Guild Wars 2

SkyShroud.2865:

cpchow.7416:

Are they going to deliver a 33% finish expansion? I didn’t see any information of WvW and PvP. Isn’t mount is more important than WvW and PvP? Are you kidding me? Why rush the sale of the new expansion before the WvW overhaul? I feel so bad because of the memory of a game call ‘Diablo 3’. Rush the sales with incomplete content and lost 99% of their supporters.

WvW & PvP updates are no longer part of the expansions. It will be delivered through live updates aka unscheduled content patch.

But what would be included by most logical PR folks in the expansion announcement would be to announce that at approximately the same time as the expansion’s release, x y and z are going to be coming at around the same time so that we could enjoy some shiny new WvW content with these fun new specializations.

Turk.5460:

@everyone else: The empty threats of leaving/not buying exp are not necessary. Just make it known that you are disappointed that you don’t see any WvW content previewed. The best we can hope for is a dev to explain why.

Why is this an empty threat? Guilds and players have been bleeding from wvw since the last xpac and the horrendous delivery of the desert borderland.

Facts are facts: This expansion has little to offer existing wvw exclusive players to fix the issues present. New specializations is all we get (and more condi, yay -.-). This expansion comes after a large portion of the player base gets busier with school. Add to that the reality that other games are being released at a similar time and we’ve got almost no incentive to buy the expansion.

If Anet wants us to shell out for 5 PvE maps (but they’re big, so apparently that makes it OK) and a new specialization for each class, they’re going to have to show us a bit more than this. Maybe eventually some will cave, but some won’t. The bleeding won’t stop.

Still no delivery on some of the promises with the sale of HoT, too. Don’t forget that one.

Pretty much my whole guild just wrote “What’s the point in buying this xpac? No new competitive content. Surge of new players for a month, then what are we left with after that? No wvw or pvp changes.”

Doesn’t seem like we’ll be buying the xpakittenil they throw some of their resources our way. Until then, other games!

Seems a little desperate. Get used to the meta and fight the blobs already.

No top fight guild (GS, TW, etc) would ever run boonsharing against anything more than a 50 man pug blob. Not even in a GvG against a new guild.

I think given the pacing of things, Anet’s not going to be responding to this thread anytime soon. Unfortunate considering that the skins which are currently unavailable would generate revenue and perhaps interest in the game once again.

I just want my wide rim glasses and was told that Anet would respond to feedback. I gave feedback and my threads/posts were condensed into mega-threads like this and subsequently ignored.

Seems like the money I have to spend on games is going to keep going to other things…

Josh Davis.6015:

Trigr.6481:

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Balancing SPvP individually——-

- This is probably the single most important change that the SPvP community needs whether you realize it or not. Not only does this make sense, but since SPvP is already isolated, not one change you make here effects the rest of the game. The way it currently works the devs expect us as players to think about the rest of the game before giving changes to a specific game type, however this way of thinking will never create good balance and the reason why is the majority of changes people suggest are obviously only made and will work for Spvp. WvW and PvE are very different in terms of balance and changes for one often conflict with the other two making the change almost meaningless to begin with.

The Lesh Prince recently developed some tech that makes skill-splitting more feasible than it was previously – you’ll see some PvP (and PvE) splits in the next balance update. It’s important to understand that changes will still need to be global, but we’ll definitely have a bit more flexibility moving forward.

Keeping parity between modes when possible is important to us – but when it’s not feasible we’ll look at splits.

edit: that clickbait though

Earlier, devs had said that they didn’t want to split skills between pvp and pve. Now you’re saying that it’s possible because of new tech. Which is it? Has Anet’s stance on splitting skills between PvP and PvE changed? How is WvW being taken into consideration? Will there be a 3-way split? WvW stats need WvW balancing. In PvP, you have at most 2200 power, while in WvW you can easily get to 2800.

You can’t. Message support and hope that once in a blue moon they will tell you something other than “no, we’d rather our game mode died than sensibly work out how server transfers should work”

Redesign each model, honestly. There is no reason for my charr to be forced to fit into human male or female armor. She is a charr. She should have charr precursor armor. Even my male charr should have charr precursor armor.

Recognize that you can’t just force a square peg into a round hole and spend some time designing character armor that fits the character. Especially for legendary armor, armor that I’m expecting you guys to have put some work into, I’m expecting something akin to cultural armor. My asura with legendary armor would signify that my asura is legendary. These armors do not say legendary to me. They say “should have rolled a human.”

