Old skill points in excess of those earned by leveling and skill challenges will be converted into crafting materials for the Mystic Forge. Items and activities that were previously repeatable sources of skill points will now also provide that same crafting material.
In other words, complete garbage. Convert everything now guys because if you thought you had a lot of pointless Mystic Forge Stones sitting around in your bank, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
[edit] Corrected below.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Im watching poi 19 video where a warrior has 27k health and im just confused because a guardian is a heavy too but a average guardian player only has 15k health. Can someone explain to me what is with the health difference or should anet increase guardian health?
I complained about this and Arenanet implemented that “grandmaster” trait that nobody picks and gives us 3000 hps.
/facepalm. I don’t complain about it anymore.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Base player stats will be increased from 926 to 1000.
Base attribute points on equipment will be increased so that all the gear in the game will give higher stats than it did before. This should account for most of the missing points.
Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession. For example, elementalists now have a base attunement recharge of 10 seconds, which is reduced to 8.7 seconds when the arcane specialization is equipped.
With statistics no longer being tied to traits in HoT, how much difference will there be between exotic stats and ascended stats, given that it is about 5% atm. I suspect there isn’t enough information yet, but I can’t tell, can you?
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
It’s this type of semi-nerf that makes me wonder whether Arenanet consider the Engi to be OP or whether it’s such a difficult class to play that only the best players play it.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
The ubiquitous phrase, “I pay the same as you, don’t tell me how to play”, should be enough to stop them moaning at you. It’s not great for intra-server relations, though.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Work around: Take them into your inventory, change maps, and then re-stack them.
Thank you very much for this. Problem solved!
The items I have that wouldn’t stack:
Karma Boosters
Magic Find Boosters
Instant Repair Canisters
Merchant Express
Trading Post Express
Bank Access Express
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Well base on the fact that they just started another Tournament of Legends PvP Tournament can’t see wvw Tournament anytime soon. Makes me sad to see wvw not get any attention anymore…
What is WvW?
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
If you just walk backwards and swing your weapon in most cases thief won’t have enough stealth time to backstab you, so he will wwaste it on facestab or just run out of stealth. SA thieves are sure annoying as hell, but backstab itself should be totally fine for anyone who played thief ever once.
Why the emphasis on backstab? Just a facestabbing thief can kill you and just stealth when you try to counter him. Facestab, stealth, facestab, stealth. You die either way.
Don’t pretend there’s a punishment for missing a backstab. It hardly matters.
There’s a team getting actual money to make sure things are balanced.
They needed to be sacked before the game got released. Stealth is the biggest mistake any game can make. I say this as a Dark Age of Camelot shadowblade (rogue) of four years.
Please don’t compare DAoC or WoW, or any other MMO stealth to GW2 stealth. They are not even close to similar.
Invisibility is invisibility.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
If you just walk backwards and swing your weapon in most cases thief won’t have enough stealth time to backstab you, so he will wwaste it on facestab or just run out of stealth. SA thieves are sure annoying as hell, but backstab itself should be totally fine for anyone who played thief ever once.
Why the emphasis on backstab? Just a facestabbing thief can kill you and just stealth when you try to counter him. Facestab, stealth, facestab, stealth. You die either way.
Don’t pretend there’s a punishment for missing a backstab. It hardly matters.
There’s a team getting actual money to make sure things are balanced.
They needed to be sacked before the game got released. Stealth is the biggest mistake any game can make. I say this as a Dark Age of Camelot shadowblade (rogue) of four years.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
There are all manner of people trying to impose gentleman’s agreements on the rest of us, be it the GvG and PvP “don’t add” brigade or the anti-siege troll whiners (no, I’m not baiting). In the end, it’s up to Anet to set the rules, and WvW is best as a near-sandbox with as few as possible.
Do what you want, that’s the joy of WvW!
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
They can start by adjusting rewards. Removing WExp, Reducing exp gain by 33%, Reducing karma gain by 33% and by making it so you cannot join EoTM if you do not have Queues on all 4 maps so that the map is used as the overflow it’s supposed to be.
The kittening supply drop needs to kittening GO! For kitten’s sake, the last thing green needs is even more supply!
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Yes. 100% agree with you. Putting down AoE is too kitten hard.
it’s not really that there’s no counterplay but that there’s no way to do anything to stop the initial burst that comes from stealth when you can’t see them coming… because they are invisible.
In wvw you often don’t see them coming or you see them go into stealth and then have to guess when they attack while they have all the time in the world to sit in stealth while you dodge around and waste skills trying to mitigate the coming burst. And then if you do get a lucky dodge you are punished because the thief just stays stealthed… lol wat.
it really is kittened.
