Guild Wars 2

Do the Chinese get their own servers?

Andrew Clear.1750:

SoS might even be able to beat TC in gold, and maybe even pull an upset over BG or JQ. We shall see. The only reason gold is so close in coverage, is because they received the majority of the silver league’s guilds.

Maybe in points due to how the points for this tournament work.
But head to head? No, SoS will not beat JQ, BG, or TC.
SoS will get their points in this tournament feasting on Mag and DB.

If getting a mistforged weapon was that important to you, it’s easily predictable which FREE transfer servers would finish in the top 5 of their league.
If it’s still important to you, you can still transfer whenever you like.

In competitions, not everyone wins. Not everyone gets just ‘participation’ awards and a glass of juice.
There are winners, and there are losers.
Since everyone CAN technically be a winner by transferring, it’s up to the individual to decide what their price is, for being on a winning team.

daydream.2938:

Lol silver league is the worst, in bronze, and gold the matchs are competitive, Only the matchup involving sos is a big lead, and that’s not a slaughter.

All 3 mathcups in silver are a slaughter atm with yaks, hod and FA just dominating there respective opponents, not even close.

It’ll even out next week when it’s FA vs YB vs HoD

Solution is… take a selfie

TC with the 4 maps had 600-700 people queued.
Weeeeee EOTM

We’ll see what HoD is made of week 2 when it’ll be FA vs YB vs HoD

Nage.1520:

I’d like to see some of the quotes where Anet “hyped this up”.

My understanding has, from the beginning, been this. Anet used to put QoL features into LS patches, but they found that the QoL stuff got lost in the LS stuff. So they delayed the same sorts of stuff that would have come out in the LS until after it was over.

That’s what they told us, that’s what I expected and that’s what we’re getting.

Anet never intimated we’d get new races now. They said they’d eventually like every weapon to be used by every profession but any time they talk about it, it’s always some distant future thing. There was never any mention of combining EU and the US as some people say.

So we get an account wardrobe, where PvP and PvE stuff are now interchangeable. Account bound dyes, legendaries, ascended armor and WXP. The ability to see when someone last logged on in guilds. No more repair costs. No costs and no returning to trainer to train traits. New traits. New ways to unlock those traits. And there are still more reveals to come.

I’m not sure what people were expected, or how much they know about programming, but this is a huge amount of stuff.

That’s not counting the extra sigils on two handed weapons, the complete change to ruin sets the skill balance and bug fixes.

This is a major patch. Those who can’t see it have set their expectations way too high.

This ^^
All great changes that people have been asking for, for a long time.
But people always find something to complain about I guess.
/random town clothing rant that 99% of people don’t care about…

You didn’t answer my question, what were you expecting it to be?

Evans.6347:

I just had to comment on all the “it’s your own fault, not the company”-posts.

Good lord, how horribly naive can you be? It is blatantly obvious that these little titbits of information are way over-hyped and yes this is most certainly done intentionally.

And why wouldn’t they? I bet most of you here, myself included, have waited impatiently for each new blog expecting the world out of the insinuating titles, only to be left with a bitter-sweet feeling after reading the incredibly trivial information they give.

You can call people spoiled all you want but it is a fact that this whole week of shenanigans is just one giant publicity stunt. In the end negative attention is still attention.

As for myself, I’m rather disappointed yes. You can say that these are all positive things (to which I disagree, because I feel really cheated out with townclothes), but that doesn’t mean we should sing songs of praise about it, especially when they are deliberately hyped up as the next best thing, evar!

As far as I’m concerned this has been one giant pile of ‘simplifications’ on matters which hardly challenge the brain, making me wonder how high they estimate the general IQ of their players. Or maybe it’s for the “massive” influx of new players I’ve seen nowhere.

I’m not usually a negative ninnie, but I just can’t be excited about new systems that don’t fix any of the underlying problems or extremely trivial simplifications.

So today with post entitled ‘account bound’, what were you expecting?
They made awesome changes to account bound legendaries and ascended items and wxp. That’s pretty awesome!
Stop crying or the wahhhhhhmbulance is gonna show up.

