Guild Wars 2

DF was so good, possibly the best addition to any MMo to date.

- Superb loot
- Dangerous and exciting because of possible enemies
- Possibilities to go ganking
- Epic battles down in the depths of it when the team farming got encountered by the team who just got entrance
- Gave a reason to go take keeps other than for points. Even the losing team would have a reason to go and try.

The link to that build doesnt work for me

the #1 autoattack is slow and is outdamaged by the shortbow #1 ability even without the bleed.

This needs looking at asap aswell as this obstructed bug when nothing is standing in my way

RUIN are a joke, an immature egotistic noskill zerg guild.
I would feel ashamed to drop in skill level to join them

We unfortunately left Devona’s because all of the PvE zones are bare empty.
I will vouch however that they have a nice tight WvW community building

Another thread about this is here already
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/WvW-make-it-more-DAOC-style-scrap-the-scores/first#post152104

the DAOC system is better than the GW2 system because DAOC keeps their theme to an MMO perspective, not this e-sport scoring game system.

Get rid of the scoring system, and even the lower pop servers getting crushed wont mind so much as its not so demoralizing when theres no scores to look at. Look at Hibernia on the old days of DAOC, always outnumbered but they could go out and hit in force now and again and claim a victory.

Bring back realm pride and fighting for the orbs of power instead of this esport.

I want to hear more peoples thoughts on a system without scoring, to make GW2 an mmorpg instead of an esport

WvW shouldnt be an e-sport, it should be realm pride.

purplestone.8364:

Thats a good idea, DAOC has the best pvp system ever made imo, however with the current state of gw2 if they did do something like that there would still need to be rematching because there would still be the issue of one server dominating the other two, points or not.

But this then becomes a challenge for the lower pop team instead of the current “impossible to win via scores” demoralisation of their team.

Remember Hibernia in the old days of DAOC? Always always outnumbered, but it made them so tight that they were amazing when they hit in force.

This is what makes games like daoc what they were, and i would LOVE LOVE LOVE GW2 to do this same thing.

maximumpanda.5178:

ontop of that many organizations on NSP made it very clear that they flat out refused to work with us. also most of the night crew at NSP were actually members of AA or ruin who stayed behind, but have since rejoined us.

So your alliance basically wanted a monopoly on whichever server they were on, to feel like they own it, and they couldnt get that on Northern Shiverpeaks so moved to a newly created empty server to claim it as their own.

Gotcha.

As the title says, i feel GW2 would progress much more as an MMO if you simply ditch the WvW scoring system and go to a DAOC style WvW area, which is pretty much exactly what you have minus the scoring.

There would never be timed/scored matches, only the pride of fighting for your server day in day out for the orbs of power.

You would see much less of the problems happening now as the power hungry alliances wouldnt be so desperate to get every man and their dogs on their servers, and there would be no clock watching and the desperation to zerg and control every point of a map to make your score go up faster.
Also there would be no long term winning or losing, the whole thing could change in an instant so no worrying about being 70k behind.

DAOC was and at this point still is the best RvR system ever made, and GW2 could easily be the modern version of that without this resetting score system.

so Panda, if you are wanting more night coverage, may i ask why you took that whole alliance from Northern Shiverpeaks who actually do have a night time coverage but nothign in the usa hours (thanks to you)

maximumpanda.5178:

we have no intention of killing your server, we will however accept people who wish to leave as we are still a really REALLY low population server.

And there it is, your error you just stepped into.
You are NOT accepting people, you are going and POACHING people from other servers. Theres a huge difference.

And in the WvW side of the game, no you are not a really REALLY low population server, you’re one of the highest pops with highest queues, unless youre recruiting them for pve!

Stop being selfish and just roll with the server who chose to play the server instead of making yourselves look like even more ridiculous.

Not quite sure how this could be implemented perfectly, but i had a brainstorm that you could add a “sister server” to the large overflowed ones.

Such as HoD would be queued in their hours long queue, but get the option on queue to go support their sister server Kaineng (for example) in their fight. Obviously priority would go to Kaineng players queueing incase it filled, and HoD players would still get their own queue pop when it happens and have the choice to move into their own game or to stay in Kainengs game.

You could also sister up for example ET with Devona’s, Stormbluff with Northern Shiverpeaks etc.
Hell you could even have a team rankings table aswell as the single rankings.

This could really work ideally for both servers involved as it would keep the gameplay flowing, and would help even the odds in the lower brackets.

