Guild Wars 2

Veldan.4637:

As a warrior, I can say my 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 rotation worked perfectly well in dungeons and fractals, except I had to fit some dodges in sometimes. But I would say 1-dodge-1-1-1-1-1-1-dodge-1-1-1-1 is still not exactly a fun way to play (though very effective).

…Not using your adrenaline move at all? That’s a bit weird.

I tried a max Cripple build sorta thing with axe/warhorn and dagger/dagger for a little while and it was kinda fun. I mean, I didn’t do anything seriously with it, but I think I roughly broke even in sPvP with it. Someone who actually puts effort towards their output might be more qualified to answer?

I also don’t think you should strictly worry about how much damage your offhand weapon does. I can definitely see merit behind using the focus as well for those delicious stacks of Vulnerability.

For reference, I used 30/20/0, with either 0/20 or 20/0 on the end, depending on whether I felt like using Wells or Spectral toys. Spectral seemed to work a bit better but if you can make Wells work all the more power to you.

Is it still trendy to tell people to gb2wow?

All kidding aside, I kinda like that rotations vary in their practical applications, and that not every class presses every button to do a DPS rotation. I’m kind of a fan of not having to stay 100% on top of my rotation to play the game. It’s true that a complicated DPS rotation adds depth, but depth can be added in other ways.

Being able to click through a few potential buttons might be nice, though, like you can change between your skills? You should be able to click an arrow above your 1/2/3/4/5 and change it to something else. Like if you’re a necro with a tootyhorn, you can change your daze toot to a fear toot.

Just as a very lazy suggestion, what if you had NPCs in the Garrisons on enemy borderlands, and whenever you controlled that location, an NPC would sell unique-appearance gear for Badges of Honor? Something to reward pushing hard into an enemy Borderland.

Nurse.1085:

I agree with the person who said to make the maps larger. My friends and I (who played DAOC) have always agreed that the WvW maps were too small. It makes it really easy to zerg, which has it’s time and place, but zerging is just so strong right now. It’s really hard for the smaller groups.

A lot of people I know are waiting for this WvW patch to make or break the game for them. I’ve burnt myself out on GW2’s PVE content, all I have left for myself is it’s WvW.

Will making the maps larger actually help to stop the zerg, though? I don’t understand the reasoning, here. Unless more waypoints are placed around the maps, it’ll take just as long for a defensive force to arrive as it will for the attacking zerg- It’ll be even worse because your response time is delayed, even.

This isn’t to say I wouldn’t like larger maps, but I don’t see how it’d solve this particular occurrence.

You could wait until your server has cycled through each color, and get each of the corresponding sites. Alternatively, play a lot of WvWvW and get the exploration points after capturing the objectives you need.

It’s kind of a bummer if you left WvWvW until last to do, but there’s not a hell of a lot you can do about it now.

On the one hand, it’d make it a bit more immersive to actually have to place scouts/sentries/etc around the map.

On the other hand, sitting around waiting for things to happen is boring as sin, and it makes the game’s in-built defenses even more useless. +Guard upgrades at camps are supposed to make that speedbump bigger, but if there aren’t any swords you don’t even know they’re being driven over.

I could see it if people were more happy to play defensive roles, but without some kind of incentive to do so, I can’t really see it happening.

Necros can be very useful in sieges with Marks and Wells, comfortably solo camps with zombie minions and tough enough to roam. I don’t know whether it’s the best choice, that’s ultimately up to you, but they’re definitely a very good choice.

I’m also a fan of Juggernaut Engi, which may be more of a thing I have for fire than anything actually practical, and Longbow Warrior, which is much the same.

CHIPS.6018:

By the same argument, rock golems shouldn’t suffer from bleeding or poison. Zhaitan should be immune to any physical damage due to “heroic armor”. etc

…Really? I thought the logic being used here was “controlling effects are affected by Defiance, Fear is a controlling effect, therefore Fear should be affected by Defiance”, not “crazy bullkitten”.

