Guild Wars 2

Games where it takes you several minutes by mount to get somewhere is one thing, but GW2? It takes less than 1 min of running (or skritt tunnel in SW) from a WP to get anywhere. Mounts would just clutter up the screen and slow FPS.

The Ranger pet revive in water is OP if you let them survive until they can activate it. On land a downed ranger stands no chance vs. a thief. The thief can easily damage the ranger down or use a finish.
The thief can prevent up to 2 finishes on himself but the ranger only 1 which can be blocked by stability or stealth.
The warrior is better – I have recovered solo on a warrior more than once. A well timed hammer throw can sometimes buy time to get back up with Vengeance and take down your enemy.

Davey.7029:

So, all the “WvW is dying” threads do have some truth in them.

Quite possibly, but they weren’t the threads I was questioning.

Oh look yet another WvW is dead thread.
Obviously the people I see in WvW must be figments of my imagination, the queues I saw after reset on Friday were also figments of my imagination, in fact I must be a figment of my own imagination.
Paradox time -if you are reading this you don’t exist because I don’t exist because I WvW and see others in WvW but the OP says that WvW is dead therefore we weren’t there and don’t exist.
The alternative is that the OP is incorrect and WvW is not dead – which do you think is more likely?

As far as I am aware Bitcoins are unregulated and technically not a currency.
At best they can be considered a virtual commodity and therefore no-one has an obligation to accept them as legal tender even if they use a payment processor that accepts them.

Personally I’ve been playing this game since the start and I only recently learned that that this was unlimited. Prior to this I though that all character based AoEs were limited to 5 targets.
Necro was my final character slot after levelling every other class to 80.
OP or not OP it doesn’t really matter – if you are going to limit good AoE abilities from other classes to 5 targets you should do the same for this or lift the restriction on the others.
Some earlier posts on this thread have said that you should always run stability just in case, however read other threads and you see other self proclaimed experts saying that you must always run a particular trait, signet, skill etc. to mitigate a common occurrence. Every class does not have enough traits, signets, skills etc. to run everything so such “You should have been running X – Learn to Play – You are a noob” etc. comments are ignorant and pointless.
It would not surprise me if some of these comments are being made by Necros who do not want their favourite trick “Nerfed” in the way that they have previously demanded the “Nerfing” of the abilities of other classes that they believed to be OP.

I have binned all of my “instantly level to 20” tomes as I was never going to use any of them.
I only have 7 level 80s and a level 42 that I am currently levelling although I do have a stack of +level tomes in the bank I could use if I want, but levelling is fun once you get past level 30. (It used to be fun all the way but the NPE crapped on that).
But If read the new dailies bit correctly we will be gifted even more tomes for that…..

Transfer to an EU server instead. Anything apart from SFR.

Move to a European server – anything apart from SFR.

Under the current system I complete my minimum 5 dailies through normal gameplay. If I want to earn extra APs I can.
Under the new system I will need to jump all over the map doing stuff that I have already done umpteen times before.
Which do system do you think is more enjoyable and interesting?
Personally I have to question the wisdom of making the actual playing of the game less interesting.

Gobble D Goop.4081:

Nidome.1365:

…Any competent person knows that you fix the stuff that is broken before you start playing with anything else……
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this change might be a response in part to this topic

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/sugg-dailies/first

on a side note, i guess i could use my 100+ skill point scrolls since monthly skill points is gone

But dailies aren’t broken.
There are plenty of things that are broken (such as gathering nodes that can’t be accessed, events that stall and never complete, ridiculously high WvW AP requirements to name but a few) that have existed since the game launch.
Surely they should look at fixing these and other long term bugs rather than spend their resources on something which actually works?
I could be wrong, but based upon various LS comments I believe that many people would like to see some for of instanced Scarlet LS stuff as currently due to the way LS works you jump straight from finishing one story with destiny’s edge to starting a new LS with a group who you have never met in the LS system who claim to know you and call you “boss”. This seems to be a huge continuity issue for anyone who missed the events that led to the 2nd destruction of LA in GW2.

