If the DH is moving, you can just burst him from stealth and retreat out of range before he drops traps. If he then moves out of the traps, you can just burst again, repeat to fade.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
It’s done!
Overall, the notes I posted today are something like 40k characters long.
It’s the results of my thinking about WvW over the last months and years.
I hope you’ll enjoy the read, I hope it’ll spark some (constructive) discussion and I really hope ANet will be able to gather some good feedback and ideas from it.
Anet know the problems, they just refuse to commit the brainpower and manpower to fixing them. Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loves PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
We all know flax fibres (English spelling) aren’t common enough. Arenanet more-or-less admitted this by placing flax nodes everywhere in the new Bloodstone zone (it is August 2016).
Speaking from a WvW perspective, why would I spend 4g on a consumable upgrade that could be instantly negated? Examples: 1, 2, 3.
Some iffy ideas here (even more damage on rams?!), some good ideas.
Will all of this take more than 10 minutes of development time, though? This seems to be all they are willing to spend on WvW.
I don’t think MO is going to risk changing WvW because he doesn’t get it.
On your point that
If you want to defend an objective against a blob, Bring Your Own Blob!
I would mention that a lot of the time the reason a large number of defenders man arrow carts is that they lack a “Fights Commander”. In this situation you are, in fact, fighting a blob in another guise – but they haven’t got the Commander to open-field it.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Cancer² Incoming : current gw2 doesn’t need more condis.
Descriptions seems to fit necromancer’s spirit but it’s way too much focused on condis/burning/stealth/clones and… you’re basically turning necro into a mesmer.
These are Apex powers as I’ve described elsewhere:
Stealth, Target changing/losing and [waterfields+blast finishers].
I like the OP’s ideas for bringing some of these powers to the necro.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
No one likes to get beaten by a keyboard turning clicking baddie just because his class is better in a 1v1 fight. NOBODY
Hatred and frustration on the forum are a clear indication of what people like and dislike about competitive games.
I concur with these thoughts, but I think GW2 is too far in the opposite direction.
There’s a heap of twitchy leetdoods who obliterate mediocre players (neither keyboard turners nor speedball popping lunatics). The proliferation of these twitchers means that PvP is not as popular as a part-time endeavour among the PvE players as I’m sure Arenanet would prefer. New PvPers can’t appreciate clever plays you are pulling off. It’s too difficult to see & understand. Hence ProLeague fail and jokes about Lols eSports.
I think the term is “inaccessible”.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
As far as what to put in the middle: A giant hill that can treb all keeps. The hill should be so high that counter trebbing is not possible. The enemy would need to come out and try to take the hill. Like King of the Hill.
Yeah, something like my suggestion!
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I used to believe that Arenanet recycle the starting blocks of weapons and armour models and then just place distinctive unique bits on top of those models. Having experienced the Arenanet way, I expect they build everything from scratch every time, and it’s just coincidence that it all looks very similar.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Your personal icon is slightly different (a border and a bit of a white faded are) but it could be much more obvious.
I checked this morning, my icon is 100% exactly the same as all the others :/
Tried messing with the settings, but nothing seems to change it. maybe you imagined it?
Here is a picture of my squad. I will just ask you and everybody, with no clues: Can you see which one is me?
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Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Oil is extremely strong but it’s also stationary which means it’s easy to avoid in most cases.
I think a fair change would be to make it so that you do not need to be touching the pot of oil to use it. Instead, place a lever or button inside the structure on the ground, similar to how tactivators are placed, that you can use to operate the oil from afar.
This would eliminate any risk of taking damage on the players part without making the pot of oil more difficult to kill. Oil dies fairly quickly as is if enough people are focusing it down and as I’d said, it only has a very small radius of effect. I think it would be absolutely fair to remove the risk of taking damage while using it. It’s a totally different story with things like AC’s and cannons that can hit many different places however.
Oil is one of those “oops, we forgot to take down all the siege” things that very occasionally make a difference. I wouldn’t make this a huge priority.
I want to express my empathy with the OP – you are not alone, Tolira. We all hope the system is improved sooner rather than later. Hopefully the upcoming scoring changes go some way towards providing more appropriate matchups.
I believe you will be sorely disappointed if you are hoping that scoring will fix the primary issues with WvW. Scoring cannot fix population imbalances or coverage issues.
Changing scoring is the proverbial lipstick on a pig.
A tall tower in the centre of the map from which many objectives can be trebbed. Hmm…. sounds familiar.
…but seriously. Being able to treb other objectives from your foothold is really good.
I’ve suggested the idea of Towering Towers (no trademark, grab it!). This means that when an objective upgrades, it gets a taller tower to treb from, meaning that;
there is a point to upgrading something
once upgraded, a tower can be used as a staging post for long range attacks on nearby keeps.