Norn and Sylvari would fit into human armors, but honestly they should have their own armor models, as well.

Physics doesn’t need to apply in a game where I can conjure fireballs from my hands and call meteors from the sky.

You can’t take real-world logic into a game that doesn’t accept real-world logic.

If the servers were locked for 3 to 6 weeks, my guild would just stop playing. If there’s no way to ensure that we’re all together (currently we’re split between 2 servers), we would simply move to a different game and have less fun.

What from this 2 year old thread have we actually seen, if I might ask? I saw the bunny ears make a return…

I’m sure they’d love us all to believe that

I know we have the massive amalgamation of suggestions for what should be introduced into the gem store and what should be returned to the gem store, but support has suggested on numerous occasions that making a thread is the best way to reach the devs (as if this won’t just get linked to the mega-thread about gem store suggestions).

Here’s the case for the Wide Rim Glasses and every other cosmetic item from before we were able to use ‘town clothes’ as armor skins: Wide Rim Glasses and many other items were introduced as purely town clothes. They were meant to be something which would only be used in cities and in lobbies around Tyria. You could not PvP or WvW with any town clothes, so a large majority of players didn’t see a purpose to buying them.

These items were retired from the gem store close to 4 years ago now, I’d imagine, and for the most part we have heard nothing except “if we release all the items, those who already have the item will lose the prestige of the item.” Wide rim glasses, for example. I’m gonna have to call bull kitten on that one. Find me more than a handful of people with something like Wide Rim Glasses who would be annoyed that they returned to the game. The entire functionality of the item has changed. It’s not an armor skin that is not only locked to new players (hello, new revenue), but it is also locked to old players who originally saw no need to invest in something as mundane as town clothes.

Again, I’m really not expecting much to come from this thread, but it’s been a while since we’ve actually heard anything. When I was discussing it with support, I received a range of replies from “the item will be returning to the gem store” to “we don’t know if it will return” to rumors that some people have managed to get their hands on the witch’kitten and the wide rim glasses through other means. The big thing that stood out was that apparently devs actually 1) read these threads and 2) might introduce items back to the gem store if we raise enough of a fuss about them. Maybe reddit would be a better place for this, idk.

Enjoy my midnight ramblings.

Edit: rip my first edit to the post, but here it is again: This is really not going to entice people to return to/stay with the game, but there’s a whole heap of suggestions rotting away in that thread and recently we’ve been getting a lot more polls to help the devs keep up with the desires of the community, I fear that the thread will end up in the dumpster alongside so many other things we’ve already been told will come back. For example: Tribal PvP armor. I think it was Hugh who said there would be a way of earning this armor, and that was at least a year and a half ago. Then there are the other town-only skins which have now become available as regular skins, provided that you had the skin prior to this change (except for the bunny ears and maybe something else). Again, not gonna make me play any more than I already play (which isn’t as much, at this point, the fashion wars have been lost and I’m not as motivated), but it’s a stream of revenue that should be simpler than any other revenue stream that would apparently be in the works (hello expansion 2).

Tyler Bearce.3427:

What happens if World Linking is voted out?

• We’d unlink worlds at the next reset, and we’d either do another partial Glicko reset, or restore pre-link values. Consider this an immediate return to the old system, with similiar to original populations on each world, excepting of course the players/guilds who have transfered to new worlds while World Linking was active.

• The next time we poll players asking which feature we should prioritize, we’d include population balance improvements as an option. This prioritization poll likely wouldn’t happen until we complete at least a significant part of the Scoring changes that have already been voted on. (Time-slice scoring/Skirmishes)

• If population improvements won that poll, then we’d poll again to ask what type of population balance feature you want to see worked on, including the amount of time each of those features would take. World Merging might be pretty quick to implement (though less reversible if the community later decided they didn’t want it), but most other solutions are likely to take a very long time, and it may be that when completed, the new population still won’t be able to get 75% of the community to approve it.

But do you understand our disappointment with the ambiguity of the poll? I mean, all it would take is for some underpaid linguistics nerd (or even someone with some objective common sense) to look things over and look for ambiguity. For the next poll: what are we voting for? What would we sacrifice for voting for/against that? Sure, not everyone cares, but I’d really like to be informed so that I know my vote is for what I really want.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

There are very few (if any) features in the game that couldn’t be improved with additional resources invested in them. However, that then becomes a question of priorities. Do we improve Feature A, Feature B or Feature C first? Or perhaps we should prioritize building an entirely new feature instead?

