Guild Wars 2

Megaservers coming soon…then you will be posting too many people…

I want to play a Ranged-Only class

You need to find another game to play then…

GW2 is very anti ranged combat. As shown by:-

-Best way of killing anything in PvE, group into a ball, buff, melee, revive until foe dead.
-Every good missile weapon has been nerfed to oblivion, example Ranger shortbow, Warrior Longbow, Thief shortbow.

Really, don’t play GW2 with a ranged character only ends in tears…

Am I a masochist?

Yes.

Play whatever professions Anet boosts upto the top of the food chain and if you really want Magus that much, pray at some point they boost Ele to the top in a future patch. Then play really quick before they get nerfed again.

Conditions are not OP?

Well you have fooled me then…

My warrior has:-

Healing signet, so called ‘OP’ healing.
Berserker Stance, traited so I am immune to conditions for 10 secs.
Signet of Stamina, clears all conditions on me.
Runes of Lyssa, turns all conditions into boons, with Signet of Rage traited for just a 48 sec cooldown.

Even with all that rubbish, the odd Engineer or Necro will still kill me with conditions

So I think conditions are a ‘tad’ OP in spvp.

I was going to call u a noob for not being able to kill Mesmers but then I read yr playing a Ele…so instead I will say fair enough…

Kell.9365:

I’ve got a bad feeling about all this!

Does that bad feeling involve double bubble laurels, all my fingers and toes are crossed…

I knew exactly what was going on before this update…

Now I am totally confused…

Are Anet communications run by a black ops team?

WvW

Best thing about GW2!

So we getting mech mounts soon?

Moa mounts?

Dolyak mounts?

Really, its very, very unbelievable that there is no mounted combat in GW2. On our own planet Earth, mounts were a crucial military tool till the 1700’s. So used in armies for 1700 years and any army without at least some cavalry virtually always lost for the majority of that time. Its a bit ‘silly’ that the inhabitants of Tyria are too thick to release the power of mounted combat, especially in large scale wars.

Thief underpowered…lol

Thief vs Warrior 1vs 1, same skill level, thief wins 100% of the time. Thief 1vs 1 with any of the other 7 classes, thief win 100% of the time and you can have the fight knowing there’s 0% chance of you dieing. Worst case scenario for any half decent thief you get driven off and after find some other poor sap to kill…

I would have no problem with a instant 80 gem on the condition:-

Already have 1 80th lvl character

It should also be very costly, like 4,000 gems.

I kinda see it as a way rich people can support GW2, really. Its very, very easy levelling a character fast to 80th lvl now if you already have a 80, with the instant lvl 20 consumable and 60 tomes of knowledge, which are fairly easy to come by in game now.

Team Q does not really involve more skill, it just requires organization, team speak possibly as well and you have a serious advantage…

In solo q for example I have a 50/50 win record pretty much.

In team q when I have took the time to properly organise it, win 19/20. Simply by being more organised and all knowing our jobs plus being able to shout for help and scream instructions to fellow team members. Really, when you do team q that way, your just faming 95% of other teams in team q. Far, far easier than solo q.

TChalla.7146:

Then, there is the Charr. I can’t even imagine what a Charr would like like on a mount.

They could have a tank/heavy mech vehicle, we have already seen pictures of them in GW2.

One of the living story characters already has a ‘mount’, a mech golem and WvW also has mounts ie siege golems.

Just think its a matter of time before we get mounts, no matter what the, ‘forum negative naysayers’ say.

Big Tower.5423:

Hello guys! I have 4100 hours (506 days). I have no legendary, map completion and my most expensive item being abyss dye. I am completly broke with only 50 gold. is this normal? :P

I would say that’s fairly normal, except a lot of players would not have played that amount of hours.

The amount of money you have reflects how unrewarding GW2 is for the average player and Anet have overall nerfed how much gold players will have after the 15.4.14 features patch. Those poor Chinese players who will never know any better!