I know you feel jipped by Necromancers being a buggy class, but if you chuck a tantrum whenever they fix something that worked in your favour, they’re not going to do it for very long. If you think Necros need a super duper Defiance workaround then maybe the problem isn’t Fear, it’s Defiance.

Experiencing the same problem. It’s not just you, Turtleboss.

I think the rising gold:gem ratio is natural. Inflation is a very powerful force, and the supply of gems was significantly artificially inflated during the first few weeks when the Trading Post was down. It’ll eventually stabilize, or it’ll continue to rise, at which point we’ll see more sinks.

Gold to gems is not intended to be a stable transaction. Real money to gems is supposed to be stable.

Ianervan.3415:

I wouldn’t say transfers are the problem. Transfers are the symptom.

The problem is population-based PvP mode.

WvW is basically bigger Fort Aspenwood from GW1 except one side can have 100 people while other has only 10. And the side that has 10 has to work on mass transfers, not skill, tactics, organization.

I’m inclined to say it’s the other way; population issues are a result of the matchmaking system not doing its job, which is a result of transfer limitations not doing their job. If the guesting system were actually live, and transfers actually tied to gems as they’re intended to be, doing these massive guild transfers would be punitive and thus enjoy a real preventative measure(though it would make the status quo financially rewarding to ANet; whether this is a good thing is questionable). I don’t think locking transfers to a longer CD would fix the problem; a month’s CD would just cause them to change their targets to a lower server so their cycle of imbalancing power matches that time.

At any rate, the problem still really needs a fix.

Kromica.2831:

In the end it doesn’t matter what the community wants, players will come and go all the time. In the end this is a business and n business all that matters is the bottom line.

And good business practice emphasizes customer loyalty. Betraying this loyalty is, therefore, bad business practice.

There certainly doesn’t need to be an increase in anything. ANYTHING AT ALL. What does Blizzard put into WoW when they raise the level cap, and what can ANet do to counter it?

New abilities: Put them in the existing skill system as new things to buy. For weapon skills, add new weapons, or come up with a new system; if Anet wants to rip off WoW, they could probably rip off the pet levelling abilities for the existing weapons.

New zones: What’s the level-down system implemented for, if not this?

New talents: If Anet really wants to raise the trait cap, then that might be a good reason to raise the level cap. If Anet wants to put in new traits, then they can just put them into the current trait slots as new options. If Anet wants to give players more slots for traits, they can upgrade the minor slots.

More stats, more health, more blah blah blah: This is explicitly put into the game so that the playing field, when it comes to stats and particularly the stats granted by highest tier raiding gear, is reset.

So, here’s my question: ANet decided on their manifesto because they knew they couldn’t beat Blizzard at their own game. This is a step towards playing Blizzard’s game. How is this a good idea?

Its not the step tha’ts the issue, its the actual overall graphics/placement of the thing. It looks kitten and out of place. Generally people read more in the center of the screen as opposed to the top. Or even to the left so I can see whats going on in the center of my screen.
The layout in general is just horrid. It defies everything anyone will ever teach you about picture/text placement in school or the real world.

Your one piece of praise for the game is the graphical design. Your criticism of this system is the graphical design. I don’t have my client available at the moment, so forgive me for my lack of certainty, but for the point of the physical positioning/arrangement of the window, can’t you move it to alleviate the problems you’re having with it?

As well, the actual buying/selling of items is stupid tiny in images/text. There are so many better and more innovative ways to go about this.

Again, unavailable client, but can you size up these items? I have difficulty believing this is a serious problem unless you have a poor choice of resolution or a sight condition, and you didn’t address the point of mechanical simplicity rather than aesthetic design in your first post.

Taking it a step further, where are my options to see player health bars ON my screen not on the top left. And how come I can’t see cast bars, etc, so I know when to place my stuns? Sure, in WvW that wouldn’t work, but for the other PvP modes (and even PvE) its nice to be able to time things.

