Guild Wars 2

Mylerian.9176:

To bad I really use to enjoy Gw2. Now it is turning into a crap game. I hope they figure this out soon. WvW is all I really care about, and they are just wrecking it.

There just doesn’t seem to be much to do anymore in wvw or care about. Nothing matters, score, server, identify, raids, and guilds.

People can transfer all they want and try to find some new home or style of play but ultimately, it will be exactly like your last server. Anet’s loving the gem transfers at our expense though and players need to wise up.

They are having polls on repair hammers for lord’s sake, tells you how they prioritize their work plan lol

wvw…..yawwwnnnnnn.

Decline will continue, get use to it

I don’t think stealth is really utilized that much anymore tbh. It seems like dodges is the new cool thing to do.
I main necro, so I instantly hate all thiefs for their stealth, dodges, and cool scarfs and kinky gear they get to sport.

I’m just terrible and I click my skills

So yes, the targeting is annoying for this casual.

DB was never a really community. It was more of a gold sink hired help style server that handed out gold to many small ppt guilds to push up to T1. I’m convinced they are responsible for destroying the lower tiers early on because I do know of a few guilds that were very active were bought out by DB.

Then reality hit. Simple.

ScionKai.4907:

Rod, just so you know I considered some Blood Sport music or sound bytes, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkH3MTG2aAE

This song was extremely close to making it in as the last song, but decided to stick with an Eddie Murphy theme, hehe. Maybe I’ll make a martial arts movie one someday xD

Oh who could forget Joe Esposito’s master piece lol

Or you could go OVER THE TOP baby!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOmE9GmUH9U

ScionKai, great video and excellent choice of music! You’re taking me back to the 80s and all those great memories.

Please make more and maybe an 80s based karate movies theme?….just a thought lol

Seems to be working well on FA so far

ugh….JQ needs to go away.

Eval.2371:

RodOfDeath.5247:

No.

I’m checking out other mmos and the writing is on the wall with anet, they are sloppy and disorganized compared to other establishments. I’m seeing much more organization and communication with the player base in the competitors forums in addition to attention to bugs/PM/future goals.

Look around, you’ll be surprised….seriously.

I’ve been looking around my self, incase the 4th just does not cut it for me, any recommendations other than black desert and FFXIV?

FFXIV is looking good to me and I just want to get back to having an immersive mmo gaming experience. I have a few friends on BDO and they seem happy with it for the most part.

Anet is all show and no go, let’s face it.

QQing.3089:

Didn’t they apologize for a lack of communication with us about a year ago and promised to have more direct dialogue with the players ? I see that went well…

That seems to be a trend with them, broken promises and hyping up content without delivering. I just don’t trust anet and refuse to spend gems. It’s not worth it, xpac was a joke and transferring wvw servers can be easily done with gold to gem trade.

It feels like HoT degraded this game instead of improving it.

No.

I’m checking out other mmos and the writing is on the wall with anet, they are sloppy and disorganized compared to other establishments. I’m seeing much more organization and communication with the player base in the competitors forums in addition to attention to bugs/PM/future goals.

Look around, you’ll be surprised….seriously.

Do you guys run havoc/roam by chance in wvw?

morrolan.9608:

QuickRain.4735:

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In my Opinion Anet needs someone on each server for “scouting” purposes so proper actions can be taken preferably during NA prime preferably if manual adjustment are possibly needed, for example DB needing to be moved down to T4

Yes I’ve come to this conclusion lately as well. Anet are clearly making decisions based on metrics alone, they actually need to get some experience of what is happening on servers.

Have to agree, if you want to understand a topic read up or experience it for yourself. I’m just not sure anet is willing to put the work in, just having polls isn’t going to quick fix the challenges in wvw.

Chaba.5410:

The glicko system is only preventing faster transitions between tiers because of the way it is being used. Please review: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/The-math-behind-WvW-ratings/first

LOL how about that last comment from 3 years ago. They called it.

