Guild Wars 2

Not sure but their are 3 other event creature on the map not sure if they give the daily since they are in the middle of nowhere. Champion spider not sure how it spawns, centaur and skritt ones. I have always thought of it as something extra to do incase their no much to do on a map.

Well less people are getting stupid deaths. More guilds groups enabling you team to survive big fights better, or player have just improved their overall skill level in fights. Also, your enemies could just be better than your previous opponents. Their are a lot of reasons why your servers k/d has changed.

Um No. What happens if you are the dominate server? You will have to run a long way to find any sort of action. The Veteran creatures enables you to get some reward along the way to finding the commander or another camp you can take. To me the keep daily is the hardest one to get. They are a lot of upgraded defended keeps.

The should be rolled up into the other pip document eh. Just read through the entire thread and stop making new ones. @Dawdler 8 pips per tick is above average. The average player is around the bronze rank atm or 3pips per tick. The normal wvwer are way above that. https://gw2efficiency.com/account/statistics/statistics.wvwRank

The newer wvwers and casual players are the ones that have issues with the current reward system, its not balance. Even if you are maxing tickets every week it takes 2yrs to get enough tickets to complete the warbringer and all 3 prestige sets. Its a long term reward system, unlike the LS3 rewards which casual players are use to.

If you are new to wvw, gain 20hrs a week of pips and you are on the worst server expect this:

You should get the wood chest by the end of the first week. The 2nd week you will have the loyal pip and you should finish with the bronze chest. 6weeks after you started, you will hit bronze rank for 3 pips and finish with the silver chest. 5 months after you start, you should hit silver rank for 4pips and finish with the platinum chest. By the time you hit silver you should have ~1495 tickets. 14 weeks after silver you should have enough ticket to complete the Warbringer. Meaning that someone playing on the worst server at all time, without outmanned will take 9.5 months to complete the Warbringer.

That estimate does not take into account that it rare to always be on the worst server for each skirmish, so you may get 2~4pips(after the loyal pip) per hour. Getting 2 tick of outmanned per hour increases your pip gain per hour by 25-100%. You may play more than 20hrs of weeks of pips. Stated hours of pips because it takes awhile to get to tier 3 participation, sometime it takes 5min other times 20min.

Oh forgot it takes 4 months to complete the Warbringer if you are max tickets weekly.

Wvw is not mean to have balanced gear. The only servers that have queue for a large period of time are the high rank servers. Eotm is the lobby for wvw but no wvwer consider it a good place to wvw.

Yes some of the broken build from spvp are in wvw. Making it worst are the food buffs and ascended gear you can get to enhance those builds. Its best to adapt you build against whatever spec you normally die to or try to make friends to roam with.

The amount of people in wvw depends on the time of day and the server you are on. The high tier servers have a more active wvw playerbase. The time of day your server is normally active just depends on the various guilds and other wvwer playtimes. Some servers have a mostly morning wvw population while other could have a midday wvw population. The high tier server have a large wvw population so you see more of those big fights. Higher tiered server have a large queue throughout the day so they could be queue during your normal playtime.

Metabattle for builds. Since you are new, getting tanky gear(power/toughness/vitality)will prevent you from dieing a lot until you decide on a specific build you like. When you are solo you can flip camps, if you do not want to move around solo just follow someone, until you can get back to a commander. Wvw is jus topen world pvp without the balance gear/players of spvp.

Conner.4702:

It’s called entitlement. It keeps getting thrown around a lot by people who don’t want it lowered. Thew sad truth though most of the defenders already are above the required rank and they feel entitled to getting the linked rewards to rank sooner then others.

How did the vast majority of people gain their ranks, via eotm, bandwagoning and k-train. The amount of people that are going to admit this though won’t be very high.

The current setup is simply bad and does very little to actually get more people playing longterm. I see queues dropping a bit each day and by the end of summer it will be back to pre reward update.

Its not entitlement is about making sure it is rare. Around 10% of wvwer will be able to hit 2k rank within a reasonable time and 3% have that rank (https://gw2efficiency.com/account/statistics/statistics.wvwRank). The prestige t3 armor is not for new players why should everyone be able to easily get it? The Warbringer for the casual players not the prestige armor. Beside they are other pve armor set that glow as well like the https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Luminescent_armor or the gemstore https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ice_Encasement_Outfit.

