Guild Wars 2

New content is better than no content.

If you don’t like it, voice your opinion and be done with it. Too many people getting upset over a video game.

Congrats Deso!

Job well done!

There are 100 different MMOs out there dedicated to raiding and high levels of coordination, why does it have to come here too?

This was suppose to be the one place for salvation to get away from the elitest crowd. Now I have to read these posts daily about how much better TTS, BG, and Deso are in comparison to us lowly scrubbies.

I’m sorry but sitting in a queue for 2 hours and running bombs for 10 minutes doesn’t make you the all gosu god of guild wars.

Ele’s been getting 1 shot by thieves for a year now.

Where’s the outrage for that?

PeterThomas.7243:

Lutinz.6915:

People complain there isn’t enough hard content in the game and the moment they add a hard fight people complain that the content is too hard.

Hmm, that’s funny, I don’t recall making this complaint at all…

Me neither.

If I recall, there was a rather large group of players complaining about Teq and TA:Aether being too hard as well.

Comes back to the argument, if I had wanted WoW style raiding and coordination, I would have stayed playing WoW. Besides, the people that the fight is being designed for are just going to up and leave to go to Wildstar in a few months anyway.

I always run up into your portals area and hop around until a legendary defender kills me. I don’t see the big deal in doing it.

Last one of these I showed up for the announcers hyped it for a good hour then at the last moment announced it was postponed.

Never again.......

Sitting in overflow

like:
1) Open Field Fighting
2) Competition/Rivalries
3) GvG

dislike:
1) Scouting
2) Arrow Carts
3) Karma Train

Josh Foreman.8250:

I’m not surprised that the Wurm is not liked by as many people. We were making that specifically for the hard core groups that are all about the organization and figuring out the strategy and tactics. It’s really cool watching the community grapple with this puzzle and innovate as they get closer and closer to finding a winning strategy.

Josh,

Thank you for your response. Makes me quite happy to see your name on the forums again.

Once the more tactical groups master this fight, do you see yourselves scaling this fight down so us average Joes can do it? Or is this present difficulty going to be permanent?

Thanks again, even if you don’t respond.

We’ve succeeded 11 attempts in a row now on SoR.

Communicate, explain, encourage, be helpful. If someone appears lost, pm them with advice. If a group fails their platform, pm them and let them know how they can succeed next time.

Personally, I think the Twisted Marionette is the best encounter they’ve added to this game.

Congrats TTS!

You can argue the specifics later, still a great run!

Liza.2758:

Peetee.9406:

Immensus.9732:

It is worth doing it. Is just people bother to use their brain and think how to get organized

If I had wanted WoW raid-level coordination, I’d have stayed playing WoW.

This was suppose to be a casual game. A game you could just pick up to play and expect to succeed. But I guess we can just chalk that up as just another lie.

There are plenty of brainless stuffs for your case. I don’t see why it’s wrong to have some stuffs that require coordination.

There’s nothing wrong with it.

Just don’t get angry when people guest to your server because their server no longer has enough players to attempt it.

Immensus.9732:

It is worth doing it. Is just people bother to use their brain and think how to get organized

If I had wanted WoW raid-level coordination, I’d have stayed playing WoW.

This was suppose to be a casual game. A game you could just pick up to play and expect to succeed. But I guess we can just chalk that up as just another lie.

Take a step back and look at what they’ve added in the last year:

1) They buffed arrow carts
2) They added ranks
3) They added mastery lines
4) They added orb buffs
5) They added PPT for stomping
6) They added Living Story
7) They added achievements
8) They added WvW infusions
9) They made siege tradable
10) They added random matchups
11) They deleted the WvW matchup forum

Now let me ask you, which of these 11 ’features’ promotes a fair and competitive battlefield?

None of them.

With the exception of PPT for stomps, every change they have made to WvW in the past year has either been a PvE cosmetic change or a power creep change. PPT for stomps would have been a great addition to WvW if it wasn’t tied to stat increasing orb buffs.

