Guild Wars 2

Ranger is easy mode. Is good to relax in WvW.

Buy gems, trade for gold.

Stop being scroogy and craft ascended if you feel it is worth.

Concerning the different EU languages, we can have different chapters inside the same order…like in real life.

Players can organize themselves by language, country, etc….but they still represent an order.

Simple and clean.

Great idea!!!

Really easy to implement and solve the problem of unpopulated servers vs high population servers.

Everyone can have chars belonging to any of the 3 orders in the same account, so people just log with the char they feel they want to play with.

WvW is fun when all sides are balanced. When sides are unbalanced is just PvE with real players being the content and replacing mobs as canon fodder.

Zepher.7803:

In Guild Wars 2 there are three orders. Each character will join one of these orders at the last chapter of their level 30 personal story. This choice is permanent and determines a significant portion of the higher level parts of the story. Each of the orders has their own philosophies about what tactics will ultimately defeat the dragons. While they are rivals at times, they recognize that protecting Tyria is the most important goal which they each share.

my idea connects this to WvW and each order has a color

Durmand Priory: Blue
Order of Whispers: Green
Vigil: Red

this ties WvW to your personal story directly and you can change what Orders you fight against just by changing to a toon that picked whatever Order in the storyline.

of course Anet would have to do the overflow thing, but being able to choose what order (or color) you fight for as a contest keeps the game a game and not all of this segregation that some people want to hold onto.

and remember WvW is in the Mists a “Proto-reality” if you will….not Reality as we know it

some other thoughts..
maybe transfer costs are tied to switching orders which doesn’t cost money but makes you have to start a new storyline
OR make it 100 gold to bribe the order you want to join to overlook the requirement set in the storylines.

anyways this ties WvW back to the game where it should be and not some separate game-mode, and hence brings back the FUN

so let’s brainstorm on why this wouldn’t work as per the subject.

OR if ANET could step in and just shoot the idea down right away so we don’t waste time on something that will never even come close to happening.

Why play humans when Norn exists?

Everything looks better on Norn from armor to weapons. Norn is just a big human..:)

Tolmos.8395:

For the most part, I lack a proper imagination when it comes to MMOs. I am a human male, so I struggle to identify in a game with anything other than a human male. My character’s looks very rarely deviate from my own. I don’t RP or anything like that, but for some reason I just feel like my avatar should be as close to me as I can get. Almost like “If I were born into this world, I’d probably still be some version of me” sort of thing.

Any other unimaginative wierdos like me out there? =D

4 different Commander icons (Defence, Attack, Roaming and Scouting) with the existing colours will provide most of the necessary features for strategic coordination.

Fantastic.5298:

I like this …

eheheh..I know…I tried to use a simple symbol to represent an eye but was not very successful..:)

The symbol for scouting could be an eye.

Dawdler.8521:

Icon change for the commander was suggested long before the color change was even implemented. Most of the time people suggested color change, icon change went along with it. We are lucky to even get colors, I have no hope for icons.

Though I have never seen your particular type of icons represented, those are actually very good and logical. They make instant sense. Well except the scout one that can be considered a fish :p

Hello all,

What do you think about having different Commander icons representing the type of mission peformed: Defence, Assault, Roaming, Scouting, etc?

I include a simple image illustrating my suggestion:

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/4495/mmvyLB.png

All feedback welcome…thanks.

G13 is the best.

ANet will see the light and will change this crappy name. Actually if I was them I would increase the HoT hype to a new level by making a players poll for the names of the new specializations.

Divinity Sentinel

Hello all,

Just an heads-up: in 2 hours at SW I got 1 portal and saw 4 other dropping. It seems they drop like candies today.

Go get yours.

Hello,

Just my 2 cents.

All professions are good for all types of WvW (Zerg, 1 v 1, small group, roaming) if you master them.

If you want to start WvW and have doubts which profession to chose here they are from easiest to hardest to master:

Warrior
Guardian
Necromancer
Ranger
Elementalist
Thief
Engineer
Mesmer

Well, the bottom line is that I have 7 x lvl 80 chars that can do anything right now in the game (they were leveled through different methods in PvE, WvW and crafting).

