Guild Wars 2

^^ I agree with this, and the paragraph thing too. :P

Elysios.9274:

StormageddonBK.9842:

I can only talk for my guild, we follow orders as they are called out to us. If the commander says move, we move, if he says stop we stop. We practice every day and we know what the commander is going to say pretty much when he says it so we are an ‘in sync’ zerg-ball (you could say we aim to look as if we are bots, together we stand, divided we fall and all that). After all, WvW is a team environment isn’t it?

Check the video.. no one moves like that.. that’s clearly a bot behavior

Besides is not the 1st time we see a group from that guild moving that way.

While this wasn’t our guild because we were on Maguuma BL all week it didn’t seem like botting to me as they were very spread out (we are much much tighter in our zerg-ball, but who knows for sure?

I can only talk for my guild, we follow orders as they are called out to us. If the commander says move, we move, if he says stop we stop. We practice every day and we know what the commander is going to say pretty much when he says it so we are an ‘in sync’ zerg-ball (you could say we aim to look as if we are bots, together we stand, divided we fall and all that). After all, WvW is a team environment isn’t it?

Blix.8021:

CrassBippy.4619:

this video leads to 2 conclusions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xok2x4PKrdk

1. They are multiboxing

2. They refuse to do anything besides what they are told, and such look pretty awful in alot of scenarios.

pick your poison

My guild and I have killed many WM running along the road who do not respond at all, definitely something strange going on. Either they are so devoted to their leader they do not deviate from his instructions at all (i.e., they’re insane) or they’re botting.

This is exactly what we train to do. What’s the problem?

Celtic Lady.3729:

Amos.8760:

In my opinion, anything and everything that is a part of GW2 is fair game for dailies and monthlies.

So, you’d be okay with having to craft a legendary as part of a monthly, say? I mean, legendaries are part of the game and there’s got to be plenty of players that could manage to craft a legendary if given a whole month. lol

Why be lazy?

Hey that could be a new category, legendailies… sorry, I’ll shut up now… :P

Kallout.5289:

www.gw2lfg.com

You’re welcome.

p.s- You’re playing an MMO, get over it. You dont need the monthly if you’re too lazy to do a small requirement for it. Sheesh.

Thanks, I’ll give this a go.

I empathise with the OP, I hate dungeons as well, not because I don’t want to do them (I want the rewards) but because getting into a group can be hours and sometimes days in the waiting… (I’ve only managed to get into a few groups and they were my WvW Guildies)

For me when its time to do a dungeon it becomes ‘LFG Wars’. :P

Sokar Rostau.7316:

I went out to WvW for the first time in a couple of months today (Kaineng? Really? KAINENG??) and the culling was no better than I remember it. Eight or nine of us ran up a hill chasing one guy and when we got to the top we all just dropped dead, surrounded by a huge zerg. the same thing happened four or five times. Culling hasn’t been fixed at all.

The culling is just as bad on Kaineng’s side… :P

Thanks for the info, I hope they don’t nerf it by the time I get to try it…

I think it’s worse than it was six months ago. At least back then it was shiny and new, now its just a grind to get nicer looking gear and ascended stuff.

WvWvW has had no love at all…

IMO every action should be weighted and the sum of these weighted actions should then count towards your dailies and eventually monthlies. This way you could do whatever you wanted and it wouldn’t matter. If you want to craft, farm, wvw, de, fotm, pvp etc it all combines to a total. But Anet want you to do a grocery list of specific ‘jobs’, well, my wife and boss (same???) give me a list of things to do all the time so I’m already sick of following orders before I even boot up my PC.

This might be why I’ve play 5 hours/day since launch and still only have 2 pieces of exotics and no legendary, no gold etc (obviously I should l2p). I guess some day I’ll have to play the game Anets way if I want any descent gear…

On the positive side of things, at least with the laurels I’ll be able to get ascended gear.

To get rid of the grind you have to have all gear with the same stats, just different cosmetic appearance. This way people won’t feel compelled to grind for extra damage etc.

