Guild Wars 2

I loved AR on my second account but then LGN and LXG left, then the server went to poo pooville. Another broken server brought to you by anet killing off the wvw mode.

I only fight in wvw for the glory. Plus my spike animation is pretty.

Yeah I feel your pain gennyt. I’m pretty disappointed. I’ve found what you have experienced, no matter what gear or toughness just massive hits for insane critical damage from opposing players.
I finally gave in tonight on my roaming necro and ran some condi perplex super bleeding, chill, confusion build that does insane condition damage and duration. I don’t even feel like I’m trying anymore, I just hit a few keys and watch my opponent melt with condis. There’s literally no counter to it…just spam crap and go reaper mode let the condis do the work and melt poor player. Game is all over the place with zero support from devs, just sloppy communication.

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Uses meta builds, can’t think outside the box (check)

Got yourself a twitch channel

Gunner Morton.8340:

Considering 99% of all the GvG guilds have left because of the silent treatment from Anet: too little, too late.

This, all the guilds once feared are all long gone. Too late

Anet is loving this IMO, they are milking the lower tier players because people are moving up to T1 or T2 due to boredom.

This is why they are using the excuse “we are not quite ready to share the overhaul details”. They want to hook and bait what little wvw player base is left so they can milk those gem transfers. Some are buying in, most are not.

Tyaen.5148:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Tyaen.5148:

RodOfDeath.5247:

And please remove the “x server HAS TAKEN THIS CAMP!!!!!!!” Or at least make it optional, some people like to solo, roam with groups or duel, no need to plaster a big message right in the middle of your view.

You can toggle that.

Ok I give in, how do you toggle it? I asked in map chat and people said I was crazy lol

Haven’t been in game for a week and a half, but I thought it was in the display options somewhere. Maybe you can only toggle it in the chat windows.

Come to think of it I was watching a roaming video the other day and did notice the guy had the “SERVER TOOK CAMP RAWRRRRR YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS” in his say chat instead of his screen. Hopefully there’s a way, thanks again!

Bump, topic belongs at the top of the forum

Think keyword in their statement “overhaul”. WvW didn’t even need an overhaul. Just minor changes that the community was collaborating about in the forums. But because anet seems to be so stubborn and does not listen to it’s wvw community, we are where we are right now population and game mode wise. Nothing is really going to fix this and bring back the masses. They’ve waited entirely too long with several mmos on the horizon. Communication goes a long way, I suggest anet uses it with their player base but it’s been posted in the forums a great many times with zero response from the devs.

Callendor.1840:

I reported a hacker in PvP using what looked like midnight 2 with a video on the ticket system early December last year and was told they would not proceed with it as it should be reported in game… I then E-mailed the video to exploits@arena.net as far as I am aware the hacker is still in game

I reported the one on BG this week. I even submitted Briggahs twitch video in the email similar to what you did. Anets response was “please report in game so our security team can keep an eye on him”. I gave them documented evidence and the account name and they can’t sign onto the YB server and hang around EB keep and watch him? Oh wait, that would include PLAYING WVW. It really seems like a lost cause.

Crapgame.6519:

RodOfDeath.5247:

I’m actually still surprised the PINK thief hacker from BG who ports through walls, contest wp and destroys siege is still around. He’s been reported for quite a long time and video has been submitted to anet. The guy has 17,000 AP lol So he’s been around, hackers are flourishing these days, just gonna drive off more wvw players.

No, it actually won’t. Not yet anyway.

The lack of WvW updates or attention by the development team is driving the players away. The only reason why more haven’t left is because there really isn’t any other game today with a similar play style. This will change though more than likely later this year.

If it is even slightly more stable and fun, WvW will be a ghost town much like you see already on the new boarder land maps. At this point in time there isn’t anything I don’t think they can do to make it better.

Yeah that’s a good point. In YB map chat we just kinda laugh it off now “pink thief at it again” so we’ve gotten quite use to him and he’s become sorta a running joke “Dude pink thief JQs keep please” when we need something contested. I’m lately seeing commanders complaining about less and less fights. At one point we were thinking JQ and BG moved on to black desert lol I’m not sure what is going to save this game mode….

