Guild Wars 2

babazhook.6805:

The value of a roamer is higher the lower the tier of server you are on. As you get up into the servers that can fill maps and can afford to camp out out supply camps or flip the same with teams of ten on a regular basis there less value to that lone wolf.

If servers indeed merged the solo roamers role will once more diminish.

And anet wants to kill us, they never will. We will continue to harass your zergs till the game dies

I liked the old system prehot, all lines at your disposal. I felt like I had more control of what I wanted out of a build. Now I feel like I’m forced to run a trait line with a choice of only 3 categories. IMO, this has led to narrowing down builds leading to less diversity out there.

Much more build diversity prehot.

Me=roamer, I won’t miss it. Boring.

Chase.2798:

A lot of old kaineng members on sbi

Certain Kaineng guilds drove them off, let’s be honest

I’m liking SBI for roaming mainly and there is typically a small crew on tag 10-20 and sometimes more depending on time of day. The fights are also incredibly better than T1 right now. I don’t get much lag and fights are small scale for the most part.

Kaineng Storm on SBI raids late I think too and they are pretty open to players. JR guild is building up recruiting as well and usually has a tag up, Stomera is the name or something, nice tag.

If you are a blobber you won’t last in T4, not sure what style or numbers you are looking for but get use to using your skills and wits.

Probably gonna official try to kill old specs by nerfing perplex dire condi necro I’m not buying hot on my second account, anet….you can’t stop me! I’ll continue to nuke your fancy new classes and get rage whispers!!!

You’ll get that info when anet says you can have that info. Understood?

I’ll come to FA Chaba and restore order.

T1 isn’t the most ideal situation for solo roamers. I speak as a slow fat necromancer who is ganked quite often T1 is full of cheesey 5 man groups that run around like lost children at the mall. Your experience probably won’t be very good though BG is known for small havoc teams and I would think a guild would take you in.

T2 is pretty awful from what friends say but rumor has it guilds are being bought left and right so who knows. T2 seems to be in la la land most of the time.

T3, Mag has really good roamers, might fit your style. Darkhaven has always been a decent server as well and seems to be stable for the most part.

T4 is pretty fun currently. I am liking it as a solo roamer and there seems to be a tag in EB most of the time (SBI server). HoD seems like they have decent numbers, can’t say much about ebay but heard they have late evening guild crews but I go to bed early cause I’m old now.

Darman.1468:

Here on Anvil Rock, just me in home bl still. /sigh

Dude I’m sorry

Some of my best memories were on AR. Shame, it was a good community at one time.

Whoever merges with yaks bend will win every week lol

Actually my SBI account fell to T4 this week and I’m having a good time roaming. Though only in EB for the most part but it is a big playground. HoD and Ebay have been fun to fight so far.

I don’t own HoT on that account and seem to be doing well fights wise, not sure if that affects your game play OP.

Meh, T1. I was drinking a glass of wine enjoying the nice PNW weather at a winery instead of playing reset.

Go get some Vit D scrubs.

T1 is kinda meh for roaming. 99% of the encounters will be a thief or reaper necro and eventually a group will just gank you as there is no 1v1 unless you set up a duel and that’s even if another zerg cares to respect your duel.

T2 is awful from what my buds say currently.

I like T3 on my alt account for roaming and do find the lower the tier the better the roamers in my experience at least.

Puck.9612:

Personally I would like to see ascended armor and weapons added, especially the newer gear that is locked behind a PvE grind wall like Viper’s.

Along with this I believe they should make it so Proof of Heroics can only be earned in WvW (not EotM) to encourage new players to try out the game mode.

What else would you like to see added?

I agree with ya Puck 100%, wvw only, No eotm karma train. I like the idea of getting gear like viper’s since every you tube video is VIPER VIPER VIPER stats. I just don’t have interest in pve grinding. WvW is my mode.

These guys are still at it? Wow…..F2P strikes again. If it were pve or pvp it would be instantly taken care of that day with a nice red post in forums.

