Guild Wars 2

Honestly imo it’s usually the trash mobs that give my groups the most trouble (rifle bandits in CM camping the waypoint anyone? lol) I die more from 1 hit trash mobs than I ever do any boss, most boss mechanics are fairly easy to figure out after a failed attempt or two (assuming you don’t spoil the fun and read ahead on the forums on how to do it :p ) Like TA story for example, my guild figured out the final boss first run, we wiped a few times before we spotted the trigger, then we began making a tactic for taking out the group in an order. I love that kind of stuff, but when I walk through CM expl and I’m 1-2 shot by trash mobs hiding behind the opposite wall as I walk through a doorway or getting sniped by rifle bandits when I rez at the waypoint…yeah those kinds of things take the fun out of the dungeon. I understand they had to roughen up CM to slow speed clear teams (which I hate btw, it ruins the whole experience) btu I think for trash mobs at least they went a little too far on some of the dungeons. Ones like CoF (even done the proper way before they closed the exploit) was pretty well balanced and was a blast. Nerfing dungeons to satisfy the few QQers= bad bad news, but tweaking at least the trash mobs to make a more fluid dungeon experience but still require proper mechanics and teamwork on bosses= Good Game.

This whole thread brings disrespect to our server and the person it was named for, honestly you all should be ashamed of how we act in WvW. My guild can’t stand going in anymore because not only do we have to deal with the night capping but now we have to deal with unending drama and I’m not pointing to a specific guild, you all do it. Stop disrepecting our server and either learn to work together or stop posting your dirty laundry all over the forums.

As a necromancer I personally know we have teleports available and had he put the flesh wurm behind the wall it would get him almost all the way to the wall as it did, however, I think even the entry teleport location leaves the dark cloud same as the exit and I didn’t see one. I haven’t personally tried the new version of spectral walk but can say with some certainty he would still be green if the tether was still active. Another thing is client-to-client lag, this has been an issues in so many mmo’s and it’s nothing new. I’m not saying 100% this wasn’t a hack, but it could be that lag. On another note it is possible to artificially produce that lag so he could be doing that, although I’m not gonna post how cause enough unsavory people out there already know how to do it. If you see this person doing it consistently with the same reproducable results, then yeah by all means report it.

All of the flippant QQing around here aside, I think the general attitude of most of the community I have personally talked with (and I might add they usually aren’t the ones camping the forums to trolllolol) is that we don’t want some massive overhaul of WvW and we certainly don’t wanna punish people who are able to play on so-labeled “off hours” because in no way would that be fair, nor would it help the problem. I don’t have the perfect solution as many others have attempted to speculate on, but I do wanna let Anet know what you see here is really not the general consensus (I’m sure you already know that you sneaky peeps lol). But there is a genuine concern about the balancing that keeps putting these servers with 24/7 coverage against servers with less constant coverage overall throughout the week. I added the week part because something most people don’t realize is even those smaller servers that don’t cover all day usually come on later in the week more frequently and make large pushes and earn lots of points. The reason it’s so disheartening in the smaller servers is you spend all day or night building, fortifying, spending untold amounts of money, only to come back and find it all got wiped away in an hour or so because no one was left to defend it. That’s pretty disheartening to many of us. Had it been taken in active combat and they were just better, well thats WvW and kinda the point lol. That being said, letting us know that the balancing and matchmaking is being looked at seriously and solutions in the works makes many of us feel better already. I know it’s gonna be a long road to get the right fix, and may be a neverending procedure, but I ask everyone in the community to give it some time, and if you have actual constructive ideas to put them up but all this QQ and trolling really doesn’t help. We’ve already established the problem, let’s establish a solution.

Can’t claim any buildings in WvW even though I am the guild leader. Also sometimes my guild mates can claim a building but not me, however as of today 9/27 none of my guild can claim anything. It keeps saying we don’t have proper permissions to claim even though we clearly do.

The fact they still allow your hate-filled post to hang around shows the integrity of their company. Many others would have just deleted everything you put up. If one part of the game not working properly is throwing you into this big of a fit then you might wanna find other avenues of entertainment. They gave you the info, if you’re too lazy to put forth the effort to go read it, then that’s on you. New games always have unexpected bugs, just the nature of the beast.

or give us the option to drop one of those houses on top of them but make it big enough so it obscures all their view lol, you wanna sit there forever staring at the floor beams of my house? go ahead be my guest

For the record we don’t quit the moment we’re losing, not most of us anyway, but some of us do actually have to sleep and go to work, ect, and the moment we leave they zerg everything and we come back to a dominated map because their servers are piled up with people in all time zones focused solely on pvp. And honestly like I said what they do is fine, I don’t wanna punish them for something they enjoy but why whould my server be punished because of an extremely poor balancing system? Lots of us don’t play wvw just for points, in fact it was one part of the game I was looking most forward to since i did it in the betas, but the beta wvw is absolutely nothing like this, even when we were overwhelmed by better servers there weren’t 1-2 shots going on and entire maps captured unless the other servers were completely empty in the matches. It was fun, it was a challenge and it was playable for everyone. Yes the op servers would still win but it wouldn’t be the score splits like many of us have shown here, it was a hard fun fight and they won cause they were better, not cause they swarmed us with sheer numbers and imbalanced class combos/builds ect. sPvP doesn’t have these problems because most of the classes are fairly balanced to meet that scale of combat, you get a few other people around you, yeah you’re going down, but there’s much less 1 shots in that pvp format. Plus sPvP layouts and capture points seem more balanced to me, as well as rotations. The scale of wvw cannot be balanced for the scale our skills are suited for because there’s just too much going on. I’m not the devs so I don’t wanna speculate on how it needs to be changed but something needs to be done somewhere. A game that supposed to be fun yet has this feature that does the exact opposite needs fixing. I love(d) wvw and I wanna love it again, but after this horrible week idk if I wanna go back

