Guild Wars 2

I think it does just based on the fact that it discourages pure dps and rewards groups that can actually hold ground. While pure dps is certainly a viable build I wouldn’t want to see a 50 man group rocking full glass and just carpeting aoes in front of them non stop.

Id be down for one week it would be interesting. Im sure some of the matches would be pretty funny.

First world problems at there best:

Dear devs,

Hi mai servar is frust in the NORTH AMERICA an i can not be any but green so can not finis map(( . Plis to allow colour cahnge for map complete. THANKS.

Hanzo.9624:

So after doing nothing but pvp since beta (aside from leveling) I’ve been recently playing WvW for the monthly, etc, and because all everyone does is complain about s/tPvP and talk about how popular WvW is in comparison. I wanted to see this aspect of the game for once.

I honestly can’t figure out what people like about it? The few times I engaged in small scale encounters (1vX or 2vX), everyone was terrible! I’m not trying to be insulting or pretentious, and I expect the upleveled people to be at a gear disadvantage, but the overall general feel of combat was very disorganized and…just weird. It didn’t feel like people were trying, if that’s the best way to explain it.

Other than that it was large groups of people spamming abilities against other large groups of people until one side was dead or ran away. Then you die and have a boring, long, slow walk back to any signs of player activity. If you make it back to a large group of your team, great. Walk around with a large group of your team and repeat above. It feels like WoW’s Wintergrasp but too big and with no vehicles.

Maybe my opinion is skewed by the fact that I’ve only done the Mists primarily, but I honestly can’t see how anyone could like WvW over sPvP. You don’t even really get to explore the combative abilities of your class because:

1. You outnumber the enemy to the point where it doesn’t matter.
2. You’re outnumbered to the point where it doesn’t matter.
3. The combat is, largely, gear dependent.
4. You fight people that aren’t the same level as you.

Am I missing something? Is there some other greater purpose that makes this venue more enjoyable? I’m not making a direct comparison between the two PvP aspects of the game but when one is largely more popular than the other you would expect it to be significantly better, but I just don’t see it.

Im sorry but I disagree with all four of your bullets. I would suggest finding a real guild and/or transferring somewhere with decent WvW guilds.

As an added bonus if you join ET, you get to farm TCMM.

Punch.4231:

Very sorry to PAXA for not fighting you on the terms that suit you best. Please accept my deepest apologies. We will form several small super-tanky voicechat-coordinated focus-firing roaming groups and then PM you their positions around the maps (away from cap points because who cares about those anyway amirite?) See you guys out there!

If only there were some way for 5man groups to compete on an even playing field without interference. Hmmm, no. Nothing coming to mind.

I loled.

Irony.8056:

Voradors.5381:

King Amadaeus.8619:

Kilaelya.1420:

Yes, NSP has two Anet “tagged” people who run around from time to time. I’ve talked to one of them before. It’s only an artist and his girlfriend. They aren’t giving us anything special, they are just playing on their own time. If you ask them, they’ll tell you.

If one of them is a mesmer we saw him yesterday outside of SM in EB….Trust me he wasn’t invulnerable, lol we tested it over and over and over and….

As far as the invulnerable golem thing? Who knows, I wasn’t in that BL when that went down, so I can’t say…But it would be pretty dumb on ANETs part to do that, so I doubt he was truly invulnerable.

To be clear, i am not implying that golem was invulnerable. I didnt see that myself, and i am pretty sure that it went down.

My point was just that it is funny to see people say that the developers helped out SF too much by moving us up in rank after we dominated Tier 8 for MONTHS, and implying we dont deserve it, but are OK with developers getting a golem army going for their server and taking over an entire enemy borderland.
Hypocritical stuff like that tickles my funny bone line nothin else.

Invulnerable or not, advantage or not, if a Pug sees a developer tag you can bet your kitten he will follow em to victory.
One of the biggest hurtles of WvW is getting your server working together…. And in that regard an Anet tag >>>>> blue commander icon.

Im not going to say how developers play their game, but if they are doing it on their own time i think it is pretty silly to do it in a way that could clearly provide an advantage, if in coordination alone.

I got this one coach!

Get ready.. well listen here bub, we had no Anet golem/person today. So what’s your excuse this time?

Btw, both rushes were lead by Zos/Os and a bunch of other guilds, both days. XOXO provided the famous timewarp/taxi service.

God forbid an Anet employee have fun playing a game they work on.

Shame on you.

Dude stop defending the devs who “raised a golem army”. Obvious Anet favoritism against SF. Please tone it down Anet, there catching on.