“Imo no amount of math manipulation to try and set the matchups is going to work.
They are going to have to come up with some sort of manual matchmaking”

Straegen.2938:

Reh.5986:

BG and mag are by far the most stacked and blobby.

BG is blob driven. YB is blobbing when specific commanders are on.

Mag generally runs a reactionary blob to counter other blobs. Most of the time during heavy population hours it is not uncommon for Mag to be running 3+ hats on a map with a bunch of skirmish groups running hat-less. Typically there are at least a couple hats arguing with each other on open map chat. It gets pretty funky sometimes.

Oh and players get constantly scolded for not using Mag terminology including calling BL keeps Bay/Hills, using N Camp or NC rather than NN Camp and I have gotten an earful a few times for using Bay Mid instead of SW Keep NE Gate. Of course Garri doesn’t seem to follow those rules.

Yeah…I’ve seen that wannabe elitists attitude as well. “IT’S NN CAMP, I don’t understand what you mean! LTP!!!! AGRHRHRHRH”. I think it’s funny so I push the snobs buttons more by calling it something they can’t decipher at times furthering the growing rage in map chat.

Mag sounds fun to mess with.

And the smaller servers? So one guy can constantly get ganked by a group and get frustrated and leave wvw?

Not a very good idea.

When I hear “rewards for xyz” I just think of a blobbing and hurting roaming/havoc even more. Any little thing that has swords right now you can get quite a response as a roamer or the lovely target tracking they graciously included now.

The 1 up 1 down system will just promote frustration from players as the “I can’t lose” players will transfer up to bandwagon. I agree with Swamurabi, will just make the player base even smaller and promote bigger blow outs and the game will continue to lose players due to boredom or just breaking moral of the losing servers. However, I could see anet being a fan of this because it would increase transfer activity in my opinion and that means gems. We’ll just be the same boat we were before with dead servers with spawn camping.

Glicko offset seems like a good idea to try out.

Exactly where they went wrong….listening to the big guilds and t1 tags. That worked out very well

Xenesis.6389:

Here’s the balance changes you should be excited about and really looking forward to.

PREVIOUS UPDATE

• North Keep: One of the village residents will now flee if their home is destroyed.

NEW UPDATE

• Green Keep: House added to swamp area northwest of keep. One of the village residents will now flee if their home is destroyed.
• Blue Keep: House added to north side of the keep next to Overgrown Grub. One of the village residents will now flee if their home is destroyed.

Enjoy!

LOL

Zero.4935:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Zero.4935:

+1

I’m curious to see what servers people who are -1 are from

Tarnished Coast -1 because having no doors is silly. Because Siege is apart of WvW no matter how op it is. A castle should have siege to defend it in a war. WvW isnt some openfield kitten.. Just because something is imbalanced doesn’t mean it needs to be removed. It could be reworked. Like siege for instance. Or the toughness of Tier 3 objectives.

Have you seen how fat TC runs? You can’t even break outer without trebbing from a tower and let’s say you do get into inner? You literally have 0 hope of breaking through a T3 sieged castle WITH a blob defending it.

Should call it Tarnished Tsunami……so many players.

Actually, I have the greatest idea in the planet to fix wvw…………but I’m not sharing just yet.

It will be so mind blowing…..not even the best anet dev would be able to comprehend it.

It would bring the entire gw2 community together and bring a massive flux of gems/new + old players back/inflate the cost of siege/create new guilds/break zergs.

It came to me yesterday while drinking a glass of wine on the Oregon coast at a restaurant yesterday.

I believe you’ll find what you are looking for on YB, Mag and TC. However, I think you’ll be bored, which was my experience on some of these large servers due to the sheer volume of players and owning the majority of structures.

But ultimately with the servers mentioned, you’ll have quite a number of players present and should never be alone.

YB has a great community but as stated they truly do live or die by a commanders hand, just the facts. But great people do reside on YB.