So the first thing we need to ask is: “Is World Linking a positive improvement to the game and worth keeping around?”

If it is, then the next time we ask players to determine which feature work we prioritize, additional World Linking improvements can be one of the options. But it’s important to ask that question in a poll where it’s clear what the tradeoffs to that choice are. For instance: Players may want improvements to World Linking, but perhaps not at the expense of delaying improvements to Scoring.

I can’t tell whether or not I like world linking enough to vote unless I can first find out a few things: If we do away with world linking, what will be done instead? If I approve of the changes, how am I to indicate that I want improvements to scoring before I want improvements to world linking?

Also keep in mind from a West Coast p.o.v, if you’re not on for reset or through queue relatively quickly, you’re waiting until East Coasters decide to leave a map in order to get through.

Disadvantages West Coasters, advantages East Coasters. I was able to get through today’s queue in just over an hour, but that required me to be here at reset and barely miss the original reset. My friend on the East Coast didn’t get home til 10 minutes after reset and he’s still got to wait for 25 people in queue. My guild will have ended the night’s raid by the time he gets through and I will have missed half.

No way of doing reset is perfect, you’ll never please everyone, but there’s got to be a better way than “move it forward an hour.”

CrimeMaker.8612:

Melanion.4892:

Skycaller.6354:

Why would a later time for reset help the west coast? This will give everyone another hour to enjoy prime time on reset.

Some people on the west coast work until 5 or 6. When that happens, we probably have at least 30 minutes to get home, meaning we’re home by 5:30 or 6:30, being generous. Can’t enjoy that extra hour of reset if we’re not able to be here for it.2

Well you guys have the whole night to enjoy it. Where as people on the east coast dont. Especially with queues and everything.

Ok, I’ll wait 2 hours in queue and get onto the map by 8pm pacific, play for 30 minutes and then have all the East Coasters log off and reset becomes far less interesting.

Skycaller.6354:

Why would a later time for reset help the west coast? This will give everyone another hour to enjoy prime time on reset.

Some people on the west coast work until 5 or 6. When that happens, we probably have at least 30 minutes to get home, meaning we’re home by 5:30 or 6:30, being generous. Can’t enjoy that extra hour of reset if we’re not able to be here for it.2

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

In the future poll notifications will be sent to WvW players through in-game mail. The mail will still direct players to the same website we have been using for polls but this should help the visibility of the polls.

And maybe have more clarification about what is meant by each option?

I voted No because the option stated that the system still needed work or should be scrapped (because I think the system still needs work) but then I read on reddit that some of the changes I wanted to see would happen if I voted Yes and a No vote actually just meant scrap the whole idea.

First, I’ll just point out that I entirely understand that the point of a poll is to quickly and easily capture the feelings of most of the WvW community, and I thank you for that.

However, could we get more carefully constructed polls? Consider the following: “The changes still need work or should be removed entirely.”

That’s such a broad range of options and they potentially accompany entirely different opinions. Consider someone who wants the reward tracks entirely removed. They vote for this option. Consider someone else who thinks that they still need a lot of work. They vote for this, but they don’t want the reward tracks entirely removed. Consider someone else who is happy with the current iteration of reward tracks, but wants the reward tracks to be expanded dramatically before they become permanent. They would also vote for this option.

Having too many options for a poll is not a great idea, but the way the poll is currently worded might encourage people to vote for the “yes, things with reward tracks are great, please keep them” rather than risk the misinterpretation of a vote for the contrary option. A vote to improve reward tracks before they become permanent would be lumped with and potentially misinterpreted as a vote to eliminate reward tracks.

I’m not entirely sure what I’m asking for here, but perhaps better worded polls in the future? Maybe employ some sad sap with an English degree to review this kind of thing before releasing them. I don’t know… Just feels like any vote for something other than acceptance of the current reward tracks could become a vote against improvement…

TheBandit.7031:

I get that this was an issue with the low population servers, but with the merge what is the problem?

Just because you play at a time with less players on means that your success is worth less? Makes no sense to me. I completely agree with you.

Consider a server like Maguuma. For the majority of the North American day, Mag ticks at 300 or higher and regularly owns entire borderlands, especially in this week’s t3 matchup. However, Mag has terrible SEA presence, reducing their tick from 3 or 400 to less than 100, but only during SEA times. SoS, as a result, catches up.

