Guild Wars 2

If you’re enjoying the game, the effiency for which you acquire items should not matter.
If you’re not enjoying the game, take a break

Problems we’ve been complaining about for 3+ months with no real solutions.

Not impressed...

Blissified.8369:

But now that i see ANOTHER big content update, i’m starting to realize maybe a.net really will work their buts off with the money they gain.

The money you spend in the gem store does not necessarily go to ANet, it goes to NCSoft. They choose to allocate it how they wish, you very well could be funding an expansion for Lineage for all we know.

Players wouldn’t consume content so quickly if the systems in the game were better.

Playing 1 day a week for 10 hours and playing 5 days a week for 2 hours should yield the same reward.

My only 2 lvl 80 characters are ranger and ele. I will tell you that the elementalist is significantly stronger in WvW but it is also painfully boring to play.

As a staff ele all you do is mash your ’5’ key on the keyboard. Meteor Shower (Fire 5), Healing Rain (Water 5), Static Field (Air 5) and you just keep rotating them as they come off cooldown. Now don’t get me wrong, all 3 of those skills are huge in WvW but a 4 yr old could play a staff elementalist well.

I spend most of my time on my ranger which isn’t nearly as strong as the ele but is a heck of a lot more fun to play.

Atine.8623:

LostBalloon.6423:

You’ve missed the point completely…
For instance its not fair for TC lose rank to DB just beacause db got a matchup where they can hold all maps for most of the day while TC has to fight round the clock and is losing rating even though its winning.

THAT is what sucks with this system, and it will keep happening. And the way this system works with its randomness, it will never “stabilize”

You’re not looking at the big picture. Currently most of the red server (except SoR and HoD) is gaining ratings, which indicates that the blue and/or the green servers aren’t doing as good as they are supposed to be. Which means that the OLD rating system, with the tiers, doesn’t indicate real server’s fighting power. Without the interactive match-ups between tiers (random match-ups), we would never know, from the old system, that the red server actually deserves more ratings then they actually have. It will stabilize.

The fact that SBI and SoS are getting blown out and still gaining points is a problem. When this system ‘stabilizes’ the top server will be around 1850 rating and the bottom server will be around 1500 rating. Making a T1 vs T8 match up very much possible.

I like the guild missions but like events, the scaling could be better.

Bounty mission targets take under 2 minutes to kill if you bring 6 people but if you have 30+ you’re going to be pushing the timer. We did the Blazeridge challenge in 57 seconds with 6 people, it takes us 6 minutes with the full guild.

Some day we will all be playing with stick men on nothing but a white screen

... and people will still complain about the color of the stick men.

I would never exclude anyone but I am fast to the kick button with rangers. A bad player from any class can lay their dead while we 4 man it but a bad ranger who can not xontrol his pet will get the group wiped.

6 of the 8 NA match ups aren’t very good. The two exceptions are T1 (which didn’t change) and T4 (which is the #8, #9 and #11 ranked servers).

The one up and one down system would have produced dramatically better results.

My recommendation is to not get discouraged, if they have to send an entire zerg to wipe your havoc wear it like a badge of honor.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

This may seem strange, but I’m looking for a Guardian with Twilight from either SoR or JQ. There may be gold and YouTube involved. Please contact at your earliest convenience.

Also, score update!

Chris, I’d like a duel that doesn’t involve your 2 guildmates jumping me the second I engage. You going to be in EB tomorrow morning as well?

Caffynated.5713:

WvW is better without ACs and trebs. Bring back rams, cats and ballista.

This man is a genius, hire him!

PLAGUUU! PLAGUUUUU!!!!!!!!!

LetoII.3782:

Who is this Indo?
All glory to Degothi

Hail Degothi!

