Guild Wars 2

Offair.2563:

Only have 1 question: When will you guys fix the current maps we have like all the bugs and glitches before coming with new content? i really dont get it

It is easier to release new content that will please some and keep others busy for a couple of months than it is to scroll through all their coding to find that small error which allows these bugs and exploits.

Remember the orbs, why fix it when they can remove them, claim they will fix it soon, then have this bloodlust bs instead.

Ask yourself one question, if your guild/mates were not playing this game, would you still play it?

I bet most will say no, that’s how this game has failed, players have tried to pass on suggestions to the devs but get infracted and ignored, it could have been a great game, but the devs have fallen short.

1) No limits please, it’s one thing that really get on my nerves on other forums where I reach a limit but still have a lot to add.
That and people will just make a second post after the limit for the first is reached.
How about an option to add optional bullet points to the end of posts

2) Seems to me Anet already decide what topics go forward and which ones to kill. The WvW topic recently closed by Josh for instance, yes it has passed on a lot of info to Josh and can be closed, but there are so many other threads mods close because their contents reflects too negatively on the game.
Second, Josh mentions he also closed that post as that is what the CDI threads are for. So when are we going to have one for WvW only? Or has there already been one? Point there is that WvW players most likely do not check the General Discussions sections so any such CDI could go mostly unnoticed by many WvW players.

I have a better idea, a health debuff if your group runs more than 30 within a cetain radius

Oh a few more hates:

You are repairing wall/gate then an enemy attacks you, you’re stuck repairing for around 3 seconds whilst the enemy can dps you to low health in that time. Cancelling doesnt work 99% of the time by moving, you cant dodge either; you basically have to hope it’s that 1% chance you stop building.

You’re fighting an enemy zerg on a repairable wall of your keep, they outnumber you but you have managed to kill a lot of them; time to aoe loot your bags before you die; NO I said aoe loot not repair! This is followed by above point and then death.

Indestructible little bunny wabbit. Yup there so many nice littl ebunnies to kill in WvW and PvE, and yet every now and again on my necro with a scepter every single skill 1 attack is obstructed, why is that?
Not WvW related but hey them bunnies are tough! Though technically if so many skill 1 attacks are obstructed when you are standing right next to the thing you are trying to hit, how many enemies have gotten away with obstructed attacks which should not have been obstructed?

Afriad I still have not come up with my 3rd Like, who knows maybe the EOTM if we’re lucky???

From what I last heard this technically is and isnt a WvW update, it’s an overflow map which will contribute absolutely Zero to WvW points or matchups. It’s just somewhere to hang out whilst you wait for your WvW queue to pop.

All I can say is overflows for the overflow
And yay, a “big” WvW update that basically, when you come down to it, does nothing!

locx.6412:

I’ve heard ANet is trying to break into Chinese and other Asian markets as well, where most of the hardware is noticeably older than in EU/US (In China the most used OS is still Win XP I think).

And everything is Made in China, if they had a fake iphone mini available to sell before Apple were able to debunk the claim they were gonna make such a model, do you not think they have ripped off graphics cards as well?…

South Korea is a big gaming market, and guess what, they have the best internet connections in the world! Here in the UK we just got BT to roll out fibre to give up 76mb connections, whilst at the same time Korea had already started giving people 1 gigabit connetions; that’s more than 10 times faster!

We’ve just got 4G, they are already working on 5G: http://www.ebuyer.com/blog/2014/01/internet-speeds-around-the-world/
When it comes to technology, we in the West are increasingly lagging behind!

GW2 has been a pain in the kitten for everyone. Ever since beta people have been complaining that low-mid range PCs were playing the game better than high-end PCs. It’s as said above, the game uses your CPU more since it is based on DX9 not DX11 apparently.

Remember that this game started production like 6 years ago, when DX9 was the norm and everyone had a DX9 card. This is where the dev team didnt think ahead, they wanted to make the game available to as many people as possible, so the used DX9. They didnt think that in 3-5 years time everyone would have DX10 card at the minimum.

Now you can get a low-mid range DX11 card for £30 every gamer should have one, if not a DX10 card. This has been a BIG hold-back for GW2, even though the dev promised DX11 support, here we are a year later and not a single word has been uttered by them about DX11

We’ve had Living Story every 2 weeks, A big WvW update which keep being pushed back, another big feature only update later coming soon, and now rumours of something else as well later this year.

Anet are making the classic mistake of shoving more and more PvE content into the game, temporary content at that, when improving the game is what people really want right now.

tl;dr Welcome to GW2, it’s based on DX9, what do you expect!

lol, I thought I was just hearing things, guess not.

