Guild Wars 2

For the most part I enjoy EotM. Its down fall as far as Im concerned is the team balancing, which, to be quite frank, is appalling. You have the winning wvw teams against the placed teams, instead of a pvp style where people are give a colour at the start. So now we have one team that steam rollers over everything in sight, whilst the rest try and pick up what they can.

Sure I hear comments that that coudn’t work, mainly due to spying on other teams, but as far as I can see that is mitigated by the fact that EotM is a far faster moving map than the general wvw maps, and often forgets that green as an excellent early warning system.

(btw, ill probably get trolled from the dominant servers who are always on top for this—but thats life)

Sreoom.3690:

Shadey Dancer.2907:

If you had a line up of the usual suspects of all the classes on a cap point, ask a thief which one it would head hunt first>>
I loved the idea of the ranger class, and struggled with it in WvW for a very, very long time, but at the end of the day I had to say, ‘reality check’. I got fed up with the same lame excuses about rangers, so moved on. why choose a limited class, when the other classes offer so much more?

…because playing Ranger = Expert Mode in GW2

You forgot the mandatory LTP. Your welcome to think that, and good luck to you, your going to need it!
(level 80—err—oh ye—-everything!)

Wanderer.3248:

DeamonSamurai.6504:

Personally I do have a ranger, and yes I have played it in WvW, the good point is that they can reach most anything on a wall for coverage purposes. But overall the Ranger needs to be re-worked to better take advantage of the Ranger roll. since the patch it seems to me that the ranger traits have become more spread out that can be effectively used to build a strong character. When I think of ranger I think of range, therefore the use of bows, and guns. Not greatswords like every other class in the game. If you’re not using a GS you’re not putting out Max damage. As mentioned above piercing should be a natural for rangers, as well as velocity, and just maybe the skills to be close to using ice bows, since bows are our trademark, thats where the power should be.

I find it ironic that everyone assumes dangers should use bows, when Rangers in fiction and reality never used bows.

Did you ever see Aragorn use a bow?

Didn’t see Aragorn (the real one from LOTR) in WvW, so am sort of struggling on your reasoning.

If you had a line up of the usual suspects of all the classes on a cap point, ask a thief which one it would head hunt first>>
I loved the idea of the ranger class, and struggled with it in WvW for a very, very long time, but at the end of the day I had to say, ‘reality check’. I got fed up with the same lame excuses about rangers, so moved on. why choose a limited class, when the other classes offer so much more?

Lord Kuru.3685:

Rin of Rivvinda.4971:

still don’t understand why mega server was not just added as extra server next to the existing servers. use mega as an underflow option when you enter a low population map (give popup like when server was ready to get out of overflow) so you can opt to join there.

A lot of people are saying this. The real reason we have megaservers is to save Anet money. The fewer map instances, the less server resources are needed, the more money Anet saves.

It may very well be the case to save money, although I doubt that myself. I think the fault is in the mind set that has set in. GW1 had an elegant and simple approach to servers, best exemplified by big events like Halloween. The servers would be numbered sequentially, and in essence when one filled up, another was created and acted as the ‘overflow’.
If you wanted to get in and meet up with a group, it was easy—‘hey guys, meet up in server **, see you there’. Easy, simple, effective—everything you want.

But with GW2 you hear—‘cant be done—technologically imposable’, and I think people are buying into this. There’s a huge difference between can’t, and won’t because, hey, that was GW1, it has a 1 in it, we don’t want to do that because, this is GW2 and has a 2 in it.

Five and a half to Nine hours gap between the Uber hard world bosses. Are you guys serious. Im pretty even tempered (most ) of the time, but thinking like this drives me wild. Sorry, but this is ridiculous.

I assume you want people to actually attend these things, and yet go out of your way to put barriers to prevent them to achieve this.

The following extra-hard world bosses will occur at specific times, interrupting the standard rotation:

Karka Queen (Southsun Cove)
03:30 PDT
09:00 PDT
18:00 PDT
Tequatl the Sunless (Sparkfly Fen)
04:30 PDT
10:00 PDT
19:00 PDT
Triple Trouble (Bloodtide Coast)
05:30 PDT
11:00 PDT
20:00 PDT

Working on a production line, or working as an office drone, being treated as a faceless number—welcome to the game of life.