Sadistis.4257:

I’ve noticed alot of rude people from NSP and SF both… (not so much HoD honestly so kudos to you) i must say i’ve lost some respect for ICE and called their members out in say to stop acting like goons… but on the same hand i see XOXO, who are putting up good fights and i respect their skill as a guild, doing the same to not only ICE who was being rude but to Gore, my guild, who are urging our people to be the better person, ICE was also talking obscinities in map chat and someone from NSP who was transfered spying told the thief who he was talking about about it and they started a flame war in whisper, also showing the disrespect of NSP putting people on our server to report our movements… Lets stop all this hate, stop jumping and dancing on corpses, and stop all the obscene smack talking…

House of Gorethorium [Gore] respects any guild who can put up a great fight XOXO, NSP (guild), VLK, Os, namely are the ones i’ve seen. You must respect and honor your enemies so that they may have a chance to drink with Odin in Valhalla.

TL:DR Stop the hate, start the competition

Os <3’s you too.

Kilaelya.1420:

Yes, NSP has two Anet “tagged” people who run around from time to time. I’ve talked to one of them before. It’s only an artist and his girlfriend. They aren’t giving us anything special, they are just playing on their own time. If you ask them, they’ll tell you.

There are a lot more than 2 Anet people on our server.

First world problems.

The tower guard idea is interesting. Shame devs don’t really discuss things like this in forums.

WVW guilds and players need a place on there. Waiting almost a year for basic stuff like this is beyond words. And after the almost year, the third party version developed months ago is 100 times more useful than the in house version. Sigh.

lieutenantsharp.8967:

I think HoD and NSP need moar Anet employees

Honestly it helps alot having invuln players etc. Maybe try to recruit some, mail some cookies perhaps idk seems effective thus far.

LilMcGinley.3890:

T7 was not balanced. 80k difference between 1st and 3rd? Only T3 had a larger difference…

On topic: Can’t wait to find some new people to fight. That’s what this is all about, putting 3 servers with the same numbers so that zerg of 100 doesn’t attack 1 tower would be nice.

Rating wise T7 was extremely balanced, every week was not the same, first wasn’t guaranteed to anyone.

airstu.2579:

Funny how the devs disappear from posting once they start a kittenstorm

Happens frequently.
Dev: This is what we did. Peace.

The lack of transparency regarding these numbers is concerning. And as for the reasoning that these numbers change all the time. They have a launcher that can link to patch notes as well as a dev section with updates. There is really no good reason for this to be secret.

deracs.1762:

Over all however I like the large battles. Many reasons. True, I am not a good 1v1 never have been, never will be. our small guild is quite a mixture of player types but WvW allow us to run together and allow us less “skilled” players to have some fun and contribute. If it was harcore or scenario type PvP a majority of our guild would not bother

I just needed to quote the second paragraph for emphasis. No further response.

This could be it. It could be the week the thread gets locked a second time. I believe.

Entropy.4732:

Dear GoM,

I know we had our spats at times. I know we fought bitterly towards the end there, but we really, REALLY miss you and we’ve been thinking we made a terrible mistake leaving you for SF. At first, Sorrows Furnace seemed like it was everything you weren’t. On our first few dates, SF was super easy to get along with. But after we started going steady, SF turned into a total nightmare to live with. It’s just not working out. SF is, like, totally wrong for us.

Look, we… we might have rushed into things. We regret breaking up with you, GoM. You should move back in with us in T7. SF just doesn’t get us. Last night at 4:00am they camped our spawn point for hours with a massive zerg while they simultaneously hit our keep so we never had a fair chance of defending it. I know we accused you of cheating on us with HoD, but you would never have camped our spawn point like that. Never. You always took our keep fair and square. SF is super insensitive to our needs. They mercilessly taunt us on the forums and mega zerg us constantly. It’s just not the same as it was with you, GoM. No more razor close matches, no more waking up on sundays and going shopping with you at the Skritt farmer’s market for shinies. Sigh. We want you back GoM. I know you’ve got a new tier now and you’re seeing somebody else but I think we should give this relationship another chance. Come back to us GoM. Fight your way out of this T8 mess so we can break up with SF and get back to some fun, sexy, romantic WvW. We miss you.

Love,
NSP

P.S. I found one of your old loot bags in Golanda and it still smells like you.

Love it.

kazi.6438:

Mostly I’m just pleased that Ronny ended up in T8. Did he happen to mention that he single-handedly made GoM, AR, and NSP?

I don’t have enough accounts to plus this post.

Or perhaps diminishing returns or higher taxes on ratings the further your server gets from 1500 rating.

-Killing people gives much more xp than does circle capping
-People did this before this patch.
-People will continue to do this even if this is removed.
-The number increase you are experiencing is not because it now gives Wxp , but rather because its new content.

Just wait for the next WOW expansion WvW will be good as old.

Isaac.6041:

Omne.4603:

The badges from puzzles after the last patch are negligible. I don’t have much else of a response to this that won’t get me reported.

O, so it’s true the jumping puzzle chest’s badges and other loot was nerfed. I thought so too.

