Guild Wars 2

I am having a nightmare fighting mesmers/chronos with my reaper. What do you do to win 1v1 against them in WvW?

1. Night cap adjustment/ladder system/Glick0 change. Scores are currently unrepresentative of the gameplay.
2. Server/alliance man-power balance/repopulation/server merge.
3. Modification of maps – a) While I like the idea, Skysplitter does need to be different since so many people hate it, b) The new keep lords seem a little too tough for solo/duo (I’m unsure if intended or not, but because the maps are not populated, one or two seems to be the average party-size there), c) exclude EotM from any new rewards , including WXP, people should not be encouraged to go there based solely on efficiency of rewards.
4. WvW Rewards. Reward tracks (Like in PvP!), WvW Ranks/abilities overhaul (people are thousands of ranks above where they could last spend points on abilities).
5. Siege weapon changes. For example, manning a cannon or oil pot is nearly always suicidal. Spreadshot on ballista is too situational.

I would add that the new maps DO NOT require flattening or being made simpler. If people actually played them, they would learn them. It is a demonstration of laziness that they spend more time complaining on forums than exploring the maps.

Also, bring back banner-rezzing lords and implement double-rings for capping stuff

• EDIT: Having read some of the other replies, I wish I’d put stability on my list. If you look when the drop-off in players began, you will see it was when the stability change was implemented. This pirate ship meta is rubbish.

All the self-healers >< so annoying.

Guild Wars 2: Circles are Bad.

Maybe it’s called something else in their records and they can’t find it?

Gliding is fun!
PPK is great!
New dolyaks-for-upgrades is a terrific change! – but the guild event to claim-and-hold a tower is now impossible (iirc – read it on reddit a week ago, so might be fixed) because it takes longer than the duration of the mission to upgrade the tower.

psizone.8437:

Svarty.8019:

psizone.8437:

You can set up ACs on that wall and/or use siege disablers from up there.

Only downside is that the wall is quite small so enemy AoE can hurt a lot, but that’s an issue for quite a few walls in the maps.

That sounds like a “no, there is no counter”.

Not sure how you got that…

Can you set up siege to take out the catapult? Yes? Counter.

Did you even look at the map?

IMO Stab should be reverted, at least for WvW. The (arbitrary, unwarranted) stability change was the turning point, it spawned the pirate-ship meta and the collapse of the mode.

Dawdler.8521:

Yep there is a counter.

Its called get your god kitten melee kitten out there to wreck their sorry kitten with a veil from behind.

I don’t think this is a counter. Why? Because people only attack structures when they think they outnumber or can out-fight the defenders.

Steelo.4597:

This isnt a fix, its just a quick and easy adjustment which will punish offpeak-points and makes sure primetime population counts something in a matchup.

6pm-12pm Primetime – PPT value 100% – full PPK
12pm-6pm Offpeak – PPT value 25% – full PPK

6pm every day: “Primetime Reset” – For equal terms in primetime – all borders and EB have their upgrade status reset and belong to their respective owner now (just like the reset we know).

/signed!

psizone.8437:

You can set up ACs on that wall and/or use siege disablers from up there.

Only downside is that the wall is quite small so enemy AoE can hurt a lot, but that’s an issue for quite a few walls in the maps.

That sounds like a “no, there is no counter”.

Is there no counter to putting catapults at point-blank range against the wall indicated?

Nozzle.8031:

Svarty.8019:

Nozzle.8031:

or why should us EU daytime players have privileges over anyone else’s timezone? what is prime time for us isn’t prime time for others, it is what it is, if you dont have players playing at what is our night time that is just unlucky cant have 1 rule for one and another for others

Why? Because the server clearly states that it’s an EU server when you choose it. That’s why.

But whilst I’m not entirely in agreement with the OP, I think he has an interesting idea in a “vulnerability window” like the Crowfall devs have talked about.