“WvW? Meh we’ll get to it when we get to it” -anet.

style.6173:

You guys need to understand the way ANET works. If they think players won’t like the changes, they don’t announce them to the last minute.

^This, smoke and mirrors. Hype train is revving up the engine all aboard!

FA is buying up guilds, talk to them.

zhonnika.1784:

Yeah, where YB is right now, is where JQ and BG were…. three years ago. Therein lies the problem. We’re way past that stage, and won’t be able to recruit to match that level of coverage unless anet intervenes with population balance. So, of course things are chill and easy on YB. I mean, what’s your competition? Doors for 3 timezones? Who wouldn’t be relaxed dealing with that. You’ve literally got 0 challenge for first place.

Pretty much why I left YB. I didn’t mind the server and community, was very nice actually and still is one of the best IMO. But there was little to do as a roamer/havoc player, the entire EB map including bls most of the time would be YB all across and I found myself completely bored wanting to roam or even taking a camp was rare.

I’d rather be on the underdog team BG with the potential to fight the megapowers YB and JQ. I find that BG is much more willing to fight as well.

Blockhead Magee.3092:

The definition of PUG has changed quite a bit from the beginning. Its taken on a more negative connotation over time.

I always get irritated myself when some moron from a popular girls guild rips on pugs in map chat. Or if a person says in map chat “first time here, what can I do to help” only to met with some smart a comment.

Pugs make a server successful and provide action for those "so called’ zerg busting guilds from the past to the present. Most of those guilds and players are gone from the game and I’ve traveled to quite a number of servers, same elitist attitude across the board for gvg guilds. Hence as a roamer, I loved finding one 1v1 and getting lovely rage whispers for picking them off “no I won’t let you make it to your guild so you can gvg”

The OP is dead on, respect everyone on your server. One day you might just be the new Anvil Rock.

Eotm is nothing more than a pve power leveling karma train, a test ground for small guilds to practice running over large uplevel zergs, and a place to test roaming builds.

Other than that serves zero purpose.

I like them, helps me with selling mats so I have some pennies in the bank.

Justine.6351:

I thought ncsoft and anet sepperated?

Someone said that the other day in map chat, anyone confirm? It would be a good thing, I want my American Eagle Red White and Blue in charge.

STIHL.2489:

EotM is fine, if people enjoy that, allow them to enjoy it, I just think that it should not reward WvW Exp or Give Badges, unless from PvP drops.

Agreed, eotm is a farm nothing more and a way to level your toon to 80, at least in the past you could speed to 80.

I seem to remember in the good ole days seeing a high wvw rank like diamond and thinking “man that guy must be really good”, even put a little fear into me when roaming fighting them 1v1. Now, I run into a few roaming and blow them to pieces and I’m not that great of a player, the eotm farm ruined a lot of things but for the most part it’s insta-gratification like the little kiddies want today. I just think anet is catering to them.

Bring back the days of Nintendo 8 bit. I want Ninja Gaiden difficulty baby! Turned us into freaking gaming tigers back then! I’ll let the AVGN teach you anet!

I think you made some excellent points in your post. I’d like to see the format poll like you did.

What I’d love to see is something where you log into your account and you get a mail from anet or even an email to your account. Please fill out this survey or click. We started something at my work place for reviews using that survey monkey thing. It’s really quick and easy, gets straight to the point and wouldn’t be that hard for them to incorporate. You’d think that would give them a % on what is important to their player base. It’s simple….really simple communication and an anet intern could create it with manager approval. Take that step anet

Only part I disagree with is the rewards. I’m more of a glory guy, hooray I killed someone 1v1 or I survived a 1v3. But, I can see at this point in the game we need all the bodies we can get in wvw. And if the little pvers could be baited with mats or gold if they participate so be it. I mean look at the past wvw seasons. PVERS EVERYWHERE, which meant more action! And just look at eotm, it’s pretty active even though I hate what its become.