This actually sounds like a genuine issue. Mind, not one of the ones you originally raised, or relevant to any of the points I’ve brought up…

If I can’t understand the overall issue that you’re apparently talking about, it’s because you’re not talking about the overall issue. I’m getting this general vibe of you obscuring what you’re saying; whether you’re doing this intentionally or unintentionally, I don’t know, but it makes it very difficult to see you as anything other than someone attacking blindly.

So, um. I don’t have to get to the end of the third sentence before we get to the lovable basket of kittens, and the first and second weren’t very long at all. I mean, come on, the conversation system isn’t simple?

Step 1: Click the NPC.
Step 2: Click the buttons.
TALKING COMPLETE.

Buying things isn’t simple?
Step 1: Click the NPC.
Step 2: Double click on what you want.
BUYING COMPLETE.

I know you criticise the game because you love it, but this is just ridiculous. Get a grip.

Rynarx.6124:

It’s not just one tier, in that post by arenanet, it’s the FIRST level that is coming, which implies there will be more coming and all future armors coming will be using the ascended system.

I dunno if I’m the only one who thinks this, but

As we watch Guild Wars 2 mature in its Live environment, we have found that our most dedicated players were achieving their set of Exotic gear and hitting “the Legendary wall.” We designed the process of getting Legendary gear to be a long term goal, but players were ready to start on that path much sooner than we expected and were becoming frustrated with a lack of personal progression.

is phrased kind of weirdly. I’m kind of thinking what she meant to say was that blues and greens were trivial, yellow was a pittance on the Trading Post and exotics take a little while but ultimately aren’t too hard, and then you have a GINORMOTRONIC distance to cover to get your legendary. Exotics are basically the Heroic 5-man gear of GW2, and that doesn’t push into anything. This, of course, makes the fundamental mistake of assuming that the gear is the reason to do the content…

I definitely think that the tiers of gear could have a better spread. Does that mean a new one’s needed? Maybe. But it doesn’t sit right with me; I can’t help but feel that making dungeons more consistently rewarding outside of giving you tokens, and a more consistent experience insofar as difficulty, would be a better investment than trying to poke in a new tier of gear 3 days before a patch goes live. This should have been announced a year ago, otherwise you get this exact reaction.

I got my current set of gear under the impression I wouldn’t have to get new gear for a good while, possibly being able to keep it forever, unless I decided the looks of some new gear. This impression seems to have been wrong. I am not happy with this revelation.

It’ll do, IIRC, 30 damage+healing every pulse. You might want to look into taking something else.

I think Death Shroud would mostly work fine if it was just a weapon swap+healthbar swap. The problem is that it locks you out of your utilities, it isn’t worthwhile for Condition necromancers, and Transform abilities (most notably Plague and Lich, but racial elites as well) lock you out of Death Shroud, and thus, your best survival button.

I’d probably be thinking about attaching a clicky above Death Shroud and allowing you to choose between a few different Shrouds depending on which build you are; Conditionmancer might use, say, Plague Shroud, and maybe add a third one for melee. Let’s call it Spectral Shroud, I don’t know. Not sure if they even need it.

Enable utility/elite skills while in Death Shroud, and maybe give the Spectral abilities an alternate effect while in Death Shroud since they are removed when you enter DS.

I’ve got a very bad feeling about this.

I think the Flamethrower should be more of the go-to melee/short range kit; only thing I’d love to see added would be manual detonation/detonation on hit for Napalm Ball.

I dunno, I guess I don’t see the point in a pure melee weapon; dancing between Flamethrower and Wrench gives you a pretty stable toolkit there. I think Engis could use a single target, practical long range weapon/kit that can actually hit things.

Warhorn’s Wail of Doom should apply a PBAOE 600range 1sec fear rather than its current effect. Master of Fear doesn’t get the opportunity to make people crap themselves by blowing on a warhorn? Ridiculous.

Not very. Your class elites should be a higher priority. Snow Leopard’s the best of all the transforms, so you may want to use that.

paelen.3821:

The TP will never level out. Once a item becomes inflated, whose gonna buy? Unless of course the person removes it (which is doubtful).

