Guild Wars 2

Cedric Ambidexter.9174:

I have the best armour and stats at the moment, and i’m happy with everything. But I just sat back in horror as I watched a level 15 icebrood elemental in a low-level region remove half my health in a few seconds.

If they ever decide to make a gw3 I hope they get rid of that stupid scaling system, because it really makes the game look like child’s play.

Even if my health suddenly drops from 20k to 1.5k, I would expect a low level enemy to struggle against a level 80. My suspicion is that levels are actually meaningless in this game.

I’ve posted on this topic before, and I’m posting again because this is something that is still bugging me.

Here the question.

I am puzzled, why is it child’s play when you are annoyed about not able to one-hit kill a supposedly lower level monster. Isn’t it because you feel the need to be godlike? If that is the case, you should try korean mmorpg. Of course, please do not complain about grinding and pvpish environment because power come with a price. Otherwise, you still have single player game, you can use cheat code.

Indeed, when is the last time you ever see ALL desert borderland getting queued?
This sure is refreshing.

X T D.6458:

Aphs.9528:

You guys need to get over the queues , everyone is excited right now about mergers so of course you will see bigger queues , the queues will eventually go back to normal . And it’s reset so stop crying . Better knowing WvW is alive and kicking then dead .

Its not just about queues, are you so short sighted, people go to lower tiers to escape the blobbing of higher tiers, they go there for a different style of play, now they are being forced to be a part of it, they now have no where to go and cannot escape it. The blobbing, lag, queues that people from lower tiers were able to avoid will now be a daily part of their wvw experience. And for those in upper tiers our ability to get our guilds on the same map, coordination, communication has been impacted severely.

i pretty sure people wont go to last tier to avoid that playstyle
the playstyle you are referring to belong to the mid tier.

seperate pvp from pve……
should consider playing a MOBA becoz this is a mmorpg

well, that’s what you get for stacking.

edit: “you” refer to people who flooded tc.

the bottom few server shouldn’t provide much queue. the popular beliefs stat that these servers are dead. base on these beliefs, they don’t even queue a single map on their own. using these assumptions, it is good to say that the queue is the result of your own server.

WoW, OS is queued, bg is monster.

Logically, it make sense to do that, prior to the exodus though.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Make sure they have ticked the appropriate box(es) for each Guild in the chat menu drop-down next to the ‘Guild’ option.

Sometimes, new members who just joined are unable to see or type in the guild chat.

Leaving and joining again doesn’t fix it.
Sometimes, going invisible and then back to online allow them to type in guild chat but still not able to see guild chat.
Chat option for guild is enabled.

Sometimes, new members who just joined are unable to see or type in the guild chat.

Leaving and joining again doesn’t fix it.
Sometimes, going invisible and then back to online allow them to type in guild chat but still not able to see guild chat.
Chat option for guild is enabled.

Representing is a paradox. There is no right or wrong answer, the main issue is players being contradiction to their idea.

To give an example.
I find the players who are on that side of “what’s the point of representing” extremely contradictory in nature. Why? It is really simple, if there is no point in representing, then why are they so bothered about it? If they are not bothered about it, then why do they feel the need to talk about it or complain about it or even get annoyed about it?

At the end of the day, representation do mean something. The real problem is some players want to use this as an excuse to attack others, especially guilds who has rep requirement even when these guilds done nothing to them personally in the first place. Representation was never the main issue, the main issue is some players simply have bad personality and character.

Welcome to the internet.

Equinox Solstice [TIME]

Dawdler.8521:

SkyShroud.2865:

Dawdler.8521:

What the heck does TS matter to this?

It seems you are relative new to large scale team based game. Ts3 is used as a mean to interact and most importantly to coordinate with people. WvW require coordination more than any other game modes. This means that different squads or guilds could be using ts3 as a means to communicate and coordinate with one another to achieve greater competitiveness.

Now, it is important how the people of different server could solve their differences over ts3 usage to avoid awkward situation while maintaining a competitive environment for the people who desire it.

Of course, if you are not into competitiveness and server-wide teamwork, it doesn’t really matters to you.

It seems you are relativly new to the forum game as you didnt read a single word beyond that line or the next post.

Anyhow, the note about worlds maybe being relinked every 3 months is incredibly alarming… that tell me this is not a true gameplay mechanic change (ie dynamically matching servers at reset to get a smaller number of matchups at roughly the same size) but rather a completely static re-routing of WvW eqvivalent of a server merger.

Plus, it would wreck havoc on the communities if they part ways after a long 3 months.

This suddenly feel… not so good.

