Guild Wars 2

Hmm, a few months ago I would fully agree with this topic. But I changed my mind, so I’m partial disagree with joining a wvw guild. Why? Because other players tell you how you should play your professions, they don’t accept different playstyles or opinions, maybe it’s all about Meta or their own builds.

If you don’t play their builds you risk a kick. For example: All necros should be only play range and use wells. Hello? Why all? I absolutely hate this playstyle (died to often), I prefered always the melee necro (died almost never in a zergfight). Every build has his weakness. Different builds can balanced this, that’s my opinion, but all the wvw guilds I’ve met in almost 3 years have never accepted this. Let me be clear, I’ve no problems with recommended builds from guilds, I take them as inspiration, but I would prefer the guild would optimized your build and not forced you in playstyle you might hate.

I agree, if you share the same goals like the wvw guild or you are new to this part of the game, then you should join a wvw guild.

The pocket raptor are okay, it’s funny to see them die when you are playing a guardian with a damage reflecting shield. These rolling devils and smokescales and some frog foes are really annoying, it doesn’t matter how often you are dogded, they bring your HP under 25-50 % almost everytime within 2 seconds. Sometimes they will regret this, when I have enough. Really, I don’t want to harm them when I’m gathering these precious herbs, but they have forced me to kill them, it’s just self defense ^^.

Eir’s was a legend, and legends always have to die one day, and she was seeking for it, so I wasn’t sad about her death. The worst death for me would be if they would made her die like Boromir in the movie “Lord of the Rings”. Horrible long and useless. So she died quickly, and but your character has to move forward to save the others, there isn’t much time for mourning. I would be okay, if there is a party for her in Hoelbrak, where she could be memorised with a lot of ales and many stories-telling about her adventures. this counts also for Trahearne aswell.

Someone from my personal Stories guild? If they die, then they die. It’s war a against the threat of the dragons. Sure I would mourn for one character more then for the others. Just for the fun, I would like to see how everybody would react, when Taimi is the next one. This progeny is really often in trouble.

According to the server forum, most of the Quarrians are happy to have a open server finally.

“Ah, there goes my money. 200.000 $ are a lot of money and I wish they would spend them in better ways and not just for one kid at the end, which ign nobody outside of the small pvp scene in gw2 care about.”

Frankly, that’s were my thoughts, when I read the message while waiting for the end of the long loading screen. Watching others playing a game doesn’t make fun like you play it yourself. But okay, it’s good that different tastes exist.

If I dig deep in my mind I remember only one wvw protest which was partially successful. That was about the coloured commander tags. They wanted 300g for each colour. After the protest, they changed the decision into that what we have now: 300g for all 4, at least, some of the players got some of their spended gold back after the tag become account bound. Not sure if pve players had protested too, I wasn’t interested in pve content at this time. All other protest were noted and maybe corrected months/years later. There is no need to be aggressive. Staying calm and making posts with constructive feedback with some sense of humour could be more helpful than a rant. If this not help, then leaving the game silent is the best options for your inner peace.

Why not? If Mordremoth isn’t really dead, I would have fun on further fights. Maybe I was a lucky one, because I hadn’t have any bugs during the whole story. Storywise I would really like to sea what happens after the fight. At the moment the End of the story is very unsatisfying, I want to know how the Tyria reacts on this “victory” and the big losses. In the first personal story you see a party and fireworks everywhere. At the End of the new story Caithe and Canach has said it’s quiet now in their mind, before that, Mordremoth has almost broken your character’s mind (if played sylvari). This part was one of my favourite aspect of the story. As an example in Lord of the Rings, Sauron didn’t died in great battle in the second age, but everybody believed that he came back at the end of the third age. So there is still a missing Malyck and his tree, Mordremoth could spread his seeds in them too like he did on trahearne. And there was a special Mordrem in the video at the very beginning before you enter the new zones, neither I haven’t seen him in the story until now nor I know what he is.

I’ve played the story with my female Sylvari, and there are many open questions left. Well, unlike other players my prime interest lies here on Canach. I would like to know what will happen with him. My character like his company and I was worried about him. I didn’t know him from the living story season 1, so I didn’t have any opinion on him. Sometimes it seems that they are flirting and caring each other. But I suppose that isn’t Anet’s intention, I blame the language barrier. It would be a new experience in my 8 years mmorpg time, that a hero has a npc companion. But according to the new death rate in this game, I expect rather an execution of him.

