Guild Wars 2

Reverence.6915:

BTW SoR and JQ, you guys need more roamers. Seriously. I’m also not talking about a group of 10-15 camping outside a keep. That’s not roaming. That’s just being useless.

Pass.

I’ve fed enough bags to Riot/OPp. There’s only so many times you can die to PU mesmers , perma stealth thieves and nike warriors before you get bored and find a new hobby.

After watching this game 180 on core design 3 months into launch, I’d be very hesitant to purchase any other NCSoft title.

They promise 20-40 man raids but how long till they cave in to the whiners and put out a downscaled 5 man version? They say you’ll be able to pay for your sub with in game credit but who’s to say in game credit will be easy to acquire?

Than again, if it’s anything like this game half of their promises are flat out lies anyway.

I may buy the game eventually but it won’t be until 6 months after release and we’ve seen whether their promises are sacred truths or just marketing hype.

The balance team has done a decent job of keeping the game balanced at the one aspect it focuses on, 3v3 sPvP combat. In this very small window, I would say the classes are balanced or as close to balanced as they could be.

Now the rest of the game, obviously there are deficiencies. The one lesson to be learnt is that you can’t balance pve, spvp, and wvw together. You need to treat all 3 like their own separate entity and balance around them seperately. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll ever see this done.

Don’t we all......

Have you considered a moba or rts?

Meta = Zerg or be Zerged
Roam = Cheese or be Cheesed
Scouting = Boring
Building = Boring
Upgrading = Boring
Escorting = Boring

Yah, I am not sure there is anything in WvW that I actually like. Maybe huge open field fights between even forces but you’re lucky to get that once a day and it only lasts about 20 seconds.

MMOs are just a bad platform for competitive play.

When you take 2 classes and give them different skills, one class will always situationally be better than the other. When you add more classes and more skills, the situation only gets worse.

When you do TeamQ, you don’t know who your opponents are, what classes they are, what builds they are running until you’re in the arena. By then you’re locked into your build.

It’s not fair + balanced and its never going to be fair + balanced. You may as well run any build you want.

I don’t mean to sound rude but if you’re coming to the forums already asking questions and you aren’t even level 5 yet. This game isn’t for you.

Its a free to play game. They don’t have the money to hire additional staff to investigate hacking allegations or program in hack detection.

......and they never will.

This is why WvW doesn’t get frequent updates. They know they can’t stop the hackers and they know people will eventually quit because of it. It’s only going to get worse.

Eles have been getting 2 shot by glass thieves for 9 months now. Full health to downed in under 0.5 seconds, no time to even react.

Pardon me for not feeling sympathetic.

RNG is RNG

Ecto rate for Master’s is around 0.8. If you were getting 1 for 1, you were very lucky. Now not so lucky.

Thief sneaks up on an Ele
CnD -> BS = Ele is downed
Ele mistforms into tower
Thief cries OP

Mesmer drops a feedback and 12 conf stacks on a Ranger
Ranger instantly downs himself
Mesmer tries to DPS Ranger to death
Pet outheals Mesmer DPS
Mesmer cries OP

Someone should open a 3rd party website where you can input and retrieve information about other players. Had a bad experience? Put the names and what happened on the site so the next player can look them up and save themselves a lot of trouble.

DarkWasp.7291:

Peetee.9406:

Sword/Warhorn for Rangers

Sword/Axe :P (Unless you’re pugging and no one is granting fury)

No, it’ Sword/Warhorn. Neither axe skill does more DPS than the sword auto attack, at least the warhorn gives fury and a blast.

Except greatsword isn’t the highest dps weapon.....for any class.

Axe/Mace for Warriors
Scepter/Focus for Guardians
Sword/Sword for Mesmers
Sword/Warhorn for Rangers

All better DPS than greatsword.

kokiman.2364:

Okay there seems to be a big misunderstanding about what farmers want and what not. 1 . Their farming routine doesn’t have to be very profitable 2. Their farming routine must be simple and repetetive. That’s why the champ-bag farm is so popular. Those people actually love to do boring/simple tasks over and over again (I still don’t understand why they do that), otherwise they would do other stuff that’s more profitable.

Sometimes you just want to drink a beer and auto attack your way to victory. It’s not always that way but sometimes it is.

It’s not 1 warrior that’s the problem, it’s multiple warriors.

The best synergy for a hammer warrior is another hammer warrior. When you get 4-5 together they can easily take out groups 3x their size.

