Guild Wars 2

Avigrus.2871:

I saw a teleporting ranger the other night in PvE and went to report – no selection to report hacking – i don’t understand why i can’t report this. He was just blipping around the map like he was in the Matrix.

Yeah this is another thing that has a lot of player worked up, you can report for botting, abusing, selling gold, but not hacking. There are so many bugs in the game now an teh devs havent got around/worked out how to fix them that they are claiming that they are “working as intended” instead; and hence legitimate tactics.

What can you do when even the devs are in denial.

Since the forums are mostly players complaining about other servers, I say Anet should make it so that Map chat can be read by all servers on the BL.

We know the reason they are closing down just the WvW forums is because the mods cant keep up with all the complaining. So let us complain directly the other enemy players and you wont need to moderate these forums as much.

I mean come on, how much upkeep does a forum need? The forums are bugged anyway, hard to believe but true, so I think this option is better.

I believe a dev said it’s not hacking and therefore allowed.

The issue here is that reporting zoom hacking also affects those people who have multiple monitors apparently.

And if you dont have multiple monitors, you too can set up your screen to give you the extra visibility. Play in windowed mode and simply drag the bottom of the window up, you can take it up as much as you like, the higher you go the more you can see. I’ve tried it and it is weird but if anet claim it isnt unfair then use it, it seems to be what others do.

Anet cant ban you for altering your window size or having multiple monitors, and so although it is unfair, there is nothing you can do about it.

I posted this a while ago, but as you can see the first image is a single monitor fullscreen, the second is a single monitor with the height of the window greatly reduced to produce almost 4 monitor worth of display!

Over the last week I and a few other people have been experiencing huge lag spikes. Not the typical ones you experience when a zerg hits another zerg but when out solo roaming and only a couple of other people are near you.

I just had one spike which lasted at least 40 seconds!!!

Wondering if anyone else has experienced these increased lags of RoS or other servers?

The thing is german servers play for points, they dont want to run into an equal size zerg waste time fighting only to lose most of the time. So they run off somewhere else where is little to no resistance.

Because german servers arm their towers to the teeth with superior ACs and always has a couple people waiting for hours just in case an enemy shows up, they again move on. Since we dont do that often we’re the server with less resistance and so both german servers will obviously target us to get more points. But of course as you most likely have noticed now, even if they outnumber us 2-1 they prefer to move on than fight.

I keep saying, german servers are the most boring to fight/watch run away, but they are well organised which is why they have such a high tick point.

I dont know what you are complaining about, I’ve kept all my mats and currently have well over 25 stacks of silk scraps.

Whose fault is it that they sold their silk scraps because they thought they were worthless and never going to be used for anything….

Pechic.8406:

GJ Millers Noobs laugh at me after you kill me 1v6. So much skill …. :-/

Yeah dont expect much 1v1 with german servers; they have a completely different play style compared to others.

I was having a 1v1 vs a DL thief south of bay, it seemed to be going ok (i.e. not 10v1), then when I got the thief in a downed state all of a sudden the cannons and a treb started firing at me and a warrior ran out of bay. I killed the thief, and then killed the warrior :P

But yeah, dont expect fair and equal fights from german servers, they just want the points, they dont care 20 of them killed one of you, a stomp is an extra point.

There are people on german servers who want 1v1s, but even they cannot stop their zerg from butting in. I mean I’ve even had a 1v1 where the guy was actually just keeping me there whilst his friends had time to come and finish me, thats how low they can get.

Tallis.5607:

the infamous ‘DEV don’t need to listen to players, DEVs already know what players because DEVs are players too’ attitude from earlier this year.
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Noob players maybe, first time I think I say a dev ingame they were on a cat attacking briar and they were fully charging the skill before releasing the boulder; the cat was placed at the foot of the wall, we all laughed at that one

But the dev have all been in denial since alpha apparently, they have not listened and infracted and removed posts on the forums they did not like.

But that’s the thing about forums, people will mostly post when they have problems or angry. How many people come on to say “omg the game is working as intended”.

We all know more time needs to be spent on WvW, from what I hear even PvP is getting less time now, everything seems to be going to PvE and the LS.
And let’s not forget we cant expect any real new WvW content until April, based on one of the dev posts I read and if you read inbetween the lines.

Shibotu.3218:

Shoutout to [WAR] Nightstep Lust going full kitten in Whisper.
Props to your skill in a 1v4/5? In your own tower ;P
Muting and keep flaming because you won surprisingly against one thief with a pack of allies.
Awesome people and guilds RoS got over there.

lmfao, do these DL player even know how most of their own server plays? So what if FRS ran 40 man; DL and AM run 60+ how exactly can you complain about that?!

