Guild Wars 2

Abe Kleine.3568:

Svarty.8019:

This build has the rating:
Not viable

Reason:
14k HPs.

Notes:
Thanks for trying.

Gee thanks for assistance in every possible way. You were such a help, thank you oh lord of lords

You’re welcome. Merry Christmas.

This build has the rating:
Not viable

Reason:
14k HPs.

Notes:
Thanks for trying.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Svarty.8019:

Sure, nerf it. It’s not like it’s useful anyway. I will say this, though, as a guardian, I think it’s a bit weak that people want to nerf the only buff we can reliably spam.

I lol’d. You can give EVERY BUFF IN THE GAME to the party, yet you’re complaining that we want the 1 changed so it’s not so powerful against multi-hit skills?

Okay, I get you. Retaliation is way too strong… let’s have a think though, before doing anything rash…

It’s not like Guardians are anywhere near the top of the food chain at the moment, so I would like to see Guardians compensated in some way.

Shardun.4823:

I find it very sad for this thread to be unstickied. One of the few threads that show the current situation for cond/burn guards with true details and facts. Foofad provided a lot of information for both old and new guards, and yet this thread is going to be lost. Shame on the person who did this…

I concur. It seems that with this unsticky, Arenanet are consigning the very concept of variety of Guardian builds to the dustbin

Sure, nerf it. It’s not like it’s useful anyway. I will say this, though, as a guardian, I think it’s a bit weak that people want to nerf the only buff we can reliably spam.

Tajz.9826:

Everyone will just stop being 1st

I lolled!

Repeatedly bannering the lord feels epic and desperate! It’s terrific! I like that people can put off an inevitable loss, sometimes long enough to get reinforcements.

So the WvW forum becomes chock full of matchup threads again?

A: Yes.

/thread.

A few suggestions

• CDI acknowledged suggestion #1 – Implement an incentive to attack whichever server has highest score (at any given time)
• CDI acknowledged suggestion #2 – Spread the cost of building things across all owned structures, so the more you own, the weaker each individual objective is. Each side has a set total power (same for each side) and as they gain/lose things, that power is spread more thinly/concentrated respectively.
• Make binding roots a purgeable condition or stun-breakable.
• Walls and doors need to be MUCH stronger. The easy availability of Skill Points has resulted in masses of Superior Siege, combined with Rank Ability powercreep they have effectively made walls and doors much weaker than they were originally.
• Waypoints need to be looked at – while essential for mounting defences, they are also a huge bonus for those who are dominating on multiple maps – any further suggestions on this topic most welcome.
• Make Upgrades cost Badges of Honour instead of gold. Paying for upgrades with gold means I don’t pay for upgrades. /salute to those who do.

Is it possible to track which spells a character was affected by when they were downed?

I wonder because I think Crowd Control is a huge factor in killing people, and believe that it should be looked at and maybe toned down a little.

TL;DR I think CC is too strong atm.

Shorter matches would come up against the “weekend warrior” problem: Some servers are much MUCH stronger at weekends (I’m looking at you, German servers) than during the working week. This will result in bad matchups every odd game because the system can’t compensate for it.

I also believe that shorter matchups will result in people losing interest, as the names of opponents and the times they get matched up against certain servers become less memorable.

According to the news only a few days ago https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wvw-matchup-variance-reduction/

It should be impossible for my server Gunnar’s Hold EU to be matched with Baruch Bay and Augury Rock, yet this is what has happened.

Could you kindly take a look at your code for the matchups please?

Shadey Dancer.2907:

Variety is the spice of life—which this is not.

This is a great and much needed change. THANK YOU ARENANET! Steamrolling is not fun for anybody.

IMO your “variety is the spice of life” argument is not applicable in this instance.

Aten.8046:

[..] What do you guys think?

I think the Condi heavy meta is the only thing keeping the Necro, in particular, viable, which is why Arenanet won’t fix it wholesale any time soon. You’ll see lots of small tweaks as though that’s all it needs.

I’d be interested to see Ascended Sentinel’s, as it is sorely lacking from Exotic level.

9.
I’m not so hot on EB.

I have to say, there’s a real problem developing in the populations.

• What difference will population stacking make if everybody can get into Edge of the Mist anyway?
• Will people care about scores if the rewards are rubbish?

I look forward to seeing how this all pans out.

More incentive to go DPS spec.

Crazy! Who’d go DPS spec on a class with such low base HPs and no way to force retargeting?

It’s nice to see the Badlands Order boys still have the same attitude!

