Guild Wars 2

They already said the current Borderlands maps are placeholders and they will eventually have 4 completely different maps.

People really need to understand GW2 is global and not region limited. The division between Europe and NA server list is just administrative shenanigans and also for people to know where they connect and if they might experience slightly higher ping.

Setch.2398:

It is my opinion that a grace period would mean people would always insta disconnect to get into prime locations and/or avoid death. It would be abused terribly. Although as I am writing this it is because I got dc’d. :P

Your character is not removed from the world, you will still die.

There is definitively a need for 1 min grace period.

Ragnar Dragonfyre.1806:

My shift at work is about to change. I may end up on a nightshift working as late as 11pm. My potential playtime is then anywhere from 12am to 4am. Disallowing “nightcapping” would essentially neuter the game for me and anyone like me.

There’s no need to “fix” nightcapping because it’s not broken in the first place. People play at all times of day and night as their schedule allows. Is my playtime somehow worth less than someone who works at regular 9-5?

People are selfish. They think because they cannot play at night, noone should be able to benefit from it.

Mulitplex.2017:

Nationality and time zone don’t matter to me. What matters to me is that the WvW zones are equally populated as much as possible throughout the day.

That will never, ever happen without a hard limit and ANet said they wouldn’t do it.

Dungeons are not made to be easy. You need to know how your profession can best adapt to an encounter.

While I wouldn’t say to bring all your profession weapons along with you, just in case, picking a build or at least a weapon suited for the path you are doing would help tremendously.

You can do story mode with anyone. Explore mode is an entirely different matter. If you don’t come prepared, you’ll be crushed.

Some dungeon paths require specific skills from the group. In the case here, you need heavy AoE damage.

Well, I had done Ascalon Catacombs only twice before today and it was a week ago or so (arguably my only dungeon with Caudecu 3 weeks ago)… We did 2nd path tonight in about an hour due to bugs and I got only 30 tokens. Another member got 20 and others got 60.

Don’t come tell me I’m running things too quickly, too often, your DR is completely bugged

Venomlaced.8273:

What gets me is every ten minutes or less we see an add that offers us to buy gold at the price of 2.50 per unit. The spamming does not stop so one can only assume that people are buying and using gold bought out side of the game.

I recently bought 50.00 worth of gems in game and traded the entire amount for just around 10 gold. Those people buying gold outside of the game are getting 2x the gold as I am. The trading post does not care where the gold came from the prices go up and come down based on what is being bought and sold. The outside gold upsets the economy greatly so if you can not get under control then you should lower your prices on gems so those of us abiding by your rules are not getting shafted by those that are not.

The difference is, you’ll never be banned. They might.

You cannot ask for one specific thing to be fixed and completely ignore the other abuses related to it as well. Doesn’t work like that.

The Monk.3672:

I really do hope they can fix it. Its a big annoyance and I’m sure the mechanic wasn’t supposed to work this way.

If they fix it, I can agurantee you there will be a massive uproar from AoE using classes.

If you fix the door splash, then you have to fix Meteors and Barrage on walls to destroy siege/people.

We welcome everyone on Aurora Glade. We have a small dedicated core that puts some serious hurt on the opponent during early prime time cet, but most of us go sleep around 10-11pm and the remaining ones can’t hold the objectives. An english guild would be perfect to strenghthen our core till midnight cet.

Crafting is only profitable and efficient for a few people who know what they are doing and only until the player mass finds out where the money is. Once that happens, crafting will become a very inefficient way of making money.

Right now, as I speak, a dedicated crafter can make 5g a day very easily. You can probably still go up to 10g a day if you really do only that, constantly find the good item to make and have almost no competition at the time of your posting. Well, that’s just me anyway and I don’t think I’m that dedicated with only crafting max 2h per day.

The market has been a bit slow this week though, probably the WoW effect.

As far as I’m concerned, crafting is the perfect money maker for a PvP focused player. You just craft, put on TP and PvP until it sells, rinse and repeat.

urzen.7096:

The problem with 1 week matches if the rolling score of course. Once a team builds a lead, theres no way for other worlds to come back, making WvW less popular till the reset. Something needs to change to encourage playing till the end. Theres all sort of solutions to this that have been posted. The match time is moot.

There are quite a few matchups in which this is not true.

