Guild Wars 2

X T D.6458:

RodOfDeath.5247:

I think its a great idea. Mainly for a horrible “click your skills” roamer like me to test builds out of the ordinary, I hate running meta crap.

The dueling arena might just pull guilds and players away from the game mode though. I could see the whiny gvg guilds crying that this is their arena time MINE MINE MINE, so some type of arena instance would have to be incorporated where only the guild players can get into privately. If not, I will make sure to get on my ghost thief and ruin every gvg

Another great idea is for arena net to hire interns to allow players to duel 1v1 to practice builds and enhance game play. I think you computer people call them “game testers”? They don’t even have to live in Bellevue, WA. That’s the benefit of the powerful internet.

I could see your idea really taking off into something beneficial for the game mode.

Yea forgot to mention about the duel arena, it would be like an instance within an instance, like the guild arena but specifically designed to hold two people that are partied up then talk to an npc and get put into the arena.

The main purpose of the build panel is to help players test out different build combinations without having to spend a fortune to see if it is effective or not.

And Thank You for the kind words

I’d love the chance to touch base and duel with old friends who are scattered all over the place now. Some are even on EU servers these days. Those guys/gals helped me so much with my trash play but we can’t get together anymore.

And testing without spending 50 gold on a build only benefits the players/mode.

My worry is:

“anet hello!!! this man has a great idea!” -Us

“Echo echo echo” -Anet wvw cave of dreams.

A lot of great ideas have fallen silent on the wvw forum battlefield unfortunately.

I think its a great idea. Mainly for a horrible “click your skills” roamer like me to test builds out of the ordinary, I hate running meta crap.

The dueling arena might just pull guilds and players away from the game mode though. I could see the whiny gvg guilds crying that this is their arena time MINE MINE MINE, so some type of arena instance would have to be incorporated where only the guild players can get into privately. If not, I will make sure to get on my ghost thief and ruin every gvg

Another great idea is for arena net to hire interns to allow players to duel 1v1 to practice builds and enhance game play. I think you computer people call them “game testers”? They don’t even have to live in Bellevue, WA. That’s the benefit of the powerful internet.

I could see your idea really taking off into something beneficial for the game mode.

NS versus YB would be epic

Jeknar.6184:

RodOfDeath.5247:

What if they eliminated gold to gems trade? Think that would help stop the blobbing guilds from screwing up wvw?

And also would screw people that want somenthing from the gem store without having to their dig pockets.

I don’t deny, i recently traded in gold for that stupid cat with the hat lol. Had to have it but I do get your point. However, let’s not forget the game is free ad provides significant hours of entertainment, I will give anet that kudos.

These band wagoners just ruin the game mode for everyone, wish they’d just stay up in T1 and permanently stay there with their lag wars and blobs.

Lahmia.2193:

Sarika.3756:

Caliburn.1845:

What WvW needs is a purpose.

What many of us have wished for from the beginning is that WvW be a serious competitive game-mode(with all the balance related things people have already listed).

Right now playing WvW does not matter, playing WvW skillfully does not matter. Winning the week does not matter. Winning outnumbered fights, or PPTing better than anyone else does not matter.

Now imagine if WvW had the structural framework to give a purpose to doing WvW. Skirmishes were a baby step in that direction, but have lacked any sort of follow up at all.

Make winning matter, make playing well matter. Give people a reason to be in WvW and give them a reason to improve their play.

This. So much this.

If they did make winning the week matter, they would need to sort out server transfers. Else server bandwagoning would become so bad, it would make what happened to Dragonbrand look tame by comparison.

What if they eliminated gold to gems trade? Think that would help stop the blobbing guilds from screwing up wvw?

Jeknar.6184:

RodOfDeath.5247:

EVEN THE NPCS KNOW IT!

NPCs know many things, such as “PvE’er have no interest in WvW” or “WvW is dying/people are quitting”.

Ok, that one was good lol

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Arenanet wiped server pride in the following 3 steps..

Step 1: they replaced the old lions arch for some weird looking waterpark without waterslides. (everyone loved to stand afk in front of the bank)

Step 2: They introduced the mega servers. (randomised peeps all over the place)

Step 3: they merged servers. (rollplayers suddenly pop up in Wvw causing huge Q’s, veterans start to play different games)

There is no such thing as server pride in guildwars2. Those who beleave that Im wrong are tripping.

