Guild Wars 2

Most aggravating thing is that there have been 2 new patches rolled out since this is bugged and no fix or comment about it…

The downed mechanic is really a failure, I despise it completely.

Ebon.8769:

Patch but no fix?

Yeah, 2 new patches since the bug was introduced and still nothing..

“Burst” builds die instantly to other burst builds it’s no surprise, if you want to survive get toughness + vitality which is what arenanet hints at since their PvP badge reward gear is also power+toughness+vitality

It’s been 10+ days since they introduced the bug and 2 new patches still no fix

Seriously, any ideas what is going on with this? Are they planning on fixing it or is it kept bugged for two weeks intentionally for some odd reason?

Why does your site predict stormbluff will lose rating when its winning its matchup..

that was the only thing i used karma for, can pretty much say i have 0 use for it now

A free open-world MMO where you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t exceed ArenaNet’s arbitrary limits of how much gold/karma you can gain per hour, how very very sad

Laztor.4198:

Seeing as there’s no NA/EU specific servers and the time zones are 9 hours apart between CET and PST, it would be difficult to give an agreeable reset time to everyone.

I would rag on ArenaNet for a few less than stellar design choices, but you’re asking for more than what is possible given the current system.

Yes, there is. European servers and NA servers. NA servers have their match ups reset at 5PM-7PM while Europeans have their match ups reset at 1-4 AM.

MikeFerguson.8921:

We adjusted the time last week to match other things that reset at 12:00am UTC. We don’t plan to move it again.

So what’s the logic behind the reset timer being at 1AM-4AM in the morning for a majority of the European player base? Why do the American servers get their server match ups reset at 7-8PM and we Europeans get it at 2~ in the morning? Is it difficult to give the same amount of respect that you give to our fellow American playerbase?

I think it’s time that you eles stopped using berserker gear

Massacrul.2016:

140 badges having 650 kills? You should consider yourself the happiest man in the world sir…

I know a couple of people that have 250~ with 400 kills :/

Anyway, back on topic I think it is quite obvious that the anti-farm code takes effect even from WvW kills, quite dissapointing to say the least, no idea why this is, maybe I’d agree for PvE and that whole inflation reasoning, but WvW kills?

It’s there and it’s really sad, I have 650 kills in WvW and 140 badges because I usually play WvW for 5-10 hours straight when I play it. Other people thay play for an hour or two per day have double the number of badges that I have with half the kills

Aren’t these bots hurting the economy the longer they stay in the game without being banned?

Rodarin.6058:

LMAO last comment in this or any WvW thread.

HoD was getting owned and in a DISTANT thrid place for basically 3 days. SBI had the lead and extended that lead for all of those 3 days.

Then miraculously on Sunday night HoD suddenly takes over the whole world. Funny how that happened. SBI went from having queues on every map just about for 55 hours or so to having instant access to any map they wanted.

People can talk about double teaming or ganging up or any sort of nonsense theywant to. Point is when SBI had numbers close to what the other servers had it wasnt even a contest.

SB was fighting a 2 front attack all wekend as well, there was NO ganging up on HoD WITH ET that is just stupid. We had stonemist and we were trebbing ANY tower or people we could reach regardless. We were also semi-simultaneously pushing at Klovan as well as AP towers. While also dancing around Umber supply camp and guarding other supply camps for the 5 minute ninja squads looking to ‘steal’ points.

All this ‘we are the best and most skilled’ talk is just complete nonsesne. Its called proof by inspection. HoD got destroyed all weekend, not even a factor basically. Then just as I predicted Come early Monday morning they come to and take everything and what was once a 35K or so SBI lead, will by the time resets happen probably be a 20-30K SBI deficit.

WvW is horribly broken, from the scoring system to the population dynamics. Considering there are so many full worlds in terms of over ll players an no one willing to play WvW it shows what the general population thinks of it.

That’s why I am done debating and discussing it, it isnt worth it. If it isnt fixed then I will play alts or stop playing the game since the game doesnt offer a whole lot beyond WvW in terms of long term playability.

for what was supposed to be some epic genre changing release it has really been nothing but disappointment after disappointment. With the ultimate disappointment the whole WvW fiasco.

Best post in this thread that I fully agree with, it’s sad to see there are people still thinking that a server that loses the entire weekend magically just outplays everyone during normal week days and just gets 90% of the map due to sheer skill, people with this kind of mind set do not deserve the time of day.

500 keys so far bought between 3 people and nothing, no reports of anyone getting it 12 hours after patch, unless the chance of getting it is 0.001% I’d say ArenaNet forgot to add the item to the chest drop list just as they forgot to add the conduit and then later edited it out from the patch notes but why would they admit this if its making them a lot of money

After you kill any grub in the Cursed Shore map you get a game error message saying something along the lines of “Content is unavailable, try again later”, they also don’t seem to drop any loot.