A week seems to be definitively too long., Maybe 5 days is better.

No, it’s not representative. Both blacktide and aurora glade destroy arborstone 6pm to 9-10pm CET, then at 9-10pm, their night zerg starts to assemble and suddenly get 400+ points in less than hour while we get no queue on any map and even outmanned on 2 maps.

I think people are kind of missing the point. They want to limit the daily amount of token obtained and better encourage people to stop repeating the same fast and easy path.

If they don’t do it this way, they will limit it another way.

Don’t show the total scores until the final 24h, motivations problems solved, at least for the week.

Tri-way battles always mean the strong will be picked upon by the two weaker servers. Perfectly valid and encouraged strategy, especially to recover the orbs.

Makera.5723:

Twilight Arborea 2 runs in 2 diffrent modes:
forward+up 45 flowers around 1 hr of time
forward + forward 45 flowers 2 hr of time

….Thanks a lot for spending my time but with the second run i should of bought a piece of my set and guess what now i need to do 1 more run because of the system bugs. Can i have 15 flowers so i can buy my piece of armor?
Here is the ss of the second run.

You got 30 more tokens than you would have yesterday and you still manage to complain? Outstanding.

I understand being annoyed by bugs when you bought a product, but use common sense, you know perfectly well software of this size is not easy to manage. And more importantly, no matter what, it doesn’t give you the right to be borderline insulting towards ANet or fellow players disagreeing with you.

That said, yeah, I’m not sure that diminishing return decision on clearing speed was the best ever taken… People can certainly live a while with having to clear the path for rewards, however, I doubt they’ll be too happy if they get lesser rewards because they managed to skillfully and quickly dispatch mobs and bosses…

You are basically punishing skill here instead of preventing exploits.

Chris.7653:

Does anyone really think because you have a blue icon above your head people will listen to you?

In my experience, most will. You see, you seem to believe, wrongly, that people like to make their own decisions or won’t listen to someone with what looks like an authority tag.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of people actually like being sheeps and being lead, and they do so more willingly when they see the blue shield on the map because most of them have absolutely no clue otherwise.

Nicholai.5169:

No. You didn’t think this through.

Within a week everyone in WvW would be using Guardians. There is no point using any other class if one can just ignore walls.

Even the strongest keep would fall in minutes to a small team of level 20 guardians.

Mesmer can go through with a previously setup a portal…and bring others along with him, yet you don’t see armies of Mesmer in WvW.

Keelin.5781:

Guardians can turn around entire battles.
Only problem is that they don’t get tokens for it, haha

Yes, that’s the biggest problem with playing Support right now. You make a huge difference, yet you get absolutely nothing. Even when I make sure to hit a bunch of people three times, I generally don’t get many bags or I simply forget about them. The loot system in WvW is a mess and I hope they’ll improve it soon.

1-2 well played support Guardians can be the difference between victory and defeat even in a 20 vs 20 battle.

Staff : healing symbol with trait, AoE swiftness, AoE orb damage/heal (this can hurt like hell), Line of Warding is godlike and has MANY uses (try and use it on a keep entrance point and see how that enemy attempting to flee inside likes it).

GS : AoE pull and damage, extremely useful to catch some enemies or damage a bunch

Shield : bubble and protection !

Scepter : range and a root, can be useful, not the best range option, but it serves its purpose

Hammer : who never banished someone down a mountain? Ranged root on people fleeing, Warding for mass AoE or like Staff

Mace : healing, protection boon.

Sword, Focus & Torch : hehe… hum, yeah ok.

This is my usual build in WvW.

If you want to use Resolve and Courage actively, invest in the Virtue line. That’s what it’s there for.

They are incredible support skills once upgraded.

It’s really rare for an instant repair to make any difference… In general, the victor of the battle has been decided already and it just serves to cut off the remaining people from either escaping or reinforcement from coming back in without a dedicated force.

This is war, not disneyland. Anything that can give an edge and is not exploiting will be used and should be tolerated.

Only exploitation of unintended game mechanics should be banned.

They need to close server transfers to winning servers, simple as that.

HellsMachine.4083:

Narkosys.5173:

My suggestion would be to fight out side of eternal battlegrounds. In case you didnt notice that is where the orbs are. They need to be obtained and defended always.
It is sad that this is a L2P issue, realize what map has what objective and learn to play.
There is more than SM in WvW.