I did read and it is my mistake that I didn’t highlight that you thought it will be every matchup but I think otherwise. I will explain why I think otherwise when I posted it.

The note itself said they can dynamically change the link when they need to. Keywords are when they need to. Furthermore, dynamically changing it consistently will not allow glicko to establish, a technical reason. Base on these two, it give enough clue on how things will work and from there, I presume that linking will be for a period of time which result in the concerns I have highlighted.

Yes, 3 months is destructive, is pretty much a merger. If by then, anet forcefully remove the link, guilds that recruit across the link servers will suffer a lot of damage.

For upgrades, there is no user info for decoration.

morrolan.9608:

From the AMA today:

“Will not release world pairings in advance to reduce gaming the system.

Language/National worlds will only be paired with other worlds of the same language.

World Linking is not a complete fix for population imbalances but we felt it was a necessary step.

We can link many worlds together, though in this Beta worlds will only have a single partner (if they are linked at all). Many high ranking worlds in EU will not be linked with another world.

Worlds that are paired will have lower population caps.

At most we’d re-link worlds every 3 months.

World Linking decisions were primarily based on a combination of both Glicko rating and time-sliced activity levels."

This is hopeful although I’d say relinking only at most every 3 months is possibly too long. I’d also like more details on how “time sliced activity levels” factored into linking decisions. If the leaked notes are accurate as to who is getting linked it basically appears to be just glicko levels, although I’d, laugh if TC didn’t get linked to DR given how TC have jumped the gun.

Thank you. That answered point 1.

I wonder about anet view’s on point 2 and 3 which I think is really important.

Dawdler.8521:

What the heck does TS matter to this?

It seems you are relative new to large scale team based game. Ts3 is used as a mean to interact and most importantly to coordinate with people. WvW require coordination more than any other game modes. This means that different squads or guilds could be using ts3 as a means to communicate and coordinate with one another to achieve greater competitiveness.

Now, it is important how the people of different server could solve their differences over ts3 usage to avoid awkward situation while maintaining a competitive environment for the people who desire it.

Of course, if you are not into competitiveness and server-wide teamwork, it doesn’t really matters to you.

It would be nice to be able to do it via api since you can already see member’s server via leaderboard achievement.

Is there a way to retrieve guild member’s server via api?

1. How often will the world link changes? The frequency of this changes will affect the different server’s TS3 and how they manage their ts3. This can be really troublesome to ts3 management and on how players approach to resolve the differences in ts3 usage.

2. How is this gonna resolve the issue caused by the megaserver which forced guilds to recruit players from different servers? The link will only benefit selected servers but majority of the players will still be in different server and thus not able to play WvW together. Furthermore, since the link supposedly to be dynamic, guilds that begin recruiting from the linked world might end up in a situation where they find themselves having different world members and if one day anet decided that the link world is to change, those guild will be screwed like the guilds that recruit from mega server.

3. Does the reward track apply to EOTM? If it does, it doesn’t resolve the reward inequality between EOTM and the normal WvW. Furthermore, more people will do EOTM and abuse the reward tracks.

edit: fixed grammar, noticed it when I wanted to copy & paste to reddit AMA, typed it off the top of my head.

Waste of resource. Making legendary could have gotten ascended for the many characters I have which I used to play pve and wvw.

S1 is less carebear, a lot of thoughts were put into the pip design, I can see that. S1 problem was due to tanking abuser and match system variety.

S2 is carebear, pip design is thoughtless. S2 pip design is target to swiftly increase the population at all division, quantity over quality. Matchmaking system seems rather bias, selected players get to breeze through, reports of players making alt account has easier time to reach legend than main account.

Overall, I would prefer S1 pip design and improved S2 matchmaking system of no biasness.

IKR

people can be so inconsiderate, should implement a if lose X matches a row, drop to diamond

No one comment it because of two reason
1. Can’t confirm it though the system is suspected bias by some people.
2. Many legend players do not want to admit they are carried to legend by the system’s winning streak, instead of working through the ladder like some others had. What’s more, it is a solid fact there are a lot of bad legends.

Locuz.2651:

You win some and lose some…if you truely deserve there you will end up in legendary.

I saw 2 legend players got owned by a single engineer. Heck, one of the them is a engineer himself. I laugh so hard when I find out they are legend when the match ended. Btw, that single engineer was a diamond.

To go to legend is all RNG.

Diamond is a pain. I had winning streaks and as well as losing streaks. I was asked by random people I encounter in matches to duo queue, I refuse, I believe I can make it to legend via solo!

