Guild Wars 2

Oh. Well ok then.

Yeah I saw people talk about that when they lost 500-0 they got no points. I think that it probably a bug, otherwise it would discourage people too much.

Justin ODell.9517:

Oops. My bad.

hangs head in shame

Don’t be ashamed, make it a feature.

Me too. Was kinda fun. But took forever.

Caithe’s hair at 0:40 is not what was delivered in game.

Unacceptable betrayal.

e: “The MMO has lost the ability to make the player feel like a hero, everyone around you is doing the same thing you’re doing, the boss respawns 10 minutes later,”

ummmmmmm good description of the LS I guess?

I just did it last night, worked fine once I figured it out.

A few tips.

1) Once you rescue the folks in the cave, you can ignore them. They’ll run to safety. Do not follow them, once you get to the next place you lose the event.

2) The NPCs don’t seem to spawn until you get close. Make sure you run in and kill the monsters as fast as possible, cleanse them if you can (I used traited warrior warhorn and shake it off) and it isn’t too hard.

3) One of them is hiding up in a tower!

I’ve gotten credit for killing a monster in the breach but then no breach success credit. Wonder if that is DR.

Should have known a benefit from having alts wasn’t intended. Sigh.

Guys, the CDI was just to pacify dumb people for awhile. They were never going to act on any of it.

I disagree on #5, mesmer portals are pretty easy to stop and don’t really get around active defense unless it is very very bad.

The rest are spot on though.

Assassin X.8573:

I LOVE WvW. That being said, does anyone else feel like, “is this season over yet? No… there are still THREE MORE FULL WEEKS left… /wrists”

Yeah, since week 2 I’ve felt this way. Seasons are terrible and pointless.

Aomine.5012:

Never seen so much whines before one particular server get into bad position.
Maybe they think they’re destined to win and other result is not permitable?

It’s more like this scenario:
A 12 year old spoiled brat is punching and kicking a bunch of 5-year-old freely and without any sense of guilt. He also punches TWO older kids who’re 8 years old.
The TWO 8-year-old decide to work together and finally defeat the 12-year-old brat and kick him to the ground. Then the 12-year-old start crying and tell the teacher (Anet) that the TWO 8-year-old kids are bullying him, and want the teacher to do something about it.

And now he’s going door to door crying at every doorstep, hoping someone will help him against the mean, smaller, children, who aren’t letting him beat them up anymore. And he’s puzzled that nobody is sympathetic. Which makes him cry even harder.

“Matchup fixing problem that Anet needs to do something about” != “My server is losing problem and all I can think to do is cry on the forums.”

Dear OP,

It seems you skipped Rule 1.

While playing Guild Wars 2, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the Game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.

You and your servermates constantly crying about 2v1 is interfering with my right to play and enjoy this game. Your constant attempts to threaten, embarrass, and cause distress to those who are on servers that engage in 2v1 is clearly in violation of Rule 1 of the code of conduct.

Please take action in concert with your respect for the rules and delete your account.

Thank you.

Minor, Major, and Superior versions of the same thing.

For example a Minor Sigil of Force won’t stack with a Major Sigil of Force.

C’mon guys it’s already here. It’s not like Anet would just wipe everyone’s fractal levels and justify it with a leaderboard that doesn’t exist.

tichorum.2415:

Jamais vu.5284:

Sorry, Anet, but you can’t artificially generate interest in this game’s sPvP.

Yeah only 2,500+ were concurrent today. No interest.

Just out of curiosity sake I googled “league of legends twitch channel” opened the first one that came up, it was just some kid playing the game in no special tournament or anything and it had 34,000+ watching.

3000 (which is what I saw it peak at) for the biggest event in awhile with really expensive item giveways is indeed pretty much zilch in terms of interest.

As long as everyone is playing a midget whose attack effects don’t actually show what they’re hitting, particle effects flood every fight, the game still disconnects everyone randomly, a “top” team cheats and then ragequits, a game in the finals includes someone getting stuck in geometry, and the commentary is gibberish (“they’re like walking into a brick wall while sitting the wrong way”) when it isn’t flat out wrong (how many times did an ele mist form and the caster said he was down?), I don’t see this changing.