Once a team has all 3 orbs and has the defenses heavily upgraded, it doesn’t matter how many players you throw at it. Even with only 10 players defending it, it’s not going down.

Completely wrong. Green server on saturday night took all 3 orbs and 75% of all maps in a few minutes and held them for nearly 24h.

The other servers, on the next evening (not night), took back their lands and their orbs and one of them stole green orb as well, completely switching the landscape.

If you lose your orb, stop whining and get it back.

No, Orbs are fine as is.

In our matchup, Green took the 3 orbs immediately upon reset and held them for about 24h, then each of the other two servers got their own back and even stole green orb. Now they are switching hands regularly. And that’s coming from a completely outgunned server during night time.

Taking back orbs require manpower, strategy and dedication.

However, outmanned buff needs a serious boost.

Ezeriel.9574:

what total nonsense… guardians and warriors are playing in godmode… try playing a necro against a guardian and tell me that this game is in any way shape or form, balanced.

A necro complaining about Guardian is as funny as it gets and proof this thread was sorely needed.

Just happened to me as well. the Asura blew up the last tower and then nothing, he just stands there. Objective Clear the beach of undead is greyed.

The orbs themselves are not the issue. They are an objective and as such should be giving a meaningful and powerful buff to the realm holding them.

The problem is how easy they are to get when severely outnumbered on the map. Not only nightcappers get them easily, but then they have the luxury to raise top notch defenses as well in the keep before any real fight comes.

ANet has to find a solution to the outmanned problem. Once that’s done, it will be much better.

You won’t learn how to play by whining on the forum, that’s for sure.

Go play 5v5 instead of 8v8, then you’ll be able to get a better grasp of class balance and where the Necro stands, what it can and cannot do.

8v8 is unbalanced, always will be when maps and skills were designed for 5v5.

The skill is fine. ANet just needs to make sure it can’t be abused.

Gankfest.4965:

They need to update their hardware; that’s the real problem.

No, it’s not.

Next time you have a similar idea, don’t even bother.

Gmotagi.3641:

Support Guardians get very little loot. I always here ‘look at all the loot bags’ from other classes but I’m lucky to get one in a fight.

That’s my only issue.

Some people in this thread should get something straight : No you are NOT supposed to do explorable mode with any build and/or equipment.

To make money, you craft stuff not easily obtained elsewhere.

5 minutes is too long and useless. If you give only one or maybe two minutes, I can guarantee you people will find ways to do whatever they were doing previously in the same amount of time.

There is a profession which enjoys taking Guardian apart. Use it to coordinate attacks.

There is one profession that will pretty much shut down a Guardian to uselessness. I suggest trying to build around that if the meta has become such that you often see 2 Guardians or more.

Guardians? Condition Necro is your friend.

Mesmer is a bit trickier, I’ll admit. I had to play one quite a bit to start seeing where the weaknesses are and what I can to shut them down quickly.

What’s funny is the fact you can still get a lot of glory, even when losing. They just don’t get it. Winning has minimal impact on glory gain. It’s really just an ego boost, but barely.

Visualize.4319:

google it… its pretty common, especially when there is no other way to get an advantage. Last night a player named Mogz was using a speedhack, not maxed but you could tell the difference. He downed myself and a teammate, he did finishers on us both before I could get off the 2nd downed ability to knock him down.

That’s called Quickness buff.

While I understand your concerns, just keep in mind you are a very small minority with such problems at best. It’s unfortunate and really not cool for you guys, but well most of us don’t have problems…

So when you make the hyperbole that D3 was smoother when over half their player base was locked out is arguably quite laughable.

Again, I understand the frustration and you have every right to complain, but keep it real. Exaggerating will not make your point any better. Instead, people will laugh, discredit you and you’ll be even more annoyed. I know it can be hard to keep it clean with the amount of trolls around, but in my experience, keeping it mature and as close to facts as possible generally end up with a quicker solution and feedback.

Erm, I think you misunderstood me or I misunderstand you. That expression basically meant solo queue is an evidence and should have been added weeks ago already.

I apologize if I wrote it wrong, but I’m pretty sure I got it right. Note the difference between “given” alone and “it’s a given”

It’s actually incredible it’s not been patched yet.