AdelaisAer.4109:

It’s all about LFG and Orr. :/

Orr is empty as well…

I completely understand your frustrations Darkdanjal. The loot is meh and the drop-rate is almost non-existent. Seriously, I’ve been level 80 for 3-4 weeks, been farming PvE and WvW for at least 5 hours a day, and in that time I’ve killed 1,000s (npc’s and human) the drops have been 1 yellow, 1 BL key, a handful of blues and greens, but the rest has been white…

I’ve tried to do FoTM for some better drops but I can’t find anyone to group with and soloing them is impossible as can’t even make a dent in the first enemies health. Orr is the same, there’s no-one doing Orr to group up with and while the enemies are kill-able solo they don’t drop squat. I am totally confused as to how I’m meant to play the game in order to get rewards.

Bruno Sardine.2907:

^^ well for one, there are tons of parts of the puzzle where you can’t make the jump if you’re in combat…. if the entire puzzle is subject to encountering combat, why are there parts that require you to not be in combat? Hard to get to someone with a longer range than you if getting closer requires you to jump gaps further than what a toon can jump while in combat. I also think you can have a more engaging PvP-type puzzle that actively gets people to fight without it being campers vs. camp-crashers.

Actually this isn’t true all the time, you can use a speed boost skill and make any jump while in combat. If you don’t have a speed boost, like one of my toons, then it becomes annoying…

penatbater.4710:

Huge norns are chronically causing me grief in the mkct and this jumping puzzle with their big char sizes causing me to fall over and not see where im going!

… see how ridiculous that sounds?

What?! Don’t you like my Norn’s sexy kitten in you’re face? :P

Also, they are stopping you getting siege weapons from the chest.

The only way you’d have a case is if ALL gear was bought with real money. That way you wouldn’t be able to fight without buying items, thus the game would be broken.

I used to feel the same as the OP, even posted here about siege griefing in EB jp. Then I found revenge (I’m joking about the revenge bit of course).

Seriously, wait for the mob to move on and then do it, or tee-up a mob of your own. Also, if they are griefing your BL, go to theirs because its possibly unprotected.

Navi.7142:

It just got into my mind.. they could have done it way more pleasant for the player who need to “farm” these dungeons due to the high token costs of the desired armor.

So how they could have handled it:
Whenever and how many times you want to run a dungeon you can do that until you can get one full armor set. Say the limit is 1200 tokens. So when you’ve done the dungeon that many times to reach that amount of tokens it will have a countdown, DR or whatever.

Why did they made the armor pieces where you have to farm for a lot of tokens, when you are restricted in when and how you can achieve that?
It doesn’t make any sense.

Spot on!

If you make something require 100 tokens and it takes you 2 hours to get 1 token then you have to wait 24 hours for DR cool-down before you can farm again, guess what. You have a MINIMUM of 100 days to get said tokens, that’s if you are regimented enough to do it.

But does the cool-down start at the end of the farming? If so that would blow the equation out to 108.3 days and you can’t play at the same time each day because you have to start farming 2 hours later each day!!!!

This whole thing is doing my head in.

I don’t get anything except a coin and karma boost for weeks now. There is no point to loot in this game. I am now sticking to WvW for the PvP aspect because that is the only thing keeping me here. If I played this game only for loot I would have quit weeks ago when things began to dry up. 23 Jan for a certain release date is looking really good atm…

OMG! I’ve been playing since launch and last night got my first Black Lion key in 6 weeks! I was seriously thinking they completely removed BL keys from drops and map completions but there it is. So I now have to ‘grind’ 6 weeks for every BL key? Thanks ANet on a job well done… :P

Edit: FYI, I play 3-6 hours per night every night. I used to get 2-3 BL key drops per week and used to get several from map completions.

Looks like you have to log off in Lions Arch now…

I love grind, I used to do Baal runs all night long. The difference with ‘that’ game is the loot was cool. There is no cool loot in this game.