After repeating these for a few days, magically my MMR gotten “better” and winning streaks & losing streaks no longer exist, becoming win/lose situation. I still remember I was once matched against a full guild team with a group of 5 solos. Dev says that only happens it only happens if 50% and more win rate across divisions but I never had this impression I had 50% win rate across divisions, regardless, won that match easily.

Still struggling in the last 2 tiers of diamonds.

ur carebear definition is rather…….carebear
i expected something….more

ermm….one of the following

1. big wallet, want to spend on something. gem store? too mainstream. let try something bigger
2. nothing interesting happen, so make something happen. start by making some worlds burn.

I saw a guy who I always kill easily in legend now. wow.

Winning streak is flawed concept. While rewarding a individual for consistent winning is wonderful but PvP is a team game, not a individual game. Winning streak should only be applicable if it is a same full team that made consistent winning.

There should be a way to report AFKers and match throwers, throughout my hundreds of matches, I have encounter more than a handful of afkers and match throwers.

The matchup MMR is flawed. If the PvP population for that timing is low, you will end up with the same teammates and if the team happen to bad, you can keep losing the whole timezone until the more people come on. What’s more, dev blog mentioned same MMR are matched together before looking for another team. This means that the two teams could have a huge gap. Of course, if there is a bonus for lower MMR team to win the higher MMR team, it isn’t that bad but there is no such bonus.

Comeback pip is stupid. It is what make bad players have easier time climbing up the ladder.

You shouldn’t be allowed to pre-made with people who are division apart from each other.

Edit 1:
I personally think S1 is better, better in a way of the bonus pip. There is no such nonsense as comeback pip, there is 2 pip for winning 4v5 and fighting overwhelming opponent. No loss of pip when the points are really close. S1 had more thoughts when pip design is concern. S2 is really more of a carebear system to let people recover and breeze. This result in more players reaching legendary easily, reducing queue time in legend. However, it also means less efforts put in to reach there, resulting poorer differentiation in skill level. Players really need to decide it, carebear or not carebear. Quantity or quality.

Why am I not allowed to win a pvp match?

you did win, at least your screenshot says so.

Indeed, there isn’t really plenty of contents. Anet or MO thinks that there are a lot of contents, yes, maybe if you consider it from the amount of work required to produce those. However, if you consider it from gaming perspective, the contents are generally lackluster. Many contents were created for niche groups and not for general population.

For example, I have no interest in legendaries, so all those legendaries related contents are useless to me

Likewise, I am not a skin fanboy, so skins content is useless to me too.

reaper actually gets harder to play as u go up the division, simply because people knows your skill rotations. i lost count of how many bad necro who got carried up the divisions always dying in fights due to positioning and skills rotation, i think they thought they are godlike but that was “true” at lower division but not so at higher division.

as usually, there r a lot of builds and classes that can kitten noobs easily but well, noobs are noobs.

mes has trouble with dh only because of the traps, the trap easily kitten the clones which is the source of damage for mes. but generally, the idea is just to trigger trap and clever use of distortion/block/staff blink/sword 2 will do the trick against dh

Live beta will kick in on reset, other than that, your typical balance changes and map changes will be available from the start I guess.

the trailer says nothing about the patch
is more like anet trying to tell people we have a patch coming and stay tune

ur match must be 4v5 for 2min before not losing a pip

showing names is not allowed

Heres the thing, PvE guilds are extremely easy to build. Why? Guild Wars 2 majority players are PvE. The huge amount of PvE population makes pve guild really easy to form, likewise, you can slowly choose the players you want out of these large population.

This isn’t the case for WvW and PvP is the worst out of all 3. PvP generally has a very low population, lower than WvW in fact. Now, you have to cherry pick out of the already very low population, that is how hard to build a hardcore PvP guild.

So basically, it isn’t the guilds that decide anet what to do, it is the majority that decide.

Edit: So if the majority decided that guilds is not important, no matter how much anet push for it, anet wouldn’t force it upon to the point that the majority has to accept guild is important.

Actually, guild has purpose or no purpose, the game will still dies. The only difference is that a meaningful guild can help prolong the life of the game, however, it can only prolong that long.

What you are seeking is a traditional guild system, a guild system that proven to be successful in a PvP-oriented mmorpg but guild wars 2 isn’t a PvP-oriented mmorpg. If you look at the difference between that MMORPG and Guild Wars 2, the noticeable one will be guilds in guild wars 2 divided themselves into PvX, WvW, PvE, PvP etc.

While in PvP mmorpg, the most they did was dividing as hardcore and not so hardcore guild, there might be some rare cases of PvE guild (PvE guild in pvp mmorpg, lol). Guild Wars 2 has already adapted the culture that guild is not important from the very beginning, while dev mentioned in the CDI wanting to change that culture by bringing something called guild hall and functions, it doesn’t impact much on the culture. The mentality of the players have been set, you can’t change it any more. Guild pride is something that existed in small minority and most of them might have already quit game.

