It will be entertaining for about 10-15 min and then it will become stupid.
Off the top of my head I can’t remember the numbers but its not really a huge difference. I’ve never really noticed much of a difference tbh, but that also might have to do with the servers not being as busy during late NA.
So you map hop looking for a commander tag and what….. go to eotm when you don’t find one? Gee I wonder why it’s a ”dead” server.
Why don’t you buy some siege and start tagging up yourself? Give the other pugs that can’t think for themselves something to rally to.
Maybe next time you should read ALL the replies instead of posting and looking like a fool. There is a Commander from ET in this thread, but you would know that if you had taken the time to read.
Of course, if they can’t ensure that all servers are active, they should transfer you to an active WvW server, free of charge.
WvW is part of the game and you have a right to be able to take part in it, without being almost totally on your own, or paying to transfer.
Paid transfers should be for people already on an active server, who just fancy playing on another one, instead; not for people who are on a dead server and have no reasonable choice but to transfer.
This is one of the reasons why I hate the no-sub thing, as I feel companies can just hide behind it, as an excuse for poor service.
Someone could have, potentially, poured $1000s into the game, via buying virtual items etc. and still, somehow, be made to feel they have very little right to expect anything very much, in terms of the maintenance, upkeep and balancing of the game.
This is what it comes down to. It’s appalling that their not doing anything for the bottom tiers. This problem has been created by the lack of attention to WvW, it’s part of the game and it should be Anet responsibility that it is running effectively. You have players literally unable to play a game mode because you refuse to do anything about the issues we have been pointing out since day one. Move them already, they paid for your game and deserve to enjoy all aspects of it. The problem isn’t going to get better, what happens when new players join and pick ET ? They go into WvW and t’s dead, they tell their friends not to buy the game because it’s dead. Sure other servers are alive and well but the new players don’t know this, their first impression is dead game, I wonder how many sales you have lost because the perception is the game is dead all because they picked the wrong server.
When are you going to start respecting your player base ? Just bring back all the GW1 devs to run GW2 and get rid of the money hungry GW2 team already.
It would take a bit of work but they actually could keep those 3 servers for character storage but when u que you go to X server for wvw. It’s really no different than guesting or mega servers. Just shut down wvw on the bottom 3 servers and direct that traffic to whichever server they “merge” with
T3 is up there, T2 is arguably higher NA pop than T1. Even T4 is still alright but anything beyond that is pretty bland even during NA prime
They haven’t done it because doing so means their population has dropped and they can’t deny it. Merges aren’t a bad thing, 24 servers if you have to merge 3 after 3 years that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
The problem is all those ppl in denial. No don’t take our servers away, we like being the only one on the map. I say merge them and if all 5 of those players quit so be it.
Maybe start a petition, free the ET’s ! I’d say start a donation but ya, they really screwed up mailing gold in game as well.
Is there anyone even on ET at this point ? That’s a problem in itself, no one wants to roll the dice on a transfer to help command only to find out you have no one to command.
It is an unfortunate state, people have been throwing ideas out at Anet for as long as I can remember with regards to WvW populations balancing. WvW is not suppose to be balanced, that’s fine, most will agree that a perfect balance is impossible. That doesn’t mean they should neglect the issue either.
When Mega Servers were rolled out it hurt WvW a lot, sure it was great for all the PvE people but it basically executed some servers. You can’t go into PvE and call for help anymore, you can’t spark interest for people to try WvW. They effectively cut WvW players off from the rest of the population and left servers to die. Intentional or not, that is what has happened.
I think it’s safe to say Anet simply does not care, if they did they would open free transfers to the Bottom Server say once a month for 1-2 days and put stipulations like you have to be coming from Server Rank 12 or higher so it doesn’t hurt the middle servers. There is plenty of other ways to fix it but that is a simple quick fix that would at least show they are trying.
I would like a release date. I think with pre-order sales, the very least they should do is provide a release date.
It would be nice, but then that would suggest that they had a release date. With the lack of information released I highly doubt they are even close to finished, simple answer is, they don’t know when they will be done.
It’s a blow rifle, kinda like those darts but much less range and has the possibility of the user passing out due to lack of oxygen.
That looks to me like a Rifle.
Ok to settle this once and for all, look at those 2 pictures, if you still see a rifle, a spear or wathever else than a staff, you’re blind and I feel sorry for you.
Or you’re just a troll.
And the preview show the staff in game.The specialisation may be rifle, staff or something else, Anet knows we datamine and they me be trolling us (cf sword skills for ele, and now they removed and a war horn appears taht looks like the ele spec), but one thing is sure, in this picture, it’s a staff, nothing else.