Oh and fix the balance so that pvp has actual fights in it. Watching a bunch of bunkers play whack a mole with their own hp bars isn’t exactly edge of your seat stuff.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Gratz Apex, that 6 cap was amazing.

An amazing choke maybe.

Crovax.7854:

Lol sorry Apex’ ele is Dáy, my bad. But they both run the exact same specc to my knowledge.

What is the spec?

Wow, that’s lame. I missed that. Thanks.

What bug did good fights abuse?

Anyone know Master Splinter’s build from KPz?

Ulion.5476:

Well the swiss tournament is better in the larger leagues. NA Gold has to few servers for the system to work.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but yeah. For swiss to even have a chance to work it they’d have to remove the leagues entirely. Let SoR drop to bronze, let HoD jump up to gold, etc. That might be interesting. As is zZzZZzZZzzzz.

Alphabet.7392:

I’ve never seen a mithril ranked, ever. LOL

I have, on TC. I suspect an SoR transfer. Some of those guys were crazy hardcore.

It’s sort of pithy but it’s right.

WvW is about a group of 50 rolling over a group of 20, a group of 10 ganking a solo roamer, a solo roamer beating up helpless dolyaks in between assassinating uplevels., nothing fair about any of this.

WvW is also the only combat setting where your gear matters, which is a huge advantage for a fully pinked out easy spec v. a yellow geared newbie who still can’t recognize tells or isn’t twitchy enough to know when to dodge.

When I see people whining about “fair fights” I wonder what game they’ve been playing. If you want a fair fight try spvp or a gvg.

Distaste.4801:

Just to start, I’m on IoJ server.

Distaste.4801:

As for winning coming up. I AM FROM BLACKGATE, I’ve won plenty.

I think you owe IoJ an apology.

CuRtoKy.8576:

Explain to me how anyone got stomped S1 when W1 someone got 2v1 with BG being in the 2 and the only time the 3 T1 servers matched up in one week was W1 and the last week when SoR already fell apart. Never knew stomping T2 servers was an accomplishment to BG. clapclap #bglogic

BG 2v1ing JQ = BG stomping.

JQ 2v1ing BG = the end of life on this planet as we know it.

SqueamishMoose.9216:

Does ArenaNet realize this is going on, and if they do, do they plan on doing anything about it? Can they do anything about it? Is it considered fair for unofficial alliances to be formed, or is it an unfair disadvantage because there is no real counter to it?

I don’t think Anet has any idea, you should tell all of BG to keep posting about it until they do. Maybe get a letter writing campaign or an online petition going.

Wraith.9426:

Just to clear up a sentiment on this thread: the 2v1 going on now in T1 is not like the natural 2v1s we would see as a part of map politics, or two servers both focusing a third. This was a planned, colluded, alliance between two servers, where they reportedly even are sharing a TS, and taking turns finishing first each week while not allowing the third server to even play the game by both spawn camping them. They are fixing the matches instead of playing to win each match. This is not something that has ever happened in this game before, and it is not a good precedent. If this kind of cross server alliance starts to become the norm in WvW, I could see it destroying the game pretty quickly. Servers are not supposed to collude with each other like this, it is supposed to be a 3 way battle.

BG 2v1ing other servers = “natural” “map politics”

Other Server 2v1ing BG = “never happened before” “not a good precedent” “going to destroy the game”

Zenith.7301:

You don’t need a fix to this if you just implement the kitten cast bars. But you rather be stubborn about and make people wait half a year to fix an issue that has existed for more than a year and a half.

Half a year? The optimism of the gw2 fanbase never ceases to amaze me.

No the whole mess started because of the PPT system in the first place. That is the root of the problem here.

I just want them to bring back the greatsaw. 1200g for that is insane.

Rangersix.1754:

Because you can’t spam stuff like block or heals, it would become a very passive game. You just stand there…with the regen boon that you get from someone using a shout or blast.

And because the only form of mitigation is basically armor or the protection buff… you’d basically just stand there.

Pretty much what I was going to say. It would turn this into whack a mole without a mole whacker, so basically stand around.

