Guild Wars 2

There were some threads a few months ago about borderlands being to small, but they are pretty big. The placement of keeps and towers however keeps us fighting in a small diamond on the lower portion of the map while a large amount of space is taken by pve/unused content up north.

I was wondering if there was any plans to change this maybe by adding a keep to each upper corner or since there are no longer orbs of power turning the center portion into a keep? or maybe a fortress that spans the whole north border.

My hope for this would be forcing zergs to spend more time north if they wished to cap a map allowing for other forces to regain some of their land and forcing all players outside of the small diamond we play in now.

I think it goes by rating so If a new player comes into tpvp and with 2 matches at the lower end they have like a 100% win ratio and jump op the latter and end up in matches they should not be in. If you look at the leader boards there are guys with like 12wins and 1loss at the top. Anet said they are going to make the jumps lower soon so you will see this less often.

Kreedz you cheeky kitten Sun here they are getting a buff upcoming patch.

Edit: I think they took the blunt end of the nerf bat early on before people realized how telegraphed their moves are, but no worries balance is on the way slow and steady wins the race until then keep playing your kit engi or switch to hgh its op.

I was dueling with a kit engi on my ranger and they seemed pretty good sure not hgh good but there is nothing that matches their dps class/spec. Also bunker engi is both effective and easy to play.

About my thief being one shot and dodging slow moving grenades, they are not slow moving when the engi is tossing them at their feet and with elixir s and protection the engi is not squishy at all.

Edit: Elixir S = transform. drink elixir s to shrink yourself , recover from stun and evade attacks
Duration 3s
Breaks Stuns

With a rune set and sigil this class is able to build and maintain 25 stacks of might thats 875 power 875 condition damage through out a fight resulting in the most over powered dps in the game.

Necros are scarce in the spvp because HGH has taken their place why have boon stripping along to counter bunkers when you can bring a class with such strong dps that you can just burn through their boons with dps alone along with any reinforcements.

When faced with any melee opposition they just grenade their feet and kill them in seconds. My thief can withstand 1k blades from a war, but one grenade shot from HGH engineer and he is down.

Do necros need a buff sure, but this is our real balance problem.

Sure other classes are able to stack and maybe maintain might at the same capacity, but they do not have the same impact. I don’t believe any other class can effect a bunker,one on one, or group fights the same all while using the same 5 skills and lol “rotation”. Being able to tear through a bunkers boons with dps, one shot thieves by “skill shooting” their feet, and lay waste to anyone on a node by doing the same… there is no question of if it is balanced.

So it comes out to the stat gain of about 87.5 trait points that is in addition to gear and actual trait points. No matter what the cost may be It is a advantage over any other class/spec in tpvp/spvp. I am sure many people would make that trade and auto attack people to death.

The nades them self are not super imbalanced or a terrible idea it is the 25 stacks of might that go along with it. What is it? 250 power and 250 condi dmg for 25 stacks of might that is the stat gain from 50 trait points.

It is the way engi does it that is the problem thief and other classes noted above do it by stripping boons where as engi does it with a aoe dps. One strong enough because of there might stacks to down thieves with one shot and most other classes with 2-3.

Edit: It is funny I was playing around with my eng the other day just trolling hot join with the mortar and I realized I could do more dmg throwing nades not that it wasn’t fun anyway.

It is the might staking that is the problem didn’t they nerf wars that were able to do the same thing with weapon swap. Being able to maintain 25 stacks of might + attacks that do both direct and dot dmg is huge… a huge problem in a realm with limited stat options and accessibility.

Edit: the direct counter for bunkers is necro and to a lesser extent mes with their boon strips. The reason we do not see necro as often as we should is the engi ability to dish out godly dps with 25 might stacks and just out dps all of the bunkers boons instead of removing them If they did not have this ability there would be a necro in most parties.

Edit 2: I am new to necro and it takes me 20s to kill a bunker one on one but it is because of boon corruption and strips not op dps and the reason engi is taken over necro.

Edit 3: Because of this even if necro is made more survivable as planed engi will still be taken over them.

You don’t man the hgh build is broken they run around with 25 stacks of might it drops down to 14 stacks but they can pop it back up when ever they want. Until its fixed you just have to hope your dps burns them down before they do to much dmg there really nothing you can do as a bunker or any other build unless you get the jump on them. As they said above if you’re a necro you can corrupt , if you are a mesmer you can boon strip otherwise your prolly dead.