I’ve played about 30 min in wvw on jq and at the moment I’m not really a fan of the new map and going to play pve only in the next weeks. Sure, the design and some game mechanics are beautiful, but in the end I felt lost, confused and alone there. On the other side it’s so easy to get your crafting materials and the Lords don’t melt so easy anymore. Personally I thinks it was a bad idea to replace all three borderlands with this gigantic map, not now, not right after the release, where everybody wanted to see the new content and farming their new elite traits. Ebg would have been good enough, until more people will play wvw again.
My personal disappointment was when I’ve learnt that I can’t use my gliders in the wvw map. Yeah, I know, too much abuse potential, but the architecture of the map is perfect for gliding and I hate it to die from falling from this stupid and tight stairs.

I enjoy it too and I believe it’s just a matter of time until they delete the bugs. The two things I like at most is to play the story as a sylvari (the voice in my head and feeling the mistrust everywhere) and gliding, I just love it.

Thank you.

My personal highlight is the convenience of gathering the basic materials, except the scraps. No other player can steal you the ore, the wood or the plant, while you are fighting the mobs around it. And dogde-system. These two thing I would really miss I’ve don’t have it anymore.
I just really wish there would be an easier system of gathering scraps like Linen, maybe from a plant too or directly from the npc’s, not only salvaging or a light chance in a material bag. Other games (older and newer) have a better solutions for this essential part of crafting.

I don’t think that the saturday reset is bad move and I don’t care about it. There will be more players (aka weekend warriors) around. Many players could go outside to enjoy a friday nightlife with their friends now. Of course, I feel sad for our ocx-players, I know a bunch of them who are dedicated defenders of the borderlands.

If you fear that the karma-friday become a karma-saturday, then it’s up to you real world versus world players to deny such request.
Defend structures, crash your zerg into the opposite karmatrain, hunt them until they log off or fight back. Work together to fight such behavior, save the normal wvw gameplay of your Tier. Don’t be worry or sad if you lost players because of that, they aren’t worth to lose a single tear, comrades. The whole idea of karmatrains in wvw belongs into the trash can of the history. I never understand why commanders have started this at all? You have now the unique chance to change it.

With deleting servers, top or the bottom, you will achieve nothing. It’s maybe work for a month or two, after that the people are going to quit the game very fast cough warhammer cough.

Personally the transfer to T1 has renewed my fun to this game, otherwise I would have had quit it long time ago. I like to have many people around me, when ever I jump in to wvw. Being the sole defender sound honorable, but it’s pretty much useless. GW2 it’s still a mmo(rp)g.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

A few points on anti-griefing measures for guild claiming:

• Guilds without Guild Halls will not be able to claim objectives.
• Guilds with the most players at the objective at the time of capture will have first priority.
• Empty guild upgrade slots can be slotted by anyone (who has unlocked the appropriate upgrades), however the owning guild still reserves the right to overwrite a slotted upgrade with a different one.

Good, that was my question after reading. That someone could claim an object but don’t provide any upgrades.

At the whole thing I have a divided opinion. On the one side it could help lower populated server with the defence against bigger forces. On the other side I’m thinking on servers like yaks bends who sieges up every free space in an objects. Which makes it already nearly impossible to conquer the object when it’s fully upgraded, you need already now a 2v1 situation for breaking the waypoint. With this update attacking such will be fun breaking for attackers, because they will die through thousands of arrows, I fear. The dynamic gameplay I love so much on wvw, will be gone, okay. It’s going to be more statics. Is it good or bad? I don’t know, I will decide it when it’s online. For the moment I don’t have a clear picture of the new wvw.

wonderful news, thank you

Nice, finally.

I think 2500 for yak slapper is a good number, after 2,5 years I’m around 1700 on both achievements escort and killing yaks. I play more in zergs and blobs.

When I’ve heard that you will get the legendary armor is only through pve-content (I would add raids to this content), I’m just disappointed that the wvw players left out again, and are forced again to play content they don’t prefer.

The selectable stats are a big plus, when anet decide to change skills and everything, or just to test other traits and builds. After big changes I spent usually at least 60g for new armor/weapons/trinkets with new runes and sigils.

If there were a wvw alternative, they could maybe add specific mats for defending and conquering objects, escort and slaying yaks. Ofc, you shouldn’t be fast to reach the goal but also not impossible like the most wvw titles. It could take the same amount of time to finish it. Is it selfish to ask devs not to forget a part of their game? The regular wvw part of gw2 provide already an unwanted step child or “harry potter” feeling compared to other parts of the game: worst loot table, less gold amounts, unsolved bugs and problems for months and years, non-salvagable gear (no zommorros), cut off some fun items and so on …

Yeah, I would like share skins like the mistforged weapons with pve-players, when I could get legendaries with only playing wvw and maybe a small pve part. I would also share with you something from my dozens of spikes and hoofs I’ve got during a wvw raid or the tons of ascended materials which are account bound and blocking my bank spaces.