Unfortunately zergs increase culling so that would be the only thing I’d hate. Being part of a zerg or running into one is no problem for me (as long as I can see it)… :P

One of the worst things in this game for me (in jumping puzzles and orchards) is the camera. The way the camera zooms in-out like a yoyo is beyond ridiculous. Why is the camera treated as a physical object that hits walls and trees? Why can’t it be set at a distance by the player and if a wall/rock/tree/building is obscuring the view of the player then it should become transparent so as not to hinder the players view. Continuously fighting with the camera so I can see what I’m doing is a massive killjoy of this game.

Jamaz.9837:

Please remove gates as well.

Haha, I got killed by a ballista last night, can you please nerf them as-well?

Seriously though, usually there’s only 1 guy with an arrow cart defending the fort and if there are a couple attackers it’s no problem to kill the defender unless you bunch up where the arrows are dropping. I vote for leaving them alone.

Hackuuna.4085:

Pinch.4273:

Hackuuna.4085:

How many FPS game servers can handle more than 64 players? As far as I know, most FPS for the past 12-15 years have set the stable limit at 32, with 64 being configurable and not guaranteed. You would think that after that many years we would have games that could handle more players (more bandwidth, better hardware) but we don’t. Why? Because as time goes by more powerful games introduces more powerful gameplay mechanics which then add more load to the servers.

How much security and anti-cheat code existed in these older X more players games? How much projectile path and collision detection did they have? Skills and rules enforcement? Data transmission rate? Multi-system data collection and processing synchronizations?

You cannot seriously compare an FPS server to an MMO server. I can’t pretend I know how much work a single GW2 server does, but I imagine it’s doing a lot more than just sending updates for 64-128 players and their gun calculations like an FPS server would.

That’s my point. An FPS server hasn’t been able to handle more players over the years despite the rise in technology. So why do some people expect an MMO to have some means of improving capabilities over the years?

From my understanding the limits in FPS players online are more to do with 2005 console limits more than 2012 PC and/or server limits.

I highly doubt this is hardware related as Moore’s law suggests computer power doubles every 24 months. So, if an online game had 16 players on screen at 1 time in the year 2000 (many games had this in 2000), so when applying Moore’s law in 2012 we should have 1024 players on screen without any adverse impact on performance. Of course there are many factors to consider but culling most visible players in your view is unacceptable regardless of data traffic.

Agreed with OP, bring it back please.

America.9437:

I would have designed it so that starter zones reward more karma, less loot and less gold. The mid zones reward less karma, more loot and less gold. The high zones reward less karma, less loot and more gold.

I think this is an ingenious solution and could help get people back into lower level areas.

Rhaj.5261:

This is why the need underflow servers

I would like to see this.

Perhaps when a map population of any given server is 20 or less it joins other servers of the same map that also have 20 or less people in it. That way if 10 servers for a map are in ‘underflow’ you have a potential population of 200. This would dramatically combat deserted maps IMO (as long as it can be done of course).

Only 97 gold before I get my blue icon… :P

dragonbane.6701:

I play on the american server called “Northern Shiverpeaks” and most of the time when i play there is not alot of others doing events and dungeons.

I feel your pain, I too am on Northern Shiverpeak (the Angry Army’s server) and unfortunately there is barely a soul during our peak time…

I got my first real experience of mass culling last night. In WvW I saw 5 of my team beating down on an enemy and I thought ’I’ll join in’ (shameful I know…). As soon as I began to attack I was downed without being hit. Half a second later I saw the map was littered with dead allies and then the enemy zurg appeared all around me. I had no chance to avoid the death…

I don’t know what ANet is doing to fix the problem but it seems like lag and culling are going in the wrong direction. I hope they’ll be able to fix it.

mulch.2586:

wut, as opposed to those of us who spent $59, and now are forums experts?

wvw has a lot of armchair quarterbacks whose guilds didn’t buy them a book, too

I agree, what is the ‘requirement’ for someone to become commander? Well the game was designed for it to be 100g, that’s it. There’s no skill, knowledge or personality test.