Sure, there are ways for the NA crew of Mag to counter this, but I doubt that either server’s crews are entirely happy fighting nobody. Addressing night capping would potentially let SoS fight other servers with a similar SEA population and Mag fight other servers with higher NA populations and give the tiers the chance to be more fluid, meaning the barrier between kitten and t3 (etc) wouldn’t quite exist. Mag is just an example, but nobody likes to PvDoor. Hopefully addressing night capping would allow for servers to disperse in such a way that would give either varied fights or interesting fights no matter what your EU/NA/SEA populations are.

Still getting fair amounts of lag during NA prime. No word from Anet. Why merge our servers if you’re not going to address this.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stealth_Disruptor_Trap

Cloaking waters seems fine to me. The duration shouldn’t be nerfed. Otherwsie you make it entirely pointless. Add a 2-3 min cd before you can restealth via the waters would be fine imo. Still useful for the occasional sneak attack, but not allowing every single time you push to be a full cloaked zerg.

SMC should be a nightmare to take, if it has defenders.Before it was far to fragile to be called a castle.
However it should be possible to do.. Esp when BG runs away from JQ/IoJ zergs half their size.

Stealth disruptor trap works if you know where they’re coming from. Currently, you can waypoint with stealth and save any of your towers. You can ambush any group on I think it’s a minute and a half cooldown.

I agree that SM should be hard to take, but the game shouldn’t be placing the currently winning team at an advantage. They took out the orbs for a reason: it compounded on the already winning team’s momentum. If I already have a fully sieged and upgraded SM, it becomes far more difficult to defend. If I then have airship, chilling fog and a minute of stealth, it becomes nearly impossible to defend.

If the game becomes entirely about taking and holding keeps, that’s great, but you have to consider the annoyance facing any server that currently DOESN’T have a fully upgraded SM and must try to take it.

Hi Tyler.

Should we expect these nerfs next Tuesday or will it take longer? I feel like they should be high priority right behind lag and alpine borderlands, but it’s hard to know where Anet’s current priorities lie.

So nobody else is getting immense amounts of skill lag?

Was an increase in cooldowns for the airship and emergency waypoint the only change we’re to expect from Anet?

Airship still needs to be addressed. Chilling fog is entirely too annoying. Cloaking waters is still entirely ridiculous at that cooldown.

I thought Anet was on the same page as us: these are gimmicks and they make the game less fun. Tactivators are great if they buy you time to get your groups to the keep/SM to help, but they shouldn’t turn into gimmicks. These are currently gimmicks. Whether it’s my server using them or the other server, it makes the fights so much less fun.

Perhaps before merging servers to give essentially all servers queues out the kitten , would it have made sense to maybe fix the lag experienced in most borderlands when more than 40 people per server fighting?

My only thoughts so far:

I’m getting a lot of tome of knowledge, which would be great if I didn’t already have almost 2 stacks of tomes. I really don’t need more.

It also feels a bit weird to only reward us once every 15 minutes. If I cap something and get into fights and whatnot to up my participation to 100% just after the tick and then nothing happens for the next 15 minutes, my participation will degenerate to the extent that the game doesn’t register me having done anything for that 15 minute interval. When a map is dead, it’s dead. Nothing I can do to keep my participation up like that…

I also feel like despite 2 nights of fairly active WvW, I’m only about 50% of the way through the track progress. If I were to be PvPing, I would have finished the track and then some in those 2 nights of PvP.

My autoloot isn’t working in WvW. I have all the points invested in the mastery required (the wvw one and the pve one) and it’s not working.

Am I missing something? Is it not entirely working? I see a few boxes to tick under options and I have them all ticked.

The Wiki and Dulfy don’t have them immediately. I’m talking immediately simultaneous posts.

The way it currently is, everyone floods the forums and they seem to crash.

Is there a way for us to access update notes without coming to the forums? I find that for about an hour (sometimes 2) after the patch I can’t read any patch notes on the official forums because the page always times out.

Is there another place to access them?
Can the devs/Gaile maybe start posting the same messages on reddit as well or something?

Given the fact that patch notes have already been partially linked and it’s been pretty much confirmed that certain WvW guilds have made certain decisions about transfers and whatnot based on the game’s upcoming patch, I don’t see why at least a preview would be merited. Puts everyone on the same page.