As I wrote, I’m just disappointed.

Coarr.3286:

Sich.7103:

Coarr.3286:

isnt that the way an arrowcart should work? you fire into the air to hit targets you cannot see ( like a mortar or an artillery ) ?
wouldnt it be better to modify rams that they are invul to arrowcarts and provide protection while staying unter their leather/wood plank roof?

ok, but then make the ac’s like other siege, you have to adjust your shoot yourself, no target to help you aiming…
And make that the arrow hit the wall and can’t be fired close to it. Actually the arrow can go through the wall…

deal!

Sounds fair for attackers and defenders. But it is has to be still possible to clear defense sieges from the wall. Why not let the tremors from the rams and cata’s make damage to defense sieges in a range around 1200-2000?

Playing tempest in wvw, big blob fights, one time with aura sharing onetime as a healer. For me, I like the new elite skill rebound, just wish it would have a shorter cd, the first elite which I spammed all the time either to reduce the cd of the meteor shower or of the big water. Defense Sieges were melting faster than without. I forgot to press overload most of the time except on water, I already have enough buttons to press and to stay alive in such fights, so I don’t really need them. Most of the utility skills were useless for this kind of gameplay. The heal skill was okay, not great but okay, it could be worse. Warhorn was funny, but if everyone wanted staff ele’s on the battlefields, it needs more providing waterfields for being an alternative.

I’m about to believe that gw2 was originally made as a cash cow. The players should buy the game and gems, play it for a few months and then change to the next game of nc soft (“Wildstar-hype”). I didn’t see that the provider company had have a long-time plan (living story, weekly new gem shop items) for guild wars 2.

But wildstar has flopped as I heard (never played it), so most of the players stayed or returned to gw2 or moved forward to other games. NC-Soft was surprised that people still play the game, even with complains, and spent constant real money in it. This game had have the order to die fast, but this plan has failed, luckely ^^. So I personally think, they try to catch-up the lost time. Maybe it’s too late for wvw, but we will see, I will let me surprise. Everything else is already written months and years ago.

Same here, all skillpoints are gone, and only 69 heroes point left.

Our fight guild went to eotm, because it is the only place where you can get fights this week during our timezone. Even the T1 maps were empty or k-train with few people, it is really boring.

Frankly, I enjoyed smashing the uplevel k-trains in eotm and trolling them. I don’t have any sympathy for this kind of playstyle in wvw-maps, too many time I’ve got steamrolled by those players. Hearing their complains and seeing them ragequit makes me giggle. Best words until now was someone who has asked us, if we don’t know how to play eotm (it’s still a wvw map, isn’t it?) and that one k-train commander tried to claim that he’s doesn’t k-train but rather xp-train.

If I look at this bug/exploit with a sober view, it’s spreading around. So there is obviously no unfair advantage for yourself anymore, when you use this. But I don’t say that is a good thing at all, I still play fair. On the other side, this event will end in 3 days, it has tumble everything from normal known gameplay. After the end of the event, this problem will be solved.

And after a few weeks, you have the same situation like now…

And these “offhours” guilds are playing in their primetime, so why should they leave a server just to make other people happy? Sure, they could join the rival server, like they do in T1, but this make them also to a hate-object.

I’m playing on jq during eu. When I have joined this server 6 months ago, there was a permanently 2v1 situation against jq during that timezone, I loved this <3. JQ had have 2 EU guilds once, now only one is left, but there is no challenge anymore. BG and TC try to avoid fights with jq, except when they outnumbered jq 3-5 times. Sometimes there is no BG presence, sometimes no TC. So which guild should encourage to destack, when there are no queues, no any other wvw guilds?

And push one bigger server in a lower tier, is really, really a bad situation, which I wish that this will never happen again to any other server. The 4 T2 server situation had killed my old server, only a tournament could had stopped this point. The lower ranked server won’t survive in this situation for long.

I like the idea seeing invisible or stealth enemy while in shroud. It could make sweeping in wvw easier. But just to don’t make it too op, it could be implement as a trait with the negative side that you will lose your life force faster than normal.

Honestly, I like the idea, it sounds funny and I always loved the omega golem. Upgrading the warfare, lol. Keeps will be upgrade for sure, because of who wants to miss the waypoint?

Sundays. I don’t know why, but all the good things I ever got from rank chests or victory chests were on sundays and an other player had found a precursor on the same day.