And I guess people may not like some weapons because of their nature, LB guard, Rifle thief, they’re ranged, and people who play PvE are aware they won’t use them. Because there is no chance the LB offers more damage than any melee wepon the guardian has, and the rifle can’t gives more utility than SB. Same for Warhorn for ele, if it happens, the meta won’t change for the weapons at least, because now for ele, staff is by far on top, and sword would’ve been able to offer more, war horn won’t, because you will still have scepter or dagger main hand.
A Melee weapon, whatever it might be, let a chance to be good, a ranged one gives no place to hope.
Maybe it’s a Javelin ?
Confirmed thieves to become the first official Olympic E-Sport Class ?
I’m not bashing Anet here but next time maybe you people that Pre-puchased shouldn’t. All it has accomplished is proving that they don’t need to release content info, they can take their time, and keep us in the dark because people will buy it anyways.
Had the majority of people said no we’ll wait, I’m sure you would be seeing a lot more info.
To each their own, but if you did pre-purchase you probably should avoid making threads about content, they already suckered you.
This is the result of giving the people what they wanted. I preferred the LS route, it was a change, but you (not you OP) people wanted an expansion because this mystic expansion. Supposedly, was going to make all your dreams come true and turn gw2 into the MMO you dreamt off.
Well, this is what it is. The ls was the best thing about this game and you people have ruined it for me anyways.
You seem to forget you’re not the only person playing this game. How about we say YOU people that keep requesting LS junk are ruining it for all of us that play SPvP, or WvW. Your LS does nothing for us, they made a game with several different game modes, that’s on them to cater to ALL game modes not just what YOU want.
Your post has got to be the most self centered, self absorbed post I have read yet. this might be hard but try to realize you are not the only person playing this game.
I’m not even sure I understand this need for hype. I’m not hyped. I haven’t been hyped yet. Maybe because I’m old, I don’t know, but it seems some people want to be hyped and can’t enjoy things because they’re not. This is like an alien concept to me.
Being excited doesn’t really do anything, except raise your expectations, which no company can probably live up to. Hype is not your friend, or at least it’s not my friend. To me, hype is the enemy. It clouds judgement.
It’s a Marketing scheme, build excitement, sell more copies. It does work but not this far in advance. I would rather have had Anet come out in say "We are working on HoT, here is what you can expect from the expansion, we plan to release in summer of 2015 (or fall, or winter which ever) and then worked on the game. This is what most companies do, they start releasing more info as it gets close to release (not 6 months+ prior) to build sales. They use the rest of their time to work on the game.
Hype only lasts so long, the problem is they started trying to “Hype” the expansion wayyyy to early. You can’t release little tid bits of info for over 6 months and expect everyone to be hyped. It’s human nature, we have some patients but it has limits, they are beyond those limits. Most people I talk to in game are no longer excited at all, it’s having the opposite effect on people now, it seems most are annoyed , they aren’t interested in teasers anymore, they want to know what we’re getting. I really don’t blame them, like I said, you can’t drag people along for months on end while only giving teasers, it just kittenes them off.
Oh god, seriously you don’t even need stealth to be a competent scout. Its very easy to scout on a visible class with movement, a nike warrior could scout, rangers are great scouts, thieves without stealth can scout. All of these classes can easily escape a zerg and keep tabs for the enemy.
Hey I know, why don’t we just take away swiftness or any movement enhancing effect as well because you might not be able to catch them. Better yet if any solo or duo get within 1500 of your zerg maybe they should just self implode.
To sum this up for those of you who are about to make the argument of stealth, you are going to be scouted by a competent scout whether they are stealth or not.
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Here’s what I like to do for soloing.
Look at enemy BL’s, see who has a port established in Garri and move to that BL.
Camp out running between NE & NW ruins and watch for people jumping down from Garri.
Profit.
There are plenty of fights to be had, some are meh because it’s a person who isn’t built for a solo fight but on the whole I usually find some decent fights. There is lots of wiggle or run for your life room when a zerg or larger party shows up. Taking the ruins usually provokes people to at least come take a look. Get a mysterious tonic, the plant one, you would be amazed at how many groups run right by you as long as you don’t use it in the middle of the road.
I don’t know why more roamers (solo’s mostly) don’t use the ruins more often. It’s a great place to have some quiet fights with less chance of interruption. If you get bored practice some rotations and what not on the nubs running back to their precious zerg.
Oh, oh! We could do it like WoW and have fights where you get mind control debuffs that make you exploded dead after a minute of staring at the screen. Those were always fun. Guaranteed never-solo!