Playing a game for pleasure you can switch off at any time , if you so wish doesn’t even come close to that grind.

Id rather see the whole awards for WvW boosted to be in line with EotM:-

ie, The reward for the time and effort to cap Stone Mist or any borderlands keep is way way too low in comparison to EotM.

Whole different skill set for WvW over EotM (and im not talking traits), and it shows.

Brought this up before, and can not see much happening on this front ‘everything is fine and dandy, working as intended’. Sorry for the cynicism, that is the way I feel.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/EotM-balancing-Outnumbered-buff/first#post3930794

Bugged—enough said!

I was on an EotM map very recently, and popped in half way through. Heard the map chat about a guild raid and went to see what the fuss was about, and kind of predicted there would be this sort of post eventually.

It was a small guild raid, and know the guild as they were up until recently part of my server. There was a lot of crying on whom they were etc etc. There was only about 15-20 of them playing with our 50 man plus zerg (kudos to you guild guys, it was pretty awesome to watch)

What these people failed to realize was, they were giving everyone a lesson in how an organized group can work as. Even without TS, it is still possible to run effective groups (just slightly less so, but that’s just my opinion).

Moral of the story is—-if you don’t like dying, don’t do WvW (EotM)—-your going to die whether you like it or not eventually (even more so if you are upscaled)

Lost a consumable karma buff in EotM ( +50%). Had a DC, on coming back it was gone.

(Second time iv lost a consumable buff in EotM due to circumstances beyond my control)

Ok, so as from the world sync on bosses, im in a world of confusion, and if im in a world of confusion, you get bet others are feeling the same.

It was my understanding of the mega server system that they would be on a schedule. So a few days ago i was leveling up in Blazeridge Stepps, the Shatterer pre was up, so took the opportunity to swap to my main and come back to have a go at it. Gues what—came back and—-no Shatterer—-no pre, not even the promp that it had recently been defeated O-O, apparently on re-logging id be transferred to another mega server with no Shatterer, and judging from the map chat, I wasn’t alone. Guilds were separated and re-loggers kept from doing it.

I would really love to have a go at the wurm and teq (formerly piken square—-i say formerly as server identity no longer exists) but the way things are looking at the moment, I have a slim chance and no chance——-and Slim just left the building!

Id be interested to hear about teq and wurm, as iv never been able to find a party big enough to do all the wurm, and teq has been on my to do list.
(if that’s ok with you OP, if not say, and ill remove this post no problems)

If your eaten by the wurm, and its killed, you don’t get spat out. If in the mean time the bosses circle is capped and you havn’t been spat out, you die, even though its now friendly.

Algreg.3629:

one achievement high level pve. Among further, 5 very easily achievable pve achievements for low level characters. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you a “dramatic shift”!

First time ever for a daily in Orr, so petty much qualifies—and please lose the attitude, only diminishes any argument presented.

Kinda feel uneasy about this. Previously dailys were pretty much inclusive of low levels, but this feels a dramatic shift. It doesn’t affect me,as I can get there easily enough, but for beginners just starting out, plus the reduced amount of sources of daily achievements, it got me scratching my head in which direction this is headed.

You would have to be at least R 250 before that kicks in.

But the bonus chest are neither here or there for me, if I had to rely on them for income I would be poorer than I already am, so read this with a DON’T PANIC on the front
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Just read shivens post—-I stand corrected ^^.

Mistwood.3568:

That’s a really good question. How about +vitality, or +running speed (so that we can escape), or 3s stealth on hit (so that we can escape) while frolicking and gathering strawberries on a map where you are outnumbered…

I was asking if it was changing, that means just that (which also includes the removal of that portion of the buff and / or including something else).

Why the over reaction troll post iv no idea.

Was wondering if there was any plans for balancing in EotM. Even pvp style balancing would be preferable to the way it is now.
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PS, will the ‘Outnumbered’ buff be changing, as the ‘Take no armor damage on death’ part is now redundant, (as far as armor costs go anyway).

Better hide your Email address OP.

If you get a message, which you want to report and block whilst in WvW, especially EotM (Edge of the Mists) it disables your ability to steer in any direction. This is not a problem on wvw—-but on EotM a death sentence. You have either the choice of stop running (kinda obvious I know) and lose touch with the zerg, or chance that you can do it before running over a cliff.