MAGIC FIND IS A LIE

I’ve traveled from tier 1 to tier 8 and seen some awesome tactics. One soft spot is I feel for scouts and the players that escort dolyaks. These guys/gals deserve the biggest reward in the game. I could see something like escort x number dolyaks you get a staff with a massive dolyak head mounted on the top as a skin. Or mesmers, good god seen some sit in towers or smc for 2 hours, get a reward track to work towards and title “smc portal ninja” and get a weapon skin.

I think this relates to the ideas above, wvw needs something that one could work for THAT AVOIDS BLOBBING. Not take smc 10 times you get gold! I mean they could focus on the little zerglings but they need to think about the yaks bend guy that takes his scouting/dolyak escorting seriously, the dueler that has won x number of 1v1s obs sanctum is a great place to incorporate this, or gvg oriented guilds using obs sanctum again winning guild gets free banners/free mats for guild leveling/individual rewards or laurels. You could even use a ranking system, I think above all it may entice players to come back and build their guild legacy again. But it’s up to anet to identify gvg is an attractive mode for several guilds. To date….it’s all about that esports pvp junk nobody watches. I want to see great guilds be feared again in wvw. I want to roam and come across an enemy guilds again and frantically type in map chat “x guild at camp” because you know they are going to do some damage.

And most of all, base these rewards off anets little population analysis. I don’t think a T1 player can be compared to a T8 player in terms of “work put in”. Let’s face it, T1 you can get action 24/7 nearly and easy access to wxp where as T8 it can be a ghostland at times. Rewards should scale, for example T1 players have 20+ killing a tower lord they get the norm bag + those stupid bloodstones, a T8 player with 3-5 on tag should get 50% more loot or some scenario.

Anet, we are the kid in the neighborhood that is told “yeah…Santa Claus ain’t coming this year but little Susie Pver up the street, she’s getting an ezbake oven and lite brite!” Pay attention to us father and mother anet!!! We want love and cuddles.

I’m not sharing my build but Druid can be insane. I’ve had entire guilds/havoc teams bomb me, chase, bomb again, chase, immobilize, bomb again and I still managed to live and /laugh at them after making the great escape. It helps the time pass

My vote goes to super druids if you can find the correct build you feel comfortable with.

Because us Pacific Northwesterners like our microbrews and happy hour at 5 pm, then when we leave the brewery we can hit up reset in the evening.

Make sense?

DeceiverX.8361:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Chaba.5410:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Something lately I’m noticing too is my player just stands in place. Won’t respond to directional keys but skills still work, anyone else experience that?

Did you get cc’d, especially by one of the new mechanics/skills like taunt or headbutt? Sometimes it clears if you stop pressing movement keys or get cc’d again. Other times you still need to /emote.

Hmmm not sure I’ll have to check my combat log. It does always happen during combat specifically. I’ll try the emoting thing, thanks chaba!

Typically happens at the end of an immobilize. That said, I have experienced an issue only once where my movement keys randomly didn’t work until released/pressed again after a short period of idle time out of combat. I tried to replicate this to no avail.

Emoting seemed to help lately. I’m noticing that annoying bug where you build rams is still around, even switching weapons didn’t help, toon just stands there till I emote. Thought that was fixed awhile back?

I had a good time on AR with my 2nd account. However, that server had more drama between guilds than the Kardashians to the point they had a team speak intervention that didn’t seem to work very well. Guild leaders argued so much and I believe a lot of egos got in the way.

Asrat.2645:

Daredevil is a straight upgrade to thief.
Unless you are commited to play stealth you should take DrD over shadow arts.
Its faster, more sustainable and deals more damage.

Ok thanks for advice! The skills are pretty amazing and I just discovered the last slot in daredevil, three evades is nice

Hello all. I’m sorta new to thief, well never really played mine much cause I mained necro forever. But I love to scout, roam, and do all those fun things thief’s do…..LIKE GANK.

Right now I’m running vanilla build stuff:

Deadly Arts: 2,2,2
Shadow Arts: 3,2,2
Trickery: 2,2,2
Gear/Weapons/Trinks=zerkers
Dagger/Pistol
Shortbow

What build would you recommend daredevil or old school? I really like just ganking I guess and I’m learning to survive decently given my HP is equivalent to a rabbit.