Mag is acquired taste IMO, kinda like a bad wine but it’ll do. I’ve come across their roamers and they are genuinely fine by me when dueling. I would call them nice? It’s the guilds from my understanding that whine like sweet valley high schoolgirls. Ajax blue would call them boys made from sugar and spice and everything nice I believe if he were gracious enough to show his presence.

TC has a decent community, just very dependable upon volume of players. Just not my style but that server sounds like it might be perfect for you because I have yet to see a dead zone as I am on FA now. I feel like they are bored with T2 and really want to push back up to T1 so it might be the perfect time for you to do so.

FA, I don’t think you’ll like it here. It is very militia and havoc based right now. However, we do have a zerg in the evening that can hang with TC/JQ groups. The community has gotten a little better as of late and got a little toxic there for a bit. You’ll find a good mix of players, defenders, havoc, etc. but never a true massive zerg I guess. You are very alone I’d say 70% of the time.

Good luck sir

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

Endelon.1042:

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Hey everyone,

I wanted to address the idea of moving world linking to monthly instead of every 2 months, since it is being brought up more and more frequently.

The team isn’t opposed to this idea; we actually think it would be beneficial to move to monthly because it would allow us to iterate faster on how we are calculating which worlds should be linked. However, the main reason for not doing this right now is the matchmaking algorithm, Glicko. Each time we shuffle worlds via world linking it takes about 4 weeks’ worth of matches before Glicko begins to reliably match make those new worlds into balanced matches. If we did world linking monthly, Glicko would not be able to create balanced matchups.

Our next priority poll is going to be asking if players would rather have us work on adding rewards to skirmishes (and possibly other feedback items being collected from this thread) or replace Glicko matchmaking with a 1-up 1-down system (wherein the winner moves up a tier and the loser moves down a tier.) The 1-up 1-down system should work better with monthly linkings than Glicko, so we are most likely going to hold off on 1 month linkings until that system is in.

Another possibility we could pursue is 1 month linkings, but use the Glicko offset system to guarantee the matches. Alternatively, we could manually change Glicko ratings to what we believe they should be for each world. Either option would force worlds to start out closer to being in the correct tier and thus give better matches faster. These options are contentious, so even if everyone on the forums seemed to like this idea it would be something we would poll on.

You need to stop doing polls.

1) It’s not really feedback when the options are just ‘more of the same’ or ‘something new’ as in “should things stay the same? or should we add world-linking?” Of course people are always going to vote for something to change rather than continue another year of the same stuff.

2) These polls only offer the illusion of feedback. In many cases they are yes/no votes and they only serve to make the players feel good (yeah, they listened!) and to make you, the game designers, feel good (well the community voted for this, so…)

You need to stop the world-linking. You either need to actually merge servers and permanently reduce the overall number of worlds because the game can no longer support what it supported years ago. Or, you need to abandon the world system entirely and come up with something new in order to force the player population to more evenly disperse itself. (Example: creating entirely new worlds and forcing everyone to pick one while controlling population caps)

You were working on this last year with the alliance system experimenting/testing. Was that system entirely abandoned in favor of the current band-aids or are you still considering the alliance system as an option?

Messing around with glicko or +1 -1 is NOT what will help out WvW. At this point what players want is match stability for activity and fights, not constantly changing matchups that are lively and active one week followed by dead and boring the next. And most players want a stable community aspect to WvW. This doesn’t necessarily mean “server pride” or that players need to be permanently affixed to one world/team/server, but it does mean that there needs to be a stable community component and messing with re-linking once a month would be a disaster for this even more than it already is.

PREACH!!!! LAWD!!!

That dude just RKO’d anet lol

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

RodOfDeath.5247:

Just as long as they listen to the big guilds and T1 pug commanders…..that’s what is important in wvw and it seemed to have wonderful results.

Yes, sarcastic

Good thing I’m a T2 commander.

You sir are on my good side

Just as long as they listen to the big guilds and T1 pug commanders…..that’s what is important in wvw and it seemed to have wonderful results.