From what I understand, in HoT I will need to get hero points to get all the skills I need in all the chars (specially the ones I leveled through crafting). This means that my now fully functional chars will be nerfed with the release of HoT.

I am really surprised that ANet thinks this is a fair system.

To be honest, I hate leveling chars to lvl 80. What I like in this game is the high-end content and I do not want to spend hours and hours going through some hero challenges to get again the chars I have now, with all the skills unlocked. Also, most of my 13 skills were acquired by buying the book with skill points and gold. Will I be refunded?

HoT seems grim to me…

Well, as a mesmer you know that mesmers are masters of illusions…so, all this crying is just another illusion…they cry even if they like the changes with the secret hope of getting even better changes for their class.

Mesmers are never happy even if they have the most OP class ever..:)

StickerHappy.8052:

I mean seriously guys?

We get Nerfs:

• Mesmers are crying.

We Get Buffs:

• Mesmers are crying.

No New Stuff:

• No build diversity! Mesmers are crying.

New Stuff:

• No build diversity! Mesmers are crying.

News about changes without specific details:

• OP! Broken! Mesmers are crying.

It’s such a spectacle here in the mesmer forums. I main a mesmer myself but all I see is crying everywhere.

Why not put all that energy into positive stuff like theorycrafting?

Hello all,

I think that having the Commander Icon/Tag illustrating the current mission of his group would help a lot the players choice of Commander to follow and also would help the overall Commander to have an easier overview of his subordinate commanders on the WvW map according to the mission/location.

Here are the type of simple icons that could be implemented (the 4th is an eye for the scouts):

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/4495/mmvyLB.png

Thanks and best regards,

Red

Outnumbered effect is simply useless in the current form:
+33% Experience
+20% Magic find
+25% World Experience
Take no armor damage on death

To be a little more meaningful I would add the following effects considering the outnumbered world is fighting for survival, all soldiers have the despair adrenaline power and all resources are used like there is no tomorrow:

Double supplies carry capacity
Permanent +33% running speed
-10% damage taken
+10% damage done
3 stacks of stability refreshed every 60 seconds (non stackable except with other skills)
Aegis refreshed every 60 seconds

Hello all,

I think the scottish pipe would be a great addition to the musical instruments in this game. As you know, the scottish pipe was used many times during battles to increase morale and lead the troops to victory.

What do you think?

I can not wait to have scottish pipes in WvW leading their zergs to victory or death..:)

Best regards,

Red

I got 5 percursor drops, all of them as loot after conquering a tower in WvW. Funny enough, 3 of them were the Leaf of Kudzu, 1 was an aquatic weapon (cant remember) and the other I do not remember anymore (long time ago).

Hello all,

Any “inside” information about the release date of the White Feather Wings backpack set?

I need to equip my “good” char with them. My evil char already has the black version.

Thanks.

I have a Guardian and a Warrior.
And although I love my guardian I have to say that whoever never played a warrior in WvW is just missing the best developed and flexible class of GW2.

Warrior in WvW is just the most amazing fun ever! Hits like a train, survives like there is no tomorrow and moves like a lightning while CCing the poor enemies to death.

With a warrior you can really have a huge impact on every WvW battle.

Best regards,

Red

I saw a female norn char with black body and white tatoos…awesome

Norn look awesome…the female norn are the best looking..:)

Hello Wishable,

I have a human guardian and a norn warrior. I can just tell that the same armor/weapons look much better on the bigger norn.

Regards,

Red

P.S. – When you create the norn make sure you choose the tallest and the most muscular/wide body.

Everyone can trade in-game earned gold for gems and buy the new pick…

Dear all,

I can not understand why you are so stressed about a simple permanent mining pick…
Come on, is this offer such a game breaker?!
Almost 400 replies and tens of thousands of words over such a triviality…
Actually I think the offer is a gem rip off. With that amount of gems you can buy gold to buy many, many sprockets…

MMO’s player communities never cease to amaze me…LoL.

Red

Hello all,

Please read this simple guide:

http://dulfy.net/2014/01/23/gw2-great-jungle-worm-boss-guide/

Thanks and best regards,

Red

Hello all,

Please read this simple guide:

http://dulfy.net/2014/01/22/gw2-twisted-marionette-boss-guide/

Thanks,

Red

I completely disagree with the OP.