I remember having a level 80 guard long ago and I deleted the toon. Today I noticed I had a few pieces of exotic gear in my bank with no name of what toon it belongs to and I’m guessing it was that one I deleted. It won’t let me take the gear out of the bank on any character even to salavage it. Is it pretty much locked in place forever? Why can’t I just salvage it? Thanks!

LetoII.3782:

Mokk.2397:

.Isn’t it in Anets best interest on a financial level to protect their customers from cheaters.

You already bought the game.
Just remember when gw3 goes on preorder

After seeing anets communication, business ethics, and product no thanks. Not investing any gems, $$$, or future purchases into their product. Very sloppy communication and staff.

Tyaen.5148:

RodOfDeath.5247:

And please remove the “x server HAS TAKEN THIS CAMP!!!!!!!” Or at least make it optional, some people like to solo, roam with groups or duel, no need to plaster a big message right in the middle of your view.

You can toggle that.

Ok I give in, how do you toggle it? I asked in map chat and people said I was crazy lol

Tyaen.5148:

RodOfDeath.5247:

And please remove the “x server HAS TAKEN THIS CAMP!!!!!!!” Or at least make it optional, some people like to solo, roam with groups or duel, no need to plaster a big message right in the middle of your view.

You can toggle that.

You can? THANK GOD, thanks Tyaen!

Gliding isn’t going to bring back the masses. That is the last change they should currently make given their terrible history with making things worse in wvw. It’ll just be abused and exploited into the ground and it will upset even more of the player base. Leave it out.

And please remove the “x server HAS TAKEN THIS CAMP!!!!!!!” Or at least make it optional, some people like to solo, roam with groups or duel, no need to plaster a big message right in the middle of your view.

Defense?……you mean the thing power staff elemenalist kill in 1.3 seconds with meteor shower and there is no use to defending anymore? You mean that move where 10 mesmers use pull and everyone aoe’s the hell outta a ledge so you can’t defend a tower? Yeah…….defense LOL

PINK guy at it again, I don’t think he sleeps or has a job. Porting through walls just having a good ole time lol

I’m actually still surprised the PINK thief hacker from BG who ports through walls, contest wp and destroys siege is still around. He’s been reported for quite a long time and video has been submitted to anet. The guy has 17,000 AP lol So he’s been around, hackers are flourishing these days, just gonna drive off more wvw players.

Gaile,

PINK hacker from BG is getting out of control. I added him to my block list and from what I hear he has been reported for quite a long time. I watched the guy port through walls, port into a keep spam his stuff, wreck siege, and then port right through a wall and run off. What was more concerning he has 17,000 achievement points. How long has this been an issue??? Players in map chat said they have been reporting him for close to a year now without any action.

Hello Mr anet, can you hear us?

An interesting question: Do you guys find its harder these days to recruit people for small roaming/havoc guild than before with the new BLs? I felt like I had better luck in the past I guess. Maybe player population has more to do with it?

Hey Dayan, you remind me of myself when I started playing. I would get smoked constantly. Honestly, if ya wanna get good at the game just try the youtube vides, search like “ele roaming wvw”. People in this game are pretty cool about sharing builds and such. Go out there and roam fight people 1v1 or 1v2, get your kitten kicked a few times. It’s no big if you lose, just as long as you learn what you did wrong. You’ll learn how to move and most of all, what your rotations should be.

The guys are right, EOTM is the fastest way to rank these days unless you are in like T1.

morrolan.9608:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Honestly, I’m liking T1 lately. The fights regardless of what server YB, BG, JQ are fun. The little political games are quite pathetic and I wish some servers would be more independent. YB gets hate IMO because they don’t play nice with BG and JQ little circle of commanders. YB takes whatever, whenever with no agenda, they want it they take it. I’m hoping the rumor is true and JQs guilds continues to blame each other within so they go away and fall. Bring up independent Fort Aspen, at least I know they’ll fight anything in sight with no allegiance.

You realise if that happens you’ll end up with a server with far too little population and it will essentially be BG vs YB. Why do you think Malevolent and Indo wanted to keep JQ in T1. The phrase be careful what you wish for springs to mind.

