Guild Wars 2

For some reason starting this week, after I log in and push play on my launcher, the game completely disappears from my screen. The icon will still be in my toolbar and when I Alt+Tab, I can see my character selection screen still going in the thumbnail. But no matter what I do, it won’t come back up onto my actual desktop. I’m not using any extra shaders, filters or even f.lux at the moment to try and solve this but nothing is working. I have reinstalled to get a fresh game and even that didn’t work, I’m utterly confused and baffled at this point.

Jeknar.6184:

So he can play Scholar’s instead of Durability… That’s a huge damage loss imo.

Lmao people actually use Scholar on Reapers outside of pve? I mean I hope you know in most fights that involve an ounce of counterplay that is possible from anyone above a basic bronze, you’re not going to be at >90% health for the majority of the fight.

ruhruhruh fix pls

This post is incorrect, the advertised guild should be Venator Phalanx Nemesis [VPN].

Bumping for recognition.

Quarktastic.1027:

(even with the stupid blighter’s boon nerf)

Just kek. All of my freaking kek. Perhaps you’ll feel better with a cleric reaper.

Bumppity bump bump shoop.

Justice bump of sweet justice for the justice.

illenos.5134:

Edit: Why is Jayne highjacking so many threads? So many discussions end up with Jayne vs all…so pointless…

Why are you on the wrong side of the argument? So far this thread has been divided between players who know how to fight well and can respect an even fight, and players who probably still use full PVT and wouldn’t be able to fight their way out of a paper bag. Perhaps WvW should be instead reserved for the fighters and the PPTers should be forced to use EotM.

Like literally the night and day comparison between the two arguments is “Am I good enough to fight people as a single person and can I understand the importance of a balanced fight in a dying gamemode”. I’m sorry PPTers, except I’m not, but your game mode was boring 2 years ago. If you’re still getting worked up over SMC getting capped by the enemy then you need to go back to special ed.

I think the best part of this thread is if you took all of the people defending the honor of duels and put them on a single server, then took all of the absolute kittenbags finding excuses to jump on duels and put them on a single server, you would find that the PPTers would get their kitten kicked in for an entire week.

gjop.8612:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/GvG-community-ignored-again-why/first#post4780149.

“I’m sorry this is a disappointment to some of you, but our focus is currently on the three existing game modes, PvE, WvW and PvP.”

“…but our focus is currently on the three existing game modes, PvE, WvW and PvP.”

“…focus…on….WvW…”

AHA. AHAHAHAAHA. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH GOD THAT’S RICH.

Building off of what was mentioned earlier then, it’s going to boil down to us as the leading guilds/players in WvW to tone down our guild sizes when we enter maps. Groups such kitten, SG, GH (EU’s Golden Horde), and other guilds that only run at least 30-40 of guilded members, on TOP of being pinned up for all of the maps pugs to follow are part of the reason why there seems to be a race to get guilds bigger and bigger to try and take them on. ESPECIALLY with SE and GH, because not only have the decided on running at least 30-40+, but have also adapted some of the cheesier meta nuances (Venom wells and Corrupt booning opposing drivers, because that’s totally necessary to do when you’re 50v25ing). It’s not really the greatest thing to admit here, but what we sort of need to do have from ArenaNet and the other players and guilds in WvW is a general shaming of groups that do this. For one, I know in EU that when any associated guild with 20-25 runs into GH once, GH gets that one 50vWho Cares steamroll before that guild will just avoid GH for the rest of the night. And this will happen with EVERY guild GH runs into until literally no one will fight GH for the rest of the night. And that’s exactly what they deserve for being that level of kittenhead, running 40-50 AND meta cheese. That’s not fun to fight against, and no one is going to support you running it by allowing you to steamroll them over and over again.

The problem is, we don’t exactly have something like that over in NA. In fact, most guilds can’t even freaking count their opponents successfully. It’s quite hilarious listening in Teamspeak when two groups will initially run into each other, and what you have is a few heinous scout reports that will claim that the enemy has up to 10-15 more than what they actually have, somehow justifying in the larger blobs’ minds that they won’t feel bad steamrolling over a group half their size, and will even credit themselves on their skill and courage. It’s just more and more nonsense and self-destructive attitudes that has lead to this sad state of WvW that we have been left with after almost 3 years of gameplay.

