4K is just a tool nowadays. Its just something ppl use when making movies, they scale it down to 1080 to get more detail. Not enough hardware support, and not enough ppl with fast enough connections for broadcasters to invest in it for streams either. It’s something that’s pretty much dead before it becomes a big thing.
They should implement knitting. So we can knit our own cardigans with dye colors. And if you go and pve at night and dont wear your cardigan, your virtual mother comes out and ground you.
There are a lot of opinions about everything, and God knows that forums doesn’t show what the majority want. Forums can to readers often give a false impression that a majority wants something when the overwhelming majority wants something completely else, or is totally unaware of a problem that a few dozen ppl find annoying.
And since forum posters tend to immediately write every little thing they find right or wrong, it’s very time consuming to read and respond to it. So the only thing is often to not read it at all but to regard problem when they occur.
At the same time you have to listen to your customers. But forums is rarely the most effective way to do so nowadays.
Increasing the spec’s would exclude a lot of players. Not everyone got a 6700K with Gfx 1080 in SLI (as I have) Not too mention the problems with WvW. Try to run that on in 4k in SLI on an adsl connection in a 3-way fight kitten. Some things work well in theory but not so well in practice.
If the demand is big enough for it they probably will…
I run a defence/disc/berzerker build. If in a zerg or large group I use full PVT armor and trinkets with marauder GS and axe+shield. And durability runes. For smaller groups ( I never roam solo) I tend to go with my pve marauder set instead along with pvt trinkets for a bit more dmg.
I often miss some of the mechanics of GW1. Such as just the skill shutdowns. Or the interrupt ragers. Its was so fun in AB shutting down players at just the right moment. Some people were amazingly fast and accurate doing that.
I wish we get some boons or protection or something thats sharable to the party and as wanted as revs resistance or guardians stab in WvW. That’s something we kind of lack at the moment.
I play warrior Berzerker in WvW a lot in large groups. And as said here, we dont bring much in terms of synergy, giving protection and boons. And we are often kicked in favor of Guardians and Revs if those are needed in the squad. And it’s understandable tbh.
It’s a bit sad though. Played correctly we can outlast guardians, dish out quite some dmg even with full PVT, and banner a downed commander.
And I think warrior is a bit more dynamic to play in a large group than guardian. Ive played guard a lot, probably as much as warrior, but a classic AH guard is kind of a one trick pony. Jump in with the commander, pop a few things to make sure you survive the bomb, switch to staff and then 1-1-1 your way through the group tagging as many as possible for tha bags.
As a warrior you have to manage your skills and cooldowns a bit more careful. At the moment its alo less forgiving when you start taking heavy damage. Having your oh-kitten skill on cooldown when you have a sea of red ppl in your face and you are bound to retreat or die. But if you can time your kills correctly and manage those cd’s its as fun as it ever was.
It sort of is what it is, but oooh the zerg fights we hade before the condi meta arrived. So much fun. The big clashes.
Link some servers together. Create a hype over it and create a demand to transfer.
Cash in on it. Rinse and repeat instead of keeping a steady and healthy population.
Nowadays they usually roam in groups of 4-5 ppl with a healer ele, mostly capping camps and killing solo runners. And just rotating the map.
Some roamers can effectively follow a zerg and kill ranged in larger fights, striking and retreating and getting really good kills from it. But too few lack the skills to do so.
Try fighting a german server then. All they do is to hide in their towers and hit everything with AC’s. While their opponents desperatly try to lure them out to have a fun fight.
My God some servers in this game….
Also, one effective thing that can be done if you have a huge blob that just cap and run on your borderland (as opposed to those servers that leave a few people do defend), is to be groups of, lets say 4-5 people. As soon as they have taken a tower, you instatly take it back 5 min later. Every single time. Not 10 minutes later, but always straight away. Get over there with catas. If they come back and wipe you, you are instantly back again and again and again. This can be considered a bit “duh”, but it’s extremely annoying.