Lol it must be a skill lv thing cause I played dd before we got the buff and it rocked then even more so now.

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ? Aldous Huxley.

I am not on my ranger atm but I am pretty sure that’s the traits I play. I made a in depth guide for the guild forums if someone sends me 5g ill post it here lol. You should not have to pull out of any fight 1/1 and really the worse thing I run into is the fight being decided by downed state as long as I don’t make any mistakes.

lol oid are you kidding we have 3 very viable specs atm trap dd and bunk.

I have the same issue man you just beat me to posting lol.

Aoe is the only way to escape having to be the master classes bunker eng/beast ranger/trap ranger/bunker guard/bunker necro in team play. You can just run arround and drop the bomb then.

This is fantastic It will make it so people won’t be able to control t1 anymore by placing thier alt accounts and commanding on another a server with their main server in mind. Also this will allow anyone to beat a t1 server just think guys the top 3 servers have to think about and deal with war weariness you guys can bust kitten one week and beat them then take time off if you want ohh its soo tasty.

The rankings as they are now are crap soo any change is fantastic the stuff that goes on in T1 sometimes is soo trashy it would blow your minds.

I play direct dmg ranger and I can drop everything I have on a tanky ranger and ill take like 35% of his health. I think its the scaling of the bunker stats them selfs not ranger alone bunker necro ele and eng are all out of control. The only bunker I don’t have a problem with is guard because they have proper range/dmg limitations though I do think the radius on their bubbles should be brought down. Oh also ranger short bow range should not be 1200 more like 900.

These guys are one of the most skilled groups I have played with in WvW and Tpvp. Just a group of cool guys that love to kill people

I don’t know anything about the free trial thing but the log in server is down for me

all the hot join players are now in the bottom 30% of tpvp it is horribad if you have bad luck and end up down there. Went on a 10 game losing streak the other day and spent some time there i didn’t think i would ever make it back out of that hell.

Now for a recap

All the T1 servers are full … of kitten.

We have received report that Korean secret agents have infiltrated gw2, but this was soon dismissed after viewing Psy gangnam style video.

Sor and jade quarry are now the largest Pve server.

It is not the size of your tick it is the motion in the ocean.

JQ has a problem arguing about who is useless in lions arch and not in wvw.

Icoa is currently 3rd in chest thumping but striving for #1.

After reports of the death of Jade Quarry it is now believed that they may be the start of the zombie apocalypse.

Dramen Maidria.1034:

We fought the best and beat the best? We don’t have anything left to do in this game? I have to say, what is this dribble? I don’t really want to be rude but I have to throw down the bullski flag on that one. There is finally real competition for 1st place in T1, hopefully soon it’ll be a real 3 way competition, and you JQ forum warriors disgrace your server by spouting out this nonsense? You guys are trivializing the efforts your real WvW players put in day in and day out. The truth is you finally really have to work to be the top server and a bunch of you don’t want to put in the effort Blackgate is putting in, as if its beneath you or something. You’re reflecting badly on Jade Quarry as a whole, and honestly should be ashamed of yourselves for what you’re posting now that it seems imminent Jade Quarry will take 2nd place again. True Jade Quarry WvW players please don’t take this as an attack on your efforts to represent your server, Blackgate as a whole has nothing but respect for you and the work you do. Those of you spitting out this “oh well we were on top a long time we’re done with the game now, its boring” maybe Jade Quarry is better off without you if you’re going to find an excuse to do something else when your server faces a real challenge for its dominance.

Well put man best thing I saw in this forum.

Hey I was wondering if anyone has checked out gw2lfg.net it’s freaking awesome!
I came across it after being banned from gw2lfg.com for spamming??? when you can only make one post at a time on the site.
gw2lfg.net has a much better ui posting system and you don’t miss out on any players cause it makes a post on .com for you automatic.
It also automatic updates so you don’t have to refresh and has many more posting options.

I was also wondering if these either of these sites were done by anet? If so you should look over your mod staff.

Make it so the enemy factions cannot see outmanned buff It is a green light to rush as much as you can as fast as you can.

Thesilentflute.8761:

It’s not a poor system just some servers have poor communities and do not bring people in or communicate between guilds well it makes the world of difference. The smallest effort can make the biggest differences.

Good communities don’t win the point game, big communities do. And there are a lot of good communities all around, but they aren’t there because of the scoring system, they exist despite it.