Shredicus and LiuliRenai you people are ridiculous whiners that have no intention of responding to this post instead came here to whine about thief’s burst or PvP overpoweredness. Please just get lost or make your own whine threads in regards to that aspect, this isn’t about PvP or burst.

bwillb.2165:

The stealth stacking was just a symptom of a larger problem, but they decided to band-aid the symptom instead of attacking the issue, which is that you can take several sets of fall damage from a single fall in the first place.

Yes, which in turn made our stealth stack up to ridiculous numbers, this could’ve easily been fixed by adding a cooldown on the STEALTH part of the trait instead of kneejerk nerfing the entire trait. Pretty ridiculous reaction from ANet crew.

RiskRagger.7540:

doesn’t affect the builds im using. but good observation!

Indeed it isn’t a very popular trait but that doesn’t change the fact that ArenaNet reacted in a very silly manner to the semi-“exploit” people were doing with the stealth part of the trait, instead of taking the time to fix the stealth aspect they just kneejerk the entire trait, pretty ridiculous, I hope this isn’t a way they’ll act in the future and put more thought into their nerfs/changes in regards to more popular traits.

I would like to add that no other class has any cooldown on their “take 50% less fall damage” trait which I think is proof that what they intended to nerf was our stealth from it not the fall damage reduction.

It is obvious that they nerfed this because if we took a lot of fall damage in a short amount of time we could stack A LOT of stealth time so instead of them nerfing the ability to stack stealth time from the trait they put a cooldown on the ENTIRE trait. Anyone else frustrated by this?

pewblinkpew.5031:

@Duckzor yea 300 Karma. That 300 karma could have been 42k karma.

Lol they rolled back the servers by about an hour, do you knw of a way to get 42k karma in an hour?

jamescowhen.1562:

To fix world hopping harvest exploit

You didn’t even read my post..

Phy.2913:

The entire weekend – now only 24 hours long.

Too bad the server is always on full status on sunday.

I transfered to a different server yesterday noon~ thinking that the transfer CD will come last night at 1AM yet when you added the transfer CD the transfer I did from before you added the cooldown activated my cooldown? That’s pretty bogus, now I will be stuck without being able to play iwth my friends the entire weekend.

What we need to know is why is a dumb hidden anti-game mechanic implemented in a game advertised as free and diverse and open world and not limited by anything? This is the most ridiculous crap I’ve ever heard

The fun for him is to play WvW 8 hours trying to get keeps and upgrade them and wake up next day and have 0 keeps, 0 towers, 0 supply. That is the fun!!!!!

Esaam.9042:

Kada Feed.1782:

There is 2 options :

1) FS and Deso/Riverside grow nightshift armies and stay in the 1st bracket.
2) FS and Deso/Riverside don’t grow nightshift armies and will be replaced by servers with 24/7 WvW population.

They have a nightshift army: just look at the queue graphs. They have less queue, but queue means that the WvW zone is already at its max population.

VS does not have more people in WvW. It just mean they have more people waiting to enter WvW.

I don’t think you can read the graph or maybe you are missing your glasses, the only time Shiverpeak had full WvW was on 15.09 and 16.09 which is FRIDAY and SATURDAY WEEKEND. Look at graph on 17.09, Shiverpeak 0 queue not full server and Vizunah big queue all night.

PS: When queue was even on 15.09 and 16.09, Vizunah was 2nd place and Shiverpeak 1st.

IKShadow.4582:

iHaukka.2815:

Well this explains kinda well why Vizunah is on the top and why we (Desolation) are getting ourkitten kicked

Well if they beat you during prime time it does not explain anything as you all have max players in borderlands ..

As for their French Canadian players capping everything during night .. thats another story.

During prime time the servers with less ques should be the top one if the guilds they have on are any good as that means you got majority of players in.

Having 200+ ques only mean you cant get all your members on the same map eg worse gameplay.

They don’t beat anything in prime time. If you look at those graphs the queues on Friday and Saturday were EVEN between Shiverpeak and Vizunah and guess what happened? Shiverpeak OWNED Vizunah on friday AND saturday then Vizunah came back on sunday, monday, tuesday with night capping and massive number advantage.*

If you look at the graph on 17.09.2012 Shiverpeaks has 0 queue from 12:30AM to 8AM and Vizunah has FULL QUEUE from 12:30 AM to 7AM then 7AM to 8AM no queue then rest of the day QUEUE again. I think this graph and what happened on this entire week speaks for itself on how Vizunah won the match up.

It’s not about the points. You work hard durnig the day to get keeps/towers and UPGRADE them using your hard earned money and in the morning when you wake up you have 0 BASES LEFT. This is just a major morale hit and just not fun. SCORE has nothing to do with it.

Hissatsu.3174:

2 Pherenice.8124
Actually, ANet intention was for servers to go into dimplomacy, for losing servers to band together against winning server, so that the one dominated would get downed by combined power of other two.
And imho, the 24/7 coverage idea is very flawed. Its forcing servers to look for guilds from another side of the earth, playing with delay, for the sake of beating other server in an unfair battle (150v10 isnt fair, yep). But so far ANet seems to be okay with it. I hope they change their mind when they see it fails over and over.