Thoughts?

Knights amulet in sPvP is pow precision vita, thats the combo i said we dont get, sorry to disappoint you
And also what youre saying is that we must take meditations and a 30 point tree that i dont want to compensate for what warrior dps get? Because aside from that an 80 point virtue passive isnt going to convince me

If the gate is “in combat” , you should not be able to repair it, just like daoc.

maximumpanda.5178:

i know we are sending “diplomatic” missions to other servers at late night to recruit for next weeks battle.

Really? Really? You guys go to recruit guilds from other servers to fight for you on an already 2 hour queued server?
People like you will be the death of this game and the death of the mid ranks servers, please quit the game and go diaf, this game is better off without you.

Im glad the aussies didnt leave IoJ as were about to get a nice transfer of guilds to the usa side of the server which im positive theyll be happy with to get the usa side as competitive as the oceanic side

Scynthetic.1236:

Psy.6153:

We have boycotted WvW this week until ET are out of this bracket, whoever is in charge of putting them down there needs a serious talking to.

Even if the rumors are true that ET threw some games to get dropped a bracket, whoever is in charge of matching them up should have half a brain to realise that they are one of the top ranked servers not down in this bracket.

Way to go on ruining WvW for 3 servers for a week

I know how bad it sucks getting matched up with one of the mega servers, but what is Anet supposed to do? There’s 4 servers that match up fairly well with each other, so what happens with the 4th? They sit out for a week until they can play in the top tier again so other servers don’t have to face them?

Except Isle of Janthir are ranked 8th on the official rankings list.

We have boycotted WvW this week until ET are out of this bracket, whoever is in charge of putting them down there needs a serious talking to.

Even if the rumors are true that ET threw some games to get dropped a bracket, whoever is in charge of matching them up should have half a brain to realise that they are one of the top ranked servers not down in this bracket.

Way to go on ruining WvW for 3 servers for a week

They said that any class can do every role, but lets face it, theyve kinda just got Guardians wrong when it comes to DPS.

Lets compare to Warriors. They can throw on a full Berserker set and run around critting people for 13k while having a hefty 23k hp themselves.
Now Guardians, we put on a Berserker set, and we have what…. 13/14k hp? Thats asking to be 1 shot by the above Warrior. A block every 40 seconds and a passive 80hp heal just doesnt cut it in dps build to account for them massive differences.

You are basically forcing the Guardian to go for other gear. What options do we have?
Carrion gear. cool this has pow vit condition damage. Now we have to look for a condition build. Oh wait, all we have is a burn… 1 condition. Not good for the gsword choice really.
Ok we want to keep the crit up to be that Greatsword warrior counterpart, we have to wear gear with toughness and healing as theres no gear in-world which reflects the Knights amulet. Again, wtf?

You really need to take a look at this and either find a way to boost the dps guardians HP without overpowering the support guardian, or implement Knights gear ingame with the actual stats of the sPvP Knights Amulet.

5% precision from toughness doesnt increase my crit rating when i select the trait, anyone else getting this?

I was just curious as to why the auto attack on Hammer is so freekin slow? Is there any reason for it? As i see it, it nerfs the damage output of this weapon, as you can basically get 3 Gsword swings off in the time the 3rd swing of the Hammer takes.

Am i missing some reason as to why they would do this?

I just went hammer to try it out, im wondering WHY OH WHY is the Hammer #1 skill so SLOW????
Its like….wow, totally behind on dps because of how slow it is, im pretty sure i can get 3 greatsword hits off in the time it takes the hammer to swing.

Lame, totally lame.
Please make the hammer swing to the speed of the Gsword

Purina.5613:

Losing the guild stuff on transfer does suck, but were barely a month into the game so, meh who cares, we can get it back in another month

exactly, we are already back where we were only 5 days after xfer

Im kinda confused and seeking advice.
My Guardian alt is about to hit 80, and on my skill builder ive got 19k hp and 50ish % crit chance. As you know the gw2skills builder doesnt use real world gear though, it has the amulet and jewel which has all the stats in it.

Now the problem im having is that i was using the Knights jewel to give me 569 power 569 precision 798 vitalitu, and berserkers jewel for 125 power 75 precision 45 vitality 5% crit chance.

When i look at the lvl 80 world gear, theres nothing that matches this at all. I mean, Berserkers gear matches the amulet so warrs can easily pick up their matching set, but when i look at Knights gear it has different stats to the skill builder amulet.