What I think many of us fighters want to see is to have an overall toning down of the sheer amount of players on a single tag. Sure pug forces can still exist, but maps during primetime should be filled with guild groups of 10-25 members, with a final portion of the map being reserved for roamers. If those two are correct, then the final piece of the pug group taking up map space should only be allowed to be about 30 at max. And please, please, please just learn how to count. If you see two groups of 20-25 already duking it out in an area, don’t just walk in with your extra 20-30 just to steamroll “for the bags”. You’re not cute, you’re not good, you’re just rude. I’m looking directly at you, [KILL].

UnknownRH.4592:

This is just a personal attack. Dont take this guy seriously.

Oh I get that. Just kittenizing the fool.

Face.4216:

The guy who is known for drops racial slurs and trolls on the other forums comes here and tries to make a business pitch, like 800 viewers is some big thing. It’s not. Not to mention how everything about this scene is toxic, ANet can’t get any reliable publicity out of this. GG, Mr. Big GvG Thought Leader-San.

You deleted one post to make another with the same exact message. Or perhaps you didn’t delete it and ArenaNet did it for you. Perhaps you missed the message that your personal attacks on the person trying to raise a valid, productive pitch aren’t welcomed and are being punished with infractions. The world may never know.

It’s one thing to give an opposing opinion on the matter in a constructive way.

It’s another thing to derail the thread with a personal attack on the OP that is unrelated to the topic, and then to also present the idea that 10-20s are Zerg v Zerg and then claim that the entire idea will fail without stating any supporting reasons for either statement.

butch.8136:

Congrats on 800 viewers on an event that gets streamed a few times a year. /s

Zerg v Zerg happens now occasionally but when you put it in a seperate gamemode, you’ll expect short queue times, quality matches around the clock.
Do you really see that happening?

Even more, people want 10v10, 15v15 and even 20v20. What are you gonna chose? Or you want all options? Splitting it even more?

I want to see it happen just to put the discussion to rest. I’ll guarantee you that it’ll fail.

Apparently this is the time where all of the sour players come into the forums and taint productive threads with their bile. If you’re calling 10s, 15s and 20s “Zerg v Zerg”, then my goodness you have a very narrow view on what a good fight entails. If you ever have something productive to say on this matter, please do so. Otherwise, please just keep it to yourself.

(Cont.)

You as a developer need to put into perspective the dedication many of these guilds have put into your game at this point with ABSOLUTELY NO REWARD. In fact, on multiple times you’ve quite honestly spit in their face. Not only does WvW have no reward for competing in it on a weekly basis (outside of the usual 2 or 3 “bonus chests” that – BIG SURPRISE - only contain 20 silver and 2 blues/greens), but these people have been continuously playing your game for 3 years now. They pray that someday, your teams will wake up and realize the mistake you’ve made by putting in no effort to at the very least have a closed arena for 20v20s where no adds can join in, there’s no points of interest to fight over, and there’s ABSOLUTELY NO PVE AI.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still love this game because – as I and countless others have stated – it is the most fluid and beautiful interplay/counterplay pvp system in existence, to this very date. The videos linked in early posts on this thread show you full 20 man teams that have theorycrafted and mastered your game’s mechanics, to a “T”. Everything from the combo system of leaps, whirls, and blasts to the very builds that they have worked hours upon hours upon hours of perfecting to the touch. With still, no reward – ever. The only reward we’ve ever received from doing any of this is the pride we feel when we zone into a map and people recognize your guild’s name, and the joy we get from seeing the fruition of our efforts come to be.

I would still love to be a supporter of ArenaNet, and to have the faith I once had in you guys many, many moons ago. But first we need to see effort from you showing that you care about the very people who worship your combat system.