I’ve been hearing them as well, though the ones I hear are way louder than that one recorded, it can be very annoying and when you arent expecting is give you a little shock :P

Yeah happened to me in WvW a lot as well. Really kittening annoying when you are in the middle of a zerg vs zerg fight and you cant do a thing except be a rallybot for the enemy.

Only way I’ve found to fix it is to move to a different borderland.

Josh Davis.6015:

As promised, dislikes/areas of improvement! Same disclaimer as the previous post – word clouds remove context. I upped the max words in this image so the most oft repeated pop out a bit more.

Edit: Removed some frivolous words.

I dont like how we have a few things in there more than once.

Arrow
arrow (yes one with a capital A one with a small a)
Cart
ac
Carts
carts

all those should count as one.

Also I dont like the PvE mobs in WvW, but I do want the loot, like the wintersday gifts etc.

Oh forgot to mention a dislike, no rewards for those who are defending/patrolling a keep or escorting dollies.

I know this is a complex issue seeing at launch botters were doing the escorts; but it is a vital part of WvW and must be done. But as noone receives any rewards for escorting dollies any more very few people do it.

Atherakhia.4086:

Good job… we now have 3 threads people are posting the same content in. Josh, can you pick whichever one you want, post in it so it’s red and gets attention, and merge the others please?

We do? I dint see one linked in this post apart from the one I have linked….

We dont want a thread with random posts like this, 3 likes and 3 hates (or 7 :P) and a comment, that is what my thread does, and it’s title is plain and clear as well.

Ah there we go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Hey-ArenaNet-do-more-of-this-less-of-that

Well as i said if someone link it in this thread….
Anyway, seems longwinded that one does, I think we should do both, one with details and the one with 3 likes and 3 hates.

Josh Davis.6015:

Polls are great, but they can get muddled with order bias. How about this – create a thread that asks for players to list their three favorite things about WvW, along with their three least favorite things. “Hey ArenaNet, do more of this, less of that.”

Just my 2c!

K there you go just created that thread, so post away people.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Three-Likes-Three-Hates/first#post3545171

Josh Davis.6015:

create a thread that asks for players to list their three favorite things about WvW, along with their three least favorite things. “Hey ArenaNet, do more of this, less of that.” !

You asked for it and so here it is!

My 3 likes
1) Playing with my guild
2) Big fights
3) I’ll get back to you

My 3 Hates
1) Lack of updates (which we want)
2) Bug, glitches, exploits, hacks.
3) The steamrolling 80-man zergs
4) OP Arrow Carts
5) PvE content in WvW
6) Lack of cross server communication/trolling
7) Aoe limit of 5? O.o

Oops you said 3 hates, my bad

The only real cost they have is having to pay mods to scroll through all those posts infracting those which pointed out issues with WvW and the trolls.
And of course the bandwidth required to host the forum.

But for the second, surely the PvE forums take up way more bandwidth and moderating? if they want to save money they should shut those down :P

Well that’s what happens when they dont support DX11. Game is based on DX9 which people say is more CPU intensive.

So if you are gonna upgrade anything you want a better CPU not GPU if you want better FPS in GW2.
This has been shown on several videos as well. GPU after a certain degree does not matter with GW2, a better processor is required.

Until then we can just keep on waiting and hope the devs finally get around to DX11 support; if they ever get to it that is….

It’s so springy that the current thread for the matchup we’re in has 5 posts!

Yeah, I’m not gonna bother registering on that site just because anet shut down theirs.
I’d prefer if map chat could be read by all server on the map, and team only by the posters server instead. The mods dont need to moderate it, and peopl ewho are sensitive can activate their filters, and people can continue slagging each other off all day long.

Josh Davis.6015:

I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time reading through threads in this forum – the good, the bad, and the ultra ugly.

You’d be better creating a new thread asking people views, instead of reading through mountains of negative comments. If you create such a thread it would not only save you time, but people will post more constructive replies, which is what most mods like :P

Josh Davis.6015:

Anyways, I hope this helps!

One thing we have not received are regular updates, forum updates, even saying we’re still testing things out every week or so just to keep us up to date would be nice. I myself found Devon’s STF-Up until 2014 post most displeasing.

Just some acknowledgement of what we’re complaining about would be nice, instead of getting infracted all the time.

There’s a new go-to guy but yeah as far as I’ve seen no dev. But what do you expect, the devs dont want to hear about WvW, it’s the most engaging game mode yet they have failed to see it. WvW was apparently just supposed to be a side thing from the beginning, but more and more people are playing it.

Limiting aoe was one of the few things anet listened too, and as usual was a big mistake.

Only hit’s 5, well that’s not aoe is it then.
But because there are so many players in wvw, people started to complain about necro marks and ele fields covering the map and how one player is able to hold back a much larger group whilst defending a tower.
So anet introduce the 5 player hit limit. All those players rejoiced and well zergs were laughing. previously a zerg had to move out of aoe, now they can stand in aoe all day long and dance.