Snark aside, there’s an issue of grouping that could make the concept of raids very difficult. There’s parties, maps, and squads. Squads require a commander, which means paying for an expensive luxury item. Parties are limited to 5, unless they manage some special classification. 10-man maps would probably be ideal, but it’s prone to similar party size complications, needing taxis, and that doesn’t prevent strays from strolling in.
So, unfortunately, it’s 5-man raids or zerg, at the moment. Factor that into these grand designs as recommendations. And, yeah, lore appropriate. They’ll be zero traction if there’s nothing to connect it to the story at large.
As opposed to what we have now, I guess if you find running though a dungeon in 5 min with no risk, no challenge, no imagination, no need for range, no need for 99% of the utilities & weapons in the game all while getting no real rewards fun.
Have at it.
Bo Staff makes more sense than a rifle. Right now Thieves have 2 melee weapons Sword & Dagger and two ranged weapons Pistol & Short Bow. It doesn’t make sense to give them another ranged weapon making them more of a ranged class. Staff if a common weapon in many martial arts, rifle … not so much. Staff would make sense from an AoE/Block Standpoint, Rifle doesn’t doesn’t bring anything logical to the table that can’t be covered by Pistol or Bow.
IF and that’s a big if, I purchase HoT it will be for upgradeHowever after 6 months of teasing (and not very good teasers, just a minimal amount) I’m losing interest at a rapid rate. It’s one thing to reveal stuff slowly for marketing, it’s something completely different to take 6 months of revealing not a whole lot of anything. We don’t even know what half the specializations are at this point. Their going beyond hype and just kittening people off now.
My idea would be to go play a game that can implement and already has implemented enjoyable raids that aren’t full of zerk dps as fast as u can with the occasional dodge roll.
Be glad you weren’t here at launch and had to wait 5 years. Just saying. Maybe you’re not used to the way the company works, it’s entirely possible, but this is what happened last time. They announce it and then they release information in drips and drabs.
I don’t think the hype is supposed to be maintained at a consistent level.
I was here pre GW1 launch actually, was in beta for both 1 & 2, watched them ignore our concerns (some of which lasted years into the game only to be recently fixed while some are still present) not so much for GW1 but GW2 definitely.
That is the problem, if they haven’t finished the specializations yet aside from bug fixes, which will still be there for the first week or two when it goes live is concerning. For example we know Engi’s are getting a hammer, known this for months, are you telling me that in months they haven’t figured out the rest ? It’s just a hammer with no skills still ?
I find it hard to believe they don’t have much more completed then they are letting on, and if they don’t then they need more/new staff.
After months of anticipation we still have very little information. Some of us still haven’t purchased and won’t anytime soon purchase HoT due to lack of information. Release the specializations already, I and other I have talked to are quickly losing interest and at the rate Anet is going we will have moved on to greener pastures by the time the get information out. For myself the Hype is gone, I was looking forward to seeing the Engineer & Ranger specializations and that was pretty much it as a WvW player I could care less about the PvE but even that is coming to slowly.
No one is asking you to rush the finished product but if you haven’t even come up with the weapon skills and selections for each and every class then I don’t see why we should expect this xpac to be out in this life time.
Its literally been months, crap or get off the pot.
If they duel in a high traffic area, they should expect to have it interrupted. If I’m running by and I see two people going at it and one is from my server, if they say in chat “no help” or anything along those lines I will usually leave it alone and continue on my way. That is not as easy if there is a group of people, it’s no different from a guild fighting a blob and another guild jumping in, you may not want them to but you should expect it’s going to happen.
There is a reason why GvG’s used to be held over by the Wind Mill, part of it was landscape but it was also out of the way, they didn’t set up GvG’s beside SM because they knew and expected that people would jump in.
People who duel in high traffic area’s need to pull their heads out of their rears and go somewhere more remote. I understand that sometimes fights happen and it’s a one vs one that wasn’t planned and happens to be in a high traffic area, just accept that you’re going to have interference and move on.
On one hand we lost the ability to spend our points how we wanted, on the other everyone lost this ability so the way I see it you can move on and accept it or quit.
I know the data mined stuff has a lot of people in a tizzy but don’t freak out. Sword mage is popular and is bound to get added -eventually-. If yall do get warhorn right now I’m sure it’ll turn out great. Just look at chronomancers shield.
Personally I play a guardian and got longbow. I’m not the biggest fan BUT we still got some other cool stuff with it that I like and I’m sure elementalist will tooSword mage already exists it’s called mesmer
Is there a point to this ? Warhorn mage already exist’s it’s called Necromancer.