They’ve done absolutely nothing to promote a fair and balanced competition which is what the vast majority of us want. The less they touch WvW, the better.

I’d just assume go back to beta WvW because it’s better than WvW we have now.

Agreed

The challenge is in the coordination, not the gameplay. If I could pick whom I did the encounter with, it would be amazing. But since I have to do it with random people who choose not to participate, it’s poor.

The wurm fight is one of the worst I’ve ever experienced in any video game.

The difficulty of the encounter does not lay in the game play. I have killed all 3 wurms (not at once) and can tell you that each one of them is actually quite simple and easy.

The difficulty lays in communicating to the uninformed masses. Getting people to talk, space out, and work together in unison is the only challenging part of the fight. The actual gameplay mechanics themselves are running bombs, running buffs, and dying next to abominations. Not exactly anything difficult or anything new for that matter.

I picked up this video game to play a video game. This is not a video game anymore, it’s a college course on people management. This is going entirely the wrong direction from my interests.

perilisk.1874:

Not learned:
At least 20% of any open world zerg are going to be useless -- griefers, afks, or just undergeared, underleveled, or underskilled. In playtesting (assuming it’s even done) an event with 100 people, assign 20 to actively try to wreck the event. If you can’t make it work, it isn’t going to work in-game for most groups, without resorting to tricks like overflow abuse and external programs to provide the kind of coordination that isn’t supported in-game.

In my honest opinion,

This is the one big issue to me.

Both of these encounters are fun to attempt and the challenge is certainly there. I would do them even for no loot and no achievements. I don’t mind the wait times, I’ll just do something else and go to the overflow when they’re about to spawn.

But the problem comes with random people especially in the overflow. People that do not attempt to do the mechanics or contribute to fight and just auto attack or perhaps not even that.

You attempt to explain the mechanics to them, they don’t listen.
You turn on the commander tag to get them to follow, they don’t follow.
You ask them to revive at closest WP when dead, they don’t move.

I’m doing everything in my power to succeed yet, we’re still failing because xXxArthorDaLegendxXx doesn’t want to participate and contribute to the event. If I fail something because my guildmates or friend aren’t up to par, I will take responsibility for that because I choose them to be my friends. But I will not take responsibility for some random player who just shows up, wants free loot, and will not contribute.

That’s the biggest problem in this game and that needs to be addressed.

Yea, tied for 3rd.

1st = Ehmry Bay, Tarnished Coast
3rd = Crystal Desert, Blackgate, Sanctum of Rall, Jade Quarry

The Marionette fight is extremely fun and very well done.

The problem is you having to count on random people to succeed. You can only explain so much, if people are unwilling to listen you will fail and nobody wants to fail because of random others they will never see again.

High difficulty is good if you can choose who you do it with. Making 100 people fail because 10 people don’t want to participate and just stand there is not good.

Not much has changed since September. Each class got a new heal skill but most players prefer the old heals.

Warriors are still the best class for PvE but if you’re looking to start fresh, play an ele .

It’s like a dog begging for treats.

If you ignore it, eventually it will go away.
If you feed it, it will keep begging for more.

ANet fed the dog in November 2012 when it added ascended gear. Now every few months it keeps feeding the dog. That’s why the dog’s not going away.

It’s impossible to balance this game or any other MMO for that matter. It’s why MMO PvP will never be a successful e-sport. There’s too many variables.

I’ll give you a PvE example because it’s easier to understand but you can apply it to PvP as well.....

Berserker gear = 1700ish DPS
Soldier gear = 1400ish DPS and 500 DPS mitigation

If a fight does not require mitigation, Berserker gear will always be better.
If a fight does require mitigation, Soldier gear will always be better.

There will never be a scenario in which these two sets are equal. They will NEVER be balanced. One of them will always situationally be better than the other.

You have two choices in this game:

1) Run the best build and win
2) Don’t run the best build and lose

It’s that simple. Cheese or be cheesed.