EVEN THE NPCS KNOW IT!

T2 and T3 here, yes lag everywhere.

Came across one of these little jerks who was farming players at north camp.

I proceeded to log onto my dire trapper thief, had fun with her then

There’s 4 years of forum posts on what we want.

Anets had plenty of time to gather information and collaborate with their player base, gimmie a break lol

Aeolus.3615:

X T D.6458:

James Rustler.7860:

X T D.6458:

So…ever planning on fixing this? Last night I got hit by 5 cor’s instantly while standing behind a gate trying to rez someone….

I hope they never “fix” this. It’s one of the few counters for door catas and similar siege-troll tactics.

That is one of the worst reasons ever for not fixing a bug. I was not even on siege, or against the gate, I was standing about 900 range behind the gate.

Gimmick VS gimmick = Anet balance….. players love low effort gimmicks…

Or low programming skillz.

Because they don’t want to hear about it most likely and want no negative, logical, or questionable responses from the players on their decisions. You know those people at work…..“I’m right, you are wrong” and they don’t listen to reason and typically are not open to other individuals ideas

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/World-Linking-8-26-2016/first

This is the anet way.

That’d be a nice idea, might even attract players into wvw.

My worry is that anet would implement yet another useless currency and turn it into a grind fest when alls we want to do is WVW baby!

Proofs are fine, tomes of K, and BoH. So many stacks of tomes….

Chaba.5410:

morrolan.9608:

Chaba.5410:

kefro.9312:

After manual close now also manual linking, i’m out. Rip

You know… FA’s been Full/Very High since the population calculation change over a year ago and hanging around rank 6. Anet at the time said some servers marked Full were overstacked well beyond the Full status (like BG still is). When JQ was Very High, you guys still brought out numbers that FA could almost compete with. I don’t honestly know how you expect not to go Full when you can outnumber FA at times and then go and recruit. T2 “size” is basically the new max server size you have to get used to, not the old overstacked T1 sizes. It really sounds like you need to trim players in certain timezones if you want to fill other timezones.

Its not about just being full its not getting a link. Anet has just literally destroyed JQ. Well done anet.

This demands justification.

But it is about being Full. JQ is Full because it has more active population than Very High servers. There’s no reason to give a link to a Full server.

I think this round of links is pretty reasonable. Look at how close all the NA matches are right now.

I wouldn’t call a few hours of scoring in a match as significant data to say close or success just yet. Especially given reset is the prime time of the week. Maybe wait a week or two, see where we are.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Chaba.5410:

morrolan.9608:

Chaba.5410:

kefro.9312:

After manual close now also manual linking, i’m out. Rip

You know… FA’s been Full/Very High since the population calculation change over a year ago and hanging around rank 6. Anet at the time said some servers marked Full were overstacked well beyond the Full status (like BG still is). When JQ was Very High, you guys still brought out numbers that FA could almost compete with. I don’t honestly know how you expect not to go Full when you can outnumber FA at times and then go and recruit. T2 “size” is basically the new max server size you have to get used to, not the old overstacked T1 sizes. It really sounds like you need to trim players in certain timezones if you want to fill other timezones.

Its not about just being full its not getting a link. Anet has just literally destroyed JQ. Well done anet.

This demands justification.

But it is about being Full. JQ is Full because it has more active population than Very High servers. There’s no reason to give a link to a Full server.

I think this round of links is pretty reasonable. Look at how close all the NA matches are right now.

^This.
I’ve got a lot of friends on JQ and when I look at my friends list during the day I rarely see more than 2 or 3 of them in wvw. But every one of them will hop in at some point, either during prime time or just to get their daily.

All of these people are technically active players even if they are only in wvw for about an hour or less everyday.

When I look around on Mag I see the same names logging in every day and putting in way more hours.

No employment eh?

Offair.2563:

They should have put an endless skeleton tonic in the track.

True that, just seems there could have been more shiny things to attract players.

Just a thought.

With the Halloween event present, thanksgiving coming up, and xmas on the horizon, why doesn’t anet do anything to attract pvers to wvw with the holidays?

The reward track for Halloween, whatever it’s just more crappy Halloween bags with an epic 20 slot pail at the end….. Let’s face it, the Halloween event is BORING and same ole and the pvers are complaining on reddit.

However, why wouldn’t they include some type of reward that would attract pvers to our lovely, nice, respectful, loving wvw mode? Yes, pvers are not the best players but a little influx of players and recruitment potential can’t hurt IMO given the state of wvw.