ET and Blackgate both made it to teir 1 with this scoring system and half the numbers of most other servers what they did have is skilled well organized communities of course blackgate has grown since then. I’m not sure how things go on your server but the great commanders on mine have spent hundreds of hours working on their leadership and teamwork skills and lead by example everyday their effort has built our community more than any other one thing.

To stay on topic you can’t post borderland pops outmanned is already a green flag.

Here is an update:

SoggyFrog.4170:

Why do people not get that scaling points to active population would make match-up balancing more difficult?

I don’t care whether or not my server is able to get a decent amount of points, I care about whether or not we can hold objectives and have the numbers to actually challenge our opponents in combat.

Points are the objective of WvW, it is intended that people care about it. The problem is that the current implementation of the system is very poor, and that’s why you and many people choose the disregard it.

It’s not a poor system just some servers have poor communities and do not bring people in or communicate between guilds well it makes the world of difference. The smallest effort can make the biggest differences.

Dayra.7405:

Bones.5762:

VOLKON.1290:

You shouldn’t be able to see the other servers population levels in WvW. That’s too much intel right there for free. If you want to find out, get in there and scout the map. That type of intel would result in significant changes to player allocations.

^^agreed

Alot of OP points makes sense, but the fact is AN will never implement that system that makes it where population determines how much points a server can get PPT wise as they already stated that they want everybody’s time to be equal and valuable. Besides it would be easy to abuse anyways. My solution is they should just post the scores at the end of the week instead of showing it all week long as they intended WvW to be a casual thing but showing scores certainly says otherwise.

I saw this statement by ANet. I would be nice if all players would have the same value.
But I don’t agree that this is currently the case.

Currently the prime-time player has nearly no value, and the off-time player has a lot value.

I needs 450 player in prime-time to get a 230 pts ticker, that’s 1/2 a point per player and tick. (in fact the prime-time player is worth less, if he leaves he is immediately replaced.)
I needs 50 player at night to get a 650 ticker , that’s 7 points per player and tick.

The offtime player currently is weight 14 times as important than the primetime player. (this is approx. EU-T2 numbers, I guess there are slightly different in other tiers, but the general tendency should be the same.)

It would be nice if ANet would not only believe their values, but implement them.

Edit: Where did you saw the players per server, I only saw the the total population of all three server, if you see that number you have no idea how this splits up per server.

There is no prime time and off time this is a global game if you are na or eu server you support 4 time zones Sea 9am est on, Eu 2pm est on, Na 5pm est on, Oceanic 1am est on. There is talk about opening other servers for sea but I really love having the mix of cultures myself. There is a language barrier but there it is breached when you have a good server community.

Edit: est

The reason you get odd numbers is because of yaks and senturies . I too don’t understand the 40% wouldn’t that give higher pop server more advantage if it was 60% i would understand making up for some of the out manned.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.-Sun Tzu

I agree with this when you face a pet class ie mesmer necro it’s the targeting system that kills you not the player. I don’t see anything changing about this though a post on redit said pet classes are all getting a buff.

I didn’t include rangers in there because in downed state a rangers pet must be killed. If you are spirit spec though I could see the same issue… its also getting a buff.

Blackgate has a fantastic community I think anyone would be hard pressed to find a better one. Lines of communication are always open and we have great commanders that lead by example every day. War Machine and the others that recently came to fight with us have brought a great energy and I hope they are learning as much from us as we are from them.

Someone said something about mass exfers off not really we had one guild xfer cause they didn’t like T1 play, and I am sure we have all felt that way a time or two. Our biggest loss was two of our commanders dropping off in eu because of real life stuff, and we ended up losing allot of coverage in that time zone, I hope they are doing well and that they will be back soon.

All that aside all of our servers are doing fantastic jobs I am glad we all get to enjoy such a fantastic game together. Good luck all and cheers.

I would like to see another door in the cliff side below the lords room with either an elevator up or some steps up to the vista.

the others have 3 doors why not hills

Bay 3 outer 3 inner
garrison 3 outer 3 inner
hills 2 outer 2 inner

Tier one here and I was in sm today with hundreds of people no lag. not saying I have never had lag just not recently.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

There are only like 5 dedicated warriors in the top 100 NA. Much less then the 12.5% you would expect assuming equal class distribution.

Could you give % per class if you have the info and a link maybe.

DaliIndica.9041:

I can take my warrior into some solo tournies right now and do pretty well. In fact, they are a good class. But once you get into the higher level team play, whilst still good and viable, the warrior starts to show signs of real weakness.