I know I didnt complain on the forums when DL were taking the sentry SW of SM, at least 30 of them, and then 20 of them turned just to kill me who was just standing just up the path all alone doing nothing but standing there.

You people make me laugh so much, maybe you should learn to play in smaller groups, stop being afraid of dying so much and learn from your deaths, like we did; which is why we can take on larger zergs like yours with fewer players

And even if you are one of the few roamers on your server, at least it was only 5 ganging up on you, not 20.

Dawson.3491:

boring.
KISS is running and fight only together with the WvW Guild blobb.

This is true, I have video evidence!

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/487457195?t=13m25s

Here we have the KISS blob taking a sentry before being joined by the WvW zerg to take vale camp! I’m surprised they didnt group up to take on that lone thief just minutes before!

I hear they are afraid of dying, that is why they travel in such large numbers!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Save all serial codes just in case.

What about those of us who got a beta key, were expecting a retail key when the game launched, but no such key was given? Ever other game I have know has given retail keys after a beta, but not this time.

I deleted my email with the beta key so dont have a serial key if it ever comes to a point I may need it.
But I do have my GW1 account linked and have the serial keys for those, so hopefully if I ever need a serial key as proof, those will do.

Throrgrim.7098:

Anyway. It’s good to see, that RoS dosn’t want these cheaters on their server. To bad they can’t do anything against them. (beside reporting them, and Omaris Mortuus Est tells the truth about wvw reports :-( )
Keep up fighting honest, we all have some rotten apples…

Yeah some people get second accounts just to do this, and we’ve all seen what happens on trail weekends, hackers everywhere!

If anet were serious about actually doing something about these hackers they would firstly fix their game, and secondly there would be an option to report hackers! atm all you can do is report for botting, and obviously that does not seem to work as there are still tonnes of bots. A guild member found around 15 of them farming in one area just a couple weeks ago!

As for the few who transfer on 2nd accounts to waste supply, well anet have already said that that is the way of the game, they cannot control how someone plays the game. So anet see this as a legitimate tactic that can be used in WvW even though the majority of us think it is not. Of course irl if you find a spy that spy is caught and punished, so maybe anet should add such an option to WvW.
But that said, we’ve already seen ally guild on a server abuse the reporting system and report members of other guilds and had they account banned; simply because they did not like that that person said or did. So any such feature will also be abused to suspend people from WvW temporarily.

Well anyway, it’s nice to know that we can now expect the next “big” WvW update as early as April now instead of January! Cant wait for golem mastery and all the extra Living Story crap in WvW, and nothing else for us!

The tag KOBW sounds really familiar, I think I’ve seen them cheat before when we were on gunnars, and not just one person, the entire guild running around fly hacking etc.

Cant be sure, maybe it was a different or similar tag. But it’s WvW anet does not care much, it’s been over a year and still no fixes to their messy coding which is allowing all these hacks.

I honestly dont think anet are willing to spend too much time on trying to fix these issues, not cost effective is my guess, we’ll just have to live with it, along with the spies who target commanders and build 20 rams in your own keep and start useless upgrades to waste supply minutes before they golem rush you.

natsos.3692:

I still find it hard to believe the night capping zerg you guys on ROS can pull. 30 man in our BL @3 AM , and you where a bronze server. Our waypoints have no chance.
What could possibly DL do and steal your first spot? :P

I assume you are from UW, so you should have fought against plenty of german servers, and so there is your answer. Though out of all the german servers, Dz are only ones willing to fight more against an enemy group.

This week has been pretty boring, even last night we ran into an UW zerg once and then they just disappeared from the map.

First run and I noticed this. It is totally messed up! The people in front are ruining the JP for those behind especially if you are faster than them!

Why should we have to given this handicap?!

Also we have totalk to Trixx to get the max gifts, only get one if you just run past him without talking to him

There is nothing stopping people from interfering behind the windmill either, or on any part of any BL or EB map. So I dont know what makes this area less viable than the windmill???

The main point of this area is that gvg player dont take up wvw places but can still fight each other. It took a while before peopel stopped attacking at teh windmill, the same for here, give it time and most people will stop.

lol, i’d love to see Blackgate fight against Abaddon’s Mouth.

I think during this “off-season” Anet should put some NA servers against EU servers.

That said, if there is gonna be a season 2, I bet most players will not put in the same effort, seeing the “great” rewards you get for it.