I love to follow commanders in both WvW and PvE, not because I can’t do things solo, but because this is supposed to be a social game and commanders usually have an entourage following them where I get to easily meet new players as a result.

I do agree that there should be an option in the map to display/don’t display various items, such as the commander flag, but to throw hate on commanders that are using the game as it was designed to be used?! That’s a shallow, selfish act IMO.

“Bloody camera!”

Usually just as I fall during a jumping puzzle…

Lionaeron.5724:

StormageddonBK.9842:

Felblade.8701:

You all sound the same, fanboys. Ok well first of all i played this game “waaay” too much when i was having a blast leveling and all that jazz you know before i was forced into end game? Well now this is where my problem is because there is no real end game just grind and more grind oh and some pvp.

Really? Who foced you exactly?

Arenanet foced me by lying in their manifesto

Our definition of forced is somewhat different…

Felblade.8701:

You all sound the same, fanboys. Ok well first of all i played this game “waaay” too much when i was having a blast leveling and all that jazz you know before i was forced into end game? Well now this is where my problem is because there is no real end game just grind and more grind oh and some pvp.

Really? Who foced you exactly?

You say you had a blast leveling, then roll another alt. If that doesn’t float your boat then leave.

There’s a truck load of things I hate about this game but I’m still having fun in WvW, and they day I ceases to have fun is the day I uninstall and go the the next game or fire up an old one I still enjoy. Plenty of fish in the gaming seas. :P

Quaz.4931:

Interesting, how many single player RPGs have this mechanic? I am guessing none? So why does this game need one?

In single player RPGs there are always places you can hit a mob without it reaching you, kinda rarely but it happens. It hardly ruins the game experience and even makes you feel a bit awesome for using the terrain to your advantage.

So again, why does GW2 need this?

^^ This!

After 3 weeks of daily tries to get the EB puzzle done “I?” did it. How? I finally spotted a small group of allies huddled under the finish area standing in the water. So I investigated and they were waiting for a portal. A minute later the Mesmer dropped a portal and I was at the chest! Now I’ve done it I don’t think I’ll go back, the BL puzzle is so easy to complete in comparison.

IMO the EB puzzle is luck based if you don’t have a zurg to protect you or zap you to the top…

My advice is don’t solo the puzzle.

ProphetSword.5427:

- Consider playing with a perma-death rule of some kind (like only allowing 5 defeats). Then, getting to 80 will be a real accomplishment.

I deleted over 40 toons doing a true self imposed permadeath rule (I was a very avid Diablo 2 hard-core player). The highest level I could get to was 30 without dying. However, I was getting so frustrated with the game while playing this way because 90% of my deaths were super-cheap, i.e. a fall or 1 hit death (bloody troll in cave!!!), which made me think the game wasn’t designed to have 0 deaths…

So I’ve left PvE for good and I now spend all my time in WvW where I don’t view deaths as a blot on my toon. This is where I’ve finally found enjoyment in the game, not sPvP or PvE.

PS, I got the survival achievement award in WvW 2 hours after a death. So I spent over 2 months in PvE with no award (despite some of my toons surviving up to 2 weeks), but a couple of days in WvW with hundreds of deaths I get the award… go figure. :s

tonyl.5063:

they CAN legally release an expansion as pay to play. The original game up to that point has to stay free, but from any point on they can make the game subscription based.

And again, you’re not giving money for nothing, you’re going to give that money. Either you’re paying a subscripton every month, or you’re buying a new expansion every few months where everyone else releases a content patch. Or you need to have that set of gear before you can do the new stuff they added to the game? 1,000 gems / piece. There is no such thing as a free to play MMORPG, they have to make back their development and operating costs.

Go look at any free to play MMORPG out there. They lure you in with the fact that yes, the game is free to play, but they never said it was free to progress.