So i happen to know several people that live in EU and are on EU servers and due to real life circumstances there play time is not EU prime time, now they aren’t allowed to play exactly same way as we all are just because you have gone to bed? seems fair….

as others have stated, if your server doesn’t have a “night-shift” that is just unlucky for your server or any others that don’t.
And also being in EU servers it does not state anywhere you HAVE to play a certain time to contribute to your servers score

So some entire servers have to suffer because a few people on nightshifts want to PvE all of the the maps. Seems fair.

/facepalm

Noob.5908:

Simply change the scoring system so that the value of each tick is determine by how many enemy is currently on all the WvW maps.

I like this.

It’s not without problems (people on second/free accounts planting characters on enemy servers to cause the tick to happen, for example), but those should be small beer compared with what we have now.

Nozzle.8031:

or why should us EU daytime players have privileges over anyone else’s timezone? what is prime time for us isn’t prime time for others, it is what it is, if you dont have players playing at what is our night time that is just unlucky cant have 1 rule for one and another for others

Why? Because the server clearly states that it’s an EU server when you choose it. That’s why.

But whilst I’m not entirely in agreement with the OP, I think he has an interesting idea in a “vulnerability window” like the Crowfall devs have talked about.

No thanks. Let smaller guilds have their place.

The studio says that it expects NCsoft to report “slightly disappointing earnings”

Expecting disappointment – Is that possible?

I found this reddit thread very interesting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/42x1to/wvw_lets_play_with_numbers_a_bit/

I agree with Rayeith when he said:

[..]I agree that this is a step in the right direction. Your keeps SHOULD be easier to upgrade, as they should be where the most epic battles take place. Towers should be your advancement toward enemy territory and should be more difficult to fortify; this allows for more push and pull on the battlefield rather than constant forays from an impenetrable base of operations in enemy territory. And camps SHOULD be weak/vulnerable to encourage their significance for both enemy and ally.

Do you want the old maps back?

No thanks. :¬)

Trajan.4953:

PPK is a barely added score metric designed to make player kills seem like they matter. All the kills on one night in EBG can easily be made up for in 2 hours of nightcapping.

Nightcappers > all.

Reports are that we made 2000 PPK points last night fighting RoF and DL… We’re last in this match by a long way due to lack of coverage in non-peak (eu) time.

Funny tho… we have a queue if a commander comes on at primetime. #PopulationNightmare

This looks like a challenge for Millennium/gw2wvw.org or the like! Get on it!

We had some great battles these last couple of days. Thank you for your hard work on WvW!

Gunnar’s needed PPK!

Bring back the raptor!

Danikat.8537:

Can anyone tell me what they’re actually doing to prevent this issue?

I assume it was mentioned in a video somewhere since everyone but me seems to know all about it and I’ve not seen a written announcement anywhere.

I think they’re just swapping the order of the items on the menu.

Entenkommando.5208:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/36989122?t=14m10s

Beat me to it. It is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25QkxwsAzA&t=21m50s

Sins.4782:

I really don’t understand why a function used as often as “Deposit Materials” is hidden under a dropdown menu anyway. Important functions like that should be in plain sight and not stuck behind additional clicks.

If it’s so important, why can’t it be keybound?

saerni.2584:

I’m not sure, from what you said above, what it is that you feel “we” want and therefore I have no idea how you feel my alternative does/not meet those goals. I’ll make some comments on the above assuming that the “centre event is intended” reflects your opinion of what the community wants. //

Certainly the idea is to pull people out from behind the walls. .

I just wanted to point out that my sources from what is intended are;

1. the centre objectives in old borderlands were originally said to be about giving small groups a way to make an impact.
2. In other feedback to devs, players said they were sick of people sitting on arrow carts behind walls.

I don’t think the OP’s idea would provide the solution we all want.

Here are the facts, as I see them (feel free to challenge them);

• It feels like a chore to do the event when there are no enemies on the map anyway,
• When there are large groups in the event, it IS fun,
• Killing mobs for cogs in small groups/solo is tedious, but,
• Killing 1 or 2 mobs for cogs is tolerable,
• The centre event is intended to pull enemies out from behind walls for fights,
• The centre event is intended to give small groups a chance to make an impact,

With these in mind, how can it be improved?