^This is what I meant by, “there no counterplay to stealth”.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
Recipe to destroy any soloer and even small groups in WvW…
Thief can;
1) Make everybody lose target at will (stealth, and lots of it),
2) Thrive (unlike most other classes) in WvW with a sPvP spec (because of stealth players can’t focus damage in the correct locale),
3) Experience no counter-play (because of stealth (again)) – you can’t evade an attack you can’t see coming.
Meanwhile most other classes spec for high defense and low damage in order to survive big fights, making them heavy but easy pickings for thief.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
When I duel anywhere in WvW, and I do it a lot, I forgo my right to be angry at anybody who would interrup the fight. It comes with inherent risk. Assume those risks or go
away…
Thanks. Many people aren’t so understanding.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
At the end of the day this is a perfect example of the developers continuing trend to not listen to the WvW community.
I’m not a huge fan of the devs, but to say they didn’t listen and respond is simply wrong. For example, it’s obvious that the new map is made with a lot of CDI feedback in mind.
In conclusion, WvW just is not fun anymore. People just circle each other for a while, casters trying to cast on the enemies, then one group makes a move and the other dodges out. Repeat, until one group lands a CC or the other group gets bored and pushed and then people melt. The end. There really aren’t any tactics anymore. It is very disappointing.
My experience differs from yours. I haven’t seen this at all.
Having said this, the stability change seems … peculiar, random and out-of-the-blue. It’s not terrible, but I don’t understand the need for it. It seems like it was a waste of resources, to me.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
No class should be able to attack, stealth when you attack them back, heal and clease while stealthed, then come out of steath and reattack you, rinse, repeat until you are dead.
I have no problem with thieves having escapability, none at all. My problem is in and out of stealth fighting bullspit. Enough, peroid. I don’t know of any other game that allows such crap. They should hit like a truck, they should be able to sneak around, they should be able to poof and escape AFTER their kill or to get out of a tough fight….but they should not be able to repeatedly re-stealth in the middle of a fight to heal and cleanse over and over, it is absolutely absurd.
/rant off….let the flaming begin
How would you feel if they left all the mechanics the same except you don’t lose target when they go in stealth?
(technically this would be an auto-reacquire of target after leaving stealth, so (like now) you can’t fire directly at stealthed target).
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I like WvWvW, but blob-warfare against incredibly static opponent lists in week long pocket universes that harmlessly fizzle away to nothing is not exactly going out into the greater MMO play space and vacuuming up customers.
Indeed, these are good reasons why WvW won’t ever reach the potential so many of us see in it. Instead, we have to await other startups
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I commend Anet for going through all the effort to making what looks like a gorgeous map with some interesting mechanics. Unfortunately for me it doesn’t solve the problem of being blobbed to death. Maybe they didn’t want to ruin the mood of the debut by announcing more than they needed to, but this isn’t enough to get me to come back. It’s just going to be more of the same with different scenery.
Did you watch the presentation? Nearly every new aspect of the map is about spreading out the blob!
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
It’s my firm belief that the development team need to have at least one passionate, regular WvW player. I believe there may be a lack thereof which has led to our current status.
I have been playing WvW on a near constant and daily basis for the past year and a half. It is only in the past month that I have seen an actual bona fide Anet rep running around in WvW. I do not believe for a second that I just happened to miss them all the times they were on (assuming they were experiencing all servers equally). It is nice to know that they are finally starting to play the game they created 2 years ago under the conditions the player base is experiencing. Whether its too late or not for them to reverse the damage of inattentiveness will not be known until after HoT releases.
Although we all claim to know the problems and can suggest how to solve them, we need some “boots on the ground” to actually experience it first hand, to know and love what’s great about it and to understand our frustrations. I believe that empathy is what is required to even begin to understand what makes WvW great.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
It’s my firm belief that the development team need to have at least one passionate, regular WvW player. I believe there may be a lack thereof which has led to our current status.
Nobody at Anet loves WvW like Grouch loved PvP. That’s what we need, a WvW Grouch, but taller.
I was just looking through his post, and I do not see any mention of “weekly”. I do not see any specific time frames mentions. It appears he said “periodically”.
That’s because it’s not part of his post, it’s part of the forum specialist’s tasks:
must sign the Guild Wars 2 Forum Specialist Terms and Conditions
must live in the USA and be age 18 or older, for legal reasons
can be removed from the program at any time, for any reason
must abide by the Guild Wars 2 Forum Code of Conduct
are requested to provide a weekly feedback report on behalf of the community to the ArenaNet Forum Communications Team
So I’m confused as how can someone report weekly when they havent communicated with the community on the forums about anything new???
Or have we just stuck with server matchups for the last 4 weeks?