They were all available to buy the first two times SAB was up, so I would guess they will be available next time SAB is here.

When that will be is another matter.

William Bradley Knight.2609:

How would you feel if ANet specifically and intentionally nerfed zerk builds in PvE so that more armor, health, defense, healing, CC, etc. was required? Would it make the game better or worse in your view?

Don’t ask me how they would do this, maybe something like triple the attack rate of mobs in PvE while cutting their damage somewhat proportionately? That might lessen the effectiveness of dodging, aegis, blocks, etc. as players might have to just take more attacks. Changing defiant? Lowering bosses health? However they did it, would it make the game better?

No, that would make the game more passive and boring.

Nightingale.9714:

I’d like ascended mats to just become tradable. Give them to people who actually WANT them.

I don’t think they want anyone to see that ascended stuff is more common than t1. It would have a value of vendor price +1 on the trading post within a few hours of being tradeable.

Yeah, it’s trash made to fill up your bank and get you to spend money and karma to covert them. Throw it out.

I just wish they’d remove the quality from it so my character didn’t get all excited from picking up junk, and it didn’t show as a chest when its just garbage.

He should juggle apples and then ram them down the dead guy’s throat and then say “HOW YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?!?” or something I dunno. I’m tired.

I wonder if anyone has ever considered a fractal leaderboard?

woofie.5603:

Do the collective player actions effect how the storyline goes?

Was it even possible to save lions arch? What about other living story parts?

Do our actions change anything at all?

Nope. This is one the major problems with a “living” story. It’s not living, its just a story. Specifically a story about NPCs that only die when the authors want them to and always succeed otherwise.

Those ticking bars you sometimes saw at the top during certain archs, those were just timers. Players could have done zero events or a billion, it ticked at the exact same rate.

Yeah, leagues are lame.

But until people stop paying for server transfers they’ll keep doing it.

WAR had the best outmanned system. It scaled up to 400% and it gave you bonuses to all the gains you got from rvr. If wxp, karma, xp, and magic find was 4x instead like 25% more I think it would make a big difference. Imagine having 1200% magic find and getting 400 wvw xp for taking a sentry. That’s an outmanned bonus that people would flock to.

The lighthouse keeper’s daughter’s prayer at the memorial really got to me. Go listen to it in game if you haven’t heard it. As typical, the ambient dialogue beats the hell out of anything that’s put front and center in the story.

A 1v1 fight is not a duel, it’s just a 1v1.

This game’s run away mechanics for warriors and thieves is stupidly overpowered. I don’t blame players for abusing it.

When I want to actually fight I do spvp. WvW doesn’t really have good fights in it anymore due to it being gear/stack centric and every roamer playing a run away class.

Brother.1504:

1. Is a well managed 2v1 winnable by the out numbered server?

Yes. Easily. Here’s a hint – you stop the 2v1. Being unable to do that doesn’t justify that server crying incessantly about it. Also amusingly, this wasn’t a huge problem when that server was winning with 2v1s. Or when that same server won Season One because of a 2v1 they organized week one. But now that it’s flipped on them its a huge issue that everyone needs to drop everything and discuss. So pathetic.

2. Is formal collusion across multiple servers going to become the new gw2 WvWvW meta?

As long as coverage is the determining factor otherwise, why not. The alternative is to just live in the old system where the biggest server always wins. I know that players who stack certain servers want to keep their ez-mode, but breaking the blob servers is a good thing overall for wvw.

3. Is leveraging the number of fighters you can field at any one time due to friendly enemy flagged players colluding for a common goal acceptable? Is this buying to win?

Is flooding the forum with posts trying to stop an enemy you can’t beat otherwise an acceptable strategy? Is this crying to win?

Tom Hanks will express my thoughts for me.

It would be funny if PvP got a good fractal reward system before fractals did.

Legion.6503:

I kept telling my wife that this is the worse idea ever made and used for a dungeon design.

I’m sure she thought long and hard after this discussion.

It also doesn’t mark who has this achievement on the fractal leaderboard. Not sure if that’s a bug or not.

It just means that when the reward tracks rotate one of the new ones might have it.