Can guest to any server you want, whenever you want.
Not really much of an issue here.
Server restrictions only apply to WvW.

Great changes ANet.
Lots of awesome QoL changes and the big one for WvW… Account bound wxp!!!!
For pve’ers, maybe not too much new content, but they just had a year of LS…
Excited for the new changes, looking forward to playing some different classes in WvW and not feeling kitten without applied fortitude and guard leech.
Vive la WvW!!

HoD queue’ing maps in NA prime doesn’t mean much.
Most silver league servers will do that for the first few weeks.
What’s HoD’s OCX/SEA/Euro like compared to their competitors?
And does HoD have the organization/experience in fighting upper tiers guilds and servers? The whole HoD scenario screams trainwreck when leagues end.
I have no doubt HoD should be able to finish in the top 3 in silver with their population… the fun will be watching what happens when seasons end and they’re up against t3 servers full time, maybe even t2 servers.
Although I guess if there’s no repair cost anymore, I guess it won’t be quite as frustrating getting constantly run over by organized servers

Our guild uses plug.dj

I’ll probably listen to Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit to get pumped at reset

Pretty sure it would be the same for all 3 servers.
I’m on TC and haven’t noticed this.
In massive 3 way fights it’s noticeable a bit, but that isn’t anything new.

style.6173:

Blade.3456:

Vol.7601:

It will be interesting to see JQ vs BG when things really matter.

TC will be the new SoR

I hope not!
TC have been going hard, and certainly offer a new dynamic to the match-up, indiscriminately hitting what ever the heck they want.
TC map politics aren’t like the old BG/SoR/JQ match ups that’s for sure!
And I love it.

It’s been a fun time. I think TC got the best of the SoR guilds and they blend very well with the previous TC players.

I fully expect to see a great matchup (with the new schedule system, I don’t know how often those three will play against each other).

I’ve honestly been having the most amazing time on TC.
Coming from t3 about a month ago, t1 is just craziness. There’s fights everywhere all the time. There’s no lulls, no karma training… Just tons of people running into each other.
The amounts of bags/kills/Wxp isn’t matched in any other tier.
I kill a lot, I die a lot, it’s super fun.
Seeing the difference on the battlefield is quite astounding. The skill level is different than what I expected. It’s really improved my gameplay overall I think.
Having only been on one server before the recent move, you never really know what to expect. You think the server you’re on is good/efficient… but you never know what the experience is for people on other servers. You just assume you’re doing everything properly and well. Always having people to run with and great commanders to follow 24/7 is amazing. Especially for people who don’t just play NA prime.
Really looking forward to season 2 to see how everything plays out. Best of luck to everyone against our biggest and most menacing enemy… the evil green (maybe purple) queue monster!

HoD may have a good few months, especially if some of FA’s skill groups leave.
That said, if they manage to creep into tier 3 and higher, they’ll face the same thing every server faces that takes a run up to tier 2… getting their faces smashed in by the skill groups in tier 2.
I honestly have no idea how silver league will pan out… queue’ing tons of maps in NA prime generally doesn’t mean much. Most servers will have high NA population for leagues. The difference will be who has the best off hours coverage (as always).
So my prediction is…
1. FA (population too much for everyone else in silver)
2. IOJ off hours coverage saves them
3. HoD finish 3rd with high pop but probably not enough experience against large servers
4. SBI will fight it out for 3rd maybe even 2nd if fairweathers show up. Stand to benefit from getting wins when HoD and IOJ and FA are facing off.
5. YB. High PvE population that comes out for tournaments. Loss of 2 biggest WvW guilds from last season hurt.
6. CD. No reason, just probably more people than those below them.
7. NSP. Same as above
8. BP. Lost too many people and guilds.
9. SoR. Same as above

“The initial round of the tournament will match the worlds in each league according to their world rating.”
Key words… In each league

Chris.3290:

Variations in who wins the 1-3 match might mess with the math, but that can make it #4 could win the whole thing… Sweet!