In fact the only gear i see with Precision is Berserkers and Rampagers, one which has no vita and the other has condition damage. If i wear Berserkers set i’ll have very very low HP (i think around 12k?) and if i wear Rampagers i’ll have condition damage which my build doesnt revolve around.

What am i missing here? What happened to the power precision vitality gear which the Knights amulet reflects?

Purina.5613:

We at Retributuion just transfered from Jade Quarry to Devona’s Rest the night before last. We went from impossibly long que times and rarely ever getting to do WvW to almost insta pop’s and at the most a 5 minute wait in the que.

We are looking forward to working with the other guilds on this server to move us all up the rankings list.

In game contacts are Penumbral, Kratan, Meow Mix.
Our website is located here with registered public access for anyone who wishes to communicate with us.

Who is a good person for us to contact during prime time hours for organization?

Contact Grimaldi
And today was great on Devona’s. We lost everything overnight as usual, but it seems we have force in daytime now and wiped through 3 maps, was great stuff.

Few more guilds to us and we will really start to push on as a server

Did you guys even give any thought to what you were doing with the ability before implementing it? Why not just make it a use on the move ability like every other.

In PvE im jumping over mobs and missing them, jumping into rocks, over cliffs, etc

stupid change, just make it a use on the move ability.

trapline.8541:

My guild would transfer to a lower population server in a heartbeat, the problem is the amount of time and effort we’ve put in to unlocking guild rewards will be wasted, some of those rewards cost real cash… And it’s cash we don’t intend to spend twice.

Is there a way arenanet can consider letting guilds that leave high population world’s to smaller population world’s bring their unlocked guild research with them for a short period of time? Perhaps before 2 week matches start.

Its honestly not that bad. We transferred to Devona’s Rest 5 days back from JQ, and we’re already back where we were pretty much. Influence comes fast, but i do agree they should xfer with the guild.

A plea for a few guilds to transfer to Devona’s Rest (US):

Devona’s Rest is one of the lower bracket servers, being one of the newly released servers. But this server really is organized and very good in prime time with no to very very little queues (usually none). We are very close to being very competitive, but when we are hit with a full pop server (almost every matchup the server above us in rank) we struggle to hold off their zerg attacks and always 1 map gets totally overrun as our numbers cant be everywhere at once.

This is where YOU and your guild/alliance can make the difference on our server!

Even outnumbered we’ve still managed to have 40k leads only to lose them through the night and mornings, showing the potential of this server.

We have a solid larger alliance which broke off i believe from the AA alliance on a big server, and an excellent smaller alliance, both transferring to the server to be able to play with their guildmates…each having a very good commander.

All we need on Devona’s is a few more med-large guilds and trust me this server will start to hold its own and push up into the top tiers, so come on guys dont get trapped on a server where you’re stuck in long queues and cant play with your guild, get over to Devona’s. Start to actually enjoy the game together in the lower brackets and be part of a server’s progression up the ladder alongside all your guildmates in this awesome community on Devona’s Rest!

p.s. – remember its just 1 button each to click to transfer, and its still free to do so right now!

A plea for a few guilds to transfer to Devona’s Rest:

Devona’s Rest is one of the lower bracket servers, being one of the newly released servers. But this server really is organized and very good in prime time with no to very very little queues. We are very close to being very competitive, but when we are hit with a full pop server (almost every matchup the server above us in rank) we struggle to hold off their zerg attacks and always 1 map gets totally overrun as our numbers cant be everywhere at once.

This is where YOU and your guild/alliance can make the difference on our server!

Even outnumbered we’ve still managed to have 40k leads only to lose them through the night and mornings, showing the potential of this server.

We have 1 excellent small alliance and a larger alliance which broke off i believe from the AA alliance on a big server, each having a very good commander.

All we need on Devona’s is a few more med-large guilds and trust me this server will start to hold its own and push up into the top tiers, so come on guys dont get trapped on a server where you’re stuck in long queues and cant play with your guild, get over to Devona’s. Start to actually enjoy the game together in the lower brackets and be part of a server’s progression up the ladder alongside all your guildmates in this awesome community on Devona’s Rest!

p.s. – remember its just 1 button each to click to transfer, and its still free to do so right now!

i support this as a targetted option. with no target the current ground select target would be used.