1. Elementalist
2. Ranger
3. Guardian
4. Thief
5. Necromancer
6. Warrior
7. Mesmer
8. Engineer

Draknar.5748:

Everyone voting for ele mist form must not PvP. It’s probably the most useless of all the downed skills, maybe next to guardian knockback.

Its AWESOME in WvW thou, whenever you have big fights near a tower/keep/stonemist, even if outnumbered badly, a ele can go out, fight, get some kills, oh I have been downed, misform through friendly gate, rez up. Repeat. Never dieing, as long as I have a friendly gate to mistform through.

I would say success overall but with a lot of minor moans about different aspects of it…

The Wardrobe, spvp tracks, account bound dyes, new rune sets, account wide wxp, 2 sigils in 2h, having loads of players on maps will all overall be really popular.

But there will be a lot of ‘minor’ issues with certain groups of players (including me) but no matter what they do, Anet can never make 100% of the playerbase happy.

Remember your going to after pay gold+skill points to unlock those Grandmaster traits or do parts of PvE to get them for free.

PattyCakeChamp.5268:

You don’t know the costs of rune/sigils post patch, or what most of them will even be. I’d say let the patch hit, see what markets do, then begin forming opinions.

Well, its not easy predicting what the TP will do, but the most sort after runes/sigils will rise in price by a HUGE margin, that always happens…

We know the cost of the unlocks in spvp:-

2 jewelry pieces 10g each.
2 new rune sets (but perplexity has been pulled due to a qq thread on spvp forums, so might just be 1) 5g each.
2 new sigils 3 g each.

The only way to get those is by buying them with gold.

The Grandmaster traits are going to cost gold+skill points but you can unlock for free doing PvE.

Couldn’t we have Moa mounts?

We have Moa racing or had, got barbequed in LA. Evon’s selling them, barbequed Moa on sticks 1s.

I think if you dig through all the details on the feature patch, all players will be poorer overall anyway.

Overall, its a definite nerf to every players gold/bank balance. You will have additional costs buying new traits/runes/sigils/jewelry, have to pay double waypoint costs occasionally, less loot in ALL champion bags, unless you are in a mega guild you can’t do world bosses as often.

Couldn’t we have Moa mounts?

We have Moa racing or had, got barbequed in LA. Evon’s selling them, barbequed Moa on sticks 1s.

You can buy a horse in ESO for $10+ from the shop!

I do like zooming around on my flying broomstick, which is really a mount, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t have mounts. To those that say no, what harm would they do to you, just ignore them.

You can buy a horse in ESO for $10+ from the shop!

I do like zooming around on my flying broomstick, which is really a mount, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t have mounts. To those that say no, what harm would they do to you, just ignore them.

Concerning the future of WvW.

What is Anet’s future vision of WvW? What direction do you intend to take it in?

What’s in the development pipeline for the rest of this year, 2014 for WvW?

Are ascended weapons, armour and backpacks ever going to be available by playing WvW alone? No the 1 in 1,000,000 drop chance via ranking up chests does not count.

Shouldn’t Mistforged weapons really have had ascended stats?

lol…it is funny…lol

WvW may as well not exist!

Well spvp which AFAIK is played by 10% of the number of players who play WvW, has been lavished with goodies…

I think Anet are confused about WvW and are at a loss with what to do with it or what direction to take it in.

May as well lock this thread now…seeing as there’s no change and WvW is not being effected in anyway by the MEGASERVER.

Will the loot dropped always be so abysmal?

Yes…sadly.

Its been that way for 18 months…since day 1.

GW2 loot system is designed around its crafting system, so if you love crafting, well this is the game for you.

If you like getting decent drops that your main or a alt can use, then its not going to happen…

I only play GW2 for the content…loots uninspired, boring, repetitive…generally trash.

I am really lazy, I waypoint everywhere.

Now I am going to get charged twice to get where I am going and suffer through 2 loading screens.

That’s not very user friendly!

