Guild Wars 2

quaniesan.8497:

Ross Biddle.2367:

It needs a dramatic duration reduction in PvE,

Because? Did you have a grudge against some mesmer that refused to port you?

rofl, read on, you’ll see I put duration in place of cd reduction.

Melanion.4892:

I, like many other people, am disappointed with the leagues, but I’d be sad if some aspects were simply thrown away because of it.

The best thing that came out of the leagues (for me) was the living story aspect with small, fairly realistic goals for anyone that WvWs with any regularity. The achievement points that came from that and the chest for completing these achievements were not bad ideas.

Instead of pretending like leagues could ever be competitive, what if Anet continued to implement short-term goals for WvW (such as capture X amount of towers or something) for a random period of time, and by the end of that period, have a rewards chest that is similar to the one you would get from any other living story content.

There would be no need to worry about coming in 1st by the end of the season (although I’m sure some will), but it would perhaps provide some incentive for non-WvWers to come to WvW and have fun. That being said, I think Anet needs to rethink some of its achievements, or at least alter them for whatever period is decided. Maybe sometimes the only goal would be to cap 10 towers and 1 keep in a week and get a (very small) reward for it, and maybe other times we have 4 weeks to cap SM once, 5 keeps, 20 towers, etc.

Sure. Just have it reset weekly, or daily instead of every month and a half.

Ghrimboff.6357:

Sube Dai.8496:

Considering the effort that went into getting the achievements I think an ascended weapon would have been more appropriate.

really ? i did those acheivements without even caring about them, was the easiest title i’ve ever earned, you guys need to slack down on the QQ

Titles…. expanding the list of things the majority of WvW’rs don’t give a crap about? And now EVERYONE has EXACTLY THE SAME ONE o.O

In both instances though they admit that the rewards were underwhelming, or bad, or terrible, or crap, or not anything near what was expected etc etc etc.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bug-with-WvW-meta-achievement-chest

I opened my WvW meta achievement chest today. It was impressed upon me that this would be filled with rewards appropriately on par with loot in other areas of the game, and a big improvement on the dismal reward experience found in WvW to date. For whatever reason, the chest didn’t drop anything even remotely close to what any WvW’r would consider the those rewards. The reward chest must be bugged.

I assume it wasnt packed correctly, or possibly it was tampered with in transit? I work for a postal delivery company and, while its rare, this sometimes does happen, especially around this time of the year. Could you guys look into this please? Thanks, and merry Christmas, a well known time for giving.

Have all PPT scored only via tower and keep meta events which spawn due to X (either random or player initiated), and last for Y (1hr).

That way no matter the disparity in numbers in servers, everyone who is available knows where to show up for the PPT, and the fights.

Garrisyl.7402:

Well, you can always immobilize them. Wait, mobility skills break immobilize? Now that’s a strong trait. Luckily mobility skills are pretty limited. Wait again, warriors have 3 of them no matter what build they are using? Well kitten.

I really hate the mobility more than everything else on warriors atm. Everytime one is about to die they instantly put 2000 range between you and them, with no chance in hell of you catching up.

Funnily enough, with my mes I can counter/keep pace with a fleeing warrior. Who knew!

I agree with the sentiment of more loot for all. That said, tagging restrictions need to be lightened, and tagging prerequisites broadened. Currently it’s X amount of damage to tag. But this favors certain classes over others (AoE necro/ele, nade spam engie, melee 1 spam warrior/staff guard vs Mesmer just about anything the obvious example). So increase it to non-damaging CC effects (cripple, blind, chill, invuln), and to throw the OP a kittenetal share.

How about introducing some to the BL’s? For those of us that remember Orbs, the exciting part of the day was when the Orb was out in the open field and on the move. Everyone was alerted to the event, and knew exactly where the action was taking place. With that in mind I’d like to see these sorts of meta events in WvW.

For example, some sort of random, or player activated mass dolyak supply train from north camp to garrison. Something like 500 supply in one go that’d be worth the time for a major defending force to escort. But also a big enough threat for an enemy response force to come attack.

