmers.

I suggest you delete your toons and transfer!!!

I’m sitting @ around 16k maybe. I was on my Ranger helping a guildie w/TA for Kudzu. Pug group and we wiped near some wurms. I aggro’ed them with my axe. One guy cries “You would think someone w/10k achiev points would know how to play”. Never set foot in TA before. Never understood how people can gauge skill using AP’s.

I spend 95% of my time in WvW. The other 5% is leveling toons, farming mats or whatever. I don’t play to be a Pro, I play to have fun and enjoy the game and company.

What gets me is the PvP buff they constantly put up but were only bothered to do the WvW buff and only once during Golem week. Now that’s sad.

Janson Smalling.1850:

Rest assured, we pay attention to all of the threads.

Not every suggestion can be acted on, but we love hearing what you guys like, what you want, and what you don’t want.

And it’s creative community discussion that will make the game better. Not just in the Gem Store, but in all aspects of GW2. So don’t despair; if you bring up valid ideas, we absolutely notice and discuss them! We definitely try to discuss them with you, too!

A shame THIS can’t be applied to the WvW subforum. Soon.