(Did not report this as a bug, as i cant see it as being as one—-just kinda frustrating)

Does it mean your going to be great at the game in every sphere of course not. I have had much more fun on most of my dungeon runs with very low AP players than with very high AP players. Most of the very high AP players I have found to be good guys, with one or two trolls which I hope never to see in this lifetime again! Dungeon runs with high AP players feel more serious and more business like. Iv left high AP parties in disgust on occasion, on the way a minority treat low AP players, without giving them a chance. No excuse whatsoever for bad behavior.

Up until very recently I have never asked for a AP rating on dungeon runs. Unfortunately with the nerfing of the troll in HotW P1, and being on the brunt end of party wipes and last man standing, anet has forced my hand in that instance to do so, mainly because with a moderate amount of AP there is a chance they know what they are doing. Let me tell you, I HATE having to do that, but can only play the hand anet deals me. Wether, it needing nerfing or not, im not going to go into, but there it is—-sorry if that upsets anyone out there.

But please don’t paint all high AP achievers with the same brush, just like in everything else, there are good apples and bad ones. Its just that they become more prominent when they have a lot of AP behind their name.

Just a thought that came to me.
No-one begrudges people who played GW1 for getting their achievements. They worked hard for them. So why are people begrudging people from getting their achievements in GW2, through this cap? The argument that anet is doing me a favor with this cap, i find quite frankly patronizing, that it will somehow free up my time to do other things. Actually, they are probably correct in that aspect on reflection. On some of the low ebbs, the daily/monthly is the only thing that made me play the game, and my garden could use some TLC!

lordkrall.7241:

Actually the only other repeatable achievement I can think of is the Salvage one, and guess what? It is capped.

Also keep in mind that no one is even close to hitting the cap yet, so it is not really that much of an issue.

True, but that’s why we are discussing it here—-before it becomes an issue.

Not sure what to make of this either. I d have gone the other way, and made them more, to allow others to get achievements——if they want them. Sure there are people complaining that they don’t have time to do them. But then, by the same token it could be argued that people who have done accomplishments on mega bosses shouldn’t have them because, others didn’t have the time/ opportunity to do it. Sorry that argument just doesn’t wash. As in in real life there are some people gifted, some less so; some with more time, some with less. Its a bit like looking at Usain Bolt, and the the placed runners saying—-‘your too fast—-here—-take this sack of potatoes and run against us—-much fairer’.

Conversation in bar’

‘Well, we found a super villain to stop your hiccups, now to find some to cure your foot odour—-and split ends—-and by the way—want a mint?’.

Once upon a time, in land far far away, there was a game called Guild Wars 1. Not long after the launch of this mysterious game, the necs got together to protest, (in front of Gail the Frog——not that Gail IS a frog—but there was a frog called Gail, which Gail spoke through in LA) in a most friendly manner to have something of the necs changed (soz mind fail cant remember what—-thought it was the armour—-but mite be wrong). And lo it came to pass that it was WAS changed.

My point is (if you have gotten this far) I just can not see the same happening today, for what ever reason, something has been lost. (Possably due to so many player arguments/ counter arguments/ counter to the counter arguments——well—you get the picture)

However, I will put a proviso on that—-it was a one off, and the early days of a new game. There a LOT more people playing now. I find sometimes I look at GW1 through rose tinted spectacles, and forget the nerfs that happened on occasion, and the wailing that took place when that happened, as I suspect others do.

At the Wayfarers Foothills, at Kevach’s Homestead, Kalle has changed what he says. The word bubble used to say ‘What marvelous things have you discovered’, whilst he actually said, ‘What disgusting things have you discovered’. Its been changed to match, but used to make me laugh

Roughly at the very early days of the game(where the time go to? O-O) . Wearing mastercraft armour into AC in a PUG, with sub 60’s for the first time thinking, ‘Well—this is a starter area—how bad can it be?’, and being bankrupted by the armour repairs. Didn’t touch a dungeon for a loooong time after.