If you really wanted to shake things up, PPT could be balanced around this same sort of idea. Perpetual siege warfare all over the map is great, and I wouldn’t suggest removing that. However, if PPT surrounded meta event tower/keep/garrison capturing, then players could know when and where to show up to fight over it. So a big orange ring would surround bay and remain there for an hour. This shows up on the map for all to see, along with notifications etc etc. If the current owners defend it, they are rewarded with PPT. If those who dont cap it, they score the PPT. You can still cap anything anywhere else in the map, but it won’t amount to PPT, only standard rewards. Might also be a way to controll “night capping” and super stacked servers.

Sororita.3465:

Solstice.1097:

Why do PvE players need stat bonuses? It’s not like ANY PvE content is so hard that you’ll need it.

I dont know about that, i was spamming one for a good few hours, nearly had to press two…very stressful.

Spoken like a true PvE’r who’s never stepped foot in WvW? (except to blob grind out season 1 living rewards of course).

Carighan.6758:

Ah, then I agree.

Yes. I was thinking we could do something like this:

WvW

• 10s duration
• 90s CD
• 15 charges, of which 1 is reserved for the Mesmer

sPvP

• 15s duration
• 30s CD
• 1 charge which regenerates every 3 seconds

PvE

• 25s duration
• 30s CD
• 5 charges, 3 regenerate every 5 seconds

WvW needs at least 20, if only because unless you’re an uber guild, you’re probably running with around 20 people. If some people are going to get left behind due to there being to few charges, the skill immediately becomes unviable in your kitten nal of tactics. You can bridge the gap with more mesmers, but sometimes there just aren’t any.

Bah. Needs more DPS.

Xyonon.3987:

Why would you reduce the dura? o.O

Rofl, that was supposed to be a CD reduction.

Mimic. First time couldn’t get it going. Second time, made it work wonders. Though to be fair, it’s riddled with mechanical problems.

Arcane Thievery I love. Among other things, its integral in shutting down runners. A mesmer sticking to a fleeing warrior like glue? Crazy! Back in the nasty confusion days, I loved running in and out of mesmer glamor fields in quick succession, stacking confusion on myself, then passing it off to the mesmer. Often times I’ll allow myself to get high stacks of condi’s and use them offensively. Boon stealing always boosts your effectiveness. You do always have to check for blinds, but otherwise if you’re having trouble landing it, cast it from stealth.

Yes, it needs a timer.

It also needs a range indicator.

It needs a dramatic duration reduction in PvE,

and a minor duration reduction in WvW.

Portal needs a lot of quality of life improvements. One day the devs might look at it again and, if people have cried about it enough, they’ll know to clean it up.

vinceftw.5086:

I have been playing shatter for over 320 of my 420 hours on mesmer now but dang, I don’t do what you do. Whenever I go in for a double kill like you do, mine survive with 50% hp and immediately turn on me. With you, they seem oblivious. Not to say the enemies are all bad because you clearly have amazing skill. I’m learning to work with the GS now. The offense is great but I miss the staff during those risky situations.

I used to miss staff, and found it real hard to do without it the first couple times I thought to try going without it. Eventually though I decided holding on to that crutch wasn’t worth the downsides anymore and I learned to live without it. Then it became quite east after that.

Youtube has plenty of videos with examples of what the mesmer is capable of

Zikory.6871:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Zikory.6871:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Zikory.6871:

Sanduskel.1850:

friends don’t let friends buy guilds…or be purchased. Sorry for your loss, but don’t buy guilds next time.

Hi Sanduskel,

Since you seem to be so aware of the guild trafficking scene, Can you please inform me of what guilds Blackgate “bought” the rates of said purchases and proof of said transaction. Till you are able to provide this information, you are just another bandwagoner, Refuse to bandwagon to a top tier server? Just you might as well jump on the “cry a lot” express…

Do you just copy/paste this from BG’s PR guy’s list of standard responses?

Who is this “PR guy”? If he is asking the same question I am, maybe I can see if he has had any luck with a answer. I’m assuming you can’t provide what is asked for above?

Yeah I could, but why should I give a crap about who you are or why it matters to you.