I really don’t understand why some of the people at Anet make the same decisions over and over and then wonder why they’re not being received well…

The bit right around the hand is what I see as a reskin of the ascended.

Also, to clarify a few things:
1) some of you seem to fail to read entire sentences, or at least understand what is meant. When something is essentially a reskin, it doesn’t mean that it’s a pixel for pixel reskin. It means that there are a few elements which are essentially reskins (key word being essentially).

2) Sure, maybe you all think the dominator’s skins are the bee’s knees, but maybe you don’t. Can we at least agree that there are some weapon skins being offered which are entirely lackluster? GW2 has the capacity for some really amazing looking weapons. And then there are some weapons which are entirely bland, boring or just not good.

Why is this needed? I don’t play the game more than 2 times a week and I have more than enough tomes and leveling things to level 5 characters over.

It’s not only that the leveling in this game is easy (if you do PvE and whatnot) but you can get tomes INCREDIBLY EASILY. Dailies give them. Fractals give them. Logging in gives them a few times a week. PvP gives them. There’s really no way that I can see someone realistically wanting to buy 80 once they figure out how quickly and easily they can get to 80. Consider your first character to be a tutorial. Consider your second character to be the easiest thing to level.

Title needs editing. Gun Squad yet to conquer PvF scenarios.

Gendou.9620:

Melanion.4892:

Normally I’m not one to complain about black lion skins or anything outside of WvW, really, but I’ve got something that’s been kind of bothering me.

My friend recently bought himself the Dominator’s Staff. It’s really a great skin and the colors are quite nice for certain character designs, such as one of my characters. However, and here’s the major concern for the weapon designs I’m seeing more and more: it seems like a lot of these skins are just recolors of other skins, not new skins altogether. That’s a huge let down.

Look at the Dominator’s Focus or Longbow. Tell me you haven’t seen those skins before in this game (in different colors). The focus looks a lot like a number of other foci, but I’m mostly thinking of the longbow looking an awful lot like the ascended longbow.

Maybe I’m just overly tired while looking at these things, because realistically how many times can you reinvent the longbow (and like I said, some of them look really cool) but some of these skins are disappointingly similar to the skins we’ve already got aside from color. How many foci do I need that are little triangular dagger-like things in my left hand?

As much as I would like to agree, dominator weapons have no similarity to any ascended weapons, or any for that matter. If you compare them side by side, there is nothing similar, at all. As for focus weapons, yeah a lot of focus skins have similar concepts, but your point really fails to prove any point with your statements. A focus is usually a representation of the magic or theme of magic you are casting. In some cases you could say it might represent your character based on how you wish him to be— which is why there are plenty of skins to choose from. I like double spike looking foci because it represents power in my opinion.

Sure some skins are revamped in form of the weapon they wish to represent, but the points you make have no correlation to the facts you state. Yes longbows should look like longbows, and daggers should look and feel like daggers— that would be the intended concept behind them. Honestly the dominator weapons are a breath of fresh air in terms of weapon skins because some sets like plasma(jedi would be disappointed), soaring, merciless etc felt underwhelming and screamed of low-res lazy texturing, but were not re-skins to say the least.

This set is definitely more unique than most, but I feel as if your argument is more misguided than it is clear. If one thing is true, you are always seeing more and more skins.

If you read the post… I said that the longbow was the reskin of the ascended longbow (essentially).

I don’t mind a few recolors or reskins, but not from weapon skins which require black lion tickets. Sure, I don’t have to buy them, but it’s a disservice to the customer (and I think to the artists themselves) that they’re allowed to do this. I’m just in a way challenging the artists who design these weapons to be a little mindful of the throwaways they put into each set. Gets a bit tedious.

Normally I’m not one to complain about black lion skins or anything outside of WvW, really, but I’ve got something that’s been kind of bothering me.

My friend recently bought himself the Dominator’s Staff. It’s really a great skin and the colors are quite nice for certain character designs, such as one of my characters. However, and here’s the major concern for the weapon designs I’m seeing more and more: it seems like a lot of these skins are just recolors of other skins, not new skins altogether. That’s a huge let down.

Look at the Dominator’s Focus or Longbow. Tell me you haven’t seen those skins before in this game (in different colors). The focus looks a lot like a number of other foci, but I’m mostly thinking of the longbow looking an awful lot like the ascended longbow.