Like I said, its not that the class is worthless, and a well played one will still go far, but they really lack in quite a few areas, and as others have said, you can often find better easier when composing a team. But solo join and…..shudder….hotjoin (spits(not really, its fine for what it is)) warrior is as fine a class as any, just dont expect too much out of it.

When I am smashing around on my condition thief, any warrior build is pretty much a free kill. Condition removal has been a warrior problem for quite some time. And if you really want to control conditions, you have to give up a lot of power and useful traits in order to do so. Again, the same story with warrior over and over again.

It is pretty much the same way on my mes man I just go to mid and hope others do aswell and if two many go mid i peel off to an outer point cap it then port back to mid. I only score high if there is a constant fight in mid unlike my ranger where I am top score most of the time.

edit: emp I am 367 as of last update

Edit 2: you also have to keep in mind warr is the chosen noob class often, my first toon in wow was a warrior I’m sure its the same with kids now. Who doesn’t want to be a warrior lol but I think the class takes allot more than people expect for a basic class because its dps without stealth and they have a hard time handling it outside the holy trinity.

BurrTheKing.8571:

@Thesilentflute

I kinda agree on some level, almost all my builds have sword/warhorn so I can escape whenever things get hairy. The problem is I hate playing like this. Warriors shouldn’t be about hit and runs, we’re supposed to be the first ones in and stay in the whole fight. I would gladly take an overall DPS nerf in PvP if it they increased out survivability.

I think its a part of the design Guards are the heavy bunker and warrs are the heavy dps class and as all dps classes you have to be fast on your feet if you want to live.

About ranged longbow hits very hard just go to a point and hit f1 with full rage and watch everyone melt.

Julius.1094:

I play warrior a lot and while it’s not “awful” it does feel like hardmode pvp against players of the same skill level, the class is playable but it isn’t up to par with most other classes. Condi warriors improved with the last patch, but just aren’t quite there yet. Truth is, a necro, ranger or engi will do significantly better job on condis so why would u run a condi warrior?

Rifle should the be the high ranged direct dmg weapon for warriors but kill shot just doesn’t work for pvp, it’s too slow and obvious while brutal shot is just useless. It’s very hard to play pure melee weapons in pvp as even with good gap closers some classes have too many tools to keep range on you and wear you down while kiting. You tend to be forced into GS and S for mobility, otherwise your survivability drops even further. Then you’re forced into LB because rifle is so bad, that’s why GS/LB is the only semi viable build atm. Warriors have a large health pool but far too mediocre self healing and awful condi removal. Their traits are a mess, the discipline line has a useless class trait, which is pretty lol this late in the game. Shouts are UP, as are signets. Banners are nice but suit a support/bunker role better they’re bad for roaming, and due to lack of self healing/buffs/better defensives skills on more resonable cd a bunker warrior isn’t really viable. It’s worse than a guardian by a long shot in the same role. Overall the class does need a buff, butter tuning and just a lot of fixes.

I play mes/ranger mostly and when I go from ranger to mes its hard mode my rotation is crazy and continual where as rangers is pretty normal but aside from that In order to score high on mes my team has to control mid so i can port back and forth and stay in combat I think war has to be played the same way they have high in and out of combat mobility depending on wep set and high powered skills so to be effective you need a bunker in mid and 1 other point and have to rush between them. This is pretty much what I stated above but in more detail about you have to play it like a mesmer. This play style is completely diff from say thief and ranger where as you have a good chance to win a one on one but will be melted in group scenarios if your in the heat of things. I hope this helps you guys.

Edit: Burr the kings post wasn’t up when I wrote this but he pretty much hit on what I am talking about here. Honestly man since release all I played was mes now that I have tried other classes I will never play it again after i get my title just because the rotation is to much I can play another class and have a much less stressful time playing but your right mes might be a lil better but if your team wants to focus and burn a war can tie people down no problem something a mes can’t do.

Maybe you should try the dolyak signet.

I think that match took it for extra prec. and a nice passive bonus but like I said each match I tried something diff nice spam btw wouldn’t want anything constructive on the page lol.

garethh.3518:

Thesilentflute.8761:

I am a lil mad bro it bothers me that you guys are blaming your class when I face epic wars all the time.

Skill can take you decently far in this game.
But only so far.

Warriors are just subpar in every way when it comes to TPvP.
If you ever get into higher up premades they will not cut it.
If you ever want more bang for your skill, they don’t cut it.