Right, so you don’t know, so you try to dodge the question. It’s ok, I asked the question and you are refusing to answer it, so keep trolling. You should really stop being so bitter over a video game, much more important things in life…

Actually, by your very statement you assumed I couldn’t provide the information (you asked no question). I merely contradicted your assumptions. I’m not sure where you get the bitterness from, but then you’ve already shown your predisposition to making assumptions of others.

Pyroatheist.9031:

If you think that getting lost in clones is the cornerstone of Mesmer tactics, you’re doing it wrong.

A good player will ALWAYS know the real Mesmer within 1-2 seconds. Assume that you are always fighting a good player, and act accordingly.

Of course that said, thay’s a 1-2 second advantage each time in favor of the Mesmer. Yes, it does make a difference.

You need to use ctrl+T? You’ve much to learn my young padwon.

Zikory.6871:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Zikory.6871:

Sanduskel.1850:

friends don’t let friends buy guilds…or be purchased. Sorry for your loss, but don’t buy guilds next time.

Hi Sanduskel,

Since you seem to be so aware of the guild trafficking scene, Can you please inform me of what guilds Blackgate “bought” the rates of said purchases and proof of said transaction. Till you are able to provide this information, you are just another bandwagoner, Refuse to bandwagon to a top tier server? Just you might as well jump on the “cry a lot” express…

Do you just copy/paste this from BG’s PR guy’s list of standard responses?

Who is this “PR guy”? If he is asking the same question I am, maybe I can see if he has had any luck with a answer. I’m assuming you can’t provide what is asked for above?

Yeah I could, but why should I give a crap about who you are or why it matters to you.

Zikory.6871:

Sanduskel.1850:

friends don’t let friends buy guilds…or be purchased. Sorry for your loss, but don’t buy guilds next time.

Hi Sanduskel,

Since you seem to be so aware of the guild trafficking scene, Can you please inform me of what guilds Blackgate “bought” the rates of said purchases and proof of said transaction. Till you are able to provide this information, you are just another bandwagoner, Refuse to bandwagon to a top tier server? Just you might as well jump on the “cry a lot” express…

Do you just copy/paste this from BG’s PR guy’s list of standard responses?

Mochann.5298:

Wvw should allow players from one three way to spill over into another three way battle, for kittens and giggles.

I don’t know about you, I’m on Eredon Terrace, bottom rank server, and I’m having a great time playing. I don’t care how I wake up to a map with none of my color on it every day, the fun is in taking it all back against all odds. Some people are too obsessed with winnings when they should be having fun. It’s just a game, for crying out loud.

A game designed to cap points and hold them for ppt in order to win, yes….

At least we can get some humor out of this.

Nuzt.7894:

OP could have transfered off BG once the League started to avoid Queue’s while still recieving BG’s rewards. No its not the ideal option because it requires transfering which requires gold or money but it is an option.

And give up super blobbing pvdoor easy-mode? no wai!

Bump. Acknowledgment and eta is also nice.

Decoy, blink, feedback

Decoy, blink, mimic

Mimic, blink, feedback.

Here’s a little vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6NeyXVwDaw&feature=youtu.be

I made a 100% burn build the other day. I call it the Grilled Cheese build (its a cheesy build).

For a zerg I’d try and get the extra bounce in. You’re only going to be spamming staff clones (for burns), so post patch you could drop clone on dodge and just work the staff cooldown + illusions trait minor.

Funnily enough the build is very powerful against anything that’s not regen heavy (current warrior meta for example). But it’ll always suffer the massive drawbacks of a staff.

For extra cheese, sup rune of guardian + mimic.

Grilled Cheese
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArfWlwzKqHTznGb9IiJFEHyR6Rp9asWJF22FC-jUDBYhYohCiINI0CKjkAQkIA5QFRjtwqIasqbY6YER1mbKamcp2uDQKgFVWB-w

Waffler.1257:

Why would you use tab targeting at all in PvP? 90% of what you get will include boars, deers, walls, gates, arrow carts, jagged horrors, and the obvious clone. Anyone who is half-way decent at PvP uses clicking because it’s the only way to reliably target someone in this e-sport game.

Tab targeting has since been updated to target players over pets and npc’s, the one exception being clones.

I’m from SoR and I can confirm that, not only is it that we only suffer ddos attacks when playing BG, all in game hackers currently reside on BG.

