Guild Wars 2

Tyaen.5148:

Taldek.6105:

Regarding the interruption of the GvG thing:
Bad form: An offense against current social convention
For those that would argue that current mechanics allow it is not a valid argument against it being bad form. That is equivalent to saying something that is not illegal must be ethical.

For the record if what happened is true I personally frown on it (however irrelevant my opinion is).

That said your argument is opinion. There are no agreed upon social conventions in GW2 any more than there are on these forums or the Internet in general. There are compacts made between specific guilds. If you don’t want randoms spoiling the fun maybe the guilds should change the location from the known area. This would probably help with lag, culling and spectators getting involved by accident as well.

Most socially accepted policies are unwritten or at least start that way. Sort of like when a new word or definition of an existing word is adopted as language policy after it’s popularity become so great that it is recognized as social will. This doesn’t detract from your argument though it is subjective in nature. I agree with your comments on location as well, not a bad thing to reduce skill lag in any situation.

I truly do not know of any socially sanctioned 1v1 matches that were general public knowledge and I apologize if I have ever interfered. However, I think it would be substantially easier to distinguish a GvG event from random fighting, especially if there are spectators.

Regarding the interruption of the GvG thing:
Bad form: An offense against current social convention
For those that would argue that current mechanics allow it is not a valid argument against it being bad form. That is equivalent to saying something that is not illegal must be ethical.

We’ve all been part of a large zerg when the situation called for it. Recently the trend by some have been to roam the open map all night in huge death balls like packs of locusts. I personally feel this is more noticeable now than in the past because of skill lag. Up until a few weeks ago I had never experienced it. Not even the last time BG was in tier 1 but who knows

Porky.5021:

I think it should cost zero. I think anyone should be able to pop a commander icon at any time.

I also think I should have a “Commander whitelist” on my client. Anyone not on that whitelist will show no commander icon on my map.

I can enable it for commanders I know are worth following, the rest…have fun with your icon.

How would you know who was commanding to add them to your “white list” if you couldn’t see their tag until after they were on your “white list”??

I agree with what Aeros suggested with changing the WP to being contested when inner is being attacked although I still like the idea of counter-WP seige as well.

Handin.4032:

Maybe it’d be nice to have some “scaled” nodes somewhere? Where the ore you get is scaled to the level of your character. It might not be ideal, but the problem I think with just putting in orich. ore into WvW is that people could just create new alts and farm the nodes constantly at very low level (since in PvE you can only get the ore in lvl 75+ zones). And then make the respawn daily like orich nodes. Maybe that way the level 80’s can get our Ori ores (and put them somewhere difficult, like near lord rooms, or in other areas of the map, but not too far away from objective areas).

Just an idea.

I, thought you had to be a lvl 60 to use picks that can harvest ori. Is that not the case when you are up leveled to 80 in WvW?

Infraction detraction please, show some love for those who care enough to suggest improvement opposed to walking away already…

I posted this in another thread but it applies here as well:

Add commander tags to guilds which can only be seen by guild mates. Make this something you can unlock down the wvw line with influence and add the ability to pop guild commander tags via guild role permissions while limiting the number of active guild tags to one per fifty members. Any one in a role with commander tag permissions could then pop a commander tag visible only to their guild and each guild could only have a maximum of ten tags active at any one time.

Add commander tags to guilds which can only be seen by guild mates. Make this something you can unlock down the wvw line with influence and add the ability to pop guild commander tags via guild role permissions while limiting the number of active guild tags to one per fifty members. Any one in a role with commander tag permissions could then pop a commander tag visible only to their guild and each guild could only have a maximum of ten tags active at any one time. I think that would help on a number of levels but would definitely allow groups to coordinate in smaller segments without the risk of drawing unwanted attention of those that just look to follow a public commander tag.

I agree character based bad, not really any good excuses for it honestly. And based on conversations I have heard and the vast majority of comments here I am not in the minority. Those of you trying to tell yourselves otherwise, whatever your reason may be in showing support or defending this, just remember rule number 1 in a PvP based game: you need other players present. I hope this game doesn’t go down as other pvp-centric games have and self destruct by ignoring this simple fact.

I think increasing the out-manned buffs for things like stats and then hiding that buff from enemies is a terrible idea. Can you imagine all of the cries for nerfs that would follow as a result as people would appear OP?

Or how about a chest that pops up on your screen like when you complete a daily?

Although we will likely not come to a consensus on the best measure for gauging effectiveness in WvW; whether it be points per tick, overall points, or more non-conformist methods such as tracking K/D ratios and bag counting, the community must agree to come together to battle our newest common foe. The addition to Tyrian lore, Jorlag, recently introduced by the ANet development team is a detriment to all. Reports have been coming in of Tyrians mysteriously vanishing only to reappear minutes later with traumatic tales of “disconnections” with reality as they know it. Additionally many have experienced a sudden paralysis while attempting to move or perform certain actions.

In all seriousness: ANet fix your kitten! This whole experience is beginning to make your attempted game repair solutions appear more like a prescription drug commercial’s list of side effects.