None of the wvwer I know of consider Eotm wvw, they never go their. Wvw guilds and roamers gained their ranks from playing the game. Wvwer had years to gain their rank now that rank means something instead of having 1800 extra wxp pt to spend on nothing. Players that went to Eotm was for karma for legendaries, because wvw was not profitable back then. Most of the wxp level I have gained on a weekly basis are not from K-train, but from a mix of 10% K-train, 20% zerging and 70% roaming.

The new reward system seems to be set-up for the long run. Give some of the older wvw a long term goal. Giving us a something to say I spent most of my time in wvw.

That would defeat the purpose of getting pips every 5mins. Also, their is a ~10min delay before your progression starts to decay. You can afk, go to the bathroom or go eat dinner and come back without losing much progress. Accelerating to pip timer would enable you to use it before you log to get extra rewards for being offline. That the main way it would be used like placing a buy order for pips.

From the player I talked with, DBL was released ignoring a lot of the input from the wvwers beta testers. After wvw participation drop after it was released. A-net had to stop going back and fix a lot of the issues with DBL, but it still had an negative effect overall in wvw. People asked for it to be replaced with alpine bl. When the poll to place DBL back into the game was done, A-net stated that they would making another borderland if DBL came back. DBL is back so whenever A-net make another borderland hopefully they will listen to the input from the wvw beta testers.

DBL since they removed the walls its good for roaming but for zerg its horrible. No towers can hit keeps with trebs. Anyways A-net did state that is DBL won that poll they would work on another borderland map. Hopefully it will be more zerg focused instead roaming focused like DBL.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

for wvw I hope they bring back tournaments, increase the rewards and making grinding for wxp easier. I also hope they add in new mechanics like gliding or make it so that you can maybe control a small army of npcs that assault area’s for you.

They will not bring back wvw tournament. After each of the tournament that we had in the past wvwer were burn out, so much that their was a permanent drop in the number of people playing wvw after each one. Also, the tournaments was not really a competition due to coverage. The winner was decided very early into the tournament except for the last one when the other t1 server team up against BG creating a fun reset but very boring match/tournament. Coverage and come-back mechanics are some of the reasons why tournaments are not competitive.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

No but i thought 3 months to 1 year was reasonable, apparently its not.

Well the Warbringer fits that timeframe, the prestige armor does not and that the big issue. I was thinking that raiders and casual players a would love the Warbringer not complain about the prestige armor, I was very wrong. Some raiders do not like the legendary armor even though I think the light armor looks awesome.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

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When you bought the game did you believe you would get the legendary armor or a legendary at the start? The first time I saw the legendary require I said it was stupid but I eventually got one before christmas. HoT came out and I said the same thing again but got another one. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO GET THE WVW PRESTIGE GEAR. They are other game mode that you can play and enjoy.

Wvwer have spend thousand of hours in a game mode that did not have many rewards because its fun or relaxing. Wvwer have been neglected for so long with years posts asking for changes that we would like to improve the quality of life in wvw only to be ignored. Wvwer are defending the prestige armor because its special but the pip system has its flaws.

The older wvwer are complaining about the ticket limit and casual wvwer complain about it not being possible to finish the pip track on a weekly basis playing casually. I wish I could trade in my siege/badge of honor for tickets :P. The time it take to complete the prestige set is enormous, still that’s the final reward in wvw atm. Even the active wvw can not immediately finish the prestige armor or warbringer. Acting like the high rank wvwer are immediately gifted with the prestige armor is funny, we still have to work for it. By the time I finish with my first prestige armor I will probably be at mithril rank 4095.

Jumpin Lumpix.6108:

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GW2 is still a low grind gameplay. No one has to get the prestige ascended gear or any of the ascended armor in wvw. No one needs to get the legend in wvw. Everyone wants it. Which is nice now that wvw has one of the best armor skins now. Ascended armor has been out for a long time. These cosmetic skins are nice but they are not a necessity to playing or enjoying the game.

For the older wvwer its not grindy :P. The newer wvwer or pver that want shiny gear are the one complaining. Still these are long term rewards. Its doubtful A-net will do anything else for wvw within the next year based off of how often A-net has updated wvw. It was over a year without wvw updates before Hot and the Hot update killed wvw for a lot of people.