On a side note I think I saw stuff such as levelling tomes and skill points as rewards in the new system – please give options for other stuff. Personally I have 8 characters of which 7 are at level 80, and the other level 42. Bonus Skill Points are so plentiful in this game that even the level 42 has every skill bought and a surplus of at least 50.
And judging by other players I am just a casual player.

So If I understand this now, in order to complete dailies I have to jump all over the map doing things that are pointless or that I have done so many times before they aren’t interesting rather than the existing system where I play the game and do interesting stuff to get my dailies?
Who seriously researched this and thought it was a good way to spend company resources compared to spending those recourses on actual improvements?
Any competent person knows that you fix the stuff that is broken before you start playing with anything else.
Of course Politicians and Managers work to a different rule. Stuff that is broken you ignore or blame on someone else, and stuff that isn’t broken, well that’s what you play with. If you don’t break it you claim a great victory and if you break it you blame someone else, ignore it or claim it was already broken and no-one had noticed until you pointed it out which is what makes you so great…..

Please – I’m sure you can stick in a skip option once you have played it once.

I had that as well. Were we meant to get something for it?

When I did it the detection zones were moving so fast you didn’t have time from when it moved from a point to when it rotated back to that point to carry out the disable so I had to kill everything – most annoying because I would have liked to have done it via stealth.
I will see if it does the same with the next character or the replay.

I don’t have any issue with new items being highlighted, but the highlighting is a bit over bright and could do with toning down a little.

Yes, it seems that we have a waterlogged desert?

When I open my Inventory since the patch I have found that any new items added to it since I last opened it are glowing so that I cannot see them properly – this also happens with materials gained from salvaging items.
I have to close the inventory and reopen it again to see the content clearly.
Is this intended? Because if it is it is really annoying.

Same issue, waiting for Faolin to beat them which is taking ages – also I found you couldn’t deactivate anything in the rooms with Golems as no matter where they were in the room they detected the panel activation and deactivated it again – forcing you to fight when you were trying to stealth it.

Levelling in GW2 is fast, and if we are honest, it is too fast even without the various XP boosters.
When the game first came out you hit level 80 with approx. 40-45% of map completion and varying levels of Living Story 1 completion.
Now you hit level 80 with approx. 25-30% of map completion and even less Living Story completion.
It seems that the same people who are complaining about how slow levelling is are the same ones that are complaining that there is nothing to do once they hit 80…..

The final fight took forever – the boss kept dropping his rings of death upon the fragile buff rings and the Vortex Crystals, by the time the death rings went away the fragile buff rings had despawned then you had to wait for them to respawn and then usually it was in a death ring……..
Occasionally you could pick up the rings and deposit them by dodging through them which would allow you to survive the death rings, but it didn’t always work.

I have to agree in general principle with the OP.
Buying dungeon run completions is effectively the same as buying a levelling service.

Player.8373:

I wish deso had some other enemies except Sfr and Kodash

Yeah, I believe that most of Deso is taking a break this week as a rest from fighting SFR.

Bubba.5209:

Anyway, this is supposed to be “Guild Wars”.

The guilds in the game title are nothing to do with player guilds.
Please read the lore:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Guild_Wars

1) Housing is a flash in the pan – people go mad over it for a while and then it starts to die off eventually.

2) Open World PvP? I have lost track of the number of games that have introduced Open World PvP as the solution to falling numbers. In fact it is the beginning of the end; it has the opposite effect – it gives an initial boost to the player base but this increase tend to be gankers and griefers and the player base then drops off as the PvE players leave as they get fed up with being ganked, then the gankers leave as there is no-one left to gank.

3) Dedicated GvG? I don’t really know about that although personally I believe it could harm WvW.

Many people asked? How large is the player base and how many asked, and how many researched their suggestions first?

So the OPs suggestion is to force people to join particular guilds or give up WvW?
Or in other words another suggestion on how to kill WvW.

I have a question – Why can’t Tower/Keep workers carry out repairs using the supply in store?