So I hear that only the winning server of each league got the finishers.
We already some servers purposely lose matches just before the season so they would get easy fights in the silver league instead of gold; now this will just get more servers trying to get themselves into easier fights if we get a S2.

I dont get why so many people are angry.

Yes we yet again got crap rewards which we could get playing WvW normally for a couple hours. But we’ve always got bad rewards in WvW compared to PvE

As for the achievements, they are nothing you would not have done already by playing WvW as usual over 3-4 weeks. I had most of it done in 3 weeks without trying, just following my guild as usual like I do everyday.
So I am not too bothered about the loot we got from the chest, I didnt have to go out of my way, I didnt pay for gems to bandwagon on a top tier/league server,.

I do still believe WvW needs more, like so many of us do, needs more frequent updates and not just more mastery traits and we need better rewards, as well as more ways of getting achievement points.

As for those who paid for transfers to higher servers to get this awesome loot! Well done, you got what you paid for. For that reason alone I am kindda glad that the devs gave crap rewards. These leechers are now stuck in those servers, some of which have long queues during their primetime, and if they want to move, it’s 500 gems minimum to move to the lowest server.
It also means less PvE achivement hunting whores in WvW, at least for now; man they were the worst but at least they were easy loot bags.

So if there is a S2, yes I will complete it, but without trying cos we’ll do all the stuff needed anyway!

Sssshhh! You’ll get infracted for pointing out that the devs have not been bothered to fix these exploit even though it’s been a year!

Just do what Devon said in a post a while ago, STF,Up and maybe they’ll give us a big WvW update some time in 2014!

EB Jumping Puzzle fun with Arborstone’s LR guild!

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/485191142?t=1h10m

Goes on for over an hour!

The first epic fight when they finally catch up to me begins at http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/485191142?t=1h26m27s

Did anyone even bother turning up for any WvW last night?

I know I didnt, this matchup is so boring i’d prefer the germans come back!

No it’s like buying a shirt, you can wear the shirt, your mates can borrow the shirt, your gf can wear the shirt, anyone can wear the shirt, but you only paid for it once. You dont have to go back to the store to get a new name tag put on it whenever someone else wants to wear it.

And yes they would sell more skins if they were like the achievement skins as more people would be willing to pay for them as all their character can use them whenever they want and all of them at the same time if need be.
Being character bound means a lot of people will only buy the odd skin they like instead.

They can add a filter to automatically ban the account that links it.

Was silly to make the split in the first place. in GW1 you can jump around any server at any time one wanted. But now with GW1, on no we cant do that……

http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/483843985?t=1m45s

Sorry AS upleveled mesmer, but I did give you plenty of time as you can see if you watch from the beginning of the video.
As for the rest of the AS group, all those AoE circles, for little ol’ me, you shouldnt have.

Filovirus.6258:

We must not have the same definition of “smaller” and “outnumbered” then, because Dzag has more numbers than RoS ALL night except during the 4/6am period, where we (usually) outnumber them (but not by much).

They usually have more people in one of their map in a zerg than we have overall on all 4 maps.
The difference is they can’t do anything unless it’s 2 to 3 of them for 1 of us or they are hidding in a tower with 5/10 ACs and a few catas and balista…….

And as soon kitten .30/6 comes, they outnumber us by miles till 8/9 or later.

Once again, their problem isn’t numbers, they have far more than us (and any other server), it’s just that “hitting my head on the wall till it breaks with 50/80 others” don’t work well when you aren’t 2 to 1 and aren’t as good at it as DL is (nor have vastly superior numbers like DL have H24).

Well since I’ve been with KISS, we’re been to several different servers from top to bottom, all I can say is that everyone zergs.
And yes, the germans do have a different play style, as one person posted, they think dying is the same as losing hence why most wont attack you unless it’s a guaranteed win for them. All german servers play like this, but I have to say Dz is the most fun to play against, the rest are worse at blobbing and ACs and hiding in towers.
But germans play for PPT, that is their fun, they dont really care 5 of them ganged up to take down an upleveled ranger, a stomp is an extra point.
The rest of us dont call that fun, but they do and play to win, you just have to learn to live with it.

But everyone zergs, some have bigger zergs during the day, some during the night, and the top tiers all day and night!
Anet dont see anything wrong with big zergs steamrolling all over the maps, they encourage it.
People who want smaller scale go for GvG, now try mentioning GvG on a GW2 stream, insta perma ban from posting on their stream! That’s how much the devs care about smaller scale comnat in WvW atm.