Ofc, it would require considerable alteration on desert map (I’m thinking specifically of the Fire keep), especially considering that all the towers have unique designs. It may be possible to add a generic tower building to the inside of these structures, however.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Invulnerabilyty, teleports, 0 damage utilities,Damage Inversion, stability,stunbreaks blinds, evades, projectile destruction, Projectile reflection, Movement skills, out LOS, kiting, ranged dps(with the right build), team focus and last and not least. Actual kittening dodging the godkitten kittening traps for kittens sake jesus kittening christ!!!!
GW2 PvP is about twitchy gameplay. If you can’t react and formulate a series of moves appropriate to the situation in a very short timespan, you are dead.
How to win PvP;
Work out a “spike damage rotation”, and learn to do that very quickly (may require binding f6-12 as the keys you need to press),
Then always move so that you don’t get surprised by enemies,
Use stealth or [water+blast] combo to reset fight if you do get surprised,
You will still lose a lot – remember, everbody else is doing the same.
TL;DR GW2PvP is about spike damage.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Was it only certain items or classes of items like things that dropped on one character but were bound to another? Or was it (potentially) everything?
I read on the forum that it was Exotics.
Certainly, the exotics in my character’s bag were all Soulbound to … not my character (which they are/or SHOULD be).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Shadelang – Please! This is clearly someone very upset with the matchup system and with good reason. People have voiced alternatives and complaints elsewhere on the forum many times and this is another to be filed under “dissatisfied”.
I’ve been in matchups where my server was at the bottom of one tier and couldn’t drop. It’s not an enjoyable experience and eventually the server’s population withered away so that we had to drop a tier – but we then lacked commanders and manpower to compete in the new tier.
I want to express my empathy with the OP – you are not alone, Tolira. We all hope the system is improved sooner rather than later. Hopefully the upcoming scoring changes go some way towards providing more appropriate matchups.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Client/Server technical performance? I can’t see that being affected by scores…
Performance of a World, perhaps? We all expect certain Worlds to drop like the proverbial lead zeppelin when nightcapping is nerfed. I don’t think many will be upset by this – the nightcappers themselves will have even weaker enemies with even less resistance (which they seem to like).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
@onevstheworld.2439 I currently play World of Warcraft and subscribed to it. My main is a resto druid and mostly I play caster classes. I’m terrible at mele classes..
I would say that with your preferences maybe try staff elementalist.
As an aside, I would suggest that even though you are new, you might like WvW (press B and join (probably) Eternal Battlegrounds map). Join your server’s community teamspeak by asking in /team or /map for details. Play on Friday at 7pm GMT and you should have lots of friendly, helpful people to talk with.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
But it seems, I think ; This is what they have been doing for years. To nerf class based on complain and cry from the majority.
I will never forget “Mirror Blade” which is a perfect example.
Congratulations. This is the opposite of the OP’s point.
The OP’s point is that doing this is wrong. Exactly!
This is why “I THINK” Anet is not doing good.
do you understand now?
It shows that doing this, is not the right way.
It is some kind of oxymoron
Wat. You lost me…
It’s an oxymoron because the Original Poster (who is one person) is quoting a comic which says one person’s opinion shouldn’t influence the developers.
The second post is wrong (imo) because (s)he is claiming that developers shouldn’t listen to “the majority” (the opposite of one person).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I don’t miss tanking. I do it every time I play my warrior or guardian. Of course I base that off what a tank actually is. A tank is a combination of mobility, firepower and durability.
Arenanet develop the ability to measure who is first, who is second and who is third (at the moment) in the match.
Using the “whoever is in 3rd place” metric, Arenanet could simply give that side speedy dolyaks on all camps until they are no longer in 3rd place (then whoever is 3rd place gets it).
This could help because even a giant blob struggles to hold all the camps at a time.
Having their objectives upgrade faster would be great for weaker sides. If they had Siegeraiser as well, this could really help them get a foothold. Further bonuses may be needed to get them back into the fight.
The danger is that huge servers feel they have to continually beat down on the weak side to stop them getting T3 stuff everywhere, and eventually give up trying because it’s “inevitable”, and the 3rd place side may feel that they don’t have to try – the automated system will keep them close to the 2nd place side.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Seriously, when you have to merge 4 servers together just to get enough players to fight, it’s going from bad to worse. How long till WvW is just 5-6 servers and all the rest are empty ?
I’m looking forward to merges, I think it will put WvW in a far healthier place.
I am hoping that WvW survives the upcoming MMOs with “massive battles” in them.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I want a character that can stand and fight, go toe to toe with the bad guys instead of flipping and flopping and rolling and bouncing all over the place like a jumping bean on crack. I want to play characters like Luke Cage and Ben Grimm, but all GW2 offers is Batroc and Toad and heavy armor made of foam rubber.
kitten , I miss City of Heroes.
I feel you. <3 My WP/SS tanker.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
