Guild Wars 2

I would guess there are far more people who play PvE only than people who play WvW.

I have to buy siege with my badges : ( oh well, good thing I can craft gear.

Pyrock.4518:

And when all of the highly ranked commanders move off of your server because of drama or community issues you will have big gaps with no commanders and less wxp coming in to get new commanders. I’m not saying the commander icon is a good system but I think the problems you are having with it might be more indicative of an issue with the WvW community on your server.

Not. Anybody who wants to pay that much for the look can still by a blu durrio. You can bet many already have. Look at the crowd of them standing around Lions Arch.

not so sure it was PvE update, tbh. They could easily have been trying to fix WvW with migrating to new servers and ooops. We don’t know.

It might turn out ok. Right?

I would not miss PvE at this point. I do miss WvW.

We don’t now if there are a lot fewer of us them PvE. We may not matter as much as we think.

ha, I have to wonder how much of our suggestions are responsible for the outage right now. This looks like they migrated to new servers and oooops.

Replace Stonemist Castle with
Stonemist Castle! I kind of like it like it is. TC had a blast there the other day camping on the third floor and luring in the other servers, retaking the lord, until I think it was BG got our number. It was fun.

Think PvE makes for better advertising? The story and scenery, the creatures and stuff, probably sounds more attractive to new customers than WvW.

GW2 is probably looking for a niche, it is not a top 10 rated computer game. They need to market carefully.

One of their strong points I bet is that women like this game more than the top rated ones. We like the scenery and the role of women in the stories. We like crafting too.

GrandmaFunk, that is what most of the commanders do anyway – grind for WxP and loot. How many times have you looked at a map to see the commander way off in the distance at someone else’s keep while your inner towers fail? How many times have you seen one run a zerg past a flipped, unbuffed supply camp while your keep and towers starve for upgrades?

If there was some way to roughly quantify at least how much time they had spent on the maps, I think that would be better than nothing. I also think it would be great to have some way to quickly distinquish one commander on the map from another so we could more effectively run multiple zergs.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

It is a contradition to say on one hand anyone running with a zerg can make hundreds of rank points in a few weeks, but the person leading the zerg can’t expect to make many rank points.

The contradiction is that “being an effective commander” and “leading a zerg through PvD cycles” are not the same thing. at all.

Different people have different ideas about what makes an effective commander. Some of the worst, most arrogant, obnoxious and wasteful commanders I have seen firmly believe themselves to be the best. Some of the best commanders I have seen are low key, careful and courteous, but people who want to zerg all day don’t like that style.

Rank is simply one aspect of WvW experience and skill that can be quantified and objectively compared. The other stuff is subjective.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

JPM.3541:

If you like wvw and want to command, why not reach that rank to command?

Because the activities that good commanders spend their time on reward very little in terms of rank, and the activities that do reward a lot are not effective uses of a commanders time(with respect to the task of leading their server to victory)

It is a contradition to say on one hand anyone running with a zerg can make hundreds of rank points in a few weeks, but the person leading the zerg can’t expect to make many rank points.

Making commander tags signify rank seems like a great idea to me.

I would leave the blue commander tag as is available for sale to anybody, but I would add maybe three more tags you could not purchase until you have sufficient rank. blue->green->yellow->red

This is similar to other abilities you need sufficient rank to use, like traits and gear.

It takes more than a few weeks to gain 400 rank.

I would like to see some variation in commander tags with new colors for commanders who earn them. That would make the commanders better and also make it easier to have more than one on the map.

well, you might not know how to place siege like I do. I might show you if you are on my server, otherwise not. My siege stands pretty well. The big issue is SUPPLY. Starved for, in particular.

Think you just did : ) But the main developer for this game seems to play ele a bit and has his opinions about how we should play ele. There is a recent video in the ele forum thread. He talks about why we are slow and why ANet isnt going to change much about us except how much and how fast they expect us to swap attunements.

The complaints I saw about GvG were about losses in WvW when GvG was going on. WvW shouldn’t lose anything because of GvG. If the guilds are organized enough to fight GvG, they should be able to keep losses in WvW from happening when they do it.

would be good if ANet looked at what is being measured by the scores before the league matchups. It would be stupid to just measure the size of the servers and call that a win.

sounds like a consensus that bloodlust doesnt really matter that much.

Not sure the bloodlust is helping that much when some mini zerg is beating down your doors. What you need is people and siege, and people who stick around long enough to have siege.

Good stuff to encourage new players. I really appreciate commanders helping out with tutorials.

Why would a good ele be away from their zerg, except to hold and upgrade a tower or keep? Somebody has to understand how to take care of the necessary stuff, it’s elemental.

That and I didn’t know so many people like the BLs. I thought it must be wasted space. Sorry.

really? Seems really boring to me when I have been in the borderlands. The borderlands seem like the training grounds for maybe-wannabe WvW players. My main objection is the way the borderlands distort the scores in favor of servers with bigger population. The scores show how big the servers are instead of how well they play.

I play ele almost all the time (also have lvl 80 ranger and guardian). I might be wrong, but I get the feeling most people would not like the ele class. The skills are complicated combinations, the weapons are rigid no swap, and the armor is squishy. Ele is there to help out, not grab any glory.

I’m also on TC. Fights taking and defending towers are usually not overwhelmingly crowded, normally not more than 25 or so on each side. The keeps or Stonemist can be a different story, of course. The really big battles are when BG and SoR go at eachother, and we have usually tried to stay out of that action at a safe distance (unless we get caught between them, that really sucks, but not for very long.) We need you in TC, it is a good server with some good commanders and a wide range of roles for people in WvW. We can really use help at the towers.

