No I think they should stay or at the very least; give us the option to convert them to something else.
Tomes = levels OR spirit shards. For the latter, I barely have ANY spirit shards EVER because I’m constantly crafting min/maxing my ascended gear with infusions and they chew up a lot of spirit shards, especially converting out-dated ascended gear over to different stats.
You can play your main and rack up tomes for an alt which is good because nobody likes uplevels in WvW.
Those are valid reasons why they should remain. Now we can further explore the idea that not everyone will need tomes for alts OR spirit shards for whatever reason so an acceptable solution would be to include OPTIONS within the tome(s) to convert them into other meaningful things e.g; another currency, buy siege blueprints or even to the extent of implementing new recipes requiring the forging of tomes.
I hope this helps.
I have 10 level 80s – all in ascended with ascended weapons and no spare character slots or the money to by more slots.
I have two full stacks of tomes in the bank and 6.5k spirit shards and I have also upgraded over 2000 siege to superior so far.
I really need an alternative use for spirit shards or a better way of doing siege upgrades as all that clicking is wearing out my mouse and is mind-numbingly boring.
I need to do this as well – tried it with a group the other day – after being the last one standing eight times in a row in the Eir/Garm fight when my allies couldn’t get the concept of not standing still in fire I had to give it up.
But if anyone needs a 5th I’m on EU.
Next you’ll be asking Anet to play your characters for you when you can’t be bothered to log in and play them yourself…..
That makes no sense and has nothing to do with what the OP is asking for.
The OP is asking for a convenience item or system. What you posted is like claiming an account wide slot with a gemstore salvage kit in it is asking for the company to play the game for them.
Nope, the OP is saying that it is a hassle for him to relog when he forgets to do something so he wants Anet to save him the bother of relogging for 2 minutes because he forgot to do something.
The other thing to remember is that not everyone has permanent tools or all characters over level 60 so their new 1st level character cannot share Ori tools (min level 60) with their level 80 and therefore need to have entirely separate tool slots to the higher level character – and if they are only mining copper with a low level character why should they be forced to remember to swap out their tools for low level ones when more experienced players find remembering such things too much of a bother?
Doing this with my nth character, already done it with a few….
Since the last update I’m getting hit by invisible objects during 3rd forced flight mode – wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to repeat the entire fight from scratch – nearly every other instanced event you carry on from where you left off – please do that here.
I want to finish this with my last few characters but having to spend several hours on it because of the lottery of the 3rd forced flight section is stupid.
I’ve seen the mordy’s monologue more times than I care to mention – please can I skip it in future?
Most instances have an obvious “safe spot” if you have to go unexpectedly afk (eg answering the doorbell) – any chance of one on this?
I’m not asking for this to be made into a walkover in the way the final Arah story was, just to have some of the grind factor removed for multi character players.
All very well, but despite using spirit shards for crafting and upgrading lots of siege I still have over 6.5k of the kitten things and two stacks of tomes in the bank…..
There need to be an alternative use for spirit shards.
Perhaps adding the ability to purchase badges of honour or proofs of heroics with them?
Originally I was getting 1 per cache from about 2/3 of the caches I opened.
They changed it and I was getting 1 per cache plus a bonus 3 from most caches.
With the most recent patch I’m getting 1 per cache plus a bonus 3-10 from most caches.
I haven’t checked it myself but someone told me that they had done the calculations and unless someone puts “speedy dolyaks” into a camp then upgrades were faster on the old alpine maps.
sPvP is an “esport” and therefore requires a way to regulate the builds.
WvW isn’t an “esport” nor is it sPvP. You will also find that racial skills are disabled in PvP but not in WvW.
sPvP and WvW are both PvP type game modes but they are not the same and therefore should not be treated the same.
sPvP is an “esport” and therefore requires a way to regulate the builds.
WvW isn’t an “esport” nor is it sPvP. You will also find that racial skills are disabled in PvP but not in WvW.
sPvP and WvW are both PvP type game modes but they are not the same and therefore should not be treated the same.
Yes, Nidome, building up guildhall requires going on a massive farming spree. Isn’t that the very point OP brought up?
Actually the OP seem to say that they didn’t want to buy it from the TP at current prices so they wanted Anet to artificially reduce the TP price by flooding the market as the quantities of materials involved was too much to be farmed by 5 people.
My response is that it is farmable by one person without buying any from the TP and doesn’t take a huge amount of time each day.