Correct, SoS could technically finish second. Even though they lose to number 2 each time they play them, and never having to fight number 3.

There’s no ‘requirements’ for purchasing the upgrades. Walls cost 10 silver, doors cost 15 silver, and fortified costs 50 silver I believe for towers. Keeps are a bit more expensive.
Anyone of any level can talk to the upgrader on each tower to queue the upgrade.

Basically when a tower/keeps changes possession… it is considered tier 1.
When it has upgraded walls and doors, people consider it tier 2.
When it becomes fortified, people consider it tier 3.
You get the upgrades by purchasing upgrades at the tower vendor, and getting supplies in via dolyak to complete upgrades.

Rabe.9804:

Solution:
First week matchups between the servers in their leagues;
after that matchups between all NA-servers depending on their performance (=points) during tournament:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Many-questions-so-Dev/first#post3793228

I was trying to understand what you’re getting at…
There’s gold/silver/bronze leagues.
1-6
7-15
16-24
Not all servers are in the same pool.
This problem exists for gold league.
I haven’t done the numbers to see how it would work out for the leagues with 9 servers.

Assuming a scenario where servers 1-6 are playing against each other…
Assuming Server 1 always beats server 2 who always beats server 3 who always beats server 4 and so on…

Week 1 will be: 1 vs 2 vs 3 and
4 vs 5 vs 6.
Week 2 will be: 1 vs 2 vs 4 and
3 vs 5 vs 6
At which point 1 will have 10 points
2 thru 5 will have 6 points
6 will have 2 points
Week 3 will be a repeat of week 1.
Weeks 1,3,5,7,9 will all be the same.
Weeks 2,4,6,8 will all be the same.

After week 9
The number 1 server will have 45 points.
The number 4 server will have 29 points.
The number 2 and 5 servers will have 27 points.
The number 3 server will have 25 points.
The number 6 server will have 9 points.

In this scenario, over 9 weeks, the number 3 server never gets to play against number 4.
And servers 1 and 2 never get to play against servers 5 and 6.
Basically servers 3 and 4 just flop matchups every week until inevitably the number 3 server gets screwed due to odd number of weeks.

I don’t have a solution or anything, just pointing it out.

I feel like making March 27th the day that they discuss “account bound”, that if it’s anything OTHER than account bound wxp, then Anet is clearly trolling us.
The day before a major WvW season commences, having a title like ‘account bound’ had better be WvW related.

The top 6 servers as of March 28th will be locked into gold for 9 weeks.
There’s no flip flopping back and forth between gold and silver, or silver and bronze after the tournament starts.
There’s no post about it anywhere, and there won’t be, as it would make no sense.

DB is in a bad situation no matter what.

You get into gold and get slaughtered for 2 months and fairweathers don’t come out, fairweathers get annoyed and transfer.
You get into silver and play PvD for 2 months and WvW guilds get annoyed with nothing to do and transfer.
It would probably be in the best interest of DB to try and make gold and encourage and train your fairweathers to make the best of a bad situation.
Winning silver will get you a skin, that’s it. Just a weapon skin.
I think in the eyes of most, DB will be taken more seriously as a competitive server by being in gold.
I’ve seen what the T2 guilds say about DB. Prove them wrong and come out and fight.

Was gearing up an alt in time for season 2… guess that was pointless…
They can do 37 living story updates and releases every 5 minutes… but a few lines of coding for account-bound WXP for WvW in 5 months is not possible. Good job Anet.
It’s quite pathetic really.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Boonprot.6274:

Why would anyone in T2 want DB. Almost the entire GvG community is on Mag/FA/SoS.

We’d want DB for 1 week to completely shut them down and beat them so hard they’ll realize they never want to come back again. In other words, week of steamrolling them before “Back to your regularly scheduled programming”.

Kinda like what Dragonbrand did to Ehmry Bay before you transferred?