Once I’ve heard some rumors, that you have a higher chance of a precursor drop if you kill a bg-player. Now I’m starting to believe this ;-) .

I was there when the commander was raging. There were fighting against blob. I think, what he means is, if siphoning is proccing retaliation, you will hurt your allies who have a power build. They have a higher damage output then a necro and get more damage back in return.

I like the style of the new LA, the first one I found ugly also the destroyed one, which was more useful than the old one. Thank you for reopening the waypoint to the wvw-portals, if you just had kept the workbench/TP/bank in this area, then it would be perfect.

Wait, what Housing and costumations? If you mean only the guild halls than you can screw it, a normal member of a guild can never decorate the guild hall, that’s usually a privilege of the guild leader and/or officers.
If housing means that I can build and decorate my own house like in Rift/Archage, well then I would pay the price, I would even prepurchase it.

Yes, the last addon from WoW had more content then this announced expansion, as I see so far. You can correct me if you like. If you would open an other map region too or offer more, then we could talk about it, so I’ll will wait until a sale.

50$ or euros (they like to convert 1:1) is a ridiculous price for an veteran player, but I’m not really surprised about anet, not after 2 1/3 years.

I don’t understand why people complain about blob vs blob, that why I love wvw, big scale fights. Really, I like these fights, the make fun even when I died through bad positioning. A good and experienced commander with a few of his guildies around him, can reach a lot. The problem is that many players (aka fairweathers) give up too early and/or don’t listen to the commander or give him a chance to improve his commandstyle or reverse his tactic.

Timberline Falls, hands down. Because it a beautiful alpine map and you have the freedom of walking easily and luckely not too much jumping on the mountains. I love to stand on the top of the mountain and watch the wide land around me.

How many ioj got tried to rebuilt and got farmed again? 3, 4 times? I don’t know, I don’t care anymore. I came to ioj during the first implossion and left after 2 years directly after the wolf-disband, which was the ember of the last implossion. It was a devastating time, many ioj’er had complained directly here in the forum.

I don’t think that FA had much luck with the last buy-out, maybe the rest of the few ocx joined them, other spread out to other servers (me incl. ). Most of them have joined sbi as far I know. IoJ had a nice server athmosphere, which I really miss, but I played at first in ocx, sea then eu tz, and ioj was already dead before. The OT face now the situation which I ‘ve seen over months, but the na players didn’t believe that. IoJ was carried by the oceanic players for a very long time and these players are gone now.

Maybe it’s better for ioj, when anet does nothing, because if they do something, the rest of the people will leave this server, like they did it on the seasons annoncing.

RIP my beloved Isle of Janthir.

Dora

Congratulations and good luck zhonnika and ArchonWing.

morrolan.9608:

I’m on JQ and this is spot on. To the OP I think JQ covers all TZs fairly well I’m not sure which TZ you’re thinking of where we get overwhelmed by TC and JQ, maybe EU, but we do have at least 1 EU guild.

I’m also on jq, playing during eu, there is rarely a 2v1 against jq, if this would be, we have constant fights, like when tc or bg have their push weeks, which I actually love. Otherwise we have k-training, which I don’t like. Everybody defined fun and hate different, I’m sure everybody on jq hates it when tc is hiding behind their sieges even when they have the same numbers.

In open pve world is one thing really annoying. When other players are rushing through enemies and handover their mobs to you, just because you are fighting one mob nearby and suddenly you have 4 more mobs on you. If you’re downed because of that, these players don’t even think about to help you or revive you. They are just standing there. No thank you, when I see such behavior I break the fight and run away, they should keep their enemies.

As an ele you have a lot of escape skills and it’s easy to learn. The main problem, which makes it hard for new players in zergs, is positioning the waterfield and call this out in ts. Until you have mastered this, you will see a lot of people running out of you precious big water. And a new player will often hear complains about the non-vocal ele’s.

I like the Idea of crafting the best armor in game, instead of waiting and playing dungeons only, over and over again, just to see that another player get this item you really want and need. Sure, it takes too much time, my celestial light armor took me over an year to craft. But in the end, I have got finished this without the rng-factor, which hates me in most of the other mmo’s, not in gw2 I have to admit. The only thing which could be critizes, is that you need 100 silkbolts for one damask. I really wish there were an alternative with leather and metal.

My first character in this game has a female human noble background and I fell in love to Lord Faren during the personal story. I didn’t know anything about the Guildwars story before so I still have hoped that one day my character will have an affair with Lord Faren. Something like in mass effect, your character makes the decision: yes or no.
The kasmeer/Majory-story I have found awkward. Not because of the same-sex-couple-story, but rather of the big hammer “look at this” like Alasia said it’s too much.