Voicer.8239:

Is very cute the way SoR just cant chest thump withouth a mention to BG. Ty guys!!!
In the end, all this is bs. Weeks come and go, servers rise and fall…
Im not sure what the new sistem will bring us, but just to know that soon we will not have to deal with this overgrown egos and “forum warriors” (/angrychilds) is enough atm.
Rivalry is one thing, but some of you seem obscessed about it, and tbh doesent look very healty, especially for those who actually play the greatest MMO of all times called Real Life and come here just to have fun and not measure the size of our PPT!
Mb in the future, after u get invincible, stacked with 100% coverage and tired of chest thumping, we can have something more then:

-“My server is the strongest! The coolest”
- “No! MY server have the greatest community, we have the real warriors of WvW”
-“Oh Yeah? We have cookies!!!”
- Im gonna tell all this to my MOM!!
- Meh, ur mom is fat!
- And your mom is fat and ugly!!!
- … >.<’

/boring

Burl.9567:

Peetee.9406:

Still waiting on the 6 silver TW owes me and Raes for repair costs.

In the words of Indo – “If you died back there, that’s on you.”

This has nothing to do with dying. We die all the time but never pay repair costs because we play on the outmanned map.

But when you TW guys all come to the map and we lose outmanned buff, we end up paying a repair cost. Now if you had stayed on your map this would be a non-issue but you map hopped and we got a repair bill because of it.

I am expecting the 6 silver to be in my mail box when I return home from work otherwise I’m going to start stacking on karma boosters as interest.

Still waiting on the 6 silver TW owes me and Raes for repair costs.

Azure.8412:

Its evident ATM makes a huge difference on the ppt of both BG and SoR, depending on which server they choose to attack.

Wow and here I thought they were sitting on Quaggan island singing karoake…..learn something new everyday.

Thief, no contest.

Thaia.5146:

Usually it goes like this:
Thief: Hey I’m a Thief. I’m gonna kill you!1!!1
5 seconds later
Thief: OH kitten, OH kitten, OH kitten I’M DYING
PUFF
Godmode
REPEAT

+1 to you good sir. Very good summarization of my issues with thief.

He engages, he loses, he runs away. This process just keeps repeating itself until I get bored and waypoint. Thieves are not overpowered as much as they are obnoxious, the epitome of anti-fun.

Human element will ruin this system.

2 T1 servers get placed against a T2 or heaven forbid a T3 server, that T2/T3 server is done and packing it in within the first 24 hours. Without constant representation the system will give erratic ratings, a server like Maguuma may lose by 300k to an SoR/JQ and comeback the following week to crush HoD by 300k.

It’s balance vs variety, I prefer balance but I am up for giving variety a chance. It will be nice to not lag for a change.

sostronk.8167:

kyro.8162:

Thing is, eyefinity is not an exploit, it just enables people with larger screens to see more. It isn’t that much more, just enough for those with large screens to not have a asura fatter than they are tall.

From what I am seeing from Sanctum of Rall players, it is either a huge amount more or they are using a different external program, they can literally fire over any wall and hit the other side of the wall. Are you an eyefinity user? As I don’t currently use the program I can only go by what I am seeing and it seems like a massive advantage, but without using it I cannot be sure that they are actually using this and not something else. And to point out here, yes this is only coming from SOR. I do not see Blackgate or Jade Quarry players using this.

I’ll call your bluff.

Get a hold of me in game and I’ll give you the info to my 2nd account. Follow me in WvW for 15 minutes and I will show you no less then a dozen players from JQ/BG with fishy arrow carts.

This system seems a bit crazy to me.

SoR vs any 2 servers not named JQ ticks at over +500 the whole week. No fun for anyone!

Sounds to me like I need to start trolling you TW guys more often.

I hear Tarnished Coast is recruiting Dolyaks

When can I go back to playing on red BL?

An expansion’s worth

Game is balanced around blue gear, not your exotics or better.
Replace your gear with a blue set and you’ll find it a bigger challenge.

Not surprising

My first 5 10x10 combines all came out clovers. I was like what are people complaining about....then my next 13 10x10 came up blanks.

Sharpoon.8197:

Wild card: SoR. They haven’t really been “tested” yet to see how they deal with losing after a long winning streak.

Because losing 13 weeks in a row in Tier 2 isn’t “tested”.

Anyone else having disconnect problems on JQ BL?