It just seems like a missed opportunity to get some fresh blood in wvw I guess.

X T D.6458:

Since when does Mag not have dedicated wvw guilds? If you are seriously looking for a wvw guild, add what time you play, what playstyle you prefer, if you have ts and a headset w/mic, how much experience you have with wvw and guilds. Asking wvw guilds to help you farm mats and get ascended gear is going to….lets just say it looks odd.

It is an odd request but imagine him asking in Mag map chat “can i join a wvw guild?”. Just sit back…and let that simmer for a bit. Formulate all the great responses you’d get lol

DeceiverX.8361:

bjchase.3074:

tym.3791:

Im on YB, and I HATE t1. HATE it so bad, I wanna transfer, but dont wanna pay the fee, so I simply dont WvW much any more. Yea YB does Ktrain, have to, facing the mag, or bg blobs in the times I play, we are just getting steam rolled. I hate one sided fights, I hate being on the winning and loosing side of em. Its no fun. So we hit bl and ktrain, really not much else to do.

I was on YB since launch. I took a few months off of playing before HoT (YB was T3/4 at that time). When I came back for HoT YB was T1. Ugh. I joined a guild (KRTA) without knowing what server it was on (I was doing mainly PvE so it didn’t matter). I liked the people in KRTA and with YB in T1 I went to Mags (which was T3 at the time). Now I’m back in T1. Ugh. But, being in an awesome guild with great people to talk with and who can field a decent size group for WvW makes being in T1 more than tolerable. The skill lag when it is 50+ vs 50+ vs 50+ is still really annoying though. Ugh.

This is why I went to T2 and wanted to stay in T2. T1 is crap filled with maximum overblob/gankers and way too many bandwagon players, be them drivers or passengers.

I never got T1, I hung out there for a few months and absolutely hated it.

My best memories and experiences from this game came from T6-T8. And that was primarily due to communities and small time guilds.

Anet just doesn’t get it.

I have to admit QQ guy, I’ve always hated your guild. But its nice to see you’ve held true to your small crew style.

Kill the mag scrubs, they’ve gone S A W F T

DeceiverX.8361:

RodOfDeath.5247:

William Bradley Knight.2609:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Lol what exactly do you find skillful about his play?
Drop 2 traps on a semi afk player, run away to stack stealth, rinse and repeat until they die, edit out all the footage where it doesn’t work.

The only thing I’ll give him props on is running sylvari so he can use the elite to counter reveal.

It’s not that I find his play skillful, but more that there are a lot of really bad players in WvW. Of course he is doing this in T1, but still…look at how those players reacted to him. Or rather how they did not react.

Was thinking that as well. Most of them just stood there doing nothing competent. I’ve played this build a bit and it’s pretty effective for the most part. If you mess up you can get annihilated at times, but for the most part it is fun to troll with.

In my experience, competent players will know quickly how to fight this build, t1 zerglings will never have a chance as the video shows. Hence why the lower tiers are more fun IMO, better fights.

Everyone knows that the legitimate claims to Mag having a particularly good small-scale playerbase generally speaking ended years ago, especially now that they’re bandwagoned by wannabes attracted to the glory of high KDR from other just as cancerous builds in massive gank groups that quite frankly carry the players.

In essence, Mag is kept up by its reputation alone and its playerbase being rewarded for trolling based on the mechanics of WvW.

There are some great players still in Mag, but like any T1 server, they’re in the minority.
And the respectable ones are fewer-found :P

Can’t argue with that, I was a little surprised last time my server was matched up with Mag. It was just one giant zerg after another and havoc crews were large, just wasn’t the Mag from the good ole days but hey, the game has changed so whatever.

I miss the 1v1 versus a mag player because I knew I’d get an epic fight, now it’s 1v5 with them and T1 can keep em, just another great server gone vanilla.

William Bradley Knight.2609:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Lol what exactly do you find skillful about his play?
Drop 2 traps on a semi afk player, run away to stack stealth, rinse and repeat until they die, edit out all the footage where it doesn’t work.

The only thing I’ll give him props on is running sylvari so he can use the elite to counter reveal.

It’s not that I find his play skillful, but more that there are a lot of really bad players in WvW. Of course he is doing this in T1, but still…look at how those players reacted to him. Or rather how they did not react.