Maybe I’m just overly tired while looking at these things, because realistically how many times can you reinvent the longbow (and like I said, some of them look really cool) but some of these skins are disappointingly similar to the skins we’ve already got aside from color. How many foci do I need that are little triangular dagger-like things in my left hand?

Puck.9612:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Yes.

That said, we’ll be increasing the cooldowns on all tactics by 5-10 minutes. Also, once the scribing costs come down, as part of the april build, we can start looking at rebalancing their actual effects as well.

I mean…. are you trying to kill WvW? Seriously what the kitten is wrong with you people.
Leave that kitten in EB if you want, you’ll still get people to give you money so they can grind your kittening pve pay wall, but give us back the alpine map without your stupid kitten.
I know Anet had a serious problem with thinking about long term solutions but here’s a hint, you can’t milk a dead cow.

They’ve kind of put themselves in a bind, though, and you have to understand that.

Look at the response to removing legendaries (something which was promised/highly implied with the expansion). Not everyone will be interested in them, but some people will and would have invested a fair amount of time/effort/money in achieving them. Same with guild upgrades like this. Many of us don’t like them, but how would you suggest Anet repay the people who have actually spent time/effort/money getting these upgrades. I’m saying this even as a player who is in exactly 0 guilds with any major upgrades like that. I don’t even think we have anything like +5 supply unlocked and we haven’t bothered to try.

If Anet were to straight up remove tactivators from any WvW maps, we’d hear a number of people complaining, I guarantee it. Some very large guilds have spent time/effort/money unlocking them. The best way forward is for Anet to address what is considered OP instead of taking them out entirely. I’m sure many of us would be fine with a few tower/keep specific defenses to help with that defense. Maybe the current iterations are a little unnecessarily OP, but in their essence they have good intentions. Maybe an emergency waypoint every 30 minutes. Maybe chilling fog for 20 seconds every 20-30 minutes. Maybe using one of the upgrades should put all other tactivators on cooldown for 20 minutes so that they can’t all be spammed at once.

The point is that there are ways for the numbers to be tweaked so that those who hate tactivators would be able to cope with them, but in a more manageable way. That’s the best step forward unless you want more people throwing fits about how Anet has taken away things from the Xpac and blah blah blah refunds.

Idk who you think the devs are listening to from “fight oriented guilds” but I can guarantee you that the majority of the fight oriented people have either left the game or are not in any way happy with the changes that have been made. If you think the devs are listening to those of us who prefer fighting, you’re unfortunately mistaken (if they did listen to us, things like dragon banners wouldn’t exist).

I was directed to this thread for information about the changes to the desert borderlands. I am not finding much information. Idk why I was directed here…

Tongku.5326:

Condi balance is out of whack. Reapers in 1v1 are extremely OP right now, but not every class is. The problem is really just 1 or 2 classes and in fact, jsut some select skills / traits on them. Thats for the dinky crap balancing.

Now for WvWvW. Most of you guys posting above only speak of roaming, 1v1s etc. but WvWvW primary purpose is MASSIVE battles. This is the games massive pvp combat mode.

And in massive scale, condis, even reapers are stupidly underpowered due to AOE cleanse spam and AOE resistance, etc. In fact, the only time condis are semi-useful in a zerg is when you are going against pure pugs or someone really stupid who wonders too far and can’t get back into the cleanse range in time.

So while overall condis on some classes could use a bit more balance for the dinky crap (roaming etc.), they actually need a buff for the main function of the game mode.

Thing that has personally stricken me since HOT launched, is just how really useless condis are now in any organized or semi-organized comps. I literally had no choice but to convert all my toons to power builds. This has led me in large part to log into WvW a lot less, as I have been already playing power builds since the game launched.

I would love to run more condi, if it was effective I would.

It’s more compounding than that. There are only so many purgings being run because there are only so many guardians. I remember a time prior to the stab nerf when easily 1/3 of the group were guardians because it was fun and useful to play. Now, most of my friends that played guardian are now giving up the melee life for either bursty gank-guardian or a more ranged class.

It’s completely fine that people are running fewer guardians, but if guardians are the primary method of condition removal and you remove most of the incentive for people to play that style of guardian (by upping the ranged factor and allowing classes like revenants to 2 or 3 shot even the tankiest of guardians in 12 seconds (assuming that they land all CoRs and are the only revenant doing so)). It’s no longer fun to play melee and melee were the ones who provided cleanse. Nobody plays the old cleansing shouts warrior much anymore.