Meta = zerg or be zerged
Roam = cheese or be cheesed

WvW is boring, its that simple. The only thing that ever made WvW interesting was your servermates and the rivalries with your opponents. But now that ArenaNet has decided to ban everyone with an opinion from the forums, no one cares anymore.

SoR used to fight like hell when BG took a lead. Now nobody cares.....

There’s no heart and soul in WvW anymore. There’s no reason to keep fighting. The rivalries are dead and your servermates are gone.

It’s Honeymooon. He also has an alt guardian too that’s up there in rank.

Yeah, agree with above.

Fractals and WvW roaming probably the fastest.

The core game is great, don’t think there’s many people that disagree with that.

Now those living story updates.....

Once again, goes to prove how out of touch ANet is with their playerbase.

Do you really think any of us neckbeards use facebook?

As an ele, you’re going to stand in the back and drop meteor showers + support fields
As a necro, you’re going to stand in the back and drop wells + marks

Do you want pretty red + blue graphics or dreary green + black graphics?
That’s the ultimate question.

Yup, I am still here.

But that style of play only works in PvE. You go into WvW in greens/yellows looking for a challenge you’re just going to get 2 shot by a thief.

You could go get a minimum wage job from McDonalds.

That would net you more gold per hour, probably be more entertaining too.

Could be worse, could have to play on Crapricorn.

On behalf of Mr. Tixx, I would like to issue an apology to all those offended by his recent stroke of genius. Rest assured, Mr. Tixx is adjusting the dynoflux capacitors to remove that ghastly yellow tint as we speak. Soon you will be able to view the posteriors of females in a much more clear and life like manner. Thank you for your understanding with this issue.

1 lvl 20 scroll and 60 tomes of knowledge, dude just ganks people as they spawn in the newbie story.

Sounds great!

Where to begin......

- Skills that hit more than 5 people
- No events full of vets and champs that don’t drop loot
- No DR when I wanted to play a 10 hour bender on my days off
- Free 1 day transfers
- WvW being about the rights and not the karma and rank farm
- BIS gear attainable through preferred play style
- BIS gear attainable for all your characters
- Ability to swap characters receive full dungeon and wboss rewards
- World/Dungeon bosses were not HP sponges.
- Waypoint mid fight in dungeons
- No fail timers
- Cheap precursors

I would like to see RTL reverted back.

SAB World 1 Zones 1,2 were amazing. I’ll always have good memories from those. Well deserved!

It’s a video game, it has the same win condition every video game has. If you’re having fun, you’re winning.

If you’re scouting a tower in WvW and you hate doing it, you’re not winning even if your server finishes first that week.
If you’re running in a champ train bored out of your mind, you’re not winning even if you complete your legendary two weeks quicker.
If you’re running the fotm build on the fotm class in sPvP and are kitten ed off because your teammates aren’t, you’re not winning even if you finish first score.

If you’re not having fun, you’re not winning

RyuDragnier.9476:

Watch this be a complaint from T1 or T2. Most of the tiers don’t have that problem you’re experiencing guys.

T5…….close enough.

PVStar.3658:

Behellagh.1468:

PVStar.3658:

Of course it won, there’s was no competition in 2013 for MMOs.

Peetee.9406:

Testament to how bad the MMO market has become when a ‘C-’ title can claim to be the best of the bunch.

And thus the naysayers appear. This is why we can’t have people over.

Did I call GW2 a bad game, or even talk negatively about it at all in my post? No. I simply stated GW2 won because it had zero competition, which it didn’t. The fact that a game released mid 2012 won GotY for 2013 shows that nothing worth mentioning even came out in 2013. They had to choose something, so they chose the most successful recent MMO that’s been released.

I wasn’t speaking poorly of GW2 either.

I think a ‘C-’ is a fair grade to give Guild Wars 2 at the moment. This was a game that I gave a solid ‘A’ to at launch. But when you consider all the limitations they’ve put on players since launch, such as DR, one-a-day dungeons and world bosses, the aoe cap, the removal of free 1 day transfers, and the nerf to karma. The game (in my eyes) was clearly better at launch than it is today.

Yet, it’s still the best game on the market. That truly is a testament to how bad the rest of the games on the market are. That’s not an insult directed at GW2 so much as the rest of the market.

Certainly not a first. Most games take this path when they start to lose customers. Negativity brings more negativity, you can expect to see infractions picking up as well

Reminds me of an old poster I saw.

’Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is to fire all the unhappy people’

Testament to how bad the MMO market has become when a ’C-’ title can claim to be the best of the bunch.

Malchior.5042:

zoombi.1498:

maybe buygate can pay them to change policy?

Not even being a member of Blackgate, it’s posts like this that bait people into a shouting match, which does nothing but hurt the thread and leave both shouters out of air.

What? Posts like that are the the only reason the forums are worth coming to.

All those T1 bickering threads were because people cared. The fact you don’t see them anymore is because people don’t care anymore.

Let’s remove all the heart and soul from WvW, speed up it’s demise quicker.

Just another bad decision in a long line of bad decisions....

velmeister.4187:

This is a never-ending list of things that exist in this game. All of them can be used to enhance user experience or to kill it. Sometimes what looks great as a concept may fare poorly during implementation; something that seems to be a great idea can fail miraculously during execution.

GW2 is suffering from poor execution of great ideas and failed implementation of interesting concepts.

Probably that’s why many people are feeling alienated from this game.

This is spot on, but it was also spot on a year ago. To quote myself from 10 months ago:

Peetee.9406:

It’s my belief that the developers of this game have great vision and ideas, better than any game I have ever played before. Where they fail is with execution, the game simply has too many bugs and every patch seems to just add more of them to the game.

Nothing has changed, the game isn’t getting better. Every patch seems like it’s a step backwards. The wheels on the bus are stuck spinning in the snow and no one is willing to get out and push. It’s been like that for a year now….

At what point do you just get off the bus and walk home?

Heaven forbid someone want to just play with their friends.

Just wait until they send you an infraction for having too many infractions.

Trust me, you’ll stop caring about your mailbox at that point.

It comes down to money.....like most GW2 issues.

Conditions are too strong in PvP and too weak in PvE. They need to be separated but that would require time and personnel, something they’re not willing to invest in.

Speaking strictly from SoR vantage point, I’ve seen a rather large shift in our player base from WvW to sPvP. Every hotjoin I go into has at least 2-3 SoR players and I see quite a bit of BG/JQ players in there as well.

I think people are starting to realize that if you’re in it for the fights, sPvP is much better than WvW.

Ele and Ranger can both clear supply camps in under 15 seconds, pull behind a wall to los and have your pet/elemental tank while you mass AoE. Running a full zerk build with 2 elementals I can take fully upgraded supply camp in under 20 seconds + cap time.

Work twice as hard to be half as good.

The Ele Way!

Coming into this year, I had the expectation that another game would at some point step up and take GW2’s place as the best MMO. With 2 weeks left in the year and no game that has come close, I feel fairly certain it’s not going to happen.

borrok.9267:

One thief and one Mesmer, or two thieves, or two mesmers.

Pretty much the strongest combo

Stealth + Perplex abuse

WvW isn’t balanced, this isn’t new.

I watched 2 naked s/t mesmers win a 2v5 a few days ago. It is what it is.

Cynz.9437:

Oghier.7419:

Cynz.9437:

i have 6 ascended weapons + legendary on my thief, i could have had 3-4 ascended armor pieces (if i didn’t sell mats for gold) right now, most of that was made doing WvW

Six ascended weapons = 3,000 dragonite. Keep Lords give 3 to 5 each. The SM lord drops more, but you can only take that so often. You’ve knocked off nearly 1,000 keeps?

I’m leaving the legendary and the armor out of the equation.

i did join wboss train after server reset for hour or so, hence why i said most of it was from wvw; besides you can get only so much dragonite per day from pve, 2 weapons were drops doh

run karma train, you will get plenty of mats

my point still stands, i don’t think that wvw rewards are that bad; you still have relative good chance for rare drops like precursor/ascended not to mention all the bags/t5/t6 mats, items you can salvage etc.; idk how OP or you do wvw, i know for fact my bags are always full when i run with the guild or karma train

be happy it is not as bad as in pvp, where you didn’t get anything nor could make any money from it

Karma train is not WvW, karma train is PvE, karma train needs to go away.

Ikaros.7812:

Sometimes the game likes to make you suffer fall damage when you’re running down stairs, especially if you jump a lot like I do. Happens very easily if you take a small amount of fall damage when you jump down a few steps in the stairs around that area – then you keep taking fall damage when you normally run down until you either pause for a moment or die from it.

This gentleman is correct. Happens to me frequently.

Why would they sell you an expansion for $40 with all new content when they can just copy and paste 90% of the game and sell it to you for $60 as a whole new game called ’Wildstar’?