Remember, never fight an enemy on their terms.
This is how wvw should be! Make friends with your enemies and have a party!
Nuuu…I just want to kill people
Im usually having a blast playing my ele in WvW. I throw water as the group goes, cc the enemy group, and try to anticipate where big water will be needed judging from several factors.
The heals together with good power, a decent crit ratio and a ton of skills to ensure your survival make it a very versatile class. Heck, we can even blink straight through an enemy zerg if we get cut off.
The only situation it can be a bit tricky is with the “jump-commanders” that insist on jumping without having backup, but even that can be anticipated.
Think there are things that would deserve a nerf way way way before hammer revs. Just quit it
Been there done that.
Just chill and play casual for a week or two. Im pretty sure it will resolve itself in one of two ways. Either your server drop and you will face more appropriate opposition, or you are facing a stacked server, in that case they will drop like a stone the next unlinking.
EoTM doesn’t need anything. It’s meant as a waiting area for WvW. But no instead serves as kind of a WvW light. Without the tactics, need for TS or real builds. Just follow the train.
If you want pips, got to borderlands and support your server instead.
NA had the issue with server stacking; prior to linking, EU did not have the issue — or at least not to the extreme that was seen in NA.
The linking has brought the NA bandwagon movement to EU. We really hadn’t seen it in EU prior to linking; again not to the extreme that was happening in NA. SFR was the only server, allegedly, that actively paid for guilds to transfer to its server. It’s why it remained dominant for a long time.
EU players: solo, roamers, guilded, but particularly guilded had discussions amongst each other to ensure that three max big guilds were on each server to ensure a good ratio of fights. These guilds self-organized and helped balance out the rest of the pug masses. And I’m pretty sure none of these guilds cared whether they were in 1st, 2nd or 10th spot: they just wanted to make sure they had the bodies to fight to challenge them and their friends during their leisure time.
What did motivate them were queue times: If they got too long on any given server, they’d move down in tiers.
It wound up creating a pleasant playing field where pugs could improve skillset by tagging along with high level guilds — and pugs would leave the guilds alone if they were working on group raids/compositions etc… Scouts could call out blob reports and the guilds would actually (good naturedly) fight with each other in map chat over who got to take on the blob first. I even witnessed one guild wait at the side to let another guild have the first shot.
EU servers period would complain about what is common in NA — zerging. And accuse other guilds of hand holding if they didn’t wait turns.
It’s just a completely different mentality. In EU it’s about the gameplay, in NA it was about the reward/first place, etc… Weekends on most EU servers were empty because folks were out doing things with family and friends. Weekdays became the game days.
EU did not need linking to balance out the population. The majority played during prime and there were small groups of devoted “daytime/nighttime” regulars.
The server balance issues were NA only. Linking was created for NA.
Your blanket statements aren’t a far cry from racism in terms of ignorance. But then I guess I should expect that from an EU player. See how unfair that is?
I think you mean bigotry.
I’m not that either.
+1. Well said.
It’s items ment for players that spend a lot of time in WvW. And maybe have spent hours a day for years doing mostly WvW.
Surely there can be no harm done having very hard to obtain items for those players?
For the rest there are tons of weapons and backpacks from pve raids, fractals etc etc that the WvW:ers rarely put in the time getting.
Seems to normalize today. Down to 65 , as I should be. Wierd. Still have massive high ping for like 10-15 min after logging on, then it just drop down to normal.
Will have to see how it goes during the weekend and see what is the cause.
If all else fail, can always blame Trump.
Still about 3-5k ping every time I log on.
Can always roll something like a celestial / ptv hybrid. Will give you enough umph to kill people and still being able to heal and cc while in a group. I like to run soldier armor and celestial trinkets, give a nice all-round stats.
Having some problems too. Never had much lag but now Im getting 3k+ ping every time I launch the game, and after a while it goes down to about 400 and stays there. My normal ping is about 60-70.- Im just gonna try and log once a day til it goes away. Not gonna bother to play at the moment, very annoying.