They have allot of very high powered aoe and even with full dps traits you can take a beating. off hand axe 15×2300 gs 8×3800 long bow F1 is freaking crazy dps and huge radius don’t have the numbers though. They also have a ton of cc I just don’t see the weakness I think they just need to be played like a mesmer where you have an ok chance to win one on one but in a group over a node its game over.

Edit: I take the last part back Rampage needs buffed

I took your advice an played some matches in tpvp on war I never seemed to score really high but went 4-2 solo queing the pics are of one win and one loss. Each match I tried a diff weapon set and skills so I was playing with little to no knowledge of the class and no muscle memory. The only one on one I really got into was with a thief and he just owned me but i mean its a thief. I feel they really shine in group scenarios and if i was skilled at war solo as well.

We all know how reliable rating is when you have players at the top with 21/6 12/2 and 7/4 I don’t have a high win % cause i actually pvp I don’t care if my guild mates are on or not. For a while I did and was around 65-70% but when I read they are going to add real player ranks for solo quers soon I choose to get my titles with the classes i don’t plan to play while it doesn’t matter.

I am a lil mad bro it bothers me that you guys are blaming your class when I face epic wars all the time.

Lukrath.6982:

Thesilentflute.8761:

pot.6805:

Thesilentflute.8761:

Wars are fine you guys cry just cause you can’t insta spam 100 blades anymore. Rifle wars are super high dps and when matched with a guard on point are very hard to kill I think skill lv and understanding of game mechanics is the issue here. Or pull out a hammer and smash people to death you can use a ton of gear just stop being bad and you will be fine.

This is the type of PvE player Anet usually listens to unfortunately.

Lol I am ranked like 410 in overall wins now I am not going to get into a kitten match with you guys but I have prolly won more matches than you have played. Instead of QQing on the forums maybe you should figure out what you have been doing wrong and fix it.

silent you are right and wrong. there ARE some viable builds left for wars. however lots of the things wrong with warriors prevent a lot of people from doing well with them. like the way melee wars get the kitten kited out of them and the fact that we have such kittening pitiful condi anything tht rolls condi can prolly kill us. the point is whatever VIABLE builds we have left, chances are another class does the same role but better because of the general problems the war has right now in pvp

I have seen some super sick longbow / gs wars

Lukrath – of course you get kitted in melee so does every other melee class that is why you have a ranged slot and of the melee classes you guys are prolly the best off you can tie people down with hammer or one shot them with 1k blades if you hit them.

jzaku you will have to look in the ranking on this site under wins. I have no need to lie because I could care less what you kids think.

Lion It was pretty much directed at pot cause of his db comment.

All that said you guys are prolly right I am sure the reason you do poorly is your class. Just because I see good warriors everyday doesn’t mean you can be one… you should reroll.

cool cause as a solo quer it makes me sick to think my ques will fill with even more hot join peeps

Things of great importance should be taken lightly and things of small measure executed precisely.

I have said this in the forums many times its the scaling of bunker stats that is the problem base dmg>base def stats and its complete bull since def stats have no synergy.

I came upon this group of rogues out side sm

It is pretty easy to climb up I was 65% until i read on here there going to add real player ranks on one of these forums. I have been solo quing since and went down to 5% up to 30 and have been moving between since. My record is like 188/180 now and it only takes a few wins to gain a % after I get my mesmers title I will prolly play for rating again until then its whateves.

pot.6805:

Thesilentflute.8761:

Wars are fine you guys cry just cause you can’t insta spam 100 blades anymore. Rifle wars are super high dps and when matched with a guard on point are very hard to kill I think skill lv and understanding of game mechanics is the issue here. Or pull out a hammer and smash people to death you can use a ton of gear just stop being bad and you will be fine.

This is the type of PvE player Anet usually listens to unfortunately.

Lol I am ranked like 410 in overall wins now I am not going to get into a kitten match with you guys but I have prolly won more matches than you have played. Instead of QQing on the forums maybe you should figure out what you have been doing wrong and fix it.

This is a joke well necros are supper high dps, minion necros are almost unkillable without 2 players one to kill necro, and one to kite pets. One of the best melee in the game the most aoe in the game and involarability doesnt stop dot dmg so it doesnt matter if your enemy has it and your heal eats conditions. Tied for highest hp class in the game and you have your class ability that give you an extra health bar and high dmg abilities.