I don’t think you understand how supply and demand works.

Overall, I think it’s hilarious that certain legendaries are worth so little compared to others. What sort of person in their right mind would buy Howl, for example?

SoR; you guys should tell the people in your borderlands to stop killing people hitting the pack of bots in the lake. I want badges. And to help maintain the fairness of the trading post. But mostly badges.

psirca.9452:

I’ve also got no problem with people rezzing, it makes someone push more often leading to more intensity with enemy players on both sides. Seeing someone down is when my heart beats faster… it’s almost a kill… can I get them dead before someone helps them? Dare I push toward a stomp for quicker access?

Games need rollercoasters and that rez feature is a rollercoaster, for the downed person and the players trying to eat them.

I’ve seen it likened to why the mushrooms in Mario scroll to the right; they’re something to chase. But yes, I think this is definitely one of the better reasons to keep the downed state in the game- It’s an opportunity which carries a risk.

Without looking deeply into it, I think the only problem with the downed state in WvWvW(in PvP in general, even) is Rallying. It allows you to completely ignore defense in favour of pure offense to kill opponents and cause Rallies.

There are some imbalances that need to be addressed; some classes have great 2s and 3s, other classes not so much. I’m sure some people could pick out which ones they are; I don’t know all of them. The only one that I can immediately think of is Warrior 3 in conjunction with their Discipline trait that allows them to rally while using it; that can turn close fights into easy wins, though I might not be dealing with it properly.

I’d say that some sort of ranking system would be a good idea; just a simple levelling system, just like sPvP, and as you rank up you unlock more rewards. One of those rewards is the commander book. Players with higher ranking get higher priority when it comes to deciding commanders.

If it were added to anything, I’d say it should be added to Corruption.

I think ANet should probably focus on the bugs rather than making changes right now, though.

Supadrumma.6914:

I feel that every boss in this instance has around 50% more health than he needs, and it just quickly turns into a dull boring kitefest. Keep the boss at range, kite, kite, kite, kite, don’t step in red circles. Yawn, rinse/repeat. With a undergeared group (not even full masterwork) these boss fights can drag on for a solid 20-30 minutes. This is not an exaggeration, I have timed it.

Aside from Andal the Vandal and the last on-land boss in P3, that’s about right- Insofar as boring. They still have too much health.

zerospin.8604:

It’s generic fantasy, why would it have to make any sense? How do you explain how characters can change size and mass, appear tiny or twice as big? Where is the additional mass coming from? I’ll tell you where, from the same place the additional siege costs will come from! :P

Generic fantasy does not equal making up random bollocks

zerospin.8604:

Also, does it make sense your catapult can damage people through a gate, without damaging the gate itself?

A gameplay mechanic which is undoubtedly unintended; do you really think that allowing friendly fire would be a good idea? Admittedly, it would make the zerg much more interesting.

From an in-universe standpoint, I don’t see how this would make sense. Why would it suddenly take twice as much wood/stone/etc to construct a siege weapon when you control more territory?

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

It would be great If Anet makes not only dungeons, but also story issions or parts of the map in need for grouping.

Really wouldn’t be much of a fan of personal story missions requiring more than one player to complete.

SPIRIT OF ARCTIC JELLYFISH

Clark Skinner.4902:

Do you not think those fees are there to maybe discourage flipping?
They’re doing something Anet doesn’t want them to do, that shouldn’t be congratulated.

I’d be very surprised if Anet actually cared about people flipping. It’s an economy; flipping happens. The fee isn’t intended as a punishment, it’s intended to serve as an incredibly powerful vacuum cleaner which sucks gold out of the economy.

Just wait til BG goes up to tier 1. There will be fights then. Keep in mind who you are facing, two dying servers who lost the bulk of their WvW community. most servers would crush them.
Though you’re correct on one thing, queues will become worse and worse and intolerable.