I guess their adding might stacking on weapon swap to Runes of the Pirate if that’s what you’re looking for.

IDK tho, bunch of people running around shouting Yarrrr! is going to be obnoxious.

Not a fan of fighting opponents that you can’t see. I have played hundreds of games from FPS to MOBA to MMO and this is the only one without a reveal mechanic.

I’m not saying that thieves or mesmers are overpowered, thieves are probably a bit weak in the current meta. I’m saying that it’s not fun to flail at the air randomly hoping to hit something that may not be there.

Between that and evade evade dodge miss block evade miss evade block invulnerable invulnerable invulvernable miss block evade. It’s just not very fun.

Elmo Benchwarmer.3025:

Better: ban ascended gear to Fractals.

Easy to program: make ascended gear equal in stats to exotics.

Because fighting a door is more difficult than fighting a zerg?

lordkrall.7241:

The gear will still be the gear with highest DPS, so what would you want to change it for?

And lets be honest, most people went for Zerker because they knew it was much stronger than everything else and should have known that it would be nerfed sooner or later.

This isn’t true tho.

Berserker gear = 1700ish DPS
Soldier gear = 1400ish DPS and 500 DPS mitigation

Soldier is actually quite a bit stronger than Berserker gear statistically prior to the nerf, after the nerf that gap will be massive. Vitality and Toughness scale better than Precision or Crit Damage. The only reason Berserker gear was ever considered better is because the encounters are faceroll easy.

Once they redo the encounters, like they say they will. Berserker will not only need to be reverted to where it is now, it will need to be made stronger.

Adjusting monster AI first then adjusting the builds around the new AI makes the most sense.

Why adjust builds first?

To slow down the game for the farmers and speed runners.

I’m not saying whether this change is good or bad but it’s clearly a big middle finger directed at a certain group of players.

Funny how everyone with Ultimate Dominator in the NA bracket is from SoR

Makes you wonder.....

The less damage you do, the longer it takes to complete content, the less rewards you recieve.

Ferocity is just a raw 10% increase in grind throughout the entire game. They want you buying those gems and converting to gold.

tPvP is far more complex than simply killing and running. Bunker builds rely on team support to kill enemies while they hold nodes. It seems to me you’re not supporting your team and just doing your own thing.

Grav.3568:

Peetee.9406:

It’s not meant to be this stupid kittening PPT meta with map politics, buying guilds and throwing matches along with the other myriad of bullkitten I’ve had to endure playing in NA T1 for the past year.

Nobody has to “endure” T1. There are seven other tiers, you know…

I’ll happily take donations for the 10000 gold it will cost to move my guild to another tier.

Fasyx.9347:

Just read this, thought I´ll share it because it´s on topic: http://www.votf.net/page/index.html/_/articles/farewell-guild-wars-2-r22

Best of luck to VoTF wherever their adventures may take then.

One of the very few top end guilds in this game that I had respect for. They were always in it for the challenge and testing themselves against the competition, that’s what PvP is suppose to be about. It’s not meant to be this stupid kittening PPT meta with map politics, buying guilds and throwing matches along with the other myriad of bullkitten I’ve had to endure playing in NA T1 for the past year.

Good luck sirs!

Thaddeus.4891:

Reverence.6915:

Bloodstealer.5978:

More Strategic???.. you really haven’t played WvW a whole lot for sure.
Strategic WvW passed into the ether a year ago.. today all that is left is Zergwars and PvD. there is nothing more than someone shouting “X” server is at “Y” tower 30+ and a blue tag answering on our way, stack and go…

move to a competitive WvW server

I’m in CD, a Tier 5 in the moment so probably not a ‘’competitive WvW server. But still a 30+ Zerg is not that frequent and not a lot of group can PVD a door to death except maybe against a unprotected, unseige paper tower. A lot of commander are only staying follow me and shut up which can ruin the experience of some people. I prefer to explain what are my plan so people can understand what I’m trying to do. Usually i get really good comments when i do that and people seem to feel more their importance in the game.