I think BG could use some people/guilds, they seem a bit thin at times. JQ is just massive…no way around it. I mainly roam and it pains me to admit, I like fighting BG roamers. FA has some awesome players from what I remember, I liked fighting their roamers. Bring them up please. JQ can fracture for all I care but I guess that’s sorta my own opinion, roaming and can’t always get what ya want

Honestly, I’m liking T1 lately. The fights regardless of what server YB, BG, JQ are fun. The little political games are quite pathetic and I wish some servers would be more independent. YB gets hate IMO because they don’t play nice with BG and JQ little circle of commanders. YB takes whatever, whenever with no agenda, they want it they take it. I’m hoping the rumor is true and JQs guilds continues to blame each other within so they go away and fall. Bring up independent Fort Aspen, at least I know they’ll fight anything in sight with no allegiance.

briggah.7910:

bg and jq are joined at the hip. its basically 2 servers fighting in t1. yb vs BG + JQ

Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds

Got an account on T1 and T6, also have a friend who quit who gave me his info for his account on Fort Aspen. T1 is the place you want to be constant roaming fights, small scale, and zergy trash if you like that, T2 is meh and I was a bit surprised by that. T6 is fun as hell on reset night but then dies out throughout the week but I don’t really show up for Saturday reset nights because I have a life on the weekend……Anet.

For once I’m for the hacker. Feel free to screw up the tiers and match ups. The game could use it, nothing else works anyways lol

fire luvs money.2759:

go go Black desert !
Anet don t care about their community.

No they certainly don’t, they’ve done everything to break guilds and communities. They just care about those gem purchases and sweet transfers, hence the BS excuse “soon”, milking the cow as long as they can.

Ready for a an epic story children?
I moved into a house around 4 years ago. My first week I was standing at my door late at night admiring “wow I own a house” and I saw this thing, crawling on my porch that looked like it was from a horror movie. I seriously thought it was a zombie raccoon. I got my machete (yes, you need this in Oregon, we have forests ya know) and a flashlight. What I found was the most heart breaking thing, a black cat, extremely skinny, his front arms were crooked but he still could use them like someone left him like this, abused him or abandoned him. He immediately came up to me with his rotten breath and started to cuddle. I felt horrible so of course as soon as my fiance came into the picture we just had to bring the little demon cat in. We took him to the vet and the vet was sorta appalled someone did this to him. His arms were broke at some point and they healed crooked, he was a street cat for so long he had a bladder infection destroying his muscles to pee and his organs were messed up. Luckily I play necromancer so I knew my magic credit card would rise up any demon. After weeks of treatment he got better and lived somewhat of a normal life for 2 years, I say somewhat because my fiance and I had to do something called “expressing the bladder daily”. Just put it together people. One day, little Gobo as we named him started having convolutions in his legs and would shake violently. The vet found that he had blood clots forming in his legs and it was time to put him down. This was heart breaking, even though I only knew the little guy for 2 years I grown really attached to him. Hung out with him till his final breath and buried him under the tree in the back yard. That night I was depressed and just hung out in wvw trying to take my mind off it. You know what was great? Friends in wvw, just hanging out with them even though it was a cat, they were just there cheering me up. This is what anet doesn’t get, wvw use to be a little family with close communities. That’s why we care so much, not because of loot and crap, because we have fun moments together and for me like the stories above, just friends to hang out with and cheer you up when you are down about life. There’s more to wvw than just 1111 spamming. It kinda brings people together in a weird way. I took a pic in FABL becuase my pets name was “gobos flight” and the moon looked pretty above Bay. Now I hope I’ve really depressed you all, sorry lol

Overall, I think your vid pretty much describes the last of the true wvwers and our future in this game mode, the epic music even fit in lol.

One versus all, the one being the vets who are still holding onto the wvw dream, the all being crappy pvers and devs karma training like zombies who just don’t understand that great whisper…..“glory”.

Kill them all Spartacus.

Anet can barely program the wall damage correctly. You think they could possible handle this? lol

Straegen.2938:

Fuzzion.2504:

BG is known as the brain dead server. Not really surprising

All servers are pretty much the same with differing populations and various commander personalities. The concept that some server is better or worse than another almost completely revolves around the populations on that server during certain time zones.