The base pip gain and outmanned buff are the things that should be looked into. No new player should have to play more than 40 hours to complete the reward track for the week. Players are not looking into how long it take to get to bronze/silver for the extra pips. If you play 40 hrs of wvw a week you should get to bronze within 3 weeks for an extra pip. The will greatly reduce the amount of time need to complete the track.

Also even if you are completely the reward track on a weekly bases it take ~6month to complete the prestige armor. Within that time playing 40 hours a week you will gain ~1k plus wxp levels. Getting the legendary Warbringer takes half as many tickets as getting the prestige armor and you need a lower rank. Go for the legendary backslot first then the armor. Overall it takes +9 months to get one prestige armor set and the Warbringer. If you are active in wvw, gaining the wxp rank for the FINAL piece of prestige armor should not be that big of an issue. The casual player the prestige wvw armor maybe out of reach for sometime but the Warbringer should take as long as any other legendary.

It would have to motivate roamers and zergs to target the bigger server. Maybe extra wxp from attacking the larger server or extra point per stomp against the larger server. The worst idea would be to add some type of pip reward for targeting the larger server. A-net could make a pip reward for flipping upgraded objectives with an extra pips for flipping the larger servers upgraded objective.

During the BG double team the main goal of that was to change the fix match. During the start of that tournament TC was going to get 2nd, BG 1st and JQ 3rd. That was just how the match-ups were decided at the start of the tournament. Because of BG overstacking some TC commanders decide to change that. 3rd match of the tournament that was when TC convinced enough JQ commanders to focus on BG. Dozen matches later, the final match was TC vs JQ for 1st or 2nd but TC could not overcome the SEA of JQ. The main motivation of the double team was to prevent BG from getting 1st.

I doubt any server would care that much about placement now. The new 1 up 1 down system will probably make wvw feel like it was at the start of GW2 with very random matches. With one server getting stomped or being bored.

The extra pips gained from high rank wvwer is not the issue. Its the base about of pips and outmanned pips that are an issue. No one should have to play more than 40hr to complete the reward track before the loyal pip. A-net should increase the amount of pips gained (2/3/4). Outmanned should work like bloodlust and be global, reduce the amount of pips gained to 1 per borderland outmanned. This change would create an issue with server maybe deciding to give up on 2 borderland for the buff but its better than a player swapping borderlands just to get the buff. It would also create better fights and may improve server pride for those 2 borderland they decide to defend.

Yes. Its possible to already have the armor. That player is one of the older wvwer that played in the previous wvw tournaments and had tickets left over.

Xenon.4537:

I think it will be even more disappointing if people give up on the entire game mode because they feel like the grind is too much.

IMO it should either be made cheaper OR made legendary (not both). The current state is practically an asian grindfest, and people are rewarded for afking anyway. Not to mention most of the people who got 2000+ rank did it by exploiting karma trains in EotM before it was nerfed, so where’s the value in that? It’s a joke.

All of the Asian grindfest mmo’s grind for power and its a necessity to grind for power. This grind is for prestige armor, yes it should be legendary armor for the amount of time it take from start to finish. No one needs this armor, some players want it but its not a upgrade in power.

Before news of this update most of the players I seen in wvw were high rank players(silver and above). The commanders I raided with had +2000 rank, the main EB commanders had +5000 rank. I got most of my rank from roaming. flipping camps, kill enemies which I can pick off on my way to a camp/towers.. None of the wvw I know consider Eotm a part of wvw. Wvw was the least profitable game mode why bother playing it past rank 1000 unless you are having fun? When I hit rank 2000 it was around the 2nd wvw tournament, years after that I have only gained 800 ranks. Just saying wvwer that are above rank 2000, this is the main mode they play and enjoy.

Fluffball.8307:

Did no one else hang on to their tourney tickets for like 4 years? I was half done with the precursor on day 1.

Yea I had 450 left over would have had more but who knew A-net would do something good for wvwer. I got some of the hero weapon was planning on finishing some of that set before this happened. Still the last wvw season was horrible, but the first 2 were ok and short.

Baldrick.8967:

Ulion.5476:

You need 2900 tickets to finish the legendary. Overall it will take 400-500 game hours to finish or 18weeks. Assuming you start from no wxp, by the time you finish the legendary you will be around 500-700rank.The same amount of game time it take to finish other legendaries.