We know this because weeks ago BG brought everybody and all of the GW2 player-base that isnt on SoR is on BG. True story.

Ryn.6459:

Any word from Anet?

Pulling the finger (flipping the bird) requires no words.

Bump and fix please.

Junkpile.7439:

Arsus.8952:

And we should remember that SFR and Piken is not national servers as Vizunah is, that makes them somehow weaker.

It’s quite the opposite…

More timezone => more coverage => more easy win

National servers doesn’t need players from other time zones. Some players just need to stay awake whole night and some players need to wake up early.

Also, some players need to quit their jobs, and other ignore their families.

gg…

Here, look- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8td7XyA1JU&feature=player_detailpage#t=301

I do a rare early shatter on this guy, but after that while he’s standing there and face tanking, I just spam clone/death and watch his condi bar stack up.

Clones are simply the mechanic by which most all our effects are applied (including misdirecting our foes).

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Actually, it is false when you guys say that you have constantly appreciated iWarden in 1 vs 1. the only message i’m getting from this statement is the idea that you guys do too much of 1 vs 1 in tight pvp arenas. In WvW, there are usually more kiting than stayin still, so I fail to see how you would constantly duck behind a iWarden if you are trying to chase/defeat an enemy.

As for Freedan. Your idea is brilliant. I just hope they make it so that the iwarden actually catches up to an enemy instead of trying to chase like 2 seconds after the opponent decides to run.

Oh, another important part of the iWarden’s stationary functionality was its reliability to stay alive. This made clone on death traits easy to apply (esp with on dodge) because you could easily have two phantasms up to force the swift destruction of the right (only) clone. Now with iWarden running off to die (iDefender anyone), clone on death tactics have grown weaker when using focus.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

But think about it. When have you actually really been able to effectively use iwarden besides in Zerg fights and by help of something like crippling dissipation? It needs control options to be of any use when used for fightin 1 vs 1.

iWarden gives amazing phantasm mesmer controll. It eats all staff/scepter range spam, it drives off sword using mesmers, it strikes all melee clones on you if you cuddle your iWarden, and for all ranged phantasms/clones you just drop your curtain at the wardens feet and pull them all into it.

1 phantasm to completely shut down an enemy mesmer. I use it all the time.

Menace, you dont think much of iwarden, thats clear. But youre wrong.

What I’d like to see:

- A state of the leagues from the devs – to talk about their thoughts and feelings on season 1. What worked, what didnt, what they feel the players response has been.

-One of those dev discussions with the playerbase so problems can be discussed, and devs give feedback on what they can/can’t do, what they do/don’t like of the players suggestions (focus being to make a better league season).

Until we can discuss, and see change, there’s no point to continuing seasons. Nor can you say if this season was successful or not (it will only be if it becomes a platform for improvement).

Simonoly.4352:

I understand that Phantasmal Warden has been updated to move into attack range before initiating its attack, but this has brought with it two bugs:

1) Phantasmal Warden no longer attacks structures such as catapults, keep/tower doors in WvW or cages/doors in PvE. It spawns next to the structure but does not attack.

2) When spawning next to a target (which is stationary) Phantasmal Warden will often have a delay (I counted 5 seconds at most) before it initiates its attack. Seems like there might be a delay between when the Warden spawns and when it registers that it is already in range of the target.

Its not a delay problem per’se, but tied to pathfinding and attack perimeters.

Monkey see, monkey fix.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Fix, and possibly revert.

Vid of iWarden (not) in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sT6iEqQvc&feature=youtu.be

It’s an elevation and path finding issue related to the new chase feature. Examples seen in vid.

Fix, and possibly revert.

Vid of iWarden (not) in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sT6iEqQvc&feature=youtu.be

Here you go

The only problem these days is when people place regular siege instead of superior. So I guess remove regular siege and be done with it?

I take both. Good times.

Bummer………

Ive been using focus for months in wvw and have never noticed anything like this.

Umm. Some sort of shatter/glamor confusion spammer?

What are your expectations of damage from this?

Possibly go with a perplexity runes + mass interupts.

Hell, there’s a few ways you could do it, but why would you want to?