There are 27 servers in EU and 24 in NA.
They all have a ranking either 1-27 or 1-24.
It’s impossible, literally impossible to balance things for that many servers, for that many players, for that many variables.
Things will NEVER be even for every server, not even remotely close.
Not 1 server anywhere has a queue 24/7 for all 4 maps.
As a player, you’re free to go to any server you want to find exactly what you desire.
It’s nearly impossible to balance this game mode in a way that is fair to all players in all time zones on every server.
Whatever the solution is, if there is one, can’t punish anyone for being in a specific timezone, or punish anyone from playing at a particular time of day.
Closing certain maps, for however many hours you feel is reasonable, isn’t reasonable to the players that play at that time of the day, wherever they happen to play in the world.

It’s not that I’m not trying to be constructive…
But for instance my work schedule basically forces me to play southeast Asian time most of the time. I play on an NA server. Are you saying I should never have access to a borderland? SEA time is not primetime in either a US or EU server… so no matter where I go, I would not be able to play on a BL most of the time. Is it fair? No. Is Wvw fair? No.
But you can’t exclude people from content based on what time zone they live in.

Sounds weird coming from a Canadian playing on a EU server.
You’re actually part of the problem.
Anyways, this ‘issue’ has existed since HoD dominated the first month GW2 released with their 24/7 alliance with [Syn] capping everything versus SBI and ET overnight.
Nothing has changed, 500 gazillion ideas and complaints have arisen since. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change anytime soon.
It’s coverage wars.
If it bothers you being on a certain server, transfer to one that compliments your wants and desires for WvW.
Nothing much else to say.
NA primetime or EU primetime is essentially 6 hours a day.
Closing the BL’s for 18 hours a day seems silly for off peak hours depending on region.

ShinsVortex.3175:

maybe SBI and SoR are doing it on purpose to drop in rank to get cheaper transfers? shrug just a hunch

Worst ‘hunch’ ever.
No way possible for SBI or SoR to get out of the 2400 transfer cost before league starts.
After league starts, if they manage to drop to the 10-12 range, transfers are still 1400, and 13-15 are 1000.
Nobody will pay that.
SBI should be a good destination before prices go up.
SBI should do ok in silver league. Probably not 1st, but a really good chance to finish high.

Natronix.9827:

Yep, I hope for DB/SOS/MAG tomorrow night, and we can make sure DB doesnt tick higher than 100. :P

Anyone can 2v1.
DB and SoS could 2v1 Mag and ensure they don’t get over 100 ppt either. Doesn’t prove much.
The only thing you continue to prove is how much a minority of players (gvg’ers) think they’re better and above the rest of the population that plays this game.
Stop being such a tryhard. You played on SBI and were all about forming a guild and improving the EU presence there, and getting decent presence out to ppt and defend borderlands. You leave SBI to Maguuma and do a 180 and all of a sudden the next day every post you make is about gvg and ‘for the fights’. Seriously, stop trying so hard to ‘impress’ your servermates. It comes across as completely fraudulent and disingenuous.
It’s not your place to try and control the destiny of hundreds if not thousands of people on DB or FA that could give a kitten about your stupid Gvg politics.

Funny how 2 sites are so different…

Anet site— please come to FA, we love to play defence and love to ppt.
Gw2wvw site— FA is for the fights, PPT’ing is for losers

Not the best way to make gold or anything… but if you have a watchwork pick, just check the TP to see what ore is selling for the most, and run around appropriate zones gathering ore to sell. You could look up where the rich ore veins are on sites to get even more ore. Can refine it into ingots if you have crafting.
Without watchwork pick, having the right mining pick isn’t too expensive. Can easily make a few gold per hour this way. And it’s not as boring as champ train farming, to me anyways. Running around zones looking for ore isn’t so bad.

The tier 3,4 servers have it worst.
They’ll be overtaken by t5 servers that get free transfers while the cost to go to SBI, SoR, BP, YB, IOJ will actually go up assuming rankings stay the same. As if they weren’t having a hard enough time bringing people in.