Do you really think a subscription would “replace” the purchase price? Look at the other MMOs out there, WoW doesn’t forgo purchase prices for their $15/month fee.

puffintoast.6501:

StormageddonBK.9842:

What lunacy is this! Why would you want to give away money for nothing?!

And by they way, the marketing we all got was ‘NO SUBSCRIPTIONS!’ And I would think it’d include expansions as well (1 time purchase for each one of course).

This means they could not legally say to their millions of customers which bought their game based on this fact, ‘Sorry, but we’ve decided to rip you all off $?/month.’

They’ve made their product, marketed it, and sold it without subs. And you’re kidding yourself OP if you think the game on subs would give you better gear or change the way the game plays.

The marketing also would have had us believe that we would never be driven to the gem store as a means to acquire gold to cover artificially inflated costs of materials due to unadvertised and unacknowledged reductions in open world loot, or informed us of the rapid introduction of increasing tiers of itemization requiring, unsurprisingly, quite vast quantities of said materials.
Nor indeed did the advertising make mention of the cyclic manipulation of scripted market suppliers, whose existence and activities serve said economic process to further increase the capacities of the monetization treadmill.
But most regrettably of all – we have no rainbow-imbued ponies upon which to canter across the plains of Queensdale, resplendent in all our finery. This is the greatest of travesties.

Yes my daughter wanted the pony too!!! :P

This is why I like Skyrim, no regen or invul. If you can hit it, it can die. I never liked regen health, I’d rather see potion spamming like Skyrim, Diablo etc. That way it’d feel like you need to stock up for a quest and if I ran out of potions I’d die.

What lunacy is this! Why would you want to give away money for nothing?!

And by they way, the marketing we all got was ‘NO SUBSCRIPTIONS!’ And I would think it’d include expansions as well (1 time purchase for each one of course).

This means they could not legally say to their millions of customers which bought their game based on this fact, ‘Sorry, but we’ve decided to rip you all off $?/month.’

They’ve made their product, marketed it, and sold it without subs. And you’re kidding yourself OP if you think the game on subs would give you better gear or change the way the game plays.

This isn’t really an improvement suggestion to WvWvW, but I think this may be a nice addition (if it isn’t already in the game but I’ve never noticed it).

While playing PVE, it wold be nice to get a ‘Server Wide’ message when you’re WvWvW is losing. It may give some people the incentive to jump in to retake the map even if it’s only for a 15 minute stint.

I know you’ll say l2p to me but as a late comer to WvW I only found the EB JP yesterday afternoon and spent the next 3+ hours being camped by 10 or more cowards (like you Gurpsmeister) in the black room and arena areas.

The funny thing is these same guys all ran past me in the early parts of the JP which made me think, “Hey, everyone here is really nice, no fighting, everyone just going for the end chest!” But I think they did this to only kill me over and over again later on and dance on my corpse.

I would love aNet to put a practice (no reward) JP for those who find it hard enough to traverse the jumps so they can learn without being sniped by siege weapons. I know everyone is subjected to this griefing at some point but it really takes the fun out of a game you are still learning.

Raf, I’m on the Northern Shiverpeaks server and my toon goes by the name ‘Permadeath’ :P

Just started a thief for pure DPS to see if I can go on the offensive instead of tanking lol.

Mira, I tried staying in 1-15 zones but the down-leveling seemed to make me weaker the higher level I became. (weaker as in a level 25 was weaker than a level 10 in a level 10 zone…)

So far it seems very powerful but I haven’t tackled a boss yet.

On a side note, I think I could handle Diablo 2 Hard Core because of health potions, I remember having half my inventory dedicated to spamming potions which would have saved me countless number of times.

• Oh, I’m on holidays out of town without internet for a week starting Monday so if I’m not there I didn’t quit!!!

I feel for you bro…

The problem I feel with the camera is that it is a solid object. IMO they should have the camera set at a distance as it is now, however if the camera is going to collide with or fall behind an object/terrain it should still remain at the set distance and the object/terrain should become transparent. Just my opinion though…