If memory servers SAB was brought in as the dev responsible had some time on his hands, liked the old games like that, and thought it would be fun to introduce. With each proceeding year it became more advanced. With the upcoming patch, which, lets be frank is BIG, and if its a taken that SAB would be taking even one dev from doing the patch, I would rather see him do the patch. Not forgetting, post patch there will inevitably be bugs to be sorted. Prioritize first guys.

The real irony here? The people who are complaining about begginer world bosses and only beginner world bosses are the high end of the server population (i’m not talking about any other bosses here). The real first timers on GW2, which by the way, are the ones we are talking about who will be most affected by any begginer world boss nerfs (sorry to emphasis the word beginner, but some here seem to want to over look that small fact) wont even have a voice here as a lot don,t know where the forums are to have a voice! Lets face it, even the OP admits to having full exotics / ascended, so has the whole world to play in, but chooses to focus purely on beginner zones! Sure I admit to going to these events, and know what gives me the most buzz? When I hear a beginner see the Behemoth for the first time and say something along the lines of ‘omg look at THAT’! Seems to me to be a lot of selfish attitudes from a minority (i again emphasis— a minority—-not all) high end players with a me me me attitude, forgetting where they came from—ie, we were all begginers at somepoint

Please, leave beginner zone world bosses as they are. There is a reason they are like they are. A clue is in the word ‘begginer’. How do you encourage begginers’ to explore if you decimate them in their first world boss encounter? That would would only cheese people off not encourage them. If you want a challenge at the Shadow Behemoth go in naked with a level one weapon, instead of a legendary with full exotic/ ascended armour!

Just on pvp—fell a very long way, but instead of dying, I went through some sort of convoluted scene where I was transported to some dark region, still falling. When it ended instead of being dead on the floor, or transported back to the way point as expected I was under the map where it perceived the ground as water. Just as well it happened at the end of the game!

Worst lag i have ever experienced in WvW—-ever! Use savage leap, I actually jumped backwards with nothing targeted—rush—just sort of stutters, but at least its traveling in the rite direction. The right hand skill bar is completely useless as NOTHING works, during massive zerg battles. Before it was tolerable, even funny at some points, but now it seems to have gone off the Richter scale, especially in EB.

Started queuing for EB, was in position 54 at start, waiting patiently for two hours for it to go down, went down to 2—-then the best bit—suddenly lept to position 100.

If this is a result of people using taxi’s, it is very disappointing as I thought this practice was stopped to allow everyone an even hand of getting on the server.

Just a suggestion—-as EotM maps do not contribute to your native world, which base you are on is more or less cosmetic (granted some keep bosses are harder than others ie the Grawl with elemental double act twins), sooo why can’t when we are put into the EotM map, your assigned a position at the beginning, with the lowest population colour being filled first on a rota. At least that way there can be a balance for every one. Its no fun being out-manned, but on the other side of the coin, its not much fun totally dominating a map with nothing to cap, or anyone to compete against.

Why are there so many EotM maps with outnumbered on them? I just did an experiment, map hopping on EotM and there were at least seven maps with red outnumbered. I gave up counting after that. They don’t seem to be filling before going to overflow on another map. Kinda hard to have a decent zerg on zerg in those situations, though obviously the wxp is nice—-whilst still alive.

I have several WvW characters, so here goes (big breath)

1) No supply mastery—-picks up supply slowly (as expected)

2) First rank in supply mastery—Pick up supply faster (as per description)

3) Full supply mastery— Picks up supply agonizingly slowly, far slower than with no ranks in supply mastery, in some instances I can be mashing the F button on a full supply and still not pick up any (no lag at the time). Standing directly on top of the supply or edging slowly out has little effect. Unknown if this is due to character behavior causing this, unlikely but should be mentioned (asura/nec).

HotW Troll P1—cant cleanse fear for some reason—kinda funny tho.

Like many here, I felt the bar scene completely pointless. The conversation was stinted, to the point I was waiting for someone to say ‘you guys in post traumatic stress or what?’. The best part that was ‘uhh hu—uhh hu’. Also, no one in bar even mentions the poor unfortunates who met a grisly end in LA. Unfortunately for me, I feel like a schizophrenic in a love hate relationship with the game at the moment. The story line just feels—-directionless for me, as if they are making up the story line up over coffee in the morning, and have employed the writer(s) of cereal commercials. And yet I come back for more every day, in the hope that things will change.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Sadly, I think you’ll have to chalk that one up to trolling or general stupidity.