Who’s fault is it really, the aoe skill, or the fact that an entire zerg are unable to see and move our of a red circle.

But to make up for this anet introduced +80% dmg on arrow carts!

Trying to suggest things to anet is like flogging a dead horse.

Anet have shot themselves int the foot several times already for several different reasons, and if they carry on then as you said, players will move on to other games.

A lot of players have already left due to the less than engaging PvE, i dont PvP so cant say much about that, and then we have the black sheep of the GW2 game modes, WvW, which is ignored and is only talked about at family meetups.

So many people have put forward that if they put more effort into WvW than trying to make PvP a failed esport, they would attract more players. But time and again anet have ignored 99% of what has been suggested to them.

Devon claimed not to expect anything for WvW until after Dec 31st 2013, then we find out that they arent gonna do much until they finish this season of the LS, which pushes it to April now! What next? Season 2 of WvW leagues starting in April pushing it back another 7 weeks?! Or some other excuse.

A lot of people already agree that GW2 is dead, and like me only continue playing it because they like to play with their guild. If the guild moves to another game they wont play.

Hey, at least we can buy BL Keys more conveniently; that’s what really matters at teh end of the day…..

Care for WvW? They closed the matchup forums, of course they care!

A mod/dev has already commented on this type of trolling.

They claim that they cannot control how players play a game, and hence this is not a bannable, suspendable or reportable type of play. As such it is considered a legitimate “tactic”, even though most of us think of it as being unfair and unsportsmanlike.

Enjoy the game people, “it’s working as intended”!

Try reporting them for Gold Selling, I hear that works to ban them :P

How did it go bad?

Did it overheat and now you get pixelated images? If so you may be able to save it for a bit.

Just like the heatgun fix and oven fix for the PS3 and Xbox, you can reflow your graphics card.
Just dismantle it all, taking off all burnable and meltable parts and heat the processor.

Here’s one of many videos on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmzGnjJNZrM

I did this with my old 9800GT, had to reflow a couple of time every few months when I was still gaming with it, still overheats with intensive gaming.
Currently in the family PC which doesnt see much gaming, and been running for well over 18 months now without having to reflow again.

So try this if this is the issue with your card. BUT when you play use lower graphics setting to reduce the chance of it overheating again.

Oh and if you are a new to such things, do not forget to add new thermal paste. And unlike this guy dont place the card upside down, you dont want components to accidentally fall off the board.

Apple Mastery:

Rank 1: You eat an apple when you receive a critical hit and heal 1 point
Rank 2: You spit speeds at your target with your next attack after receiving a critical hit, dealing 1 extra damage
Rank 3: You throw an apple core at your target with your second attack, giving them fury for 10s
Rank 4: Grow an apple tree at your location, allies and enemies can then pick an apple.

Indeed, a lot of players have left due to PvE not being challenging enough, and WvW just being so bugged that people have gotten tired of it and left the game altogether.

I hear there are quite a few games coming out this year, and if the devs do not do something about WvW, which is the only thing keeping some of here, then those games may make them leave as well.

WvW needs a lot of attention and not just more masteries and a queuing map. And please please please get rid of the PvE crap in WvW!!!!

You get rewards?! O.o

If this isnt funny I dont know what is :P

Or you can hope there will be a Season 2 and it comes soon, that way you should have plenty or time to get what you need.

Think this also sums things up as well.

I’ve thrown everything into Healing Power, armour, trinkets, weapons.

You dont need to be at max range away from your zerg, as said a thief will easily spot the big sign you are carrying saying “KILL ME” if you do that.
But you also dont want to be always in the middle of your zerg either. When the enemy throw down their 50 aoe circles you try your best to go around them, but stick close to the group. Only go further out if you get to low health and jump straight back in when healed, or into the middle of your group if there are others who will heal.

You will die quickly so keep on your toes :P

Yes TS makes commanding easier, but there are still a lot of commanders who dont use TS and still do well.

End of the day they can either follow you and keep complaining about TS, or command themselves.

It’s not looking good.

The living story gets me out of WvW for a bit, but then it’s back to WvW for me.
And we know how that’s like, same old problems still there.

And for those waiting for the big feature update they think is one the 21st, read the blog entry again, this so called “feature only” update will not be released until Season 1 of the living story has ended.
And seeing as there are 4 more part to it, dont expect the feature update until end of March at the earliest!

They already have it, been playing a thief for a couple of week and notice that a ranger cam still hit me when I go into stealth, at least for a second or two.

Luckily one BL Key can open 250 BL Chests!

No, idk why I have 250 BL chests in my bank, but I do. But yeah the chests are basically junk since the drop rate of keys is so low, and what you get from them isnt worth the gold you spend on gems to buy keys on the TP.