A lot of players are not taking into consideration the loyal pip after 3 weeks of playing on your server and the extra pip you gain after you level to bronze/silver. If a new player only plays 10hrs a week it will take ~12weeks to hit bronze. That will reduce the amount of time you have to play wvw to get the weekly ticket limit.

The problem is that you can not do anything to speed up the process of getting the legendary with the weekly cap of 175 tickets. A-net should make diamond repeatable for ticket. Did Anet do something similar to that for spvp?

The cap is a good thing- it stops those that bandwaggoned and have enjoyed full servers/busy prime times and got high rank plus now have hours and hours of wonderful pips and battles clocking up wvw ranks, compared to those that stayed on their servers and struggled a lot of the time to find 3-4 other players on a map to do something with.

As for the first week, gained 25 tickets- spent most of my available time q’ing for maps then when did get in a lot of people standing afk at spawn and the ‘blob’ contained a lot of pve’rs who turn and run away from any real fight.

When we do get in, generally it’s 4 pips a tick, not the 10 a bandwagon max rank blobber gets- which is already too much of a spread and needs fixing.

I wish I had played spam 1 guard now and run around yawning in EOTM too and farmed kills in OS and bandwagoned rather than stuck to support ele so I could be getting 10 pips instead of 4 too.

My estimate for getting the legendary backpack is: never.

The problem I have is the legendary is not the only item you can get for tickets. 18weeks for the legendary and 7 weeks per set. Over a year to get all of the rewards and that IF you are max out your tickets on a weekly basis.

Stalvros.9217

2900? I thought you only need 2800?
Loyalty pip = +1 pip right?

You are right still its at least 18weeks of play. Yep loyal pip is 1. You will get the loyal pip and silver rank before you finish the legendary. Both reducing the time you need each week to max out the reward track weekly. That’s above 500 hours of gameplay. The newer player have to work harder at the start to rank up to bronze/silver for pips and the older player have to wait for tickets.

You need 2900 tickets to finish the legendary. Overall it will take 400-500 game hours to finish or 18weeks. Assuming you start from no wxp, by the time you finish the legendary you will be around 500-700rank.The same amount of game time it take to finish other legendaries.

A lot of players are not taking into consideration the loyal pip after 3 weeks of playing on your server and the extra pip you gain after you level to bronze/silver. If a new player only plays 10hrs a week it will take ~12weeks to hit bronze. That will reduce the amount of time you have to play wvw to get the weekly ticket limit.

The problem is that you can not do anything to speed up the process of getting the legendary with the weekly cap of 175 tickets. A-net should make diamond repeatable for ticket. Did Anet do something similar to that for spvp?

The precursor drop rate is iffy. Some are very lucky others not so much. It just depends on how many exotics you normal get before you see a precursor.

I just hope their is an end of the week reward that gives skirmish tickets. It going to take awhile to finish any set in wvw. Even if you are very active, that’s a lot of time needed to finish one set.

The closest thing you have is /death and /age.. Its hard to determine were you have died but most die every 30min in game. Still you should know how you messed updied most times.

Did you play in the 3 wvw tournaments? Players were reward with tickets that a lot of wvwers were not able to spend all of them. Wvwer have been asking A-net to make them useful now they are.

So far the https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Warbringer its reasonable. The wvw t2 ascended armor is nice. A-net could update the t3 armor to legendary armor later if they have time because if a new player wanted to get t3 wvw armor it would take around 2000hour or 4x the time it take for a legendary weapon. The t3 armor is prestige ascended armor, but the t2 wvw armor is always ascended as well. A lot of player are complaining about the prestige t3 wvw armor. You do not need every ascended set if playing wvw is that much of an issue to you :P.

No A-net does not want to do anything to exclude a group players from casually playing the game. The queues are an big issue for the high tier server but if you are a casual wvw it easy enough for them to move to another server since theirs not a wvw guild/server tying them down. Also wvw should die down after this week. A lot of new players are trying it out to see if they want to go for some of the rewards.

Charrbeque.8729:

Ulion.5476:

btw the t2 set is ascended and the t3 should be shiny.

They should have made T3 legendary.

I hope they will eventually make another legendary armor set but I doubt it. It took them a lot time to finish the first legendary armor. A-net not even done with the HoT legendaries either.