There was a time this wasn’t as true when TC was an RP server, YB was a defense server and Mags was a GvG server but that time has long passed. Having been on nearly a dozen servers since release, they are all pretty much the same. Wait for driver, zerg. Don’t like to zerg, roam.

^What he said. I really liked that servers were known for a particular tactic or style. It’s what made the game fun and rivals were made. All of that is gone now

1.) Anet contract out wvw programming, design, etc.
2.) Anet contract out pvp programming, design, etc.
(pvp and wvw team collaborate and work together for class balance)
3.) Stability stack removal
4.) Eliminate 6 bottom servers.
5.) Hire a project manager/communications specialist strictly for work plan discussion and updating the gw2 community on a more professional level. Not reddit, your actual forums and website that represent your game.

@otto i canz readz what you sayz

I can’t even tell what is hitting me 100% of the time when it comes to guards, lame graphics and kinda pathetic this hasn’t been fixed being this is their big expansion. Don’t they test this stuff? It seems rather basic in nature…..spells showing up on screen and pretty unicorn colors.

Agreed with Chaba.

As a roamer I want to see guilds come back because I like to report to them other guilds location just to help out in fights. I’m just not seeing any guild tags these days I’d call “that guild to fear”. Stability would certainly help raid guilds take on numbers greater than theirs and go back to skill versus pug zerg.

Agreed on the LA home server. It was rather fun waiting at spawn before reset and seeing my servers guilds, pugs, tags, etc coordinate who was going to take what BL. You felt like you were part of a little community. Anet has done everything to break that family feel.

There’s ole Fort A again making up excuses whining about the glikco, arrow carts, “we here for the fights!”, constantly complaining lol

-Describe a typical hour for you in the Alpine Borderlands in the past. For example, What size of group were you running in? What kind of tasks did you run? What activities did you do?
*I could find a tag or small roaming crew to hang out with no matter what time of day it was. Dueling and roaming was fun and dynamic no matter what the timeclock said. Any task you name it, but I love roaming the most. Raids were common and I could join in, 2 am or 2 pm, some guild was there.

-Compare your experience described above with a typical hour spent in Eternal Battlegrounds, if you went there at all. Does your style of play change between the 2 maps?’
*In EB i have to be a bit more careful as I roam solo most of the time. EB is popular so that means lots of gank guilds or awful cheese build wins players. Hence why I loved the old maps, I felt like there was more genuine players I came across in regular maps.

-Compare your experiences described above with an hour spent in the new borderlands.
*I’d say new bls are empty with little roamers I come across. Running aimlessly for quite a long time fighting pve mobs at camps is very boring. Too many ledges, switchbacks, overall…just too much. Very boring and getting to objectives is a task. We live in a instant gratification society today and anet needs to realize, quicker action=more fights=player happy.

-Describe the nature of combat in the borderlands in the past. How have the new borderlands impacted this paradigm for you? What style or build changes might it cause? For example, knocking people off cliffs or into lava might play a more important role.
*I think the old maps were straight forward. Example “bay has swords!” group goes fights, i have fun and we all have a good time. The new bls seem to avoid fights in a sense because they are so massive and are a maze.

-In your experience, compare the time it takes take a structure or objective here, then it did in the past.
*Old maps could be difficult at times depending on defense. New maps are just a pve nightmare with boring elements with little resistance due to low population. I felt like I could solo things a bit better in old maps (camps or towers). New maps…I just don’t care.

-How is the loot and wxp for you compared to in the past? Will it be able to sustain whatever you are doing? Did it take a hit, or was it improved? If you are planning to unlock an elite specialization, do you think you were helped or hurt in these regards? Do you think you could pursue any other in-game goals just by playing WvW?
*I roam, I care not for rewards. Roaming is really the only mode holding my interest. If that dies, so does my account.

-How will the map change impact the long sessions (multiple hours) you spend in WvW?
*I use to play a lot of hours in the evening and roam with friends. I maybe spend 2 hours at max roaming presently because wvw is so boring with little interaction now, it’s just blob v blob and roamers are dwindling. Communities have dissolved due to players leaving.