Was thinking that as well. Most of them just stood there doing nothing competent. I’ve played this build a bit and it’s pretty effective for the most part. If you mess up you can get annihilated at times, but for the most part it is fun to troll with.

In my experience, competent players will know quickly how to fight this build, t1 zerglings will never have a chance as the video shows. Hence why the lower tiers are more fun IMO, better fights.

ampy.1387:

BrotherBelial.3094:

sophiewhite.3149:

Zoid.2568:

Seriously who cares about winning in WvW anyway? Everytime I’m in WvW no one takes it seriously and everyone runs in a main zerg with a commander to conquer castles etc to get xp and some rewards. It’s not like they play WvW to win and just obliterate the other worlds.

WvW is a joke so stop trying to balance it when it doesn’t needs balancing.

honestly the way i see wvw is no skill just numbers. your 1 endure pain doesnt matter when your surrounded by 20 people or more.

Indeed, the people with the biggest numbers win. You are not going to win a 6vs10 in WvW.

Sorry to say but don’t come in here bashing on WvW if you know kitten about it. What’s funny is that those groups with the biggest numbers tend to have PvE players who are pugging just to get reward tracks or experience. Sometimes, a 15-20 man can destroy a 40 man group and why? Because they have players like you who think no skill are part of it.

You’re no hero in WvW so don’t think you’re going to become one by soloing zergs. Skills here come from team contribution and how you play your class in that team.

I just play condi, my skill is awesome.

Jim Hunter.6821:

Xenesis.6389:

Jeknar.6184:

Xenesis.6389:

Jeknar.6184:

Someone didn’t got the joke in the quoted post.

You looking for a cookie?

No… I’m just pointing that you are answering to a sarcastic post.

So you want a cookie?

I’d like a cookie if your handing them out….

Macadamia nut cookies from subway are pretty good.

Jim and I demand a cookie now.

Princess.7584:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

morrolan.9608:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

I don’t think the community should be worried about Arena Net moving individuals for certain reasons. They aren’t moving entire guilds this way.

He’s not just an individual, he’s a popular off hours commander. That can have a huge influence.

Arena Net has no way of measuring Influence, if they did then they might have figured a better way to balance the communities.
[Snip]
Its individuals to them and influences aren’t taken into great consideration.

Time to learn, do not meddle if you can not see the consequences to your actions.
Makes you wonder how many more have been filtered in to BG in the last 3months, just this time the mistake was, it was someone known to the community.

It could be seen that BG has not been really closed but Anet has been selectively recruiting to stop a bandwagon forming queues? Moving people into a locked server is underhanded no matter how much someone can say its supported.

Just another reason not to trust anet. Lack of transparency continues.

Jayne.9251:

Jeknar.6184:

Jayne.9251:

Again, if this is true, there should be some explanation.

Just forget it… You’ll die of old age before receiving it.

Not necessarily. In this current climate, transparency is important … And newsworthy.

To add, that certain player mentioned before is a fine commander and tags up quite often. That server gained a valuable player/asset and anet should explain why special treatment was given if it indeed happened.

Now if it was just a solo roamer, why would anyone care?

Seems fishy.

TorquedSoul.8097:

I’m impressed. This thread has been going for a couple days and no one from BG has asked when the next tournament is.

I guess they don’t feel as if they have enough population to be successful. Maybe things in WvW are improving.

More impressed it hasn’t been closed lol

kefro.9312:

They are panicking because even with BG and JQ closed and with outmaned buffs on every map we are still pushing the pay to win/transfer servers.
Not even gliko adjustments or manual server close can’t prevent their plan to bank on gems from failing

I ain’t giving them puppy for gems. No reason to transfer anymore due to anets meddling and horrid ideas.

jamesdolla.3954:

Interesting how you guys got the leader of Hel Lady green arrow over to your server when it’s full. BG and Anet up to no good as per usual. might as well open the server if you’re gonna let people transfer into full servers.

https://images-2.discordapp.net/.eJwFwVEOwiAMANC7cABKi2Wy2xBGupnNEqjZh_Huvvd1n3G61e1mfa4A2zGrjs1P01GkeVGVs5V-TF_1gmJW6n61t02gkDByTksiZgwZI1DMHJiQMNKDeKEnyB0o-1cX9_sDuN0hLw.KuhulZtVTtHPA4GrzSygq7HEK0I

scrim with PA vs Hel that took place on October 13th with him showing up at 2:33 in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2D7dx0WHM

BG has not been open since. what’s up with this?