My personal bugbear is charged quartz as you can only make one per day and so many upgrades require it to make (ley line tools, celestial insignias and inscriptions) with 5 people they can have that stuff made in no time, with me, not so quick – but then the entirety of this game does not have to be completed yesterday.
I have a guild that functions with roughly 5 active players at our peaks. We have been around for years and we do not wish to be forced to either join a larger guild or grab our credit cards just to get the BASIC upgrades.
We are guild level 29, and running out of available upgrades. We will be forced to make the Tavern tier 2 soon…but this is not viable. This singular upgrade that grants absolutely nothing in itself costs a horrendous TWELVE THOUSAND flax seed piles if farmed.
This is seriously BS. Please, PLEASE. Fix the expensive upgrades! Find a way to flood the market with Flax and Flax fibers. SEAWEED AS WELL, it only has like 12 spots it spawns and it’s VERY irregular.
There are two “flax farm” spots in the game (although I didn’t find out about the TD spot until a few months later than the first). I don’t “actively” play every character I have every day but I do flax farm with them on the two spots. I have 10 characters and now I know where these two farm spots are I can get 250-300ish flax per day in about 30-40 minutes depending upon wyvern interference. If you want to know where these spots are either ask in VB and/or TD map chat or check Dulfy.
Occasionally I will then take one character around malchor’s leap farming elder wood and seaweed and between xx:40 and xx:00 I will try and find a t4+ dry top map to mine the crystals. Dry Top also makes me around 20-30g per week which apart from the initial 100g I spent to activate the capture mission is the only gold I spend on the guild hall.
Using this method I have solo upgraded a guild to level 48.
All it took was a little effort. Farming mats is a lot easier than soloing some of the guild missions.
Would I have liked it to be cheaper? Of course I would – however it has not been an impossible task it just required setting goals “OK I want to go for upgrade xxx next – what do I need”
Please remove the requirement for Linen Supply Sacks from this Scribe recipe.
None of the other Reinforcing plate recipes require this item and it doesn’t make sense that the low level recipe is more expensive than the higher level ones.
Also of note is that this recipe uses copper ore rather than ingots when all of the other Reinforcing Plate recipes use ingots.
To make this one consistent with the rest it should be 2xCopper Ingots and nothing else.
If you are talking about the scout reward track participation thing in squads then I think that function is pretty useless – the time you need that most is when you leave scout(s) on your home border when the squad border hops, but if the squad is on a different border the scout doesn’t get participation from them…..
Hey, if you got the time to grind your face off getting mats that can’t be bought or made, and the gold to buy or make the other mats.. then you can solo upgrade your hall It’s not cheap!
The most expensive item is the 100g you have to pay for the guild hall claim. I did buy some thyme from the AH as farming it is so slow.
Other than that I parked most of my characters on the flax farming spots although I did spend an hour or two in the silverwastes each day while I needed shovels which also got me sand.
WvW sythersizers, lootbags and champ bags get you a lot of materials.
I did spend an awful lot of badges of honour – I had well over 10k of them before I started but you need a lot of badges of tribute for the WvW upgrades which ate through those very quickly.
What exactly is your definition of small then? My guild has 19 members with only 4-5 on at any given time, all we do is WvW which really puts a big stop to us being able to level the guild. And I also don’t like to spent a boat load of money on gems to upgrade either, already been down that road to get us where we are so far.
When I did the Lost Precipice capture mission (with the aid of 3 non-members) the guild had 7 members of which I was the only active one repping the guild (there were 2 semi active people on the roster who never repped because they had their own guild and the rest hadn’t logged in for months) – in the past two weeks 2 of the old members have started playing again and I have persuaded a couple of WvWers to join as a secondary WvW guild and occasionally help me out with the “WvW Opportunity” guild missions (plus it gives them an extra +5 supply claim option).
I usually spend 4 hours a day in WvW and the rest of the time farming materials.
Ooooh! I didn’t think you could solo upgrade, so I haven’t bothered. How?!
I found 3 people to help me do the guild hall capture mission – Lost precipice in my case.
Spend a fair amount of time farming materials. The biggest pains for me were there huge quantities of sand, flax and elder wood that I needed.
I have guild missions set to PvE and usually do these during “prime time”. The “Instanced” missions I ignore.
Easy Bounty – Activate and find the bounty – during prime time there is usually at least one other guild doing the same one so you can join in for completion.
Medium Bounty – Same as easy, but there are 3 to do so you have to be quick so you’ll fail these far more often than succeed.
Hard Bounty – Don’t bother.
Easy Trek – This can be easily soloed.
Medium & Hard Bounty – Don’t bother.