-In 100 words or less, describe how the new BLs could be improved.
*Sometimes, you have to learn that it’s not an issue but an opportunity. The new bls are an issue and an opportunity for anet to learn. You don’t need an analyst to realize the new maps killed wvw. Go back to the old maps, improve them, fix bugs, and most of all anet needs to communicate. They’d be surprised what they get as a end product. Old players may just possibly return and a bold move is needed by anet.

-In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a new WvW player.
*I think they’d be lost wouldn’t’ understand what the hell is going on. If you played the old wvw, you’d have a an idea but present bls would have me wondering “what the hell is the point to this game mode?” if i were new.

-In 100 words or less, describe how the borderlands work to a veteran WvW player that is new to the maps.
*I believe they’d log in and think “what in the mother of god is this….” and move onto another mmo without wanting to put the time and effort into what they once would with a lack of communication based company like anet. As a launch player, I have no interest in the direction wvw is going so I’d say I’d give up on the game.

-Which map am I most likely to find you currently, if you’re on Gw2?
*EB for sure. Tried roaming on new bls for months now with little fights. Gave up finally.

I want to vote again, x2.

If they brought back old maps, wow, I’d play to midnight again and still show up for my job at 6 am. I love the old maps

With the current pirate BS meta, I’d like to see healing be more involved. Everyone wants to see BIG BIG numbers and BOOM BOOM.

Honestly, I think its too late. We’ve lost so many wvw brothers and sisters. Not sure there’s any coming back to what wvw was population wise.

I signed onto my second account on Kaineng tonight and was instantly reminded about what I love about the lower tiers. It’s often a small community and I guess I’d compare it to a small town, everyone knows everyone and the drama is near zero most of the time with fun times. It still feels like launch down there with epic small scale fights and those crazy moments at towers where you and one dude or chick pull off a miracle defense against crazy odds.

My main is in T1. I don’t mind T1, it’s ok for roaming because that’s the only mode that is holding my interest lately. But I do find the more players the less epic moments or togetherness….yaks bend is an exception because they do have a good community IMO and something can be said for DK being the face of YB, yes I know…you all hate him. Keep in mind, I’m just a roamer, I have no interest in your stupid T1 politics But he may be one of the few vanilla commanders left in this game because so many have moved on. The point is, community is such a rarity in present wvw and it seems lower tiers still have some genuinity to them though I know keeping the dream alive in lower tiers is harder than ever and transferring up may be a guilds only option with anet dropping the ball here.

Having seen both sides I have no interest in merging I guess, I really like the low key roaming the lower tiers offer. The roamers are much better down here in my experience as I’ve been in T1 through T8 and come across a lot dueling and friends along the way. I think it’s more of a survivor mentality in the lower tiers as you can’t depend on others, you are on an island most of your time.

I can’t speak for T8 or T7, but eliminating those servers might be best, but there are some long time loyal players on those servers I know who don’t want a server merge and I can respect that.

BMS/CNB for life

Amins.3710:

Yep Jski, you’re absolutely right.

I know nothing about WvW in gw.

Keep being a fanboi. The boat left port 6 months ago.

Oh Jski just mad because YB broke FA in half. Just a little pepper with a lot of salt on the steak.

Gross…I don’t want some filthy FA player at my side in battle.

They have no plan, wait for the next mmo.

Only bad players use stealth anyways, Hope it stays broke, FIGHT ME.

SkyShroud.2865:

u cant bring back the population

Probably the best quote in wvw history right there……

I myself want MORE messages plastered all over my screen about what the enemy is doing. That way, I can’t officially duel or roam anymore. The more lag and messages the better, that will really bring more players back.

I’m feeling pretty good about the updated software. Higher ledges too please, I want to really push my skills to the test between being blinded by a larger font in bright neon colors “Jade Quarry has taken a tower!!!”, lag so bad my skills don’t even react, or pve mobs. Let’s really crank up the difficulty meter here anet.

Think it’s more of we are in hot water and in panic mode. Reality has arrived.

http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/20/analysts-consider-ncsofts-2016-prospects-guild-wars-2-wildstar-earnings-fall/