Getting dropped to login every 5 minutes or so, weird that it only happens on that BL.

Sokar Rostau.7316:

Vayne.8563:

Except that one of my guildies ran it 3 times and got the mini. RNG is RNG.

One of my guildies NEVER runs dungeons. Ever. She did Molten Furnace ONCE, to finish the Living Story, and got the mini. The single dungeon she has been in in months and she gets it.

Lol sounds almost like what happened to us. We took a guildie through that had been away from the game for 3 months, she came back to try the new dungeon and she got a jetpack. It was awesome!

My biggest annoyance these days is the laziness of other players.

Event scales up, people are afk, auto attacking or laying there dead. I often find myself wondering why I’m carrying these miscreants when we’re just going to get the same reward for our efforts.

sostronk.8167:

Standard practice among SOR players and guilds. Its completely legit is far as they are concerned. Note I said as far as "they"are concerned. I personally consider it cheating.

You consider playing in widescreen to be cheating?

Vayne.8563:

Peetee.9406:

We have all guild missions unlocked and our usual force for doing them is 7-8 members. You can easily do the Tier 1 missions with 6 people. Now obtaining the influence is a whole different matter but hey, thats why they have a cash shop.

Sure tier one. But some of the harder puzzles and stuff that require 15 completions aren’t that easy. Even some of the rushes we’ve had problems with.

There’s only 2 puzzles and their both ridiculously easy as in can be done in under 10 minutes with 6 people. The only ones we struggle with are the southsun rush and barrels challenge. Everything is else is super easy.

We have all guild missions unlocked and our usual force for doing them is 7-8 members. You can easily do the Tier 1 missions with 6 people. Now obtaining the influence is a whole different matter but hey, thats why they have a cash shop.

Go TC! Cheering for you!

8 months to get to this point, it feels great.

Shoutout to the old SoS crew, MERC and PRX amongst others. Best competition we faced along the road. Our fights in T2 + T3 is what hardened and toughened up SoR. You guys are awesome!

Personally, I think the best change they ever made to WvW was removing repair costs when outmanned. I tend to only play on maps where we are outmanned as I don’t feel compelled to run from every fight and can actually enjoy myself

I believe if they were to remove the costs of WvW or atleast reduce them severely u would see the population explode. Right now it feels like you have to pay a subscription fee just to play WvW.

Mance.5640:

SoR please surrender Veloka.

Thx,

Shadow Gypsies

You’ll be red tomorrow

JQ is a quality opponent with very respectable players.

Getting a bit crowded on the Dragonbrandwagon ain’t it?

I’m chest thumping and celebrating. You guys may not care anymore but I do and I couldn’t be happier this week.

SoR = America
JQ = France
BG = Greece

Ilesyt.7084:

Peetee.9406:

Remove orange swords, white swords, and the supervisor buff. Goodbye forced zerging!

Please stop repeating other people words without thinking about it.
The only thing that will do is have the defending force be split up all over the map, do even more boring tasks and have the bigger force blob up in people of 70 so they can take things even faster because the defenders are all split up!

Constant back and forth action, flipping of towers and keeps, frantic open field fights of varying size, all of this is a bad thing…..why?

kitanas.3596:

Peetee.9406:

Remove orange swords, white swords, and the supervisor buff. Goodbye forced zerging!

the supervisor buff was imlemented to stop people from flipping a camp back and forth for profit. as your other suggestions, would you be willing to be a scout, hanging out just in case someone was trying to ninja a camp/tower?

Kicking my feet up, cracking a beer, playing a little PS3 while scouting a tower. I love it, been doing it for months.

Remove orange swords, white swords, and the supervisor buff. Goodbye forced zerging!

One thing I’ve come to realize is that its significantly easier and more lucrative to farm on a physical damage dealing class. Part of the problem with farming as a magical class beyond the obvious differences in stats is the delay in the initial attack. An Ele has to wait for his fireball to land, a mesmer has to wait for his illusion to attack, a necro has to wait for his mark to trigger, an engy has to wait for his nades to explode. Many of the small cannon fodder creatures die before they get that tap in.