Yes, sarcastic

albotelho.2931:

I would like to see balance on defensive builds, there are too many “die hard” builds with high damage output.

Agree with you there, some classes take zero damage but can dish out insane damage at the same time. Sad part is they chest pound about being great at the game lol

ampy.1387:

Roaming days are over… somewhat.

It’s either 1vblob or 1v1+other dogs coming in just to tag a bite for their Track Rewards.

Lots more disrespect going on, lots of carried Gold/Platinum/Mithril Ranked players… lol.

Oh and of course your OG Skill Lag…

I typically try to roam with a small group for a bit in T2, blobs definitely hunt you down, especially TC. Havoc is sorta dying out as well and I wonder how it is in T3/4 currently.

The lag is getting worse IMO, I can be on the other side of the map 1 v camp and feel it.

Exploit city. Players would just ruin the experience as usual.

lioka qiao.8734:

The problem with WvW tournaments is that the scoring system (even the current skirmish one) in WvW does not indicate the competitive skill brought to the game but rather the population brought to it. It displays the population disparity between the servers involved and nothing else. The actions of players generally have little effect to the outcome. Having more coverage is what effects the outcome. Attempting to tie any kind of competitive prize to this system is complete folly.

I’m not sure if there can be a system where player skill has the ultimate impact on the outcome with WvW without some serious limitations to the game format that may players and ANET don’t want to explore.

WvW still feels like a blow out. Not much has changed IMO.

kroter.1326:

RodOfDeath.5247:

so everyone can load on on one server, spawn camp and run wvw into the ground

Isn’t this exactly what’s happening right now with server linking?

Good point

Right, so everyone can load on on one server, spawn camp and run wvw into the ground causing more players to not even want to log in.

Waffle.3748:

RyuDragnier.9476:

You mean the server that treats anybody who did not start there as crap? The server that treats anybody who left there and came back like crap? That ain’t a community.

I still talk to many people I knew back on YB quite often even though we’ve moved off, and they’re always trying to get me to come back. Probably won’t happen but it doesn’t stop them from trying.

Well let’s be honest, very few YB will fight and that was my main complaint while I was on YB, always abandoned and nobody would stay and fight with me.

Your guild is well known for actually coming out to fight people. I’d want you on my server as well because it is such a rarity now, everyone runs these days too worried about dying or something.

Mylerian.9176:

Ya yesterday in Fractals it was stupid bad. I was rubber banding so bad it caused me to dies in low lvl fractals. And WvW let’s not even go there EBG was horrid. It took like 5-7 seconds to complete use a skill….

Yeah, I can’t spend too much time in wvw lately. It’s a mess. I even tried to complete a daily in pve and the map was laggy and even pvers were making a few comments. Something seems off.

Yeah way too much to even play the game.

Would be awesome if you could link

Tongku.5326:

Its not just WVW either, I lagged out doing stupid story, and last night our server was locked out for like 45-60 minutes when the scores reset, no one could even get into WVW.

So yea, something is horribly wrong.

Noticed in pve as well, not sure what the issue is.

The game feels very choppy again, even when I’m not near any fights. It felt like it got better but the last 3 weeks has been horrendous.

I’m guessing I’m not the only one.

Jana.6831:

Sarrs.4831:

y’know what’d be super neat

if you could buy siege using tomes of knowledge

i’ve got like 5 stacks of them and wouldn’t mind turning it into cash

Yo, we’re wvw players, not lazy PvE players – also you can already buy sup siege with proofs of heroics.

Spot on, the devs don’t really care about you. Sorry

You’re kinda the goth girl or the larping kid in the family in anets eyes. You’re just not wanted.

There is but one server who will give you what you want. I speak of the masters of siege, their engineers are the finest at placement and execution.

I speak of the land of Yaks Bend.

Pains me to say, but they may be the last true community left in game.

Other than that, anet made sure to dig the dagger deep. 2 inches is required btw to hit a major organ. At least that’s the Italian way. Moving on…..the megaservers were the start to killing communities, then we mvoed onto linking.