But I think the main issue is that is most non-german servers there isnt any teamwork. KISS and NP can vouch for that especially in RoS.
NP players being banned from the TS, I even heard FRS going so far to falsely report players in game to get their accounts banned! And come NP have had their banned. I dont know what those NP players did, but I would have submitted a ticker to Anet told them how FRS and others have abused the reporting system like this and those who did this should be perma banned from the game instead!

With such disagreements between guilds on this and other servers, you arent gonna be able to properly fight against higher tiers, especially the higher german servers.

td:dr Get over it Zergs are gonna happen.

Yay reason wins!

Finally I can use my 360 Drops of Liquid WXP, 32 Thimbles, 1 Keg; only 1 keg
on whichever character I like atm and not worry about which one as it will not matter when this goes live.

The issue here is that the devs say it takes 6 months to test our just 1 new map, to make sure it is balanced.

Well with all the hacks, bugs and glitches in the current ones I dont think we’d mind.

I say create the maps and let us the players test them. Have each tier try out different maps, and instead of 1 map being tested in 6 months you can get at least 17 done and tested! And then as OP suggested you can then have a rotation of different maps.

If it means more maps I am pretty sure a lot of people dont mind the maps being unbalanced for a while whilst they are tested.
But this idea is too easy and simple to do, the devs wont be able to do it…… :/

Wow, I guess the devs could not keep up with the biweekly updates :P

I usually am a PvE player, but GW2 PvE has been too boring that I spend most of my time in WvW. As for the LS I spend just enough time in it to get minimum required achievement points for it, then back to WvW.

To this day I have only done one fractal since they began, I guess this so called LS will get people to do some more, and when they get their AP, never come back again

Cant wait until the next “big” WvW update which we were told to expect beginning of next year, lots of people want Golem Mastery, and that’s all we’ll probably get :P

No it doesnt matter, as this is how Anet have planned the game, zergs everywhere!

It doesnt matter which server you go to, at least one of the other servers you fight will have a larger zerg than yours.
It also depends on the time, Dz have a smaller night presence, so yes we can complain about their map zergs during the day and evenings, but they may complain about being outnumbered during the night.

There are only 2 options, 1) continue playing they way you do and have your fun. 2) Start playing like the germans do, one huge map zerg, no fun, afraid to die.

I just blame anet for not caring about wvw. jsut look at teh new gvg arena area they made, noone is doing any gvg there!

Not forgetting that the average time to get to max rank will take you 11 years!!
And that’s just on one character!

WXP not only should be, it must be account bound!

Hey, our keep lord is dead and the enemy is about to cap it! What do we do?! Banner Res!

Hey, even though we outnumber the enemy group 3-1 they’ve downed more than half of us in one push; what do we do?! Banner Res!
Oh no, they downed half of again in the second push, what now?! Another Banner Res!

Yeah, just count the banners and there’s your answer.

Indeed, this new area is just a mess, for GvG matches it is simply not suitable at all!

I complained about a guild still doing GvG at the windmill on a bl, I then went to see this new area and I could see why. It was full of people doing 1v1.
now try doing a 20v20, or what if 6 guilds wanted to do 3 5v5 matches as the same time? There simply is not enough space to split between them. Accidental hits between different groups would be too hard to avoid, thus making this place already obsolete for gvg.

Maybe if there was some cross-server chat available you can get a match going, but you will still get groups bumping into each other if more than 2 guilds wanted to fight at the same time.

Drizzy.1268:

Holiday TDA now on Arborstone for the 2 final matchups of the league.

Funny how most of your holiday servers have been those which KISS are against :P

Oh look, next we’re still against Arborstone, and you’ll be staying there as well

Anet have made to many mistakes in this game it is a wonder it is still playable.

Separate regional servers, free transfers lasting for a lot longer than they should have, glory hunters and now WvW season with achievements.

The fact we finally got a source of reasonable achievement points was great, but this has attracted the AP junkies to WvW taking up valuable spots. Some probably got into WvW but others were so obvious it was laughable. I remember the first week of the season, you would have the main zerg attacking and then behind then all huddled together were the AP leechers.

There is pretty much nothing Anet can do about the imbalances between tiers now people will just have to live with it and low tier servers try to recruit some guilds from high tiers to them. But even there you have problems deciding. Back when SoS was top server, they clearly had better coverage than the 2nd place server, yet SoS were still trying to recruit more and more people! Why would the #1 server at the time need more people?!

So this season allowed people to have fresh new matched each week, but the imbalances are still there even between the bottom two tiers.

I think what Anet could try is to categorize the servers, make some WvW servers, other PvE/PvP/RP; but then that brings in the issues of when a player may want to do something else other than what the server mainly is.