I hate it. When I use /laugh I want to laugh AT, not with the enemy player!

Hmm one thing I think we need is dual-spec, maybe even triple-spec.

I play WvW most of the time and all my gear and traits are speced to WvW. But use it in PvE or sPvP, and it’s kidda useless or a lot harder to play.
Even in WvW sometimes you want to run with the zerg and other times you want to roam, but again your gear and traits need to be changed to make yourself more effective

So if we add dual/triple-spec, people can enjoy the game more as they can swap out their entire gear and switch trait lines with a single click, or two.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Right, as you said, the rewards were given for Gem Store purchases.

Gem Store purchases, or purchases of gems in the Gem Store (with real moolah)? :P

Was a couple weeks ago at least, is really annoying, thought it was just me.

Seems random as well, there are time when the minimap does go back to not rubberbanding. Also noticed it has a higher chance of rubberbands if you are moving at the same time as paning.

:’( Does this include gems bought with gold? If so I dont believe it, I bought like 3000 gems I think towards the end of december, and if I remembered about this I would have got the full 4000. Oh Mr Sparkles you were so close.

You know anet are against anti-zerging, they want the zerg.

Remember when aoe skills were actually aoe. If 50 players stood in a red circle they would all get damaged.
But people complained that all 50 of them were so stupid that they didnt realise that all 50 of them standing in a red circle would mean they would get hit. So anet decided to limit aoe to 5 players. Now zergs can stand in one spot all day and laugh at the red “aoe” circles as only 5 of them will be hit now whilst the other 45 can dance the night away.

Yes this made necros and eles OP in wvw, but then the enemy have necros and eles as well; and other profs have aoe skills they can use.

So yeah never gonna happen.

I S U P E R S I N I.4761:

The Video doesnt work :-( Happy new year everyone

Your sig needs changing we arent on AG any more :P

And aint you heard of proxies man?!

http://uk.proxfree.com/permalink.php?url=yx%2BhnYCyg4s24iThgBXg7eD%2BgixM%2BhdmOP7qE3TZgUNbIe1niV2IlgjbRU4AfunUyXG5a0ebFWI5hHrxUxZTgQ%3D%3D&bit=1

You might need to refresh or paste the url and and press enter, seems to still give the copyright message some times.

The ele who is getting 2 shot by thieves probably isnt geared properly, when running with my guild I run full spec healer ele; even then thieves take a while to kill me even after a backstab.

You most likely panic and dont heal yourself. I’ve even drawn a stalemate again most average theives, they cannot deal the damage quick enough for my healing and interrupts. Neither can I kill them as I’m a healer and my dps is really low!
This is in a 1v1 situation not when I have guild mates who are also helping.

So yeah there are some OP skills but if you can play right you might be able to hang on longer and escape.

I roam around on my necro, and tbh it’s fun seeing people think I am squishy only to find themselves on the floor.

I take it you have not fought again a good mesmer then? from all my roaming, which I’m new at really, I’ve found that a mesmer is the worst to fight against.
If you are talking about conditions, the ones I have fought are able to cast more conditions onto me than I am onto them.
That without the clones, add clones and it’s worse!

So if you ask me, mesmers are OP! :P

Just make Map chat readable by all servers, that way people will vent their anger there instead of making tonnes of posts which you then have to moderate.
You save time moderating, filters on in Map chat prevent too much abuse (lol), and the kids get to scream their heads off and we all get to laugh at them.

The issue is is that removing these forums cuts off the players from the WvW team, so how do we then make suggestions and talk about WvW improvements?

Knighthonor.4061:

why not just make this standard for all AC to be a top down view?

Woah, hold your horses man! Making suggestions which can help fix some issues can get your infracted! Be careful :P

Basically as said above, the devs are not interested in putting time into WvW, we wont see fixes or big update any time soon if at all!
We just got to live with what we got, and assume ourselves lucky for getting any updates to WvW.
As for new bugs, well why else do you think they are closing down the WvW forums, too many people complaining, it looks bad and they dont want that, that as well as the time spend moderating these forums. Again as said above they are only willing to spend resources on things they feel are right, not what the community is suggesting to them to improve the game. It’s been like that since the alpha apparently, not listening to the community.

atm its the community that keeps people playing, I only play because I like playing with my guild, it is only a matter of time that another developer makes a better game where they will listen to some of what the community says, and most people will move to those games. Hell a lot of people have already left months ago!
People will get bored of the Living Story eventually, and sooner or later people will get bored. The game needs it’s bugs fixed and an expansion by next summer, otherwise my guess is more people will leave.

Yeah Diamond skin means condition necros have almost no chance:

The ele can casually just heal themselves and attack whilst the necro has to go full force against it.