I think quite frankly the largest disappointment here that seems to be the recurring theme is this:

ArenaNet, you currently have the single most beautiful game in current existence for combat, with literally the most natural and liquid feeling style and pace of combat that – gasp – even allows for perfect counterplay through dodge rolls, movement, AND built-in mechanics. Mind you, you’ve done a little bit of destruction to the counterplay aspect with the way you’re handling the balancing of classes recently; especially leading up to this new specialization change (Rangers needed another kitten buff? Are you serious? No one on the balancing staff clearly plays ranger at all – and if you do, you’re trash if you can’t see how ungodly unbalanced the damage modifiers on longbow are for how far away they can attack from. But that’s another story for another thread).

But not only are you neglecting to realize the full fruition of the beauty of your combat engine, but you’ve even clearly shown through action after action that you literally don’t care about the very community that puts your game on a pedestal for competitive, team spvp. You’d rather ciphon the rest of the PvE community through countless gem shop updates on outfits that are horrendously designed or are – surprise! – ALL or nothing in their design (No mixing or matching if some parts look good and others don’t). You as a team would rather cater to the people who put the most amount of work to enjoying your game the VERY least (Come on, you have to admit that the meta of stacking in corners to kill ALL of your PvE content is the most ridiculous slap to the face of ANY game designer after all of the work your teams have put in). But the thing is, you can’t change the fact that your content in PvE is easy to kill because dodge rolls exist, but if you get rid of dodge rolls then you basically lose the fluidity that your game contains and will lose the vast majority of your competitive playerbase. The fact is, you’re upselling your game to the wrong crowd of people, who basically turn your content into a day in line at the DMV with how they stack in corners and stack the most amount of damage just to kill repetitive AI that no matter what – the PvE community will find a way to cheese them to death.

gennyt.3428:

Windsagio.1340:

Trajan.4953:

It really does seem like A-net is missing a huge opportunity here.

Let’s be frank though, how’s it monetize compared to its cost?

Be a bit more creative with the vanity gem shop offerings for one.

• Custom commander tag packs (stars, swords, staves, hearts, skulls, letters, class icons, numbers, whatever; switch packs like we do finishers).
• More varied armor skins (looking at you trench coats) and not just entire all or nothing “outfits”.
• Guild capes.
• Gem shop only weapon skins that can be dyed.
• Gem shop emotes.
• Some more trolly finishers (they’re getting there with the rainbow unicorn). I want to stomp someone with the fiery breath of Balthazar or a knock off carebear that hugs itself while twirling around spraying confetti and sparkles. :P

Just stuff off the top of my head.
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I’m certain if they added custom arena with PvE rules people would pay for them.

Just right here you immediately have what could be the roots and beginning of your new cash cow to the competitive, structured 20v20 realm of players. I kid you not when I tell you that they will literally empty their wallets trying to keep up with the new items that allow them to tote around their guild pride and shame their enemies with the most ridiculous of finishers. And not only will the monetary value stem from the gem shop – imagine the publicity you will get, as stated before, if you publicly sponsored and hosted 20v20 events of your own? Sure the payout from events would get a little confusing, if not complex:

You would more than likely have a payout of $100,000 instead of $50,000, with each member of the 20 man team receiving $5,000 on their own. Sure the reward isn’t as lucrative as say, being a member of a winning 5 man spvp team for $50,000 (Each member receiving $10,000), but that would only be the icing on the cake for many of these players.

Furiousbeard.7602:

TL:DR

We got 2v1ed and couldn’t get second place that week.

FA is bad

RET is cool

Tyrion is just a loud, incomprehensible monkey

Furiousbeard is more fun than Tryion

Moko is the smartest because she reads and looks at stuff

You’re kitten ed right I am!

Also fixed it a little.

Deli.1302:

This Moko Toko guy is hilarious to read. Whoever is getting him all riled up and emotional, please continue.

I love how people just give their own interpretation to what I have put down and then act like their interpretation is the -only- one. Whoever said I was riled or emotional? Are you saying that I’m riled and emotional because I can dedicate more than 10 seconds to writing a post and I actually take the time to know what I’m talking about before I say anything? Then by all means, please keep giving me such wonderful compliments.