All you really can do now is kick hammer, be extremely strict on invitation to filter out the players. It will be a long and tedious, and most of the time it will end up failing but you won’t have much choice if you wanna do such guild in gw2. Honestly, there isn’t a lot of hardcore pvp guilds in gw2, maybe I should say there is no hardcore pvp guild in gw2. There are hardcore teams but team is not a guild.

Hi,

[TIME] is not a small guild but large guild which might not fit your criteria, however, to be large in the first place means discrimination is non-existence, otherwise, we will never be large in the first place. Furthermore, we are an old guild which proves our leaderships commitment and consistency.

[TIME] has a rep requirement which might not be convenience for you due to your server but hopefully the april beta patch will change all that.

We have several raid teams in the house and to enter these teams, you have to apply for them internally. Raid teams require some level of commitment, able to attend at the agreed timing and have their builds/gears screened, otherwise, killing the bosses will be extremely difficulty.

PvP wise, we have a few legends and diamonds in the house.

If you are interested, drop me a mail.

Generally speaking, guild wars 2 players base is majority casual. Some of them may tell you they are hardcore, but they have no idea what it means to be hardcore. Some of them may tell you they are committed to do something but in reality, they do not mean it. Some of them think they are awesome but is just their ego talking. Etc. Etc. Etc.

I can say plenty of people join a guild out of convenience, to do boss, to do raid, to do wvw, to do pvp, to do guild missions. However, if you are looking for people that will actually help to build your guild up, I can tell you that it won’t be easy to find.

OP is simply referring to that the multi guild system while giving much freedom to players, it is destructive to what makes a guild a guild in MMORPGs. He then further share his experience that he seeing many people joining guild just to get something out of it (materialistically) and not otherwise. Therefore, the guild in guild wars 2 is pretty plain. Well, pretty much how wvwers see server and megaserver. Also, how some wvwer consider people who left server as act of betrayal.

well, thats life.

online league come with unknown factors, lag, dc, crash etc.
furthermore, the organizer and opponents have no way to confirm if you are faking it.

personally, when i was playing pro when i was younger, i only participate online league once and i find the online league then has many flaws which allow people to exploit.

live tournament still the best, you cant beat the sensation at live too.

Ravenmoon.5318:

SkyShroud.2865:

heres the thing, will ppl actually go through that extra miles to obtain ip address? address that might not be static?

yes, is rather easy to obtain address via skype, public voip and so on
but will people actually go beyond that to create public sites and so on to obtain ip address? is not like you are some big shot.

It’s actually very easy to do since the browser sends this info everytime you request to open a webpage.

Sometimes when you use a web proxy, the proxy providers attach extra headers to your request which contain your real address, so thinking that using proxy maeks you safe by default is a big problem.

And idk when I told you about public sites, i didn’t mean a real page.
Here’s an example. Have you heard of those URL shortening services? Like bit.ly t.co etc etc. You can mask a bad URL in a bit.ly and send it to someone via text message

1) The victim clicks the bit.ly link believing that it’s a youtube vid since you said its a super funny vid too
2) The Bit.ly address you gave the guy actually resolves to yoursite.com
3) Which in turn saves the user’s IP address and immediately redirects to Youtube
4) Victim seems the video and business as usual

But you actually stored some data about that user. Including the OS version, web browser and IP address of the user.

yes, but u still have to find ways to give that address to that person to click it
well, if that guy is simple minded, then yea.

what i simply saying is will there be people who actually put it more efforts to obtain ip addresses. afterall, it is not as simple as logging onto skype or teamspeak and camp for that guy then getting it without interacting with target.

to obtain ip address through interacting with the target is whole new different story. unless the target is stupid enough to press any link from a unknown sender. otherwise, it is rather challenging. again, will someone actually put in that effort to do so?

heres the thing, will ppl actually go through that extra miles to obtain ip address? address that might not be static?

yes, is rather easy to obtain address via skype, public voip and so on
but will people actually go beyond that to create public sites and so on to obtain ip address? is not like you are some big shot.

firstly, how do they managed to obtain the ip address to ddos you?
secondly, prevention is as simply as not doing things that let them obtain the ip address, no?

i believe the system only register that you are outman fighting after X amount of time has passed.

i heard guilds actually transfer out of the open server using that as their basis……..
the logic kills me….

juz ignore those silly rumors

among ur timezone, u havent try midnight, try it.

how about trueskill?