So I dont think anyone will be happy whatever Anet try to do, because the mess is just so way out of hand already that it’s probably better to leave it as it is.

Josh Davis.6015:

JonSnow.5610:

Josh Davis.6015:

Playing with the tag on is completely optional, though. When I do use it I like to call it WvW: Tribulation Mode.

Be nice to the little green engineer.

Just gonna leave this here…

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2pvptv/c/3145599

Like I said, Tribulation Mode!

Man I wish I had that tag, anything to get the german zergs out of their keeps!

I think the reasoning is that seeing since it will take forever for one character to level up enough WXP levels to the point that character provides even a small advantage to WvW, that WvW players will get so bored they may just go to sPvP instead.

But seriously, having it character bound means that playing on several characters gives you a clear disadvantage in WvW. As said above, getting 2 character to max defense against the guards is not progression, its just more grinding; grinding more wxp so you get your new character to the same level as another character.

Have you even seen the WXP wiki page, the rank goes to 9,945 Diamond Legend!!
WXP was introduced back in March, so it’s been 8 months. In that time I’ve probably got about 450 WXP levels across all my characters, I know some who have got to 600 who play mainly one character. So based on that I’m getting it will take 132.6 months to get to max WXP rank, that’s 11 years on one character!

11 years?! I’d expect GW3 to be out by then! Come on Anet you have got to get serious and just like the WvW achievements (original ones not the Season ones), set realistic time frames on them!
I and I know a lot of other people are not going to spend 11 years playing on one single character! WXP ranks must be account bound!

Now that the infinite gathering tools are account bound, how about making the slots accessible from any character?

This will make things so much more convenient instead of having to throw your tool into your bank, logging onto another character and taking it out to use on that character., and then having to repeat whenever you want to play a different character.

Indeed, that was some good defending in your Bay. Much better fights that we’ve have with DL in the last two weeks.

hedix.1986:

Cheers for the exciting 2 weeks, Drakkar! It was nerve-wrecking, it was fun, it was good game. Sad that we didn’t have big enough population in the end to have the same coverage. But tnx for a challenging match up.

I think you mean our pugs and small guilds were too scared to fight and suffer repeated wipes that they decided to do PvE instead.

We started out well, but you cannot expect the same old guilds to be present all day and night to cap things.

Devon posted a while go, dont expect anything big until the end of Dec 2013, at the earliest!

Basically, if you ask me, it was a shut the F up already post regarding WvW players complaining so much about WvW not getting the attention it needs, as well as – so many bugs, hacks and glitches which still need fixing.

So dont hold your breathe for anything this year, or even the beginning of next. We may continue to get small things, but big changes are still a way away.

tbh I dont think we, RoS, will win this week either, unless DL were on a break during the weekend, or maybe we pushed harder, or maybe they at last decided to come out to play and so arent getting as much points.

But what I really do want to see is RoS and DL draw 1st equal for the season, just to annoy Anet and their league system; because what is the system in place in order to be promoted to from the Bronze League to the Silver?

If it’s just a matter cos swapping the lowest Silver server with the highest Bronze server, a 1st equal between 2 severs would be nice, so we can see the devs having to come up with another way to promote servers

I know it is helpful that you can guy any skin for any of your chracters from one character, but when I just want to look at staff skins, I dont want to scroll through a dozen other skins that are not usable by my profession.

Now is you add a drop down menu at the top of the vendor window to select a specific type of item you are looking for, staff, shield, condition damage, healing power etc; it would make things so much easier and a less of a headache.

Agrios.9071:

And i have to add the fact that our 60 man zerg will allways win against their 80 man zerg.

I told you to stop following me!

Compared to last week this week has started off pretty well, DL have come out to play, some pretty nice fights with IF guild, thanks.

And there isnt an “unfair” playstyle, just a less fun for the rest of us style. The german servers are alot more organised and willing to work together, whilst in most other eu servers, guilds perfer to run alone and don not think running in an 80 man zerg as fun.
Of course we could do the same, get everyone to gather in one big zerg and run around just like the germans do, but how bored will people get.

Come on DL NEE and TIKA or kitten guild players, I’m a lone necro in your south camp, surely 4 of you can kill me!

How it feels to beat the german zerg:

Startled! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=1h06m35s
Stunned! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=1h39m28s
Terrified! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=1h41m20s
Beware! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=2h16m45s
Beware! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=2h19m48s
Beware! http://www.twitch.tv/bigo93/b/479404395?t=4h14m00s
and many more!

That’ll be $400.

I’ll never stop laughing at german servers, never!

That said, some of you did come out to play last night, it was fun.