I suggest you move to YB if you are looking for support, having a feeling of contribution, and a more welcoming feel.

I for one will spend my days on SOR, in which I absolutely don’t know anyone.

Yeah…..I’m going to build up my pve/wvw guild and just have fun.

Good luck to you lol

Well, to be honest the game is nowhere in quality what it use to be as far as population, roaming, and guilds.

They had to merge servers to make up for empty servers and contemplated getting rid of the desert BL entirely. That speaks volumes at the state of the game and direction they are going.

Now, we have a great boon/resistance meta to deal with and it forces one style of play ruining diversity. I’m not sure what they are going to do or they even care to move forward but the longer they let it continue the more wvw declines.

You’re just going to have to find your happy place in wvw, there’s little spots left. Or you wait till the next mmo who feeds off the mistakes of anet and learns from them.

Castles are suppose to be impenetrable as history tells us.

I say make the towers, keeps, and castle even harder to take as an objective based on factual history.

Cerby.1069:

nobody noticed since they arent all half naked like all the other females in the game

Have to admit, as a male gamer sometimes I get an soft armor skin and I go “really…..” when I preview. I can see why females get so irritated sometimes lol

I rather enjoyed this post. Hopefully the devs are listening.

Umm if you are engaged or married you soon learn that She is the Boss, the lord, the queen of the house.

Resistance is futile, been trying for years to start a revolution against my wife. You will fail.

ArchonWing.9480:

Dawdler.8521:

trueanimus.4085:

As it stands now (on Tarnished Coast at least) Rangers/Druids are being insulated

The amount of asbestos in druids is too kitten high!

That’s what I was thinking too.

Though I gotta say this is a somewhat interesting counterpart to the TS thread, if people are really encouraging pubs to get on TS and then talk trash to them afterwards.

I mean, I may suggest to people that we need a certain amount of class (and thus less, of some) however, it’s just really funny that when people succeed, they chalk it up to their own egos, but once failure strikes, they look for someone to blame. This I think goes beyond optimization.

I’m referring to pug groups only. This is especially true if it’s some guild trying to collect a map blob like debris in the wind. In these cases, I’m only interested in maximizing what people have to bring, even if it is not that much. Obviously if you bring something questionable to a guild raid without having discussed it beforehand, then it would be proper to demand class changes.

Exactly what you said above, pugs get into TS then are whined at and commanders cry about nobody being on tag/TS or I don’t have a enough. I wonder why……you turn them off to TS completely or you as a leader.

Then they continue to blame the failure on players instead of their tactical approach. I watched a tag focus so hard on smc they let camps, towers, etc fall on our side fall left and right then he rages that everyone is trash or cliche noobs. The opposing commander realized this and just swiped our side, tactically knew what to do and our commander blames the server for getting out smarted or ignoring defenders/roamer warnings due to “the ego” of taking smc.

In addition and on the flip side, particular commanders show humility and will admit they made a mistake and those backseat drivers love to jump on those tags and rip on them publicly, hence a fairly new commander will be hesitant to tag up. Those are the ones I feel bad for because you can see they won’t to do well and lead but the toxicity is easier to join in unfortunately. Not sure why people can’t just whisper the commander “try this next time”. Nothing wrong with giving or taking advice.

Overall, each server has their issues but all up to the community to fix them.

Jeknar.6184:

The problem is that if you leave tomes out, people who only play WvW cannot level up as WvW no longer award exp… Ideally we need more “WvW themed” Reward tracks that give us siege (Hero Weapon and Triumphant armor give some) while the Dungeon ones keep giving tomes for people who need them.

Or maybe let us trade tomes for siege…

Exactly what I was thinking today when I visited my bank. Too many stacks of tomes and toons are maxed out. Trading tomes for siege would be fantastic.

Awesome idea. I’d love to see a reward track exclusive to sup siege blueprints at your choice.

Or a nice idea would be you just progress till you hit 100% completion, then get to select the amount and type you want at the end of the reward track.