Thanks!

Chaba.5410:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Something lately I’m noticing too is my player just stands in place. Won’t respond to directional keys but skills still work, anyone else experience that?

Did you get cc’d, especially by one of the new mechanics/skills like taunt or headbutt? Sometimes it clears if you stop pressing movement keys or get cc’d again. Other times you still need to /emote.

Hmmm not sure I’ll have to check my combat log. It does always happen during combat specifically. I’ll try the emoting thing, thanks chaba!

You son of a……that was pretty good lol

Straegen.2938:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Scoreboard
JQ 215 246
YB 266 079
BG 270 006

Yeah… BG is blobbing hard this week and it is pretty fantastic. I don’t know if it Spring Break or the rumors about temporary new accounts on BG is true but I don’t care. I hope BG keeps this level of play up.

As for any large guilds wanting to xfer into T1, probably best to go to JQ at this point to even things out a bit. IMO even fights are the best fights… nobody likes to get blobbed over and blobbing over everything isn’t fun either.

Not seeing Bg blobs too much. I am seeing multiple guilds on BG though. After all they are more of a guild oriented server. I think they come together to fight zergs perhaps because of aoe wars

What? lol Go clean your room kid.

Elizabeth Reed.9173:

Shadows Creed.3902:

Hilarious this thread is at 3 pages.

All I got from this thread is:
1. BG can’t handle anyone claiming the aren’t best
2. BG hates YB
3. YB embraces BG hate (proud of you YB really channeling your inner Mag)
4. JQ is this random server who just exists
5. BG claims to never ppt or use any siege (which we all know is lies since they don’t loose by all that much)

6. everyone is afraid of the ET and FC bandwagon that is coming to T1!!!

7. People are abandoning BG.
8. BG lives in the former glory days like a washed up football player who peaked in high school.

And
9. BG wants to be “good friends” with JQ therefore they always drop to their knees whenever JQ wants them to.
10. BG can never do anything on their own without JQ. JQ is the master. BG is the slave. End of story…. boo hoo.

Scoreboard
JQ 215 246
YB 266 079
BG 270 006

I think lowering the amount of carts that can be placed in a certain radius would be a nice cut back. Not sure if that already exists? But may help instead of nerfing. That way a defender can have his dps but the amount of red circles would decrease at least.

I main necro and recently made the change to thief because I’m like a kid in a candy store with all this stealth and power.

Thief’s have enough stealth. Think people who have mained thief for so long are just spoiled. Sorry, just my thoughts from the outside converting to the darkside

What I hate is when you can’t spike an enemy player. Not sure if this is due to a map bug but sometimes you can’t even hit them. You just have to stand there and watch them die.

Something lately I’m noticing too is my player just stands in place. Won’t respond to directional keys but skills still work, anyone else experience that?

Flumek.9043:

There is no such option.

Even with action mode being official i think its just too rare case of it being useful to be worth making.

Ok thanks very much!

I don’t know about just two minutes afk, that’s a little extreme. Commanders/pugs need a break and if they take a 10 min that’s fine by me. I roam and sometimes need to port to spawn, reset and take a 10 minute, get myself a beer then go pretend I’m the greatest player in the game again. Most guilds are in Teamspeak setting up groups during prime or builds, usually that means afk for a few.

Those guilds, commanders, and roamers are supporting your server at the end of the day. Not a good idea just to kick them from wvw for wanting to do things right.

At least they are trying. Gotta give them some credit. I honestly believe the Mike B. guy is identifying issues and trying to make the wvw happy again. I gotta hand it to him for making decisions and putting himself out there.

I may have missed it but did they ever make wells a non-ground targetting option? I really liked instacast version I could perform at my feet when roaming. The ground targeting can be annoying sometimes when a thief is in my face button mashing.