And sorry for the lack smiley faces and feminine graces from my posts, but not all of us can be Cuddlestrike.

Andy.9137:

you’re starting to make little sense and I’m sensing some anger from you. If you want to continue stressing yourself over this, have fun. I guess.

I guess talking with pure logic comes off as angry and stressful nowadays. No skin off my bones, anyways.

So you’re trying to tell me that you lost enough guilds from your server to make THAT much of a difference in your level of playing?

And it’s discriminating off where you’re from BECAUSE of what you said. There’s a reason for the madness if you would merely just pay attention instead of reading with the veil of rage over your eyes.

Andy.9137:

So you’re making that assessment based on the fact I’m from FA? Ignorance at it’s finest.

Except it’s not, because as a FA person you preach about people being ignorant and hypocritical, however it’s the vast majority of your people who are the ones being hypocritical and ignorant. So yes, I’m allowed to make a statement based solely off the fact of what server you’re on and what you said. Don’t you love logic?

phys.7689:

Even that aside, SBI didnt just lose to yaks, they lost to ebay. If it was just numbers and coverage SBI should have been able to get at least a number 2 out of that match.

Oh you mean the part in the mos.millenium chart where all of Yak Bend’s held objectives were captured by Ehmry Bay and then said objectives were never recaptured in the still blatant 2v1 scenario? SBI was not allowed to focus anyone other than Yak’s Bend because of the setup – as soon as SBI would turn focus to one large objective for one server, the other server would merely come in to help defend or hit one of SBI’s large structures to pull their forces from the push on the structure, splitting the forces to where it would be Yak’s Bend’s map queue versus SBI force A, and Ehmry Bay’s map forces against SBI split force B. For some guilds on SBI who are great at working together and splitting up a map, this kind of attack was not much of a problem outside of the constant siege/PvX guilds YB had camping in basically each T3 structure they had, making it the most boring open-field-fight match-up I have seen to date (outside of any match-up involving Borlis Pass, of course). It’s all of the small details that come together, including the ones you mention about morale and the like, that will cause the defeat of a server that doesn’t outnumber their opponents with brute, hardcore wvw guild forces like Blackgate/Jade Quarry (I left SoR out because everyone knows they’re garbage).

My point is, last week was a great collaboration from 2 servers who wanted to work together and take down a larger coverage server. They had people dedicating the overtime to sit overnight in T3 structures, even though it is known intel that they had people multi-boxing and running macros for some of the trebs and arrowcarts they had in their structures.

But all I see out of this match-up is a pseudo-fallen server who took a dive before leagues so they could play easy mode for 7 weeks, then spend said 7 weeks talking crap on the forums while boosting their egos from all of the torture and manslaughter they received from constantly having to face TC or T1 servers. The only guild I could see at this point who has been remotely respectful for the match-up has been [RET], although some of them have been known to dance around and emote spam in some inappropriate times; they give credit where credit is due and pay their respects to other valiant fighters they come across on the battlefield.

On the exact opposite end of this dignity and respect soapbox I’m on is the guild master for [BOMB], Tyrion. You are by far the worst example for your server that could possibly ever be chosen to speak on their behalf entirely; your actions and attitude could alone make most people give FA the most awful, distorted image of sportsmanship that you guys could ever want. You post shoddy videos from your weak internet connection of your blobs zerging down forces much smaller than your own, claiming that you’re the almighty destroyer of all things whole and good with the world. You talk the most undeserved crap out of any other player on your entire server, including Furiousbeard (Whose poking and prodding is usually on a more fun, pestering demeanor than just pure, ignorant and brazen chest beating) and believe you have some level of skill to back up your position when in the end, you truly don’t.

Then again this is just my observations, since people don’t even really seem to pay attention to what they’re looking at; and yes I’m looking at you, “6 months ago” person.

phys.7689:

simple equation, if you lose points in the morning, get them back at night. Yaks had no coverage at all in the morning, they were ticking for 65 and 105, they just made primetime and late night count that much more.