Rauderi.8706:

Svarty.8019:

Artanis.4963:

In those cases where you really don’t know the gender of the person you are talking to our about, using “their” is just language evolving.

Fixed it Made it wrong for you.

Abusing “their” that way is literally the worst thing you can do.

I stopped reading here because you’re literally wrong.

ArchonWing.9480:

Svarty.8019:

• EOTM is a toxic breeding ground for undesirable gameplay and including non-competitiveness and combat-avoidance, PvE farming events and objectives intended to be fought over to grind WXP/EXP/karma.

• EOTM has been abused since implementation. Most people probably haven’t experienced it as it was intended. I encourage and all guilds and communities to show them. Butcher them!

ArchonWing.9480:

If people wanted to wvw instead of EOTM they would. They’re not there for a reason. If you remove EOTM, there’s no guarantee they’ll go to WvW.

• If you had watched the preshow from Friday’s live stream (22nd January 2016), you would have seen Reyana explain why people are going to EOTM – because WvW is so quiet at the moment, a Catch 22 situation.

• I think it’s time people stopped pretending that EOTM is it’s own game-type. It isn’t.

I did say something of the sort.

There’s also plenty more legit WvW’ers these days in here, because why? Because WvW atm sucks for a lot of them.

Though that’s hardly the only reason people go there.

But I have a problem here. I’m afraid the narrative that EOTM is pve and noncompetitive and whatnot isn’t exactly very compatible that the audience there is going to go to WvW and do anything productive.

If WvW were actually functional for people, then they’d easily go back. Again:

This is the equivalent of having your house burned down and having to stay in a shelter. Is tearing down the shelter going to make you go back to live in the burned ruins of your house? No! Fix the house!

Nobody is being forced to play the game. Ultimately, they are somewhere by choice. You can encourage people by presenting more desirable choices as opposed to taking them away and deciding what’s good for them.

I’m not going to lie. I think EOTM was very badly implemented. But it is what it is and it’s changed into something else. Even squatters get to stay there if it’s long enough.

Your analogy is bizarre and doesn’t correlate to the problem, but other than that we agree:

EOTM is;

• poorly implemented,
• abused, and
• encourages undesirable gameplay.

All of these are, in my opinion, arguments it’s removal at least until Arenanet have the resources to correct the problems with it (i.e. the end of time).

This is especially the case now that there are no longer enormous queues.

I want to be able to kill my character when he is downed.

People keep leaving me when downed so they can do their thing and I can’t start running back.

• EOTM is a toxic breeding ground for undesirable gameplay and including non-competitiveness and combat-avoidance, PvE farming events and objectives intended to be fought over to grind WXP/EXP/karma.

• EOTM has been abused since implementation. Most people probably haven’t experienced it as it was intended. I encourage and all guilds and communities to show them. Butcher them!

ArchonWing.9480:

If people wanted to wvw instead of EOTM they would. They’re not there for a reason. If you remove EOTM, there’s no guarantee they’ll go to WvW.

• If you had watched the preshow from Friday’s live stream (22nd January 2016), you would have seen Reyana explain why people are going to EOTM – because WvW is so quiet at the moment, a Catch 22 situation.

• I think it’s time people stopped pretending that EOTM is it’s own game-type. It isn’t.

I, for one, have wanted this for a long time and would like to thank whoever is fixing this profusely.

Evidence: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Undo-Compact/first

Why didn’t they stick with the original plan of just letting us have 1 and having it despawn every 15 mins?

BrickFurious.7169:

Tyeme.6589:

The event needs to be removed altogether. It’s a PvE event in the middle of WvW.

The entirety of the WvW game mode is a PvE event if no enemy players come to contest what you’re doing.

^^ This. You can also see why M.O. would be confused about people being into PvE if they were into WvW.