I thought commander could give you a promotion when you are a scout to get some of their groups wxp? The legendary rank requirement seems lower than the armor requirement. Then again the t3 wvw armor is more for the hardcore wvwers. Think its 350 rank needed to finish the wvw legendary backslot. The average wvw is around rank 280 (https://gw2efficiency.com/account/statistics/statistics.wvwRank). I thought the legendary would be the main thing to draw in players into wvw not the prestige armor :P.

btw the t2 set is ascended and the t3 should be shiny.

Yea queue EB hundred of player all fighting for SM with each one hitting 5 people with multiple conditions. That’s a lot of computations for the server to do. Its mostly EB that has the lag issues.

We do not know what kind of bonus it will be for high rank player versus lower rank players. If anything A-net could just decrease the participation tiers needed before a higher rank players before they start to get pips or they could directly increase the number of pips given per tick. We do not have enough info yet.

Well the longest are the ones that have been up for years :P. Anyways its best to put it up few hours before reset. Its around that time that most things in TP are sold. The time that it take to sell a legendary varies.

Anet may introduce a new reward track. Unless you are going for the new armor just wait and see what new reward will come out. You could be surprised their is no rush.

I was an active roamer during until the wvw tournaments and I was at 2k then. A couple of year later only gained 700 wxp since then. If I stayed active I would be around 6-7k. Wxp ranks depends on how much free time you have. and if you are actively going after objectives.

We still do not know how big of an effect it will be but its also to reward the dedicated wvwer that have been lacking rewards for sometime now. I just hope their are new runes./sigil and armor stats for the wvw armors like sage gear.

Some suggestions.
Changes:
Sigil of Celerity and Demon summoning changed to give stacks per attack instead of kill.
Sigil of Mischief – Will randomly applies taunt, fear or blind for each snowball on weapon swap.
Sigil of Peril, Chilling, Debility, Hobbling – Will also increase the effect by 25% (Vulnerability, Chill, Weakness, Cripple) as well as the duration increase.
New Sigils:
Sigil of Waves – Blast/Leap finishers add X damage.
Sigil of Storms – Projectile/Whirl finishers are applied twice and X damage per bolt.
Sigil of Aggression – Gain stacks per attack at 25 stacks do an unblockable none crit attack for x damage and gain a random aura.
Sigil of Defense – Gain stack per attack at 25 stacks gain 2 boons and remove a condition

Gw2 is a casual mmo so you can quit and come back without having to play catch-up. You may have to look into getting some of the Living story episodes. LS3 is very interesting so far and hopefully an expansion will be announced later this year. From the reviews and youtube review of BDO its a grind. It does not seem that way at first but eventually you get to a point and realize how much of a grind it is.

Why bring up a post that is dead and buried? Start a new thread or look for a newer post.

I just remember the fights being very easy on my thief, hard on my ele due to bugs after my first death. I used a air/earth/tempest build. I swapped my utilities dependent on what was killing me. I used signet of water/cleansing fire if I was getting killed by conditions.

Interrupts and burst. Mesmers and Warriors can lockdown a elementalist. Conditions burst(chill, poison, confusion) or normal burst assuming you have classes that can remove protection. Necros can corrupt boons which is devastating to elementalist.

No. I have items that have been up for years. Its just not worth taking them down anymore.

Weakness 50% chance to do 50% damage or ~25% damage reduction. Resistance makes you immune to condition effect. Resistance is comparable to a block for condition damage that why its not as common as weakness. Random damage reduction vs a immune.

Rune of the revenant and demon stance traits you can get +15sec of resistance every minute. Yea probably not the best trait line or runes for a power build. Still revs have the best access to resistance.

Its not a question of skill its more of why have a season to determine the top250 when you can make an alt account play for a day and be in the top 250. Still the rewards are only a title nothing to valuable. These smurf accounts defeats the propose of determining the top 250 per season, if someone with 10game played can get a title. The season is not over but it troubling.

I just hope that its more than one legendary, at least a weapon type for each class.

The god of pvp and the other titles should have been players that have played at least 60 games or a game everyday this season. The idea that some couple of players can queue up against high rank opponents and win or pay then off enough to go 10-0 is unsettling. The first 10 matches should not be able to decides if you can get the highest this season. Guess player will associate the top titles with someone that is good, lucky or has a lot of gold to burn.

I mean when the gates open and its 5v4, not when someone rage quits or random loses power in their house.

Yep matches that start in a 5v4 do not count and players do not gain or lose rating for it.