Removing white swords – this is the biggest mistake ever IMHO for WvW.
In Europe the only server with the numbers to scout 24/7 would be SFR – why not give them an even bigger advantage than they already have.
PPK? I guess this would be fine for US T1 or T2, but in fights of roughly even skill the larger zerg/blob will always have the advantage which will give benefit to the server with the greater coverage outside peak hours.
Are the Dev’s working from US server experience? If they are then their experience is totally flawed.

Perhaps you could tie these in to the “Outnumbered” buff – perhaps if you are “Outnumbered” you don’t pop white swords quite so quickly, if you are “Outnumbered” you don’t give away points for being killed?

One other thing – at the moment, the only person who can exert control over a piece of siege is the person who put down the original blueprint.
How many times does the commander throw down multiple rams, then once ramming starts you notice that most of the rammers aren’t even showing the “Iron Hide” icon?
Perhaps they should allow people with higher levels of mastery on a particular piece of siege to displace those with lower?

I’ve got the same problem. It appears that killing separatists doesn’t contribute either. All you can do is collect a little scrap every 10 mins or so.

Well pdavis saved me a lot of typing there :P
If you want to play a WoW style game go play WoW
If you want to play a ArcheAge style game go play ArcheAge
If you want to play GW2 then play GW2

I’ll keep this simple:
The people playing GW2 like playing GW2, otherwise they wouldn’t be playing it.
If they wanted to play a different style of game then they would be playing a different game.
Only a complete idiot would keep playing a game they didn’t enjoy, of course, you would have to be pretty stupid to believe that changing this game to match the style of a different game which the people don’t want to play (otherwise they would already be playing that game and not this one) would be of benefit to this game.

Something happened this morning which left me a little confused and I was hoping someone more knowledgeable could point out what I was missing……

Just for a bit of background – I started playing GW2 when it was released, however due to real life issues I stopped playing just after flame & frost started and restarted playing a few days before the megaserver release. I am primarily a PvE player and casual WvW.
Anyway I logged in while having breakfast this morning to see if there was anything I could do towards my daily. Seeing that Camp Capturing was on the list I decided to hop into WvW.
On my home borderland (We are currently green – I will keep this non server specific) I looked at the maps and saw that the Red Borderland was in fact entirely owned by blue, except for Bay which was green and decided that was my best option for camp raiding.
After borderhopping I went for the SW camp as it was nearest (the one just below bay) and found another green player already attacking it. We finished it off and then went for south camp. After south camp I thought I’d go for NW camp as we owned bay it made sense to me to keep it together.
On my way through bay I found that it was 500/500 supply so queued 2nd worker and walls. Arriving at the camp I found that red was just flipping it so I went back to SW camp, ordered double dollies and went back to bay where I sat while eating breakfast. By this time the 2nd worker had spawned and the walls were over 50% done
Knowing that NW camp timer would have run its course while I was eating I headed to the NW gate of bay outer with the intention of heading there. Just as I was reaching the gate the attack timer popped, so after a quick glance that it wasn’t that gate being attacked I ran back to the South outer gate via the NE gate and water. There was no sign of any enemy action. Just as I was thinking that it must have been a quick tag I realised that the keep lord was on 60% health and falling. Looking back at the inner from the south gate cliff I could see no damage on the southern or eastern sides. I jumped into the water swam up and went in the eastern inner entrance.
Inside were a group of five red players attacking the keep lord. I didn’t survive long. Four of the five were all from the same guild and being a Warrior, Ranger, Thief and Mesmer. I didn’t get a good look at the 5th player.

My question is: How did they get to the inner?

As far as I am aware, there are only two explanations:
1) The red Mesmer had been hidden in Bay inner ever since green took it and portalled the others in from outside the outer wall – I haven’t really practiced portalling with my mid-level Mesmer so I don’t know if you can go that far with a portal.
2) The red Mesmer was hidden in Bay outer ever since green took it, portalled the others in and then they rammed the nw inner gate without popping the timer until they had breached the gate.