DeceiverX.8361:

Svarty.8019:

I needs to scale with the ladder ranking, because at top tier it is probably very active and hectic, whereas as the bottom it’s just 1-3 people hacking away at annoying knockdown mobs with no threat from enemies.

In T2 most people ignore it for the first several minutes, and those who complete the event are usually just solo roamers or small groups in their home BL.

Nobody likes doing it is the thing. It just shouldn’t exist.

I understand your sentiment, but I disagree. I think it shouldn’t exist in it’s current form.

• The event is a good idea in theory – something that defenders have to come out from behind their arrow carts and try to win in the open. Losing isn’t the end of the world and they can still defend, but it’s quite punishing.

The idea of hiding this behind annoying mobs is a bad move, particularly as they do knockdown. Perhaps just getting rid of the mobs and having the cogs spawn without mobs would be better, instead?

I needs to scale with the ladder ranking, because at top tier it is probably very active and hectic, whereas as the bottom it’s just 1-3 people hacking away at annoying knockdown mobs with no threat from enemies.

I hope he brings his tinfoil hat.

Artanis.4963:

In those cases where you really don’t know the gender of the person you are talking to our about, using “their” is just language evolving.

Fixed it for you.

• The WvW community is concerned about Venom Share.

I am not a huge speculator. I dabble a little here and there. I am more of a hoarder/miner. Sometimes I am lucky and a price goes up, I might get upto 30g for a stack of something I listed months ago at what I considered an unreasonable price.

I’m not claiming to be an expert, but from my perspective, the market seems to have taken a dip overall – maybe a 10%-20%ish drop over the last month.

I’m hoping from some enlightenment from the likes of John Smith or Wanze.

Wanze.8410:

Frank.7452:

I made over 1,000 gold this Wintersday selling the 20+ stacks of Sigils of Mischief and Runes of Snowfall I had stashed in a guild bank for over a year, alongside several piles of leather, Mystic Coins, and a lot of other investments that have not yet peaked (or they may never). I bought the Sigils and Runes for 2 copper each, they’re now worth 50 silver because of a patch. The Mystic Coins were purchased for 75 copper when I got them – they were at 34 silver when I sold 2000 of them, because this patch also created demand for them.

This kind of long term speculation with large quantities of bottomed out commodities isn’t possible without multiple personal guild banks to hold 200 stacks of goods each. However, obtaining a fully upgraded personal guild bank is no longer feasible.

Previously, you could achieve this for about 70 gold in influence purchases, or by soloing Guild Bounty Practices for 3000 influence each.

I argue the economy isn’t balanced, because there now exist two classes of player – one that can store massive quantities of a commodity without even thinking about it – and another that will never be able to do this.

I can tell you all now that Silver is bottomed out around 10-14c, and it will shoot up to at least 10x that price when something comes in a patch that requires it, but only a small percentage of people can take advantage of this by banking 100g worth of it, and you can’t join that club anymore.

You can still buy stuff and relist it immediately in high quantities.

How do you choose your listing prices?

Jon Olson.8439:

Subgroups and squadmates have different dots already. Though the difference is subtle. see attachment — subgroup is on the left

I’ll pass on the feedback to the team.

This is great! It’s difficult to see the difference in-game, though :/ could the contrast be increased, please?

Is this surprising? The community staff are/is only allowed to offer their opinion in banal or non-game threads.

QQing.3089:

PVE IS IMPORTANT GUYZZZZZZZZZ

We’re #1.

The blues is #1 ladies and gentlemen, the blues is #1.

I do not play no blues.

Either they’ve missed their KPIs by such an enormous margin, they’ve gone for a throw, OR their KPIs are wrong.

I, for one, would have been sacked for such an error in judgement.

Swamurabi.7890:

Instead of coming up with just a new and improved WvW, Anet also has to figure out a way to get more players into WvW.

I lolled. Actually I snorted, but I don’t like to admit that I do that.

Here is Stephen Fry telling you why this kind of pedantry a waste of time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

Venom Share.

Is this wise?

“we’ll be treating resolving the remaining core areas in WvW as our #1 live development feature priority”