Good luck for the seeking. May you choose wisely our new two forum specialist. Hopefully they will have strong nerves. There are a lot of hungry players with an appetit of forum specialists out there.

Yarr, tbh I like this new meta, over 2 years of melee-hammer-stun-train were pretty boring too. The ususally raid set-up was mostly 2 guardian, 2 warriors and 1 ele, only 3 of 8 professions. Where was the fun for the other professions in guild raids? You have risked a /gkick when you have shown up with your ranger.

What is your favorite UNLOCKED title you don in this game (optional: why)?
Mist Runner. My elementalist is very proud of this title.

If you could choose to wear ANY title what would it be?

Ultimate Chaperone, but I’ll will never get this title 1426 of 500.000 dolyaks escorted, and I’m playing this game over 2 years.

Pick a title you genuinely respect when you see a player with it and give a reason why this title reflects a positive feeling.

I do not care about others.

Pick a title you dislike seeing on a player and provide a reason why this title impacts you negatively.

Been there. Done that.
Once I have respected this title, I have it too, but with removal of the wvw-maps it is too easy to reach now. It took me 3 month until I’ve got the last tower.

Make up ONE title you would like to see implemented into the game and provide a brief description/objective on how to obtain it or why you would like to see it as a new title to obtain.

1. Seriously?
2. Seriously!

1. Jump as an commander from garrison and die trough falling when 15 people are around you (they have to survive).
2. Have a waypoint in an enemies garrison. The player has to be on the map, when the waypoint appears.

I have levelled 3 of my 8 toons mostly in wvw. I’ve learnt the mechanics in wvw, what commanders expect from your class and how to avoid the red circles, because of the smaller level, I could die faster. That’s better than the eotm-karma train, I think.
They are still the characters which I play mostly in wvw.

If you avoid guildraids, then you are still welcome to almost every server, because on many servers, every single player is needed after reset night and when the queues are gone. Only solo’ing camps is almost impossible as an up-level.

Ultimaistanza.4793:

For the claiming, I think a better solution would be either allowing multiple guild to claim a structure or let a guild that has more/longer buffs active override a guild’s claim.

This and/or a structure can only be claimed if the guild has active buffs. It could be also automatically unclaimed, when the buffs are running out.

Dear Anet, repeat this joke on 9/11 with many fireworks please. Outside from usa noone care about this single event. Tragedy happens everywhere, everytime.

/cynicism off

It’s really bad timing, but luckely it’s a single day event, it won’t stay forever. So stay calm, if this is annoying you, play another game. If you like it, have fun.

The only thing I find really pity, is that some crafter recipes aren’t available anymore. Like the Recipe: Superior Rune of Exuberance. The price of this rune is now over 10g. It is not the first time. Many receipts for superior runes were only buyable for a high price during some short events and later they became the favorite rune of the month. I would be happy, if some of the older receipts could be learnt during discovery or be purchasable in LA.

Dear GM’s, I just want to say thank you for your ingame support and for posting here. I would really like to send you a omnomberry bar, but I think it’s better not to fill out your mailbox with such things. So, here is a virtual omnomberry bar.

Happy Hunting

End of LS Season 1, in a chest in scarletts secret cave, I found the legend. It is still in my bank. No time and not to be keen for arah.

I remember the time where the dev had talk to the people in this forum, and at this time most of the comments were nice and constructive, okay sometimes they were a little bit annoying for the devs, but okay in my eyes. But then, in 2013 it has stopped, no more talk, not even an “in progress” or so. The complains began with the ignoring, not before. The wvw player wanted to see that they are listened, with no feedback you don’t know this. You see changes for things, which you don’t have asked for, but the players important wishes were still unanswered.

What happened next, the old match-up forum was closed, people have started with necroposting, the first red post after that, was a warning “Don’t do this ever again!”. Then suddenly a kind of hope! More red posts, but unfortunately they have stopped again. I don’t know why? I believe and I’m sure, after the first rage of the people, when the frustated wvw-players have spoken out themselves, they would have been nice again. Why? In wvw, most of the players are really nice and help each other. They do rezzing people. I didn’t seen this fact rarely in a pve-event. They players would have got back the feeling of attention, which is missed at the moment. That’s my summary and view.

And yes I’m salty and I feel the worst for this game. Which makes me really sad.

I don’t expect to see a tournament too, because people have asked for it and anet doesn’t need money of the server transfer at the moment. I mean, as wvw-player you know anet. It will be annouced in that moment when you don’t need this.