Easy, Medium & Hard Races – If there are other guilds doing it then activate and give it a go. More often than not you’ll get completion.
This thread is just another attempt to make sure small guilds leave WvW.
You really haven’t a clue what you are talking about.
I have a small guild which I have solo upgraded to level 47 so far including all WvW upgrades and I started this thread so don’t talk rubbish about this being an anti-small guild thread.
There have been times that I have seen when the following has happened:
1) Someone for whatever reason accidentally claimed something else when their guild had Ramparts(aka Garrison) claimed. When they realised when they had done they tried to reclaim the keep only to find that someone had jumped in and claimed it who only had a partial aura.
2) A guild with a lower aura had the same number of people (or more) than other guilds when capping the objective and get first option on claiming and take it.
3) Some people due to a prior guild activity have forgotten to change which guild they are repping. They cap the objective and realise this when the list of guilds allowed to claim the objective appears. They change guilds and wait for the timers to run down only for someone else to claim it before the list runs out.
Usually the trolling is accidental – but if the claiming guild won’t unclaim it by claiming another objective it can be a pain.
Sadly, no “official” Anet response to even show us they see this yet… maybe you should post this on Reddit, too, as they seem to post there “officially” more than here, on their own message boards. :/
Guilds are the reason wvw isn’t completely desolate…..
Tell that to Blacktide – I remember fighting against Blacktide when they were one of the top servers then the big Blacktide guilds decided to hop servers and Blacktide went into free-fall until they hit the bottom of the table where they pretty much remained until linking was introduced.
Every time a large guild hops server it causes massive damage to that server and sometimes causes a cascade effect with other large guilds doing the same. It is the individuals and small guilds that keeps the server going and are it’s only hope of rebuilding and recovering.
Replacing servers with alliances would merely amplify this effect and eventually kill off WvW as a viable game mode entirely.
If you want to help WvW then encourage Anet to make server hopping more difficult.
Please allow guilds with higher level auras override the claims of guilds with a lower level aura. ie. A guild with Aura III could claim an objective currently owned by a guild with only Aura I and an objective owned by a guild with Aura VIII could claim anything with Aura VII or less etc.
This would prevent “troll” claiming of objectives where someone with aura I claims your keep when it is temporarily unclaimed.
This looks good to me – maybe giving them a contrasting border or background to help them stand out would be a help.
One must have though – give squad leaders the ability to change the colour of their tags on the fly without having to tag down and re-tag up again.
I don’t know about other servers, but on ours it is common for the main commander on a WvW map to run a blue tag and if someone border hops with a squad it would be nice to be able to change the colour to avoid confusion.
Server pride is all but dead, and if you tell me it’s alive then I will point to you all the players who jump servers…
And I can point you to players who have never jumped servers, and it is these people that keep WvW alive and the guilds that jump around are the ones that are killing it.
Every time a guild jumps servers the following happens:
1) The server they leave takes a hit in numbers and community spirit, performance drops and some of those on the server play less and some stop playing entirely.
2) Some of the guild members decide not to make the jump of these some move to other guilds and others stop playing WvW.
3) Of those that do make the jump some do not like playing on the new server – of these some stop playing and others jump back to the original server or to yet a different server.
The type of complete redesign suggested by the OP would only reduce the player base even more.
One character wrong and most of the post appears blank…..
Guild alliances are the main driver for WvW success. Why not scrap the concept of servers. It would also give the leaders an accurate view of the population that is playing based on the guild stats.
Guild alliances are not the main driver for WvW success – they are the reason WvW was dying.
People who aren’t in big guilds tend to stay on the same server and struggle to keep those servers alive – the big guilds tend to bandwagon around servers creating a complete mess.
Putting WvW into the hands of the big guilds would make WvW finally unsalvable.
The scoring change suggestions on the poll won’t solve scoring issues – it will just amplify the advantage of the “top” servers. The only way to cure scoring problems is to improve the coverage situation.
A higher and better distributed player base is the only real solution to coverage issues which is best dealt with improving QoL in WvW.
This means that the way to solve the scoring issues is NOT to vote for scoring but to vote for QoL instead – the direct approach to an issue isn’t always the best one.
What!? Right now that’s the case. Because strong servers have more people and they got people to play at nights. That’s why the night capping has been an issue. You cray
I’m not going to name any actual servers as some people seem to get upset when you do so I will do this generically:
Server X and Server Y have similar populations. Server X has most of it’s players on during “prime time”.
Server Y has less players on during “prime time” but slightly more players on at other times.