Business follows the same practices and equations for success whether big or small. There may be small differences with procedures, and practices but the over all scope is more or less the same. This can be used for multi billion dollar companies right down to the mom and pop convenience store. It is why business school follows the same guidelines for success regardless of what you plan to do with that knowledge.
I agree with the fact that this is not Anet’s first rodeo, they have people (I sure a s hell hope) that specialize in business within their company.
Due to granting the powerful Applied Fortitude and Applied Strength effects, the Defense Against Guards and Guard Killer lines needed to be extremely expensive, but that meant players often felt obligated to spend their first 230 points on these lines before they could begin branching out into other ability lines… This drove our decision to shorten the Guard Killer and Defense Against Guards lines to five, removing Applied Strength and Applied Fortitude.
Source: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/upgrading-world-vs-world-upgrades/
I have never supported guard stacks for the very reason above and because it arbitrarily gives stat advantages to experienced players. However, I thought of alternative ways of handling this rather than removing it completely:
1. Guard stacks be made baseline by being added to everyone’s stats immediately upon entering WvW. Meaning that you get a 100pow 250vit buff upon entering WvW.
2. Guard stacks will be baseline by allowing everyone to obtain guard stacks without needing a point investment.
3. Guard stacks will be moved to the beginning of the guard killer and defense against guards trees for one point each.I personally don’t like 1, and think that 2 and 3 are better ways of resolving the guard stack issue than removing it completely.
Thoughts?
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If you’re going to make them baseline and give them to everyone than whats the difference if no one has them ?
Just reset all servers when HoT launches, release 12 servers with new names for all I care and let people choose their new home, everyone can then choose a server to rep for WvW purposes. Populations will be based off of WvW server representation not mega server.
Given the price of other MMOs including the upfront cost and the monthly subscriptions for some of them like WoW, I just don’t think it’s unreasonable for ANet to ask you to spend more than $60 total on a game that they’ve been putting years of work into. You paid $10 when the accounts were on sale then you’ll pay $50 for the expansion.
You’re getting a heck of a deal, friend. If you didn’t plan to spend even $10 more on the game ever again I’d say they’re not losing much. Not quite even 6 months playing the game and you don’t have an alt you could sacrifice if you really wanna play Revenant? You can’t have made that much significant progress on all 5 characters.
If you have then just spend 100 gold on buying a character slot.
That’s a pretty hard argument to make, the reason so many games have gone F2P with cash shops in recent years is that it has proven to be profitable then a monthly sub. Anet knew this from GW1, they make their money don’t doubt that for a second.
Wouldn’t dual classing once again have been a lot of fun. The balancing would be a nightmare but non the less, I do miss the dual classing
I’d say that’s part of it but there is more to it. I should have said it’s missing a bunch of somethings. Silly class balance also plays a part imo, look at the MM Necro (may have been changed haven’t SpvP’d in awhile) it took zero skill, I’m sure in a high end match they weren’t as big of an issue but for your average player, there is nothing more frustrating then being utterly destroyed by a class that doesn’t actually require the player to do anything.
you know what i find fascinating ? Dota 2, according to steam stats, they have a daily peak attendance of +800K audience, and you can verify this by the steam app – Under the store link there is a stats link that shows you the game attendance stats, updated every 48 hours ….even when grandtheft auto came out and spiked in audience – dota2 held on strong as if gta v was irrelevant….
I never played the game before I saw that stat sheet, i’ve never seen an ad, I played it – hated it ….and even though it’s free, i deleted it. Guildwars is infinitely superior ….
how does a game like that get so insanely popular ? with little to no promotion ?
sure, it’s an e-sport, but from what I understand, it didn’t start that way.
while the game isn’t better , it sure seems the players are very happy and supportive of it.whats even crazier, is their forum has thousands upon thousands of threads …not 1 locked ….and some of them blatantly complaining about the game lol
fascinating – (in spock voice )might be interesting to start a thread on their forum "what does this game have that gw2 doesn’t ? "
Quick matches that require team work. You could argue that SPvP also has quick matches that require team work but it’s not the same. I don’t and never have played Dota but I have played LoL and even its simplicity I find it more entertaining from a small match perspective then SPvP. That’s just one mans opinion, TBH I also found GW1 5 man arenas more entertaining than SPvP. I don’t know what it is about SPvP but it’s missing something.
I’m guessing you didn’t buy from the official store? If you did you can get a full refund on the base game if you pre-purchase the expansion.
You mean I should erase 6 months of work on my main account?