Just happened to me, blue knight hit by a mender.
Sorry, but any open instance that can be ruined by a single troll is beyond words!

MrsKryten.5104:

Shadey Dancer.2907:

So far my experiences this past week with guesting. Go to guest, put into overflow, wait for to be put into main, main comes up saying its free—-and put into another overflow. That happened a lot, with once exception, the main came up, clicked to join main, and it came back network error!

You can’t get into main that way when guesting, which I assume is done to give priority to players native to that server. You have to run back and forth between map portals if it’s full. If main is not hardcapped, you can get in if you are in a party with someone who is in main when you enter the map. Otherwise, hang out by one of the map entrance portals and when the message that main is available comes up, run through the exit and come back in. You may have to do this over and over to get in. Ideally, you want to try this well before the event begins before it’s hardcapped.

You Sir are the Man (or lady—-or Quaggan or—well you get my meaning) Success on third try—a very BIG thank you goes to the Deso commanders for their patience and leadership, even in the face of afkers.

True , it just an achievement, its very name says its achievable. However, no matter your personal kill level, the event is down to everyone reading off the same page. It seems to me anet is looking through with rose tinted glasses. Their take is they want us to be ‘self educating’, which is all fine and good in an ideal world, but fails to take into account the individuals motivation for being at these events. Some just want to get their drops and leave whilst others will do some hits and go afk, effectively ruining it for others.

I just really hope that the dead line on the 18th is pushed back by a week in recognition of the bugs that needed to be sorted out, to give everyone a decent shot at it.

Hers a small sample—-no vitality stats. The stats are tiered from left to right, with the majority of the stat weighting on the left, with the lesser being on the right. So as to my question, will there be a an increase of the various stat combos in the futre, with the various permutations?

(PLS only a dev answer this, I dont want petty arguments from people with an axe to grind—ty!)

Angchu Cavalier Toughness.png Toughness Power.png Power Critical Damage.png Critical Damage
Beigarth’s Knight Toughness.png Toughness Power.png Power Precision.png Precision
Leftpaw’s Settler’s Toughness.png Toughness Condition Damage.png Condition Damage Healing Power.png Healing Power

So far my experiences this past week with guesting. Go to guest, put into overflow, wait for to be put into main, main comes up saying its free—-and put into another overflow. That happened a lot, with once exception, the main came up, clicked to join main, and it came back network error!

Take your pick—-

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_armor

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_weapon

Are there any future plans to increase the selection of different stat combos on ascended equipment?

I was wondering if there are any future plans in the pipe line to change the way guild benefits are removed if you swap servers?
As I understand it, if a guild decides to change servers, they lose the benefits accrued, like deep cave etc. The argument being that they got those whilst on that sever, and should lose them on transfer. If a time came again when anet generously offered free server transfers, to less populated servers, many of us would be reticent of taking up such an offer, as we would be losing out. People like myself, who belong to very small guilds would have the most to lose in a transfer, as it takes that much longer to get those benefits, and are somewhat ‘locked’ into their server.
Also, as a counter argument to the one put forward, no-one would ever argue that WxP from WvW should be removed from players when they transfer servers, as that WxP was accrued on a server that they are now leaving.

Im Mudbone.1437:

How is this bug related? IMO the Wiki works just fine, or, as intended.

Hey—don’t shoot me (or the mod)—the mod felt it was to be moved here, and I wasn’t sure where to put it.
As for people asking whats the deal with my post, its all in the taste and feel. Sure its also dependent on the info put in as to its usefulness, but that’s not what I am trying (and apparently failing) to point out. IE make a typo or fail to put a space where there should be one or visa versa, between words in gw2 wiki, you have to start over and make sure its accurate. In others you don’t get that , it will come up with a ‘did you mean’ —-——message. Ok its a small thing, and if its ‘intended’ to work like that, fine, however why can,t it be ‘intended’ to be better?

Well, to start with, not everyone is the same, some have more time to spare than others. Just do what you can do and don’t worry about anyone else^^.
As for the posters decrying others who happen to have lots of AP, but happened to have an off day, and didn’t measure up to their expectations, careful someone doesn’t point out your shortcomings, we all have them.