Bottom of Silver League? Here, have two Gold League opponents. GJ Arenanet GJ

8th Place Chest is:
2 Greens
1 Mini Dolyak
3 Taste of Liquid WXP
100 Dragonite Ore
5 Tome of Knowledge
5 Scroll of Knowledge
1 Purple Essence of Luck

DevonCarver.5370:

Would the commander system be functional enough with more markers, guild only tags, less suppression, better supplyinfo, and possibly additional marker shapes?

Nike.2631:

’we can do quick fixes and then take an extended break from the topic or we can do major overhaul[..]
Pick One

I want to say quick fixes, but the (awesome) quick fixes suggested by Devon above don’t address the tag visibility functionality problem which is at the heart of the matter, for me.

I have to, therefore, reluctantly say, “major change over long time, please”.

Our guild groups want to run tags, but we’re running with targets because tags are borked. One fix for this might be the ability to assign a tag on an ally like a target marker. This seems relatively quick and easy and shouldn’t take up huge resources (right guys?).

If this happens to be easy, then I change my opinion to fully quick fixes, please.

chestonu.8059:

- Text Suppression for Commander: Say chat is most heavily used because it pops over the commander’s head. It needs to be at least 2x or 3x the current volume that is allowed. Keep the limit, but make it bigger for those tagged up. That’s all. Let testing or a ‘trial period’ of real observation sort out how much is enough/too much.
[..]

- Optional Waypoints: Even if you cannot change how waypoints work now, at least make them Key-Bindable and accessible to/from the Minimap so they can be placed while moving. Show them on the minimap (on the edge if out of range), just like the Commander Tag, so people can head there. That’s it. No more needed. Let the community figure out what it means._

I have to say “Please No” to these particular suggestions. I think these would mean most people will buy tags for extra powers.

I think there will be Edge of the Mists and Season 2 of the League as well.

I speculate that some people will leave to play new three-team competitive games.

Ahmrill.7512:

DevonCarver.5370:

Would the commander system be functional enough with more markers, guild only tags, less suppression, better supplyinfo, and possibly additional marker shapes?

What you suggested above would certianly be a welcome short-term fix. Just a slight issue with guild only tag as opposed to private (hidden pin) option.

Doesn’t the option for squad-only visibility cover this?

DevonCarver.5370:

Would the commander system be functional enough with more markers, guild only tags, less suppression, better supplyinfo, and possibly additional marker shapes?

Yes please, but I’ll doubtless be outvoted by the ….players… on the forum.

IMO All of that “Captain” nonsense is completely unnecessary and would likely be redundant.

As I mentioned earlier, I think the main thing is the ability for ONLY your squad to see your tag.

Phantom.8130:

“distract where they’re strong, attack where they’re weak” is an extremely useful strategy that rarely ever gets used

Well, I know our commanders usually do this.

Phantom.8130:

, in favor of “spam 1, get loot bags!!” because there’s a lot of people with tags that never needed to learn anything about strategy.

This is part of the same strategy. Please listen to the commander, Bond. Commander Bond, geddit? It’s not very good.

DevonCarver.5370:

2) How would it feel to have a system that gradually unlocked more commander abilities and icons, but that required dedication to WvW?

Yes, yes, yes! I love this idea.

Would requiring commanders to spend their WXP in this way limit them to the point that they didn’t want to do it?

I think making the tag WXP dependant will not discourage Commanders from buying it because it is a specialisation, just like being a Trebber, Oil Specialist (snicker) or Ram Man (or lady). Commanders don’t need to do those other things, so they have the points free to put in Commanding.

Let’s say we added a commander line to the ability panel and you unlocked it with WvW ability points. What is the right starting price for that? 100 points? more?

100 sounds reasonable. You could probably charge twice that.

does it make sense for the system to remain character based?

Not now that WXP isn’t character based (but I was against that change).

What if you still acquired the current tag by spending 100g, but you upgraded to new shapes via the WXP system?

I imagine that if this were the deal, most commanders would stick with the original shape. I believe that WvW is more about minmaxing than cosmetics.

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

Seems like people really enjoy answering questions so I’ll throw out a few more.

How big do you expect a squad to be?
What kind of content is a PvE commander most useful?
Is money a good enough gate for commander tags?

1. 80ish is estimated to be the biggest blob I’ve seen.
2. Community events like mining runs (daily at 7pm UK time this week starting from Paggas Waypoint – see you there!), raiding southsun Karka Queen, multiple-map epic exploration zergs, Scarlet Invasions, Living World events, etc etc.
3. Well, Badges of Honour make more sense, as you would have to have done some WvW before becoming a commander… but IMO it’s too late to change that now.

With the last 2 in mind, it may be wise to split the commander tag for PvE from the tag for WvW.

Moka.9641:

Svarty.8019:

I believe that the Edge of the Mists is a huge folly.