Open World Big Bosses are a must. You just neet to be patient and let most of the players learn the new bosses mechanics.

Tequatl was very hard when it was revamped and now is just farmed endlessly…I do it everyday with several characters even in overflows.

The Marionette is easier and I already did it (in an overflow actually) but for what I see the main servers succeed most of the times, the failures happen more on overflows. But with time it will turn into another farming business…

The Wurm is a bit more difficult because all 3 heads need to be finished within 1 minute. This requires more coordination but with time we will do it…as soon as the groups learn to watch the 3 wurms health bars displayed and dps accordingly.

I understand that to some players GW2 is the most important thing in life but the vast majority of the player base has a normal life. Having the opportunity of killing the Big Bosses in the open world within huge zergs it is the only way for most of us.

Instead of complaining you should post a link or write a guide with the basic guidelines to do both new bosses.

Best regards,

R.

Agree with the OP. Critical heals are a must.

Dear ANet,

Can you use this opportunity to check all the runes and sigils and change the useless features to better ones?

Thank you.

Red

Kuzzi.2198:

I have many alts and I have done lots of crafting on all of them. I want to find out which of my alts has a particular discipline at 400 even though it’s not selected as one of its active crafts.

If you check the achievements tab you are able to see what crafting professions your char has.

Hello all,

I was an early player of GW2 but left the game after 4 months. I returned 10 months later and was pleasantly surprised by the way ANet addressed many of the issues that made me leave the game earlier (WvW mechanics, drops and rewards, living world events, better TP offers, guesting to other servers, etc).

Presently I think that WvW server population unbalance is the only game break issue. After the current WvW season many players will transfer to more populated servers because right now it is just pure zerg massacre of the low populated servers. The already low populated servers will lose a lot of players and will become ghost servers leading to server merging.

The focus of WvW should change from server vs server to grouped servers vs grouped servers with similar total population. Guild achievements during WvW should receive more rewards to emphasize the Guild Wars character of the game and individual achievements should also be better.

What I propose is:

1. Create a dedicated WvW server based on a regular server design (with all the 27 maps plus dungeons) with the current overflow system;

2. Add to the regular server design all the existing WvW buildings and objectives adapted to the geography of each individual map (dungeons included but adapted to the exiguous space of the dungeons);

3. Use the 6 major cities to create something like 6 Super Stone Mists castles;

4. Keep the existing 4 WvW maps plus the new one Edge of the Mists;

5. Every week, create a new match up of servers mixing the strongest with the weakest in 3 opposing sides with very similar overall population. 24 NA servers = 3 teams of 8, 27 EU servers = 3 teams of 9;

6. Create rewards for guild influence in the outcome of the wars considering number and importance of objectives held and time they held them, number of enemies killed, etc;

7. Improve the current individual rewards in accordance with the impact of the individual in the war outcome;

8. Guild players will receive guild and individual rewards, solo players will receive just individual rewards;

9. Change the Leaderboards from World vs World to Guild vs Guild according to the guilds achievements during war;

10. Create a Leaderboard for individual achievements during WvW.

These are my 2 cents.

All feedback welcome.

Best regards,

Red

Lineage 2 has beautiful armor sets and weapon designs…check them:

http://www.lineage2media.com/pictures/kamael%20weapons%20gallery.jpg

http://www.lineage2media.com/pictures/news/s84/2%20s84%20armor%20sets%20lineage%202%20gracia%203.jpg

http://www.lineage2media.com/pictures/news/s84/6%20s84%20armor%20sets%20lineage%202%20gracia%203.jpg

http://www.lineage2media.com/pictures/news/s84/s84%20armor%20sets%20lineage%202%20gracia%203.jpg

http://lineage2.megaxus.com/files/imagecache/image_full/files/media/l2-artwork-vesper_resize.jpg

http://lineage2.fansite.cz/download/old/622/lineage2_kamael_weapons_1.jpg

Red

Yes…I am doing WvW in Blacktide and keep disconnecting every 20 minutes. Major issues it seems…luckily my server is the underdog and has no aspirations in WvW but the other 2 are close and loosing time will help the server ahead presently.