Have I missed any viable options here? How viable is it that the Mesmer had been hidden there for that length of time? (All camps were blue when I came onto the map, no more than one normal dolly had reached Bay before I started the upgrades and it had 500 supplies when I did so.)

Have I misunderstood something? Am I just being an idiot?

kntz.1420:

Ok, let me explain.

Currently there are no sense in playing WxWxW.

Yes there is. If you were correct no-one (myself included) would play WvW and the zergs that people mention often would not exist.

What I am suggesting is that the WxWxW maps (only WxWxW maps) become extensions of PvE maps with new quests, new goals, trade, farms and housing with “real” and “total” open PvP where different guilds can compete (it doesn’t matter the source server) .

Alone or group players could choose factions (temporary or not) as well.

This means that WxWxW maps would allow PK: Player (s) vs. player (s), the real PvP, and no longer a zerg festival.

So, it is a good solution for GW2.

From my experience of MMOs (and MuDs before that) this is more likely to have a negative impact on the future of the game rather than a positive one.
This is not a good solution for GW2.
You would loose players from your existing playerbase.
You may gain some guilds, however most of these would be “Game hoppers” and would leave the game for a different one when the “next big thing” comes along.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

I have 400+ in every craft without buying materials from the TP to do it.
Anyone who complains about the cost of levelling crafting skills – it’s your choice, you didn’t have to do it that way, stop complaining.

Doing normal PvE I usually make about 2-3 gold an evening. If I go into WvW I used to loose that amount through building upgrades, but I have cut back on that recently.

For various reasons I am currently the only active player in my Guild on my server.
As such I don’t have much guild influence to spend and would like to accumulate more to purchase upgrades.
I don’t want to join another guild so I was wondering – is it possible to solo a Guild Bounty Training Mission? If not can non-guild members help?

Roe.3679:

Valentin.2073:

a good ranger can beat a thief 1v1. we have stun on our shortbow which will hinder a thief to stealth and we also have rapid fire that can track a thief on stealth. i dont mean to brag but the percentage of me beating a thief 1v1 in wvw is fairly high.

That’s what a lot of people in this thread are saying though – you could probably be more effective on another class if you chose to do so, since you may be an above average player on a below average class.

Just beacuse someone is good with one class doesn’t mean that they would be good with others. Every class requires differences in playstyle and attitude some of which may not work for some people.

Grumpdogg.6910:

A good commander will make use of a ranger if he really has to, but he will always ask them if they have an alt first.

If he asks them if they have an alt first then he isn’t a good commander.
A good commander will make use of whatever resources are available to do his best to get the job done.
If you aren’t up to tagging up then you shouldn’t buy it.

The main issue seems to be “bodies” inside keeps & towers.
Perhaps Anet could add a couple of extra duties to the keep & tower workers which can be activated at any time:
1) Repair – If they can build, why can they repair? Obviously this should take supply from the location to carry out the repairs.
2) Cleanup – The workers start removing bodies from the location one by one starting with the ones closest to their “workstation” and dumping them outside the gate (animation – worker runs to body, then to gate – body is transported to a position just outside the gate). Of course, you could make it more intersting by adding a loot phase to the cleanup (which would encourage anyone with supply to rez at a WP quickly) where the worker runs to the body and loots any supply carried by the character from the body and takes it back to the supply dump before it dumps the body.

I belive what you are looking for is a “Personal Waypoint”
If you follow the following link it should give you what you are looking for:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Personal_waypoint#Personal_Waypoint
If you get him to open his map and place it by the story quest marker hopefully you will all be able to see it.

Tom Gore.4035:

Nagorn.2307:

Tom Gore.4035:

Nagorn.2307:

“People don’t come back to that areas because they want to farm/get gold/tokens…and that areas aren’t worthly as others. Making them worthly will break the economy.”

Where i said PvP break economy? And yes, making easier areas farms worth like end ones will break it.

Because this thread was about adding GvG to the open world to give people a reason to go there. You brought the farming up and I tried to put you back on topic. If you can’t and want to derail instead, please do it in some other thread.