I like the idea of new maps. I don’t like the idea of pandering to servers who have huge queues simply because they have huge queues. Those people choose to be on the servers with queues, they should have to suck it up – that’s how population balance is supposed to happen.

I believe that giving them something to do instead of queuing will devalue the main Scoring-game, possibly to the point where people want to do Edge of the Mists instead of the Scoring-game.

When it comes to the smaller servers, I find it more difficult to think what may happen, but I think it could get people playing for it’s PvE content when the enemies are thin in number.

Just questioning you a bit:

Let’s say you’ve been on a low tier ranked server since day 1 and a bunch of WvW guilds transfers to your server. Your server rises up in rank and thus attracts lots of bandwagoners, and now, you’re stuck with 3hours+ queues. Should you still ‘’suck it up’’ even that you didn’t really choose to be a server with queues?

Yes.

John Smith.4610:

Essence Snow.3194:

…PS increasing something like .0000001 to .00000012….

That’s a 20% change. I don’t understand your simile.

I’ll help you out: Buying things is never epic.

jazzllanna.1278:

Also every ls achievement- except this fractal one- has had some kind of cosmetic reward or a mini.. that is a reward for in game every 2 weeks some have had more than 1 thing you can earn. I think it has been a fairly good mix although I would like to see a new armor set that can be earned in game through a new dungeon or something.

Convert gold you “earn” in a dungeon into “gems” and then “buy” the skin with those.

• Disclaimer. You don’t earn anything, gems don’t exist, buying is a subjective term and the skin is virtual cosmetics.

Get used to it. With the new gold influx from PvPers, you’ll see gem prices accelerate even faster than ever!

As ever, buy gems now™ as they are only going up and up!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/player-vs-player-rewards-roadmap/

EDIT: JUST THIS:

1. Commander should be able to choose who gets to see tag: Squad-only option

Should be a “Blob” finisher imo.

Dahkeus.8243:

Neither one of those really stands as a good argument.

That, apparently, is a matter of opinion.

TuBrown.4510:

I want to know a proper build thats tanky and good for zerging (Primary focus) but also puts a fair fight in roaming (Secondary focus) as well, any advise will be great!

Well, you can’t have both.

AH is the only WvW zergy spec. Other specs are not tanky/not tanky enough.

When do you poll the population numbers?
What about when huge guilds who leave the server?
What about when the server with a huge primetime population has nobody playing overnight?

In my opinion, the solution should be based on the current Tick. Therefore the more you have, the less more is worth – diminishing returns.

Morinmeth.9823:

Sai Ree.5960:

When I go through these forums, I hope the devs get psychological counseling. Whatever they do, it’s never right. Let’s group hug them, for once, because there are way more things that work fantastically in this game than there are quirks.
Yes, totally off topic – or is it?

Oh man, we need more people like you in the forums!
Complains about Edge of the Mists! Man, some people are never, ever happy!

Waaah waaah, who is worse? The person who complains about the problem, or the person who complains about the complaining?

Sai Ree.5960:

Yes, totally off topic – or is it?

It is.

Ragnar.4257:

I don’t know why Gunnars underperformed.

We know.

I believe that the Edge of the Mists is a huge folly.

I like the idea of new maps. I don’t like the idea of pandering to servers who have huge queues simply because they have huge queues. Those people choose to be on the servers with queues, they should have to suck it up – that’s how population balance is supposed to happen.

I believe that giving them something to do instead of queuing will devalue the main Scoring-game, possibly to the point where people want to do Edge of the Mists instead of the Scoring-game.

When it comes to the smaller servers, I find it more difficult to think what may happen, but I think it could get people playing for it’s PvE content when the enemies are thin in number.

Mbelch.9028:

My question is who congratulates themselves..

Americans don’t like the word “entitlement”/“self-entitlement”, do they?

Valid points, but something Arenanet are aware of.

The evidence says they’d rather make new maps for the queuing people on T1 servers.

ykyk.2740:

More self-entitled people thinking only their timezone matters. People can play and get ppt whenever they darn well want to, thank you very much.

Point balancing is something that should be worked on, but outright blocking access to the game by timezone is rubbish.

Does. Not. Compute.

Where is there in the world that can’t play if the servers become locked to a 16 hour shift?

Atoss.1056:

KayOz.3750:

Looks like Aurora is blobbing more than Vizunah and Abaddon together.

At least on AG BL.

Could say the same about Millers, at least on GH bl.

Another photo of the Millers megablob.

Transfer to the low servers, they’re no less competitive.

No, no, no GS is fine. Nothing to see here. Please get back to complaining about the real problems such as;

• base HPs.

This is specifically aimed at non-guardians. See how there is no vitality?