Guild Wars 2

Shanks R Us.2489:

pita spoon.5708:

Shanks R Us.2489:

Lets hope the mobs of IoJ players tone down after reset day. Don’t think I had a 1v1 for longer than 30 seconds that didn’t result in either A them dying right away or B 5+ of their friends showing up.

ive dueled you before.. its gonna take more than 1 anyway to beat you so get used to it..lol

I’d even be okay with 2, lol. 3, sure, I like a challenge. But I can’t do anything about 6, most times.

Also Moose, good post, but I highly doubt 95% of the population will change the way they’re already playing. GoM has way too many people, and IoJ has a pretty large population. When they’ve got that many on the map, they probably don’t see a reason to not zerg.

But hey, here’s hoping.

Yeah, it’s very sad. I guess I just don’t see the point =(, what do they need the WvW exp for? Not one of those skill points is even remotely beneficial when you have such large numbers.

I just wish more people felt the way we do about WvW, that it should be about the actual fight. Not golem rushing and trying to tag enemies for loot.

Hopefully those who do agree with us will at least make an attempt this week and try to pass along the message.

I’m going to suggest something rather radical for this weeks match up that could potentially make WvW much more fun for everyone involved.

Many of us are in these lower Tiers for the sole purpose of avoiding what’s become known as…“The Blob”, “The unskilled Zerg” the “Holy Kitten TURN AROUND!” we are here for the fight.

It’s unfortunate that this game promotes zerging in every way, shape, and form. You get more bags, more WvW exp, and more money. I completely understand the benefit to running with an unstoppable force but at what cost? Do you really find that to be enjoyable? If so, by all means continue to Zerg, take keeps, and most importantly have a great time in WvW!

For those of you who are like me, and many others in these lower tiers listen up. This is GUILD WARS. Not PUG Wars, not Zerg Wars, or Siege Wars. Let’s change the direction of these lower tiers. Let’s make this more enjoyable for those of us who still enjoy a great fight.

Please, let’s take this week and make a concerted effort to increase the number of smaller scale fights. Run with your friends, your GUILD. Make a stand against uneven odds, and have the courage to venture off on your own without the backing of 30-40 players from your server. You’ll be rewarded with great fights and earn the respect of the games remaining roamers.

TL;DR : If you’re a commander Tag up, please. More commanders on the maps let’s create more fights. Try to create a more diverse WvW rather than everyone amassing on one commander.

Roamers/Solo artists/Guilds Take this time to break free from the zerg and work on your group composition, builds, individual skill.

Myst.5783:

Perphection.8209:

…Are you seriously trying to show off with that Pearl Dagger in your offhand? This reminds me of the girl taking a “classy” bathroom pic with a giant kitten floating around in the toilet.

I’ll have you know I quit being cheap an upgraded it right after that photo.

I normally do S/D, so the dagger skin didn’t bother me.

Uploading new photo just for you~

That’s more like it! =) I’m glad you upgraded it though haha

Myst.5783:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

GoM’s always been a high pop server, even after most of our WvW crowd left because of the orb hacking stuff that happened in the early months. It’s just that we’re a heavily PvE-based server and easily distracted by shiny objects with particle effects. The fact that you see giant seas of GoM players running around is just a byproduct of being on a winning streak and having commanders run karma trains.

You’ll probably notice a pretty big population drop next time we take a tough loss. You’ll probably also notice a lot less forum warriors coming out of the woodworks to run their mouths.

Did someone say shiny?!!!!

I love da shiney!~

I shall keep the forum war up as long as it entertains me.

…Are you seriously trying to show off with that Pearl Dagger in your offhand? This reminds me of the girl taking a “classy” bathroom pic with a giant kitten floating around in the toilet.

Thought I’d share this video Agriope Abyssborne from [vT] made. You might know her as the bad kitten D/D Ele with Dual Incinerators =)

WARNING There’s a lot of dead BP and SBI in this video.

anzenketh.3759:

We work open field tactics just fine thank you. We are already a force to be reckoned with.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen on these forums.

F=ma, All you have is a greater Mass, in numbers. I really hope you don’t consider what SBI does as skill.

Same issue here. I crash every time I’ve logged in since the last patch.

I’ve been having the same problem as the aforementioned folks. My problems have only gotten increasingly worse, especially after this most recent patch. It’s now to the point where I’m only going to attempt logging into the game if there has been a patch. Please fix this.

Aeros.2046:

Good lord AR, what did you expect to happen, golem rushing SBI Borderlands? Hat off to that Char Hammer warrior that bravely tried to defend Dreadfall bay from the Shadaran Defense Forces after his zerg and all its golems were wiped at the north gate and left the map. Least he had the right idea. Props to you man.