Ele’s are a back line support class in WvW, not all around.

I use staff and am getting more kills than getting killed. None of the commanders have ever suggested I use anything but staff, either. In fact, some of the skills the commanders constantly ask for from ele’s are only available on staff (static field, water fields).

I read ele’s can eliminate WxP by simply using mistform when downed.

I personally don’t like the borderlands (obviously) but I am ok with other people playing them if that’s what you like. I still think EB should be scored seperately. The rankings would look different if they did not depend so much on the number of players in the borderlands.

Getting rid of the borderlands would do a lot to solve the problem of servers being outnumbered. All three servers would be roughly equal numbers. The point scores would reflect actual accomplishment instead of simply which server was bigger.

As far as waiting in a queue or overflow, that is already normal in GW2. Any of the major PvE events, like Tequatl or Scarlet’s Minions, result in overflow for days.

The borderlands should be converted to something more useful or at least scored seperately from EB, so we can see how well each server is actually doing.

Achilles.2197:

Tier 1 should have been its own league. TC imbalances t2

Well, we are listed ast T1 this week, for one thing.

We might surprise you.

Or kick yer yak’s kitten, or something like that.

What does this add to the game vs. what borerlands take away from the game? Borderlands only benefit stacked servers.

You can screw up a much larger hyper-offensive, no defense at all server by trashing their supply. Keep it all paper forever. Just takes a little planning and patience.

Original GvG didn’t have any siege, did it? That changes the game a lot.

Siege needs supply, whole different game.

I can’t see holding towers, keeps and castles with 20 man teams. The zergs get all the publicity, but the strategy and patience it takes to hold territory on a map is much of the fun of WvW.

The borderlands are kind of a waste. It would be cool of they could be turned into GvG arenas.

like it would be ABSOLUTELY GREAT if a GvG set up outside this lonely tower I have been upgrading for the last 3 boring hours. I would love it.

ParaldaWind.4523

Devs have also stated that the GvG projects were all scrapped.

Also, “griefing the players who want to play the mode as intended”? How? By taking up 15-20 slots in a strategically unimportant place for an hour? Oh, the humanity. Let’s just ban them all.

While we’re at it, let’s ban all karma trains, crafters, afk players at spawn, and anyone in the jumping puzzles. They’re not contributing to the almighty PPT, therefore they’re all scum.

Exactly. I’m not understanding why GvG is such a big problem. Can anybody explain why ANet is so opposed to playing this way?

To me it seem like a creative use of the game and something that promotes community involvement.

Not seeing why GvG is so much of a problem. I haven’t seen that much of it, but who cares if we take a break and watch fight club for a while? It’s kindof funny and instructional to watch them fight. Kind of cool to stand around with the enemy for a bit without killing them.

Greens Daily Ritual.9025:

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Well, don’t know where you guys were, but we arent playing JQ or SoR this week, because we have stomped them too many times recently.

Dude, please lay off the drugs… they are doing bad things to you.

We’ve never beaten either JQ or SoR in any match.

DB and FA, yes but JQ, SoR, or BG… no.

And Ostra, please cut it with the “TC bought Guilds” kitten… we didn’t. Did Guilds transfer in absolutely and did it make us stacked compared to any Server outside of NA T1 yes it did. But it wasn’t some nefarious plot where TC somehow bribed a whole bunch of Guilds to transfer.

There are plenty on TC who hate Bloodlust and are protesting/boycotting it as well. We can see that it is bad for the game overall.

Well thanks for informing your server mate he’s delusional. As for “bought guilds”, it’s possible this happened, even though you just don’t know about it. It’s a common practice among servers that are trying to stack to T1.

I am obviously female. My age and region of residence is also obvious. So is yours.

I will always be loyal to the family I was born in. I sort of chose to be born in my server when I signed on, and will not abandon. It’s natural to feel loyal to the family you are born in.

Better and more varied animations for our characters will let us identify more and be more immersed in the game. Please let our characters move more natually, sit on things like chairs, choose how to sit or stand, similar to the dancing anims provided for sale from Black Lion. Let us personalize our characters more.

This game is one year old. I will not say how long I have been in the software industry. I will say, don’t worry about Guild Wars 2 failing because some players feel twitched out already.

Honestly, I don’t notice any of those buff deals except the one where we are massively outnumbered, so I don’t have to pay for equip repairs every time we get wiped! The rest of it is cancelled by a couple of dodges, more or less, or camera swing, where the heck is that cmd, oh no. Buffs hardly matter

Well, I also like the + WXP.

Also, anybody who resents the ANet techs getting paid for their work, go ahead and try to write a game like this one. Go for it.

It’s just being scored wrong. If you don’t pay attention to the numbers you can tell whether your server is doing a good job or not. You don’t necessarily get a higher score number for winning a hard fight or protecting your turf against a massive assault. You just know your team did ok.

For weeks, we got all kinds of great numbers just because the other sides gave up. The numbers don’t mean that much.

All this “waaahh! WvW is doomed, I am done with it!” may not be such a bad thing. People who don’t want to play anymore are talking about not playing anymore. OK, next. I definitely will not mind not playing with people who don’t want to play any more.

why would there be no new players? Most of the players I have heard say why they have not tried WvW is that they either/or have not gained confidence in their skills in the one year GW2 has been alive, or they need to upgrade their hardware this Christmas.