Again you are just reading one phrase of an entire paragraph, read again my first two post…

One more time…making open world GvG will change the core of this game, so you are suggesting something that will change it from the base, changing it to other game, bad idea

It would not change the game. It would add to it. You would still have the option to play the game exactly as it was before, maybe just seeing more people in the open world, sometimes fighting each other.

The only thing that would change is the ridiculous assumption of the game’s lore that all races and people would suddenly unite and cooperate if there was a greater external threat.

Before MMOs you had MUDs, I used to play in some MUDs which had limited PvP, but the player base was falling and they gave in to a vocal majority whould said increasing PvP would save the game and they added more PvP in various forms including Guild vs Guild, and initially it was a success, the player base went up, however it did not last as most of the long term players started leaving in droves, in fact it did not improve the game, it proved to be the begining of the end.
I have played MMOs since then who have made the same mistake with the same results.
I hope that GW2 does not make the same error.
“Those who do not know history’s mistakes are doomed to repeat them”

I’ve played MMOs which decided to implement a “dueling” system where two people could fight in public areas by mutual consent. For those not involved it gets very annoying (both visually and audibly) to suddenly have a fight break out in front of you in a city, and after a month or so you start getting tells/whispers from people challenging you to a duel and asking you to fight them when the newness of the duelling system starts to wear off and the kiddies and griefers are fed up with fighting each other.
No, leave the ability to fight other characters to WvW and sPvP (incluing the PvP suff they slip into the seasonal events).

Aren’t they modifying the achievement system in the next update (due later today)? Dailies are certainly changing, but some comments suggest that monthlies are as well.
Maybe we should wait until they have posted the release notes to see what they have done (if anything) to monthlies before continuing on this thread?

Didn’t they say they were changing the dailies and monthlies anyway?

Please can we end this thread or get the thread name changed? Every time I see the word “Plox” I think it looks like something a 5 year old would write which makes it difficult to take anything the OP writes seriously.
Please if you want your posts respected, use real words?

Resets at midnight for me, one of the benefits of living in GMT+0.
But, this is an international game so unless you had a personalised reset time what is convienient for one won’t be for another.
As they say, You can please some of the people some of the time…..

JackDaniels.1697:

I guess they can put a “don’t rez me” icon above your head… but that’s asking for too much I think. Simply wp your way back to a safe zone, or log out, takes a sec to do that.

And isn’t there a “I’m away” status on the friends window?

You cannot WP during combat, and logging out in combat is instant death anyway since the last update

100% map completion requires completion of all 4 WvW maps, an WvW performance benefits everyone on the server during PvE by providing bonuses, so I am guessing that Anet do consider WvW at least partially part of PvE since they are interlinked.

earendil.1290:

For people who finished the PvE side then got bored and decided to buy a tag and see what happens. (whenever I see a commander tag that also shows the star for map completion I know that’s the kind).

Actually, you don’t know anything of the kind. You speculate that is the reason, however you are incorrect.
Personally I don’t have a commander tag, although I would not entirely rule out obtaining one in the future although funds may be a problem as I spend virtually everything my character earns on site upgrades and blueprints.

I think you can safely say that we are certainly in the top four EU servers for WvW.

Encron.5394:

Just don’t go AFK in a combat zone, simple.

No, not simple anyone who thinks it’s simple hasn’t thought about it or is just plain stupid. In the real world things happen and you might need to go afk and you may not be able to find a safe area to do it.
As an example, I’ve been in combat and the doorbell has rung. I have walked away from the keyboard and allowed my character to die (hence the reason why I asked for something quick and easy to invoke) as I belived at the time it was unreasonable to make whomever was at the door wait while I finished the combat and moved myself to somewhere safe. I was at the door for a while, and took a bio break on the way back to the PC, only to find that my character was now partially naked from the multiple rezzes and deaths.
It would be nice to think that you could deal with real world issues in a reasonable manner without it having an unreasonable effect on you in-game.