Yes except it’s pretty easy to tick highest in primetime when you have it openly set-up to where one server isn’t going to hit you for the entire match-up, and when the other server makes a push for you, the server you’re in cohorts with simply attacks from the other direction.

Andy.9137:

Love this thread. So many hypocritical and ignorant posts.

I’m not certain if this statement would be ironic or hypocritical based on technical definition, but it’s funny because you’re making that statement while being from FA yourself.

Chess Jurist.3580:

We keep trying to teach you SBI’s to spread your people out instead of blobbing into one BL, that’s just self suicide because our commanders are much better then yours =).

You are forgiven for assuming I’m SBI.

ResetSmith.3719:

I didn’t even notice actually, I assumed that forum got updated as frequently as other ones.

You are forgiven.

phys.7689:

your belief that its all about coverage and numbers is why you lose. Instead of coming for our throats and battling hard, you run to the easy way out. Blame numbers and quit.

I’m not sure what you mean, since the current score indicates that people are still out there fighting (ex: no server’s PPT is 100>), I don’t think it’s proper to say any server has just “given up and blamed numbers”. Both servers are still out in full forces doing their best, but yes in the long run the winner is decided by numbers and coverage. Even if you were to take a guild like VotF, who could easily kill anything and everyone anywhere at anytime here in NA, they are only 1 guild that runs maybe 20-30 people at MAX, and therefore can only be present on 1 map at a single time, meaning they can only command up to about 140 PPT for their team. So indeed, in this game of WvW, it all comes down to numbers and coverage, and which servers can apply the most constant pressure onto their opponents to prevent them from having time to recover. It’s simple, truly.

phys.7689:

And dont go with the tanking gold league thing, it just makes it sound like you are saying we are better than you, but you hoped that you would never have to face us. There is better smack to talk

Implying tiers mean that one server is “better” than another. Tiers are only a substitute for the true word, coverage. Same reason why FA looks like crap when thrown in with T1 servers, which is basically almost like reset night every night for them in ALL timezones. But I guess that’s why you guys tanked, you didn’t want to be man-handled for a good 7 weeks straight so you went down a league so you could do all the man-handling. And don’t mistake that for a compliment towards your skill, I’m only speaking of coverage here.

Chess Jurist.3580:

YESSSSS Let me feed off of your raaaage!!!! grrrrrrrr u tiger

How can one be angry when one is a Night Elf Mohawk?

I pity the fool who thinks seasons indicate any level of skill for an individual timeslot.

ResetSmith.3719:

I don’t know if you’re DB or SBI, but SBI has BEAST, and this sad sad post : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Recalling-All-Ex-SBI-WvWers

I love how you totally ignored the timedate on that thread, actually. Since you know, it says “6 months ago”.

Furiousbeard.7602:

To see all your tears and feigned tough guy acts… Oh yeah! VERY worth it XD

So you find tanking your matches before seasons to join a league where no server even comes remotely close to your coverage just so you can have 7 weeks of the most fun PvDoor your SEA/OCX/EU will ever have just so you can say you “enjoyed watching our tears”?

And to think before seasons I didn’t even really know or care who was on FA, now all I know about you guys is what you and all of your other awful commanders who don’t know how to count or recognize a pug zerg when they see one say on the forums to try and give a personal ego boost.

But indeed, keep making posts about how your server is superior in skill and blatantly ignore the fact that if it weren’t for your off hours players doing PvDoor when there is practically no one online you wouldn’t even be close to the tier you are now.

Furiousbeard.7602:

Uhhh…. lol, the recruitment thread is your source?

Hahahahaha, that’s hilarious XD

Very laugh indeed

You’re right, a subforum of basically T1 + FA guilds advertising to try and get their decks stacked means absolutely nothing; almost as much as the McDonald’s dollar menu means absolutely nothing to millions of university students worldwide.

I for one like how they claim to be wagon burners, yet when I go here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment

All I see are posts from FA trying to grab people left and right to join them.

