Guild Wars 2

The team winning WvW gets these rewards

I’m surprised a lot of you still don’t know how to leave WvW thinking character select is the best way.
Press ‘B’ to bring up the score etc for WvW while you are in WvW. Bottom right corner is a button called ‘leave the mists’

Wvwvw is the only reason I play guild wars I think its a great mode its just sad that its ruined by zerging and population imbalances. The day they change that I can replace league with guild wars

just reword this to say. conditions hurt i dont like being hurt. can you please stop me from taking damage i dont like people having more than one way to kill me

i wouldnt mind them having their perma stealth if there were more options to reveal them. on my mesmer all i have is my null field which they can just avoid or go back to stealthing a second after it reveals them.

yes yes yes. i dont understand why people wouldnt want a merge.
guest onto a low pop server then onto a high and see where you have more fun.

i dont understand this video at all. you guys lost some fights and then won a zerg v zerg later? I can only guess whatever this is about was on that unreadable email.

I think its good the way it is but i think it would make sence if there was a fortnightly reward.

well i guess can always advise them better places to use their siege incase maybe they arent just trying to waste supply. but at least it is going somewhere so if you can do anything to convince them to at least place it somewhere useful that would be alright.

yeah i guess it would be good just if there was a daily reward like “give 50 boons to allies”

I agree but i think people still dont think people like to have a 100% empty map (which is certainly the case for some maps i go on)
and wvw the only time you dont want people in that is when it makes an overflow or if it makes lag

yes people can have problems with commanders on different servers
but people have problems with commanders on their own servers anyway

also its not neccesarily news that its failing but the way it is right now it will.
if people enter onto a map that is entirely empty of people they will leave

like right now in my wvw all 4 maps largely are owned by the same server and so i can not make a difference alone and so i am probably not going to play until i log on and see enough people that i can actually contribute to.

less players makes less players. people stick around because they enjoy playing with other people that is what an mmo is about if i want to play solo i have other games to choose from

the only people that will complain about being merged is the ones that have massive advantages from their larger populations.
i dont know how small servers could complain when you go into wvw and theres 10 people on their server spread out between the 4 maps. its unplayable there is no way they can enjoy it.
you can say stuff like that for vabbi but thats just being irrationally resistant to change imo.
having more people to play with and talk with and cooperate with isnt a bad thing.
the only way that you could possibly continue to be happy with your server would be if it grew via new players or people transferring to it to make it grow (aka not die) which is pretty much the same difference as a server merge.

i would definitely like to see a poll for this.

Lord Kuru.3685:

The whole point of 3-way fights is to have strategic 2v1s. The only problem is that Anet botched the ranking system so that it actively discourages #2 and #3 from teaming up on #1.

This.
I sometimes I wonder if devs have played game.
It shouldn’t be hard to fix
I could easily make a list of ideas

To be honest I don’t understand why there isn’ta ddedicated option for guilds to battle on a game called guild wars.

What is your opinion on mesmers most effective and least effective stat?

I would say precision is least important because I don’t feel mesmers are built around criticals at all.
And condition duration as most important as mesmers rely on stacking conditions

Hmm I think mesmers are weak but I definitely don’t think they are useless. Especially not in wvw. I think they probably bring the most since its all about strategy.
Just the same as playing support in league of legends, it can be lame for you because you won’t be able to kill enemies yourself but no one is ever going to turn you away from being on their team

i feel the same way and i think alot of people do. im a mesmer and i feel like no matter how many attacks i do people can just heal and block forever and i never get to a point i can kill them. depending on who i am vsing i can survive for a decent length but i only ever feel like i am stalling

if anyone can show me a video of a mesmer killing a geared guardian or warrior that would be nice to see how they do it

just to play a mesmer basically you are forced to have more skill than the average ranger
mesmer have really good fields i think people are more afraid to fight on a null field than any other kind of field.
but as mesmer i so far havent been able to beat anybody 1v1 since month of release
thieves just kill me while stealthed, guardians just shrug off any of my conditions, archers would be ok if their pets didnt stay locked onto me despite my stealth

i know it cant be because of lack of skill because i get every skill off on them, chain every combo use every block and dodge i have. there could be an issue with my gears (still using greens confused about runes) but i cant imagine gears should really make that much difference

i think the idea of siegerazer is nice but does he get used very often on other servers? usually we dont have enough people on the map to activate him if we are indeed push back to spawn.
and if we do have enough are usually better off just going and taking places ourselves

so what does EA do for their april fools? just release another game?

yeh i wouldnt be surprised if there was an enemy that said
“grrr im evil be afraid”

yeh not exactly a theory
try standing still for 10 minutes without doing anything and see what happens

i went on my level 20 warrior and i was surviving noticably longer and dealing noticably more damage than my level 80 mesmer ever did.

i havent got much power or precision in my mesmer build but even if i tried to max it out i am sure if i max it on my warrior he would be have even more of a noticeable advantage.

i like the mesmer its a very unique class and its alot of strategy but both damage out put and defences seem quite weak to me

for me i have found if i am just after surviving i will equip

set1
sword main hand + torch.
sword for the evasion from 2 and 3 cripples if anyone tries to chase me
torch applies blind as well as the invis which is nice and if you put down a field you apply chaos armour to everything in the area

set2
scepter + focus
scepter can block and spam clones which can distract (i also have trait to cripple when clones die) and focus i can run away with 4 and/or use it to knock down people/creeps

and for the other skills i usually use null field, feedback and decoy

ive tried other things but this has seemed best so far for pure survivability

Yeah I know I love new players its what keeps the game fresh. Helping people play the way they want to play is my main motivation in these games. Elitists are my pet hate.