Conditions feel overpowered 1) because they’re overpowered and 2) because most of the groups in WvW are not organized to the extent that they run enough cleanses to be entirely effective. Sure, some groups make do and force some people to run guardians and warriors for cleanses, or the god-awful melee revenant spec, but the easiest way for Anet to address conditions is to make guardian and warrior (melee, really) feel fun again. To do that, you revert stability so that melee can actually push in without worrying that they’re going to get stripped in 2 seconds.

Tell me how it hasn’t already been scrapped?

To be fair, though, T1 is only like this on reset (which is now Friday, thank god) and maybe Saturday. Other nights there is a queue on EB (maybe) of about 10 people and nothing else.

Anet shifting reset back to Friday really helped. Players I knew that quit are now considering returning because they feel like Anet might actually fix things. The announced stab changes (not really announced) also do a lot to get people to want to play again.

I was here for lord bannering, but there are things that can be done to counter that. You can cc the warriors, etc. Warriors didn’t have an excessive amount of stealth. Lords didn’t take ages to kill.

That’s the complaint. Every 3 minutes, a group could stealth and come in to res the lord. It takes approximately 3 minutes to kill the lord again with the 50% damage reduction buff. So I guess the tl:dr is that the lord has been overbuffed in terms of its health/toughness and the accessibility of resurrection methods for that lord are too easy.

Given the OP nature of various buffs one can get to SM and keeps, why are people able to hard res the lord as frequently as they do? Despite a group of 30 people throwing everything we could on the deceased lord, it still got resurrected.

How is that at all possible? How is nobody talking about it? Dead game? Nobody is playing and therefore nobody is complaining about it? It’s exhausting to try to have a guild return to the game if terrible decisions are still implemented. Either make the lord hard to kill and hard to res or easy to kill and easy to res. Simple as that. None of this “we’re going to beat the crap out of the lord for an hour just to un-waypoint SM” crap

1) find a way to prevent stability from being entirely inconsequential with all the new cc’s flying around (guardian longbow 5, tbh). Maybe an icd on how frequently stacks can be lost. 0.5 second icd should be good.

2) consider balancing skills around WvW where we get PvE stats so the power creep is far more real than in PvP. Skills might work great in PvP where something like CoR and gunflame hit hard, but in WvW it’s far easier to stack might and power and crit and ferocity. Same with condition damage, it’s far too easy to stack. Perhaps up the values given by PvP amulets and then balance skills according to that? Damage in PvP wouldn’t change at all if it’s done correctly, but stat stacking in WvW will be less troublesome

3) Remove some of the terrible guild buffs you can get for structures. Stealth in SM, chilling fog, banners, etc. All of them are great as ideas, but they should either have LONG cooldowns or short durations. Stealth in SM, for example, I would be fine with lasting 3 minutes, but it should then prevent you from using that stealth again for 20 minutes. That’d still make it incredibly valuable if used correctly, but not so overpowered that your group can just duck back into SM, stealth, pop out and attack, pop back in and continue the cycle.

morrolan.9608:

What minor changes have already been made?

Melanion.4892:

This is how devs should communicate about works in progress which can’t be discussed in much detal. Succinct, lets us know the general area of things being worked on.

Bravo, John. First time I can say that in a while.

Hmm IMO the post is far too vague IMO. Why can’t they say whether its to do with full HOT maps closing just for example?

Because as soon as he provides one example he opens himself up to feeling obligated to answer every question like “is x getting fixed” and so on.

Furthermore, we know Anet’s tendency to close rank and let Gaile do all the verbal maneuvering she can to try to placate the masses. This is non-specific, but it’s communicative. We know a team is working on it. We know a team is working on a specific issue. We know that the issue is complicated and that they will be releasing various fixes over the next few months. WE GOT A TIMELINE. Do you know how rare that is? I don’t remember the last time when we got a timeline that actually felt honest. None of this “soon” kitten. A few months. Various stages over the next few months. Sure, those few months might stretch into a year, but he’s telling us a fair bit here, actually. Over the course of the next few months we will be receiving updates to a system that has been acknowledged to be flawed. I don’t see the need to want more, really.

This is how devs should communicate about works in progress which can’t be discussed in much detal. Succinct, lets us know the general area of things being worked on.

Bravo, John. First time I can say that in a while.

I guess I’m the only one that cares? Hello? Literally nobody else having this issue? Just pop into EBG and try it out, let me know if it’s just my map or everyone’s