Bloodstealer.5978:

Apologies to EU players.. apparently Underworld was trying to get more than 5 players into WvWvW tonight and its caused a server overload…. don’t worry though they have all decided to go back to LA and minimize their desktops to play PAC-MAN instead.. apparently its a similar game mode being chased around by many mobs at once.

ANET are aware of the issues but are too busy watching gem sales and currency exchange graphs to care – Normal server performance should resume shortly after we all either DC or hit the off switch

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahahahah..:)

Hello all,

I can not login and some authentication servers seem offline. Do you have the same?

Thanks,

Red

Hello all,

With the introduction of WvW Season 1 and its reward chests related with server performance, I think that when this season finishes a lot of players from low population servers will transfer to high population servers.

Doing WvW in a low population server is very hard, we are always the underdog and most of the time we just feed the huge zerg of higher population servers.

Playing in a high population server is like a dream. Just follow the zerg and you get a lot of kills, a lot of WXP, advance in the ranks faster, get a lot of bags, a lot of drops, a lot of badges, alot of everything so you can equip your chars very fast and sell what you do not use.

The only drawback of high population servers is the waiting time to get in WvW during peak hours.

Having said that, I think ANet needs to rethink the WvW system trying to rebalance the server population differences.

The “Outnumbered” buff was a nice move but I think we need a bit more. When a server gets the “Outnumbered” buff on a specific map it should also get another buff as per my suggestion:

“Desperate Resistance” – Triggered by “Outnumbered” plus less than 33% of control points on a specific map. Fades off when “Outnumbered” disappears or the server has more than 66% of control points on a specific map. Only applicable to the server with less total points of the 3 competing servers.

Buffs:
permanent +33% movement speed
+10% in all Primary Attributes (Power, Precision, Toughness and Vitality)
Outpost upgrades decreased by -33% of needed supply plus construction times +33% faster.

These are my 2 cents but I am pretty sure that most of you can contribute with more ideas to balance the server population differences in WvW.

All feedback welcome.

Thank you and best regards,

Red

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Thanks.

LoL.

Of course not.

Legendary sold via TP boost gems sales..:)

Crafting a Legendary is easy. If you play everyday for 2 or 3 hours for like 2 months you will get it naturally.
If you want it faster, go TP and buy it.
The whole point is Legendary is completely useless. Not worthy the hassle to farm neither the money to buy it from TP. Calling it Legendary is another artificial hype.

Your comments shills my spine…
Maybe it is better for you to read the thread about the loot drop nerf. There you can read the opinion of many players.

And the nerf drop rate of exotics? Same theory?
Also green and blue drops were nerfed. What is the theory behind it?

Companies only listen to numbers: Sales, earnings growth, annual revenues, stock prices, etc.

The only way to be listened is to affect these numbers. It can take some time but it will work.

Concerning the numbers published in this thread, they mean nothing. Our own personal experience since the launch of this game is the best parameter to compare with the actual game experience.

Its a personal decision to accept the current state of affairs, to keep complaining or to give up.

I expressed my opinion extensively on the closed thread.

Time is the best equalizer. We will see what happens.

Until then I wish you all a Happy New Year.

Best regards,

Red

Sythus.2396:

More and more each day I’m starting to lose any desire to play. Something has to change soon for gods sake.. I’m doing events regularly and I’m not receiving any meaningful loot. I’m getting so frustrated at this I can’t even express it.

Thank God we have this brand new activity of killing mobs, noting down the loot and post our findings here. It is really refreshing and challenging.

I just did some math and found that with 20 euro we can buy enough gems to trade for gold and buy from TP for a full exotic armor set and an exotic weapon…

Gold is so cheap now compared to gems that it is much better to use a few bucks to get gems to trade for gold and buy all exotics you need.
Why farming gear? Dungeons? WvWvW? Dynamic Events? It is a loss of time.
Just go to the TP.
With 1600 gems (20 euro) you can buy a full exotic armor set and an exotic weapon.

…because with just a few bucks we can get enough gems to get a load of gold and buy all the exotics we need.
This will save a lot of time and effort.
Enjoy.