This is going to annoy me for a long, long time…so I reserve the right to continue moaning about this for the next couple of years…

If you get a consumable token vendor, I want a arcane powder vendor, cause that’s all I am missing to make 100’s more ‘free’ gold…

Hambow will have had nearly double figure nerfs when the ones from 15.4.14 become active…should have just deleted Warrior Longbow and Hammer. Even then the Warrior QQ’ers would not be happy, they would want Warrior deleted fullstop.

Elric Of Melnibone.4781:

So is there a standings page or something? It’s still the first round, but after Friday there should be on somewhere I would think.

You can use this to see how everyone is doing in NA/EU

http://mos.millenium.org/eu

Anet stickied a results page at the top of WvW for season 1, probably do the same for season 2 when its completed.

There’s no balance in WvW, so how can it have balance problems?

Balance between classes, should strictly be limited to spvp. WvW is for fun. PvE is for earning gold.

Not enough builds for classes…

TRUE

There could be loads of builds for different classes now, but Anet listen almost exclusively to the spvp crowd when it comes to skills, traits and the first thing a spvp player does when he/she meets someone in spvp they can’t beat is scream NERF IT on the spvp forums.

So dozens of great builds got nerfed into oblivion in the past 18 months, leaving less and less options and medicore, boring or useless traits/skills as time as gone by.

Anet also seem to have a policy with GW2, to make everything as simple as possible, ie braindead, no thinking required…

I really like it first and foremost, favourite part of GW2.

You get awesome big fights.

You have a great sense of community via teamspeak/fighting for same server. It has a lot of dedicated players who turn up day after day, week after week, so you get to know everyone. Feels like the Cheers bar, where everyone knows your name…if anyone remembers that sitcom on tv.

Details here:-

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/get-ready-for-wvw-spring-tournament-2014/

Started last Friday, don’t worry, you still have 8 1/2 weeks to complete the achievements. But probably a good idea to get them done before the 15.4.14 and the Features patch hits, cause there will be loads of new stuff to do then as well!

Am I right in thinking a map can hold 400-500 players now, all at once or is that too many?

If I am, the lobby is going to be soooo much fun and those completely over the top raging players who have a meltdown after losing in hot join are awesome free entertainment.

GW2 is releasing in China 15th May and the WvW tournament comes to a end at the end of May. So I have a funny feeling could be the start of June. Chinese players will have had 2-3 weeks to get used to the game and be ready for a ‘epic’ campaign.

May get SAB April 29th, possibly a festival during May just to tide us over until Season 2 starts.

I think the aim now is to sync NA/EU with China/Asia.

I used to roleplay around 20+ years ago and it was good fun, tabletop roleplaying then and it was great fun, even if every other kid in school thought we were the biggest group of geeks ever…

Anyway, if you nominated a gm (gamesmaster) who has a good knowledge of Tyria, you could have pretty much, ‘endless’ ropeplaying adventures, all the monsters, npcs are there for you. You don’t after wait for Anet to write the story for you, make your own up based on Tyria, all the combat mechanics are there for you.

Better than the lead figures, a blackboard and charc we had in my day!

They are covering its effect on WvW in a future blog…sometime in the next few days…

With spvp small population, we should be able to the entire of NA in 1 spvp lobbey and the entire of EU in another lobbey…lol

Oh the fun we will have…

ZudetGambeous.9573:

That should read 3.5 million, not 350 million. It is interesting that they never managed to pass the 4 million mark even though they hit 3 million within 6 months of the games release.

The figures in the OP’s post must be based on older stats, because they have sold 4 million+. There was a thread or 2 about it a few months ago…

I love that Minstrel finisher, someone had it in WvW this morning and I loved it…I actually thought it was a lootable chest at first, and in the chaos of WvW combat was trying to loot it and wondering why my loot key was not working!

But 800 gems, why so expensive?

If it had been 400-500 gems would not of been able to resist it.