No I mean, as of right now there is a huge spike in activity of the wvw player base. As of a while ago badges definitely drop more. I honestly don’t understand these threads. Omg why can’t I push spacebar to get more PvP tokens without PvPing. It’s a wonder they don’t ban the people that post these.

T1 is for small guildsas it takes literally 10 people. The higher tiers reward 25-50% more for WAY more work and you really have a huge problem with that? Why should small guilds be able to do everything in the game with ten people? Synopsis: Why should 10 organized individual get the same reward as 20, 30 and so on?

Why add a function that has essentially already been accounted for? ie scaling

And what happens when someone makes 3242534253 QQ threads about dcing because of server lag?

This is one of those things that sounds bad on paper and bad in practice.

NCSoft is the parent company. Aion allowed full custimization AND publishing of the guild roster etc to third party websites.

If I quit GW2 it will be over the Guild UI and the fact that in general they don’t give a kitten about guilds. Won’t be long before another game gobles up all the serious ones.

Stay classy BP/AR

The badges from puzzles after the last patch are negligible. I don’t have much else of a response to this that won’t get me reported.

If only they allowed transfers, then the people that hate it badly enough to post ad nauseum could instead click a single button and free from their torment forever. I’ll get to work on making a thread about adding transfers to the game.

Cap needs to be removed. No reason to have this at all.

Habib Loew.6239:

Yes, we’re looking into it. In fact, we had a meeting just today about scoring/rating/matchmaking issues!

N.B. That meeting was already scheduled to occur before we got the cookies.

I likely story. Good play T8 Os Guild will now begin to formulate a bid of our own.

No idea why they don’t allow your own team to observe your rank while in WvW. Theres alot I don’t understand:

-Why no leaderboard yet?
-Why is there no content planned for guilds to show up on the leaderboard?
-Why is there a merit cap(as opposed to allowing infinite and having it show on the boards)?
-Why do people that rush back out not give even 1 wxp as opposed to 0?
-Why is there no WvW guild mission?

In short my beleif is that they either do not care about rewarding the effort of competitive players or just have no idea how to. Either way its a strong arguement for sadface.

Just once.

KyoHanakaze.8145:

Sevenred.3890:

KyoHanakaze.8145:

When you put it that way, then you’re probably right, but that is also a much different scenario than what was asked. I’m just saying that, with our current server strengths and populations, I doubt that any of us would really lose if put up against SF in their current state. As for T6, I wouldn’t know. I’d love for HoD to move up, though, just because I had a lot of fun fighting Darkhaven.

Are you saying we are not a fun matchup??

Jokes! Take care HoD. Let’s see what you can do without that Overlook next week

Oh, no, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE fighting NSP. I’m a little sad that TCMM transferred, but at least I can still fight them on GoM. I used to play Aion with Ronny Raygun, so it’s fun to see how my guild compares. xD I also really like fighting Os and TFG…there haven’t been many other NSP guilds that stick out to me. Aside from the Quebec ones, who, while not intimidating, I will kill on sight.

It;s usually good fights in this tier. People would give up/flame more often in our previous tier. Just as a general observation people in this tier seem to care a lot more about actual in game combat. Which is nice to see.

RunForItMarty.6875:

If I hit a guy with an upgraded cannon, does it remove his boon before applying the damage?

I would love to this the answer to this.

Supply is that expensive rightly so because new players with the ability to carry more supply can be destructive and also 40 organized players with 20 supply is going to be pretty ridiculous as is.

I honestly hope they have been recording server firsts, for things prior to this whether or not they display them or not. Pretty massive turn of otherwise.

If being in tier 8 bothers you this much transfer to another server or stick it out. But making threads like these to point out a problem that you at the same time say is being ignored seems pointless. If you claim your speaking to a brick wall then stop speaking, if not then be patient.

How do I subscribe to this thread? I need a way to ensure I get these updates.

Some of us are really enjoying the April PvE content apparently.

HoD night crew has really picked up.

8 months in and we still get surprised when WvW lags behind. lol.

The ability to make threads needs to be limited.

Highlie.7641:

Just figured i would pop in and thank OS for the night of death and carnage last night on our borderlands. Keep it up. borderlands gets kinda of stale sometimes. and E. bg is a bit to siege orientated for me. hm got 3 screen shots of OS attack on a tower. these are a panoramic of the battle (graphics have been turned off, [my computer is old])

hm pic 3 should be where pic 2 is.

Much thanks to you guys as well, it was a lot of fun last night. We had same numbers as usual just usually we have more people in our bl. This match up has odd hours,but seems to be pretty even I hope that stays that way.

Gf GoM. Just kinda sad that Raygun didn’t stay longer. Good times.

Loan maybe, 100g really isn’t much anymore.

No guild content for leaderboards+merit cap. K.