Nothx. Then I rather quit the game.
Not true. They clearly said all progress remains if you upgrade and take advantage of the offer.
For all players who purchased the Guild Wars 2 core game from our website and registered it between January 23, 2015 and June 16, 2015 in anticipation of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, we will automatically refund what you paid for the core game should you decide to pre-purchase Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns from our website or in-game store any time through July 31, 2015. If you take advantage of this refund and pre-purchase Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, all of your current account progress will be kept intact.
I missed that bolded part when I read it originally, that’s a pretty stand up move for them.
They honestly probably never even imagined anyone would actually make 64 slots on one account. That just seems like a whole lot of uneeded characters, but to each their own.
Have you used those cards for an Anet purchase prior ? Keep in mind some CC companies will put a stop on the card if the company is not on their approved list. I had this happen after purchasing gems from Anet. Visa told me for my safety they locked the card because they did not have them listed as approved. It was fixed within 5 minutes of calling Visa.
You purchase HoT, it has a core copy that comes with your purchase. If you have previously purchased the GW2 core game (not HoT) within the time frame given and you would like a refund you can contact support to get a refund.
Because HoT comes with the core game they are compensating all those who bought the Core game under the impression that you needed it to get the expansion, before Pre-purchase was announced.
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Did you read the part about hear say ? It is not an official answer, it is an answer that some of the players are assuming.
yes so basically if i buy hard copy but no pre-purchase i get kitten no slot nothing ?
From what I gather, if you add an expansion code to your game BEFORE it launches then you will receive a character slot. That is only hear say because some of the details are kind of grey. An official answer to some of the questions would be nice, like when does pre-purchase end, if the code is attached before the expansion launches will we receive the character slot ?
I would say it is more of an incentive to pre-purchase. Could they have done more ? Of course. Is this a fair compromise ? For some it obviously is.
I’m still not convinced that the expansion will be worth the price tag so I’ll wait a while long before I decide to purchase or not to purchase. I am happy that they admitted to their mistake, and though its still a marketing sceme to attach it to pre-purchase, I don’t personally feel they owe it to use for not purchasing.
OP is allowed to feel this way, not even a day ago some of you were fighting for what you believed in, myself included. You think you would have learned something about respecting other peoples opinions and stances.
If OP feels this is not good enough, that is perfectly fine for him to feel this way, some of you need to stop being hypocrites.
For those of us waiting to see what it entails to a fuller extent, we don’t have to pull out our wallets and buy it right this second. We have time to wait and see still, it’s vague and I still haven’t seen an official answer but I believe we have until July 31 ? So a month + 1 week. I would love some clarity on the date though.
No pitchfork here. I just don’t think Anet should be put on a pedestal for fixing something that should never have been a problem in the first place.
I really do appreciate that they are willing to make changes based on customer feedback, I just don’t like the extent the playerbase has to take it to actually make it happen.
People were warning/begging/asking Anet months and months ago about adding a character slot to the expansion. If they really wanted to listen they probably should have done it then. Not when they see bad press and go into damage control. At this point they’re only doing it because it’s in their best interest.^^^This.^^^
As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, it really does feel like they are doing the absolute bare minimum they could possibly get away with doing to address player concerns.
I don’t know. It just feels like ANet never does anything nice without some kind of “catch”.
Like Living Story season one, for example:
Yay, more story, and free content! (Catch: You can only play it when we want you to and if you miss it, too bad, it’s gone)Or Living Story season two:
Yay! I can play it at my own pace! (Catch: But only if you’re level 80. Oh, and if you don’t log in during an event, too bad, you’ll have to pay gems for it later)And now this.
Yay! They’re going to give us the character slot we told them we wanted. (Catch: But only if we give them our money before we actually know what we’re buying)I realize the word I’m about to use here is an exaggeration, but I can’t help feeling frequently manipulated. It seems like simply giving them my money isn’t enough anymore, they also seem to expect me to jump through their hoops, and to do so on their timeline, not my own. It just…doesn’t feel good.
I’ll purchase (or not) HoT when I am ready, not when ANet tells me to. And since a simple character slot is a pretty basic feature for an expansion pack that features a new profession, it would be nice if ANet just gave the slot with the basic version, no matter when it is purchased.
But yeah, I know. There’s always a catch.
All valid, and I’m hoping by the last day of Pre-Purchase I have more info that entices me. Small victories are better than no victories, live to fight another day, this isn’t the hill you want to die on, all that stuff.
Yes some did, some of us didn’t even receive a single infraction because we stuck to our guns without flinging poop at one another.