Mooncow.6847:

RodOfDeath.5247:

For me this is the first mmo I actually felt part of a little community. At launch I started on Kaineng and joined BMS guild. It was so kitten ed fun to raid nearly every night and I still have fun memories of the BMS and CNB tag team guilds going up against insane blobs together. I remember commander Sano from CNB on Kaineng, the great 47 from BMS, Guardian Angle, and Ajax Blue being a jerk in map chat. Little did I know, the fun times would only last a few months till the transfer rave started. That’s when I left with BMS to Fort Asp. where I have tons of fun memories on that server.

This. This time on Kaineng was so kittening fun. I miss these days so much.
But my all time favorite times in WvW was on Kaineng at launch with the guild [NUKE]. I’ve never had more fun in any video game

I remember NUKE! They were pretty cool back then. I remember CRIT as well. Found a nice little gem below….sigh when Kaineng versus Yaks Bend was a thing.

I’d like to see a pvp setup in wvw myself. I see people linking their gear in map chat and just shake my head.

Anets lack of transparency is very concerning. I voted no. I mainly wvw roam and am doing well with an old school pre-hot necro build I came up with that wins most of the time. No need for xpac for me personally.

Archeia.8905:

It’s like this in T2 too (NA), ever since PPK was turned on we started seeing action on the BL’s.

OP makes it feel like this is uncommon even on reset…
Kind of makes it sound like T2 is in a better place than T1 right now…

I want to play! No T3 is better than all of you!

Princesspoopoo.5064:

I agree with a lot of folks out there. I do like that you brought back Friday resets, but that it’s a bit too late. I’m in central time and 9:00pm is pushing it.

I’m full time employed, I’m going to bed no reset for me lol

joneirikb.7506:

gog.com is dangerous, I’ve wasted way too many paychecks there -_-’ have a backlog the size of every change log in gw2 since release… (slightly exaggerated)

But I definitively agree that Desert BL should be a Desert BG (Battle Ground) map instead. So the size would make more sense, and there isn’t 3 copies of the same map. The WP system seems to encourage that same idea. Don’t hate the map, think it is a nice change of pace, but I also want Alpine back so I can play on whichever map I want.

The borderland’s system must die.

LOL I feel ya. I bought witcher 3 and Victor Vran today. Rather give gog my money than anet. The sales this week are pretty awesome.

Putting the desert BLs in the eotm system would make more sense to me, alpine was simple and promoted more fights IMO.

Puck.9612:

RodOfDeath.5247:

For me this is the first mmo I actually felt part of a little community. At launch I started on Kaineng and joined BMS guild. It was so kitten ed fun to raid nearly every night and I still have fun memories of the BMS and CNB tag team guilds going up against insane blobs together. I remember commander Sano from CNB on Kaineng, the great 47 from BMS, Guardian Angle, and Ajax Blue being a jerk in map chat. Little did I know, the fun times would only last a few months till the transfer rave started. That’s when I left with BMS to Fort Asp. where I have tons of fun memories on that server.

Lol I forgot about Ajax, he annoyed us on AR as well.

Kinda miss him lol Puck I remember you! My second account was Demon in ur closet, was on AR for a bit, fun times there

Pick me up below all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWcAek5_JE

Jana.6831:

Puck.9612:

Maybe that’s why they gave roamers and small guilds the shaft when they introduced the HoT guild upgrades, they are trying to phase them out of the game.

Yes and no – I rather think they have no idea how the communities in wvw look like, so they felt that it was too easy to build up a personal guild (and in fact it was) and they also needed a gold sink. They just assumed that all +5 and stuff was coming from big guilds, so everything has been adjusted with that in mind. Little did they know that most of the buffs always came from personal or roamer guilds. So yeah, I guess they just don’t know.
In fact if you look at the new BL… when I’m auto attacking my way through the barricades I spam say chat with “’cause kitten you, roamers!!” – roamers are officially not part of this game.

Think the best point you made is anet assumed everything came from big guilds. My best guess is most devs hung out in the upper tiers mainly the past years and have zero clue what the environment is like down in the lower tiers with multiple small guilds typically consisting of 10-20 players each working together. Even my lame guild long ago on FA was only 5 players, but we still could claim camps and help pug tags for supply runs. Was amazing what a tiny guild could do to a map, all gone now.