And then what do you think will happen? The exact same people will transfer down to another lower server and repeat the cycle of misery all over again.

Free transfers really really need to be locked down.

Something that might help break up the monotony for anyone who’s decided they want to bash their heads against this path; pull these two bosses simultaneously. The fight is still perfectly manageable, but less mind-numbingly dull. It’s certainly no harder than pulling Andal the Vandal along with his Quaggan minions.

You can play melee in smaller engagements, and depending on your build you can initiate and try to gain ground. You’re much safer at range, though.

Thanks for the word, big bird. Are we likely to be seeing a big update as to what your plans for the future are, at any point?

This matchup looks a lot better than the last. Looking forward to it.

I think we should probably wait until they disable free transfers before making a judgment.

We should also tell ANet to disable free transfers.

I think it’s a good mechanic, but the Zerg’s AOE protection just makes it too easy. Raise the target cap on AOEs and I think it’ll be fine.

I’m kinda wondering what the holdup is with enabling Guesting, if that’s what’s keeping free transfers from being turned off. At the moment, it looks like Public Enemy No. 1 for WvWvW, and if people keep bouncing servers to try to ride the gravy train, it’s pretty much free money for ANet.

How many people bounce between servers to play with different groups of friends, anyway?

Isila.2574:

At the very least, players should not be able to damage gates/walls, they should require siege equipment. If an opponent is determined enough and has great enough numbers, they can destroy maximum-upgrade barriers for zero cost, which skews the resource game heavily in their favor.

Can players damage walls? The only fortification that’s at any real risk of falling from too many warm bodies is the wooden door; reinforced gates either take too long or too many people for them to really qualify as “easy to capture”. (I’d love to see raw numbers on how many people it takes to get a reinf gate down in however much time.)

If you’re getting majorly outmanned during the night hours then that’s, well… The only way to “fix” that is with huge overhauls to WvWvW.

kKagari.6804:

No, no, no, no, no.

There is only ONE C that is important. Congregate. The power of the zerg is unparalleled. Commanders only have one purpose, be the beacon on the map.

It’s a bit silly to say that zerging is everything. It is the Commander’s job to herd the zerg, though; unless we mean “commander” in the sense of “person who directs people around the battlefield” rather than “blue arrow”.

Masaki.2153:

I’m going to say one thing. This game can’t survive low populations purely out of design. DE’s and WE’s are already empty, regularly on what is labled often as a full server but never bellow high. As higher level players wont pay to play in low level zones with high level investments (repairs and waypoints) filling out lower zones will always be a problem without constant influx of new players, thus leaving large portions of the world, underpopulated for purpose.

I suppose, with a loyal enough base, re-rolls or new characters will sustain the game for some period of time but in the long run the same problem will occur.

Is it dying? No. Is it thriving? No.

I like this. I got MOP and a month’s subscription on a whim, and I was musing on the CRZ feature for quite a while.

It’s a terrible feature in WoW. With how the community is, it actively encourages antisocial behaviour. It was more fun to be in abandoned zones than in populated ones simply because of how party/tagging/etc mechanics work.

It would be an absolutely beautiful feature in GW2 because the game actively encourages having a large number of warm bodies participating in DEs.

Not exactly perfectly relevant to the thread but I thought it was an interesting irony.

I don’t see why they can’t have nice stats. Can’t really see a reason not to.

I personally would really like it if the whole reward scheme for WvWvW got an overhaul. It takes much less time and effort to get sets of exotic gear through PvE, either by running explorables, crafting or buying them off the Trading Post. If it were feasible to get gear from Badges of Honor, I’d be stoked.

Halo.8976:

Suddle
There’s no “using cheats” option in report menu and there’s no point of reporting to email, because you can’t see invader’s name.

Raedwulf
What they can do about this? Ban me? Then who will buy all those gold gained by using bots? Ouch. (warning: sarcasm blah-blah-blah)

If I were a moderator, I’d ban you just because you’re writing in a smug fashion.