Wauw. Such hypocrite. Very laugh. So burn.

sephiroth.4217:

I’m after a chat with a [uA] Norn male mesmer if anyone can help me out please

MISSED CONNECTION:
You:
Sturdy norn mesmer, with burly arms that seemed they could hold onto eternity, sporting ultra-sexy [uA] tag

Me:
Slick and smooth sylvari ranger, looking to be held by large burly arms into eternity, who knows and understands the forbidden fruit that lies within

Please send me in-game mail so we can get together for wine-tasting, pillow fighting and aggressive cuddling.

Adahilia.3678:

so you’re on sbi? why not put that in your tag? just a thought

Because I don’t feel like my opinions or actions should be labeled by what server I’m on.

Adahilia.3678:

lol that’s rich – the pot calling the kettle black

Joke’s on you, I’m on SBI!

LF server that can accurately count the numbers of the opposing group and act accordingly. As much as we all love witch hunts, it’s so 17th century; please send adequate numbers for response so that all parties may enjoy the game without zerging.

None are innocent here either, – cough- SBI -cough-.

PS. So kitten, as in assessing the situation is too much for forums? Wauw.

RNG Gods are not in my favor tonight.

Evalana.5480:

Alissa isn’t even in this matchup.

Problem?

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Do you bang your head against a wall and die with ’Zerker gear and damage skills during sieges? I ask, but given your post history, the answer is obviously yes.

I’m not sure what part of my post history told you I was running zerker gear, so that’s pretty weird right there. But being geared for higher damage then simply practicing better movement and you can do wonders. Much more than you could accomplish with PVT armor running through all of the damage.

People actively defending PVT as a viable meta strategy…

Bahahahahahaha! So what do you guys do in WvW, seriously?

“Okay, we’re going to just run up to them and spam 1 the fastest so they drop faster than we do. Even though there’s no skill lag, we’re so used to just running up and pushing 1 that it’s all we do these days, god forbid a spike damage group happens to catch us when its not a 3 way fight and the skill lag allows us to take advantage of our meta 1 spam.”

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

I can’t believe someone is actually arguing that PVT is pointless because apparently with boon stripping people die to 12k hit meteor showers regularly.

Next, I’m expecting something along the lines of,

“It’s pointless to take camps because you never know when someone with treb mastery will hit you on your way to an objective, causing you to lose all your supply.”

Not my fault the only meta in T1 is to stack PVT. Take your strategy anywhere else without the skill lag and you’re just a walking target since your entire group will hit like a wet noodle.

Jorjeis.2169:

Because no T1 groups ever have rolling stability. But please, continue being rally bait.

Again, my apologies for remembering that in Tier 1 you can’t cast utilities, so boon stripping doesn’t actually exist. But in a perfect world without skill lag I would still be putting too much faith in groups to have reliable necros and mesmers for boon stripping. There are many dynamics to a team that come together to form a killing machine.

JaredKincade.9761:

Dodgeroll

You’re right, I’m putting too much faith in the fact that the other people in your group would be cc’ing the group to keep them on that spot. My apologies.

Gilgamesh.7364:

Now imagine that x15 in a battle where its 60vs60. The importance of surviving in large scale battles comes 2nd to none.

Why would that be relative when a single ele properly geared can drop meteors for 12k each on a single area per strike, especially when you get multiple doing it? You can wear all the pvt in the world, but you’re probably still going to die.

tango.8962:

I love the stigma against tanky players. WvW is about a team and our meta is made around AOE’s. Yes you get hit for 300 and laugh, but im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

Also stop disapproving T1 builds when you are tied with sos in last place.

tango.8962:

Yes you get hit for 300 and laugh, but im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

tango.8962:

im hitting 5 people for 300 every second for 6 seconds. that’s 9k damage in 6 seconds.

tango.8962:

9k damage in 6 seconds.

Why aren’t more people laughing at this gem?

bokkieskitten.8023:

He doesn’t, does he…

I guess everyone is a man, I can go with that. But nonetheless, axe necro is perfectly fine for a power build; it balances spike damage on single target with the ranged to kite people still, and also has a nice aoe which can cripple, boon strip, and stack retal onto you per target. I mean, if you find no use for that I’m sorry.