Sucks all the people that dont understand the game is supposed to be played for fun and playing like robots is not fun.

They should make it so rewards from wvw are divided between the active population of the server. So being on high pop server might win more and get more rewards but more ppl to divide them between its the opposite situation now unfortunately

I like the sylvari to be honest they and the charr might be the only things I like in this game lore wise.
Norn look too out of place with their size and I can’t suspend disbelief when asura can be the same strength as a norn.
Also none of the enemies really seem threatening I’m too used to warhammer lore.

Too bad can be hard to find clothes tp match my green skin colour but sylvari definitely have the best facial feature options in my opinion

Is there anyway to revilatise the low pop servers.

Maybe if there were rewards for increasing your servers tier instead of just being rewarded for being on the most popular/ stronger servers

Is there any reasons people would choose to go on a lower pop server atm there’s generally just less available to do.

can be a bit lame how quickly the keep lord or any of the other npcs like that get killed.
and if you have less players than them they can just treb you and you have to just sit and take it

im in Fergusons crossing and i havent seen a queue so far
its not dead but most of the time its like 10-30 people spread out on the 4 maps

i dont know how long this has been out but i started and stopped playing this the month of release.

i guess i must have had good luck since i managed to forge 8 exotics from a day of farming greens. but yeh i really need to do these other ways of getting exotics

getting to max crafting lvl will prob still take me awhile hard to always have stock of some items.
are the exotics you get from map completions and badges the same as the ones you get from drops?

thanks for all the replies btw

I’ve been doing nothing but wvw for so long haven’t paid attention to gear and barely explored maps. Also I stopped playing for like 2 years so I forgot a lot. I just started guesting on a server yesterday to do trains since my server is dead. And made like 5-6 exotics so far. And I just got to lvl 80 today.

To calavel mystic forge isn’t random. It upgrades what you put in, if you put the same things in it improves it. If you put random things in then yes it is random.

What’s berserker?

ok i am a little confused about gear and what makes a difference.
im not sure what the best way to go about gear is ive just started saving everything for mystic forge and slowly converting things to get exotics. is this the main way for gear?

also i havent equipped anything yet because i have no idea what runes make a difference. is there any point of holding onto a non lvl 80 exotic?

ive built myself so far entirely in the tanky trait trees mostly because they seemed to apply more conditions and buffs. main slot skills i use are usually glamour fields and stealth abilities.

also i dont understand what a precursor is?

sorry so many questions

im on fergusons crossing, people on our server play well but never seen a tactic.
i guess we do have low numbers which can make things hard and alot of people tag just because there is no one else available to do so. i definitely dont have a problem with them but just never any organisation.

im not very strong or experienced in the game yet so i wouldnt be able to tag myself.

but i do always have alot of awareness with these kinds of things and just feel like i have to change them. just disappointing because i know would be more fun to try other things.

*Skill lag
*fergusons crossing
*lag considerably more than others at some points (i am completely disabled from lag for 3 minutes and am killed so obviously the enemy wasnt lagging)
*mostly happens when all 3 zergs battle

i am usually in my servers teamspeak. which kind of annoys me since they dont have any communication to the people not in teamspeak and dont read what people write in chat.
and then theres guilds which as far as i can see usually dont make things much better since they talk in their own teamspeak and guild chat but still are only zerging with everyone just even less communication to everyone.

today 2 zergs came and attacked our keep there was so many people it lagged the game and took me 3 minutes to switch weapons. i dont think zerging is a good thing for the game and i certainly dont think its a fun way to play

Is there ever a way to get to use tactics, so far since ive played this game ive only seen zergs and only ‘tactics’ are deciding where the zerg should go. And sometimes when the zerg should retreat.

I am sure everyone could think of things to try out from splitting up or sneaking around or whatever else.

sounds good will try find you in game

Hey i’ve had my account since beta but kept getting bored and used to be more lag so im only level 55. But just looking for a guild to do whatever with.
I spend most of my time in WvWvW otherwise just getting skill points etc off of PvE maps.

Be good to get to know some people. Please no copy and paste ads

well why would 2 high population servers want to ally against the smaller one. that would mean one of them is agreeing to lose

i just think something needs to change so its not just whoever has the bigger zerg wins.

well i guess i was thinking of something more official like so you could actually chat in the wvw. and you could actually have attacking the allied server disabled or something.

but if that doesnt work why not just decreased damage to which ever team isn’t currently winning. to encourage players to not just fight which ever server is vulnerable

OK i dont know why something like this hasn’t happened ages ago. But it would be good if servers could ally together in WvWvW so that the servers that get obliterated from less population or less pvp oriented servers have some hope to play on the WvW maps.

Having absolutely NO communication possible between servers is a bit ridiculous to me. I would have thought the whole point of a 3 team free for all is that the weaker teams would counterbalance the strong.

Even if guilds of opposing servers could have some form of allying in game and preferably in wvw.