Currently the scoring system slightly favours Server Y, if the changes proposed are introduced they will considerably favour Server X.
Replacing a flawed system with an even more flawed system is not the answer.
As no two servers seem to have exactly the same coverage by time any scoring system which varies by time is always going to be unfair.
The scoring change suggestions on the poll won’t solve scoring issues – it will just amplify the advantage of the “top” servers. The only way to cure scoring problems is to improve the coverage situation.
A higher and better distributed player base is the only real solution to coverage issues which is best dealt with improving QoL in WvW.
This means that the way to solve the scoring issues is NOT to vote for scoring but to vote for QoL instead – the direct approach to an issue isn’t always the best one.
I used to try and find out if it was a duel and pass on by if it was – however there have been two occasions where the enemy duellist had followed me and ganked me when I was otherwise occupied. Since then I have gone by the principle that if they wanted to keep it private then they should find a more private place to do it.
The pointless Progression Point Caps need either to be increased and there should also be NO difference between the Borderlands and EOTM.
Nope by your own argument EOTM should actually be capped and slowed.
You ask for parity between PvP and WvW track progress. PvP farming gains track progress at approximately one third the rate of normal PvP and is capped at 1/4 of a track per day.
You should therefore apply this same mechanism to WvW tracks if you want equality between PvP tracks and WvW tracks.
EOTM is WvW reward farming and therefore should have participation at one third the level of normal WvW and capped at 1/4 per day.
If you want things to be equal between PvP and WvW reward tracks then you need to be consistent.
I just did a quick check on the matchup to which the OP seems to refer and at the time of posting this:
Server…………………………..Current Score…Score from PPT…Score Not from PPT
Desolation/Vabbi …………….61321………………..18402.4……………………42918.6
Elona Reach [DE]……………..33109………………….9932.7…………………….23176.3
Riverside [DE]……………………40766………………….9628.9…………………….31137.1
Reducing the effect of PPT as suggested by the OP would not change the current status of this matchup.
If anyone knows of a site that provides PPTvsPPK data for the period specified by the OP we could see how removing PPT from that would affect the graph.
There’s little point in PPT, other than glicko and match ups, a bit of Server pride too, but winning fights is more worth it than ever winning a MU, which is rarely close or decided by actual strategy.
Personally I prefer strategy (a combination of manoeuvring, objectives & fights) over just endless fights which tend to get boring after a while – especially when it gets you 2nd place in a matchup when both of the other servers outnumber and constantly blob you – but then I come from a wargaming background.
I have to say though I don’t see how having too many is a problem. They go into the wallet so it’s not as if they take up space, and you can always use them to make exotics to sell (or salvage for the sigil).
Personally I have over 6k of these currently and between reset and logging off last night I got a load more in WvW – I already have too many tomes stacked up in the bank so it is either consume for shards or bin them.
I the past I have already used at least 2k of these for upgrading siege and other mystic forge related stuff as well as augur stones for ascended kit – I would just like to have a way of using them faster than I earn them like you can with every other “currency”.
Can you please introduce more ways of using these?
Everyone I know has huge surpluses of these and with the rate that tomes are now handed out in WvW those surpluses are now growing far faster that we can use them.
Well, I guess that is what betas are for, and there is certainly enough space on that screen at least to display all server names involved.
Hopefully Anet will take note – they certainly had devs running on the borderlands after reset – one ran in and killed a spark when I was capping an air keep shrine yesterday evening.
I don’t know if it is the sort of thing you are looking for but when I open the WvW window there is a “+” symbol next to “Desolation” (circled in the pic).
When I hover the mouse cursor over that line an image pops up (as shown in the pic) which says “Desolation +, Desolation*, Vabbi”.
I assume this is the same for all linked servers.
Queues on every border with EB queue >100 – haven’t seen that for a long while.
In fact the EB queue didn’t go until after 2am UK time.
Was nice to see that we had queues, although a more even distribution would have been better..
As far as seeing which server “friendlies” are on – you can if you are in the same squad.
If you hover your cursor over their name in the squad interface it tells you which server they are from.
Other than that there is no real way currently to know for certain which server someone is from
I spend most of my time on the borders – I only usually go to EB when they ask for help to defend the keep which is usually when I find that my Sup ACs, etc. are on a different character and the spares are in the guild bank.
Please can we have guild bank access restored for EB?
It was removed with the release of HoT and has been an irritation ever since.
Most guilds in WvW keep a reserve of consumables in the bank – it seems rather stupid that you have to leave WvW or go to a border to access it.
It’s not cheap!