Just after hope its in a sale, sometime in the future…

This is really good news for us NA&EU players…

Anet will want to give the Chinese a spectacular first few months to the game, like we had with the Karka invasion etc… Except this time it will be a dragon…

So assuming we all get the same updates (with just some minor regional changes), we should expect some AWESOME NEW CONTENT from 15th May onwards. Here’s hoping anyway…lol

muscarine.5136:

SoloQ is 1000 and TQ 1500 iirc

Cheers, you get 500 in hotjoin and no waiting, plus its 100% win everytime…

Can’t see the point in either soloQ or teamQ until new rewards come in, on 15.4.14. Perhaps, a lot of players are doing the same as me, till then? Hence the lack of quality in SoloQ atm?

Just as a matter of interest, how many rank points is SoloQ giving atm? Anyone knows how many rank points TeamQ is giving as well. Do you get anything else besides rank points for winning atm?

Not played either since rewards were removed, just doing minimum amount in hot join to get my monthly till 15.4.14.

This does not need changing, just kill the warriors, just by having the banner they are easier to kill than normal.

Other classes can do this but there skills are very hit an miss compared to the warriors banner, so not really a problem.

There is really very little, ‘defense’ left in WvW now, its just a endless rotation of flipping, so it would be bad nerfing a tactic that creates some mega fun fights. I really enjoy those long fights, in the confined space of keeps/stonemist, they are the most fun part of WvW in my opinion. Also, sometimes you can get upto a 100+ bags out of them and lots of drops. I am on a ‘gold’ server and those kind of fights are becoming increasingly rare as it is.

Mint Rubber.6543:

Also, what happened to Viz?
I heard they had some sort of internal problems. Is Troma still chief paladin?

Since they removed the match-up forums it’s hard to learn what’s happening on other servers.

I am on SFR and fighting Viz this week’s been unusal…no massive 100+ strong blobs on every map painting it there entire colour…it looks like a lot of French players for whatever reason are no longer playing WvW.

A bit sad really…also bad news for GW2/Anet…wonder if a lot have deserted to ESO? I know there were a lot of complaints by other nationalities about Anet’s lack of communication in languages other than English about what was going on.

So…looks like Anet have finally found out what makes sPvP players happy…deleting stuff from the game!

Underwater Combat – Deleted.
Capricorn Map – Deleted.
Glory – Deleted.
Crafting Materials – Deleted.
Glory Boosters – Deleted.
Ability to craft skins – Deleted.
Rewards other than rank points – Deleted.
Reward chests – Deleted.

And

A complete Rune set – Deleted before it even made it into the game…

Awesome, at this rate, not going to be much left…

1) What are the skills you acquire in this game ?

-Eye to hand co-ordination.
-Use both hands at same time, keyboard, mouse.
-Visual recognition of ‘tells’, which allow you to dodge, incoming attacks.
-How to manipulate/play the Trading Post, to earn lots of gold, similar to how one plays the real life stock exchange.
-Strategy and tactics, particularly in WvW and sPvP.
-Communication with lots of other people, team speak, group co-ordination etc…

2) How long it takes you to acquire that particular skill ?

Varies a few hours for some, perhaps a few weeks for others.

3) Does you have to use specific gear or items to learn the skill ( like particular mouse or keyboard) ?

No.

4) how you learn about the skill ?

Playing the game, observing others, internet (goggle it, read dulfy, forums) trial and error and practice.

5)How old are you ?
A) 18 to 25 26 to 30 C) 30 to 35 D) 35 to 40 E) 41 and over

E.

Phaeton.9582:

Meglobob.8620:

Wonder what the qq’ers are going to get deleted from the game next?

Hopefully the next thing that could ruin the game.
The community didn’t want all condition classes to have better condi spread from a single rune set, and you didn’t either. You just don’t know it yet XD.

According to a lot of people who write on those forums sPvP was ruined along time ago and GW2 is rubbish…as you can see they talk utter rubbish…

I was playing when Mesmers confusion got nerfed, perhaps a year ago now…I wondered why then, why the big fuss about confusion? Whenever I saw the confusion icon flashing up, just did condition removal. Confusion has never give me problems ever…

Of course I learned then the majority of players can’t recognise a confusion symbol on there UI and can’t stop spamming skills, even if its killing them…weird I know! Also, the majority of players are too lazy to switch off auto attack!