Yeah it’s pretty bad atm. I just quit playing at all until it changes. Cba to stand in que for over an hour every time.
Played since launch, wvw every day, and I just can’t get in anymore. I got no time to que for 2 hours every night. I got work and family. Played like 1 hours since patch. F’’k this
Regular WvW player since launch. And nowadays WvW is all I do. Period. Every day.
I cant say that I care much for the rewards. I think I got 7 sets of ascended armors and asc weapons for all chars to go with them. As do a lot of us. Almost everything crafted (I never get good loot so I make my own things, easy solution). What else do I need?
I got no need for a WvW backpiece or flashy armor with the exact same stats that I already got several sets of. I just want fun fights on the borderlands.
This might shock some but a lot of us already got all the equipement we need and thousands of gold in the bank never being used on anything else than food or siege. Or maybe a nice new skin once in a while to fresh things up a bit.
We just want a good balance between classes and a healthy population. Then leave everything else to us players.
But the last thing we need, is something that make every pve player that never play WvW regularly to flood all borderlands for months. Some of us work all day and usually come home to play around prime time. And then stay up late playing.
Luckily I got a life so I will do something else, I wont be affected much by this. I got other games to play if I want and friends and family to hang out with. But I got no time for queing for 2 hours after coming home from work. So I am very much excluded atm. Nice, after putting down so many thousands of hours.
Played the game fine until today, when it wont stop crashing. 3 crashes in 20 minutes. Unplayable atm.
It will all sort itself out in a few days when some ppl give up on what they thought would be an easy farm.
Please no, don’t lower the requirements. Or change the weekly limit. Increase the requirements and lower the weekly so all plebs get tired and give up.
I mostly play WvW. One of the fun things playing thief in WvW is the fast paced “in and out” style. Playing perma stealth trapper is not something that appeal to me at all.
Running in the outskirts of a big zerg battle and pick your targets. Maybe even jump in and take a few whacks at the commander and get out of there alive. Thats why I play thief.
Spamming condis on low ranked players that die from a few ticks is something I would be ashamed of doing.
Worst crap that ever hit GW2.
Sounds pretty reasonable…
Can’t get in either.
World vs World is unavailable while matches…
Can’t enter wvw
Some ppl have way too much time. Go get a job instead of spending your time posting things about ppl that is simply not ture.
Got that mail again today about cheating the God Walking title.
I dont appreciate having a GW title stripped from my account and being accused of cheating titles. I think I logged on to my old GW account once for 5 minutes since GW2 launch.
Like the fights, hate the EB que. Constant 80 man que to EB every evening.
They have taken away the fun, long and interesting fights. Now everything melts from ranged. Running through all red rings and traps and crap is horrible.
Defending towers and keeps is a pain. There are so many unecessary walls and rooms and long windling stairs everywhere. Hills and Fire Keep as an example. I have no problems defending an objective solo for hours, I find it quite rewarding, but on these maps…ugh.
All those fun fights at old Bay. Defending Hills. Being able to report when the enemy zerg passes Bay going north and meeting them for a good fight. All gone.
After stability-update the “FUN” had left the building…
Example Zerg Fight on a bridge:
Before Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7NI0WC1eIs
After Update (6 min is the first fight – before there is running , running, running and running…): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEUaN3u6pE4
Since update Melee classes were destroyed in large scale fights. So people don t run melee anymore.
But the most guilds were running melee so it s no surprise no guilds are left.
+1
I can be considered a vet WvW player and I must say that I don’t care at all for direct rewards. Tokens that can be used to buy someting or likewise. Im in it for the server vs server feature.
1. Bring back our Alpine borderlands.
Not much to be said here. We just want it back. Period.
2. WvW season.
Continue with the WvW seasons. Don’t give us some bogus events like golem rush events. Give us something like a fun NHL-type of season where every server meets eachother and give all players a gold, silver and bronze reward.