By ‘competitive’, he means 60 man BG blobs running into 20 man SoR guilds. Outcome is about 50-50.

You do realize that SoR has the lowest score of any of the 24 NA servers this week right?

6 months ago, Tier 1 was the only balanced tier in the entire NA bracket. Now it’s one of the most unbalanced tiers in the NA bracket.

Even with JQ/SoR double teaming you and you not playing to win, you’re still crushing us. That’s how unbalanced this tier has become.

This is not a ’pat yourself on the back’ moment, this is a ’oh god, what have we done’ moment. Your guilds should be transferring off to even the tier but you’re Blackgate. You only care about winning and not about fair play.

Elementalist survivability

Mainly getting killed by melees in under a second of combat in WvW.

zedtanga.6571:

spent 3 hours Saturday and Sunday mornings upgrading mendons/ anz and speldans.

Lost them to a blob in like 40 seconds or less using superior cats.

I am not normal guy to rage but It made my head hot lol.

It not the players fault we were outnumbered.

My big frustration is all that time and I got nothing for it. I might as well just run with the server karma train commander farming money and wp points.

It all turns WPVP into a big PVE joke and that gets my boxer shorts in a bunch.

3 or 4 weeks ago I watch a crummy dev twitch show displaying the new bl zone, for overflow and whatever? it will thin out the lower pop servers even more for wpvp points battles.

Overflow wHAT THE ….. overflow? really? your about a year late.

It’s not that you’re just getting nothing for your effort. You’re actually losing the precious little gold that you have. Siegeing and upgrading costs gold, gold that is not replenished through normal WvW play.

Take a step back and look at the situation. You’re essentially dedicating time to being frustrated and annoyed. Do you consider that to be good gameplay?

It’s like I’ve told my guildmates and servermates, walk away until they fix the problem. It’s not your job to fight bad design.

I think a T1 v T7 matchup would be cool for a day. The T7 server could have their ’Sparta’ moment trying to hold their keep against the waves of zerglings, meanwhile the T1 server could get their map completion done.

Every dungeon run does yield 1 piece of armor.

3 paths x 66 tokens x 5 people = 990 tokens

990 tokens = 3-4 pieces of armor

They have plans to create a plan to plan out new plans making planning plans easier to plan.

Most of the SoR guilds have massive egos and love to show false bravado. Truth is nobody here wants to play against Blackgate.

I’m not sure who your source is but I know of 4 other major guilds on the server that will be leaving within the next few days. Our ranking will stay inflated until we get paired against a lower server that will soundly beat us. TC will move into T1 for a few months, you can blob them until they follow the same path we are.

Reverence.6915:

SpehssMehreen.5897:

Blackgate server is full ._. when did this happen?

Go to SoR or JQ

Go to JQ or TC.

SoR’s WvW guilds are in the process of relocating. Those of us that are staying are hopeing to drop to Silver league.

Just my opinion,

Players are frustrated that the money they’ve already put in to this game has not been put to good use. A large portion of money has gone to the development of another NCSoft title. The few scraps that ANet has been given is being used on temp content, jumping puzzles and mini-games that most are not interested in.

Coming up with a new payment plan is not a solution. Weekly sales is not a solution. Asking for more money is not a solution.

Until the players see real content updates most of us are not going to pitch in another dime regardless of the pay model.

Where is the precursor scavenger hunt?
Where is Cantha?
Where are the new weapons, classes and skills?
Where are the alternate sPvP game modes?
Where are the account wide WvW ranks?
Where is Edge of the Mists?

Until we start to see some of these updates, there will be no more financial growth for GW2.

Vol.7601:

Thump. Thump…..

There’s a secret deep below to find

Obviously, Lord Faren has purchased a new Speedo.

I really enjoyed your writeup and video. Also, your thinking is great and imaginative as well.

Which is precisely the reason I know it’s not true.

I’m not a fan of MMO PvP in general.

The screen is too cluttered and combat is too hard to follow. I’d much rather play an FPS or MOBA.