In top3 eu match up (Vizunah vs Shiverpeak vs Desolation) at night time it’s 150 vs 15 vs 15. Even if Shiverpeak allies with Desolation they will still lose against Vizunah’s night time numbers which are far superior. Not to mention cross-server alliance is close to impossible to achieve.

Here’s a pic to give you an idea of Vizunah’s night time dominance..

Xandax.1753:

If looking at the score as the goal for your fight – then you’ll never receive ‘balance’ matchup as there’ll always be some who can field more players at given time than you.

Unless ANet caves to the people who want WvW to be sPvP and/or removes the 24/7 aspect of the game.
In which case I think they’ll loose many players who came here for the WvW game.

What is the goal then? How can WvW be any fun for anyone if you wake up at 9 in the morning and discover that all your upgraded keeps, all your upgraded supplies, your castle, EVERYTHING you’ve worked for the entire 12 hour day is owned by the opposing server and you have nothing. What is the fun in this?

Especially if you are the TOP3 servers you will ALWAYS be matched against Vizunah. This match up will always repeat itself. Vizuna vs Shiverpeak vs Desolation/Riverside. Tell me how can players from Shiverpeak EVER have ANY fun in WvW if they will ALWAYS be matched against Vizunah and wake up with 0% of map control?

This isn’t a whine post or nightcapping post, this is more of a question for the WvW players out there, what solution do you think would be possible to fix this? At the moment there is absolutely no fun to be had in the top3 match ups, it’s all completely one sided stomp due to vizunah having more DEDICATED night time players. What could Desolation and FShiverpeaks do to balance this complete stomp. I have been to WvW during night time on Shiverpeaks and on Desolation(home server) and I would say the numbers in each borderlands is like this 150~ Vizunah vs 15 Shiverpeaks vs 15 Desolation. What is the solution? Will we ever get a balanced top3 matchup?

http://i.imgur.com/SdO1H.jpg

Your “3rd” point is ridiculous and I doubt you put much brain power behind it. There aren’t enough servers with “diverse playerbase” to make an even 1v1v1 matchup between them. There is 1 in Europe group and maybe 2 in the NA group. It is not possible to match 3 servers with “diverse playerbase” when there just aren’t 3 of those. I suggest putting more thought into your posts when trying to be condescending or you risk looking like something else

How about the people waiting in queue that actually want to play WvW but 20 slots are trapped by people like you wasting 4 hours trying to do a jumping puzzle, sorry but you get no sympathy from me.

Rolo.9248:

Perhaps the game’s settings aren’t the issue; what hardware are you running and when was the last time it had a fresh format/Windows install?

Lol, it has nothing to do with my OS, minimal settings client isn’t really minimal, its quite obvious even to the naked eye that a MINIMAL settings client shouldn’t have 1000 particle effects flying around, snow effects that are there just to boggle down your performance even more.

Also if ArenaNet would at least allow us to mod the files, we could remove particle effects on our own with no work from them, as most games allow this hopefully ANet will either optimize the minimum settings client or allow us to mod out particle effects. Thank you.

You CAN queue for multiple maps at the same time, try queueing for Eternal and then also queue for a borderlands, if you get instantly into borderlands the eternal queue will pop up later. Clear proof that you can queue for more than a map with no issue.

I don’t know if they have Canadians or not but at the moment WvW is decided by whoever has the bigger numbers during night time and coupled with the fact that scores reset at around 1AM for Europe that’s all she wrote, pretty big design flaw in my opinion.

The question is, should WvW winner be decided by whoever has the bigger numbers during the night(after reset) or not?

FoulPlay.5268:

I can run everything max 60-70fps even in WvWvW but I AGREE with the low settings.

If i put everything on low I only gain 5-10fps ??!!

The game looks poor but the performence gain is Barely noticable. Engine needs some tweaks

The minimum settings client definitely needs a decent amount of optimization, I just hope ArenaNet hasn’t forgotten about us poor people.

I love this game but sadly I cannot afford a better computer at the moment but my system is still above the minimum requirements even if barely.

Now I didn’t expecting to have great performance in this game but at the moment I feel the MINIMUM settings option can be GREATLY improved. Right now the difference in FPS from the Minium to Ultra settings is about 8-10 fps.

The amount of effects visible and number of particles on minimum settings are way TOO HIGH for people that again are playing under minimum settings, for me it is impossible to go WvW if there are more than 10 people banging on a door I’m out. I think I speak for everyone with minimum settings out there, please further optimize the minimum settings option, reduce graphic details, lower textures ESPECIALLY on other player’s characters and spells, I think everyone on minimum settings would GLADLY trade APPEARANCE for PERFORMANCE.

I hope someone at ArenaNet reads this, I love this game and I wish I could play with a slightly better FPS. Thank you.

EDIT: I just realized I might have posted this in the wrong forum section, if a mod would please move it in the appropriate section or delete it so I can repost I’d appreciate it although I’m not sure where a post like this belongs.

I think I’ve afked for over 15 minutes in WvW and when I came back I was surprised that I wasn’t kicked out, this is a very silly thing not to add.