Little anet New England Patriots darlings strike again.

Another wonderful video! Michael Myers FOR LIFE

I feel ya OP, I don’t even go into wvw anymore. I spent a great deal of my gaming time in wvw, from launch till about a month ago. Just kinda gave up on the mode and maybe just log in to say hi to a few friends, figure out what mmo they are shooting for next and get their email.

They’ll keep making bonehead decisions, don’t worry. So just save yourself aggravation and enjoy another game. After all, it’s suppose to be a game and enjoyable.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

I’m confused as to what a forum specialist job is.

I question a lot of job titles today and this “I am a unique pony” society we live in today.

They recently changed a title of a secretary at my work to “communication specialist Level 2” to make her feel special. Reminds me of something anet would create lol

Oh I wouldn’t worry about them killing wvw. It’s already happened.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

As a reminder, we held a poll 2 months ago and the community voted to beta deployable cannons: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Poll-18-July-Cannon-Blueprints-Closed/page/3#post6252969

Wasn’t 75% required to pass a poll? Similar to repair hammers.

The poll has ended! The final results are:
51.4% – Yes
48.6% – No
Since “Yes” did not receive the required 75% of the vote, we will not be adding repair hammers to the game. Thank you to everyone who voted!

casantis.3106:

They are dumb, really.

Oh, we believe you. No need for really lol

Justine.6351:

Some friends went to mag and say it’s great cause it doesn’t feel like they need to carry the players around them while roaming.

More crutch builds.

Dude, the mentality won’t ever change and yes it does suck. People like to zerg up and mindlessly spam. On the one hand I get it, lot of people that play this mode work or go to school full time. Relaxing and hanging out with some friends button mashing is a mental escape from the real world.

However, there are those few of us like me, that prefer to live the hermit solo life or hang with a very small group to test their skills. It’s not about the rewards for me personally, just the glory.

Just the way it is I guess and zerging will never change along with the gank squads.

WvW should be a feature only available by paying for the game like the rest of us.

I am not surprised the hackers are still around. Seems like it takes anet literally years to do anything.

BOMB on FA still raids on reset I believe, they’ve been around quite awhile.

I still Rep BMS baby! Kaineng 4 life

They’ve forgotten us, too busy washing and waxing that gw3 hype train bro. They don’t have time for customers or loyal fans.

Sorry

The game can barely handle enemy versus enemy. Friendly fire would literally blow up anet.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Taxidriver.2043:

time to get rid of DBL its just a ktrain map and ppl who voted to keep it dont even play it, they are all queueing EBG.

^^ this ^^

Actually I also voted for 2 Alpine and 1 DBL, because the options were so bad. I really rather have this imbalanced current system than to have 3x DBL many months in a row.

Agreed, I see nothing in the DBL. Absolutely a desert for real.

gebrechen.5643:

Haha, because power builds rely heavily on skill? Warrior, Druid, Thief.. yeah, totally related to “skill”

Warrior regen, must HIT TWO SKILL GREATSWORD AND MAKE YOUTUBE VID!!!

So many warriors, same traits, same boring crutch build.

So 90% of the time you’re really into pve, right?

Should have crowd noise affect enemies Teamspeak too, like a college football atmosphere lol

People like big numbers and instant gratification these days. They whine about condi because they can’t click two buttons and blow someone to pieces, they get a few chills and rage “condi is too strong!” and god forbid they have to fight more than 10 seconds.

I’ve run just about every style of build, condi isn’t as powerful as it seems. If anything, power builds can be quite overwhelming to most players with some of the crits you can land in a small time frame.

I think some classes have ruined the condi style and we shall not name them because we all know who they are. I believe if anet adjusted certain classes the condi builds wouldn’t get so much hate.

Then again, what the hell do I know. I’ve turned into a near full time pver because wvw is in such a pathetic state.

Balthazzarr.1349:

Even better would be to raise the price of transfers to 1800 gems for ALL servers right after the relinking/rebalancing is done. At that price you would be much less likely to have people continuing to bandwagon over to the hosted servers for 500 gems, and keep things balanced longer.

Agreed, but anet is loving that gems over players model.

I see very very very little roamers these days. I feel like the game is just prime time for a few hours, then it’s dead. Pretty boring and pathetic state right now.

Too much………..