Haha, well I had a good time trying to defend! Outnumbered or not I’ll generally stick around for a fight if I know there is even a chance. (.0001% is still a chance)

As far as AR players/commanders are concerned I don’t know what to tell you. I really question why half of our server enters WvW when all they do is run from fights. Just another reason Commander tags should be earned and not purchased.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

So who are the patriots and who are the redcoats?

Also, does that make AR the French?

Hahaha, that definitely makes AR the French. Rather than learn to play and become organized our server says, “I’m le tiredddd” and took a nap for 3 weeks!

DevonCarver.5370:

One up and one down solves some problems but creates a bunch more. Including that it invalidates ratings entirely. It no longer takes into account quality of victory but simply uses the fact of victory to move a server out of the matchup they were previously in.

Devon, ratings are already and have been invalidated. I could care less if my server wins or loses at the end of the week.

What’s the point? “Congratulations! You’ve been promoted to Tier 1. Here you will experience skill lag and massive zergs! Good luck doing anything but smashing #1”

I don’t know about you but, normally when I win I receive something. If you want your precious ratings to be valid, reward the players with something other than “+5% Crafting exp!!!” …really?

Devon, can this guy take your job for just a week? You guys should seriously consider some of these suggestions.

Nak.8315:

Korav.8462:

Also to [vT], very tough group and I was hoping we could catch you with more even odds, unfortunately it didn’t happen. The fighting outside of “briar” earlier in the night where you had a few others not in [vT] (sorry didn’t catch the guild names) was a very interesting tactic that was very effective, so thank you for the thought provoking encounter.

[vT] & Others lastnight, like Korav said, you guys gave us some interesting fights, and some future discussion of builds for our Core Group. I hope we run into you guy some more before the pairings change.

Haha, yeah those were some fun fights. We chased you guys around for a little bit hoping we could overcome the odds =)

Great teamwork and coordination by [COF] though, keep up the good work.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Good fights tonight at the fight club in EB BL – specifically to you vT guys.

-Menorah

The fight club was great! [vT] Has a lot of respect for everyone in [GH], you’ve given us awesome fights and definitely made us better players. You guys are a great guild with some very skilled players, you’ll do well in any tier you go to.

I have a feeling that this post, is the real trolling post. If you honestly step down under these circumstances you need to seriously re-evaluate. Don’t let someone dictate your words and actions.

JonPeters.5630:

Thanks for this report. I will try and fix it for the next build.

By “fix” do you mean make it so that Elixir S now Immobilizes us and puts 25 stacks of vulnerability? If so, that would be awesome. These past “fixes” have been kittening awesome!

Hawktopus on Anvil Rock.

Derpinator.2894:

They’re probably just trying to finish the map.

Don’t be that person that attacks. Just let them finish and move on so they’ll get OUT.

Or you could get the “glory” from killing a helpless person who just wants to not be there in the first place and prove that you are a tiny-minded thing.

Carry on.

If you see an enemy.. Kill them. This is WvW, I’m sorry but unless you can kill me you’re getting no where near that Vista. So put some clothes on and stop crying because no one is completing the hearts for me in PvE that I despise so much.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

what are you thinking for support? I currently run a cleric’s support build in high level fractals with healing turret and bomb heals. I use the turret, auto explode it for the water field area heal and I think these changes will be a nerf to it.

I’m seriously hoping that it’s a true water field on the Healing Turret now. Something that can actually be useful in group play, not like the current implementation of the turrets water field which is an absolute joke.

CriSPeH.8512:

^ I disagree with Engineers being dominated by Elixir Engineers. I have seen a good increase in the number of Engineers playing in WvW and PvP and almost none of them have been HGH Elixirs.
Most are somekind of Bombkit Hybrid Bunker or a wannabe 100Nades type build. In PvP there has been a surpising number of Turret triers.

So my question would be

1. Where is the evidence to actually justify the nerfs and changes the Engineers have recieved? You keep claiming you want to diversify Engineer builds but all you have done to accomplish this is systematically eliminate the most popular Engie builds every month. We even received a pre-nerf to Grenades because we were going to get Sigils in the future, a pre-nerf.
   In short WTF is your goal with this profession because it is becoming a waste of time having to constantly anticipate what build you will delete next and it is a waste of gold trying to spec for things tht will get removed if they are too good.

That’s a good point Crispeh. It doesn’t necessarily have an impact on all players considering sPvP and tPvP have free gear, but for the players in WvW and PvE these changes come at a cost and I can see where you are coming from.