Can’t speak for fractals…
But in WvW… I’m around rank 550, and have gotten 0 ascended chests.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

While low tier server transfers are free, if you want to get into T1 JQ, better transfer now while the price is low. Best way to guarantee yourself tickets.

JQ has been full for about 2 weeks, BG for a lot longer than that.
I haven’t checked the past few days, but JQ showed full almost every time I logged in, except once at about 4am about 2 weeks ago.

Are you looking to pay gems for transfers? Or waiting for the free transfers coming soon to a handful of servers?

Going to any server in tier 2 would be a good move as you’ll be assured to be immersed in battles 24/7 when leagues start.
Tier 1 will be tough to transfer to soon. BG and JQ are already full, and TC will probably be full soon.
If you wait until March 18th, you can transfer to tier 5 for free (HoD, CD, NSP), which would be an upgrade from GoM.
Hard to say right now how many people will go to tier 5, but a safe bet it will be enough to push those tier 5 servers up to at least tier 4, even tier 3.
History has shown bandwagoners aren’t very loyal and tend to transfer again when the going gets tough, so what goes up usually comes down. Keep that in mind.

I’m actually curious which will be more abundant…

-higher tier players moving down for free…
Or
-lower tier players moving up to 13-15 for free

Heezdedjim.8902:

Kind of a slap to the 9th place worlds in EU. The “worst” you can do in NA is 225, but the last place in EU is only 200. There is no apparent reason why NA FAIL > EU FAIL. But that’s what the rewards are saying.

Eu – 9,9,9
Na – 6,9,9

Kinda hard to make leagues 8, 8, and 8… 3 servers per match and all…

Frosch.7809:

Congratulations to JQ, DB and SF for winning in their respective (US) groups!

There, Tournament done.

People said the same thing before season 1.
~Flashback~
Congrats to JQ and SBI for winning gold and silver!

Becka Williams.4978:

.SoS is doomed to 4th or 5th place. What’s our incentive to spend 7 weeks fighting for a guaranteed 4th place, Devon?

Not finishing 5th or 6th?

When you start the, well actually before you start, keep in mind that if Pvp is important to you, that you need to select a home server.
This home server will serve as the world you represent in WvW matches.
To change home servers costs 1800 gems, so quite expensive in terms of gold or real life money.
Mos.millenium.org
Will give you a decent idea of how populated a server is.
There are 27 servers in EU, and 24 servers in NA.
Others than paying to transfer servers, the only other option is to delete your characters and start over if you want a new server. So choosing a home server wisely is important.

The fighting and movement takes a little bit of getting used to, like any new game.
The heavy armor classes are a little more forgiving while learning, as you don’t die as fast.
Warrior is probably the easiest to play for new players, elementalist the hardest.
Thief and Mesmer probably fall somewhere in the middle.
You can change your build anytime you want at a class trainer for not too much money.
After level 10, you gain a trait point every level up to 80, so 70 total.
You can invest the trait points as you like in different trait lines which all give different abilities and bonuses.
Pvp varies for all classes depending on the build you want to run.
In WvW, Some builds are more large group appropriate, some are more small team appropriate. Some builds are better for solo’ing.
You can use skill points you get levelling up and doing skill challenges to buy utility skills which are your 7-9 skills. Lots of different utility skills per class that you can use depending how you want to play your character.

I like everything about the game. Been playing since launch myself.
Awesome job Anet!
I would prefer something closer to the trinity though and have classes have more defined roles, but that is just personal preference.

Ok thanks. I know there’s stuff to trade in for other stuff. I just wasn’t sure if it was the bags themselves or not.
Green light on opening them, thank you =)

All the loot bags that drop from the Burning lion’s arch event… Do we save them to trade in at a vendor, or open them?

I hope the current Lion’s Arch gets demolished so brutally that it won’t be recognizable.
The whole area just reeks of poverty.
Then we can rebuild it to something more aesthetically pleasing and modern.

Yes, you will be compensated.
Wait by the mailbox.