I’m sure this has been run into the ground already but honestly the matching system for wvw is kinda horrible. I had a blast in wvw in betas but now it’s a miserable place to be for some of us servers. There’s just a few dominating servers and when we come across them it’s a week of hell and honestly I have the exact opposite of fun in wvw during those weeks. I know some of it is just poor team coordination on certain occasions, but when we have our best and brightest on and are pretty well populated in wvw we still get roflstomped and it’s like they’re not even trying. Half the time we just get laughed at and mocked so tell me again what the incentive is for me to go to wvw, spend piles upon piles of gold repairing my armor all day and even more buying siege equipment only to watch it all get flushed down in a few minutes and no headway at all being made? And I have to wait a whole week for this mess to have a chance of going away (hopefully). There’s some serious balance problems going on here when it becomes a repeat thing. It’s fine if servers wanna stack up on mostly pvp players and run the wvw circuit, but when we get paired with them twice in a row and repeatedly see the same ones dominating the entire board there’s something wrong with the balancing system imo. This isn’t a rant about “zomg these servers are way too op” but more about those op servers being paired far too often with smaller servers that they jsut walk all over and generally ruin the experience of at no fault of their own. The pairing just doesn’t work. This is not fun. I play it because I have pride in my server and we’re all a bunch of awesome folk but it’s really starting to make me wonder why even bother.

Same. jumping puzzles are already more difficult on my charr because of the animations throwing off my timing and aim but the wonky camera doesn’t help either.

I used some snowden pieces and the rest cabal sets, if you dye it right it looks pretty sick. I only did it on my female charr necro though so idk if it still looks ok on males. Shouldn’t really matter though most sets look the same on both.

Since my charr is my main and I’m guild leader I leveled everywhere from having to jump around constantly to help everyone out. I’d say half of my total leveling experience per-level most of the time was exploration alone lol.

I use it on other classes besides warrior and it’s just awesomejuice, I would like an actual roar too though, but I do enjoy the phrases that my charr says like “ashes and death!” or “crush…maim…KILL!” baahaha

Yeah I can understand the complexities of having your own warband for the skill, but still it would be pretty awesome.

I don’t think all of it is terrible, but the one beef i have is the male and female armor on a lot of the sets looks almost exactly the same and that kinda turns me off to a lot of the sets. One thing to remember though, this is just the tip of the iceberg for this game, there’s gonna be massive amounts of new content in the future and new content means new gear, so don’t give up hope yet ;-)

I picked one of each, I had to. I love all things charr lol so I made a blood legion necro, as well as a blood warrior, an iron legion engineer, and a ash legion thief

As far as I know most of the female charr characters use the same voice actor and that’s not her. There may be other voice actors for specific npc’s Im unaware of though.

Dual dagger is the way to go if you plan on mainhanding daggers. Like some said above, blinds are key to survival. Well of blindness is an excellent tool, and if you throw that down with well of blood on top of it and then life siphon, you can nearly full heal. I saw a few people saying they traited with death magic and used a lot of minions, I’d advise against this at higher levels. If you’re gonna go the minion route, daggers is not for you. Blood, soul reaping, and spite are good for dagger necros. You want your hp to be as high as you can get it, don’t bother with too much toughness. I tried statting that way with lots of toughness and it just doesn’t work. If you have lots of hp you can still use the skills that inflict self conditions without taking a huge hit from it. Also spectral grasp is a good way to pick your target from the crowd and bring them to you as opposed to running leeroy style into a large group and getting facerolled. Wells are your best friend, learn to use them effectively and you will pwn with dual daggers. As far as the elite, idk I have used the flesh golem some but I also have warband support being a charr and honestly i like it better, but that’s just personal preference moreso than it being more viable, so the elite really is up to you. I did try Plague for a little bit, but that’s a really good way to get dead fast, You have to be in melee range to use the plague attacks and it locks out your entire bar other than the 3 plague skills including any healing so you usually wind up dying in a few seconds. As far as gear goes, I usually go for power/condition damage stats and vitality on all my accessories/rings, ect. My daggers are :mainhand has the fire sigil (does aoe fire damage every so often) and the chargeable power sigil (grants +5 pwoer with every kill until you are downed) but sometimes I swap that offhand with an identical dagger with the chargeable condition sigil, depending on what I’m up against. In dungeons you can use the dual daggers easily on most trash mobs, but for heavier fights forget it. Either go with staff, or my personal favorite for toughies: axe/focus. The axe is way more powerful than people give it credit for, it can tear down their defense on tough guys quickly and make them much easier to deal with. Plus the focus helps add some regens to your group as well as retaliation and boon removals. Hope this helps, give it a shot and see how it works for you!

I have random people not rendering, example: I was following two of my guildies around and only their heads were visible and sometimes their weapons, but everyone else in town was visible. Was only those two. Also sometimes randomly throughout the world small groups of people won’t render for a while until I stand still, but people running past can be seen.

Issues here too, “buy” button greys out, nothing happens. Some people can still use the trading post just fine though, so idk where the problem lies, server side or client? Maybe some of us just got bad patches