3. The battle of the red rings
Much of the joy of WvW is gone nowadays. And it’s not because of the desert borders. It’s too much cc’s. Go back to the drawing table and redesign some of the cc skills to be less effective in wvw, so we can have those fun and active fights again. Fun and engaging melee fights without being chilled, slowed, bled and burned to death before even reaching the enemy frontline.
4. Population balance
This, but without making WvW a copy of EotM.
No surprise there. EU WvW dominated by localised servers.
It depends on what type of wvw you are playing.
If we are talking about zerg, big group play, team support, then vanilla warrior is way better than berserker. The “HoT” classes are often overrated in wvw and sometimes used in the wrong situations.
For wvw I would say that warrior is fine as roamer, 1v1 or in small to medium size group fights.
The problems comes in some situations when you are frontlining in a zerg vs zerg fight. Then we suffer from a bit of lack of sustain and are very very dependant on being in a subgroup with people who have the correct stab rotation. Or we are dead. Sure we got a lot of hp and all but we melt pretty quickly when out of stability and get stuck in a couple of red rings.
Im currently only running berserker in pve and in wvw classic warrior with mace/shield + GS.
In my opinion the population balance never were the most pressing issue. WvW post HoT release suffer from way more serious problems than that.
And apparently Anet are currently focusing on 2 things, population imbalance and wvw rewards. 2 things that isn’t even on my top 10 list of things that would need an emergency fix.
Remaking it into yet another EotM would be the final nail in the coffin for wvw.
I’ve been on Fsp since launch. And we who has been playing it for a while know who’s who on the server. Which commander is always yoloing, who has the best tactics, who always ppt.
We know who we want to be in subsquad with when playing a frontline guard. Who the best scouts are.
We know how the different servers are playing, How it is to fight Deso or Sfr. We also know which servers always run instead of taking the fight even if they have equal numbers. Which servers always go and hide in SM or run for the choke instead of taking it to open field.
This is why I personally play wvw. For the server vs server feature. This can be said a million times, but we just need the alpine borderlands back. Then Anet can work on the other solutions. Just drop everything, and bring back our old borderlands and let us have some fun again.
Then we can talk about the rest of things that doesnt work.
It have been 3 years…….Some of the top servers are literally dyeing to ours (far shiverpeaks) in wvw, they can not play us at all in prime time, we capture keeps in prime time like it was towers, but they have collected a good amount of people to play in night time and just attack the door, it is not WvW but just a way to win because others not even in the actual game playing…….This game have had this problem for 3 years………
EU got 3 hour time difference in time zones and NA got 3-4 hours aswell (surprice surprice….thats why LFG is empty at night, and the maps are aswell in a cross server platform).
This should not be hard to handle, decrease the points gathered not around 12:00-24:00 in the average time………..Can not in anyway destroy the game by doing this, it is quiet a huge problem, specially when servers not good enough to even be on a map at all in the prime time even are able to reach high tiers.
Please share your idea, do you believe this is bad, that winning based on others not even in the game/sleeping is good/bad, or is there something I have missed, is there actually more behind it than abusing the fact that your opponent is not even there, or am I wrong in time zones, I did check google and made sure, but idk……..Either way, I would like to know more about it
Sure night capping has been a problem for many servers since launch. But the real problem is that you are facing servers that doesn’t want to fight. They just want to cap. So they will do anything to avoid you unless they heavily outnumber you or can double team you.
They are only there for the tick while you want fun and exciting fights. It’s two different ways of playing WvW. FSP have always lacked night time players.
It’s just not as fun anymore to go into WvW. Especially when you meet servers that avoid you the best they can daytime, and get rekt in every fight. And then tick 500 during the night.
Im just really afraid that they will concentrate too much on the fact that some servers lack population and punish the top tier servers who actually have a good population even at odd hours for it. Mega servers and no more server pride.
And that will be the death blow against WvW as we know it.
I really hope I’m wrong. But I have a really bad feeling about this.