I’m actually anticipating the upcoming changes to Healing turret and building a support build around it. I personally already see it as being much too powerful, considering the amount of blast finishers readily available to engineers, but it sounds fun.

The solution to all of our problems are very simple. If Karl is one of the people developing our traits, this game will never get balanced. I’ve never seen someone so unsure about everything. No offense if you read this Karl, but watch the SOTG’s I’m not certain that you have a clue what’s going on.

So my question is for Karl.

What’s the deal man? You live and breath GW2 development, building, creating and maintaining traits and skills. How do you not know what you’re fixing, or how they’re going to be fixed or what they even do for that matter. I’m really glad to hear that the Mesmer “Is in a good spot” again, but the engineers as it’s been stated will have build diversity because of consistent nerfs. Fix what’s broken rather than playing triage nurse with the symptoms.

oZii.2864:

“gasp the vT female sylvari engi”

=) Come on we’ve had some great fights

BrianRonin.1673:

The fights I’ve had as a small group running with SaF have been the best group fights I’ve ever had. Noteable fights that were “evenly matched” was with a group of GH from ebay and a group of VT from AR

Let me stress again… it was fun!

Hey, [vT] Engineer here. I just wanted to completely agree with you. We recently transferred to AR and are having an absolute blast!

The fights here are amazing. I feel like we find a new rivalry every night and there is rarely a dull moment. For the most part this Tier is courteous, respectful and full of amazing players.

So thank you [SaF], and every other guild in this Tier for making WvW so much fun.

Mif.3471:

I know how you feel OP. I’d have map completion done if it wasn’t for PVE.

LOL! That has to be my favorite response in any forum, I’m right there with ya =)

DevonCarver.5370:

While I think there is a good argument for this, we haven’t discussed it enough yet for me to say if we would or would not want to go this route. We are looking at the commander system generally, because we think it can be improved upon, and as part of that discussion we’ll almost certainly look into how you become a commander.

How could you not see the flaw in letting players BUY the commander title to begin with? You want to know why we have 100+ man zergs? Because you allowed players with no WvW experience to become commanders.

Players who lack skill, tactics and, have poor communication compensate with numbers.

The fact that you have not yet “discussed it enough” is very concerning. If you want a gold sink allow players to buy new Weapon/Armor skins upon unlocking particular WvW Ranks.

If you want incentivized WvW Gameplay! Put in WvW Weapon/Armor skins upon unlocking particular ranks!

Remove the current title system, so we don’t have to see “Dungeon Master!!!” (If you’re smart you target those people first.), and allow us to show our WvW Rank! I’d much rather know if the guy next to me is an Assaulter with no WvW experience or a god kitten Spartan soldier.

Get your kitten together over there.

DevonCarver.5370:

Victory.2879:

DevonCarver.5370:

I can’t make any promises, because nothing is set in stone yet, but that is something I would like to address, yes.

Seven months of people pointing out the sheer impossibility of obtaining any of the wvw titles in any reasonable timespan and it’s finally reached the stage of ’it’s something I’d like to address’.

I can’t speak to what has or has not been done in the past, but I have just started to improve WvW and I hope you can all provide me the benefit of the doubt. For at least one build, then you can return to the gnashing of teeth as usual.

Hi Devon…concerned GW2 WvW player here. Given your (Arena Net) current track record on WvW builds should we expect one anytime soon?

Also, you stated that you’ve “started to improve WvW”, can you shed some light on that? To me it seems like a very subjective statement. It would be great if we had a representative that was candid with the community.

Brassnautilus.2941:

All these titleless scrubs afraid of people seeing who you really were?

KEEP SHOWING THE TITLES

The ONLY titles you’re going to get are PvE, you will not EVER in your entire WvW career obtain one of the titles currently available. That being said, take your “Dungeon Master” title out of WvW.

Please let us determine if we want to see this or not. It’s obstructing our view! How can I appropriately choose targets when I can’t even see them because there is a giant wall of text?

Hi Devon. First order of Business please allow us to hide players titles. I do not need to see “Dungeon Master” in WvW. It’s obstructing views in larger group fights and is completely unnecessary, especially since no one will ever kill 1,000,000 yaks.

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that you should always treat forum trolls like Gremlins.

(1) No bright light (Never give them the time of Day!)
(2) Don’t get him wet (Trolls get off on you feeding.)
(3) Never feed him after midnight, no matter how much he begs!!

*COUGH …Tool … *COUGH

The new culling system is horrendous. I recall seeing quite a few threads during the testing phase that also pointed this out, and here they are again.

Not seeing the other players in this game is completely unacceptable.

In my opinion it has honestly gotten worse, ANET can you look into possible issues with drivers/hardware?