Also fix the stats on the 42k karma gear, the synergy is so horrible on them

Oh freekin hell how did i miss that, you guys are stars thank you so much!
Hope this post helps others who also missed that disable option

Dont go to Kaineng, come to Devona’s rest instead. Weve got a lot of wvw guild transfers here. The population is only medium so no queues, but the wvw is amazingly organized and fun with an awesome awesome community. Still get outnumbered heavily in the off hours though, but at peak its simply great!

On another note if anyone knows a workaround for this in the meantime, please let us know i hate the brakes being slammed on even though i havent released my forward movement buttons

Please can you fix this? As a melee, when you reach your hard target you cant move slightly inside them, your character auto stops when it hits melee range giving your target that little more room to get away. Very annoying when chasing a kiter as i want to be “in them” almost so im still in range when i react to his kiting.

i just got volleyed for 9k followed by a 20k kill shot

screw you broken class

I dont get why people say the power would need to be nerfed if it was target locked.
You can still see the grenades coming a mile off, and lets be honest if they are constantly moving the grenade will miss anyway.
The power of them is not THAT strong, even the Guardian Gsword 1 skill crits for 2k+ area with a 30 power build

Doxshund.9235:

I moved to Devona’s Rest
We are outnumbered each night in WvW
instant queues are nice but it is not to fun be frustrated each evening.
Better to join a server that has a small queue, so you are not outgunned 24/7

Id love to know where youve been playing, as the 4 days weve been here has been very competitive, we even ran the whole map to our control 2 nights ago and got a very close victory in the overall scoring.
Now thats a great feeling being the underdog and winning, and the server will only get better with more transfers.

By all means go to the likes of Darkhaven who are all wussies and run away from every fight, sure they got numbers and short queues but youre gonna get rolled every day because its a pve server hence the short queues. We tried it for 2 days, terrible. Much much better on Devona’s.

I totally get what youre saying Grim, but its not only overseas players who WvW in these hours. A lot of people work evening shifts at work, play until 4am/5am, then sleep until mid day. Even night shift workers on their days off end up playing through the night or on a morning when they get home from work.

Its unfair i agree, would be great to have more regional servers than the current system.

I concurr with this post!
We just moved our 40 man guild to Devona’s Rest too, from Jade Quarry where the queues were anywhere upto 6 hours long.

We had our reservations about the move thats for sure, with it being a new server and all, but seriously this was the best move weve made, its awesome!
The community on Devona’s Rest is one of the most friendly and helpful ive been on in 13 years of gaming, and the World v World is very very organized with each and every person pitching in and doing their job. Even when no leaders are out, we seem to get our heads together and really work as a team, something which is lacking in a lot of servers here.
The only problem at the moment is off-peak times being outnumbered and losing the maps, something which im hoping this post will help change as we’re real close to being able to compete in the daytimes.

The top lvl PvE areas are a bit bare right now with it being a new server, but we still manage to take down the dragons and such with small groups (yay for difficulty scaling), but the lower zones have a lot of people coming through them, even overflows.

Overall, if your guild is getting frustrated with the queues or not being able to WvW together, get your butts over to Devona’s Rest like we did, this is for sure a server of the future and youll all have a blast being able to actually WvW together on a server who is good at it!

5 signet warrs have basically 100% crit chance
kill shotting for 14k, gg

broken class

Annoying that every single death 1 piece breaking, please, let us do a full repair even if they are not broken to put them to 100%.

Thank you.

I never said i cant play it, i said its very annoying to have to play the guessing game when no other class has to do so

Grenades do not need nerfing at all, not 1 bit. Tell me an ability that doesnt hit for 1k.
100 blades and kill shot on the other hand….

Shaikhob.2863:

You know you could choose where your mouse is before you start moving with it. Your mouse will stay in the same area when your moving. It’s not that hard once you get used to it.

Ok, so with auto ground firing, and a locked invisible cursor, youre pretty much guessing at where its going to land?
And you think that is comfortable to play? Thats how im forced to play it right now and its very difficult and very annoying to play

They need to make the staff #1 skill 1200 range to match the staff 2 skill
And they also need to add a bleed or something else to the scepter 1 ability.

Both specs would be pretty viable if this was the case.

Shaikhob.2863:

I don’t have a problem with it. Just use auto ground targeting.

How can there not be a problem with it? Any half decent player moves using their right mouse button which not only locks your cursor in place but makes the cursor disappear from the screen. You can not, while moving, aim your ground target without extreme difficulty.